Self Service Virtualizationas a Private Cloud

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Berlin | 15.01.2009 | Schlomo SchapiroSystemarchitekt, Open Source Evangelist

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Lab Manager Light

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http://code.google.com/p/lml

Agenda

Why?

Show Me!

How?

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Why?

User

AdminSlow Change Process

Many Restrictions

Lots Of Work

Single Point of Failure

No Knowledge Spread

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Lab Manager Light – Concept

Admin

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Show me!

Live

Dem

o

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How?

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Workflow

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Workflow

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Lab Manager Light

Open Source Project: http://code.google.com/p/lml

GNU General Public License

Glue layer: vSphere Virtualization Farm – Users – Network

VM Name = hostname, enforce hostname policies

Enforce VM ownership information

Enforce VM expiration

Enforce network boot (PXE)

Manage network (DHCP & DNS)

Manage host-based entries in a SVN

Pre-Boot Quality Gate for Virtual Machines

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Use Cases

Quality Gate for Virtual Machines

Enable Users to make use of all vSphere feature without restrictions

Protect the network and the IT environment from common mistakes und misconfigurations

Integration into Configuration & System Management

Integration into Provisioning Toolkit

Self Service Virtualization instead of internal cloud

Expose users to technology

DevOps mindset – work together on improving the infrastructure

Managed use of vSphere without commercial addons

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