Ravi Gururaj, Founder and CTO, VMLogix

October 9, 2009

Adopting Cloud Infrastructure as an On-Demand

Extension of On-Premise Infrastructure for Virtual

Labs

The Problem: How do you Plan On-Premise Infrastructure

Capacity?

Average

Steady State

Demand

VIR

TU

AL

LA

B

DE

MA

ND

100%Peak

Demand

Virtual Lab Demand Met by the Public Cloud

Wasted

Resources

Virtual Lab Demand Met by the Private On-

Premise Cloud

TIME

Private Cloud:

Centralized,

Virtualized

Lab Infrastructure

Private Clouds:

�Policy-driven self-service

�Secure & centralized management

� Hypervisor-Agnostic

Public Clouds:

� Burst to the cloud when necessary

� Migrate to operational expenditure when necessary

� Public IaaS provider handles infrastructure admin

The Solution: Private Clouds for Steady State Demand,

Public Clouds for Bursty Demand

Public Cloud:

Elastic, Pay-As-You-

Go, Virtualized

Lab Infrastructure

Considerations: For the End User

• End user interacts with web browser “mini-apps” that focus on user

workflows and experience; e.g., management app for labs, end user self-service etc.

• End users get benefit of charge-backs, policing, quotas, warnings/alerts

• System has a high degree of automation – provisioning, multi-machine system preparation and configuration

• End users get self serve, on-demand access

• The infrastructure layer is entirely transparent to end users

Considerations: For the Enterprise IT Administrator

• Single pane of management glass across internal (private) and external

(public) clouds

• IT administrators can easily enable failover, HA, disaster recovery for service (multi-machine) configurations

• IT administrators drive system compliance – through rich audit trails and tamper proof logging across the clouds

Considerations: For the Business

• High degree of security: VPN tunnels between on-premise and off-premise infrastructure

• Optimize the IT spend: Allow customers (end users and IT administrators) to pick and choose their choice of clouds

• Retain IT agility: Lock-in free, have exportable and simplified meta data of the applications and services

About VMLogix, Inc.

• Founded in 2004

• Funded by Bain Capital Ventures & Trilogy

• Building hypervisor agnostic virtual machine management applications

• Award-winning, industry-recognized Virtual Lab Automation product

• Dozens of customers including ISVs, Enterprises and hosting providers

• Offices in US, Canada and India

Enterprise Partnerships: Industry Recognition:

VMLogix LabManager-Cloud Edition

Screenshots

Managing a multi-machine

configuration in Amazon EC2

Managing a hybrid farm –

Hyper-V and Amazon EC2

from a single pane of glass

Q&A