VMWare and SoftLayer Hybrid IT

© 2014 IBM Corporation
Hybrid IT with SoftLayer®
Dr. Khoa Huynh, Cloud Integration Architect
Smart Cloud Innovation Lab, IBM Global Technology Services
06/17/2014 v4.2

2 IBM Federal Cloud Innovation Center © 2014 IBM Corporation
Agenda
 IT Trends & SoftLayer
 Hybrid IT
 VMware@D/A <-> VMware@SoftLayer
 Video Demo (COOP/DR & VDI)
Also Contributing:
 Naeem Altaf
 Egan Ford
 Michelle Swenson
 Scott Winters

IT Trends & SoftLayer

The server market is shifting from a “Box” business to a “Box” and
IaaS business (Hybrid)
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15%
WW x86 Spend
(Servers, Storage and Networking),
On Premise vs. IaaS
2009 to 2020
*Notes:
1.Includes: x86 Server, Storage, and Networking
2.“On Premise” includes the portion of x86 hardware that is not part of cloud spending for components or for consumption services
3.“Total” includes “On Premise” plus IaaS spend as “services” for the combination of “measured” or served servers, storage, and
networking hardware in lieu of the actual hardware being purchased
Source: IBM MI, GMV
On Premise
Inflection Point
Cloud Wedge =
IaaS Spend
68%
45%
Total
29%
Spendin$B
23%

Why are customers moving to the cloud?
Cheaper & faster is a powerful value proposition!
Federal Departments / Agencies
 Broadly purchase IT services in utility-based model
– Focus on Operational Expenditures (OpEx)
– Pay for services consumed (rather than buying IT based on capacity)
 Improve operational efficiencies, resource utilization, innovation across IT portfolio
– Deliver better mission services & higher returns on American taxpayers’ money
– Budget pressure to reduce costs
 Implement “Cloud First” policy
– White House’s 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology
(December 2012) & Federal Cloud Computing Strategy (February 2013)

SoftLayer – A Global Hosting Leader
Customers 21,000 in 140 countries
Servers 110,000
Data Centers 14 (May 2014) + 14 more
(2 with pending FedRAMP certification)

Standardized, Modular, Resilient Infrastructure
One platform, myriad solutions to serve a broad range of customer requirements for
performance, isolation
• Each data center delivers the same
portfolio of services
• Each pod is built to same specifications
• Triple-network architecture
• Secure, fast, and unmetered private network
within data center (server-to-server VLANs,
server-to-services, VPN to VLANs, out-of-band
management)
• Secure, unmetered connectivity between data
centers
• High-performance public network
• One platform for public cloud servers,
private clouds, bare-metal servers – all
managed from single pane of glass
• Unified system management & APIs
• Support for broad range of operating systems
and virtualization platforms
x86 Server
Bare Metal
Private Clouds
Virtual Servers
Public Clouds
Hybrid Clouds
?

Full Range of Services
From Dedicated Servers, Network Security Services, to Auto-Scaling
Advanced Services: Virtual Private Cloud+, Auto-scaling, MapReduce-as-a-Service

Infrastructure Matters
SoftLayer vs. the Competition
‘Public Cloud’ Shared virtual infrastructure
   
Dedicated virtual infrastructure
   
‘Private Cloud’ Virtual Private Cloud
   
Build your own Hosted Private Cloud
   
Bare metal with your own
stack
Bare metal (non-virtual) infrastructure
   
Dynamic-hybrid cloud Mix virtual, bare metal cloud, and on premise infrastructure
   
•Triple-network architecture
•Unmetered private network bandwidth within and between data centers

Hybrid IT

Hybrid Cloud vs. Hybrid IT
Hybrid Cloud = A Subset of Hybrid IT
 Hybrid Cloud = coordination / management of multiple clouds (public, private)
 Hybrid IT = combination of internal IT models (cloud and non-cloud) with
external cloud environments
 Hybrid Cloud = a subset of Hybrid IT
Hybrid
Clouds
Private
Clouds
Public / Private
Clouds
Extend
Applications
Workloads
Applications
Workloads
Applications
Workloads
Traditional,
non-Cloud ITExtend
Hybrid IT

Hybrid IT
Seamless Extension From Existing IT Infrastructure to Clouds
Cloud DataCentersTraditional IT
Infrastructure / Private
Cloud
Existing & New Apps
Seamless Networking
Common Management
Common Support

 Maximize value of existing IT investments and
seamlessly extend into SoftLayer Cloud
infrastructure
– Seamlessly extend VMware®
, OpenStack and
Citrix®
environments into the SoftLayer cloud
– Extend sanctioned security policies into SoftLayer
– Reuse existing management tools, processes,
people, expertise
– Leverage industry standards
 Eliminate major barriers of entry
– Improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs
– Add cloud capabilities (e.g. social, mobile apps,
services, etc.) while not increasing complexity
– Focus on operational expenditures – agility and
flexibility of a startup
 Two new data centers (Dallas and Virginia)
with pending FedRAMP certification
Why Hybrid IT with SoftLayer?
Onboarding
to ESP
Intelligent
Capacity Mgmt.
Cloudbursting
Consolidation/
Migration
Availability/DR
Onboarding
to ESP
Intelligent
Capacity Mgmt.
Cloudbursting
Consolidation/
Migration
Availability/DR
Hybrid IT
Private
Clouds SoftLayerExtend
Applications
WorkloadsApplications
Workloads
Traditional,
non-Cloud IT
Hybrid IT
Private
Applications
Workloads
Traditional,
non-Cloud IT
* Source: Gartner Presentation: High-Tech Tuesday Webinar, May 2013, Authors: Laurie Wurster, Donna Scott
Top Hybrid IT Use Cases*

VMware@D/A  VMware@SoftLayer

VMware@SoftLayerVMware@D/A
Why VMware & Why VMware@SoftLayer?
VMware is the dominant virtualization platform for Federal agencies
vCloud Suite addresses many hybrid use cases
Common vCloud Suite Tools between sites (ESX hypervisor & up)
Common VM images between sites
Seamlessly extend existing processes, policies (e.g. security) into SoftLayer
Self-service portal & API-driven provisioning of bare-metal servers, storage & network constructs 
great flexibility in vSphere design
More choices & control of tools & architectures than vCloud
Un-metered private network bandwidth

•Licensing
•SoftLayer Provides vSphere Licenses
•vSphere & vCenter can be provisioned via SoftLayer’s
Catalog and upgraded to vCenter 5.5 (using SoftLayer’s VSPP
Licensing)
•Tenant’s own licenses
•Planning – physical infrastructure
•Self-service portal & API-driven provisioning of Bare Metal
server, network constructs, and storage  Unique in
Market place for VMware Customers
•Deployment
•vSphere can be provisioned from SoftLayer portal or
deployed via ISO (remote KVM/IPMI) or at scale via PXE
•See VMware@SoftLayer cookbooks:
http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/learning/deploy-
vmwaresoftlayer
•SoftLayer Services & Support team can provide guidance
and management assistance or vSphere can be deployed
via ‘Self Service’
Licensing , Planning, Provisioning, Deployment

vSphere ESX VMDK Storage
SoftLayer provides the following storage options:
•iSCSI storage via self-service EqualLogic (EQL) targets or
QuantaStor (QS) option
•NFS storage via QuantaStore (QS) option
•VMware vSAN-compliant storage provisioned on SoftLayer
ESX servers (self-service)
VM Guest Access Storage
•SoftLayer provides scalable and cost-effective NAS storage
that can be accessed via FTP or CIFS
•Object Storage service provided by SoftLayer utilizing
OpenStack Swift
Data Encryption
•Data at rest:
•Vormetric, SafeNet, Porticor, etc.
•In-guest options (BitLocker, eCryptfs, etc.)
•Data in transit:
•L2TP/IPsec, VPN, TLS/SSL (https), etc.
Storage (iSCSI, NFS, vSAN, NAS)
Note:
•VMware@SoftLayer enterprise-grade
architectures can be deployed and linked with
VMware@On-Premise

Network & Security
SoftLayer-Provided Security
Services
• Leverage SoftLayer-provided security
services (e.g. IPS/IDS, AV Scan, and
Vulnerability Assessments) with vSphere
implementations
Flexible Design
•Direct links between D/A internal networks and
SoftLayer – fast, secure, and unmetered
http://www.softlayer.com/direct-link
•18 PoPs worldwide (incl. Dallas and D.C)
•Access & manage private networks through
SoftLayer VPN:
http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/topic/vpn

•OVF (Open Virtualization Format) Transfer
• OVF transfer of VMs and VM templates can be done with
NO modification to the VM Guest OS or the VM itself
•VMware vCloud Connector
• Can be deployed and utilizes OVF transfer to
automatically keep VM template catalogs in sync & even
provide VPN
•vSphere Host-Based Replication
• ESX Hosts replicate running VMDKs regardless of
underlying physical storage tier
•VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• SRM can provide a fail-over / migration mechanism
utilizing host-based replication or storage replication
• SRM can also be used to migrate workloads back and
forth
•vSphere Storage vMotion
• Multi-site clusters can be deployed and traffic optimized to
allow vMotion events.
VMware@SoftLayer Cookbooks:
vmwaresoftlayer
Migrating Workloads to VMware@SoftLayer
With Un-metered Private Network Bandwidth

All existing on-premise IT control and
management platforms can be seamlessly
extended into VMware@SoftLayer
• Cloud Provisioning/Management Platform
• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Security & Compliance
Note:
SoftLayer Services & Support Team can assist integrating
existing cloud management environments and Business
Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategies with your
vSphere environments @ SoftLayer or help architect one that
suits your business model/needs.
vmwaresoftlayer
Managing VMware@SoftLayer

SoftLayer-Provided BURA Services
•eVault (VM guest/agent-based)
•Centrally managed backup service
•Managed by SoftLayer
•Billed per volume of data stored
•Requires agent access for VMware environments (not
VADP enabled)
•idera (VM Guest/Agent Based)
•Backup service implementation licensed & supported
by SoftLayer but administered by the tenant
•Requires agent access for VMware environments (not
VADP enabled)
Tenant-Provided BURA Services
3rd Party (VADP-enabled and/or Agent-based)
•vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
•Customer can implement/extend existing VDPA and/or
VMware Partner based solutions to VMware@SoftLayer
vmwaresoftlayer
Backup Archival & Recovery (BURA)
eVault, Idera, 3rd
Party
SoftLayer Service - Agent Based
3rd Party - VADP Based

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) can
be leveraged to implement a workload
‘Failover’ / ‘Failback' architecture:
• VMware@On-Premise <-> VMware@SoftLayer
• VMware@SoftLayer <-> VMware@SoftLayer
• One to One or One to Many
IBM Business Continuity / Resiliency
Service (BCRS) can be leveraged to build
custom COOP/DR scenarios with vSphere
workloads:
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-
services/business-continuity/disaster-recovery/
Note: FREE private network traffic!
vmwaresoftlayer
Continuity Of Operations / Disaster Recovery (COOP/DR)
VMware SRM, IBM BCRS

SoftLayer is the best platform for Hybrid IT
 Preserve existing IT investments – Seamlessly extend into
SoftLayer cloud platform
 Add cloud capabilities without increasing complexity
 Improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs
 Focus on operational expenditures – not capital expenditures
What You Can Do Next
 Explore SoftLayer Portal (http://www.softlayer.com/)
 Join us for upcoming SoftLayer and Bluemix Events:
– Washington DC Bluemix MeetUp (June 26th
)
– TEC: Federal Bluemix Day (August 6th)
Further Information / Questions?
Khoa Huynh – khoa@us.ibm.com
Conclusion
Hybrid IT
Private
Applications
Workloads
Traditional,
non-Cloud IT
Hybrid IT
Private
Applications
Workloads
Traditional,
non-Cloud IT

New Resources
 SoftLayer for Government: http://www.ibm.com/cloud/gov/softlayer
 Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AWnW0KRP-o&feature=youtu.be

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