VMworld 2013: Tools and Techniques to Manage the Hybrid Cloud Environment

Tools and Techniques to Manage the
Hybrid Cloud Environment
Lily Chang, VMware
Amit Pathak, iGATE
David Wright, VMware
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Agenda
Hybrid Cloud Management
 Overview
 Key Challenges and Issues
 Techniques for Effective Hybrid Cloud Management
Cloud Application Deployment
 Cloud Application Deployment Automation Toolkit
 Cloud Application Deployment Using Application Director
 Application Director Components Certification

Hybrid Cloud Environment
Enterprises are deploying their
applications across private and public
clouds to optimize cost and capacity.
Address possible capacity overflow
across data centers, private and
public clouds
Quickly scale the company’s needs
Expanded capacity
Reduced cost

Moving Applications To Hybrid Cloud
Moving Applications to Hybrid Cloud Intensifies Challenges
• Overhead of monitoring and managing
distributed environments
Monitoring
Overhead
• Consistent and unified views across
clouds while extending cloud featuresUnified View
• Extending enterprise level
authentication policies to clouds
Enterprise
Security
• On-premise legacy applications—how to
leverage cloud?Legacy Apps

Hybrid Cloud Management –
Key Tools and Techniques

Hybrid Cloud Broker
Hybrid Cloud Environment Challenges:
 Multiple cloud providers and their own API, services and pricing models makes
it challenging to access their interfaces
 Get cohesive view of these services with a layer of abstraction between cloud
providers and end user
Hybrid Cloud Broker Allows:
 Single interface to interact with multiple clouds
 Monitoring and managing distributed environments
 Detecting point of failures and healing actions
 Assist in provisioning resources across multiple clouds
 Provide recommendations to select appropriate cloud for specific needs
 Migrating existing resources across clouds

Hybrid Cloud Broker Platform
VMware Enabled
Public Clouds
Independent
Public Clouds
Private cloud
Unified
Monitoring
Lifecycle
Management
Workload
Management
Hypervisor
Replication
Cloud
Gateway
BusinessService
Integration
ITServiceIntegration
Cloud Service Integration Framework
Self Service Functions
Provision
Health
Check
QoS Migrate Replicate Budget
Hybrid Cloud Broker

Automate Cloud App Deployment Via Toolkit
Operationalize Workloads
 Establish hybrid cloud environment that meets quality standards
 Dynamically change the workload distribution across clouds based on critical
business needs
Create Value Add Business Services in Cloud Environment
 Ability to move resources across clouds
 Provides a holistic view of available vs consumed capacity
 Examine infrastructure, identify candidates for migration driven by cost,
capacity and service levels
 Assist in identifying appropriate destination
 Plan your capacity needs for improved cost savings

Workload Migration on vCloud
Select Source
(Seek
recommendation)
Select
Destination
(Seek
recommendation)
Prepare
Source/Destination
Parameters
Export VM as OVF
(vCenter API)
Upload OVF to vCD
Catalog
(vCloud API)
Deploy
vAppTemplate
Dynamically change workload distribution across clouds based on
critical business needs

vCloud Feature Extension
 Provide truly integrated cross product cloud services
 Extend vCloud capability for specific business needs and
build feature rich clouds
 Leverage “vCloud Director API Extensions” and provide an
integrated mechanism to communicate with external systems
 Accomplish requisite management and monitoring tasks on
underlying vSphere infrastructure
 View and communicate with external third party products
 Address business case that demands core infrastructure
information via vCloud e.g.
 Generate a performance dashboard of infrastructure used by vCD
 Set up policies for affinity and anti-affinity rules

vCloud Feature Extension - Architecture
Response
Exchange
AMQP Extension
WorkflowsSubscription Policy
vCloud Director
User
Extensibility
Filter
Admin
Affinity Q
Quick Status Q
FT Enable Q
Affinity Policy
Performance Policy
Status Policy
FT Enable Policy
Performance Q
vCD Reply
Queue
Affinity
Performance
Quick Status
FT Enable
Affinity
Performance
Status
FT Enable
vCenter Orchestrator
Request
Exchange
vCloud Director API extension examples:
Performance statistics for tenants in vCD - Network, CPU, Memory, Network IO consumption
Set affinity/anti-affinity settings for VMs/vCD workloads
Quick status of virtual machines
Enable FT

vCloud Feature Extension – Example
 Use Case
 Provide affinity and anti-affinity rule for cloud tenant in vCD
 Provide performance statistics for cloud tenant in vCD
 Solution
 Publish AMQP messages on vCD extension calls for the
requisite use case
 Subscribe to an AMQP queue and process or desterilize AMQP
message body
 Expose API to control external system and do the work of your
service
 Leverage vCO to communicate to external system but maintain
correlation to objects in vCD

Legacy Apps: Facilitate Cloud Gateway
 Augment on-premise storage with inexpensive cloud storage
 Seek cloud storage adoption for on-premise legacy
applications
 Connect on-premise legacy applications to cloud storage
 Translate Block or File based traditional data access (like
iSCSI, FC, NFS or CIFS) to object-based cloud data access
(like SOAP or REST) and vice-versa
 Improve performance and cost effectiveness of Cloud Gateway
with a local cache ensuring efficient data transfer to the remote
cloud

Cloud Gateway for Legacy Apps

Extend Enterprise Authentication to Cloud
 Provide seamless user access to enterprise apps on cloud
while Active Directory still on-premise
 Enforce organization level authentication mechanism and
access controls
 Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is one of the
preferred ways
 Automate deployment of ADFS on the cloud & retain full control of on-
premise Active Directory
 Reduce complexities of configuration, setting up claims based
authentication and further configuration to a great extent
 Deploy ADFS for multiple tenants in a repeatable, consistent and reliable
manner resulting in huge savings

ADFS Automation Workflow
Base snapshot workflow
App Director
Create AD FS proxy
workflow
Add Claim Provider
workflow
Add Relying Party
workflow
Revert to recent
snapshot
Create
standalone
AD FS
Add Claim
Provider
Take Snapshot
Throw
exception
Throw
exception
Yes
Yes
No
No
vApp Ready
Check for errors
Check for errors
VCO
Deploy Base OVF in Cloud
vCloud Director
VCO Workflow
State Management
VCO Sub Workflow
Exception
Controller

Cloud Application Deployment
Automation

Cloud App Deployment Automation
– End to End Workflow
Build
Package
Prepare
Package
Deploy
Parameters
Deploy
Package
Application
Deployment
Cloud
Configure
Application
integration
2 4
6 7 8
9
Build Artifacts
1
5
3
Env
Readiness
Check

Build
Package
Prepare
Package
Deploy
Parameters
Deploy
Package
Application
Deployment
Cloud
Configure
Application
integration
2 4
6 7 8
9
Build Artifacts
1
5
3
Env
Readiness
Check

Build automation framework, create standardized and reusable cloud
app deployment packages
 Address challenges of complexities involved in configuring and setting up
applications
 Mechanism for producing reusable, Cloud-ready deployment packages for
business applications
Create value add business services in cloud environment
 Integrated combinations of Tier 1 business apps, database, network and
security, pre-integrated to customer directories
 Leverage VMware tools like vFabric Application Director Blueprint, vCloud
Orchestrator, vCD, vCAC etc. to create a business service

Build catalog services on the cloud to deploy enterprise applications
enabling ready-to-use features
 Reusable, cloud-ready deployment packages for popular business apps e.g.
SharePoint, AD, ADFS, SQL etc.
 Automated provisioning and operating blueprints for service providers
Interrogate target deployment environment to determine if it meets
pre-requisites for deploying a specified package
Get Application Director Blueprints certified and publish them on
VMware Solution Exchange

Build
Package
Prepare
Package
Deploy
Parameters
Deploy
Package
Application
Deployment
Cloud
Configure
Application
integration
2 4
6 7 8
9
Build Artifacts
1
5
3
Env
Readiness
Check

Using
Application Director Blueprints

App Deployment Using Application Director
Deploy OS
Configure OS
Deploy Application
Configure
Application
vFabric Application Director
Application Blueprints
Scripts & Tasks Deployment Plans
Cloud Provider
vCloud Director
Automated Provisioning for Applications in the Cloud

App Deployment Using Application Director
Model Driven Automation Based
on Blueprints
Standardized Reusable
Components

VMware Application Director Program
(developercenter.vmware.com)
http://developercenter.vmware.com/web/dp/vmware-ready-
programs/management/app-director

VMware Ready Application Director
Blueprints Program- Benefits
•Best Practices Guide
•Program Guide
•Certification Guide
Documentation
•Webinars to help partners develop content items
•Partner Support for content development
Development
Consulting
•Content including (Services, Blueprints, Script Tasks and
VMTemplates) will be certified by VMware
•Presence in VMware Compatibility Guide (vCG)
Certification
•End customers work with VMware and Partners thru TSAnet to
resolve any API issues
•Front facing GSS
GSS (Support)
Technical Previews
•Micro-Site in Solution Exchange; one location to have access to
all the content developed by partners
•Partners upload information and can also host content
•“VMware Ready” logo in VSX and Market Success Press-Release
Solution Exchange (VSX)
•Application Director
•VSX Roadmap Sessions

VMware Solution Exchange (VSX)
 Content including (Services, Blue Prints, Tasks
and Templates) will be certified by VMware
 Presence in VMware Compatibility Guide
 VMware Ready logo in VSX
 MicroSite in Solutions Exchange; one location to
have access to all the Application Director
contents
 Upload new contents and get it certified
 Leverage existing certified contents

Application Director Certification - Benefits
Develop Your Application Director Blueprints & Upload on VSX
Get It VMware Certified
 VSX & VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG) addresses need to create a dynamic
user community for reaching out to the VMware community & share best
practices
 Testing and certification of solutions includes below key areas and best practice
validation
 Blueprint inspection, actions & script verification, dependency checks,
errors and exception handling, properties & parameters of script
verifications, external communications etc.
 Importing blueprint in Application Director
 Blueprint deployment verification, deployment performance, scale out
testing, multiplatform support, security checkpoints, network checkpoints
etc.
 Post deployment verification

Build
Package
Prepare
Package
Deploy
Parameters
Deploy
Package
Application
Deployment
Cloud
Configure
Application
integration
2 4
6 7 8
9
Build Artifacts
1
5
3
Env
Readiness
Check

Target Environment Readiness Check
Interrogate target cloud environment
before cloud app deployment
Readiness
Check
Catalog Check
Catalog exists
Template exists
Access Privilege
External Dependency Check
Active Directory
Domain Name Server
DB – Oracle, MS SQL , MySQL
vCenter Orchestrator
Application Director
Access Control Check
Static route exists
Privilege to create routed N/W
Privilege to configure firewall
Privilege to deploy template
 Determine if target
deployment environment
meets requirements of
specified package
 Configurable set of
environment checks that
can be turned on/off
based on specific
requirements
Validated
vCloud Env

Network Check
Catalog Check
Readiness Check – Key Examples

Readiness Check – Key Examples
Readiness Outcome

Summary
 Moving applications to cloud intensifies challenges but brings
benefits
 Adopt key techniques - automate & optimize moving
applications to cloud
 Leverage Cloud Broker for unified monitoring
 Automate workload management using APIs
 Augment on premise legacy applications with cloud storage
 Get visibility into core infrastructure by extending vCloud features with vCD
extension API
 Auto deploy cloud apps by creating reusable packages built with blueprints
 Create value add business services for tier 1 business apps and offer it in cloud
catalogs

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