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vCloud Hybrid Services

vCloud Hybrid Services. VMUG 2014-03-19 Rob Fischer Justin Hook. About kCura. Founded in 2001 Software company based in Chicago serving the Legal Industry Our core product: Relativity Industry leading web based document review platform Enormous market growth in the last 5 years

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vCloud Hybrid Services

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  1. vCloud Hybrid Services VMUG 2014-03-19 Rob Fischer Justin Hook

  2. About kCura • Founded in 2001 • Software company based in Chicago serving the Legal Industry • Our core product: Relativity • Industry leading web based document review platform • Enormous market growth in the last 5 years • Enormous product growth in the last 5 years • Enormous Personnel growth in the last 5 years • 30 employees at the start of 2009 • 360 employees at the start of 2014 • 1 new employee hired every 3.54 days

  3. About kCura • Enormous Infrastructure growth in the past 5 years • 0 VMs at the start of 2009 • 1826 VMs at the start of 2014 • 1.43 VMs deployed per business day • 12 TB SAN storage at the start of 2009 • 708 TB SAN storage at the start of 2014 • 545.9 GB of SAN storage deployed per business day. • 0 Physical Hyper-Visor Hosts at the start of 2009 • 70 Physical Hyper-Visor (VMware) Hosts at the start of 2014 • New Physical Host deployed every 18.21 business days. • IT Infrastructure team size 2009 = 0, 2014 = 6. 1 new Infrastructure employee every 212.5 business days

  4. kCura and The Cloud • Private Internal Cloud • vCenter / vSphere (traditional) • vCloud Director (DevOps, event usage) • vCloud Automation Center (the future) • Private External Cloud (kind of now, more in the future) • Why? • What? • vCHS? • AWS? • Azure? • Google?

  5. vCHS Usage • Tier 0 applications – Disaster Recovery • Domain Controller • Relativity Analytics– Performance Test • kCura infrastructure – standard storage : 4 minutes • kCura infrastructure – tintri storage : 2 minutes • vCHS shared infrastructure : 3 minutes • Not too shabby!

  6. Relativity in the Cloud

  7. Relativity in the Cloud • Templated solution for easy client deployment for up to 100 users • We offer this for Amazon, working on it for vCHS • 3 web servers, 2 agents, 1 analytics, 1 file, 2 SQL, 3 processing workers, 1 utility box • Performance testing is promising • Compared to internal test environment, within 10% of our specs. Some things faster, some slower.

  8. vCHS

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  13. vCloud Connector • vCloud Connector • Connect your on-premise vSphere, vCloud Director environments to vCHSvDC’s • Allows centralized management • Migrate/Copy vApps/VM’s between private/public clouds • Data Center Extension • Previously known as “stretch deploy” • Stretch private network of VM or vApp to public cloud using layer 2 sslvpn tunnel • VM appears to be on your private network, while using compute resources in vCHS cloud

  14. vCloud Connector

  15. vCloud Connector

  16. Potential Future Use • VMware will be rolling out Disaster Recovery as a Service built on vCHS • London usage • Training and Special Events • “Safe Harbor” requirements – data testing • Burst capacity for special events • Internal Functional Test Environments (need to determine costs and benefits)

  17. Lessons Learned • Reliability • Maintenance • Good notifications and communication from VMware • Frequent • Typically affects administration of VMs, but the VMs continue running without issue • Code bugs (caused the frequent maintenance) • Now more stable • Support • Knowledgeable • Responsive • Helpful

  18. Lessons Learned • Pricing • Pay for compute based on monthly intervals • 2TB storage - $340 / month • Public IP address - $25 / month • 5 GHz CPU, 20 GB RAM - $642 / month • 10 Mbit internet connectivity - $229 / month • So, about $1500 a month for 5 GHz CPU and 20 GB RAM for shared compute resources • More expensive for dedicated resources • Different model than AWS and competitors • Not true pay as you go, different business case than others?

  19. Questions? • rfischer@kcura.com • jhook@kcura.com

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