CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features. Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management! Discussion Topics: Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms

1. FROM ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION TO OPEN
HYBRID CLOUDS
Holistic Management of Your Heterogeneous Environment
CLOUDFORMS Workshop
Shea Stewart
Infrastructure and Cloud Architect
Scalar Decisions
Joseph Mann, RHCA RHCVA RHCDS
Channel Solution Architect, Cloud Overlay
RedHat

2. 2
VIRTUALIZATION TO CLOUD CONTINUUM
Server
Virtualization
Distributed
Virtualization
Private
Cloud
Hybrid
Cloud
Visibility
Control
Optimization
Automation
Agility
Self-Service
Federation
Brokering
● Consolidation
● Reduce Capital Expense
● Flexibility & Speed
● Reduce Operational Expense
● Automation
● Less Downtime
● Self-Serve Agility
● Standardization
● IT as a Business
● Usage Metering
● Capital Expense Elimination
●Increased Flexibility (up and down)
Drivers
Virtual Infrastructure Management
Derived from Gartner Roadmap: From Virtualization to Cloud Computing (reference slide)

3. 3
Cloud Enablement
Infrastructure
Management
Root Cause
Analysis
Config
Mgmt
Automation
Policies
Optimize
Resource
Mgmt
Cloud
Bursting
Capacity
Planning
Tagging
Compliance Chargeback
Quota
Enforcement
Approval
Workflow
Self
Service
RED HAT CLOUDFORMS
Cloud Enablement Integrated with Infrastructure Management

4. 4
CLOUDFORMS
Built for Enterprise Scale Cloud Operations Management

5. 5
IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Seamless Self-Service
● Role-based Delegation
● Self-Service Portals
● Service Catalogs
● Automated Provisioning
● Quotas & Chargeback
CLOUDFORMS

6. 6
SELF-SERVICE AUTOMATED PROVISIONING
Deployment of Self-Service Resources
CLOUDFORMS
Management
RBAC
Quota
Requests
Role-Based
Access Controls
Quota
Enforcement
Approval Workflow
“Intelligent”
Workload
Placement
Converged
Infrastructure
ServiceDelivery
Chargeback

7. 7
IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Single Pane of Glass Operations
● Configuration Management
● Resource Management
● Capacity & Utilization
● Dashboards, Timelines
● Change & Drift Tracking
CLOUDFORMS

8. 8
CLOUD WORKLOAD MANAGEMEMT/OPTIMIZATION
Workload Balancing1
Normal Operating Range
Capacity Management2
Where is the best place
to run a new workload?
How can I optimize
existing resources?
What is
causing
spikes?
Can cluster “X” handle workload?
Where do I have performance issues?
Where do I have waste?

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CLOUD WORKLOAD MANAGEMEMT/OPTIMIZATION
Workload Balancing1
Normal Operating Range
Capacity Management2
Operations and Support3
Where is the best place
to run a new workload?
How can I optimize
existing resources?
I didn't create the work-
load, but I need to
determine what's the
problem and how to fix it
What is
causing
spikes?
Can cluster “X” handle workload?
Where do I have performance issues?
Where do I have waste?
Identify root cause and reduce
mean time to resolution (MTTR) by
viewing workloads in 4 dimensions:
Timeline
VM
Inspection
Consump-
tion
Drift
Analysis

10. 10
Converged
Infrastructure
What policies affect placement?
Which options offer least cost?
Where do I have available capacity?
Requests
Dev QA Prod
Dev QA Prod
Dev QA Prod
Dev QA Prod
Dev QA Prod
CLOUD BROKERING
Controlling Where Requests Get Met

11. 11
IT CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Executive Management
● Financial Management
● Governance & Compliance
● Forecasting & Planning
● Health, Availability
CLOUDFORMS

12. 12
AUTOMATING IT PROCESS
Protect Environment – Stop VM if it Breaks Policy
Sample Rule: Every Windows VM must have McAfee v2.0 installed
● Users only see conforming VMs/Workloads
● Non-conforming VMs preventing from running
● Policy breach notifications sent automatically
● Tagging certain items allows one to apply policies to only tagged items
CLOUDFORMS
YES NO
Help Desk
Security Team
IT Management
Converged
Infrastructure

13. 13
WASTE DETECTION
Optimize the Environment
● VM sprawl
● Incorrectly configured workloads
● Datastore wastage
● Over-allocated resource pools
North America Europe Asia
CPU
Memory
Storage
Allocated Actual
CPU
Memory
Storage
Allocated Actual
CPU
Memory
Storage
Allocated Actual
50 GHz
60 GB
400 GB
34 GHz
42 GB
187 GB
30 GHz
45 GB
250 GB
26 GHz
39 GB
237 GB
20 GHz
30 GB
150 GB
17 GHz
26 GB
142 GB
= VM
= VM sprawl
= Incorrectly
configured
workload
Over-Allocated
CPU by 16 GHz
Memory by 18 GB
Storage by 213 GB
Understand resource consumption
today and trending over time:
Storage – 78% Used 22% Free
Storage Consumption
78%
22%

14. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Enhancements
Compact and Fast
Support for RHEV-M Templates
VM and Service Provisioning
Previous support for ISO and
PXE Provisioning
Compact and Fast

15. 15
CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Usage Scenarios
Virtual
Private
Hybrid
Reduce Cost of
Existing VMware
Migrate to Lower Cost
Virtual Platform
CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS
Unify Management of Existing
Multi-Hypervisor Environments
Transform Existing Virtual Platforms into
Private Clouds
Build Private Cloud
CLOUDFORMS
CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS
Build Hybrid Cloud Build Open Hybrid Cloud
CLOUDFORMS CLOUDFORMS
Private Public

17. 17
Workshop Use Case Exploration Agenda
1. Managing Existing Resources
2. Deploying Self Services Resources
3. Automating IT Processes
4. Waste Detection
5. Root Cause Analysis
6. Cost Analysis