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RightScale Webinar: Learn about the RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere
The RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere enables companies to cloudify their virtualized environments, providing a single management console for both cloud and vSphere resources. It facilitates self-service workload provisioning and offers visibility and governance across multiple clouds, enhancing enterprise agility and IT efficiency. The appliance supports various deployment options and aims to reduce vendor lock-in while improving operational flexibility.
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RightScale Webinar: Learn about the RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere
- 1. LEARN ABOUT RIGHTSCALE CLOUDAPPLIANCE FOR VSPHERE
- 2. Your Panel Today KimWeins • Vice President, RightScale Utpal Thakrar • Senior Product Manager, RightScale Please use the “Questions” window to ask questions at any time!
- 3. Agenda • • • • About RightScale Virtualization andCloud RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere Q&A 2
- 4. Creating the Cloud-EnabledEnterprise 7 years 10 public and private clouds 70K+ users 6M+ servers 10K+ servers per app “Cloud management tools bring order to the chaos of multi-cloud management without limiting developer productivity.” -Dave Bartoletti 3
- 5. What Enterprises WantFrom Cloud Accelerate Enterprise Agility Improve IT Efficiency Reduce time to market Speed innovation Fail (or succeed) fast Cut infrastructure costs Reduce overprovisioning Increase IT efficiency Expand Markets & Capabilities New geographies New capabilities Web-scale applications Increase Investment Flexibility CapEx vs OpEx Reduce sunk costs Leverage public or private Reduce Risk Increase service availability Secure environments Reduce vendor lock-in 4
- 6. Hybrid Matures: Allof the Above No plans 7% Multi-public 15% Multi-private 15% Single public 11% Multi-cloud 77% Hybrid cloud 47% Single private 5% Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013
- 7. RightScale Cloud PortfolioManagement Self-Service Cloud Management Cloud Analytics Manage Govern Optimize Your Cloud Portfolio Public Private Virtualized
- 8. But What Aboutmy vSphere Environment? My Cloud Portfolio ??? 7
- 9. My DCs arevirtualized. Do I have a cloud? Virtualization Cloud Computing
- 10. Virtualization Makes CloudHappen Virtualization • Virtualization makes Cloud Computing possible • But, a virtualized data center is not a Cloud Cloud Computing
- 11. What is CloudComputing About? • Self service with automation • Speed—provisioning environments lightning fast • Granular cost tracking of every resource
- 12. The End Goal EmpoweringIT customers to provision pre-defined environments with ZERO lead time
- 13. Changing the Roleof IT • Cloudify your vSphere environment, enable your users Virtualization Cloud Computing
- 14. Enterprises Want aSingle Pane of Glass Regional Health Insurer “Help me manage my VM sprawl” “Uniform visibility and consistent experience is what I’m looking for” Entertainment Company “Consistent Lifecycle management across other clouds and vSphere is hugely important” Financial Services Firm “We’re looking for an alternative to VMware tools” Large Educational Publisher
- 15. Three Options forvSphere Cloudification Via OpenStack Via vCD RightScale UI/API RightScale UI/API RightScale UI/API vCD On-Prem On-Prem On-Prem OpenStack or Cloudstack Direct to vSphere RS Cloud Appliance for vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere On-site OpenStack installation On-site vCloud Director installation On-site virtual software appliance developed by RightScale
- 16. RIghtScale Cloud ApplianceProduct Goals Cloudify vSphere Add cloud capabilities to vSphere resources Single pane of glass Manage cloud and virtualized environments from one management console and REST API Self-Service/DevOps Provide self-service access to automate workload provisioning Portability Co-existence Create and move portable workloads across clouds and vSphere Leverage RightScale in parallel with vCenter, vSphere admins can use familiar tools 15
- 17. High-level Architecture View RightScaleCloud Portfolio Management On-premises Corporate Firewall RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere vCenter Server™ Public Clouds Private Clouds ESXi • Works with vSphere 5.1or 5.5 • Enterprise, Enterprise Plus supported today. Support for Standard edition on roadmap • Does not require vCloud Suite • Simple, Stateless, Faulttolerant VMware® vSphere® 16
- 18. RightScale Cloud Appliance:Product Goals Cloudify vSphere Add cloud capabilities to vSphere resources Single pane of glass Manage cloud and virtualized environments from one management console and REST API Self-Service/DevOps Provide self-service access to automate workload provisioning Portability Co-existence Create and move portable workloads across clouds and vSphere Leverage RightScale in parallel with vCenter, vSphere admins can use familiar tools 17
- 19. High-Level Connectivity View • • Nohard requirement for inbound connectivity to your premises RightScale Cloud Appliance initiates egress connection to RightScale SaaS platform
- 20. Extend vSphere withCloud-Like Features Cloudify vSphere RightScale VMware® vSphere® • • • • • • Standard instance sizes Multi-tenancy governance Self-service access Metering/Billing Monitoring Audit trails • Sharing of HW resources • Load balance across hosts • vMotion, DRS • Scale up and down on a host • Define standard instance sizes for easy self-service • Control what tenants or groups can share which resource pools • Provide controlled selfservice access to vSphere resources • Meter usage and provide chargeback and showback • Provide consistent governance for use of vSphere and cloud resources 19
- 21. Portability between vSphereand Cloud Workload Portability RightScale Deploy and Manage Cloud-Independent Workloads Public Portable Portable Private Portable Portable Manage Existing VMs • Manage diversified hypervisors, avoid lock-in • Ease current and future migrations to cloud • Gain visibility into all cloud resources, including vSphere Virtualized Portable VM 20
- 22. Co-Existence of RightScaleAND vCenter No Lock-in RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management Public Private vCenter Virtualized • Manage in parallel using RightScale and vCenter • vSphere admins continue to use vCenter • Developers and cloud users can leverage RightScale in parallel • Transparent view of vSphere workloads in both tools, regardless of where launched 21
- 23. RightScale Cloud Appliancefor vSphere Virtualization Cloud Computing
- 24. RightScale Cloud Management vSphereis another cloud option in Cloud Management dashboard Deploy and manage workloads across vSphere and other clouds Virtualization Cloud Computing
- 25. Deliver Self-Service forvSphere Accelerate Applications • Increase developer productivity • Instant access to infrastructure on vSphere or clouds • Maintain visibility and governance • • • • VMWare Standardized stacks Access controls Budget controls Audit trails AWS 24
- 26. Timeline Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Alpha Limited Availability Q22014 General Availability 25
- 27. Why RightScale CloudAppliance for vSphere? Self-Service Access One Tool, Many Clouds Workload Portability 26
- 28. The Journey toCloud… RightScale Gets You There
- 29. Thanks and Q&A Sign-upfor the Beta www.rightscale.com/vsphere Contact us for more information +1 (888) 989-1856 (toll free) sales@rightscale.com * Follow-up email will include link to slide deck, recording and link to Beta sign-up
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