Virtual Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

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Virtual Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

• Rolf Frydenberg, VD CTO
• rolf.frydenberg_at_managenordic.se

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HP BTO portfolio
Integrated solutions across strategy,
applications and operations
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HP Business Service Automation
Service-centric, integrated automation suite
Operations Orchestration
ITSM Help DeskChange Requests
BSM Monitoring, Events,and Alerts
Service Automation Visualizer
Service Automation Reporter
HP Live Network
Release Control
Universal CMDB
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Virtualization AdoptionRequires A New Management
Approach
First New Platform In 15 Years
New IT tiers Relationships
Click Button Server Creation
Dynamic infrastructures
Large of new devices
Align IT operations with dynamic service
New Software Layer to Manage
Manage complex IT service
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Requirements for automating the virtual data
center
Create and configure

• Automate the virtual infrastructure Provision,
  configure, patch virtual servers, storage and
  network

Visualize and report

• Discover, view, report dependencies between
  physical and virtual applications, servers,
  network devices storage

• Manage IT processes across physical and virtual
  apps, server, network storage (change, release,
  incident/problem)
• Activate, delete virtual servers, storage and
  network

Manage and change
Standardize

• Seamless best practice policy management across
  physical and virtual IT service and infrastructure

One management solution across physical and
virtualized platforms
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Controlling virtual sprawl
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Create and secure heterogeneous virtual assets
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Virtual server lifecycle automation
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Managing the virtualization challenges
Share knowledge

• Experts can document and share best practices in
  an automated manner
• Reduce deployment errors

Standardize

• Same policies and best practices across physical
  and virtual servers
• Set and enforce corporate standards for
  configurations at each level of the stack
• Audit against corporate and industry standards
  with rapid remediation

• Create pre defined configurations and service
  descriptions
• Reduce human error and deployment costs

Eliminate manual processes
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Eliminating manual processes
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Eliminating manual processes
Key steps

• OO flow checks the virtual environment
• VM parameters are entered and a ticket is opened
  to provision a new VM
• OO flow checks the data store capacity on the
  hypervisor and will provision additional storage
  if necessary
• OO flow initiates provision new vm and configure
  the software
• Job is complete and change ticket is closed

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Virtual Lifecycle Management Summary
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HP Automation benefits summary
Cost containment
Organization-wide improvementAchieve
server/admin ratios of 100
Automated configuration
Reduce change execution times by 90
Compliance management
80 reduction in time to perform audit and
achieve compliance (SOX, PCI, ITIL)
Eliminate 70 of outages security incidents
caused by manual mis-configurations
Higher uptime security
Eliminate unauthorized, unapproved server access
to minimize server downtime
Preventative management
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Questions?