VMworld Europe 2014: Built to be Extended - vCloud Automation Center

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Renaming existing management products

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vRealize™

New Name Formerly

vRealize™ Automation™ vCloud™ Automation Center™

vRealize™ Orchestrator™ vCenter™ Orchestrator™

vRealize™ Operations™ vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™

vRealize™ Operations Manager™ vCenter™ Operations Manager

vRealize™ Hyperic vCenter™ Hyperic

vRealize™ Log Insight™ vCenter™ Log Insight™

vRealize™ Business™ IT Business Management™

Session Outline

• Virtualization infrastructure management pain points

• vCloud Automation Center extensibility architecture walk through

• Reduce complexity without replacing everything!

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Machine Lifecycle

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IPAM

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Machine Lifecycle

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Virtualization Infrastructure Management Pain PointsWhat can we do to remove pain so we can do something more interesting rather then dealing with non-stop busy work?

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IPAM

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vCloud Automation CenterSelf service policy driven orchestration and automation engine with integration capabilities built in to core of the product

vCAC

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vCAC

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vCAC

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vCAC

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vCAC

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GUI

Extensibility

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Custom Properties

• Name/value pairs of metadata

• Control machine provisioning and lifecycle operations (# CPU’s, memory, disk size, etc.)

• Travel with machine throughout machine lifecycle

• Can be set on any level of vCAC management entities (Endpoint, Compute Resource, etc.)

• Aggregated at request time

• Can be marked as “Prompt User” to allow for user input at machine request time

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Property Dictionary

• Expose “Prompt User” (runtime) Custom Properties via vCAC UI

• Associate Custom Properties with a UI elements

– CheckBox, DateTime, DropDown, Lists, Integers, etc…

• Ensure clean input

– Provide min/max bounds

– Validate input against Regular Expressions

• Allow to define Parent – Child relationships between controls

• Provide descriptive display names and label text

• Group controls together and modify how they appear (layouts)

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vCAC

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Machine request Property Dictionary Configuration

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vCAC

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vCAC

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vCAC

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Extensibility

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Hostname Generation and Validation

• Typical use cases

– Mergers, acquisitions, consolidation

– Inherited Assets

– Legacy Nomenclatures: Multiple teams/divisions/BU’s, each with their own conventions

– Existing databases tracking names

– Metadata baked into machine names

• vCAC Out of the Box Hostname plugins

– Generation: basic prefix + suffix for names

– Validation: verify hostname unique against vCAC DB, DNS and AD

• Hostname plugin framework allows creation of custom hostname generation and validation plugins

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vCAC

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Hostname Generation and Validation Plugins configuration

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vCAC

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vCAC

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State Transitions Extensibility

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State Transition Workflows

• Integrate machine lifecycle with existing 3rd Party products

– Custom Machine account - AD/LDAP

– IP address management (IPAM) & DNS

– CMDB (assets, audit), ITSM (tickets)

– Backup, monitoring, SSO, etc.

• External/customized Machine Provisioning

– “I already have machine build scripts / services in place that I like to use”

– Integrate with custom (existing) machine build process

– Customize guest OS post cloning or post-install

• Invoke custom business logic between IaaS provisioning states

– Error handling, build quarantine, build restart

– Custom logging or notifications

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Extensibility: Adapting to Your Environment

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vCloud Automation Center

Manage RetireRequest Rebuild

Generate

Work Order

Run Custom Script

Blueprint

Update Status

CMDB

Approve Provision

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vCAC

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SOAP

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vCAC

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vCAC IaaS Master Workfow

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vCAC

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SOAP

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SOAP

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Guest OS Agent (Gugent)

• Generic scripting Guest OS agent

– Runs executables from local disk, network location, or host mounted ISO image

• Run scripts on provisioned machine after it is created

• Control with Custom Properties

• Install and configure Guest OS with software

• Enable Guest OS integrations, install 3rd party Guest OS agents

– SSO

– Backup

– Monitoring

– Configuration tools

– Compliance

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Demo

ConclusionWith help of vCloud Automation Center it is possible to reduce complexity of virtualization infrastructure without complete replacement

Q&A

ConclusionWith help of vCloud Automation Center it is possible to reduce complexity of virtualization infrastructure without complete replacement

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vCAC

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CAFÉ

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DEM Workersstateless workflows

DEM Orchestrators

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Manager ServiceStatefull workflows Hypervisors

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vCAC Extensibility with vCenter Orchestrator

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vCloud Automation Center

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Application

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Extensibility

Services

Advanced Services

Designer

Design Center

Add new IT

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new day-2

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Integrate with 3rd

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systemsvCenter Orchestrator

IT Process Automation