March 3, 2016

Operational Advisory GroupUW – Madison Campus Computing Initiative

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• Welcome

• 2/18/2017 Incident & Update

• Virtualization Updates

• Data Center RFP

• Proposed vCenter Service

• Q&A

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February 18, 2017

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Virtualization Updates

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New Staff

• Roksana Baladi

• Tony O’Rourke

• Technical Onboarding &

Ongoing Customer Support

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Quarterly Template Updates

• Patching, OpenSCAP

• Windows Server 2012 R2 too secure

• Windows Server 2016 (Core?)

• Ubuntu 16.04.01 LTS

• Scientific Linux 7, Oracle Linux 7

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Near Futures (not in order of priority)

• vRealize Automation 7.3

• vSphere 6.5

• Fixing the darn Cost Estimator“This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different

from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should

one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,

actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or

expected.”

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Near Futures (not in order of priority)

• Deployment Naming

• Fixing the word-wrapping on questions

• New Templates

• vCenter-level Services“This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different

from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should

one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,

actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or

expected.”

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Near Futures (not in order of priority)

• Failover Testing & Updates

• Campus Firewalling Changes

• Security & Compliance Auditing“This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different

from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should

one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,

actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or

expected.”

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Less-Near Futures (also not ordered)

• VM-level Backup

• Replication Options

• VM Names“This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different

from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should

one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,

actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or

expected.”

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Less-Near Futures (also not ordered)

• More Deployment Automation

• APIs & Scriptable Interfaces

• Template Distribution

• Customer Template Process“This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different

from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should

one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,

actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or

expected.”

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Data Center RFP

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Virtualization Infrastructure Proposals

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• Data Center Colocation

• Private Cloud

• Public Cloud

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• Data Center Colocation

• Managed Infrastructure

• Shared Infrastructure

• Private Cloud

• VMware on AWS (future)

• Public Cloud

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Managed Infrastructure

• Dedicated environment

• Standard, best-practices buildout

• Infrastructure hardware & software

managed by CCI

• VMs managed completely by

department/group

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Managed Infrastructure

• Interesting to groups & projects with

higher security needs

• Interesting where there are particular

budgeting & governance constraints

• Can be hosted in any suitable facility

• Everything you’re already doing

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Shared Infrastructure

• Shared environment

• No vRealize Automation

• API/CLI/PowerShell access

• Some Self-Service

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Shared Infrastructure

• “Some Self-Service?”

• Security concerns

• Availability concerns

• Operational concerns

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Shared Infrastructure

• Interesting to groups & projects that

are, like, totally done with hardware

• Interesting where infrastructure

sharing is already happening

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VMware on AWS

• Managed hosting, in AWS datacenter

• More when we know

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Next Steps

• Governance, Billing Model

• Proof of concept implementations for

both in progress now

• Your serious interest will determine

the future of these efforts.

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General Q&A

March 3, 2016

THANK YOU.