Chad Sakac - VP Technology Alliance EMC - manages the VMware relationship
A packed session, so it must be important to attendees given the number of people who are looking a little worse for wear after last nights party.
Much of this presentation will be conceptual.
All based on federation of storage across long distances
- EMC VPLEX is their new federation product
- NetApp Metrocluster and IBM SVC Stretch cluster is similar
- VPLEX is an active-active model
- Simultaneous access to storage in 2 locations - within or beyond data centres
- Traditional disk replication is like vSphere HA - disruption and then recovery
- VPLEX is more like VMotion - allows for planned disaster avoidance (comment - does this mean that there is still an outage?)
- VPLEX Metro is up to 100km (actually, 5 milliseconds)
- In 2011 VPLEX Geo will handle asynchronous distances
- Eventually VPLEX Global will be available for truly distrbuted mulit-active model
- Active-active GEO dispersion is possible
- Scale-out of storage brings N+1 for availability - otherwise there will be too many VMware clusters dependent upon too few storage arrays for resilience
- VPLEX Metro Distributed Virtual Volumes allow the data to be visible at the same time in both sites when synchronous
- VPLEX asynchronous (not yet available!) uses caching to "catch up" - a VM can be VMotioned, but the data follows later. Its not yet clear what happens if the intersite links are lost during many different use cases.
- Worth noting that VMotion is possible within the domain of a vCenter (ie not the cluster!). Intra cluster VMotions are parallel, inter-cluster VMotions are serial (ie only one at a time)
- VPLEX can work with pretty much any storage sub-system, not just EMC
- With advance created mirror - Successfully tested vMotion and Storage vMotion acros 100km. Took 3 hours for the storage and then a few seconds for the VM - can deliver 5 at a time. So good for planned moves, but not DR
Interesting observation - EMC VPLEX is based on commodity x86 server tech - another demonstration that x86 is Enterprise strength.
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Self Service and Workflow Automation for the Private Cloud Weds 13:30
John MacLean, Director, Product Management, VMware
Strategy is virtualization, automation and self-service
Self service drives efficient consumer data collection, is the basis for freedom of choice
Workflow is automation of the regular tasks
vCoud Request Manager interfaces with the vCloud Director vCloud API so that you can layer this over private clouds and compatible ISP cloud services
VMware Service Manager (ex EMC) - service desk, config & change, asst management, service request fulfilment to business users
Service Request Fulfilment:
- Hierarchical view of IT service catalogue - can include chargeback for each service
- When a request is created, data can be collected as per the design required - so can collect data from requestor based on tabs, collapsible sections, dates, drop downs etc. Includes option to lease the selected resources
- Workflow generated through graphical interface and diagramming. Many of the workflow tasks are hidden from the user (e.g. update inventory, email notifications). Audit trailed, role based permissions.
- SLA responses are configurable - e.g. standard vApp driven VM can be minutes but custom can be weeks
- Tasks can call out or use connectors (e.g. VMware config mgr, EMC storage, 3rd party technology), write your own connectors.
- Connectors support discovery, events and push actions
- Connectors include vCloud Director
vCloud Request Manager (launched at VMWORLD Europe 2010)
- Adds workflow approval process to requests
- Consumer (e.g. developer / trainer) selects an app from service catalogue
- Feedsback to consumer when the app is up and running, post approval process
- Tracks software licence consumption
- Need to associate licences with a vApp
- Consumes and releases licences as apps are created and destroyed
- Policy Based Cloud Computing
- Admin sets up blueprints that include chargeback etc.
- Brings consistency through deployment of vApps (they're stacks!)
vApp templates can be exposed according to the permissions of the user
Strategy is virtualization, automation and self-service
Self service drives efficient consumer data collection, is the basis for freedom of choice
Workflow is automation of the regular tasks
vCoud Request Manager interfaces with the vCloud Director vCloud API so that you can layer this over private clouds and compatible ISP cloud services
VMware Service Manager (ex EMC) - service desk, config & change, asst management, service request fulfilment to business users
Service Request Fulfilment:
- Hierarchical view of IT service catalogue - can include chargeback for each service
- When a request is created, data can be collected as per the design required - so can collect data from requestor based on tabs, collapsible sections, dates, drop downs etc. Includes option to lease the selected resources
- Workflow generated through graphical interface and diagramming. Many of the workflow tasks are hidden from the user (e.g. update inventory, email notifications). Audit trailed, role based permissions.
- SLA responses are configurable - e.g. standard vApp driven VM can be minutes but custom can be weeks
- Tasks can call out or use connectors (e.g. VMware config mgr, EMC storage, 3rd party technology), write your own connectors.
- Connectors support discovery, events and push actions
- Connectors include vCloud Director
vCloud Request Manager (launched at VMWORLD Europe 2010)
- Adds workflow approval process to requests
- Consumer (e.g. developer / trainer) selects an app from service catalogue
- Feedsback to consumer when the app is up and running, post approval process
- Tracks software licence consumption
- Need to associate licences with a vApp
- Consumes and releases licences as apps are created and destroyed
- Policy Based Cloud Computing
- Admin sets up blueprints that include chargeback etc.
- Brings consistency through deployment of vApps (they're stacks!)
vApp templates can be exposed according to the permissions of the user
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Building Private Clouds - Actual Experiences Tuesday 14:00
Panel:
Greg Bybee VMware
Alan Russell Experian
Clint Greenwood General Electric
Glenn Harper Sabre Holdings
James Jones LabCorp
Jordan Janeczko Seimens IT Solutions and Services
- The key message about vCloud Director are being replayed - virtual data centres across shared hardware - clear logical boundaries
GE Project Rainmaker
Platform as a service and hybrid cloud is strategy, working on the internal cloud first
Internal cloud - 2011 Q2 delivery
CISCO UCS with vCloud on top
Gone for full VMware suite - chargeback, vShield etc
Using VDCs to deliver differential services to different businesses
Siemens IT Services
Delivering internal services
Delivering cloud services to customers
Focus on helping customers integrate their existing services with cloud and address security etc.
Most customers have hybrid cloud approach
Much adoption of VMware, Spring Source, Zimbra when providing services to customers
Offer secure virtual test cloud (vTC) for customers to run their own test services - the customer uses vCloud Director to help themselves with appropriate billing
HP Blades
Sabre Holdings
Airlines, hospitality, Last Minute, Travelocity etc
Follow the sun development environment
Suffering from VM sprawl
Using vCloud Director to allow devs to self service within the limits of resource that they have allocated in their virtual data centre
Building library of vApps in a catalogue - great for sales and training teams
Took 3 days to set up vCD, most of which was learning the terminology
Packaged a 3 tier app which can then be built and destroyed in multiple environments
EXPERIAN
Follow the sun development
Need to have multiple versions of applications due to local regulatory variations
Want to drive consistency into the organisation
Engage your customers - in this case as the developers what they want
Quick to deploy with very little cost - build the service using VMs on existing VMware clusters
LabCorp
Medical testing
IBM rack servers, EMC storage
vCloud has driven process standardization
30 days to provide physical, 7 days to provide virtual - most of this is through change control across all the infrastructure components
With vCloud a VM can be provisioned in 5 minutes due to pooling of server, network and storage resources - the existing teams provide the pools then the virtual data centre team manages within those pools
Leasing allowed significant resource reclaiming
Licencing can be an issue - are you big enough to have an all you eat contract?
Greg Bybee VMware
Alan Russell Experian
Clint Greenwood General Electric
Glenn Harper Sabre Holdings
James Jones LabCorp
Jordan Janeczko Seimens IT Solutions and Services
- The key message about vCloud Director are being replayed - virtual data centres across shared hardware - clear logical boundaries
GE Project Rainmaker
Platform as a service and hybrid cloud is strategy, working on the internal cloud first
Internal cloud - 2011 Q2 delivery
CISCO UCS with vCloud on top
Gone for full VMware suite - chargeback, vShield etc
Using VDCs to deliver differential services to different businesses
Siemens IT Services
Delivering internal services
Delivering cloud services to customers
Focus on helping customers integrate their existing services with cloud and address security etc.
Most customers have hybrid cloud approach
Much adoption of VMware, Spring Source, Zimbra when providing services to customers
Offer secure virtual test cloud (vTC) for customers to run their own test services - the customer uses vCloud Director to help themselves with appropriate billing
HP Blades
Sabre Holdings
Airlines, hospitality, Last Minute, Travelocity etc
Follow the sun development environment
Suffering from VM sprawl
Using vCloud Director to allow devs to self service within the limits of resource that they have allocated in their virtual data centre
Building library of vApps in a catalogue - great for sales and training teams
Took 3 days to set up vCD, most of which was learning the terminology
Packaged a 3 tier app which can then be built and destroyed in multiple environments
EXPERIAN
Follow the sun development
Need to have multiple versions of applications due to local regulatory variations
Want to drive consistency into the organisation
Engage your customers - in this case as the developers what they want
Quick to deploy with very little cost - build the service using VMs on existing VMware clusters
LabCorp
Medical testing
IBM rack servers, EMC storage
vCloud has driven process standardization
30 days to provide physical, 7 days to provide virtual - most of this is through change control across all the infrastructure components
With vCloud a VM can be provisioned in 5 minutes due to pooling of server, network and storage resources - the existing teams provide the pools then the virtual data centre team manages within those pools
Leasing allowed significant resource reclaiming
Licencing can be an issue - are you big enough to have an all you eat contract?
Monday, 11 October 2010
Sunday in Copenhagen
EasyJet provided the transport into the main Copenhagen airport via the ubiquitous Boeing 737 from Manchester in an efficient, cost effective manner. Enough and nothing more.
First shock - I was expecting stratospheric beer prices,but 500ml of bottled water at approx £2.20? Welcome to Copenhagen.
The weather outside the airport was bright and sunny, but EMC were ensuring that it was cloudy inside:
More evidence that the virtual World has arrived in Denmark:
Copenhagen airport is definitely in the efficient class of airports so soon enough I was onto the driverless Metro which has parallels with London's DLR. Its quick, its effective, very clean and takes you to the centre of the city in 15 mins. Being from the North of England, it pains me to say this, but suddenly London seems to be good value! £4 compares to an equivalent journey of £2.30 - on the DLR. Its very clean though, and its quite a different experience once underground with the tunnels being much more modern and illuminated:
The hotel is on the North East side of the city centre and overlooks the "lakes" - which look like very wide canals. James meets me out of the Metro at Norreport and we head off to the Kong Arthur. I get a room up in the roof space - its compact but as all the essentials including tasteful contemporary decor. If I stand on a chair I have an excellent view over the lakes through the Velux!
We head out to the Norrebro area on the other side of the lake and settle on "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus" to eat on the square at the top end of Sankt Hans Torv. Clearly someone got confused between or decided to combine Monty Python and James Bond. Either way, we find something to suit us both on the menu, James opting for the Pollock risotto, myself for the heavily nut based veggie burger. Both turn out to be delicious, although the burger could've benefitted from being served a little hotter. We sip at our Tuborg Gold lager which is wheaty and very tasty, but at near enough £8 a pint almost seems like an extravagance! The service was attentive but not overpowering with the venue being quiet but pleasant enough.
Hoping to hit the micro brewery of Norrebro Bryhus on the nearby Ryesgarde we were disappointed to find it closed. A nearby corner bar served a huge 750ml Tuborg Classic which is a pretty dark larger and this went down well as we started to plan our Monday - mixing some business with some sight seeing.
Next we made for Babarellah on Norre Farimagsgade, not far from the hotel which is described by the Lonley Planet guide as "almost unbearably cool" - clearly designed for us! Except that it too is closed - I'm reminded of a conversaton James overheard in the reception between the hotel staff and an American tourist "people of Denmark need to rest sometimes". So we end up in a very small bar in a small square where there is an artwork of a giant cigarette end which is bent up at one end as though it has been stubbed out - it must be a portent or something - as Denmark is somewhat semi-detatched in EU terms - the bar we're in is full of folk smoking. Coming from the UK it's a bit of a culture shock / throwback finding yourself in a tobacco smoke filled atmospherere. In the Lonely Planet's "When in Rome..." section is mentions "smoke like a kipper" - I think the author must've been in this bar when they wrote those words. There was a jazz group playing standards and improvs - piano, double bass, 2x Sax and a trombone
Smokin'
James enjoyed the music whilst I found myself admiring the musicianship more than the actual music. Great to see the players working so well together and meeting the expectations of their audience. Lovely friendly atmosphere here with James being invited to offer gifts to the locals, but we're not sure if we offended or if certain locals were overstepping the mark!
Jazz Bar James
When in Rome... So When in Denmark, Drink Danish Beer
Earlier in the day we went up to the Bella Center and registered for the VMWORLD conference - its a fair way out of the city centre but the Metro's very effective, much like the registration process which is semi-self service. We typed our names into a Wyse thin client terminal and a pass is printed and checked against photo id - all sorted in a couple of minutes. Our VMWORLD 2010 back packs contain a t-shirt, lanyard, vendor promo leaflets and a 4 day pass for all zones on the public transport - this is very useful and if you haven't set out yet its worth noting that EMC are sponsoring free travel on the local network for all attendees from 10-14 October, so just buy enough travel to get you to the Bella Center and the rest is covered for you through to Thurs.
So off to sleep now, so far so good!
Oh, and what happened to the Halifax? No comment!
First shock - I was expecting stratospheric beer prices,but 500ml of bottled water at approx £2.20? Welcome to Copenhagen.
The weather outside the airport was bright and sunny, but EMC were ensuring that it was cloudy inside:
More evidence that the virtual World has arrived in Denmark:
Copenhagen airport is definitely in the efficient class of airports so soon enough I was onto the driverless Metro which has parallels with London's DLR. Its quick, its effective, very clean and takes you to the centre of the city in 15 mins. Being from the North of England, it pains me to say this, but suddenly London seems to be good value! £4 compares to an equivalent journey of £2.30 - on the DLR. Its very clean though, and its quite a different experience once underground with the tunnels being much more modern and illuminated:
The hotel is on the North East side of the city centre and overlooks the "lakes" - which look like very wide canals. James meets me out of the Metro at Norreport and we head off to the Kong Arthur. I get a room up in the roof space - its compact but as all the essentials including tasteful contemporary decor. If I stand on a chair I have an excellent view over the lakes through the Velux!
We head out to the Norrebro area on the other side of the lake and settle on "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus" to eat on the square at the top end of Sankt Hans Torv. Clearly someone got confused between or decided to combine Monty Python and James Bond. Either way, we find something to suit us both on the menu, James opting for the Pollock risotto, myself for the heavily nut based veggie burger. Both turn out to be delicious, although the burger could've benefitted from being served a little hotter. We sip at our Tuborg Gold lager which is wheaty and very tasty, but at near enough £8 a pint almost seems like an extravagance! The service was attentive but not overpowering with the venue being quiet but pleasant enough.
Hoping to hit the micro brewery of Norrebro Bryhus on the nearby Ryesgarde we were disappointed to find it closed. A nearby corner bar served a huge 750ml Tuborg Classic which is a pretty dark larger and this went down well as we started to plan our Monday - mixing some business with some sight seeing.
Next we made for Babarellah on Norre Farimagsgade, not far from the hotel which is described by the Lonley Planet guide as "almost unbearably cool" - clearly designed for us! Except that it too is closed - I'm reminded of a conversaton James overheard in the reception between the hotel staff and an American tourist "people of Denmark need to rest sometimes". So we end up in a very small bar in a small square where there is an artwork of a giant cigarette end which is bent up at one end as though it has been stubbed out - it must be a portent or something - as Denmark is somewhat semi-detatched in EU terms - the bar we're in is full of folk smoking. Coming from the UK it's a bit of a culture shock / throwback finding yourself in a tobacco smoke filled atmospherere. In the Lonely Planet's "When in Rome..." section is mentions "smoke like a kipper" - I think the author must've been in this bar when they wrote those words. There was a jazz group playing standards and improvs - piano, double bass, 2x Sax and a trombone
Smokin'
James enjoyed the music whilst I found myself admiring the musicianship more than the actual music. Great to see the players working so well together and meeting the expectations of their audience. Lovely friendly atmosphere here with James being invited to offer gifts to the locals, but we're not sure if we offended or if certain locals were overstepping the mark!
Jazz Bar James
When in Rome... So When in Denmark, Drink Danish Beer
Earlier in the day we went up to the Bella Center and registered for the VMWORLD conference - its a fair way out of the city centre but the Metro's very effective, much like the registration process which is semi-self service. We typed our names into a Wyse thin client terminal and a pass is printed and checked against photo id - all sorted in a couple of minutes. Our VMWORLD 2010 back packs contain a t-shirt, lanyard, vendor promo leaflets and a 4 day pass for all zones on the public transport - this is very useful and if you haven't set out yet its worth noting that EMC are sponsoring free travel on the local network for all attendees from 10-14 October, so just buy enough travel to get you to the Bella Center and the rest is covered for you through to Thurs.
So off to sleep now, so far so good!
Oh, and what happened to the Halifax? No comment!
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