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Moderator: Thomas Corfmat. VMware, Inc. Igor Stoyanov, VMware, Inc. James Bowling, iland Cloud Infrastructure Vivienne Cleveland, FedEx Services Sean Harrison, Northrop Grumman
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Participants
Commentators
James Bowling, Cloud Solutions Architect Vivienne Cleveland, Technical Advisor Sean Harrison, Technical Architect
FedEx Services
Moderators
Thomas Corfmat, Sr. Product Manager Igor Stoyanov, Staff Engineer
Session Overview
Agenda
Why orchestration? New vCO 5.1 capabilities New integrations Summary
Session Goals Understand the purpose and value of vCO Understand the new capabilities of vCO 5.1 Learn about available resources to get started with vCO
Service Provisioning Automate the provisioning of infrastructure, applications and desktops as a service
Operations Management Adopt embedded, converged management for the Software Defined Datacenter
Business Management Govern and manage cloud services as a critical element of running IT like a business
Why Orchestration?
Fundamental IT Challenge
Executing complex Cloud operations faster and at lower cost
We have isolated automation initiatives, but getting all of our systems and teams to work in harmony is a different story! Provisioning still takes days or weeks Forget rapid or Weve spent a fortune We used to provisioning own the decommissioning on monitoring tools. servers running our Why our end users apps.are Now we dont Im expected to monitor still the to know know if first the apps can get AND support higher loads about performance the resources they need but cannot any why newdo staff! problems and to run hire well. they take so long to solve?
Infrastructure
Operations
vCD Tenant UI
vCenter Orchestrator
vFabric App Director vCenter Operations Mgr Site Recovery Manager vCloud Director vShield vCenter Server vSphere
Physical Infrastructure
Chargeback CMDB DNS IP Address Mgmt Load Balancers Monitoring Systems Databases Web Services
Platform
Allow partners and users to develop plug-ins Provide marketplace for hosting that content
vSphere
Integrate VMware stack to your environment Pre-built workflows Decoupled from vCO Platform releases
Ecosystem
Plug-ins
Background
Automation/orchestration is key to dynamic infrastructures Need for ability to automate key tasks to minimize errors Orchestration makes it easier to maintain standards vCO used in combination with scripting and direct API calls Ideal case to stay true to the stack (VMware)
Use Cases
Deployment Automation (All LevelsClusters, Hosts, VMs) Ability to automate troubleshooting tasks for support and escalation Orchestration of VMware stack from end-to-end Dynamic allocation of ALL resources from end-to-end Use MS Active Directory, vCenter, vCloud Director, vCO Multi-Node plug-ins
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Background
Rapidly expanding use of VMware technology across the enterprise
vSphere servers, VMs, ESX hosts, clusters, data centers Already using PowerCli and Perl to automate VM creation, management,
maintenance
Use Cases
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Custom VM deployment with 3rd party IP/DNS auto-assign Standardize vCenter alarms across enterprise Web services for external invocation of vCO workflow Use Onyx for API understanding; not completely up-to-date Other plug-insvCloud Director, AMQP; others under review
Background
Organization had the opportunity to re-assess/revamp our IT Service
Management and Operations Management toolsets in 2010; vCO was identified/selected as orchestration engine of choice base on requirements and native integration with other toolsets selected
Ability to provision and orchestrate end user and administrative functions using
Service Catalog
Use Cases
Using vCO as back office orchestration engine initiated by
VMware Service Manager catalog
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Terminator theme
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Terminator theme
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Simpler Approach
Sh w & Tell
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Dem
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vCenter Orchestrator
Launch in Context
Simple right-click Inputs get populated automatically Run now or schedule for later
Highly configurable
Which workflows from which objects and for which users
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Goal #2
Simplify the Workflow Development Experience
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Dem
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New vCO 5.1 Workflow Designer: COMMENTARY New look and feel Significant redesign and new layout Custom workflow icons Support for Improved usability Auto-attach, auto-layout, and easier mappings New loop activity, detach and display multiple workflows Enhanced workflow administration Compare different workflow versions Revert capabilities Generate documentation automatically
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Goal #3
Provide new out-of-the-box Integrations Capabilities
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Back in 2011
NEW !!!
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Partner Applications
Cisco UCS Manager EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager Microsoft Active Directory Microsoft Windows PowerShell Radware vDirect Up.time Software
Standard Protocols
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NEW !!!
Egenera PAN Manager F5 Networks BigIP Infoblox NIOS ServiceNow VMware vShield Manager And more to come
AMQP / RabbitMQ Email (POP3 and SMTP) HTTPREST JDBC SOAP SNMP v1, v2c and v3 SQL SSH Telnet XML
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INF-VSP1856 Become a Rock Start with PowerCLI and vCO OPS-CSM1240 FedEx Case Study: Lessons learned integrating
vCD, vSphere and 3rd Party Solutions with vCO OPS-CSM2033 Auto-Scaling and Cloud Bursting in the Hybrid IaaS Cloud OPS-CSM2975 Orchestrating the Cloud: from API to Workflow SPO2238 Application Heal Thyself! How to Automate the Most Important Networking Functions for Your Applications TEX2815 vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in for Self-Scaling Data Center
Demos and Hands-on-Labs
More in-depth
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In summary
Key Take-Aways
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Thank You!
http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator
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OPS-CIM1274
Moderator: Thomas Corfmat, Vmware, Inc. Igor Stoyanov, VMware, Inc. James Bowling, iland Cloud Infrastructure Vivienne Cleveland, FedEx Services Sean Harrison, Northrop Grumman
#vmworldops
Free access to the vCO Plug-in SDK Can be freely listed on VMware Solution Exchange
VMware Ready Program for vCenter Orchestrator Plug-ins
Test-cases and testing framework 1:1 assistance and private community Listing on VMware Compatibility Guide +
VMware Ready logo Special benefits (press release, blogs, roadmap sessions, VMware GSS awareness, etc.) Contact tapalliance@vmware.com for details
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Designer
Operator
External Notifications
Web Services
Directory
Workflow Engine
Services
vCO Plug-Ins
vCO Database
Management Systems
IT Infrastructure
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OPS-CIM1274
Moderator: Thomas Corfmat. VMware, Inc. Igor Stoyanov, VMware, Inc. James Bowling, iland Cloud Infrastructure Vivienne Cleveland, FedEx Services Sean Harrison, Northrop Grumman
#vmworldops