Presented at InnoTech Austin 2013. All rights reserved.

1. COMPARING CLOUD PLATFORM AND
TOOLS
Om Maniyar
Sameer Abrol

2. Agenda
• Hard Problems
• Cloud Components
• Evaluation Approach

3. WHAT ARE TOP 3 HARDEST
PROBLEM YOU HAVE?

4. Hard Problem: Capacity Management
3 out of 4 cases it is going to be wrong. We
tend to build in the Safe to Wasteful zones
Above.
Doing it right requires Extreme Agility.

5. Capacity management
• Capacity management
• Has been a hard problem across the industry
• Highly underutilized infrastructure
• Typical average CPU usage is 10%-20%
• Higher utilization is key to infrastructure investment ROI
• Multi tenancy and Resource pooling is a necessity to increasing utilization
• Usage metering and billing become very important in resource pooled
environments

6. Infrastructure Management
• Managing disparate resources spread all over the globe is a hard
problem
• How do you get visibility into all the resources you have?
• How do you maximize capacity utilization?
• How do you react to changing demands quickly?
• How do you manage across your own resources and public cloud?
• How do you do this in near real time?
Need A Good infrastructure management Platform

7. Migration into future state
• Current legacy
• Legacy processes
• Tools
• Skills
• Need to run current business while evolving to future state
• Need to maintain SLA
Invest/innovate in new while running current platform!

8. CLOUD – WHAT IS IT TO YOU?

9. Cloud capabilities
NIST definition of cloud
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On Demand Self-Service
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Resource pooling
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Rapid Elasticity and Scalability
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Usage metering and Chargeback
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Universal access

10. Key components of cloud

11. Cloud
Components and
Services
H/W & Virtualization = Engine
Cloud Services = Chassis, Body
Management Tools =
Dashboard, controls, Steering
wheel
Security
Monitoring
User
Interface
MultiTenancy
Recovery
Self Service
Provisioning
Hypervis
or
Cloud
Platform

12. Typical challenges
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Many Resource Pools
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Bare metal
Virtualized
Public Cloud
Possibly private cloud
Lack of comprehensive
visibility
Lack of governance due to
direct consumption
Lack of standardization
THINK BIG!
THINK HOLISTICALLY!

13. Evaluation Approach
• Detailed RFP for evaluation (akin to Job Description)
• Operational and functional use cases
• Business & Technical success criteria
• Pricing
• Score RFP (akin to short list candidates)
• Conduct POCs (akin to onsite interviews)
• Setup Demo/POC environments
• Execute use cases on working platform. Seeing is believing.
Create options! Options provide negotiation power.

14. Use case areas
• Tenant Management
• Create a private cloud and register a Tenant
• Assign granular access to cloud services for a User/Tenant including
quota limits
• Service Management
• Self-Service Portal/API
• Service Catalog
• Provisioning
• Create Instances of different sizes and types
• Automation of creation/provisioning of cloud, Instances and Services
• Multi-Tenancy through Security Groups
• Scalability
• Auto Scale out/down

15. Use case areas
• Orchestration
• Automate server builds
• Automate application deployment workflows
• Metering
• Track Usage of service
• Cloud based pricing showback/chargeback
• Monitoring
• Infrastructure and App Monitoring
• Resource Utilization
• Asset Management
• Ease of adding/removing cloud resources
• Resource view across all clouds.
• High Availability
• Shared storage/Share-nothing live migration
• Auto migration of instances

16. Single Pane Management
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Inventory of all assets in
all locations
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Physical
Virtualized
Public
Visibility into workloads
running
Visibility into resource
Utilization
Consolidate underutilized
resources

17. Q&A