Operational Advisory Group March 3, 2016 CCI Operational Advisory - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

UW – Madison Campus Computing Initiative Operational Advisory Group March 3, 2016

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 • Welcome • 2/18/2017 Incident & Update • Virtualization Updates • Data Center RFP • Proposed vCenter Service • Q&A 2

February 18, 2017 3

Virtualization Updates 4

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 New Staff • Roksana Baladi • Tony O’Rourke • Technical Onboarding & Ongoing Customer Support 5

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Quarterly Template Updates • Patching, OpenSCAP • Windows Server 2012 R2 too secure • Windows Server 2016 (Core?) • Ubuntu 16.04.01 LTS • Scientific Linux 7, Oracle Linux 7 6

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Near Futures (not in order of priority) • vRealize Automation 7.3 • vSphere 6.5 • Fixing the darn Cost Estimator “This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.” 7

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Near Futures (not in order of priority) • Deployment Naming • Fixing the word-wrapping on questions • New Templates • vCenter-level Services “This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.” 8

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Near Futures (not in order of priority) • Failover Testing & Updates • Campus Firewalling Changes • Security & Compliance Auditing “This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.” 9

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Less-Near Futures (also not ordered) • VM-level Backup • Replication Options • VM Names “This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.” 10

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Less-Near Futures (also not ordered) • More Deployment Automation • APIs & Scriptable Interfaces • Template Distribution • Customer Template Process “This document contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.” 11

Data Center RFP 12

Virtualization Infrastructure Proposals 13

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 • Data Center Colocation • Private Cloud • Public Cloud 14

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 • Data Center Colocation • Managed Infrastructure • Shared Infrastructure • Private Cloud • VMware on AWS (future) • Public Cloud 15

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Managed Infrastructure • Dedicated environment • Standard, best-practices buildout • Infrastructure hardware & software managed by CCI • VMs managed completely by department/group 16

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Managed Infrastructure • Interesting to groups & projects with higher security needs • Interesting where there are particular budgeting & governance constraints • Can be hosted in any suitable facility • Everything you’re already doing 17

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Shared Infrastructure • Shared environment • No vRealize Automation • API/CLI/PowerShell access • Some Self-Service 18

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Shared Infrastructure • “Some Self-Service?” • Security concerns • Availability concerns • Operational concerns 19

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Shared Infrastructure • Interesting to groups & projects that are, like, totally done with hardware • Interesting where infrastructure sharing is already happening 20

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 VMware on AWS • Managed hosting, in AWS datacenter • More when we know 21

CCI Operational Advisory Group - March 3, 2017 Next Steps • Governance, Billing Model • Proof of concept implementations for both in progress now • Your serious interest will determine the future of these efforts. 22

General Q&A 23

THANK YOU. March 3, 2016