virtualization - end or means to the software-defined data center?

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Virtualization – End or means to Software Defined Data Center? James Cohen

WW Lead, Technical Services Consulting, Consolidation and Virtualization


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James Cohen, TS Consulting Lead, Consolidation & Virtualization

• Joined HP in the UK in 1997 from the Rank Organization

• Practice Principal developing complex infrastructure solutions for customers, predominately in the Logistics, Defence and Intelligence sectors.

• In 1998 he started worked on the development of the IT strategy for a global leader in the logistics sector, which led to one of HP’s largest global consolidation engagements – a relationship that continues to this day.

• In 2011 James joined the Worldwide Consulting team, responsible for Consolidation and Virtualization.

• James holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brunel University (1980).

• James has served in the Royal Naval Reserve for over 35 years, and is a specialist in Maritime Trade Operations, but currently developing the RNR’s Cyber capability.

James Cohen

Worldwide Lead, TS Consulting, Consolidation and Virtualization

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Several ‘perfect storms’ are converging

Business demands

Cloud

25-30% of server shipments will go to Cloud service providers’ data centers in 2014, this will grow to 43% by 20171

Big Data

85% of Fortune 500 organizations will be unable to exploit Big Data for competitive advantage through 20152

Mobility

45% of organizations will spend at least $500K on mobility over the next 12 to 18 months3

Security

$5.5M is the average cost of a data breach, companies average more than one successful attack per week4

1 March 2013 Forbes 2 “Big Data Business Benefits Are Hampered by 'Culture Clash,’” Gartner, 12 September 2013.

3 CIO Insights - Enterprise Mobility Dominates IT Agenda in 2014 4 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis Ponemon Institute


Software defined: executing at business speed

• Speed Accelerate time to service creation and service deployment

• Alignment Close user expectation and business alignment gaps

• Cost Optimize your tech, your processes and your workforce

• Agility Measurably improve business outcomes to weather coming business and technology storms

Drive acceleration of business outcomes on key drivers


Software Defined Data Center is the workload - or application-driven orchestration and control of all aspects of the data center, from infrastructure to operations and management, through open and hardware-independent management and virtualization software.

SDDC Definition


Not 100% successful

Virtualization to date

• Has not delivered on its promise – often more expensive

• Infrastructure utilization still stubbornly low

• The cost of virtualization management is to high

• What is really needed is the ability to abstract workloads

• Facilities and Infrastructure need to interact


Before you can you move to SDDC you need to Abstract

• All workloads and activities need to be virtualized

• Controlled by Software

• Automate underlying infrastructure to completely eliminate manual configurations

• New servers provide robust platforms to handle more than just compute workloads

• Economic pressures are forcing a focus on power, cooling and data center footprint

• Applications have to be migrated to modern, supported operating systems


Virtualize or Virtualization

What can be virtualized - Servers

• What matters is the abstraction of the workload

• Appropriate operating systems

• Workloads are deployed on the most appropriate platform

• Needs to support open standards and proprietary hypervisors

• Applications need to include appropriate API calls to enable SDDC

• Cost effectiveness and agility will be key, not the virtualization ratio


What can HP offer? StoreVirtual VSA

What can be virtualized - Storage

• Ease of operation, less human error, speed of deployment, backup, archiving and recovery simplified

• Server virtualization drives demand for highly available shared storage

• StoreVirtual VSA provides shared storage from directly-attached storage devices – driving down costs and footprint significantly


What can be virtualized - Networks

• Network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and functionality into a single virtual network. Servers will increasingly deliver network functionality

• Allowing for SDDC changes to the network, with the applications requesting the changes

• Enables you to deploy more VM per physical server when you use 3PAR through the analysis and removal of bottlenecks

• Virtual networks reduce the latency between servers and improves the security as this can be automated

• Support for mobility


HP delivers Open, simplified Software Defined Architecture

• HP SDN Controller and SDN Ecosystem • Partnerships with all major hypervisor vendors

• Business Applications

• HP CloudSystem • HP MoonShot hardware • HP storage HP DC networking and SDN enabled

switches

• Standards-based application integration APIs • Centralized resource fulfillment and assurance • Hypervisor independent

Networking

Hypervisors Controllers

Application

Resource management and orchestration

Application

Servers and storage

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• HP Analytics to analyze performance

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Consulting and Support Services

Facilities


Business Revenue and profit

Growth strategy Competition

Mergers and Acquisitions

IT Information explosion

Frequent change 3 to 5 year lifecycle

Skills costs Cyber security

Common Goals Performance vs Cost

Reliability & Continuity

Timely, accurate information

Facilities/ Real Estate

Capacity challenges

Aging facilities 15 to 20 year lifecycle

Green agenda Physical security

IT and facilities moving on separate operational paths


Leading clients on the journey … convergence, software defined, and cloud

Standardize and consolidate

Virtualize and automate

Self service applications with full lifecycle management

Become a service broker in a hybrid environment.

Self service infrastructure

IT transformation to “strategic service broker”

Converge … your data center silos into virtualized resource pools

Software -define … through open, programmatic access & 1-N control

Cloud … enable IT sourcing and delivery for speed & agility


What is required to deliver this vision?

• Hypervisor neutral approach

• Open APIs – OpenStack, OpenFlow

• Single pane of glass administration console – HP OneView

• ConvergedSystem and Converged Infrastructure

• Facilities integrated into the HP Software Defined Data Center

• Applications are going to need to be HP SDDC aware


“To remain static is to lose ground.”

David Packard


“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Spencer Churchill


Further acceleration requires new control options

Enhance IT execution capabilities…

Traditional IT

Server

Networking

Storage

Cloud LOB user control

IT admin control

Converged Infrastructure

Software Defined

Application control

Security

Virtualize

Automate

Implement programmable control of your infrastructure Accelerate both Cloud and IT convergence efforts Manage unified view of physical and virtual resources Provide open control choices for improving your technology, processes and workforce

Enabling the New Style of IT


Control: key to delivering speed and agility

• HP SDDC will be the evolution of Converged Infrastructure and virtualization from a control and management standpoint

• HP SDDC will optimize infrastructure resource utility and effectiveness within both Cloud and datacenter environments

Open systems & APIs

Policy-based automation

Virtualization

Cloud

Software- defined

Application-driven control

Admin-driven control

LOB-driven control

Infrastructure monitoring

• SDDC together with Cloud, will enable the New Style of IT


HP approach


What is the HP Software Defined approach? Programmatic control of applications, functions and resources

HP Software Defined Data Center approach: The software defined approach enables IT to optimize the rapid creation and delivery of business services, reliably, through programmable infrastructure Implemented using policy-based automation, from the infrastructure up to the application level, using a unified view of physical and virtual resources SDDC aligns business and IT like never before by providing open choices regarding the optimization of IT consumption models to deliver maximum agility, security and business value.

Security

Storage

Servers

Facilities Service models

Network

Management

Automation

Organization


HP has considerable experience in Software Defined already

An example in HP today


Microsoft Lync in action at HP


How can you make the transition to a Software Defined World?


Critical success factors for SDDC

SDDC

Organization People, process,

governance, operations

Right Shape

Facilities

Buildings, power and cooling

Infrastructure

Networks, servers , storage, management

Delivery Model

Traditional and Cloud

Right Source Right Size


HP Confidential

Ecosystem value to support your SDDC journey

Supported Open Source

software

HP Private and HP Public Cloud

Financing

Security hardened

Strategy and roadmap consulting

Consulting

Application QOS

Education and support

Infrastructure

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Application security

Security intelligence

Application performance

Application ecosystem

Consumption – OPex/CAPex

Operations ecosystem

Advise

Transform, integrate and operate Flexible Capacity


Software Defined Data Centres are much more than virtualization

Summary

• Virtualization is a step towards HP SDDC, but service abstraction does not need virtualization

• Standard converged infrastructure with consistent APIs

• Requires software defined facilities, security and management

• Control moves from LoB (Cloud), IT (Virtualization) to Applications

• Many applications will be abstracted onto physical infrastructure

• Physical infrastructure will be a much lower cost option than virtualized infrastructure

• Application will need enhancement to make use of SDDC


Call to action

1. Start thinking about how HP’s SDDC approach can help you improve your business’s service delivery

2. Move towards a Converged Infrastructure as the enabling technology for HP SDDC

3. Undertake an HP Software Defined Workshop to establish your roadmap towards a Software Defined future

4. Talk to your HP Consulting team as to what you can do now to start down the road to HP SDDC


Thank you

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