rightscale webinar: successfully deploy your windows workloads

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How to Successfully Deploy Your Windows Workloads in the Cloud

RightScale guiding enterprises to cloud success since 2007

Michael Peterson Cloud Integration Engineer RightScale

Justin Fenton Product Marketing RightScale

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Agenda •  Cloud industry advancements •  Customer migration successes •  Windows cloud migration scenarios •  RightScale Migration methodologies •  Q & A

The cloud grows up

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What a Difference a Year Makes

Open Sourced

Goes OpenStack Launched

Adds Australia

GA

Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec Feb Apr

2012 2013

Launched

Grizzly Released

Hybrid GA

Jun Aug

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What Defines Business Value For You?

Increase Enterprise Agility

Drive Operational Efficiencies

Expand Markets & Capabilities

Increase Investment Flexibility

Faster Time to Market Accelerate Innovation Fail (or Succeed) Fast

Cut Infrastructure Costs Reduce Overprovisioning Increase IT Efficiency

New Geographies New Capabilities Web-Scale Applications

CapEX to OpEX Reduce sunk costs Reduce lock-in

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RightScale:  Strong  Cloud  Exper6se    

7  years  10 clouds

5M+  servers  Scale  apps  to  10K+  servers  

+ 3M +Coles +Eliza?

Windows migration success

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Real world Windows deployment scenarios Customer Data center transition

Situation Shutting down existing data center, assistance needed in moving on premises workloads to a portfolio of public clouds

Workloads Migrating on premises Windows workloads to AWS with HA/DR in Azure

Results

Improving operational efficiencies and reaching IT objectives around avoiding vendor lock in: ●  Moving to an OpEx, pay as you go model ●  Risk mitigation with vendor and geographic diversification

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Real world Windows deployment scenarios Customer Leading healthcare vendor

Situation Migrating electronic medical records (EMR) and Dev/Test workloads

Workloads ●  Leverage Azure for Dev/Test IaaS environments in the public cloud ●  Deploying 17 .NET environments in Rackspace/OpenStack private cloud

Results Increasing workload agility: ●  Accelerating innovation cycles with Azure dev/test environments ●  Consistent management across public and private cloud portfolio

Windows in the cloud

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Overview of RightScale Windows support

RightScale Server Templates customers have leveraged for migrating their Windows workloads: ●  Database Manager for Microsoft SQL:

○  Configures a stand alone or high-safety mirrored pair of database servers. ●  Microsoft SQL Server Witness:

○  Configures a SQL Express database server used to provide automatic failover for a high-safety mirrored pair of database servers.

●  Microsoft IIS App Server: ○  Configures an IIS web application server for use in a three-tier web architecture.

●  Microsoft Active Directory ○  Configures a Microsoft Active Directory server or additional Directory Controllers

Windows OS and SQL Support ●  Windows Server 2012 ●  Windows Server 2012 w/ SQL 2012 ●  Windows Server 2008R2 ●  Windows Server 2008R2 w/SQL 2012 ●  Windows Server 2008R2 w/ SQL 2008R2

Public cloud support: ●  Windows Azure ●  AWS ●  Rackspace ●  Softlayer

Private cloud support: ●  OpenStack (KVM) ●  Rackspace Private

Cloud (KVM) ●  CloudStack

(XenServer, VMware, KVM)

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Evaluating Applications for the Cloud •  Business impact

•  Should we put this app on the cloud? •  What benefits will we get?

•  Technical requirements •  Can we put this app on the cloud? •  How much will migration or build out cost? •  Security impacts?

•  Choose the quick wins! •  High business impact •  Appropriate technical requirements

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Segmenting your Application Portfolio

•  Segment the application portfolio

•  Evaluate against ROI criteria •  Business Impact •  Technical Fit

•  Focus on High ROI applications first

Elastic Web

Traditional

Cloud-Ready

Nightmare

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Segment Your App Portfolio for ROI

•  Greenfield •  Designed for cloud

Elastic Web Traditional

•  Web architecture •  Elastic design

•  Legacy •  Standard

technologies

Cloud-Ready

ROI

Nightmare

•  Monolithic •  Hairball

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Evaluation Framework Sample App 1 App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5

Business Impact

Demand fluctuation / uncertainty ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Fast time to market ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Time limited ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ …

Technical Requirements Load Balancer: Session Affinity ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Application: Licensing ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Cache: Persistent ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Database: Working set size ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Security: Egress filtering ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ …

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CloudSight Consulting Benefits •  Align your cloud strategy with your business objectives.

•  Identify target applications for migration to or initial build on cloud.

•  Understand unique cloud requirements for your applications.

•  Prioritize applications by cloud- readiness.

•  Discover cost savings opportunities.

•  Select the best-suited IaaS providers -- public or private.

•  Design application architectures that reflect cloud best practices.

•  Develop an end-to-end plan, from strategy to implementation.

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CloudSight Consulting Packages

CloudSight: Roadmap

CloudSight: Portfolio Plan

How does cloud fit into my corporate strategy and business needs? What does cloud success look like? How do I measure it?

Which applications are best for the cloud? How do I map opportunities against requirements? How do I prioritize?

Which clouds are best for my applications? What are the architectural decisions to consider? How do I migrate?

Roadmap Portfolio Assessment Architecture & Plan Execution

Engineering & Onboarding

How do I best use RightScale to build and deploy my applications?

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High Level Deliverables

CloudSight: Roadmap

Strategic objectives Technical constraints Key success factors

Application Assessment: 20 apps CloudRank Heat Map

Cloud Short List: 2 apps Architecture Requirements Architecture Diagram High-Level Project Plan

Roadmap Portfolio Assessment Architecture & Plan Execution

CloudSight: Portfolio Plan

Engineering & Onboarding

Step-by-step Project Plan Onboarding Scrums Custom Engineering Launch Support

Q/A  |  Discussion  

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Next Steps •  Lay out your cloud strategy & determine how you will evaluate success •  Identify quick win applications and use cases •  Get started - What are you waiting for?

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