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vCAC and VMware SDEAutomating the Software Defined Enterprise

Fabio Rapposelli – Marco Caronna

Global Center of Excellence - VMware

Who are we?

Optimize

Change

Monitor

Model-Driven Application Provisioning For The Cloud

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A Model Driven Approach to Application Provisioning

Catalog of Application

Services

Web

Server

Application

Server

Messaging

In-memory

database

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

Application Blueprint

Prod

Test

Deployment Profiles

Deployments

Dev

Streamline the deployment and update process

Leverage pre-built components

Re-use application models across environments and clouds

Accelerate Application Deployment

Application Blueprint

ComponentsComponentsComponentsComponents

Multi-Vendor, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

CloudPhysical Virtual

vSphere Hyper-V XenServer

Linux Windows

Cloud Providers

vCloudHybridService

vCloud Automation Center

Self - Service

Infrastructure

Services

Application

Services

Custom

Services

vCloud Automation Center

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Extensible to new services

Unified Service Catalog: Infrastructure , Applications and XaaS

Portal branding per tenant App store

experience

Service category

Your logo

Custom ServiceEntitlements and

Approvals for each item

Rapidly deploy automation solution and new IT Services

Leverage investment by mapping into existing IT environments

Adapt to meet unique IT and business needs

vCloud Automation Center

4. Add new IT

services & day-2

operations

(XaaS)

Advanced

Services

Designer

vCloud Automation Center REST API

5. Call vCAC services from existing applications

3. Integrate with 3rd

party management

systemsDesign Center

vC

OIT

Pro

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ss

Au

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1. Leverage existing and future infrastructure

Multi-vendor,

Multi-cloud

Policy

Management

2. Configure

business relevant

services

vCloud Automation Center – Designed to be Extensible

ServiceNow, PMG, Remedy, Homegrown

service Catalog

• Specify provisioning methodology• Service entitlements • Custom properties• Resource reservations• Specify custom machine/OS

properties• Etc.

• Compute Infrastructure (virtual, physical, public cloud)

• Software deployment methodologies

• CMDB• DNS• IPAM• Load Balancers• Service Desk

• Monitoring• Storage• Databases• Web Services• Etc.

Cloud Operations Management

Immediate

Problems

Future

Problems

Opportunities

to Optimize

Enabling Customers

to proactively ensure

quality of service,

operational efficiency

and continuous

compliance

vCenter Ops: Visibility & Management Across Multiple Clouds

VMs

running in AWS Overall

health status for all clouds

A vCloud

Director private

cloud

A vCloud

Director-based public

cloud

Overall health status

for applications running in all clouds

Click to get guest

details

Drill down for root

cause analysis and solution

Gain Cross-Cloud Visibility

Drill Down to Identify Performance Issues

• Visibility into and management

of a heterogeneous, hybrid

software defined datacenter

• Drill down for root cause

analysis of performance

issues

• Capacity monitoring/planning

and waste reclamation

vCenter Ops: Cross-Cloud Config and Compliance Governance

Correlate changes

with health scores

Drill down and

remediate in

Configuration Manager

• Compliance - governance,

automation and enforcement

across clouds

• For each cloud: create separate

machine groups, configure

compliance templates, collect

data for every machine and

remediate compliance breaches

• One click remediation of

configuration changes that

adversely affect performance

Govern, Automate and Enforce Compliance in the Cloud

Correlate Config Changes to Performance and Remediate

Configure separate

compliance template for each cloud

Track Compliance

results for each cloud

Monitor

Compliance

Right click to

remediate

Hyperic: Custom Web App Performance Monitoring

Hyperic provides deep visibility into custom web application

performance, enabling system administrators to

keep apps running quickly so they can meet business goals.

Application Frameworks

Application Servers

Web Servers / Caches

Messaging Middleware

Databases

Directory Services

Email Servers

Operating Systems

Virtualization

Hyperic collects a broad set of application performance data

vCenter Log Insight Technology Platform

Cloud / Data Center

Log Insight

OS

Logs

VC

Logs

App

Logs

System

Stats

Security

Logs

API Syslog

Collect & Analyze

• Can ingest any unstructured time-series data,

configuration etc.

• Automatically identifies structures in the data

• No need for ETL or databases

Scale

• Central, scale-out store (no-SQL) for all collected logs

• Configurable retention and archiving

• Maintenance free

Ships with knowledge of VMware

• Queries, alerts, fields, charts

in the vSphere Content Pack

vCenter Log Insight - Interactive Analytics

Interactive Visualizations of Query Results

Search and Query Box with predictive query keyword suggestions

Highlighted fields increase visibility of tags and keywords

Automated Field Extraction and In-context Visualization

Integration with vCenter Operations

Automated correlation of performance and log data(Requires vCenter Operations Advanced or Enterprise)

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