This document provides an overview of Revera's new SPARC as a Service offering developed in partnership with Eagle Technologies. It introduces the presenters and covers Revera's data center infrastructure, the multi-sourcing strategy, and commitment to innovation. The service goals are to provide flexible and high-performance SPARC computing infrastructure using Oracle VM for SPARC. It details the technical architecture including security measures and two service options. Questions are taken at the end and contact details are provided for further information.
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Nzoug spar caa s presentation
1. Supplied by Revera in partnership with Eagle Technologies
SPARC as a Service
VMs Under Your Command
Presented By:
Stephen Ponsford: Revera Limited
Stephen Metcalfe: Eagle Technologies Limited
4. High Integrity Computing Infrastructure
Topics
Current and Future Data Centres
Multi Sourcing Strategy
Commitment to Innovation
5. High Integrity Computing Infrastructure
5 Data Centres Nationwide; Auckland,
Christchurch, Hamilton, Tawa and Trentham
Wellington,
2 Data Centres for Cross Government; Tier 3
in Trentham Wellington and Tier 2+ in Albany,
Auckland
Expansion plans to build new Tier 3 Data
Centre in Auckland
6. High Integrity Computing Infrastructure
Multi Sourcing –
“Sticking to our Knitting”
Leveraging Revera’s
Stack Alliance
Specialist suppliers
doing specialist tasks
www.stackalliance.co.nz/partners
7. High Integrity Computing Infrastructure
Service Design Group established to focus
innovation efforts
Dedicated position of Innovation programme
manager
Up to version 5 of the service catalogue in 18 mths.
All Revera staff have the opportunity to submit
ideas to service design group
Clients are our biggest driver of innovation
8. Service Overview
Industry leading partnership with Eagle Technologies
T4 Architecture in a multi-tenanted government or
commercial configuration
Highly available management cluster at dual sites
Two offerings focussing on flexibility and performance
Additional client level management options
Complemented by additional Revera IaaS services
including Storage and Backup
9. Service Goals
Provide clients with SPARC computing
infrastructure offering the latest architecture
Client choice on how to support above hypervisor
functions, VMs, LDOMs and Zones
Ability for clients to scale up and down on SPARC
compute requirements
Architect a secure multi tenanted environment with
SLAs for platform uptime
11. Service Availability
Government SPARC as a Service
Available now in our Trentham Tier 3 Data Centre
from the DIA Cross Government Catalogue
Commercial SPARC as a Service
To be offered based on demand, in current talks
with 2 large commercial customers about their
requirements
13. Functional Overview
Provisioning of Oracle VM for SPARC (LDOM)
Solaris 10, 11 and branded zones for Solaris 8 and 9
Secure isolation on dedicated CPU and memory
Choice of shared virtual I/O or dedicated
Resilience to single points of failure and rapid
recovery
Secure access to LDOM console
Backup and recovery services
15. Service Option 1: SPARC VM Flexi
Virtual I/O architecture - Scalable sizing with workload migration
16. Service Option 2: SPARC IO Max
Direct I/O architecture - Fixed sizing - Maximum throughput
17. Security Overview
Follows Oracle Whitepaper
“Secure Deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC”
Separate environments for Government and
Commercial
Clients within environments protected by network
security measures including VLANs and Firewalls
Management network separate from client networks
and requires 2 factor authentication to access
18. Security Overview - Management
Isolated management
network
Role based access
via Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12C
2 factor access
required
19. Security Overview – Reduced Attack Surface
VLAN and Firewall
separation between
client LDOMs
Hypervisor based in
firmware reducing
attack surface
21. How to find out more
Enquire today at our NZOUG stand
Contact Revera;
0508 REVERA (0508 738372)
enquiry@revera.co.nz
You can also enquire with your existing Eagle
Technologies account manager