Enterprises are asking their architects and integrators to find the most robust, cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-manage infrastructure for their vCloud environments. NetApp integrations with VMware vCloud Director make efficiency, data agility and integrated data protection a native part of vCloud environments. This session will show how integrations with vCloud Director make provisioning and cloning, session orchestration and automation, resource creation and management easier and smarter on NetApp storage.
This talk includes a brief review of the Cloud Foundry Anniversary event on 4/11/2012, and then goes deeply into the idea of Cloud Foundry as the "linux of the cloud"
This session will explore what happens after server consolidation: Workload profiles change, usage patterns change, and resource utilization goes up and down. During this session, we will discuss how the storage footprint changes, and what used to be ideally optimized isn't anymore.
You will learn how to quantify the gap between resource allocation and actual usage, how to recover and redeploy excess capacity, and how to find common virtual machine configuration mistakes that can degrade overall performance.
This talk includes a brief review of the Cloud Foundry Anniversary event on 4/11/2012, and then goes deeply into the idea of Cloud Foundry as the "linux of the cloud"
This session will explore what happens after server consolidation: Workload profiles change, usage patterns change, and resource utilization goes up and down. During this session, we will discuss how the storage footprint changes, and what used to be ideally optimized isn't anymore.
You will learn how to quantify the gap between resource allocation and actual usage, how to recover and redeploy excess capacity, and how to find common virtual machine configuration mistakes that can degrade overall performance.
The Storage Hypervisor: The missing link for the Software Defined Datacenter Virsto Software
The concept of the software-defined datacenter (SDD) is gaining recognition, as IT moves away from infrastructure traditionally defined by hardware toward a more flexible infrastructure built around software and dynamic allocation of resources. In the SDD, all virtualized storage, server, networking and security resources required by an application can be defined by software and provisioned automatically. Virsto’s VM-centric storage hypervisor is purpose built to deliver software-defined storage: the missing link for storage agility, performance and efficiency to realize more agile IT.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
ExaGrid and Veeam present the 5 Keys to Virtual Server Backup Excellence. Includes an overview of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replicaiton software, and customer case studies.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
SOASTA's tens-of-thousands of tests in customer labs and production environments have uncovered issues that range from code level bugs to issues in 3rd party services. Testing early, often and at real scale is the only way to be fully prepared.
La solución de datacenter virtual alojada en los nodos de COLT en Barcelona y Madrid permite un despliegue rápido y flexible de infraestructura.
Está basado en la solución de virtualización de VMware por lo que es compatible con multitud de appliances y permite crear nubes híbridas fácilmente.
The Storage Hypervisor: The missing link for the Software Defined Datacenter Virsto Software
The concept of the software-defined datacenter (SDD) is gaining recognition, as IT moves away from infrastructure traditionally defined by hardware toward a more flexible infrastructure built around software and dynamic allocation of resources. In the SDD, all virtualized storage, server, networking and security resources required by an application can be defined by software and provisioned automatically. Virsto’s VM-centric storage hypervisor is purpose built to deliver software-defined storage: the missing link for storage agility, performance and efficiency to realize more agile IT.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
ExaGrid and Veeam present the 5 Keys to Virtual Server Backup Excellence. Includes an overview of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replicaiton software, and customer case studies.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
SOASTA's tens-of-thousands of tests in customer labs and production environments have uncovered issues that range from code level bugs to issues in 3rd party services. Testing early, often and at real scale is the only way to be fully prepared.
La solución de datacenter virtual alojada en los nodos de COLT en Barcelona y Madrid permite un despliegue rápido y flexible de infraestructura.
Está basado en la solución de virtualización de VMware por lo que es compatible con multitud de appliances y permite crear nubes híbridas fácilmente.
Use Hybrid Cloud to Streamline SAP with NetApp, AWS and SAP LVMAmazon Web Services
Are you ready to streamline your SAP processes?
The pace of change in business and IT is relentless. To stay on top, enterprise leaders must focus on agility. Yet, customizing and upgrading SAP environments can be time consuming and costly. Now SAP teams can innovate faster and more cost effectively while also maximizing availability by using SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager with NetApp Private Storage for AWS & NetApp Cloud ONTAP.
SAP and NetApp will show how to dramatically accelerate SAP development cycles by instantly activating the compute and storage resources needed for dev, test, training and conference room pilots. We’ll also show how this automated solution can reduce compute and storage costs by up to 50% and provide disaster recovery virtually for free. The solution demonstration will include how to clone multiple copies of an SAP system in 5 minutes using no extra storage. Along the way we’ll share cloud-readiness advice gained in jointly developing this solution.
The NetApp team will then review the NetApp-AWS solutions at the foundation of this SAP infrastructure and share new capabilities in our expanding joint portfolio that can help you:
• Gain cloud compute benefits for workloads that demand maximum performance, scale, availability, or control: NetApp Private Storage for AWS – uses Amazon EC2
• Enhance AWS cloud storage with the power of enterprise data management — with a software-only solution: NetApp Cloud ONTAP for AWS – uses Amazon EC2 & Amazon EBS
• Solve backup and archive headaches with cloud-integrated storage: NetApp SteelStore – uses Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier.
• Store data across Amazon regions & decades with scalable, durable object storage across your premises and AWS: NetApp StorageGRID Webscale – uses Amazon S3
White Paper: EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 20...EMC
This white paper explains the testing and validation of the backup and recovery capabilities and benefits of EMC Avamar in a virtualized Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment on EMC VNX.
This white paper describes EMC VNX Snapshots. The paper reviews and explains operations and best practices for the feature, as well as limits and functions.
This white paper introduces EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) technology and describes its features and implementation. Details on how to use the product in Unisphere are discussed, and usage guidance and major customer benefits are also included.
On August 27th, VMware dropped some big announcements at VMworld 2012 – Specifically around the new vSphere 5.1 changes, and how they’ll impact you. View this presentation where our VMware team takes our customers through these important changes.
VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
Slides from AIS and Microsoft's half-day session on the recently-announced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. After a brief overview of the Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, we will focus on key IaaS concepts. Additionally, we will walk you through a number of scenarios enabled by Azure IaaS and several demonstrations.
Agenda:
Overview of Windows Azure Platform
Azure IaaS
Why IaaS?
IaaS Core Concepts
Supported Applications
Azure Virtual Machines
Disk Mobility
VM export / Import
Availability
Azure Virtual Network
Virtualizing Apache Spark and Machine Learning with Justin MurrayDatabricks
This talk explains the reasons why virtualizing Spark, in-house or elsewhere, is a requirement in today’s fast-moving and experimental world of data science and data engineering. Different teams want to spin up a Spark cluster “on the fly” to carry out some research and quickly answer business questions. They are not concerned with the availability of the server hardware – or with what any other team might be doing on it at the time. Virtualization provides the means of working within your own sandbox to try out the new query or Machine Learning algorithm. Deep performance test results will be shown that demonstrate that Spark and ML programs perform equally well on virtual machines just like native implementations do. An early introduction is given to the best practices you should adhere to when you do this.
VMworld 2013: vCloud Powered HPC is Better and Outperforming PhysicalVMworld
VMworld Europe 2013
Theo van Drimmelen, Bitbrains IT Services
Willem van Engeland, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Nimsoft Monitor for vCloud offers the monitoring capabilities that administrators need to ensure the highest levels of availability and performance of their vCloud deployments.
Visit http://bit.ly/monitorvCloud for more information.
It includes:
- Automated discovery, configuration, & data aggregation
- Comprehensive, multi-tenant views of performance, availability, and resource usage
Nimsoft Monitor speeds intelligent analysis and response to forecast resource requirements and preempt issues.
Private cloud infrastructure configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
DevOps the NetApp Way: 10 Rules for Forming a DevOps TeamNetApp
Does your enterprise IT organization practice DevOps without a common team approach? To create a standardized way for development and operations teams to work together at NetApp, the IT team differentiates a DevOps team from a regular development team based on these 10 rules.
Spot Lets NetApp Get the Most Out of the CloudNetApp
Prior to NetApp acquiring Spot.io, two of its IT teams had adopted Spot in their operations: Product Engineering for Cloud Volumes ONTAP test automation and NetApp IT for corporate business applications. Check out the results in this infographic.
NetApp has fully embraced tools that allow for seamless, collaborative work from home, and as a result was fully prepared to minimize COVID-19's impact on how we conduct business. Check out this infographic for a look at results from the new remote work reality.
4 Ways FlexPod Forms the Foundation for Cisco and NetApp SuccessNetApp
At Cisco and NetApp, seeing our customers succeed in their digital transformations means that we’ve succeeded too. But that’s only one of the ways we measure our performance. What’s another way? Hearing how our wide-ranging IT support helps Cisco and NetApp thrive. Here’s what makes FlexPod an indispensable part of Cisco’s and NetApp’s IT departments.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for the enterprise, organizations everywhere are modernizing to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads such as AI-driven IoT and Hyperledgers. Shifting from on-premises to public cloud services, private clouds, and moving from disk to flash – sometimes concurrently – opens the door to enormous potential, but also the unintended consequence of IT complexity.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de facto IT architecture for the enterprise, organizations everywhere are modernizing to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads such as AI-driven IoT and indelible ledgers.
10 Reasons Why Your SAP Applications Belong on NetAppNetApp
NetApp has been supporting SAP for 20 years, delivering advanced solutions for SAP applications. Here are 10 reasons why your SAP applications belong on NetApp!
Redefining HCI: How to Go from Hyper Converged to Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureNetApp
The hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) market is entering a new phase of maturity. A modern HCI solution requires a private cloud platform that integrates with public clouds to create a consistent hybrid multi-cloud experience.
During this webinar, NetApp and an IDC guest speaker covered what led to the next generation of hyper converged infrastructure and which five capabilities are required to go from hyper converged to hybrid cloud infrastructure.
As we enter 2019, what stands out is how trends in business and technology are connected by common themes. For example, AI is at the heart of trends in development, data management, and delivery of applications and services at the edge, core, and cloud. Also essential are containerization as a critical enabling technology and the increasing intelligence of IoT devices at the edge. Navigating the tempests of transformation are developers, whose requirements are driving the rapid creation of new paradigms and technologies that they must then master in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage. Here are some of our perspectives and predictions for 2019.
Künstliche Intelligenz ist in deutschen Unter- nehmen ChefsacheNetApp
Einer aktuellen Umfrage des führenden Datenma- nagementspezialisten in der Hybrid Cloud NetApp zufolge gewinnt künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in deut- schen Unternehmen zunehmend an Relevanz.
Iperconvergenza come migliora gli economics del tuo ITNetApp
In this NetApp Webinar we present how NetApp HCI helps improve the economics of IT: accelerating and ensuring performance for each application, simplifying your Data Center and make your architecture more scalable by reducing waste, implementing and expanding your HCI infrastructure quickly and inexpensively, making your management even simpler and more intuitive, saving time and using the skills you already have in the company.
NetApp IT’s Tiered Archive Approach for Active IQNetApp
NetApp AutoSupport technology proactively monitors the health of NetApp systems installed at customer’s location and provides 24/7 actionable intelligence to optimize their storage environment. The amount of data received back to NetApp doubles approximately every 16 months. To manage the swelling waves of data to archive, NetApp IT sought a more flexible solution.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
VMware PEX Boot Camp - Reaching the Clouds with NetApp Integrations with VMware vCloud Director
1. vCloud Director on
NetApp
Building Your Beanstalk Into the
Clouds
NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only 1
2. Agenda
The Clouds: The vCloud
Director Cloud Suite
The Castle: Storage in
vCD
The Golden Egg:
NetApp Integrations with
vCD
The Story: Demo vCloud
Director on NetApp
2
3. Once Upon a Time….
Practical understanding of vCloud Director
Insight into storage consumption and
storage practices in a vCloud solution
Understand NetApp integration points with
vCloud Director
3
5. vCloud Suite Overview
Management Cloud Infrastructure Extensibility
VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vCloud
APIs
VMware vCenter Software Defined Software Defined
Operations Networking and Security Storage and Availability
Management Suite
VMware vCloud VMware vCenter VMware vCloud
Networking and Security Site Recovery Manager Connector
VMware vFabric
Application VMware vCenter
Director Virtualization Orchestrator
VMware vSphere 5.1
Physical Infrastructure
(Server, Storage, Network)
5
6. vCD: A Software-Defined Datacenter
Software Defined Datacenter
Management Cloud Infrastructure Extensibility
VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vCloud
APIs
VMware vCenter Software Defined Software Defined
Operations Networking and Security Storage and Availability
Management Suite
VMware vCloud VMware vCenter VMware vCloud
Networking and Security Site Recovery Manager Connector
VMware vFabric
Application VMware vCenter
Director Virtualization Orchestrator
VMware vSphere 5.1
Physical Infrastructure
(Server, Storage, Network)
6
7. vCD – Hierarchy of Resource
Management
Provider vDC
Organization
OrgVDC
vApp
VM
7
8. Provider vDC Overview
Collects and abstracts vSphere resources
Uses resource pools and datastores
Subdivides resources into organizations
8
9. Provider vDC Storage Profiles
Storage Profiles presented from vCenter
Used to specify specific types of storage
vCD uses datastores from storage profiles
9
10. Organization and OrgVDC
Subdivision of PvDC resources
Divided into three allocation models
10
11. vCD – Hierarchy of Resource
Management
Provider vDC
Happy Clouds Incorporated 400GHz CPU
396GB RAM
4 Storage Profiles
Rainpole Nuesoft • Gold
• Silver
• Bronze
Finance HR Test Dev • Platinum
1
12. vCD – Hierarchy of Resource
Management
Happy Clouds Incorporated Organization
Nuesoft
• 150GHz CPU
• 200GB RAM
Rainpole Nuesoft • 2 Storage
Profiles
• Silver
Finance HR Test Dev • Bronze
12
13. vCD – Hierarchy of Resource
Management
OrgVDC
Happy Clouds Incorporated
Dev
• 75GHz CPU
• 125GB RAM
Rainpole Nuesoft • 2 Storage
Profiles
• Silver
Finance HR Test Dev • Bronze
• 25% Guarantee
13
14. vCD – Hierarchy of Resource
Management
Happy Clouds Incorporated OrgVDC
vApp2
• 25GHz CPU
• 50GB RAM
Rainpole Nuesoft • 1 Datastores
• Bronze
Finance HR Test Dev
vApp vApp
1 2
14
22. vCloud Director Storage Implications
Software Defined Storage
VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vSphere 5.1
Storage
Storage DRS
Profiles
NetApp Data ONTAP™
22
23. Storage Profiles
Software Defined Storage
VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vSphere 5.1
Storage
Storage DRS
Profiles
NetApp Data ONTAP™
23
24. Profile Driven Storage Functionality
Leveraged to create classes
of storage in vCenter
Profiles consumed by
vCloud Director 5.1
How are they defined
− System Defined
− User Defined
24
26. Storage DRS in vCD
Software Defined Storage
VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vSphere 5.1
Storage
Storage DRS
Profiles
NetApp Data ONTAP™
26
27. Storage DRS
Used to load balance storage usage for vCloud
environments
SRM does not support Storage vMotion /
Storage DRS
vCloud Director does support Storage DRS in
5.1
27
28. Storage DRS Constraints and Cautions
NetApp NetApp Migration
Product Recommendations Recommendations
SnapMirror Supported Manual: I/O and Space
SnapShots Moves invalidate Manual: I/O and Space
Snapshots
Deduplication During move VMs Manual: I/O and Space
Rehydrated
Thin Ensure datastores Fully Automated:
Provisioning have I/O and Space
enough actual space
FlexClones Supported Fully Automated:
I/O and Space
28
30. NetApp and VMware vCD Intergration
Cloud Management & Orchestration
NetApp On Command Insight
vCenter Operations Management Suite
NetApp On Command Balance
VMware vCloud Automation Center NetApp Power Shell
VMware vCenter Orchestrator NetApp Workflow Automation
Clustered Data ONTAP
Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp VSC
VMware vCloud Director
VAAI
VMware vCloud Connector
NetApp Snap Creator
VMware vCloud
vServer with Full Stack Multi-tenancy
Networking and Security
VMware vCenter Storage Replicator Adapter for
Site Recovery Manager NetApp SnapMirror
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
VMware vSphere
VAAI
NetApp Snap Creator
30
31. Clustered Data ONTAP and vCD
Unified
Storage
Architecture
Efficiency
VAAI Snapshots
VMware vCloud Director
Accelerated
Continuous Performance
Operations
31
32. vCD and NetApp Storage Efficiency
Thin Provisioning
– Hardware vs.
Software
Deduplication
Fast Provisioning
– VAAI Clone Offload
32
33. VAAI Integration and vCD
Full Copy Offload vStorage APIs
What: 10x faster VM for Array Integration
deployment, clone, snapshot,
and Storage VMotion
VMware vSphere
How: Leveraging array ability
to mass copy, snapshot,
and move blocks via SCSI API
commands
Why: Replaces Fast
Provisioning with FlexClones
33
34. Full Copy – Without VAAI
ESX Cluster
VM VM VM
Datastore
SCSI CMDs
over I/O I/O
FC, FCoE, iS
CSI
VM VM VM
Flexible Volume
NetApp FAS Array
34
35. Full Copy – With VAAI for SAN
ESX Cluster
VM VM VM
Datastore
Copy Instructions
VM VM VM
Flexible Volume
NetApp FAS Array
35
36. NFS Full Copy Cloning – with VAAI
ESX Server
CopyOffload
VAAI NAS Plugin
(Src_file,
Dest_file, size) Copy Offload NFS Datastore
(Src
file, Dest_file, size)
Saves Network
Bandwidth & ESX CPU
by offloading Copy
Done!
1100
1100
0110
0110
1101
1101
FlexVol®
NetApp FAS System
36
37. NetApp and VMware vCD Intergration
Cloud Management & Orchestration
NetApp On Command Insight
vCenter Operations Management Suite
NetApp On Command Balance
VMware vCloud Automation Center NetApp Power Shell
VMware vCenter Orchestrator NetApp Workflow Automation
Clustered Data ONTAP
Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp VSC
VMware vCloud Director
VAAI
VMware vCloud Connector
NetApp Snap Creator
VMware vCloud
vServer with Full Stack Multi-tenancy
Networking and Security
VMware vCenter Storage Replicator Adapter for
Site Recovery Manager NetApp SnapMirror
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
VMware vSphere
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
VAAI
NetApp Snap Creator
37
38. NetApp VSC with vCD
vCloud Director 5.1
vCloud
Manage storage plug-in
VMware ESX
Auto-configure plug-in
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Server
vCompute
vNetwork
Provisioning plug-in
Backup & Restore plug-in
vStorage
V2P monitoring plug-in
VSC API’s for vCD
Software Defined Datacenter
38
39. Are You in the Band?
Virtual Storage Console vCloud Roadmap
Use any orchestrator or automation tool = shipping
Build custom and powerful workflows = committed
= planned
= planning
Yesterday Today 1H CY’13 2H CY’13
VSC 4.0 (Duran VSC 4.1 (Eagles) VSC Foreigner VSC Genesis
Duran) vCloud vApp vCloud backup vCloud datastore
vSphere datastore provisioning and and recovery provisioning
provisioning cloning vSphere backup
vSphere VM and recovery
cloning
39
40. NetApp and VMware vCD Intergration
Cloud Management & Orchestration
NetApp On Command Insight
vCenter Operations Management Suite
NetApp On Command Balance
VMware vCloud Automation Center NetApp Power Shell
VMware vCenter Orchestrator NetApp Workflow Automation
Clustered Data ONTAP
Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp VSC API
VMware vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Connector NetApp Snap Creator
VAAI
NetApp Snap Creator
VMware vCloud
vServer with Full Stack Multi-tenancy
Networking and Security
VMware vCenter Storage Replicator Adapter for
Site Recovery Manager NetApp SnapMirror
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
VMware vSphere
VAAI
NetApp Snap Creator
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41. Snap Creator for the Cloud
Snap Creator is a framework
– Focus on backup functions vCD
– Offers restore, cloning, & mount
vSphere
functionality
Transforming for the cloud
– Tiering of multiple configurations Backup
Admin NetApp
– Provides VMware vCloud®
capabilities for XaaS
NetApp
– Protects applications inside vCD Snapshots
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42. NetApp and VMware vCD Intergration
Cloud Management & Orchestration
NetApp On Command Insight
vCenter Operations Management Suite
NetApp On Command Balance
VMware vCloud Automation Center NetApp Power Shell
VMware vCenter Orchestrator NetApp Workflow Automation
Clustered Data ONTAP
Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp VSC
VMware vCloud Director
VAAI
VMware vCloud Connector
NetApp Snap Creator
VMware vCloud
vServer with Full Stack Multi-tenancy
Networking and Security
VMware vCenter Storage Replicator Adapter for
Site Recovery Manager NetApp SnapMirror
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
VMware vSphere
VAAI
NetApp Snap Creator
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43. OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA)
Delivering Automation and Flexibility
Automate manual processes
Enable storage experts to define and
adjust processes
Allow customized resource selection and
integration with other IT systems
Flexible execution of storage processes
based on customer needs
Integrates with other OnCommand® products
to improve resource selection and automation
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44. Key Aspects of Workflow Automation
Define your storage layout and needs
Design your resource selection criteria
Integrate your process into the overall
delivery of storage
Accelerate your storage
provisioning
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45. Easy-to-Use Storage Operator Portal
Simple, easy to use,
and easy to execute
workflows
Organized by
categories
Execute
immediately or
scheduled
Authorize Access to
Workflows
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49. And They Lived Happily Ever After…
Practical understanding of vCloud Director
Insight into storage consumption and
storage practices in a vCloud solution
Understand NetApp integration points with
vCloud Director
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In 1842 Henry Cole published a series of short stories called The Home Treasury.In the collection was a story about a boy who found magic beans that allowed him to journey to a castle in the clouds and then find a goose that laid a golden egg. This goose eventually allowed him to lead a life of luxury. Just like that boy, my name is Jack, and I’m here to show you how to build your beanstalk into the clouds with NetApp and vCloud director.With the introduction of vCloud Director 5.1 a host of new questions have poppped up. I’m here to give you an overview of vcloud director and how it relates to storage and hopefully answer some of those questions for you that deal with how vCloud director and NetApp integrate.What will be coveredPractical understanding of vCloud Director Insight into storage consumption and storage practices in a vCloud solutionUnderstand NetApp integration points with vCloud Director
A vApp is a container for a VM or multiple VM’s. Inside the vApp separate networking and storage can be used to house the VMs living there. vApps are the base container level of vCD as well as the base resource distribution level. vApp’s can be cloned, made into templates, and redeployed over and over again. Also, an expiration date can be set on vApps. If a vApp is only needed for a specific period of time, this can be set and the vApp will then expire. At that point its resources it has consumed are given back to the OrgVDC that it lives in.
Much like a castle is the foundation upon which many fairy tale stories are built upon, storage is the foundation upon which successful cloud deployments are built. A solid understanding of how storage is used in vCloud director is needed to understand the integration points we will discuss later.I’m going to cover how vCloud Director uses storage as a resource. I will cover how this resource is consumed and moved around. In doing so I will give you an understanding of overall resource consumption in vCloud Director.
Deduplication: Moving data [i.e. vmdk's] between volumes will “un-dedupe” that data being moved, and you will have to re-run the original deduplication scan on that new volume in order to re-coop those savings after the move. While this is not the end of the world, it is a nuissance, and you should be aware of it as a caveat to StorageDRS, or generally moving VMDK’s between datastores.Thin Provisioning. Nothing really “breaks” with thin provisioning, but you’re allowing an outside construct to control placement of data on what it “thinks” is a 1TB volume that you’ve thinly provisioned, when in actuality there is only 100GB truly available to write to. What happens when Storage DRS moves something there? I think most of you know what happens when a thin provisioned LUN exceeds it’s available space.Side note: This is another brilliant feature of NetApp that often goes unnoticed, or untalked about. We have certains settings you can turn on that Autogrow both Volumes as well as the LUNs inside them.Snapshots. When we snapshot volumes, or the data inside, we store the initial tier of snaps within that same volume. What happens when you [or some outside construct] begin to move the items inside the volume to another volume? Those snaps (i.e. Your Backups) become invalid.Overall Statement: Using SDRS ultimately requires a lot of management oversight which complicates an environment.
When Jack got his first golden egg, life became much easier for him. NetApp’s golden eggs are our integration points with vCD, each designed to make an administrators life easier.
Accelerated Performance: Intelligent Caching, FlashPools, FlashAccel all increase performance in vCloud DirectorSnapshots: Backup and recovery is key and NetApp Snapshot technologies will form the basis for our backup and recovery offering for vCDUnified Architecture: One storage OS across all our FAS Platforms combined with ease of addition and subtraction from a cluster make this a time and money saving feature.Storage Efficiency: Thin Provisioning, Deduplication, and FlexClones provide the same benefit with vCD as they do with vSphere. vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAA)I: Offloading of important processes from vCenter to the storage makes for increased performance.Continuous Operations: with clustered ontap a cloud environment will stay up even in the event of a hardware failure. The ability to move volumes / datastore between clusters while keeping the same IP addressing and accessibility makes the pain of maintenance a thing of the past.
vStorageAPIs for Array Integration A set of APIs and commands to offload certain functions to the storage array to : Increase scalability and performance Free server and network resources VAAI is a joint development between VMware and NetAppIn vCloud Director a “linked clone” like functionality called fast provisioning exists. Its designed for rapid, space efficient provisioning. Copy offload makes like much easier in that it offloads the cloning to the storage controller and uses FlexClones instead of fast provisioning.One other really cool aspect from VAAI Copy Offload is the ability to offload the vApp Snapshot found in vCloud Director 5.1. Instead of using a vSphere Snapshot, this functionality is offloaded to the NetApp controller and a NetApp Snapshot is taken. There are immediate advantages to this offload. First, the NetApp Snapshot is extremely space efficient. The NetApp Snapshot is faster as well. Finally, this SnapShot is treated just like a standard NetApp Snapshot and integrates with NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault. Essentially, it behaves and is treated like (and is) a NetApp Snapshot but vCloud Director thinks of it as one of its own Snapshots.
Current VM cloning and migrations require data to be copied within ESX/ESXi host Copy process consumes host CPU and network bandwidth
With API VM cloning and migrations are instruction sets from ESX/ESXi hosts Copy process occurs on arrayCopy process is offloaded from host and networkGo to Organization vDC >Properties > Storage tab. In the following window, click the Storage tab. Ensure “Enable Fast Provisioning” is unchecked.Requirements:SAN 7-Mode: vSphere 4.1, Data ONTAP 8.0.1; require version 8.1.0 for improved performance (cloning); Data ONTAP 8.0.1 uses full copy.SAN Cluster-Mode: currently not available.
Go to Organization vDC >Properties > Storage tab. In the following window, click the Storage tab. Check “Enable Fast Provisioning”.You will also need to install the NetApp NFS VIB on each ESX host. This functionality is automated inside of vCenterRequirements:NFS 7-Mode: vSphere 5, Data ONTAP 8.1.1; require vCloud Director 5.1 and vSphere 5.1 for Fast Provisioning (Linked Clone) Copy-Offload.NFS Cluster-Mode: vSphere 5, Data ONTAP 8.1.0; require vCloud Director 5.1 and vSphere 5.1 for Fast Provisioning (Linked Clone) Copy-Offload.
Not one-size-fits-one but one-size-fits-allIdentify Organization, vDCs and/or vAppsEnd-to-end mapping of vCD objects to vSphere objectsSave datastore and VM objects and create mapping to NetApp volumes for SnapshotsCreate NetApp SnapshotsRestore vApps back into OrgvDC’sIntegrated with SnapMirror. SnapMirror integrated with SRM with Netapp SRA. SRM now supports vCD. We have a happy world for DR for vCD.
Goal of slide: Overview of the OnCommand Workflow Automation operator portalKey points:A simple portal for operators to execute workflow; little training is required.Workflows are organized by categories.Workflows prompt for required input parameters when executed.Execute workflows immediately or schedule for later.