The document discusses Cisco's cloud orchestration solutions, defining enterprise-class cloud concepts such as private, public, and hybrid clouds, and emphasizing the importance of performance, redundancy, and automation in cloud deployments. It highlights the features of Cisco's cloud infrastructure, including scalability, network and storage abstraction, and self-service portals, while also mentioning integration with third-party resources. Furthermore, it outlines the benefits of automated provisioning and resource management to enhance efficiency and minimize administrative errors.

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Cloud Orchestration
Sebastian Grabski
Consulting Systems Engineer
11th October, 2011
GSP Cloud Software Systems Architecture

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• Definitions
• Cloud Orchestration – general concept
• Cisco Cloud Orchestration solutions
• BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
• Cisco IA for Cloud

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Are you familiar with Enterprise Class Cloud concept ?
Yes
No

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• Private cloud
Inhouse, Behind firewall, Company specific
• Public cloud
Commodity Cloud
„EC2-like” service
missing enterprise class features like performance & redundancy
not suitable to host „legacy” applications
resiliency on application level
Enterprise Class Cloud
High performance
Redundancy & High Availability on infrastructure layer
Enterprise class architecture
resiliency on infrastructure level
• Hybrid cloud
Private Cloud connected with Public Cloud

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Scalability:
• Large POD: 12.000 VM’s (8xVblock – 512 UCS servers)
• Compact POC: 1.500 VM’s (2xVblock – 64 UCS servers)
• 6 POD’s per Datacenter
MDS 9500
UCS
NAS
NAS
L4-7 Services
Nexus
Nexus
MDS 9500
UCS
NAS
NAS
L4-7 Services
Nexus

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MPLS Core
VN-Link allows per-VM
segmentation of traffic with full
switching features
VLANs and VRFs keep L2 / L3
customer traffic isolated
Virtual Device Contexts further
isolate traffic and enhance
operations
Allows partitioning of data
center services such as SLB,
firewalling, etc.
OTV allows seamless
extension of tenants between
pods
Common Physical
Infrastructure
Logical View per Tenant

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Automation
Threshold
Inefficiency Tolerance Zone
Automation
Requirement
VOLUMEand/orCOMPLEXITY
TIME

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Network Abstraction
• Nexus, Catalyst, ACE, ASA, CRS-1,
7600, DSN, ASR 9K
• L2, L3 segmentation
• FW, LB, QOS rules
Compute Abstraction
• vCenter, XenCenter, SCVMM etc....
• memory, CPU, affinity rules
• Life cycle mgmt
• Usage, accounting
Hypervisor
Mgmt API
Web services
API
Config & Image Mgmt, Config
Templates
End-to-End Compute
Provisioning
ITSM Change Mgmt System
Cloud Orchestration Layer
Portals
CMDB
Orchestration/ Work
Flow
Customer/ Admin
Portal
Storage Abstraction
• Capacity mgmt requests
• Replication requests
Storage allocation mgmt
Storage
API
VM Package Mgmt
Infrastructure Domain Managers
CMDB/DB

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Service
Retirement
Service
Catalog
Define Service
Self‐Service
Portal
Request Service
Automated
Provisioning
Service Request
Management
Change Mgt
Cisco UCS Physical
Blades
Cisco UCS
Virtual
Servers
Cisco Nexus
Network
Storage
Cloud
Performance
Management
Compliance
Management
Operations
Metering &
Chargeback
IT & Line of Business Customer

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Cisco Cloud Portal
&
Service Orchestration
VDI HCS
Hosted
UC
BMC
Cloud
Lifecycle
Management
Infrastructure as a Service SaaS
• 80/20 rule
• short time to market
• productized
• tested against VMDC
• solution based
• services lead engagement
• 20/80 rule
• highly customizable
Network
Hypervisor
Storage
Managers
Network Storage
Cisco IA for Cloud

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Are you planning to deploy Enterprise Class Cloud ?
Yes
No
We’re already in the process of deployment
We already have Enterprise Class Cloud
We consider/have commodity cloud

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Service
Catalog
Service Offering
Self‐service Portal
Service Governor
Makes Placement Decision
Maps to Service Blueprint
Deployment Definition 3
Deployment Definition 2
Deployment Definition 1
DML
Compute & AppsNetwork
Resource Manager
Public CloudStorage
Provisioning of Compute, Storage & Network
Resources available in Portal
Enterprise
CMS/CMDB
Cloud DB
Updates
Integration with Change, Asset Mgmt
BMC Server AutomationBMC Network Automation BMC Atrium Orchestrator
3rd Party
External Resource Providers
Service
Blueprint

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• Provides the customer with a fully
secured and segmented
environment
• Elimination of administrative errors
through service automation
• Removal of manual resource usage
documentation and tracking
• Reduction in service deployment
time
• Minimizing coordination of
technologies between silos
• Abstraction of complexities from the
user
• Self Provisioning
Service Provider
MPLS Backbone
Physical Topology
Cloud Tenant 2Cloud Tenant 1

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Provider API
BMC Self Service Portal
Service Catalog
Service Blueprints
Service Governor
Resource Management
Allows for 3rd party resources
providers to be added
Extend policy engine with
custom policies
Cloud API
Build blueprints to represent
any type of workload or service
Complete flexibility in the types of
service offerings exposed to users
Allows for custom integration
Look-n-Feel / Branding
customization
Add new end user features
Customer’s Portal

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Performance monitoring
for deployed instances
List of deployed
software packages per
instance
Select servers and view
details (including price)
Overall of total usage of
resources across instances
List of deployed
applications & service
instances
Summary of resources by
type deployed

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Select a new offering
Multi‐tier Offerings
Now Possible!
Deployment Options
Summary Page
Additional information
fields and configuration
options
Running tally of
selections and prices

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• Functional Blueprints
Defined by service architects
Provides the “Enterprise architecture”
view of a given service
Contains descriptions of functional
components and their connections
• Deployment Blueprints
Defined by IT personnel responsible for
application on-boarding
Provides the deployment time view of a
given service
Describes resources required for normal
service operation
• Can have multiple deployment
blueprints per functional blueprint

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View service components
and connections
View deployment resources

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Map requestable offering to
service blueprint and
deployment model
Set recurring price and costs

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Optional Change Management
integration
Optional Service Request
approvals

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Map resources to a
network container

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CMDB
IT Service
Management
Tools
CiscoIntelligentAutomationforCloud
Service Catalog and Self-Service Portal
newScale FrontOffice Suite
Global Orchestration and Reporting
Cisco Tidal Enterprise Orchestrator
Adapter Framework
OS/Software
Provisioning
Cisco Tidal Server
Provisioner
Virtualization
Managers
e.g. ,VMWare vCenter
CloudAutomationPack
Hardware
Managers
e.g., UCS Manager,
Tivoli
Compute
Resources
Virtual
Infrastructure
Network
Resources
Storage
Resources
Billing/
Chargeback
Monitoring and
Governance

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Self-service,
self-managed
personal
infrastructure
on-demand.

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CITEIS Private Cloud
Tenant
Managed
Internal VDC
Large
IT Managed
Internal VDC
Jumbo
Medium Medium
Tenant X
Tenant Y Tenant …
120 VM
Capacity
360 VM
Capacity
Tenant
Managed
Internal VDC
Mini
Medium
Mini
45 VM
Capacity
Value Adds
Value Adds
Value Adds
Tenant defines VDC(s)
based on service and
support needs
Current Capacity;
Tenant can increase
by adding additional
building blocks
Tenant Customizable and Elastic
IT
Managed
DMZ VDC
Small
25 VM
CapacityValue Adds
* VM Capacity based on average
2x4GB VM

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Create your own
Virtual Data
Center - acquire
the virtual
resources you
need for as long
as you need
them, with
supporting
network and
storage services.

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