Cloudforms Workshop
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CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features. Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management! Discussion Topics: Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms
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Cloudforms Workshop
- 1. FROM ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION TO OPEN HYBRID CLOUDS Holistic Management of Your Heterogeneous Environment CLOUDFORMS Workshop Shea Stewart Infrastructure and Cloud Architect Scalar Decisions Joseph Mann, RHCA RHCVA RHCDS Channel Solution Architect, Cloud Overlay RedHat
- 2. 2 VIRTUALIZATION TO CLOUD CONTINUUM Server Virtualization Distributed Virtualization Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Visibility Control Optimization Automation Agility Self-Service Federation Brokering ● Consolidation ● Reduce Capital Expense ● Flexibility & Speed ● Reduce Operational Expense ● Automation ● Less Downtime ● Self-Serve Agility ● Standardization ● IT as a Business ● Usage Metering ● Capital Expense Elimination ●Increased Flexibility (up and down) Drivers Virtual Infrastructure Management Derived from Gartner Roadmap: From Virtualization to Cloud Computing (reference slide)
- 3. 3 Cloud Enablement Infrastructure Management Root Cause Analysis Config Mgmt Automation Policies Optimize Resource Mgmt Cloud Bursting Capacity Planning Tagging Compliance Chargeback Quota Enforcement Approval Workflow Self Service RED HAT CLOUDFORMS Cloud Enablement Integrated with Infrastructure Management
- 4. 4 CLOUDFORMS Built for Enterprise Scale Cloud Operations Management
- 5. 5 IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT Seamless Self-Service ● Role-based Delegation ● Self-Service Portals ● Service Catalogs ● Automated Provisioning ● Quotas & Chargeback CLOUDFORMS
- 6. 6 SELF-SERVICE AUTOMATED PROVISIONING Deployment of Self-Service Resources CLOUDFORMS Management RBAC Quota Requests Role-Based Access Controls Quota Enforcement Approval Workflow “Intelligent” Workload Placement Converged Infrastructure ServiceDelivery Chargeback
- 7. 7 IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT Single Pane of Glass Operations ● Configuration Management ● Resource Management ● Capacity & Utilization ● Dashboards, Timelines ● Change & Drift Tracking CLOUDFORMS
- 8. 8 CLOUD WORKLOAD MANAGEMEMT/OPTIMIZATION Workload Balancing1 Normal Operating Range Capacity Management2 Where is the best place to run a new workload? How can I optimize existing resources? What is causing spikes? Can cluster “X” handle workload? Where do I have performance issues? Where do I have waste?
- 9. 9 CLOUD WORKLOAD MANAGEMEMT/OPTIMIZATION Workload Balancing1 Normal Operating Range Capacity Management2 Operations and Support3 Where is the best place to run a new workload? How can I optimize existing resources? I didn't create the work- load, but I need to determine what's the problem and how to fix it What is causing spikes? Can cluster “X” handle workload? Where do I have performance issues? Where do I have waste? Identify root cause and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by viewing workloads in 4 dimensions: Timeline VM Inspection Consump- tion Drift Analysis
- 10. 10 Converged Infrastructure What policies affect placement? Which options offer least cost? Where do I have available capacity? Requests Dev QA Prod Dev QA Prod Dev QA Prod Dev QA Prod Dev QA Prod CLOUD BROKERING Controlling Where Requests Get Met
- 11. 11 IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT Executive Management ● Financial Management ● Governance & Compliance ● Forecasting & Planning ● Health, Availability CLOUDFORMS
- 12. 12 AUTOMATING IT PROCESS Protect Environment – Stop VM if it Breaks Policy Sample Rule: Every Windows VM must have McAfee v2.0 installed ● Users only see conforming VMs/Workloads ● Non-conforming VMs preventing from running ● Policy breach notifications sent automatically ● Tagging certain items allows one to apply policies to only tagged items CLOUDFORMS YES NO Help Desk Security Team IT Management Converged Infrastructure
- 13. 13 WASTE DETECTION Optimize the Environment ● VM sprawl ● Incorrectly configured workloads ● Datastore wastage ● Over-allocated resource pools North America Europe Asia CPU Memory Storage Allocated Actual CPU Memory Storage Allocated Actual CPU Memory Storage Allocated Actual 50 GHz 60 GB 400 GB 34 GHz 42 GB 187 GB 30 GHz 45 GB 250 GB 26 GHz 39 GB 237 GB 20 GHz 30 GB 150 GB 17 GHz 26 GB 142 GB = VM = VM sprawl = Incorrectly configured workload Over-Allocated CPU by 16 GHz Memory by 18 GB Storage by 213 GB Understand resource consumption today and trending over time: Storage – 78% Used 22% Free Storage Consumption 78% 22%
- 14. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Enhancements Compact and Fast Support for RHEV-M Templates VM and Service Provisioning Previous support for ISO and PXE Provisioning Compact and Fast
- 15. 15 CLOUD MANAGEMENT Usage Scenarios Virtual Private Hybrid Reduce Cost of Existing VMware Migrate to Lower Cost Virtual Platform CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS Unify Management of Existing Multi-Hypervisor Environments Transform Existing Virtual Platforms into Private Clouds Build Private Cloud CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS Build Hybrid Cloud Build Open Hybrid Cloud CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS Private Public
- 17. 17 Workshop Use Case Exploration Agenda 1. Managing Existing Resources 2. Deploying Self Services Resources 3. Automating IT Processes 4. Waste Detection 5. Root Cause Analysis 6. Cost Analysis