Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical Infrastructure

© 2010 Pepperweed Consulting.

Pepperweed ConsultingAn IT Integration Company

Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical Infrastructure

Alex RyalsChief Technology OfficerPepperweed Consulting

October 19, 2010

Copyright © 2010 Pepperweed Consulting.

Data Center of the Future


Data Center Challenges Is the Data Center of the Future the Answer?

• Improve time to deployment and reduce wasted capacity.

• Adhere to Service Level Agreement metrics such as response time, maintenance windows, and application availability.

• Address power and cooling challenges as well as substantial facilities costs.

• Reduce capital and operational costs.

• Reduce the impact of data growth on storage investment for traditional and emerging data types.

• Simplify the deployment of storage for business applications.

• Improve business continuity and availability for critical applications.

Can Virtualization Help?


Creates 10 more servers forevery one physicalserver

Creates 10 more servers forevery one physicalserver

Virtualization Adds Complexity


The “dirty little secret” of virtualization

• Reduced server investments

• Reduced power • Reduce floor space

Capital expenditures Management challenges (OpEx)

• Increased storage management (90% of VM’s SAN connected*)

• 30-50% storage underutilization**

• 26% VM Sprawl***

• 6 mins to provision server, 6+ days to provision server, storage, network ****

• 40% of services non-compliant*****

* Vmware; ** Many storage analyts; *** HP study; **** HP customer; ***** HP study


Server SAs

ServersServer

Network EngineersStorage SAs

NetworkStorage

Automation across all IT Service infrastructures

Coordination across 4+ systems, Service Desk, CMDB, CAB tools

Create VM

Provision, patch OS

Configure VM filesystem

Deploy App

Configure App

Create storage volume

Configure SAN

Assign storage to hypervisor

Configure virtual switch

Assign VM to VLAN

Put App in LB cluster

Scale IT service Provision new Oracle server on VM


“Today, there is a 6-week SLA for VM provisioning – it’s easy to provision a VM, the other element changes – storage, network etc still take the same ole’ effort”

Cameron Haight, Gartner


HP Business Service AutomationService-centric, integrated automation suite

ITSM

Help DeskChange Requests

ITSM

Help DeskChange Requests

BSM

Monitoring, Events,& Alerts

BSM

Monitoring, Events,& Alerts

• Discover servers, software network devices, & storage

• Interdependencies

• Configurations

ClientAutomation

ClientAutomation

• Audit

• Remediation

• Reporting

• All applications & components

ServerAutomation

ServerAutomation

• Server, network, storage

• Applications

• Configurations

• Patching

• Software distribution

NetworkAutomation

NetworkAutomation

StorageAutomation

StorageAutomation

HP Live NetworkHP Live Network

Release ControlRelease Control

CMDBCMDB

Operations OrchestrationOperations Orchestration


Patching and provisioning

Application release management

Compliance management

HP Server AutomationCut costs and risk by automating manual tasks

• Establish and enforce compliance policies and “gold” standard configurations

• Identify risks and remediate in seconds • Receive ongoing information about risks via HP Essentials

Network

• Visualize relationships and dependencies between applications and servers, network and storage

• Eliminate manual handoffs and establish and enforce policies of who can do what at each step of the process

• Establish a baseline• Identify patch levels and create patch policies

• Bare metal provisioning of thousands of servers in minutes• Provision physical or virtual servers from a single pane of

glass

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update with baseline, basic automation, compliance, config mgmt, app mgmt


Manage virtual sprawl

Standardize

HP Server AutomationCut costs and risk by automating manual tasks

• Manage servers consistently regardless of geographic location

• Establish and enforce consistent configuration policies• Establish and enforce access policies: who can do what to

which server or group of servers

• Identify relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual servers

• Discover, create and control virtual machines• Manage physical and virtual servers consistently

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99%

85%

99%

99%

20 minutes

2 weeks

2 days

5 incident per week

HP Server Automation: delivering unparalleled increases in efficiency

TaskBefore HP

server automation

Customer

Implement software change on 2600 servers

Provision & configure 600 Windows servers

Automate compliance of 800 servers

2 weeks

3-4 months

32 weeks

Automatic health-check of servers

80+ sev1 incidents/week

After HP server

automation


HP Automation in Action

• Heterogeneous server and application management

• Provisions virtual machine and application

Server Automation • Run Book (process)

automation solution• Coordinates virtual

server, storage provisioning process

• Can be extended to service desk, change management solution

Operations Orchestration • Heterogeneous

storage resource management

• Provisions and reports on Vmware storage resources

Storage Essentials

Integrated to HP Service Manager for change managementIntegrated to HP Service Manager for change management


Integrated VM & storage provisioning OO workflow


Automatically track available storage


Integrated with Service Manager change management workflow


Provision storage to server using Storage Essentials


Provision VM and assign storage to server using Server Automation


Provision OS on VM using Server Automation


One click VM, Storage, OS provisioning using HP BSA


1. OO flow prompts user to select the environment: QA, Staging, Production

2. OO flow prompts user for a list of target servers

3. Based on environment OO retrieves the following from SA Applications to be

deployed to the target server(s)

Compliance policies to be applied to the target server(s)

4. OO copies the application to the target server(s)

5. OO applies the SA compliance policies to the target server(s) – in parallel

Application Deployment Automation

For faster more successful deployments


Customer Success:Improved provisioning

• Needed 350 Linux servers built in one week

• Would have needed 3 weeks to do the job• Four severs per day per

person• Throw bodies at it until

there are no more bodies• Assembly line approach

Before automation

• Two people working for two days to provision 350 Linux servers

• Servers are fully compliant with corporate standards

With HP Server Automation

Leading travel company


Customer Success: Virtual server lifecycle automation

Challenge Before HP With HP

Provision and harden production VMs with security best practices

2.5 hours < 5 min

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Customer success:Virtual server compliance

Challenge Before HP With HP

Check utilization of ESX virtual machines Manual Automated


Deploying the Combined Virtual & Physical Infrastructure

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Reduced costs by automating routine provisioning and change management tasks

Reduced errors through uniform processes and policies for management of physical as well as virtual infrastructure

Enable realization of the benefits of virtualization through improved asset utilization, efficiency and availability


Why is Discovery so important?

Pepperweed's Prescription for Operating a virtual/physical infrastructure

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Each “Evolution” powered solution is packaged to…• Get you up and running fast

‒ Prebuilt integrations and configurations‒ Proven delivery steps and process

• Lower project risks‒ Bring together all of the pieces into a

single integrated architecture

• Minimize implementation & upgrade cost• Milestone driven implementation

• Drive faster organizational adoption‒ Integrated best practices and business

processes‒ Detailed training


Partners•HP BTO SW•VMware•xMatters (AlarmPoint)•KnowledgeBroker •Blue Elephant•Integrien

PartnerTechnology

Evolution IP•Delivery Kits•Custom Scripts•Integrations•Custom configurations•Best practices•Software

Enrichment

Pepperweed is an IT Integration Company

• HP Platinum Software partner

• Largest provider of HP Software Support

• 14 years of experience in over 2500+ implementations

• ITIL Foundation certified HP technical consultants

• 120 HP BTO software implementation/support certifications

• Cover the complete range of IT disciplineso ITAM, ITSM, ESM,

PPM, BSM, BSA

Services•Assessment•Design•Implementation•Integration•Testing•Training

Support•HP Level 1 & 2 Product Support•Expert Administration•Service Paks

People

PepperweedBTO

EvolutionSolutions


Questions & Answers

Next Webinar….

Reducing Risk of Change in Your Virtualized Infrastructure November 16, 2010 at 1pm EDTCheck www.pepperweed.com for details.

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