Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical Infrastructure
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Delivering complex business services in your organization demands a rigid approach to server deployment and management. Modern data centers often have distributed virtual and physical servers as well as management teams which make the challenge even more difficult. Increasing headcount in your group is typically not an acceptable answer so how do you manage the growing complexity? The answer lies in a complete physical and virtual server life cycle management solution which provides the automation of application deployments. In Part IV of its five-part webinar series "Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World", Pepperweed Consulting will discuss how a combination of HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration can streamline the deployment of your operating systems, software and patches for both your physical and virtual infrastructure. We will also analyze how compliance and application release management play a key role in ensuring control over your server deployments.
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Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical Infrastructure
- 1. Pepperweed Consulting An IT Integration Company Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical Infrastructure Alex Ryals Chief Technology Officer Pepperweed Consulting October 19, 2010
- 2. Data Center of the Future
- 4. Virtualization Adds Complexity Creates 10 more servers for every one physical server
- 6. Scale IT service Provision new Oracle server on VM Server SAs Servers Server Network Engineers Storage SAs Network Storage Automation across all IT Service infrastructures Coordination across 4+ systems, Service Desk, CMDB, CAB tools Create VM Provision, patch OS Configure VM filesystem Deploy App Configure App Create storage volume Configure SAN Assign storage to hypervisor Configure virtual switch Assign VM to VLAN Put App in LB cluster
- 7. “ Today, there is a 6-week SLA for VM provisioning – it’s easy to provision a VM, the other element changes – storage, network etc still take the same ole’ effort” Cameron Haight, Gartner
- 11. HP Server Automation: delivering unparalleled increases in efficiency 99% 85% 99% 99% 20 minutes 2 weeks 2 days 5 incident per week Task Before HP server automation Customer Implement software change on 2600 servers Provision & configure 600 Windows servers Automate compliance of 800 servers 2 weeks 3-4 months 32 weeks Automatic health-check of servers 80+ sev1 incidents/week After HP server automation
- 13. Integrated VM & storage provisioning OO workflow
- 14. Automatically track available storage
- 15. Integrated with Service Manager change management workflow
- 16. Provision storage to server using Storage Essentials
- 17. Provision VM and assign storage to server using Server Automation
- 18. Provision OS on VM using Server Automation
- 19. One click VM, Storage, OS provisioning using HP BSA
- 22. Customer Success: Virtual server lifecycle automation Challenge Before HP With HP Provision and harden production VMs with security best practices 2.5 hours < 5 min
- 23. Customer success: Virtual server compliance Public Challenge Before HP With HP Check utilization of ESX virtual machines Manual Automated
- 24. Deploying the Combined Virtual & Physical Infrastructure 1 1 3 2 Reduced costs by automating routine provisioning and change management tasks Reduced errors through uniform processes and policies for management of physical as well as virtual infrastructure Enable realization of the benefits of virtualization through improved asset utilization, efficiency and availability
- 28. Thank You For Your Participation Pepperweed Consulting 1603 Carmody Court Sewickley, PA 15143 E: info@pepperweed.com T: (888) 229-0145 F: (412) 291-3014 www.pepperweed.com http://twitter.com/PepperweedLLC
Editor's Notes
- HP Server Automation is the industry leading solution for end to end server and application lifecycle management. It can help automate compliance management by enabling users to set and enforce corporate standards for configurations, deploy OS and software patches regularly and reduce risks by staying up to date with regulations It can also help server administrators better manage virtual machine sprawl. VMs have a tendency to proliferate in an environment. Server Automation enables administrators to manage the complete lifecycle with the same policies and processes that are used to manage physical servers. SA also enables admins to map the relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual servers. At the end of the day you want to manage your virtual machines with the same tools, processes and rigor as you manage your physical machines and we allow you to do that. SA also helps streamline the application release process. It enables application updates to be deployed consistently and according to best practices. It can be used coordinate the people processes and code across the QA, Staging, delelopment and production environments. This includes both different content and server baselines in this environment Server Automation can also be used to enable centralized IT management. It ’s architecture is uniquely suited for highly available large scale distributed environments. It provides uses with a way to share best practices and a consistent set of tools across heterogeneous systems and provides administrators with the same level of visibility and control across the complete environment
- HP Server Automation is the industry leading solution for end to end server and application lifecycle management. It can help automate compliance management by enabling users to set and enforce corporate standards for configurations, deploy OS and software patches regularly and reduce risks by staying up to date with regulations It can also help server administrators better manage virtual machine sprawl. VMs have a tendency to proliferate in an environment. Server Automation enables administrators to manage the complete lifecycle with the same policies and processes that are used to manage physical servers. SA also enables admins to map the relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual servers. At the end of the day you want to manage your virtual machines with the same tools, processes and rigor as you manage your physical machines and we allow you to do that. SA also helps streamline the application release process. It enables application updates to be deployed consistently and according to best practices. It can be used coordinate the people processes and code across the QA, Staging, delelopment and production environments. This includes both different content and server baselines in this environment Server Automation can also be used to enable centralized IT management. It ’s architecture is uniquely suited for highly available large scale distributed environments. It provides uses with a way to share best practices and a consistent set of tools across heterogeneous systems and provides administrators with the same level of visibility and control across the complete environment
- All of these companies turned to our Server Automation product to solve their challenges and the results were remarkable With server automation, the major retailer was able to reduce the amount of time it took to implement changes on 2600 servers from 2 weeks to 20 minutes resulting in a 99% improvement in efficiency The managed service provider was able to reduce the amount of time it took to provision and configure 600 windows servers from 3-4 months to 2 weeks A key customer was able to reduce the amount of for their compliance management from 32 weeks to 2 days Another key managed services provider was able to reduce the amount of severity 1 level incidents from 80+ per week to 1 per week. All of these customers were able to reap huge gains in efficiency through the power of automation.
- There are a lot of rules once you get into production about checking utilization rates and best configurations for the virtual machines. Our customer really had no good way of tracking this information. Before HP it was quite manual they way they logged into the vendor point tools to ident utilization rates. Now with HP they just do it as part of the audits that run every night or they do it during the day at peak hours. So now they can be more proactive about identifying things that are out of compliance with their corporate standards.