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Building an Agile Datacenter with Deployment Standards
Jonathan Richey | Director of Development | Altiris
Sam Rosenbalm | Director of Microsoft Alliance | Altiris
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Agenda
Introduction Data Center
Challenges Problem Breakdown Best Practices Deployment Solution Case Study
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Introduction
Agile - Responsive, quick and with ease Deployment Standards – Methodologies and
tools that focus on solving the problem set Data Center – 2-3 servers, hundreds or
thousands
One-off or custom remedies are not cost effective
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Data Center Challenges
Security risks Viruses & Worms Internet access & filtering Patches & patch proliferation
Regulation Government Internal corporate standards
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Data Center Challenges
Managing and reducing costs Where does your money go?
Model Planning Deployment Maintenance
Typical 5% 30% 65%
Preferred 30% 20% 50%
Ultimate 40% 40% 20%
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Data Center Challenges Cont.
No benefit if cost is simply shifted between categories
Comparison: 1,000,000 Euro budget
Planning 5% = 50,000 40% = 300,000
Deployment 30% = 300,000 40% = 300,000
Maintenance 65% = 650,000 20% = 150,000
Total 1,000,000 750,000
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Data Center Challenges Cont.
Form-factor proliferation Multiple vendors Technology advancements
―Hardware
―Software hardware upgrades
Others?
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Characteristics of the Solutions
Consistency in deployment Fast and reliable deployment History and reproducibility Hands off – Zero touch Proper tools
Philosophy discussion – tools vs. processes Processes build around tools OR Tools inserted into processes
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Methodologies and Best Practices
Define Desired Outcome Engineer and Design Deployment Maintenance
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Methodologies and Best Practices, Cont.
Define Desired Outcome More Automation 100% environment compliance 100% patch application Environment compliance w/ use customizations Rapid resolution of problem Rapid recommissioning 100% access and uptime 100% Automated processes w/ technician
control
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Methodologies and Best Practices, Cont.
Engineer and Design Management net vs. production net Security controls Network infrastructure impacts or consent Standardized images Standardized application packages Tool selection Tool scripting & job creation
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Methodologies and Best Practices, Cont.
Deployment and Maintenance Consistency in deployment & redeployment Fast and reliable History logging Reproducible Hands off – Zero touch
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Deployment Solution 6.5
Consistency Job & task creation Platform filters and condition Role based security Remote control
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Deployment Solution 6.5 Cont.
Deployment Imaging
― New pre-boot environments (Linux & WinPE)
― 200-300% imaging performance improvement
Scripted OS Install Software delivery
― Wise install packages
― SVS – Software Virtualization Services
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Deployment Solution 6.5 Cont.
History All job execution history stored in SQL
database Job completion status Visual client state
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Deployment Solution 6.5 Cont.
Zero touch Remotely install agents PXE Automation partitions Remote web based console Scheduler Remote control
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Deployment Solution 6.5 Cont.
Partner add-on packs Hardware provisioning
― RAID disk controller setup
― Management processor access
― Blade servers identification
Blade server features― Rack, enclosure, & bay location
― Rip and replace
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Vendor Support for Deployment Solution
HP – RDP (Rapid Deployment Pack) http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp.html
Dell – Deployment Solution for Dell Servers
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/opmng_deployment?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~section=003
IBM - Server Guide Scripting Toolkit
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/sgstk.html
FSC – PRIMERGY Scripting Toolkit for DShttp://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/intel_servers/system_management/altiris.html
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Case Study
Sam Rosenbalm
Director of Microsoft Alliance
25,000 Node Global Server Environment
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Why Deployment Solution?
Not just for imaging – WINS example Flexible – scripts, tokens Conditions – custom PXE & patch Notification Server for reporting and alerting Automated Build Process
Accelerated build time Reduced security vulnerability footprint Improved resource utilization
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Server Provisioning Process
Deployment server Imports Peding
servers
Server Order placed
Server Information is Pre-populated in DB
Server Arrives and is Racked
Server is powered up and connects to
Deployment Server via PXE
Deployment server Images server(s)and configures server from info
from IAdmin
Add Server to Image group
Post QC Scripts run to verify state
of server
Manual QC of server for final
check
Property Notified Ticket Closed
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Customization
Unattended build for base images HP (Dell/FS/IBM) Toolkits -- disk config Task password utility (user is case sensitive) Trigger for service shutdown Active Directory Security Groups WSLogEvent Image Explorer – drivers, folders, hotfixes
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Datacenter Workarounds
Drive letter post config script Local admin accounts script Static Routes (watch out for disabled NICs) Robocopy to move images to other DS
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Question & Answer
What unsolved deployment issues do you invest in, that you want Altiris to own and solve?
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Thanks for Coming
Jonathan Richey
Director of Development
Sam Rosenbalm
Director of Microsoft Alliance
