VMworld 2013 James Bowling, General Datatech, LP Savina Ilieva, VMware Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare

1. Part 1: Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator
James Bowling, General Datatech, LP
Savina Ilieva, VMware
VCM4875
#VCM4875

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Who Are These People?
• James Bowling, Cloud Architect, General Datatech, LP
• Over 14 years experience in IT
• VCP5-DCV, VCP5-IaaS, VCP-Cloud
• VMware vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013
• Houston VMUG Leader (2011-Present)
• VMware vCO User Council Member
• Blog: http://vsential.com
• Savina Ilieva, Product Manager, VMware, Inc.
• Product Manager for vCenter Orchestrator
• 10 years experience in IT
• Part of vCenter Orchestrator Team since 2008
• Leading a team which released more than 10 vCO Plugins in one year

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Agenda
• vCenter Orchestrator Overview
• Installation/Configuration
• vCO Use Cases
• vCO Extensibility
• What’s New in 5.5
• Demo Interface and Features

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What Are My Takeaways?
You will:
• Have an understanding of the
installation/configuration, new features
and integration
• Know some common use cases
• Have a basic knowledge of how to work
with vCO to automate/orchestrate
• Good understanding of what vCO is and
where it is positioned in today’s SDDC

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What Makes the SDDC?
• Standardized
• Homogeneous infrastructure delivered
across pools of standard x86 hardware,
eliminating some complexity
• Holistic
• A unified platform optimized for the entire
data center fabric, to flexibly support any and
all workloads
• Resilient
• A software-based architecture that
compensates for failing hardware, delivering
unprecedented resiliency at minimum cost

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What Makes the SDDC?
• Adaptive
• Self-programmable infrastructure that
dynamically configures and reconfigures the
environment according to changing
application demands, for maximum
performance, agility, and efficiency
• Automated
• A management framework with built-in
intelligence to eliminate complex and brittle
management scripts, for cloud-scale
operations with less manual effort and
significant cost savings

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What Is vCenter Orchestrator?
"The most powerful product VMware (n)ever released!"

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Fundamental IT Challenge
Infrastructure Operations
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…
Executing complex Cloud operations faster and at lower cost
We used to own the
servers running our apps.
Now we don’t know if the
apps can get the resources
they need to run well.
We’ve spent a fortune on
monitoring tools. Why are
our end users still the first
to know about
performance problems
and why do they take so
long to solve?
Forget rapid provisioning or
decommissioning…
… I’m expected to monitor
AND support higher loads but
cannot hire any new staff!
vCenter Orchestrator helps automate your Cloud

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vCenter Orchestrator Overview
Features
Drag-&-drop
design
• Create powerful workflows easily
by drop-&-dragging pre-built
actions
Cloud
scalability
• Execute hundreds of workflows in
parallel to meet Cloud scale
Flexible
triggers
• Launch workflows from user
interface, web browser, schedule,
event, and API
Automate
VMware
• 100% coverage of vSphere and
vCloud Director APIs
• Unmatched VMware content
Included with
vSphere
• Included with vSphere at
no extra cost
• Installed with vCenter
Key Benefits
• Reduce IT OpEx and total cost of ownership of
VMware solutions
• Integrate VMware solutions into your IT
environment and processes
• Automate your cloud and accelerate transition to
“IT as a Service” model
Platform
Plug-insEcosystem
vSphere

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High-Level Product Architecture
• Windows
• Mac & Linux
Designer
• SOAP
• REST
Web ServicesOperator
• vSphere Web
Client
• Oracle
• MS SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
Workflow Library
Webview Library
Workflow Engine
…
vCO Platform (Access
points)
Management
Systems
IT Infrastructure
vCO Platform
(Engine, 64-bit)
vCO Plug-Ins
……
• vCloud Automation
Center
• Service Catalogs
• AMQP
• SNMP
External
Notifications

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Installation of vCO
Installation Types
• Bundled
• Standalone
• Appliance

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Configuration of vCO

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Main vCO Use Cases
VMware Cloud Service Provisioning
vCloud Automation Center
(IaaS, & DaaS Automation )
Infrastructure
Integration
• CMDB
• DNS
• IPAM
• Load
Balancers
• Service Desk
• Monitoring
Systems
• Databases
• Web Services
• Etc.
Fabric
Management
Automation
vCenterOrchestrator
ITProcessAutomation
vFabric Application Director
(PaaS Automation )
Additional Use Cases:
o Automation of vSphere administrative tasks
o Remediation of infrastructure failures
o Automation of general IT admin tasks

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Common Use Cases
Maintenance &
Administration
 Backup & restore operations
 System upgrades & migrations
 Continuous compliance
Triage &
Remediation
 Validate and/or create incidents
 Incident enrichment
 Complex remediation flows
Miscellaneous
 System installations & patching
 Report collection & dispatching
 Other routine tasks

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Example Workflows

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Thousands of Out-of-the-Box
Workflows and Actions
• vCenter Server 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1
• vCloud Director 1.0, 1.5 & 5.1
• vCloud Automation Center 5.1
• vCenter Update Manager 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1
• vCenter Chargeback 2.0
• vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5
• vCenter Orchestrator Multinode 5.0 & 5.1
• vCenter Operations Package - NEW
• vSphere Auto Deploy
• VMware Service Manager 9.1
• VMware Service Elasticity
• AMQP / RabbitMQ
• Email (POP3 and SMTP)
• HTTP-REST
• JDBC
• SOAP
• SNMP v1, v2c and v3
• SQL
• SSH
• Telnet
• XML
• BMC Atrium CMDB & Remedy – NEW
• Cisco UCS Manager
• EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager
• Egenera PAN Manager - NEW
• Infoblox NIOS
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Windows PowerShell
• NetApp storage - NEW
• Radware vDirect
• ServiceNow - NEW
• Up.time Software
Standard Protocols
Partner Applications
A lot more coming soon!!!
VMware Applications

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Need More Plug-ins –
Find Them at the VSX
• Facilitates integration with third party
technologies and proprietary systems
• Significantly expands vCloud Automation
Center’s automation library
Overview
Benefits
Single-stop marketplace for all
vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins!

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vCO 5.5 ‒ What’s New

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Further Integrate vCO within
vCloud Suite
• Facilitate vCO reuse by vCloud Suite
• Continue to provide stand-alone virtual appliance
• Provide remediation capabilities for vCenter
Operations
• vCO Remediation package for vCOPs
• Add automation and integration capabilities to
any VMware vCloud Suite product
• Reduce costs & MTTR by automating the
remediation of infrastructure failures
• Integrate vCOps with homegrown and
commercial Incident management systems
Overview
Benefits
Automate remediation and
reduce MTTR!

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vCenter Orchestrator – Improves
Workflow Design Efficiency
• New workflow debugging capabilities
• Usability improvements
• Reduce workflow development and testing
times
• Reduce the learning curve for designing
workflows
Overview Benefits

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Optimize for Growing Clouds
• Improve scalability & availability
• Built-in HA & clustering
• Support external load balancers
• Extend the vCO REST API to:
• vCO server installation
• vCO server configuration
• Provide higher availability
• Scale orchestration capacity along with the
growth of your cloud
• Enable dynamic scale-up and scale-down of
orchestration capacity
Overview
Benefits
Orchestration HA and dynamic
elasticity!

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Other Improvements
• Leverage vCO workflows in a localized environment
• Support simplified & traditional Chinese, French,
German, Korean and Japanese
• Security improvements
• vCO VA hardening – OS Update and
Hardening scripts
• Extend the benefits of automation to non-English
speaking vSphere administrators
• Reduced platform surface of vulnerability
Overview
Benefits

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Enablement Resources
Getting started
More in-depth
• blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator
• vcoteam.info
• professionalvmware.com
• vcoportal.de
• vsential.com
• virtuallyGhetto.com

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vCO Workflow Designer
• Drag and drop actions
• Debugging - New
• Conditional logic
• Pause, wait until,
counters, etc.
• Exception handling
• Version control
• Role-based access control
• And more ...
~500 workflows and actions for vCenter Server
and vCloud Director

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Integration with vSphere Web Client
Integrate with vCO, and you get the integration
with vSphere Web Client for free!
Your Workflows
shown here

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vCO Demonstration

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Closing / Questions
http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
 HOL:
HOL-SDC-1307
vCloud Automation Solutions
 Breakout Session:
VCM5695
Part 2: How to Build a Self-Healing Data Center with vCenter
Orchestrator

29. THANK YOU

31. Part 1: Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator
James Bowling, General Datatech, LP
Savina Ilieva, VMware
VCM4875
#VCM4875

32. © 2013 General Datatech
Should I Use vCloud Automation
Center or vCO?
CMDB
DNS
IPAM
Load
Balancers
Service Desk
Monitoring
Systems
Databases
Web
Services
Etc.
vCenterOrchestrator
Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual Datacenter
ITInfrastructure&
Operations
ITConsumers

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vCO and vCAC Synergy
1 Enable your complex datacenter for the Cloud using platforms you already
have in house
3 Simplify your Cloud orchestration with complete management of virtual
& physical environments
2 Lower your costs – vCO Included with vCenter Server at no extra price
- vCAC included in the vCloud Suite Enterprise edition
4 Improve efficiency: By Creating Business resiliency, elastic capacity, and
streamline processes that cut across network, storage, and compute silos
5 Get it all from one place - VMWARE as single source for entire solution:
virtualization platform, management, services & support

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