Intro to Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy

Systems Engineer, Platform9

Prior to joining Platform9, Cody was the Lead Cloud Architect at General Electric, where he built an enormous private cloud based on VMware vCloud Director spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. With more than 10 years of IT infrastructure experience across multiple industries, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, particularly as an enterprise IT practitioner and strategist in one of the world’s largest technology shops.

Cody Hill

Agenda

• Why private clouds?

• Introducing Platform9

• Why Platform9 for private clouds?

• Admin Demo

• Customers and use cases

• User Demo

• Q&A

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Why Private Clouds?

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The Promise of Private Clouds

Source: White paper: Taking the business benefits of private cloud to new heights ©2013 Avanade

Why Are 95% of Private Clouds Failing?

“I [recently] identified ten reasons private clouds were failing. I …polled attendees at Gartner’s Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas in December. I asked the question “What is going wrong with your private cloud?” I was a little surprised that 95% of the 140 respondents (who had private clouds in place) said something was wrong with their private cloud…”

- Thomas Bittman, Gartner

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• Complexity is huge barrier to success

• Massive pain to install

• Nightmare to operate

•No support for existing assets

•No support for diverse virtualization platforms

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Private Clouds Are Difficult

Introducing Platform9

Manifesto

Platform9’s mission is to make private

clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale.

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History

• Founded 2013 in Silicon Valley

• Founded by early VMware Engineers

• Private cloud management as a service

• “Easy Button” for private clouds

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Sirish Raghuram, CEO

Madhura Maskasky, VP Product

Roopak Parikh, VP Engineering

Bich Le, Chief Architect

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Global User Base

• Simple

• New approach: cloud management delivered as a SaaS solution

• < 5 minutes to get fully operational

• Fully managed (install, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade)

• Open

• Integrates with and leverages existing assets

• Hypervisors or containers

• Any server, any storage, any network

• OpenStack REST APIs for compatibility

• Enterprise-grade

• SLAs for operational continuity

• Single pane of glass for global visibility and control

• Multi-region support

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Why Platform9 for Private Clouds?

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Platform9 Managed OpenStackPrivate Cloud-as-a-Service

• Enterprise’s servers host their data

• Platform9 hosts the cloud

controllers as a managed service, with an operational SLA

• No need to install, monitor, troubleshoot or upgrade the cloud platform

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Platform9 Key Benefits

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Admin Demo

• Deploy and authorize Platform9 Gateway

• Discover existing infrastructure

• Create tenants and users

Customer Use Cases

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Customer StoryNeed: • Make life easier for developers and QA = improved productivity

• Reduce VMware license spend

• Short implementation timeframe

Solution: • Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud

• Hundreds of sockets across multiple data centers and teams

• Migrate workloads from vSphere to KVM

Results: • Reduced virtualization spend by 5x

• Doubled developer throughput

• Eliminated the need to hire OpenStack specialists

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Customer StoryNeed: • Operationalize a hybrid cloud DevOps pipeline across AWS and

VMware vSphere

• Use tools such as Packer, Terraform to automate CI/CD

• Leverage existing investment in VMware vSphere and admins

Solution: • Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud

• 80 sockets across three data centers

• OpenStack APIs to orchestrate underlying vSphere environment

• Integrated with Packer and Terraform

Results: • Reduced “shadow IT” by providing self-service for developers

• Reduced overall costs with hybrid cloud

• Accelerated DevOps throughput via automation

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How Does Platform9 Work?

Customer Data Center

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How Does Platform9 Work?

Platform9 Cloud

Linux (KVM) Hypervisor

ESXPlatform9 Agent

ESXESXVMware vCenter

Platform9 Appliance ESXESX

Neutron(Beta)

Platform9 Services

Other OpenStack

Services

Glance-api/registry KeystoneNova-api/

scheduler/ Heat

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User Demo

• Self-service provisioning of virtual machines

• Launch an application stack

• Learn:

• Read about Platform9 at http://platform9.com

• Follow us on Twitter @Platform9Sys

• Evaluate:

• Sign up for a 15-day trial http://platform9.com/free-trial.html

• Be up and running in minutes

• Contact:

• Call us at 650-898-7369

• E-mail us at customer-success@platform9.com

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