Blum operates globally with 7,983 employees and extensive infrastructure including VMware hosts and VMs, primarily using Windows. The company aims to automate processes for faster VM deployment and improved efficiency, resulting in a significant reduction in request fulfillment time from two days to two minutes. Future plans include integration with MS Orchestrator and expansion of templates for additional departments.

1. ONECloud@Blum
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2. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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3. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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4. ▪ 7983 Employees worldwide
▪ 6037 Employees Austria
▪ 8 Plants in Vorarlberg, others in Poland, USA and Brasil
▪ 31 Subsidiaries
▪ 258 Employees in IS
▪ 17 Employees in Infrastructure
▪ 8 Employees in Datacenter Team (Cabling, Network, Storage, Phys./ Virt. Hardware, Printing, Backup)
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5. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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6. ▪ 89 VMware Hosts in 23 Clusters
▪ 1526 VMs
▪ 514.63 TB VMWare Storage (Tier1 + Tier0)
▪ 17 Templates ( + 4 Opennebula)
▪ ~ 10% Linux, ~ 90% Windows
▪ ~ 400 VMs using the same template (Z-Point)
▪ Netbox as central IPAM/DCIM Tool
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7. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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8. Why NTS Captain?
▪ “Selfservice” for Users
▪ Automatisation of the processes (work in Progress)
▪ All Machines “the same” – creating Standards
▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department
▪ Faster deployment of new VMs
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9. What did we wanted to automate?
▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN)
▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account)
▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool
▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer
▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups
▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM
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10. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI

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13. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM

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16. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM

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SCCM Windows Update Schedule

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ASG RemoteViewer

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PowerShell Registryentry for Monitoring
Description for VM in AD Account

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23. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM
Context.
Windows

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Contextualisation

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27. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM
Context.
Windows
LAPS

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29. What did we wanted to automate?
▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN)
▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account)
▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool
▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer
▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups
▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM
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30. How we build our templates
1. Install Windows
2. Install LAPS (LAPS -> Local Admin Password Solution)
3. Install Onecontext MSI
4. Sysprep
5. Convert VM to Template
6. Import Image in OpenNebula
7. Clone without Images
8. Copy Context-Script
9. Define Context-variables
10.Define Network
11.Done (Duration approx. 10 Minutes)
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35. Summary
▪ New Templates really easy to create and customise
▪ Shorter time to fullfill requests (from ~ 2 Days down to ~ 2 Minutes)
▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department
▪ More satisfied Customers (Who loves to wait for a VM?)
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36. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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37. ExampleZ-Point
(ControlPC for our productionlines)
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40. Example W2Kxx Standard VM
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43. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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What’s next?
▪ Integration with MS Orchestrator for Ticketsystem and automation of AD Tasks
▪ Onboarding and templates for further Departments (BBA/Web/AppServer + SAP)
▪ Azure Deployment (Resource Model, not Classic VM)

45. Questions?
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