This presentation will cover an overview of cloud market trends, the Infoblox Cloud Network Automation, VMware Private Cloud Automation use cases, and Amazon AWS and Hybrid/Public Cloud.

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Infoblox Cloud Solutions
Jim Zelnosky, Sr. SE Channels 08-19-2015

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• Overview of Cloud Market Trends
• Infoblox Cloud Network Automation Overview
• VMware Private Cloud Automation Use Case
• Amazon AWS and Hybrid/Public Cloud
Agenda:

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About Infoblox
($MM)
Founded in 1999 – Evanston
Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA
with global operations in 25 countries
Market leadership
• DDI Market Leader (Gartner)
• 50% DDI Market Share (IDC)
7,300+ customers
74,000+ systems shipped to 10 countries
45 patents, 27 pending
IPO April 2012: NYSE BLOX
Leader in technology
for network control
Total Revenue
(Fiscal Year Ending July 31)
$35.0
$56.0 $61.7
$102.2
$132.8
$169.2
$225.0
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Inhibitors to Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Cloud Paradigms Multi-Cloud Adoption Security/Compliance
• Too many service tickets between
server & network teams
• Lack of troubleshooting tools
• Slow IT execution times
• Multiple management portals
• No consistent policies
• Any platform change disrupts
implementation/processes
• No correlated infrastructure view
for entire cloud
• Lack of auditing capabilities
• Requires cross-cloud expertise
Manual processes don’t
work for cloud paradigms
Limited support for
multi-vendor hybrid clouds
New security/compliance
challenges with shift to cloud

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Cloud Network Pain Points
No visibility to IP address/DNS records for VM/network resources
No central reporting on lease history, DNS/IP associations
Lack of reliable DDI for Private Cloud
Stability and simplified upgrades of underlying network inhibits Cloud rollout
Requires too much administrator overhead
Manual IP address/DNS provisioning is slow, error-prone
Network provisioning is too slow for application delivery
No Amazon-like capabilities i.e., on-demand, self-service, DevOps

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Infoblox Cloud Solution
Enabling the Promise of Hybrid Cloud
DDI Automation Multi-Cloud Visibility
Policy-based automation of
DNS, DHCP, IPAM services for
virtual servers
Open RESTful interfaces for
customization
Single management interface
for leading cloud solutions
Private Cloud: VMware,
OpenStack, Microsoft, etc
Public/Hybrid Cloud: Amazon
Discovery of VMs, networks
for multi-cloud platforms
Auditing, reporting across
clouds for DHCP leases,
DNS records, IP addresses

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The Power of Cloud Network Automation
Manual
Traditional Approach
Provision
Virtual
Instance
1
Request IP
or Use
Allotment
2
Forward IP
Data for
Tracking
3
Update
Database or
Spreadsheet
4
Request
DNS
Record
5
Allocate
and Manually
Enter DNS
6
Clean Up
When
De-provisioned
1 62 3 4 5
Automated
Provision
Virtual
Instance
Automated
Automated
Infoblox Cloud Network Automation
ü Implement change anytime
Eg: DNS names, IP addresses
ü No tickets between network, server
teams for DNS, IP
ü Automatic reclamation of resources
upon spin down

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Infoblox Cloud Network Automation
• Mapping to Your Private Cloud Journey
Stage Appropriate Offerings Value Delivered
Scale-out
Cloud Platform Appliances
CP-V800
CP-V1400
CP-V2200
• Resilience with local survivability
• Increased DDI scalability and performance for VM
spin ups/downs
Production
Cloud Network Automation License • View/administer cloud tenants, networks, VMs, IP
addresses through a single UI
• Monitor IP and network usage
• New audit/usage reports
Pilot
Infoblox Automation Adapters • Automate DDI for VMs
• No additional cost
• Extend existing Grid
Value

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Cloud Architecture – Where Infoblox Plays
NIOS/vNIOS with DDI Automation
The Cloud Computing Conceptual Reference Model (credit: NIST)
Compute Storage Network
Hypervisors
Cloud Orchestration Layer
Cloud Management Platform
Cloud Consumer
OpenSource:
OpenStack
Commercial:
VMware vCAC, MS SC/VMM
Network Services:
Routing, switching,
firewalls, load-balancers
Infoblox Adaptors
VMware/Microsoft/OpenStack
Infoblox DNS/DHCP/IPAM
Core Network Services
Automa'ng
the
management,
provisioning
and
de-­‐provisioning
of
IP
addresses
and
DNS
services
is
a
cloud
best
prac'ce.
Alan
Chabra,
Lead
Architect,
BMC
Cloud
Center
of
Excellence
“ ”
For our cloud customers automating IP address and DNS service
provisioning is a must have. They tell us repeatedly that they can’t
rely on manual/high-risk solutions to run their next gen cloud
infrastructure.
Vikul Gupta, Director of Cloud Svcs Orchestration, HP
“
”

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Major BioTech firm
Private Cloud Case Study
Background and Challenges:
• VM provisioning typically took 3-6 weeks due to network manual network configuration tasks
• Frequent errors during provision
• Multiple hand offs/approvals for IP addresses and DNS entries
Solution and Results:
Infoblox DDI + Cloud Adapters
• Reduced time to bring up cloud services
• Reduced total provisioning time from weeks to hours
• Eliminated discrepancies and errors
Agile delivery of cloud services, no manual overhead

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Example - VMware Private Cloud using vRA/vRO with IPAM Plug-in
vCenter Server
vRealize Orchestrator
(vCO)
Infoblox vRO
Plug-in
3- Infoblox DDI allocates the
next available IP address and
sends it to the VM along with
the DNS host record
2- The Infoblox IPAM Plug-in
“Reserve an IP” workflow gets
invoked
11
Infoblox Trinzic DDI Appliance
1- A vRAcloud admin/user requests a VM to be created
5- The newly created VM is
now running on an ESXi host
using the newly allocated IP
address and DNS record
4- vCenter creates
and spins-up the VM

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Infoblox – Help Deliver the Promise of
Hybrid Cloud
Accelerates Cloud Projects in Single Platform
• Adapters provide powerful IPAM and DNS automation
• Common interface for multiple teams reduces handoffs
Multi-cloud Management Improves Agility
• Enterprise-grade DDI for multiple platforms
• Build common policies across different vendors
Security and Audit Capabilities Reduces Risk
• Detailed tracking for auditing and compliance
• Consolidated view of cloud and traditional resources

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Challenges in Amazon AWS Public Cloud
Private DNS Management in AWS
• No consistent DNS management for hybrid cloud
(Eg: reverse zone configurations, DNS naming conventions)
• No automation for DNS records for AWS instances
IP Address Management
• Limited capability to plan, track, manage IP addresses in AWS VPCs
• IP addresses assigned randomly, don’t comply with corporate policy
Visibility into IP Addresses and DNS Records for AWS instances
• Network team has little visibility on IP address utilization in AWS
• No single tool to manage DNS, DHCP & IP addresses (DDI) for Hybrid Cloud
Eg: DDI for AWS, Internal Virtualization, Core Network
No Consistent DDI
Management for AWS
Lack of Visibility into
AWS Infrastructure

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Solution: DNS & IPAM for Amazon AWS
DNS in Public Cloud
Centrally manage DNS servers
that are on-premise and in AWS
Automation
Automatically assign & reclaim IP
addresses and DNS records for
AWS instances
Visibility
Discover IP and DNS
information for AWS instances
Extend Infoblox Grid to AWS
EC2 virtual compute
Automate DNS records & IP
addresses for AWS instances
Discovery, audit and
compliance for AWS instances

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Automation
Agile Deployment with DNS and IPAM Automation
AWS API Client
(Ansible, Puppet,
Chef scripts etc.)
AWS instances
AWS API calls
AWS API calls
a.b.c.d
abc.xyz.com
Grid Member
• Automate creation/deletion
of VPCs, networks, EC2
instances
• IP address assignments and
reclamations
• Provisioning/de-provisioning
of DNS records
• Configurable DNS names
Grid
Master
Data Center

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AWS Objects Defined
• AWS Cloud (Orange Box) –
This is the AWS Cloud representing the entirety
of the AWS services.
• AWS Region (Blue Box) –
Set of cloud resources isolated from other
regions in AWS. There are multiple geographically
dispersed regions.
• AWS Availability Zones (Purple Boxes) –
Within a region availability zones isolate resources
from one another to protect against failure.
Instances can be distributed across availability
zones.
• VPC (Green Box) –
Virtual Private Clouds allows you to create
networks for your workloads (subnets).
• EC2 Instances (Elastic Compute 2) –
Virtual machines hosting your workloads
deployed from an AMI.
AWS Region
VPC 1
EC2
instances
Availability
Zones
*Note: Regions and availability zones are distinct resource
segmentation within AWS, used to provide segmentation of
workloads for HA and DR purposes.
AWS Object Concepts Explained

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AWS Object Concepts Explained
AWS Connectivity Concepts
• Customer Gateway –
A CGW is the anchor on the customer's side of
the VPN connection. It can be a physical or
software appliance.
• Virtual Private Gateway –
A VGW is the anchor on the AWS side of the
VPN connection.
• VPN Tunnel –
Connection is used to describe the network
connectivity that is established between a single
CGW and a single VGW.
• VPC Peering –
PC peering connection is a networking
connection between two VPCs that enables you
to route traffic between them using private IP
addresses. Instances in either VPC can
communicate with each other as if they are
within the same network.
EC2
instances
AWS Region
VPC 1 VPC 2
VPC
Peering
EC2
instances
Availability
Zones
Availability
Zones
On-premise DC
VPN Connection
(Tunnel)
AWS Region

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DNS and visibility
AWS Region
VPC 1
VPC 2
Shared service/
Management VPC
On-premise DC
GM
Features
1
2 3
Deployment Scenario Hybrid Cloud
OR
Amazon API calls can be directed to the Grid Master
Amazon API calls can be directed Cloud Platform Appliances

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Automation for AWS Instances (API Gateway)
AWS
API
Client
(Eg:
Ansible,
Puppet,
Chef
scripts
etc.)
API
Endpoint
1. API: Create EC2 Instance in
VPC-Dev for network 10.10.0.0/16
2. GM reserves next available IP in
network 10.10.0.0/16 for VPC-Dev
and inserts into API request
3. API: Create EC2
Instance in VPC-Dev
4. EC2 Instance
spun up with
10.10.10.101 in
VPC-Dev
5. API Response:
Success
6. GM updates Host
records for EC2 Instance
7. API Response:
Success
Notes:
Amazon API calls can be directed to either the Grid Master or Cloud Platform Appliances
GM performs vDiscovery of AWS instances to ensure no duplicate addresses are assigned
AWS instance tags assigned as metadata in Infoblox database
Policy based IP address assignment via metadata passed in AWS APIs
VPC
ID
Network
IP
VPC-­‐Dev
10.10.0.0/16
10.10.10.101
VPC
ID
Network
IP
DNS
record
VPC-­‐Dev
10.10.0.0/16
10.10.10.101
dev1.internal.com

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Visibility
Discovery and visibility of AWS Networks
AWS VPCs AWS Instances AWS Networks
Single pane of glass to view AWS EC2 instances, VPCs and networks
Periodic discovery of modifications to AWS environment
Detailed view of AWS VPCs and networks
• EC2 instances in a VPC and their attributes
• AWS tags imported as configurable metadata

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• Infoblox AMI available for DNS
• Hardened virtual appliance for
secure DNS in AWS
• Deploy Infoblox DNS servers
in AWS VPCs
• Use for External DNS or
Internal DNS
• Fault tolerance with support
for Disaster Recovery
Grid Member
(Primary DNS)
Grid Master
(GM)
AWS Public Cloud
Data Center
Grid Member
(Secondary DNS)
Grid Member
(Secondary DNS)
Enterprise Premise
Grid Master
Candidate
DNS in Public Cloud
Enterprise-grade DNS in Amazon AWS

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Infoblox Cloud Network Automation Benefits
Features
Elastic Scaling
• Auto provisioning and elastic scaling of vNIOS Appliances
• Ability to auto scale DDI as required by the Cloud
Management Platform
vDiscovery Enhancements
• Discover VMs, IP addresses, vswitches, virtual ports,
physical host, tenants etc on OpenStack and Amazon
environment in addition to VMware vSphere
Benefits
• Simplify Cloud Deployment with on-demand provisioning of
Cloud Members
• Elastic scale of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP for Cloud
environments
• Single pane of glass for DDI across hybrid cloud
(Vmware, OpenStack and AWS)
Autoscaling
vDiscovery
Discover Virtual Machines (VMs)
VMware/OpenStack/AWS
VMVMVMVM
API
Infoblox Trinzic
Physical/Virtual Appliance

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Q&A