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VMware Application ServicesJonathan Frappier, @jfrappier

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Who am IEMC Cloud Architect (EMCCAe), VCAP5-DCD, VCP5-DCV

2x vExpert (13 & 14), EMC Elect (14), Cisco Champion (15),

PernixPro (14)

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Application Services – Why automate?

Application deployments are boring

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Application Services – Why automate?

Security – if you’re not automating your not secure; human error is

inevitable

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Application Services – What it is

- Application builder

– create blueprints for complex applications

- Application Release Management

– automation of standardized provisioning,

upgrades, roll backs, and tear downs

- Private, Public, or Hybrid

– blueprints can be used across multiple cloud

providers – vCloud Automation

Center/vRealize Automation, vCloud Director

(thus vCloud Air) and AWS

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Application Services – What it’s not

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- Deploying Application services is easy…

******* Magic

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Application Services – What it’s not

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- Building the application blueprints is not

http://www.victorshi.com/blog/post/Difference-between-your-plan-and-reality-in-software-development

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Application Services – What it’s not

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- It’s not a solution for everything

- Configuration Management

- Desktop / EUC applications

- Application Monitoring

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Application Services

How we used to think about VM’s

How we started thinking about VM’s

How we need to think about VM’s

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Application Services vs Application Director

( 6.1 vs 6.0)

- “now a component of vCloud Automation Center 6.1”

- Improved UI (across vRA and AppS)

- Simplified agent installation

- Networking mapping to vCAC networks

- Puppet integration

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Application Services Considerations

NTP!

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Application Services Considerations

Multi-Cloud / Hybrid Cloud support

- vCloud Automation Center required

- vCloud Air or vCloud Director based providers

- AWS

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Application Services ConsiderationsSupported Operating Systems

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OS Version (Up to) Java Version Agents Scripting Language Commands/Services

RHEL 6.4 / 6.5- 32-bit- 64-bit

JRE 1.7.0_51 - AppS & vRA - Bash- BeanShell 1.3

- wget- Md5sum- grep- sed- setsid- awk- ifconfig- agp-get- yum- OpenSSH

CentOS 6.4 / 6.5- 32-bit- 64-bit

JRE 1.7.0_51 - AppS & vRA - Bash- BeanShell 1.3

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2- 32-bit- 64-bit

JRE 1.7.0_51 - AppS & vRA - Bash- BeanShell 1.3

Ubuntu 12.04.2- 32-bit- 64-bit

JRE 1.7.0_51 - AppS & vRA - Bash- BeanShell 1.3

Windows 2008 R2 SP1 - 64-bitWindows 2012 R2- 64-bit

JRE 1.7.0_51 - AppS & vRA - Windows CMD- PowerShell 2- BeanShell 1.3

- RDS

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Application Services Installation Assumptions

- Working vCenter and SSO

- vRealize Automation / vCloud Automation Center deployed

and at least 1 tenant and business group configured

- Access to vCenter and VMRC

- Access to vCloud Automation Center blueprints (vSphere

Templates)

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Application Services Installation Overview

OVF

• Deploy the OVF via vCenter

• Set and document OVF properties

VMRC

• Power on the VM and connect to VMRC

• Configure via startup wizard

VCAC• Assign Application Architect roles

AppS

• Create Cloud Provider, Deployment Environment, Logical Template, and Application Blueprint

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Application Services Configuration Overview

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Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRAand Deploy

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Step by step configuration of Application Services

http://bit.ly/vXprtAppS & http://bit.ly/vXprtvRA

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Application Services Configuration Demo

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vCAC• Application Services roles

Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRA and Deploy

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Application Services Configuration Demo

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vCAC• Application Services roles

Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRA and Deploy

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Application Services Configuration Demo

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vCAC• Application Services roles

Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRA and Deploy

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Application Services Configuration Demo

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vCAC• Application Services roles

Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRA and Deploy

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Application Services Configuration Demo

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vCAC• Application Services roles

Cloud Provider

• Map Application Director to vRA and Business Group

Deployment Environment

• Map Deployment Environment to vRAReservation Policy

Logical Template

• Map AppS Logical Template to vRA Blueprint (which maps to a vSphere template)

Application Blueprint

• Create application blueprint, publish to vRA and Deploy

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Application Deployment Demo

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Application Deployment Demo

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