The document discusses optimizing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for private clouds, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive management strategy to enhance efficiency, control costs, and facilitate capacity planning. It highlights the complexities of managing cloud infrastructure and advocates for utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data for better decision-making in resource management. Additionally, the document outlines various tools and platforms available for cloud management, including considerations for open-source solutions.

1. Managing Cloud
Resources
Perspective
How to optimize your
Infrastructure as a Service for
your private cloud
By Omar Nawaz
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2. Omar Nawaz is the founder and President at Rouge Group. Omar has over 20 years of experience in
Product Management, Marketing and Strategy. His areas of expertise include Cloud Services (IaaS,
PaaS and SaaS) and Enterprise Software. Omar has built and launched over 20 emerging technologies
products and solutions at large companies and start-ups and he has successfully created new markets
to build several $100+ million businesses.
Copyright © 2014 Rouge Group LLC. All rights reserved

3. In the Cloud computing era, computing is a service and no longer discrete
components of physical inventory. Resources, software and information are
shared. To drive increased agility, lower cost, and higher service levels
enterprises are transforming IT infrastructure into dynamic and virtual pool of
resources and offering it as utility – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). IaaS is
the infrastructure layer of the cloud, private or public, see figure 1. This new
and shared infrastructure resources include virtualization, resource pooling,
dynamic and logical workload allocation, reconfigurations and relocations,
which introduces significant complexities to resource management and
planning.
How to optimize virtual
infrastructure and cloud
resources
• Optimizing infrastructure utilization
• Controlling cost
• Capacity planning for future
• Managing the sprawl
• Troubleshooting
CHALLENGES:
Figure 1: Building blocks of a cloud (private and public)

4. Perspective
IT administrators and
managers need a
comprehensive strategy to
optimize and manage
cloud.
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IT needs a comprehensive
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) Cloud
Management Suite.
Traditional IT management tools
and approaches were never
designed for these new
environments. There are tools and
techniques available that allow
you to capture utilization data in a
virtual and cloud infrastructure, but
that alone is not sufficient for
sophisticated resource
management and capacity
planning. To manage and control
virtual environments and deal with
real-time changes you need a new
approach.
The implications of cloud go
beyond technology and process,
and into the core of every
component of the IT environment.
While the shift to cloud is
happening and planning for future
state is critical but it’s important for
organizations not to lose sight of
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effectively managing the
technology currently running the
business.
A comprehensive IaaS Cloud
Management environment will
enable IT administrators and
managers to optimize their cloud
infrastructure with advanced
capacity planning and
sophisticated resource
management capabilities. IT needs
both quantitative and qualitative
view on the entire environment. A
combined view of configurations,
operational event data, resource
utilization and performance
statistics will empower IT
administrators and manager to
make better decisions regarding
infrastructure design,
management, planning and
investment.
Management environment should
be able to capture utilization,
health and performance metrics
and correlate it with configuration
and operational data both

5. Today’s virtual
infrastructure and cloud
management and
monitoring investment
may significantly and
negatively impact the
organization’s adoption
of or transition to cloud.
real-time and historical to provide a comprehensive view of the entire
infrastructure. The information regarding configurations, applications
versions, patches, hardware revisions needs to be maintained in a version
control system, similar to source code. There are several open source and
commercial tools that can do this quite effectively, for example, Git
(www.git-scm.com), GitHub (www.github.com), SVN (www.
subversion.apache.org), Mercurial (www.mercurial.selenic.com) etc.
The historical perspective and analytics enables continuous visibility,
deep insight and a clear picture of what is driving growth and change
and how it is impacting performance, utilization, and service levels.
CAPACITY PLANNING:
In order to effectively plan for future capacity, cloud management tool
should be able to capture utilization and performance metrics and
dynamically calculate capacity. A comprehensive view of virtual
infrastructure requires correlated view of the above information with
configuration and operation data. Configuration may include
information like: classifications, applications, patches, virtual hardware,
drift, VM events, relationship and dependency mapping, and changes in
infrastructure.
Visibility into virtual and cloud infrastructures will provide a clearer picture
of what is driving growth and changes in utilization of resources.
"An Integrated and best
of bread strategy will
deliver better return on
investment in a
dynamic, diverse and
heterogeneous virtual
and cloud infrastructure
environment.”
(continued)
Consider management tools that
can manage across cloud, non-
cloud, multi-hypervisor
infrastructure.
There is no perfect tool. Know
where to compromise.

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Develop a management,
monitoring, and policy
strategy for your virtual and
cloud infrastructure.
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MANAGING SPRAWL:
Once a clear picture of the
capacity and utilization of the
virtual infrastructure is available
you need ability to define and
enforce IT policies based on
infrastructure events. This enables
you to limit, detect unused (over-
reserved) resources (memory and
CPU), automatically retire and free
up valuable resources and track
heavy traffic and storage
utilization.
THE RIGHT TOOL:
There are several choices for cloud
management platform (CMP).
Research firm Gartner categorizes
this market into five categories:
Traditional large IT operations
management (ITOM), software
infrastructure stack vendors,
emerging vendors, open-source
software (OSS) and integrated
systems cloud management
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platforms.
There is a long list to consider
between commercial and open
source. Due to recent popularity of
open-source many organizations
are considering OSS. Caution
should be exercised during
evaluation. Some of the OSS
offerings may not to ready for
production deployment or have
limited features or capabilities.
When selecting OSS, consider the
development skills within the
organization and more importantly
consider using CMP distribution
supported by vendors that can
provide support, extended
functionality and possible a
hardened version that can be
deployed in product environments.
Some of the popular OSS CMP
tools include: OpenStack, Citrix
CloudPlatform (CloudStack),
Eucalyptus, OpenNebula.
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