Jad El-Zein | @virtualjad

Hicham (he-sham) Mourad | @hichammourad

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Effectively Operating an Automated Cloud

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Agenda

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1 Introductions

2 Setting the Stage

3 Solutions Overview

4 Operating Automation

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Introductions

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Hicham (he-sham) Mourad

• Technical Marketing

• 7 years at VMware

Jad El-Zein

• Principal Architect

• 8 years at VMware

• Enjoy helping customers automate infrastructure so they can do more important things with their time / money.

• I share my thoughts at virtualjad.com

I used to have a

full head of hair

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Make the clouds invisible

Make the private cloud

easy to operate

Enable

developers

Manage across clouds.

On-premises & cloud

based delivery

Built for

Developers

Cross-cloud

& SaaS

Easy to

Operate

B U S I N E S S O U T C O M E S

A R E A S O F I N V E S T M E N T

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Different On Ramps To Achieve A Well Managed Cloud

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VMware vRealize®

Intelligent Operations

Managed Virtualization

Automate IT

DevOps-Ready IT

Cap-Ex + Op-Ex + Agility

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Intelligent Operations

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VMware vRealize®

Cap-Ex IT Objectives

IT Org Profile

Outcomes

• Manage Virtual / Cloud Operations at Scale

• Efficient IT

• IT more productive and IT issues resolved in ½ the time

• CapEx reduced by 30%

Intelligent Operations

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Capacity

Management

Network

Management

Log Data

Analysis

Storage

Management

Costing and

Planning

Topology

Analysis

Performance

& Availability

Workload

Balancing

NetworkCompute Storage

SDDC

Consistent Operational Model

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vRealize Operations 6.6 | Highlights

• Proper Initial Placement - Utilize Operations

analytics to optimize placement of workloads

through vRA

• Ensure DRS Configurations – View and set

DRS settings to drive better balance

• Drive better performance across the

datacenters with fully automated workload

balancing• Across clusters

• Across data stores (w/ storage vMotion)

• Easily automatable

• Schedulable at a convenient maintenance

window

• Avoid contention – Predictive DRS takes

action before the contention occurs

Fully Automated Workload Balancing

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Automated Workload Balance - Dashboard

Start Here: Select

Datacenters or

CDCs

Current

Balance

Controls

Workload

Trends

Cluster Workload

VisibilityDRS Configuration

Visibility

vMotion

History

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Automated Workload Balance – Complete Control• All policy settings are available in

one simple screen

– Consolidation Levels

• Initial Placement

– Desired Balance Levels

– Headroom for cushion

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Planning and Troubleshooting

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vRealize Log Insight IntegrationBenefits

• Full 360-Degree Log

Integration with vRealize

Operations

• Full Integration in-context

within vRealize Operations• Direct launch into Log insight

Dashboard

• Direct launch into Log Insight

Interactive Analytics mode

• Object auto-initiated log

management

• vROps Alerts auto-initiated

log management

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DEMO [Planning and Troubleshooting]

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IT Automation

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VMware vRealize®

+ Agility IT Objectives

IT Org Profile

Outcomes

• Reduce / eliminate IT process inefficiencies through

automation

• Responsive IT

• IT Service Delivery times reduced from weeks to

minutes

• Resource utilizations improved by 25%

Automate IT

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Cloud Management Is Fundamental to the SDDCvRA Defines, Delivers, and Governs the SDDC

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Any Device Business Mobility: Applications | Devices | Content

Any Application Traditional | Cloud Native

Any Cloud Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)

Cloud Management Platform

Compute Networking

& SecurityStorage Hybrid Cloud

Virtual / Cloud Infrastructure

vRealize Automation

DevOps

Extensibility

Release Automation

IaaSApp-

CentricXaaS

Self-Service

GUI CLI API

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Automation Accelerates Services Delivery

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> 2-3 Days

Wait WorkWaitWait

Blueprint

✓ Speed

▪ Days to minutes

✓ Stability

▪ Consistent

▪ Repeatable

✓ Control

▪ Aligns with Business

Processes

Task timeWait time

Infrastructure

Verification

Build VMs – New

or Clone

Get IP

Install, Setup, Configure Load Balancer Entries /

Firewall Changes

Web Server Configuration

1- 2 days 3- 5 days 3 – 5 days

1 – 2 days 4 – 7 days 2 – 3 days 2 – 5 days

Developer

Request

External Interface & Integration

IT Processes

Ticket

Minutes

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Unified Service Catalog Multi-Cloud IaaS | App Stacks | XaaS Custom Services

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Operating Automation

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Intelligent Workload Placement

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• OOTB integration vRA vR Ops

– Utilize vRealize Operations analytics

– Optimize the placement of workloads based on business needs

• Policy based

– Consolidate

• Optimize Capex through Densification

• Try and “fill” each cluster first

– Balance

• Mitigate possible contention through resource usage spikes

• Place on the cluster will the least utilization

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Performance & Capacity based Recommendation

Intelligent Placement Using vR Ops Analytics

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Intelligent Workload Placement (WLP)

VM

vRA Requests vR Ops Policies

Clusters & Policy Details

In flight capacity reservation

Catalog

Request

Place VM in Cluster and Let DRS manage inside the cluster

VC3

VC2

VC1

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2

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Reservations

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vRA Integrated Health Service

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Retrieve and View vRA Health Statistics

• REST API Enables integration

with vRealize Operations /

SDDC Health Dashboard or

3rd-party tools

• Full REST interface to perform

health service system

management tasks

• Health Service now available within vRA UI

• Role based and tenanted access to health data

• Configure multiple vRA or vRO instances to monitor

• Schedule and configure test runs

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Governed Reclamation Lifecycle action to reclaim managed resources

• vRA: Governed actions based on Ops analytics and business alignment

• Ops: Global reclamation based on CPU and Mem resources (vRA-aware)

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DEMO [vRA/vROps Workload Placement]

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vRA Management Pack

• vRA managed VMs

– Allow: Set CPU, Set Memory and other actions

– Restrict: Move actions for these VMs

• vRA managed Clusters

– Restrict: Rebalance action

• Now a native vROps management pack (6.6)

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vRA Solution included in vR Ops

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SDDC Health Dashboard

• SDDC Management Health Overview

• Correlation of SDDC-App-component to underlying Infrastructure health (deployment instances and corresponding VM health)

• Enhanced OOTB Health and Compliance Alerts with Recommendations

Monitor Health of SDDC and SDDC infrastructure

Download at https://marketplace.vmware.com

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DEMO [SDDC Health Dashboard]

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vRealize Business for Cloud

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Key Benefits

• Helps Infrastructure Managers

tackle Cloud Business

Management Challenges

• Allows tracking of cloud

Private and Public Cloud

Costs & Plan for future cloud

spend.

• Provide show back to line of

business to communicate the

business value of Cloud.

Private Cloud Cost Management Public Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Comparison Cloud Showback

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Tenanted Cost Visibility

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vRealize Business for Cloud

Provide insight on

Oversized, Idle and

Power off workloads

Report on all or

individual BUs

Report on Top

BU services

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Streamlining Operations

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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Configuration Manager

DAY 0

Install

DAY 1

Configure

DAY 2

Config. Management

Health

DAY N

Upgrade

Patching

vRS LCM

Install

Upgrade

Patching

Config ManagementDrift Remediation

Health

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Summary View of Health

Linkage to

vROps Health

for more info

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vRealize Orchestrator

• Included with VMware vRealize Automation and as standalone appliance to enable automation and orchestration

• Part of vRealize Automation’s core extensibility service

• vRO workflows are invoked from vRealize Operations to remediate alerts using webhooks (REST notifications)

• Brought together for governed and automated remediation capabilities

• Makes IT operations faster and less error-prone by facilitating the automation of IT processes

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Integrate | Automate | Orchestrate

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Summary

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Make the private cloud easy to operate

• Manage vRealize Automation as an enterprise, mission-

critical solution

• Leverage vRealize Intelligent Operations as you would for

other enterprise services

• Leverage available solutions to simplify operations and

gain visibility into the SDDC’s pulse

• VMware’s Cloud Management Platform – vRealize Suite –

is a critical part of your Digital Transformation

Easy to Operate`vRA + vROps

= Better Together

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Jad El-Zein, Principal Architect, CMBU

@virtualjad | virtualjad.com

Hicham Mourad, Technical Marketing, CMBU

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