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Washington State Cloud Environment VMWare Approved Ready Nodes All Flash vSAN Storage High density multicore processors Dedicated Performance Tuned SQL Infrastructure Scalable Elastic Environment Zerto DR Orchestration Trend Deep Security Microsegmentation and Antimalware vRealize Operations Manager
Washington State Cloud Benefits No Windows Server OS licensing costs, renewals and management Access to all versions of Windows from 2008 R2 to newest version Eliminates hardware management, service contracts or support costs Provides DR capabilities to the Quincy Data Center (optional) Access to monitoring and troubleshooting tools No Ingress or Egress charges Allows Agencies to take advantage of State of the Art technology without the costs associated with maintaining hardware infrastructure
Rating & Recommendations: Gartner Final Report: Zero-Based Budget Review - ID G00333051
Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure VMware offers the broadest set of hyperconverged solutions — either as a turnkey software appliance, as a rack-scale software- defined data center solution (VMware Cloud Foundation) or as HCIaaS — to meet the diverse performance, scalability, security and total cost of ownership (TCO) needs of organizations. VMware offers a set of well-integrated software products in vSphere, vSAN and vCenter, which makes management and support simple for virtualization administrators, obviating the need to learn new GUIs or complex storage abstracts. VMware has kept the product competitive through an aggressive software release cycle to provide advanced data services and enhancements, such as software encryption that eliminates the need for expensive, self-encrypting drives, and stretched clusters that can tolerate site failures. Gartner Report Published 6 February 2018 - ID G00333051
Cloud Pricing Model The below prices are the maximum you will be charged per month. If the server is shut down during the billing period you will see a reduced price on vCPU and Memory. General Cloud Cluster vCPU (Core) $43.00 Memory (GB) $9.00 Storage (GB) $0.10 SQL Cloud Cluster vCPU (Core) $43.00 Memory (GB) $11.00 Storage (GB) $0.14
Storage – All Flash High Speed Storage The Washington State Cloud environment includes a State • of the Art storage technology called vSAN. vSAN eliminates the need for expensive dedicated SAN • equipment. Does not require a dedicated Storage Administrator • Reduces network service dependencies • All storage is located in the host hardware allowing for • faster response times Less billing complexity - One price tier for storage •
Washington State Cloud Portal Overview VMWare vRealize Automation Home Page – Self Service Portal
Customer Catalog Customers see a custom environment with only their agency server VM Blueprints
VMWare vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) Self Service Monitoring Portal • All Private Cloud customers get access to vROPs Allows customers to actively monitor the health of their environment • • Users can run reports or have them scheduled to run at needed intervals
VMWare vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) Self Service Monitoring Portal • Monitor VMs down to a individual resource level Troubleshooting and Analysis • • Capacity Planning and Resource Reclamation
Trend Micro Deep Security Microsegmentation Cloud VM’s can be protected by Deep Security which provides advanced server security for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. It protects enterprise applications and data from breaches and business disruptions without requiring emergency patching. This comprehensive, centrally-managed platform helps you simplify security operations while enabling regulatory compliance and accelerating the ROI of virtualization and cloud projects. Anti-Malware is also included in this package.
Zerto DR Orchestrator
Zerto DR Orchestrator Current DR-as-a-Service Olympia ROADMAP Data Center Quincy Roadmap In-Cloud Data Center BC/DR Cloud Data Center WS Cloud BC/DR
WS Cloud Roadmap VMware NSX Network Virtualization and Security Platform NSX enables the creation of entire networks in software and embeds them in the hypervisor layer, abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. All network components can be provisioned in minutes, without the need to modify the application. NSX embeds security functions right into the hypervisor. It delivers micro-segmentation and granular security to the individual workload, enabling a fundamentally more secure data center. Security policies travel with the workloads, independent of where workloads are in the network topology. Use of NSX would greatly reduce the Networking and Firewall group dependencies which in turn would speed up new customer onboarding by several weeks.
WS Cloud Roadmap • Encryption-at-Rest Current versions of vSAN Storage software supports Encryption-at-Rest. Over the next few months we will be testing the product. We hope to be able to offer this in the Spring of 2019. • OPX Storage Solution WaTech is currently in the release phase of an RFP for a OPX Storage Solution which will offer tiered storage for all Agencies needs. This solution will allow us to expand and decrease storage needs without capital expense. • Backup Solution New customer use of the current WaTech Avamar Backup service is diminishing. Most customers state that the cost is too high. The current solution will be replaced with a solution which is hardware agonistic. This will allow us to utilize low cost storage, which in turn lowers backup costs for customers. Expected replacement would be before June 30, 2019. • Compliance Certifications Over the next year we will be working with VMWare and internal WaTech security groups to evaluate the security of the WS Cloud and how it aligns with industry standard compliance rules.
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