© 2012 IBM Corporation xCAT/Moab Technology Review & Demo Egan Ford IBM Distinguished Engineer [email protected] [email protected]

© 2012 IBM Corporation

xCAT/MoabTechnology Review & Demo

Egan FordIBM Distinguished [email protected]

© 2012 IBM Corporation2

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Agenda

• IBM SmartCloud and xCAT/Moab• Cloud Taxonomy • Financial Services Customer Results• What is xCAT/Moab• xCAT/Moab Demo


Cloud capabilities that are built upon a common platform, with a commitment to open standards

Commitment to open standards and a broad ecosystem

Private & Hybrid CloudsPrivate & Hybrid CloudsCloud Enablement TechnologiesCloud Enablement Technologies

Managed Cloud Services Managed Cloud ServicesInfrastructure and Platform as a ServiceInfrastructure and Platform as a Service

Cloud Business SolutionsCloud Business SolutionsSoftware and Business Process as a ServiceSoftware and Business Process as a Service

FoundationFoundation ServicesServices SolutionsSolutions

Business Process as a ServiceSoftware as a Service

Business Process as a ServiceSoftware as a Service

Platform as a ServicePlatform as a Service

Infrastructure as a ServiceInfrastructure as a Service

DesignDesign DeployDeploy ConsumeConsume


Cloud Taxonomy

Source: http://it20.info/2012/02/the-cloud-magic-rectangle-tm/


Cloud Value Proposition and Positioning



How You (Provider) Build These Clouds



What You (Consumer) Get with These Clouds



Financial Services Customer Results

• 2011 Size: 12,000 VMs• 2011 Savings:

•$20,000,000+ in Personnel Savings (Storage Side in 2011)•50% Reduction in Maintenance Costs

• 2012 Projection: Convert 20,000 Servers (~$250,000,000 Infrastructure Value)

• 2013 Projection: Convert 20,000 Servers (~$250,000,000 Infrastructure Value)

• 2012 Savings: •~$225,000,000+ in Server Infrastructure (10 to 1 Conversion Ratio)•$XX,000,000+ in Storage Infrastructure (4 to 1 Conversion Ratio

• $500,000,000 in savings in just two years

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Platform Alignment of Moab + xCAT

Strengths: Dynamic Cloud Service Management, Scalable and Low Cost Delivery, Rich Policy Flexibility

Weaknesses: Multi-tenancy subscription management, account and contract management

Aligned: Moab+ xCAT is best aligned to a private cloud delivery that focuses on efficiency of use, SLA management between departments and core showback/chargeback scenarios

Mid LowHigh

Level of Focus/Capability


Big Picture

x,p,z nodex,p,z node …

HDHD

nodenode

HDHD

nodenode

HDHDOptional Local Storage

Network

xCAT Platform Management (Network, Storage, Server, VM, OS, IaaS Services)xCAT Platform Management (Network, Storage, Server, VM, OS, IaaS Services)• Highly

standardized infrastructure

• Virtualization• Image

Catalog• Multi-tenancy

• Highly standardized infrastructure

• Virtualization• Image

Catalog• Multi-tenancy

• Dynamic resource scalability

• Automated provisioning of IT resources

• User-based self-service

• Usage-based cost accounting

• Service Catalog

• Dynamic resource scalability

• Automated provisioning of IT resources

• User-based self-service

• Usage-based cost accounting

• Service Catalog

Moab with View Point PortalMoab with View Point Portal

CentralizedStorage Cloud (NAS or GPFS)

CentralizedStorage Cloud (NAS or GPFS)


xCAT: Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit

Scalable Platform Management• Distributed Management and Provisioning

10’s of 1000’s of machines supported

• Unified Interface forHardware Discovery and Control

• System x, p, and z

Stateful and Stateless OS and Hypervisor Deployment

Bare-metal and VM OS Deployment

Virtualization Automation

Network and Storage Provisioning

Energy Management

Open Source Project originated at IBM• Actively developed since 1999• Support and Service contracts available


What does xCAT do?

• Remote Hardware Control (x, p, z)• Power, Reset, Vitals, Inventory, Event Logs, Energy Capping, SNMP alert processing,

remote LED status• Remote Console Management

• Serial Console, SOL, Logging, Video Console (no logging)• Remote Target Control

• Local/SAN Boot, Network Boot, iSCSI Boot• Remote Automated Unattended Network Installation

• Auto-Discovery (Zero-Day)• MAC Address Collection• Service Processor Programming• Remote Flashing

• Kickstart, Autoyast, Imaging, Stateless/Diskless, Statelite/Diskelsewhere, iSCSI, Windows Installer, Windows ImageX, COW, Cloning

• Infrastructure Service Management• DHCP (IPv4 & IPv6), DNS, NTP, TFTP, iSCSI, NFS, Active Directory

• VM Management and Provisioning• Scales! Think 100,000 nodes.• xCAT will make you lazy. No need to walk to datacenter again.


xCAT 2.5 Virtualization Support

KVM and Xen (Paravirtualization and Classic) (libvirt driven)• Allocate on Demand, Provision Linux/Windows Guest• Live Migration• Serial and VGA console

ESXi (VMware API driven via Vcenter)• Allocate on Demand, Provision Linux/Windows Guest• Live VM and Storage Migration (Vcenter required)• No console access (WIP, xCAT 2.5)

ScaleMP• Allocate on Demand, Provision Linux/Windows Guest

PowerVM• Allocate on Demand, Provision Linux/AIX Guest• Live Migration• Serial console

zVM• Allocate on Demand, Provision Linux Guest• Serial console

Linux Containers, WPARs (p), and Hyper V on roadmap


Moab Adaptive Computing Suite

• Intelligent decision-automation system• Self-service portal for user access• Integrated accounting• Static and elastic service models• Provides data-center governance

• Balances IT service demands• Organizational policy and business priorities (SLAs)• Unified view of current and future data-center resource availability

• xCAT Automation via xCAT XML/SSL API


xCAT-Moab Key Benefits

• Reduce IT resource delivery time from weeks to minutes• Mitigate risk through consistency, repeatability, and enforcement of site-

specific rules• Respond to dynamically changing circumstances according to

organizational priorities and adjusting workload allocation and modifying infrastructure profiles to optimize service delivery

• Self-service provisioning of physical or virtual infrastructure, including servers, memory, storage, network, software, and licenses

• Implement allocation and billing systems to charge for costs and regulate user demand


xCAT-Moab

• Intelligently automate extreme-scale, heterogeneous data centers with tens of thousands of applications and servers

• Monitor the state of the entire data-center infrastructure and dynamically allocate resources to applications as needed

• Provision stateful and stateless systems with multi-OS software stacks on demand, reducing deployment time to minutes or seconds

• Use application profiles to intelligently place workloads on both physical and virtual resources• Enforce service-level agreements (SLAs) and ensure acceptable quality of service (QoS) for all

users and applications• Anticipate surges in application workload and provision additional resources on demand so that

peak workloads can be accommodated without delay or interruption of services• Identify underutilized resources and pack workloads more tightly to enable existing

servers to complete more workload in less time• Automate system health checks, detect amber light and failure conditions, and

automatically provision replacement servers so that applications finish on schedule without the need for manual intervention

• Monitor power usage, identify underutilized resources, redistribute workloads, and power down idle servers until required

• Provide centralized management across multiple geographically dispersed installations


xCAT + Moab Suite

Viewpoint• GUI

Moab Workload Manager• Scheduler

The Brain

Moab Accounting Module (optional)• Pay to play

Moab Service Manager• Queue• Lock Management• Universal Translator

xCAT• Actions

The Muscle

• The Senses

IBM-HW

MSM

xCAT

VMs

MWM

Viewpoint

MAM


Application Publishing Screen Shots


















IBM support for xCAT

Selected SupportOfferings

IBM EnhancedSupport

IBM EliteSupport

Electronic ProblemSubmission

Yes Yes

Voice ProblemSubmission

Yes Yes

Number of Electronicor Voice problems

Unlimited Unlimited

Support Hours 8am - 5pmMon-Fri

8am - 5pmMon-Fri(24x7x365 for severity 1)

Response Target 4 businesshours

2 businesshours

Technical Contacts 2 Unlimited

Developer AssistanceIncidents

Variable Variable

Availability Worldwide Worldwide

IBM Support for xCAT offers two tiers of IBM support:• IBM Enhanced Support for xCAT • IBM Elite Support for xCAT


Adaptive Computing SupportSupport Offering Basic

4 tickets up to 4 hours each. Additional tickets,

$500 each

Standard PremiumSpecial package

pricing available*

Technical Account Manager (TAM)

Only available in addition to Standard or Premium offering

Electronic support resources including web, email, documentation and online knowledge base

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Access to technical resources via phone ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Technical support 9 hours a day, 5 days a week ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Software product and documentation support ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Critical patch notification ✔✔

✔ ✔

Technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for priority 1 issues ✔ ✔With Premium Only

1 hour initial response on priority 1 issues ✔ ✔With Premium Only

On-site visits (customer pays travel and expenses) ✔ ✔

Priority routing of critical issues ✔ ✔With Premium Only

Up to 80 hours of configuration/consultation time per year ✔

Personalized escalation management ✔

Case history monitoring and analysis ✔

Dedicated support resource ✔

*Special package pricing is available with both the purchase of a Premium and Technical Account Manager offering.


Adaptive Computing Support

Initial Response Time Goals

Priority Level 1 - Critical

Priority Level 2 – High

Priority Level 3 - Medium

Priority Level 4 - Low

8x5: Mountain Time – regular business days

2 business hours 4 business hours 8 business hours 8 business hours

24x7x365 days 1 hour 4 hours 8 business hours 8 business hours

Definition Production system is down

System critically affected or

unresponsive. A vital business

process is severely affected, and there is no procedure or viable workaround

Major feature/ function failure

System still functional, but performance is substandard.

Possible workaround

available

Minor feature/ function failure

Moderate business impact. Product

does not operate as designed, minor impact to usage

Minor problem

Documentation errors, general

information, how-to questions and

enhancement requests


Adaptive Computing Support

Support Hours: Monday through Friday, excluding holidays

North America: 8:00am – 6:00pm Mountain Time Support line: +1-801-717-3710 or 888-221-2008

EMEA: 9:00am – 5:00pm GMTSupport line: +44 (0) 1483 243 578

Asia Pacific: Email and on-line services only

Online and Email Support go to: www.support.adaptivecomputing.com


Who’s responsible for this stuff?

Blame me:• Egan Ford• [email protected]

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© 2012 IBM Corporation xCAT/Moab Technology Review & Demo Egan Ford IBM Distinguished Engineer [email protected] [email protected]