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Dynamic Data Center Toolkit: Mixed-Source Solution for Service Providers. Ezequiel Terol Rivas Microsoft Western Europe Belgium, May 24 th 2011.
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Dynamic Data Center Toolkit:Mixed-Source Solution for Service Providers Ezequiel Terol Rivas Microsoft Western Europe Belgium, May 24th 2011
The Open Solutions Group is a Sales, Marketing and Technology organization responsible for driving interoperable solutions to market which are jointly developed by Microsoft and select Open Source vendors. • Strategic Relationships with Novell and Bridgeways • Expertise in Datacenter Optimization for Mixed Source • Virtualization • Systems Management • Federated Identity • Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosters • Datacenter Services for Enterprise • Providing solutions to hundreds of customers world-wide
Requirements, Challenges and Opportunities for Datacenter Management Deliver Reliable Services Operational Efficiency Improved business responsiveness IT Service Availability and Performance driving investments Application focused virt/ management becoming increasingly important Mixed environments add complexity Virtualization still seen as key driver to reducing operational costs Need to efficiently manage virtualized environments Compliance costs continue to rise with increased regulatory pressures Cloud Computing increasing expectations of IT in terms of agility and costs Unpredictable business demand for datacenter services Need for elastic and flexible IT capabilities to meet business demands Enable Cloud computing Optimize Service Delivery Centralize Management, invest in automation Dynamic Data Center Toolkit
Datacenter Service Delivery is Evolving Management Essential as Datacenters Evolve to Cloud Computing Models PublicCloud Traditional Computing PrivateCloud Just-in-time Provisioning & Scalingof Services on Shared Hardware IT as a Service Cost Agility “Gartner Data Center Conference (DCC) attendees see management and operational processes, funding/chargeback models, service description, and self-service interface and culture as the biggest challenges to private cloud computing.” – Gartner, Private Cloud Computing Plans From Conference Polls, Thomas Bittman, 4/30/2010 Dynamic Data Center Toolkit
Cloud Computing Builds on Dynamic IT Unified and Virtualized ServiceEnabled Process-Led,Model-Driven User Focused Basic Standardized Rationalized Dynamic Cost center Efficient cost center Business enabler Strategic asset People. Process. Technology. Self-Service Elastic Scalable Multi-tenant Metered by Use Dynamic Data Center Toolkit
Hyper-V Cloud: DDC Logical Solution Architecture • Management and Customer Dashboards, Control Panels, Alerts, and Notifications Web based Control Panel Data Protection System Level Application Level Folder Level File Level Monitoring Alerts Notifications Security Audits SLA’s Configuration Software Updates Software Distributions Asset Tracking Software Metering Desired Configurations Provisioning Auto Placement HA Cluster Management Image Management Web Services Business Continuity VM Mobility & Migration High Availability Services Goals • Servers, Network, and Storage Foundational Technologies Dynamic Data Center Toolkit
DDC Mixed-Source Toolkit for Hosters Hosting partners cite manual processes, silos of technology, and resource redundancy as primary causes of inefficiency in their data centers. manual provisioning, support, and maintenance Support Windows Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Red Hat Satellite / Spacewalk Dir AD Hypervisor RHEL/CentOS SLES Infrastructure AMP JBoss TomCat servers storage network load bal. servers storage network load bal.
DDC Mixed-Source Toolkit for Hosters Today, the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit provides hosters with the ability to enable self-care for end-users who leverage Windows technologies. Customer Facing Self-Service Portal Self-Care Monitoring Provisioning Configuration Data Protection {exposed web services – fully configurable UI} Windows Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack AD Infrastructure servers storage network load bal.
DDC Mixed-Source Toolkit for Hosters Bridgeways management packs will extend this functionality by enabling hosters to offer monitoring, provisioning, and configuration capabilities for non-Windows technologies such as LAMP, TomCat, Jboss, VMWare and Linux Servers. Customer Facing Self-Service Portal Self-Care Monitoring Provisioning Configuration Data Protection {exposed web services – fully configurable UI} Windows Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack AD Hypervisor RHEL/CentOS Infrastructure AMP JBoss TomCat servers servers storage network load bal.
DDC Mixed-Source Toolkit for Hosters Our interoperability partnerships with Bridgeways and Novell extend the capabilities of the DDTK, System Center, and Hyper-V to provision, manage, and monitor Linux Virtual Machines as well as monitor competitor systems such as VMWare ESX, Apache, MySQL, and Jboss. Customer Facing Self-Service Portal Self-Care Monitoring Provisioning Configuration Data Protection {exposed web services – fully configurable UI} Windows Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Linux Stack Dir AD Hypervisor RHEL/CentOS SLES Infrastructure AMP JBoss TomCat servers Support for SLES/RHEL servers storage network load bal.
Optimizing Service Provider Peformance Through its open source partnerships, Microsoft’s Open Solutions Groupseeks to help its customers improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
Microsoft-Novell: Driving Customer Value TECHNICAL COLLABORATION BUSINESS COLLABORATION • Virtualization • Standards-based Systems Management • Directory and Identity Interoperability • Document Format Compatibility • Silverlight Plug-in for Linux, “Moonlight” • Joint interoperability lab • Joint sales and marketing • Co-marketing fund • Focused sales personnel • Microsoft offers certificates for customers to redeem to receive Linux Enterprise Server support services directly from Novell for various Linux distributions
Microsoft – Bridgeways Alliance • Business and Technology Collaboration • Extends System Center reach to non-Windows Assets • Creates one pane of glass through which the datacenter can be administered • Reduce cost and complexity by standardizing on a single toolset Virtualization Web Servers Communication Servers Database Servers Application Servers
Linux Fast-Start Program for DDTK – Mixed Source Host provider can test-drive the DDTK for mixed source at no charge Provision, manage, and monitor Windows or Linux VM’s Partner Receives One week of on-site consulting and setup All software required for testing Migration assistance for workloads Recommended 30 day test plan Phone and e-mail support for 30 days Full Support of SLES and RHEL-based Platforms during PoC Proof-of-Concept Opportunities…
Solution Availability osginfo@microsoft.comfor more information! • Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosting Providers (DDTK-H)Including source code for provisioning Linux Virtual Machines • Linux Support Subscription through NovellSUSE Linux Enterprise Server, RHEL, and RHEL compatible binaries • Up to 7 Systems Center Management Packs (from Bridgeways): i.e. MySQL, Oracle, Apache, JBoss, WebLogic, Webshpere, Java, VMWare • Attractive Commercial Terms through the Open Solutions Group