The document discusses hybrid cloud solutions using VMware Cloud on AWS. It highlights the benefits of hybrid cloud for end users, IT administrators, and businesses in terms of speed, ease-of-use, agility, control, stability, and cost savings. It provides an overview of VMware Cloud on AWS, including its features, architecture, integration with AWS services, and use cases. Presidio is positioned as a solutions provider that can help customers deploy VMware Cloud on AWS to address challenges around cloud strategies, disaster recovery, and cloud migrations.
”Is your Data Center ready for The Cloud” may seem like an ironic question. The Data Center and The Cloud are often positioned as competing strategies. I hope that by the end of this, that question will make more sense.
The move to public cloud was the best thing that could happen to on-premises data center.
That may not make sense, but it force vendors and IT organizations to ask why? Why do my users find the cloud easier to use?
This drove a simplification of IT, or modernization. Leveraging new technologies like flash storage and software-defined technologies to provide greater value.
On-Prem: more control, more security, CapEx
Cloud: utility cost, self-service, elastic
What End Users want:
-Procure services quickly through a self-service portal
-Simple, intuitive user interface
-Flexibility to react quickly to changing conditions
-Leverage services freely based upon user policies
What IT administrators want:
-Control: govern and manage users, quotas, resources, images, and security policies.
-Stability: reliability – we run and monitor the platform 24×7 so you can focus on helping your users build, run, and manage their applications.
-Tailor-made: customizable to meet the unique needs of environments
Monitored and assisted to simplify the management
Manage the environment governing all users
For the business this is about:
-Faster time to market and faster time to revenue
-Having multiple sourcing options increase efficiency and lower the cost
-The empowerment that comes from having a lot of choices
Opportunity Cost (always make your opportunity the most beneficial, focus on the return)
10 regions, more on the way.
For some customers, hybrid is the preferred operating model.
As customers move to the cloud, they are looking for ways to get the best of both worlds without buying new hardware.
Each host provides ~5.2TB useable capacity to vSAN pool
To ensure all environments behave correctly, VMware manages the systems exclusively.
As a result, customers are unable to use root access or install VIBs. If the customer is using a third-party vendor on-prem for particular services, they should interface with their partner and ask if they have plans to support the VMC model.
Customers can log on to the vCenter, and use it to operate and manage their environment, however they do not have direct access to the appliance and cannot apply any changes to the vCenter appliance itself.
By focusing on consuming resources they do not have to deal with host based operations. The customer only has to focus on how to consume resources at cluster level.
The cluster becomes in the new building block in their design paradigm.
The DRS cluster configuration is set by VMware and use a default configuration.
The Migration threshold is set to level 3 (default) to avoid excessive vMotion operations. Two resource pools are created: one for customer workloads, and one for the management VMs
Customers can create child resource pools within this resource pool if they desire this.
The resource pool that contains the management VMs is managed by VMware. Customers have read-only access to these objects
Compute Policy is a new framework to allow customers the flexibility, control, and policy-based automation required to keep up with the demands of businesses. The following policies are being introduced:
• Simple VM-Host Affinity
• VM-VM Anti-affinity
• Disable DRS vMotion
The same fleet management framework is used for automated hardware remediation. Short-term host outages such as a Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) are usually absorbed by the remaining hosts, VMs are restarted on other hosts but the VMs might have a reduced amount of resources available to them.
But if the host fails indefinitely, resource management problems occur.
In an on-premises environment, the IT org would need to order, rack and stack, and configure the new servers when they finally arrive. On average this process takes 6 to 9 months. During this time SLAs could be breached.
Some customers over provision their clusters to avoid long-term resource availability, but not every customer likes the economics of this design.
VMware Cloud on AWS avoids long-term resource depletion by automatically adding a host if the host fails or a component is degraded. For example, an entire host failure or flash device failure.
A new host is automatically provisioned, configured and added to the cluster without human interaction. The failed host is removed from the cluster as long as it does not violate VSAN FTM policy.
Generally, for licensing purposes, a customer may want a smaller cluster in terms of CPU cores. That being said, customers can create additional clusters in VMware Cloud on AWS and specify the number of cores they want active in that cluster.
When the cluster is brought up and hosts are added, each of these hosts has the specified cores turned on and all the rest are turned off at the BIOS level, meaning, they are not even recognized by the host once it has booted up.
A minimum of 3 hosts is still required, and customers still pay for the entire host, however, the customer would not have to pay to license all the additional cores which are turned off.
NSX-T SDDC’s bring a much richer set of features to VMware Cloud on AWS. Unlike the previous SDDC’s that were deployed with NSX-V, NSX-T allows customers to do things such as Micro segmentation, IPFIX, and Port Mirroring.
NSX-T architecture also simplifies the connectivity to remote sites, where in previous SDDC’s, two VPNs would be required (one to Management and one to Compute Gateway), Now, only 1 VPN is required and allows access to both sides.
HCX is Any to Any vSphere app mobility service for multisite and hybridity without requiring retrofit.
HCX abstracts on-premises and cloud resources.
Creates infrastructures hybridity and presents the resources to application as one resource.
The on-premises can be any vSphere from 5.0+ version and cloud can be latest SDDC. The Infrastructure Hybridity provides high throughput, low latency, Layer 2 network extension which is WAN optimized, Load Balanced, gives traffic engineering, intelligent routing, and fairness with large migrations. The hybrid cloud is secured with military grade level B encryption. This cloud can extend to multiple sites and multiple clouds, of different vSphere versions.
Over this, the VMs can securely and seamlessly migrate bi-directionally and in bulk. HCX supports live vMotion migration as well warm bulk migration, with very low downtime. HCX does this by collecting lot of technology in one service.
Here are few of the usage scenarios.
Remember when we first introduced vSphere HA. Instead of having to rebuild every application to make it high available, we could make every VM more resilient by selecting a few options at the infrastructure layer.
In VMware Cloud on AWS, customers now have the ability to choose a ‘Stretched Cluster’ deployment that spreads the infrastructure across two (2) Availability Zones. This brings an additional layer of availability to your workloads.
For the first time ever multi-AZ availability is possible by stretching the cluster across two AZs in the same region.
No need for refactoring traditional applications to obtain High availability on AWS Infrastructure.
Synchronous write replication is used across AZ’s. This results in a RPO of zero and the RTO depends on the HA restart.
If a host fails HA auto remediation solves this by replacing the host and rebuilding the vSAN datastore automatically.
This is truly ground breaking stuff, only possible by the partnership of VMware and AWS.
The VMware Site Recovery™ service expands and simplifies traditional disaster recovery operations by delivering on-demand site protection across a common, vSphere-based operating environment from on-premises to the cloud. The service protects workloads between on-premises datacenters and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as between different instances of VMware Cloud on AWS. Based on industry leading, enterprise-grade recovery plan automation (VMware Site Recovery ManagerTM) and native hypervisor-based replication capabilities (VMware vSphere® ReplicationTM) trusted by thousands of customers, the service provides an end-to-end disaster recovery solution that reduces the requirements for a secondary DR site, accelerates time-to-protection, and simplifies DR operations.
Key Features:
Natively integrated into VMware Cloud on AWS
Proven Site Recovery Manager orchestration and automation capabilities
Recovery plan orchestration delivers aggressive RTO capabilities
Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans
VM-centric replication for fine-grained control
Support for bulk migration of workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS
Streamlined HTML 5 user interface
Support for multiple vSphere versions on-premises
For those customers that want to adopt cloud, cloud migration-data center evacuations is the top use-case – followed by DR/DC extension.
”Is your Data Center ready for The Cloud” may seem like an ironic question. The Data Center and The Cloud are often positioned as competing strategies. I hope that by the end of this, that question will make more sense.
This could represent years worth of investment and effort. Not something they will easily walk away from.
I want to stop here, and let you provide a little more detail on the how this integrates with AWS services. This slide really only scratches the surface.
Let’s look at an example of how you could expand on this design for Data Protection
Use X-vMotion to migrate a virtual machine from a customer data center to VMware Cloud on AWS
Copy an object from a virtual machine in VMware Cloud to an Amazon S3 bucket
”Is your Data Center ready for The Cloud” may seem like an ironic question. The Data Center and The Cloud are often positioned as competing strategies. I hope that by the end of this, that question will make more sense.
”Is your Data Center ready for The Cloud” may seem like an ironic question. The Data Center and The Cloud are often positioned as competing strategies. I hope that by the end of this, that question will make more sense.
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Chances are if you’ve watched TV in the past 24 hours you’ve seen content delivered from providers that utilize Presidio DI, Cloud or Security solutions in their enterprise or production infrastructure.
Trillions of dollars are managed by the 1,200+ financial services, insurance or real estate firm that utilize Presidio solutions
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And everyone in this room has interacted with the Digital Infrastructure we designed, implemented and support for the IRS.
All 1,776 feet of the Freedom Tower in New York City
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High-profile events such as US Presidential Debates, Olympics and Super Bowl
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Tens of millions of network viewers of NBC, ESPN, Viacom, Turner, Univision and dozens more
High-profile events such as US Presidential Debates, Olympics and Super Bowl
Entertainment for millions of sports fans, casino goers,
resort guests, cruise passengers and theme park guests
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All 1,776 feet of the Freedom Tower in New York City
Trillions of dollars of investments at 1,200+ financial, insurance and real estate institutions
Water, electricity and gas at 350+ utility and energy clients
12% of the US college population at 575+ institutions
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The leading SDDC platform, running on the leading Public Cloud, designed and delivered by the leader in secure hybrid cloud strategy. And together, we are adding value for our customers.
Mark & Samir park here to talk about different aspects of the the solution.
Maybe Q&A from here
Samir: In closing, Mark, what are the next steps for a customer that wants to learn more about this solution
Mark: wrap up and thank you (progress to final slides)
Sample Questions:
-How difficult is it to migrate VMware workloads to VMWonAWS?
-What tools do you use to perform migrations?
-Do you see customers moving just to VMWonAWS, and not consuming additional AWS services?
-What use cases have customers asked you to help solve with VMWonAWS?
”Is your Data Center ready for The Cloud” may seem like an ironic question. The Data Center and The Cloud are often positioned as competing strategies. I hope that by the end of this, that question will make more sense.