A quick overview of a typical NTS CAPTAIN project at customer side covering the deepness of integration - and the ability to integrate of OpenNebula

1. ONECloud@Blum
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2. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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3. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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4. ▪ 7983 Employees worldwide
▪ 6037 Employees Austria
▪ 8 Plants in Vorarlberg, others in Poland, USA and Brasil
▪ 31 Subsidiaries
▪ 258 Employees in IS
▪ 17 Employees in Infrastructure
▪ 8 Employees in Datacenter Team (Cabling, Network, Storage, Phys./ Virt. Hardware, Printing, Backup)
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5. About Blum
Our Infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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6. ▪ 89 VMware Hosts in 23 Clusters
▪ 1526 VMs
▪ 514.63 TB VMWare Storage (Tier1 + Tier0)
▪ 17 Templates ( + 4 Opennebula)
▪ ~ 10% Linux, ~ 90% Windows
▪ ~ 400 VMs using the same template (Z-Point)
▪ Netbox as central IPAM/DCIM Tool
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7. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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8. Why NTS Captain?
▪ “Selfservice” for Users
▪ Automatisation of the processes (work in Progress)
▪ All Machines “the same” – creating Standards
▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department
▪ Faster deployment of new VMs
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9. What did we wanted to automate?
▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN)
▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account)
▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool
▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer
▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups
▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM
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10. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI

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13. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM

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16. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM

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SCCM Windows Update Schedule

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ASG RemoteViewer

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PowerShell Registryentry for Monitoring
Description for VM in AD Account

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23. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM
Context.
Windows

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Contextualisation

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27. What happens exactly?
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VM
created via
GUI
Hook for
IPAM
Hook for
new VM
Context.
Windows
LAPS

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29. What did we wanted to automate?
▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN)
▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account)
▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool
▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer
▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups
▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM
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30. How we build our templates
1. Install Windows
2. Install LAPS (LAPS -> Local Admin Password Solution)
3. Install Onecontext MSI
4. Sysprep
5. Convert VM to Template
6. Import Image in OpenNebula
7. Clone without Images
8. Copy Context-Script
9. Define Context-variables
10.Define Network
11.Done (Duration approx. 10 Minutes)
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35. Summary
▪ New Templates really easy to create and customise
▪ Shorter time to fullfill requests (from ~ 2 Days down to ~ 2 Minutes)
▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department
▪ More satisfied Customers (Who loves to wait for a VM?)
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36. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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37. ExampleZ-Point
(ControlPC for our productionlines)
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40. Example W2Kxx Standard VM
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43. About Blum
Our infrastructure
NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum
Examples
Next steps
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What’s next?
▪ Integration with MS Orchestrator for Ticketsystem and automation of AD Tasks
▪ Onboarding and templates for further Departments (BBA/Web/AppServer + SAP)
▪ Azure Deployment (Resource Model, not Classic VM)

45. Questions?
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