2012.07.17. smartcloud provisioning overview

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Delivering Workload Optimized Cloud withIBM SmartCloud Provisioning

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Simplify access to information and services

improving outcomes

IT withoutboundaries

Create new models of self-service and deployment For new products & services

Speed & dexterity

Define and deliver new business value in real time

Value creation

Gain customer insight and use it to improve products & services

Enduring relationships

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68% ranked Cloud Computing as their most important initiatives for the future

Cloud enables innovation and business transformation

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Businesses are choosing a variety of cloud models to meettheir unique needs and priorities.

Private cloud

Hybrid IT

Public cloud

Appliances, pre-integrated systems and standard hardware, software and networking.

Traditional IT

On or off premises cloud infrastructure operated solely for an organization and managed by the organization or a third party

Available to the general public or a large industry group and owned by an

organization selling cloud services.

Traditional IT and clouds (public and/or private) that remain separate but are bound together by technology

that enables data and application portability


• How can I improve responsiveness and drive productivity and efficiency?• How can I reduce operational and capital expenses?• How can I prevent image sprawl?

Moving beyond virtualization could seem challenging and costly

• How can I accelerate time to market for new applications?• How do I respond quickly to needs of external customers?• How do I get IT to be more quick and flexible about responding to my needs?

• How do I optimally utilize infrastructure?• How can I get more flexibility with deployment?• How do I gain control of multiple hypervisors?

Operations Teams

Line of Business Teams

Infrastrucuture Teams

Existing provisioning solutions are limited to virtualization management with ever increasing operational costs


Management and Administration

Availability and Performance

Security and Compliance

Usage and AccountingUnderstand Cloud service and resource usage, effectively managing against financial metrics

Holistically see and understand quality of service metrics and continuously improve

Protect Cloud services and data from malicious threats and maintain compliance mandates

Deliver a flexible, automated Cloud service delivery and management command center

Infrastructure platformImprove utilization, cost and performance of server, storage and networking assets

IBM SmartCloud Foundation provides solutions to simplify and accelerate your cloud journey


Start simple by building the workload-optimized cloud

Addressing customer needs: Reduce costs with robust, automated, high-

scale provisioning Prevent image sprawl with in-built advanced

image lifecycle management Accelerate time to market with standardized

pattern-based deployment for optimized workloads

Flexibility and cost savings from choice of Hypervisor and Hardware

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning combines infrastructure and platform capabilities to deliver robust automated workload deployment, image lifecycle management and high-scale application provisioning


Speed delivery with robust automated high scale cloud provisioning

• Fast VM provisioning for near-instant deployment of 100s of virtual machines and scale based on business needs

• Rich set of web interfaces into the cloud that can be driven by a user or scripts for complete automation

• Reliable, non-stop cloud capable of automatically tolerating and recovering from software and hardware failures

• Near-zero downtime due to faults, hypervisor/management software upgrades or addition/removal of hardware

Provisioning


Prevent image sprawl with advanced image lifecycle management

• Image construction and composition tool simplifies complex and time consuming process of creating virtual images and deployment patterns through a simple graphical tool

• Federated image library allows management of image complexity across multiple image repositories and hypervisors

• Detect vulnerabities exposures in images to ensure that no virtual machines are created without the proper level of security patches

• Images stored in hypervisor-neutral format, avoiding duplication and allowing conversion to mix/match hypervisor technologies


Deploy applications rapidly with workload aware management

• Rapid application deployment via virtual application patterns: Deploy business applications in minutes

• Dynamic management of elastic and scalable workloads

• Enables third-party software deployments and custom pattern creation to “build once” and deploy across private and public clouds

• Visibility into cloud health with rapid deployment of middleware topologies and application editioning

Applying patterns for desired topology


Avoid vendor lock-in by leveraging existing hardware and hypervisors

• Single management platform across different infrastructures reduces complexity and operational cost.

• Supports deployment of virtual servers with multiple disks on Power and VMWare

• Design and deploy consistent and repeatable patterns into a cloud of virtualized hardware running a supported hypervisor : x86, Power, zLinux, with VMWare, KVM, Xen Hyper V, PowerVM, zVM

• Integrates compute, network, storage and application delivery: enable organizational integration

Xen VMware

KVM

Hyper-V PowerVM


IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is a true Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, reducing cost and providing a highly scalable, rapid-deployment environment with near- zero downtime and automated recovery across heterogeneous platforms.

Rapid scalable deployment designed to Rapid scalable deployment designed to meet business growth: 100 VM’s in less meet business growth: 100 VM’s in less

than 3 minutesthan 3 minutes

Full Image life cycle management control Full Image life cycle management control image sprawl and reduce business risk image sprawl and reduce business risk with rich analytics and simple image with rich analytics and simple image

construction toolconstruction tool

Reliable, non-stop cloud capable of Reliable, non-stop cloud capable of automatically tolerating and recovering automatically tolerating and recovering from software and hardware failures from software and hardware failures

Value Proposition:

Enhancements in SmartCloud Provisioning v2.1 SCP v1.2 functional equivalence PLUS: Hypervisor support for HyperV, PowerVM & zVM Simple drag and drop user interface for designing and

deploying patterns QoS management for applications Faster and easier deployment of middleware topologies

using virtual system patterns Elastic scaling of applications based on business demand Seamless upgrade to advanced offering

Capabilities in SmartCloud Provisioning today

Simple, easy to use, deploy’s in few hours Reliable, non-stop cloud Rapid scalable deployment Virtual image library control image sprawl, rich analytics,

image versioning Simple GUI based Image construction & composition Supports multiple hypervisors (ESXi, KVM, and Xen) on

hetrogeneous platforms Low touch automation and self service UI reduces

operations cost

Increased business agility with policy Increased business agility with policy driven elasticity for applicationsdriven elasticity for applications

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning Enhancements – Whats new


The Undisputed Leader in Ensuring an Open Cloud

Ensuring your open standards based SOA investments are the foundation of your cloud investments

Common Cloud Stack platform providing the flexibility and vendor choice to grow your business at your own pace

Driving code-driven practical cloud standards based on innovative customer use cases

Platform stacked with different levels of capabilities enabling implementation of a modular, integrated or service oriented SmartCloud solution

Built on an comprehensive, open cloud reference architecture, focused on standards and interoperability

companies areparticipating

320+

operate outsidethe IT realm

50%www.cloud-council.org/

Interoperable | Flexible | Customer Driven

IBM is a Platinum Member in OpenStack Foundation

CIMI & OVFCIMI & OVF TOSCATOSCACCRACCRA

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Best Practice Integrations for Workload Optimized Cloud

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning integrates easily to extend cloud management capabilities


Extend cloud capabilities beyond SmartCloud Provisioning

IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Tivoli Storage Manager fVE SmartCloud Continuous DeliveryIBM Endpoint Manager

Cloud Health AnalyticsHost & VM MonitoringEvent Response & Mgt

Capacity PlanningWhat-if Scenarios?

Patch ManagementCompliance Reporting

Policy Enforcement

Centralised BackupPolicy DrivenData Restore

Image Snapshots

One-touch automated continuous delivery and integration of software

delivery process

Security and Compliance

Availability and Performance

Application Lifecycle

Infrastructure Platforms

High Scale Low Touch Image Lifecylce Management Rapid Application Deployment Choice of Hypervisor/HardwareProvisioning


• Consolidate and virtualize servers, storage, and networking

• Streamline systems management

• Deliver self-service provisioning

• Automate IT service deployment

• Simplify administration

• Increase agility by managing multi-tenant environments

• Speed innovation through seamless orchestration

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides a foundation to advance cloud management capabilities

Build an efficient IT infrastructure

Automate

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Optimize

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Orchestrate

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SmartCloud Provisioning > IBM Service Delivery Manager

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Client Value

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ation

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Today: Multi-vendor, multi-platform, physical & virtual environments

Cloud EnablementInfrastructure Integration

Cloud EnablementInfrastructure Integration

Cloud Entry Optimization & Platform

Integration

Cloud Entry Optimization & Platform

Integration

Cloud Advanced Orchestration & Management

Cloud Advanced Orchestration & Management

Cloud OptimizationPlatform IntegrationCloud Optimization

Platform Integration

IBM Service Delivery Manager

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning

Roadmap for optimizing and orchestrating cloud service deliveryIBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides the foundation for advanced agility, defense and assurance capabilities.


IBM SmartCloud Provisioning in action:

Since deploying IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, Dutch Cloud has reduced its administrative workload by 70 percent due to automation best practices. Monthly revenue has tripled twice in the last six months without an increase in operational costs.

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Solution benefits• Rapid deployment of new services in seconds rather than hours. (Deployed 100’s of

new VM instances in under 5 minutes)• No/low maintenance, minimized operational administration, and no outages required

for upgrades• Changing the delivery of services from capital intensive to rapidly-deployed utilization

efficient

“The IaaS market is going to continue to mature and we’ll see more competition in the coming years. Our technology choices have given us the ability to thrive in this competitive market.” Martijn Van Zoeren, CEO, Dutch Cloud

The business needDutch Cloud was looking for a lightweight, highly functional solution for core cloud service delivery. It needed to reduce operational costs while increasing speed and agility to drive high business volumes.


Resources to help you get started

Trials:

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning no-charge trial

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning community edition

► Join the Open beta program

Product information:

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning website

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning demos

Community:► Join the community: Cloud Provisioning and orchestration - Development Collaboration Community

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for the academic community

► IBM SmartCloud Provisioning Open Beta program


IBM SmartCloud Monitoring integrates with IBM SmartCloud Provisioning to monitor the health and performance of a private cloud infrastructure, including environments containing both physical and virtualized components

Extend cloud management for health and performance monitoring

• Capacity planning analysis helps to balance workloads and optimize virtual environments

• Integrated web dashboard allows for easier problem determination in complex VMware environments

• Dynamic thresholding helps to respond proactively to performance problems before they lead to service interruptions

• Predictive trending provides notification to provision additional physical resources and eliminate bottlenecks well before applications or users are impacted


IBM Tivoli Storage Manager integrates with IBM SmartCloud Provisioning to simplify the protection and management of your data by automating data backup, restore and archive functions, and centralizing storage management operations.

Extend cloud management for enhanced resiliency and data protection

• Simplify the protection and management of data, even as it continues to grow exponentially

• Ensure business continuity and maximize application availability with advanced data recovery management

• Increase efficiencies and conserve resources with data de-duplication and a hierarchy of storage

• Enhance data security with advanced access and encryption features

• Minimize service disruptions and speed restorations and backups


IBM Endpoint Manager integrates with IBM SmartCloud Provisioning to provide unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all endpoints from a single console

Extend cloud management for enhanced security and patch management

• Patch as fast as you can provision with rapid patching, configuration and policy deployment across thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status

• Reduce security risk by slashing remediation cycles from weeks to days or hours

• Gain greater visibility into patch compliance with flexible, real-time monitoring and reporting from a single management console

• Efficiently deploy patches, even over low-bandwidth or globally distributed networks

• Patch endpoints on or off the network--including roaming devices using Internet connections


IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery integrated with IBM SmartCloud Provisioning to provide continuous delivery of application development and delivery, providing visibility, control and automation across the service lifecycle

Extend cloud management to simplify delivery with collaborative development and operations (DevOps)

• Drives business agility through one-touch automated continuous delivery and integration of software delivery process

• Speed continuous deployment of software to product environments by aligning development with enterprise architecture

• Increase testing reliability and supportability with standardized cloud environments

• Reduce process failure points with use of production-like environments in early stages of development

• Improves incident management and problem resolution through development collaboration

2012.07.17. smartcloud provisioning overview

Technology

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cloud health

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image sprawl

variety of cloud models

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