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Cloud

Automation

Automate the delivery of

infrastructure,

applications and

desktops as a service

across multiple clouds

and platforms

Cloud

Operations

Manage the health, risk,

efficiency and

compliance of your

infrastructure and

applications across

structured and

unstructured data

Cloud

Business

Improve Business/IT

alignment and accelerate

IT transformation by

delivering complete

transparency into the

costs and quality of all

IT services

VMware Cloud Management

Simple, automated

management for

heterogeneous and

hybrid clouds

Automation – The Earlier In The Process The Better

Complexity is often required to expose simplicity

A cloud computing infrastructure has complexity in the form of technology and automation that simplifies the experience for end-users.

IaaS Provider Organization or User

Benefits Of Automation & Self Service

Choice - On-demand access to services

Transparency- Cost, Resources

Control – Repeatability, Maintain Standards

Empowering End Users – Automation, Orchestration and

Life Cycle

Run IT like a Service

IT as a Service

Broker

of IT Services

VMware’s Solution to Onboard the Cloud

Automation / Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Manual provisioning On-demand, automated

self – service access

Technology sprawl High standardization

Initial provisioning Lifecycle management

Homogeneous Enterprise wide / heterogeneous

Extensible One inflexible approach

Virtualized infrastructure Any service from any layer

Manual approvals High governance

Journey with many starting points and many maturity levels

Application Release Automation / DevOps

Standardized MW / DB–as-a-Service

IT-as-a-Service

“Service Broker”

An Evolutionary Cloud Deployment Approach Proof of

Concept Limited Scale

Production Pilot

Full-Scale

Production

Expanded

Scope

Phase 1: Automation

• Automate Infrastructure w/OOB Fct.

• Integrate with Existing Environments

Phase 2: Self-Service

• Expose Infrastructure Services

to Consumers

Phase 3: Apps / Middleware

• Deliver Standardized Application and

Middleware Services to Apps Teams

Phase 4: App Release Automation

• Automate the Release Process / DevOps

Phase 5: IT as Service Broker

• Operate like a Business,

• Control what goes Public

Consulting

and education services

for each delivery phase

VMware’s Approach: Abstraction and Personalization

Resource Pools

VM’s with Network

Applications

Abstraction to

“Model once–deploy anywhere”

Production

Test

Development Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Infrastructure

Policies

Application

Policies

Machine

Policies

Personalize Services through

Business Policies

Machine Policies

Application Policies

Reservation Policies

Agility via automating delivery of personalized services

On-Demand Access to Services

For Application Teams: Faster App Deployment

For DevOps: Increased Productivity

For Business Units: Speed & Agility through On-Demand Access

Infrastructure Applications Desktops Custom Services

Consistent

Governance

Framework

Dev/Test

vCloud Automation Center Shared Infrastructure

The VMware Personalized, Business-relevant Cloud

Provision Manage Retire Request

Desktop

Request Provision Manage Retire Archive

Production

Request Approval Provision Manage Retire Archive

Cloud

Administrator

Service Blueprints

SLA

Cost Profile

Service Tier

Security

Policies

Templates Private

Virtual

Private

Physical Public

Cloud

Fine-grained policies personalize services

to meet unique IT and business needs

vCloud Automation Center

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Extensibility: Adapting to Your Environment

Dev/Test

Provision Manage Retire Request Approval Archive

Generate

Work Order Run Custom Script

Blueprint

3rd Party

Integration

• CMDB

• DNS

• IPAM

• Load

Balancers

• Service Desk

• Monitoring

Systems

• Databases

• Web Services

Thousands of

workflows and Plug-ins

Update Status CMDB

Example - Enterprise Integrated Deployment

Portal VM

Spec

Create

Ticket Get IP

Get

VM

Request

Access

Close

Ticket

Perform 1St Start

Customization

Email

User

Virtual

Machine

AD / SSO / AC

Enterprise

DNS

Check Name

Uniqueness

Name

Create CR

in Tkt Sys

Ent

Tkt Sys

Tkt

Sys

Get IP,

Res DNS

EZIP

BlueCat

Infoblox

IP

Ent

vCD /

vSphere

Perform

AD

Auth

Ent

AD

/SSO/Ac

cess

Central

Close CR

in Tkt Sys

Ent

Tkt Sys

Call F5 /

Monitoring

Register VM

Ent

Monitoring

DNS

CPU Stor

age

F5 /

Monitoring

Start

using

the VM

Register

Monitoring /

F5

IaaS Extensibility Examples

Building Machine

phase- Add machine

to AD OU

Provisioning

Machine phase-

Update a csv file +

Add member to F5

Pool + Setting

‘Managed By’ field

in AD with the VM

requester details

Disposing Machine phase-

Update the csv file with

machine deletion

timestamp + Remove

member from F5 Pool +

cleaning AD records

Day Two Operations Against Deployed Machines

Adding a member or

removing it from an

F5 Pool as part of day

2 operation

Add an RDM disk to

the VM

VMware Solutions Exchange – Market Place

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Self-Service Catalog and Cloud Service Costing

Application Release Automation

Extensible to new

services

Unified Service Catalog: Applications, Infrastructure, XaaS, Desktops

Portal branding per

tenant App store

experience

Service category

Your logo

Custom Service Entitlements and

Approvals for each

item

Provide Transparency into Service Costs & Prices

Total Cloud Cost

Based on out of the box values

and vCenter integration

Loaded Unit Costs

of CPU, MEM, Storage

automatic pricing of blueprints

Who is Using What

Cost and Usage by

BU, App

Auto-generate rate cards providing transparency into the fully burdened cost

Establish IT as a Broker of IT Services Make better decision when to leverage public cloud resources vs. internal service delivery

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Application Services and Application Release Automation

Application Release Automation

Streamline the deployment and update process

Leverage pre-built components

Re-use application models across environments and clouds

Accelerate Application Deployment

Application Blueprint

Components Components Components Components

Avoid manual configurations to eliminate inconsistencies, errors and rework

Realize quick wins by providing standardized apps / middleware / DB’s to apps teams

Deliver complex, integrated, multi-tier applications

Standardize the Software Stack

Apply Application

Policies

Leverage Shared

Services

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Infrastructure Services

Application Release Automation

Multi-vendor, Multi-cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Physical Virtual

vSphere Hyper-V XenServer

Linux Windows

Cloud Providers

vCloud Hybrid Service

vCloud Automation Center

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Application Release Automation

Infrastructure Management: Networking and Security Integration

New Features

Simplified Multi-Tier App Deployment

Improved Connectivity − Deployment of logical switches and

networks

Enhanced Security − Intelligent placement of workloads in

security groups protected by firewalls

Increased Availability − Via deployment of NSX distributed

firewalls and load balancers

Benefits

Deliver secure, scalable,

performing application-specific

infrastructure on-demand

Dynamically Provision and Decommission

NSX Logical Services

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Custom Services

Application Release Automation

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Add Custom IT Services (XaaS) in Minutes

Example Use Cases New Employee On-boarding

Email/Mail Box Setup

Storage as a Service

Network services

Backup/recovery

Security/Compliance

AD Management tasks

Software Install/Update

Password Management

Limited only by your Imagination !

Define Request Forms

• Prepopulate forms with

input/output from VCO workflows

• Easy yet rich customization

Configure Governance Policies

• Service Entitlements

• Approvals

Automate Delivery Process

• Specify resource and action

• Define automation flow using

VCO workflows and plug-ins

Advanced Service Designer Round up the existing out-of-box

infrastructure, application and desktop

service capabilities Application Release Automation

Customers

VMware Leads the Cloud Management Market Leader

VMware leads the

worldwide cloud

systems management

software market

with a 20.5% share

• VMware leads the Big 4 and

other “cloud era” management

vendors

• VMware is gaining share in a

market that grew 60.5% to $1.2B

in 2012

• Private cloud implementations

represent an estimated 62

percent of revenue

IT as a Service - Summary

Self-Service

Automation & Governance

Choice With Control

Transparent Pricing

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IT as a Service

Questions

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