Adopting Cloud Infrastructure as an On-Demand
Extension of On-Premise Infrastructure for Virtual
Labs
Ravi Gururaj, Founder and CTO, VMLogix
October 9, 2009

The Problem: How do you Plan On-Premise Infrastructure
Capacity?
Virtual Lab Demand Met by the Public Cloud
Wasted Peak
Resources 100%
Demand
DEMAND
VIRTUAL
LAB
Average
Steady State
Demand
TIME
Virtual Lab Demand Met by the Private On-
Premise Cloud

The Solution: Private Clouds for Steady State Demand,
Public Clouds for Bursty Demand
Private Clouds: Public Clouds:
Policy-driven self-service Burst to the cloud when necessary
Secure & centralized management Migrate to operational expenditure when necessary
Hypervisor-Agnostic Public IaaS provider handles infrastructure admin
Private Cloud:
Public Cloud:
Centralized,
Elastic, Pay-As-You-
Virtualized
Go, Virtualized
Lab Infrastructure
Lab Infrastructure

Considerations: For the End User
• End user interacts with web browser “mini-apps” that focus on user
workflows and experience; e.g., management app for labs, end user self-
service etc.
• End users get benefit of charge-backs, policing, quotas, warnings/alerts
• System has a high degree of automation – provisioning, multi-machine
system preparation and configuration
• End users get self serve, on-demand access
• The infrastructure layer is entirely transparent to end users

Considerations: For the Enterprise IT Administrator
• Single pane of management glass across internal (private) and external
(public) clouds
• IT administrators can easily enable failover, HA, disaster recovery for
service (multi-machine) configurations
• IT administrators drive system compliance – through rich audit trails and
tamper proof logging across the clouds

Considerations: For the Business
• High degree of security: VPN tunnels between on-premise and off-
premise infrastructure
• Optimize the IT spend: Allow customers (end users and IT
administrators) to pick and choose their choice of clouds
• Retain IT agility: Lock-in free, have exportable and simplified meta data
of the applications and services

About VMLogix, Inc.
• Founded in 2004
• Funded by Bain Capital Ventures & Trilogy
• Building hypervisor agnostic virtual machine management applications
• Award-winning, industry-recognized Virtual Lab Automation product
• Dozens of customers including ISVs, Enterprises and hosting providers
• Offices in US, Canada and India
Enterprise Partnerships: Industry Recognition:

VMLogix LabManager-Cloud Edition

Screenshots
Managing a multi-machine
configuration in Amazon EC2
Managing a hybrid farm –
Hyper-V and Amazon EC2
from a single pane of glass

Q&A