Don’t Just Manage Your Virtualized IT Infrastructure, Master It

Barnaby JeansSr. Solution Architect, Business Critical Applications

bjeans@vmware.com

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Previously:Sr. Solution Advisor, Microsoft CanadaSr. Pre-Sales Engineer, Red Hat Canada

Sr. Sales Consultant, Oracle Canada

Business

Reduction in Complexity via New IT Architectures and

Business Models

Connected, Mobile, Information-Centric World

The IT Dilemma

I am supposed to do the same job,

but with less budget and

headcount?!?

The Next Generation IT LANDSCAPE

Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps

Cloud Application Platform

Applications as a Service

Empowered, Secure, Mobile Workforce

End-UserExperience

Desktop Provisioning

Dynamic Resource Right-Sizing

New Generation of Enterprise Apps

Platform as a Service

ApplicationProvisioning

ApplicationPerformance

End User Computing

End User Computing as a Service

Existing DatacentersPublic Cloud Services

A More Flexible, Efficient Infrastructure

Private Cloud Self-Service

Automated Operations

Security & Compliance

Cloud Infrastructure &

ManagementInfrastructureas a Service

Cloud

Driving IT Transformation

Infrastructure focus

Application focus Business focus

Business Production IT as a Service

Virtualization

Low Governance

High Governance

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

IT Production

Cloud

Business Critical Applications Are a Key Milestone on the Journey

Infrastructure focus

Application focus Business focus

Business Production IT as a Service

Virtualization

Low Governance

High Governance

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

IT Production

Tipping Point Requires Business Critical Apps

60%

Where Are You on Your Journey?

Expand StandardizeExplore

Manage hypervisors VMs and dev/test environments

Manage large, dynamic, shared infrastructure including enterprise applications

Manage service levels with policy-driven automation

across Hybrid Clouds

< 100 VMs 100-1000 VMs

0-30% 30-60% 60-100%

>1000 VMs

Getting to 100% Virtualized

30% Virtualized

100% Virtualized

Tier 2 and Tier 3(infrastructure, file, print)

Exchange

SQL

Oracle

SharePoint

Custom Java

SAP

The Trend is Clear

38%

43%

53%

25% 25%

18%

% of Workload Instances Running on VMware in Customer Base

MSExchange

MS SQL

MS SharePoint

OracleMiddleware

OracleDB

SAP

Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010 and June 2011Data: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized

Jan 2010

June 2011

41%

47%

68%

34%28% 28%

Moving to IT as a Service

Gartner Data Center Conference Poll, December 2010

N = 167

What are your three biggest challengesin creating a private cloud computing service?

Not sure

Business/customerrelationship

Technology

Politics

Service description &self-service interface

Culture

Funding/chargebackmodel

Management andoperations processes

11

31

36

40

46

56

62

80

COST EFFICIENCY

QUALITY OF SERVICE

BUSINESS AGILITY

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

15%

30%

70%

85%

Automated Operations

Management

Infrastructure Management

New levels of automation and control are required for cloud

Move from Managing to Mastering

Virtualization Inhibitors

Traditional Tools Don’t Work

• Manual & static methods don’t scale in large virtual environments

• Business service/application view is critical

• Automated application mapping is needed to be effective & efficient

APP

APP

APP

APP

What are the current tools lacking?

1. Smart Analytics and Recommendations2. Smart Alarms3. Proactive Tools4. Regulatory and SLA Compliance Data

The Solution: Move from Managing to Mastering

1. Ensure performance2. Ensure continuous compliance3. Optimize resource utilization

Most Important for effective management

vCenter Operations: Automation For Better SLAs

Performance

Compliance

•Performance monitoring with self-learning analytics and instant drill down•Capacity planning with proactive remediation•Compliance with policy control across physical and virtual

Capacity VM Profiling

Capacity Modeling

75% Reduction in Audit Prep Time

vCenter Operations Manager

Health Risk Efficiency

Risk

Root cause and potential impact

Early warningSmart Alert

Efficiency

Configuration Management

Configuration Manager Capabilities

Gain Configuration Insight and Agility While Avoiding Configuration Drift

Track Configuration Changes

Automate Software and Server Provisioning & PatchingProvision & Patch

Maintain Continuous Compliance with Out-of-the-Box Templates.Ensure Compliance

• Automatic metering of virtualized resources• Ability to include one-time fixed costs• Flexible cost hierarchy setup to model costs based on

customer organization• Fixed, allocation, and utilization based billing policies• Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure• Schedule reports & email results

vCenter Chargeback

Benefits• Improve resource utilization and reduce costs• Empower the business to be accountable• Showback/chargeback with flexible cost models

Features

vCenter Operations Manager Suites

Heterogeneous Support

Configuration & Compliance Management

Capacity Management

Performance Management

Standard Advanced Enterprise Enterprise Plus

Explore

Performance Management

Performance Management

.

Performance Management

.

Capacity Management

Capacity Management

Configuration & Compliance Management

Expand StandardizeFor SMB and small

vSphere environmentsFor large vSphere

environmentsFor virtual and cloud

infrastructureFor cloud and

heterogeneous environments

It All Comes Down to Business Results

COST EFFICIENCY

QUALITY OF SERVICE

BUSINESS AGILITY

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

15%

30%

70%

85%

Infrastructure Management

Where are you, and where do you want to be?

Your Cloud

Next Steps – www.softchoice.com/VMware

Thank You!