The document discusses VMware vCloud Director (vCD), emphasizing its role in transforming IT infrastructure into a cloud-based model that supports self-service access and standardized processes. It outlines the benefits of hybrid cloud systems and the capabilities of vCloud API for programmatic control and integration. vCD facilitates the creation of isolated virtual datacenters and resource pools, allowing organizations to efficiently manage infrastructure while ensuring security and flexibility.

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VMware vCloud Director
z.Bsp. für Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Beat Utzinger, Senior Consultant, Virtualisation, Lake Solutions AG

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Agenda
Warum vCloud Director (vCD)
Wie funktioniert vCD

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IT is changing – Umbruch in der IT

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Virtualisierung – The Journey is Accelerating...

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Das Ergebnis

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IT must respond to custom requests and LOBs face queues
Users
May I have a
LAMP stack,
please?
Approval processes and queues
Custom requests strain IT
Hardware acquisition
Infrastructure deployment
Manual planning and provisioning
Difficult capacity management
Infrastructure
Admin

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Granting self-service access reduces dependency on IT
Cloud Admin
End User or IT
Representative
VMware vSphere
Self-Service Portal
Standardization with central
catalog of templates and media
No overprovisioning with
feeling of infinite resources
VMware vCloud Director
&

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For IT, this is a similarly challenging situation
From managing a highly
customized, siloed datacenter
To a standardized and pooled
datacenter
App Stack A App Stack B
DB2
App Stack C
Process A Process B Process C Standardized Processes
vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere
Virtual Datacenter 1 (Gold) Virtual Datacenter 2 (Silver)

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The hybrid cloud is the best model to capture these benefits
Cloud Service
Providers
Hybrid Cloud
Composition of 2 or more
interoperable clouds,
enabling data and
application portability
Public Cloud
Accessible over the
Internet for general
consumption
Private Cloud
Operated solely for an
organization, typically
within the firewall
Enterprises
Bridging

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vCloud API Public Clouds
Programmatic
Control and
Integrations
VMware vCloud Director
Builds on vSphere and scales up to
10,000 VMs and 25 vCenter Servers
Creates virtual datacenters, by pooling
resources into new units of consumption
Securely enables the cloud with
vShield, LDAP authentication, and RBAC
Provides self-service portals and
standardized infrastructure catalogs
Isolates users into organizations with
unique catalogs, policies, and LDAP
vCloud Director builds on vSphere to transform IT
vCloud API enables inter-cloud portability,
programmatic control, and integrations
IT
Users
Organization 1 Organization m
Secure Private Cloud
VMware
vShield
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware vSphere VMware vSphere
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware vSphere
User Portals
Virtual Datacenter n (Silver)Virtual Datacenter 1 (Gold)
SecurityCatalogs

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Users given direct, on-demand access to infrastructure services
Three ways to connect
• Direct access through web-based
user portals
• Integrate into IT workflows and
request processes
• Programmatic access through
vCloud API
Delegated controls
• Basic VM operations, including
provisioning and deprovisioning
• Move vApp to new VDC
• Customize the guest OS
• Adjust resource guarantees
Yet, IT never loses control

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Users deploy standard services from central catalogs
Direct access to catalogs
through self-service portal
Catalogs contain templates,
vApps, and Media
Catalogs can be customized by
organization
• Users can be given permission to
create organization-wide catalogs
• Organizations can be given
permission to create datacenter-
wide catalogs
Linux Templates
Windows Templates
Weblogic vApps
Basic Media
Catalog
Oracle vApps
Premium
Media Catalog
GDB7

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GDB7 Define vApp?
Greg Bybee; 25.08.2010

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Users have an isolated infrastructure sandbox
Organization Virtual Datacenters
are isolated resource pools
dedicated to an organization
Logical abstraction between
application and underlying
hardware
Access without risk of exceeding
capacity, bothering “neighbors,”
or creating security issues
Can be offered at a predefined
SLA with corresponding costs
Organization Virtual Datacenter 1Organization Virtual Datacenter 1
Organization Virtual Datacenter 2Organization Virtual Datacenter 2
Organization Virtual Datacenter 3Organization Virtual Datacenter 3
Infrastructure Service Catalog
Organization Virtual Datacenter 1Organization Virtual Datacenter 1
R&D Organization
Finance Organization

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VM created in under 3 minutes;
user experience like iTunes!
11:23 AM

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VMware vCloud Director
To make this possible, cloud requires new resource abstractions
Secure Private Cloud
Organization: Marketing Organization: Finance
Organization VDCs CatalogsOrganization VDCs Catalogs
VMware vSphere
VMware vCenter Server
Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups
(Gold)
(Bronze)
Provider Virtual Datacenters
(Silver)
Users & Policies Users & Policies

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vCloud Director
Fragen ?
Link http://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/