What’s new in HP Server Automation

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What's new in HP Server Automation

Dan GordonProduct Manager

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Pace of IT is accelerating

IT Landscape Continues to Evolve

Applications are business critical

Virtualization is increasing risk

http://www.xensource.com/

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Pace of IT is accelerating

IT Landscape Continues to Evolve

Applications are business critical

Virtualization is increasing risk

SA 9.0 Benefits

Streamline application deployments

Control virtualization

Improve the customer experience

http://www.xensource.com/

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SA 9.0 Benefits

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Applications Are the Business…

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HOW DO I

DEPLOY THIS? WHY ISN’T

THIS WORKING?

Ops team

Production

QA team

Testing and staging

WHAT IS

THIS?HOW DO I DEPLOY

THIS?

Dev team

But Deploying Them Is Difficult

Configuration files

Directories: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app1

/var/www/html/app2 Application file directoriesWin: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app1Linux/UNIX: /var/www/html/app1

Source control systems:Subversion, ClearCase, CVS,etc.

URLs

• Manually edit multiple config files on multiple servers so application works in production:

scp -r root@stgsvr:/var/www/html/app1 root@prodsvr1:/var/www/html/app1

• Costly troubleshooting

Windows: [mysqld-5.0]

Linux/UNIX: /etc/my.cnf

Multiple file types: *.dll,*.jar..

Development

Scripted manual migration from

dev to test systems:cp /var/www/html/app1/config/my.cnf

Standup servers and deploy the application for testing:

Scripted manual migration from

staging to production vi my.conf

#edit db hostname and port for client config

OS versions and patch levels may differ from production

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Fraught With the Potential for Errors

App

OS

Storage

Network

Server

Dev QA Prod

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Deployments Throughout Application Lifecycle

Minor release Minor release

Fix/ patch

Fix/ patch

Fix/patch

OperationsStrategy

New deployment

Plan

Design Deploy

Development

AgileIterations

AgileIterations

AgileIterations

AgileIterations

Prioritize and Invest

Establish governance

Deploy Deploy Deploy

Deploy

Develop TestDeploy

Deploy

Deploy Deploy Deploy

DeployDeployDeployDeploy

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What’s Needed?

Reduced time & cost2

Improved collaboration 3

Improved application quality 1

Application Deployment Manager

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HP Application Deployment Manager

1 2 3 4Modelthe application

Modelthe servers

Deployconsistently

Report onoutcomes

App developer defines content and configurations

Developer, QA, App decide environment for deployment at each stage

Repeatedly deploy using standards set by experts

Management views dashboard on success and failure rates

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One System to Capture Deployment Complexities

– Capture the

complexities in a

shared

application and

deployment

model

– Model can be

leveraged and

extended as

needed, per

application, and

per lifecycle

phase


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Keep up With the Pace of Change

– Build versions

right from

source control

for rapid

development

cycles

– Different teams

can work on

different apps,

releases,

versions

simultaneously

– Build, deploy,

test however

many times it’s

needed All product views are illustrations and might not represent actual product screens.

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Reduce Time and Risk Through Automated Deployments

– Minimize service downtime with rolling deployments

– Minimize change

windows by pre-

staging of content

– Minimize risk by

rolling back failed

deployments to the

previous state.


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Provision Resources to Support Your App

– Leverage the

strength of

Server

Automation -

e.g. cloning

virtual servers

– Configure to

automatically

deploy

application

monitoring

agents


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Integrated Approach: Operations Orchestration

– Build flows to integrate with the overall ALM solution

– Automate key processes supporting your app:

• Provision storage

• Add or remove from load balancer

• Add or remove from monitoring

• Open and close tickets

• Hold process until CAB approves


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Measure Results And Continuously Improve


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Bridging Applications and Operations

Applications

Operations

Deploy

Test

DeployManage

Plan

Build

Apps

Ops

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Project and Portfolio Mgmt.

Quality Center

Application Deployment

Mgr.

Quality Center,

Performance Center

Project and Portfolio Mgmt.

Service Manager, Release Control

Application Deployment

Mgr.BSM, BSA

Operations

Plan Change Mgmt.

Deploy Manage

Plan Develop Deploy Test

Test Results

Application Deployment Manager

Deployment Results

Applications

CSA

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ADM Benefits Summary

Reduce time and cost for deploying complex multi tier applications2

Improve collaboration for better deployment results, across teams and geographies3

Leverage and extend existing investments 4

Improve application quality by focusing on the application instead of deployment1

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SA 9.0 Benefits

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2.5

5.0

7.5

10.0

12.5

15.0

17.5

Mil

lio

ns

Physical Hosts Stand Alone Servers Virtual Machines

Server Virtualization Growth Forecast

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CROSS OVER

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Unmanaged Server Sprawl

VMLibrary

=CapEx

Risk

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SA 9.0 Virtualization Benefits

Maintain management continuity2

Leverage virtualization3

Manage consistently via single tool1

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Manage Servers Consistently via Single Tool• Across physical and virtual. Across virtualization vendors

• Get visibility and control of all your resources in one place.


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Manage Servers Consistently via Single Tool

• Integrate to all your vCenters at once

• Discover all hypervisors, VM’s, virtual nets, and datastoresvCenter is aware of


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SA Managed VM

SA Managed VM’

Clo

ne M

anaged V

M

SA Managed VM Template

SA Managed VM ‘‘

Deplo

y M

anaged V

M T

em

pla

te

Policies Policies

Policies Policies

Maintain Server Management Continuity• Cloning and templating with management model inheritance

• Policies, history, audits, custom attributes, etc stay with the new server

• Start the clone from SA or vCenter

• Once managed, it’ll stay managed

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Clone From Within the SA UI


Clone From Within the SA UI• Identify network configurations so the new system will work right away


Clone from Within the SA UI• Pick a destination hypervisor. Pick a datastore. All from SA

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Patching DevelLoB App Devel

OS Devel

SA Library

Hypervisor

Policy 1Policy

PolicyPolicy 2

Policy definition

Live VM

Policy 1 (applied)

ApplyPolicy

Gold Image VM

Policy 1 (applied)

Rapid deployment

Leveraging the Agility of Virtualization

• Cloning + Policies = speed and flexibility

• Rapid deployments

• Standards based customizations

Policy 2 (applied)

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Virtualization Benefits Summary

Reduce risk by keeping all your servers managed and compliant2

Leverage image provisioning speed and policy based flexibility3

Gain centralized visibility and control of all your virtualization resources1

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SA 9.0 Benefits

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SA 9.0 Customer Experience Benefits

Investing in Key Use Cases2

Customer Enablement3

Enhanced Integrations4

Ease of Server Automation Deployment1

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Ease of Server Automation Deployment

• Zero Downtime Upgrade

• Reduced risk of unsuccessful installations

• Faster and more resilient installation

• Improved User/User Group Management

• Simplified upgrade process

• Other misc improvements (agent based, core re-IP)

Core 1Core 3

Core 2

Production Mesh

Core 1Agents

Core 2Agents

Core 3Agents

Production Mesh’

1

2

4

3

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Windows Patching• Superseded service packs allowed

• Patch policy browser UI indicates superseded patches

• Improved job status details (superseded, N/A, locale, etc)

• Win 2008 R2 patching support

• New reports (ROI, Time to Compliance)


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OS Provisioning • New flexible OS Build Plans

• Server maintenance mode

• DHCPless provisioning

• RAID Config


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Application Configurations• Folder permissions model like the rest of SA objects

• New app config syntax highlighting editor for easier editing

• Task window based pushes (including scheduling)


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Documentation• SA Quick Start Guide with "Show Me" videos

• Streamlined installation guide

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UI Improvements• Actionable search results

• Context aware menus

• Searchable and filterable job results data

• Cleaner and more detailed export of job results data


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Enhanced Integrations: SA/OO • Right click launch flow from device or device group

• Detailed job status and results through SA


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Server Storage Visibility

–ESX and ESXi 4 storage visibility• Deep storage visibility of the latest Vmware hypervisors

–Patchable storage platform support• New storage platform support with each patch release

• Minimal downtime and customer installable

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Improved SA Reporting• BSA Essentials

• Business Objects based

• Measure and track ROI and productivity

• Drag and drop custom report creation


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SA 9.0 Benefits Summary

Reduce cost, time, and risk of application deployments

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Control unmanaged virtualization sprawl

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Faster time to value and better overall user experience

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