vce: lifecycle system assurance

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Jeramiah Dooley VCE Office of the CTO

VCE: Lifecycle System Assurance


COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK

STORAGE COMPUTE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION APPLICATION

New Software Investments

New Hardware Investments

Maintaining Operations Cost

SUPPORT TEAMS

VIRTUALIZATION

70% 20% 10%

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TODAY’S IT


TODAY’S IT

Plan & Design

Build & Test

DESIGN & DEPLOY MAINTAIN

Code Matrix Monitoring

Patch & Validate

Stabilize & Optimize

EXPANSION &

UPGRADE

V2

Plan & Design

Build & Test


Only New Thinking Can Transform IT

ADDRESSING TODAY’S IT CHALLENGES

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Fastest Time-to-Business

Highest Performance

Highest Availability

Converged Management

Lowest Risk

API Enabled,

Converged

Management

Integrated Protection

and Workload

Mobility Solutions

Best-of-breed

Technology

Pre-engineered,

Pre-validated,

Pre-tested

Application

Optimization

Lifecycle

System

Assurance

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VCE DIFFERENTIATION

Customer Experience

Lowest TCO


THE VBLOCK DIFFERENCE

Single Product

Factory-built & Logically

provisioned

DESIGN & DEPLOY MAINTAIN

V2

Single Support Single Process with

Life Cycle Assurance Converged Operations

EXPANSION &

UPGRADE


PLATFORM ENGINEERING

TEST STRATEGIES

System Level

Testing

Component

Integration Testing

End to End

Integration Testing Physical Testing

Recovery Patch and maintenance

testing

Provisioning with Cloud

Service and Management Fault tolerance of systems

Installation and Configuration Interface testing inbound and

outbound

Provisioning without Cloud

Service and Management Visual indicators

Stability Negative test strategies Usability Environmental testing of

systems

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RELEASE CYCLE OVERVIEW Major releases are set in six month intervals. These are set at March/April and September/October.

Code freezes are at the end of month five. At this time, no additional changes are taken to insure a stable environment.

Anything necessary at that point will be in the next monthly release period.

During the Maintenance phase we are doing sustaining engineering work.

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Minor Release Minor Release Minor Release Minor Release

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 6 5 6

Pre-Release Updates

Pre-Release Updates

Pre-Release Updates

Production

Update

Releases

IP/RP

IP/RP

IP/RP

IP/RP

IP/RP

IP/RP Integration Point/Regression Point

Major Release Freeze Major Release Freeze Major Release Freeze Major Release Freeze


MINOR RELEASE TIMING AND PROCESS FLOW

Minor releases scheduled at the end of each month if necessary.

Test cycles take two weeks – code freeze end of second week.

Anything in the third or fourth weeks will be in next months release.

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Release Week

1

Week

2

Week

3

Week

4

Code Freeze

Regression Testing Month 1

Release Week

1

Week

2

Week

3

Week

4

Code Freeze

Regression Testing Month 2

New Software/firmware/patches

Month 2 Month 3

New release matrix

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DAY ZERO PATCHES - TRADITIONAL

Vendor Releases Patch

Customer Learns of Patch

Customer Does Risk Assessment, Testing

Customer Installs and Hopes


DAY ZERO PATCHES - VCE

Vendor Releases Patch

VCE Notifies Customers, Determines Test Harnesses Required

Customers Determine Risk, Choose to Install Immediately or Wait for RCM

VCE Runs Testing Process, Updates RCM


VCE LIFECYCLE SYSTEM ASSURANCE:

LOWERS TCO AND RISK

Regression testing

Design for continuous interoperability

Interoperability testing

System optimization Update/validation

Ongoing release matrix/code currency

Current and Optimized


STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

CONVERGED OPERATIONS

COMPUTE

5X

4X

83X

3X

Source: May 2012 report by IDC entitled "Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What"

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VCE CUSTOMER RESULTS

FASTER

DEPLOYMENT

LESS STAFF

RESOURCE TIME

BETTER

AVAILABILITY

LOWER

COST

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