VMware Cloud Foundation 101

[Music] you hello and welcome to today's webinar VMware cloud foundation 101 brought to you by VMware my name is David Davis I'll be the moderator for the event today being a 101 event we want to keep this very educational we want to get all the questions you have about view more cloud foundation what is it how does it work does it do this XYZ we want to get all those questions and by the end of the event we want to do our best to answer all those questions so make sure you use the GoToWebinar questions box right there to ask your questions and we'll be doing a Q&A session with our VMware exit expert mr. Josh Townsend at the end of the event for one lucky attendee we've also got a $300 Amazon gift card they will be randomly selecting at the event at the end of the event and I'll be announcing that attendees name so make sure you stay tuned for that all right we've got a lot to cover today about VMware cloud foundation beamers brand-new product so let's get started like I said my name is David Davis I'm the moderator for today's event you can follow me on Twitter David M Davis and my company which is presenting today's event is actual tech media being a VMware admin previously and in my previous job many years ago and an IT manager for many years and a V expert now for for many years I'm very interested personally in VMware cloud foundation and so I've got a lot of questions for Josh and I hope you will too I'm glad to be joined by mr. Josh Jones and he's a senior technical marketing architect at VMware he goes by Joshua Townsend on Twitter make sure you open up Twitter right now and and follow him check out his blog Josh thanks for being on you want to tell us a little bit about yourself sure thanks David so again my name is Josh Townsend I'm a 15-year veteran of VMware technology started out in 2001 as a a customer using gsx and workstation and have continued on both as a customer a VMware partner doing consulting in sales and and now working for VMware and Technical Marketing so lots of product experience I also am on the leadership team for the Washington DC debug and in my spare time what little I have I am a volunteer firefighter and first responder in Ashburn Virginia which is a little point of trivia carries about 70% of the world's Internet traffic at any given time so if the internet burns down you can blame me awesome awesome so that's a real picture there of you on duty doing your your uh your job my gosh that's cool yes awesome awesome well thanks so much for being on I'm glad to have someone of your expertise and your knowledge about VMware technologies on to talk about VMware's you know one of their newest products view more cloud foundation I'm still it's still very new to me and I know it's probably still very new to those out there in the audience which is why we had such a tremendous interest in today's 101 event so thanks for being on the basic agenda today is we're going to you know answer questions like what is cloud foundation how can it help you how does it work like I said we're going to have the Q&A at the end and then the prize giveaway now to give everybody kind of a jump start on what cloud cloud foundation is we've got a roughly two minute video here it's not very long roughly two minutes and I'm going to play the video for you now and this is something actually I've never done before so you know cross your fingers for me but hopefully you will see a very cool video in just a moment on VMware cloud foundation and to fueled the rapid growth at the cloud its promise of easier faster innovation at a lower cost but what many enterprises are binding is that architecting and managing a cloud using inflexible and expensive legacy infrastructure is slow costly and just plain hard what your company needs is access to enterprise level highly dynamic compute storage networking and management services you want a complete software-defined data center built on a market-leading cloud infrastructure platform and cloud management solution available on demand whether from your on-premise systems or from cloud service providers with your cloud infrastructure in particular you want a simple secure reliable way to stand it up in hours not days or months and you want it delivered in one unified easy to manage solution you want VMware Cloud foundation VMware cloud foundation brings together vSphere V Sam and NSX into one fully integrated stack with a built-in automated lifecycle management through sddc manager the new sddc manager makes building and managing your private cloud easy by automating to bring up configuration infrastructure provisioning and upgrade and patching of the entire sddc stack this same platform can now be extended from your on-premise private cloud and delivered as a service on the public cloud through partnerships such as AWS IBM cloud and vCloud air you can run any application anywhere without needing to worry about infrastructure compatibility or service level agreements with VMware cloud foundation you can get to market eight times faster and be twice as productive while saving up to 45% in costs when compared to traditional approaches eliminate the complexity time and cost associated with building and managing your cloud infrastructure and get a best-in-class hybrid cloud infrastructure stack ready for any application today and in the future transform your enterprise now with VMware cloud foundation the unified software-defined data center platform for the hybrid cloud [Music] all right so that's the end of the video hopefully you enjoyed that Josh let me go ahead and change presenter over to you so you can start your presentation my favorite part of the video was a little rocket with the VM in it the rocket blasting off into space with a VM Josh are you there yes and that was the it was my favorite part too I kind of laughed I I didn't know that we sent VMs to space but I don't know awesome awesome I'm assuming you all can see my presentation and we're ready to rock and roll I can see your screen yeah take it away terrific so for you late comers several join while the video is playing my name is Josh Townsend I am a senior technical marketing architect with the integrated systems business unit at VMware and we are the business unit responsible for the product called BMR cloud foundation so what we're going to do today I kind of break it into two parts the first part and I'll try to keep this brief try not to refer to it as is this too often but we'll call the marketing fluff for now you know why what is the product what problem are we trying to solve why do you need it and what's going to happen once it's in your environment and then after that we'll get into the nuts and bolts of the product what are the components the process of actually deploying the the product and then how you can get started using the product or at least evaluating it further for your needs so the problem what problem is cloud foundation trying to solve when we look at the the current state of IT today we see two main modes of deployment there's still the private data center which is then a thing now for four decades and then there's the public service of providers of cloud providers on the private data center side you see a lot of complexity a lot of manual tasks just left over from days of you're very resource intensive and very uniquely built to each customer specifications it's tough to go from one customer to another and find the same thing in each place on the public side there's vendor lock-in you know once you deploy to AWS it's it's tough to get out management silos and uncontrollable costs and so you know so that's one side of the problem the other side of the problem and I already kind of alluded to this is is the manual tasks I think about deploying a a vSphere server I'm assuming most of you on this webinar are indeed vSphere administrators and so you install one ESXi server press f11 and enter a few times it's done but it's not right you still have to configure up links and passwords and DNS and MPP and post person you have to patch it on an ongoing basis on and on and on and that's just one host what happens when we bring in storage and networking things start to get a little busy start to get a little harder you're thinking about zoning and multipathing in Lunz and and how you carve up your your NFS volumes and VLANs and routing and and 802 ad and all that stuff just to make a simple cluster work if things did get better as vmware introduced be Sam and NSX weak compartmentalized probably isn't the right word but you know we kind of circle the wagons and make it easier to manage as a whole unit but it's not quite there yet it still requires a lot of manual tasks and not just on the provisioning side as you start thinking about the environment holistically it's really a lot of a day to test but the lifecycle management of your environment still quite a daunting chore for for many vSphere shops so what we see is that a lot of customers today are stillness do-it-yourself mode and it's not a great place to be from a flexibility standpoint sure you can you can choose whatever bits and pieces you want you know widget from vendor a and and it gives it from dunya be cool put it together it works but it's not going to be easy to use and you're not going to have what we call speed to value it's going to take you quite a while to recoup your investment you can do better if you build your own using DM or validated designs and for those who haven't heard of the DVDs we have complete documentation on how to deploy this year.this an NSX be realized everything all together how to do it the right way in in your environment and you can follow those and kind of build it yourself get a little more prescriptive in the hardware you use but you're still you know you've got some flexibility up these operations may be improves but it's not great so the ultimate then is going to be VMware cloud foundation where everything becomes fully automated it becomes a out-of-the-box cloud ready to use on day one really so give you an idea of where you are today and hopefully where you could be tomorrow and really the vision that VMware has is is this any epic sorry any cloud any application any device right being able to just really focus on those higher levels what the green bars here and in this presentation right focusing on the apps and and users and the devices and letting users go mobile that's what the business cares about see CTO is not going to walk into your office and say what did you do today and get really tickled pink when you say well I patched an ESXi host and it just doesn't mean that much anymore so by leveraging cloud foundation you can move up the stack and really deliver true business value much faster to your to your customer base so what is the the solution what is cloud foundation it's a unified vSphere Dees and NSX and a new product SBDC manager that's all brought together to provide a platform for the private cloud that has complete automated lifecycle management all around it you'll hear in the media that it's available both on-premise as well as as a service you can actually get VCF or being more cloud foundation in the public cloud as well as deploying an on-premise in your your private cloud and the benefits that you see here you know once you adopt it making a private cloud easy and fast to build right that's to me that's that's probably the huge value makes hybrid cloud real good marketing term I'm not sure what that means to be honest with you no but we really AM you know you think about deploying workloads where wherever they're best suited to run whether that's based on availability or cost whatever right that's that's hybrid cloud and VCF because it's available in both private and public clouds let's you realize that the hybridity which gives you the freedom to run any app anywhere and obviously much better TCO than just building things yourself and hoping to figure it out so the the ultimate here is simplicity right when we make the underlying infrastructure simple instead of the complexity of building ESXi hosts and configuring every little bit piece by itself we we see simplicity and we get standardization and then much better integration so VCF is built against the the same design principles that are in the VMware validated designs and it ensures us complete interoperability of the entire sddc stack so as you're layering additional products on top you can be sure that everything is going to work together correctly it is based on the hyper-converged architecture which gives you modularity and scalability and it's it's a fully engineered solution right don't think of it as as a bundling exercise right it's not vCloud suite it's not just throwing a bunch of products together and saying here buy this at a much higher cost and you might otherwise have this is a unified product brought together by the sddc manager component that that is going to be new to probably all of you on this call so what is SDBC manager do for us it takes ESX nfx be fan and be Center and and takes care of all of the days of day 1 and day 2 operations that that basic cloud infrastructure need it takes care of deploying the infrastructure itself it configures it correctly and uniformly across the environment no no human error coming in provides policy based provisioning of resources out of that that pool of resources in your private cloud and then it provides ongoing lifecycle management in the form of patching and upgrading of all the components and it does it all together intelligently so you don't get into the you know which comes first like you know do I patch the center first or go Apache ESXi first SVG scene manager knows so we'll look at that a little bit more and to to follow up with the rest of the marketing fluff if you will some of the outcomes that you might recognize as as you adopt cross foundation and and here the numbers that I have also include be realized suite huge TCO savings 30 to 40% and the customers that we've analyzed making them 2x more productive and six to eight times faster getting their cloud to market or getting it available to the business to actually use and probably more telling is a real customer case study a customer that we surveyed took 86 days in a day being eight nine hours 86 days to deploy the sddc stack now all the components of cloud foundation with cloud foundation they did it in four and a half days so so a huge huge savings you're able to provide infrastructure incredibly fast so the business can start using it which is where the real value comes in so once you adopt cloud foundation you're going to run stuff on it right it's no fun having an infrastructure if you don't actually use it so on top of it you're going to run horizon do you realize suite you can run integrated OpenStack Easter integrated containers and within that you're going to do all sorts of stuff your mission-critical apps containerized apps so deep workloads Internet of Things you know what whatever your workloads are cloud foundation can run them because it is built on the same foundation as as your existing private cloud today built on vSphere be San and NSX and again it is available in the public clouds today from IBM soon summer 2017 is the closest I can give you but that's that's Amazon Web Services where you'll be able to actually leverage cloud foundation out of AWS data centers and also from select VMware vCloud air network partners so with that we'll conclude act 1 and get into some hopefully more fun parts the the technical components that you know show you how this thing all comes together in the works so start with the physical side what is included in a cloud foundation environment its redundant power coming in from quad themes so availability very important running on qualified beasts and reading notes and the number of nodes that you're going to need it's going to be a 4 minimum up to 32 nodes per rack and up to 8 racks each each rack has a pair of top of rack switches for for connectivity between the servers in the rack itself there's also a management switch that sits in the rack as well for out of thought management that's your your I lower or drag connections and then finally interact switches I think leaf and spine type of network configuration so the spine would be these interacts which is so as you scale out multiple racks of cloud foundation these interact switches provide connectivity between the racks and will uplink to your network or the ready nodes there's a huge amount available to choose from but not all of them are compatible with cloud foundation so we have the link there at about the bottom VMware calm slash go slash cloud foundation - BCG will show you the compatibility guide specific to cloud foundation and you can see which of your vendors is providing VCF compatible ready notes today the ready nodes that you would buy can be all flash or they can be hybrid discs that is a mix of SSD and spinning disks for your vcn you see the the compute capacity that we can accommodate and then the network connectivity as well so visit that link if you're curious to see if any of your existing hardware I would support cloud foundation and definitely visit before you decide to purchase anything to make sure it is compatible so how can you get DCF with the consumption options today as I said you can do it on qualified DC and ready nodes and qualified networking today we have four vendors who do the ready nodes that's Dale Fujitsu QCT and HP Enterprise and the qualified networking would come from Cisco and Arista so that's one way you get all the components and and get it on-site and maybe a you know consultant company to come in and do it for you or if you're skilled enough you do it yourself you build it all up and assemble it and cable it and hope you got it right you know and it's good I like to think that there's a better way that better way in my mind is the integrated systems today available from Dell EMC in the form of BX RAC SD DC and from Fujitsu and their prime flex product with integrated systems these these systems come preassembled pre cabled so all the management switch and tapa rack switches are already cabled up for everything is in a known position ready to plug in turn on and run and as I already alluded to you can also get it from cloud service providers so today you can go to IBM bluemix and say here's my credit card I want to use cloud foundation and start consuming it be cloud our network partners are coming soon and Amazon Web Services is starting summer 2017 and you'll purchase those as a service I often asked also about Cisco UCS is that supported and UCS e-series is is support so that's the rack servers not the blades so the rep configuration looks something like this not too hard to imagine if you've ever been in a data center before top Labrecque switches are in the top of the rack followed by the management switch and then the the management domain this is where your V Center and other management components will run are going to be on the first four nodes in the rack and then after that will start to carve up our capacity into additional workload domains so basically clustering different servers together and again we're expandable up to eight racks the spine switches are or the interconnect switches will will provide us aggregation across all racks and up linking to your core you have to have homogeneous nodes within Iraq so let us say if you buy a decent already node based on Dell r6 30s then all the servers in the rack have to be configured in that way but that doesn't mean that every single rack has to be so you could say okay now I want to buy a rack that has bigger servers or smaller serves whatever you want to do each rack can be unique but the hardware within it has to be the same the physical network architecture I've alluded to this a few times so we don't need to spend a whole lot of time here but I do like to point out that there's a heck of a lot of bandwidth in the config that we we point out each each host each node in VCF has to 10kg connections coming out of it going to the top of X which the top of X which has both of them have a pair of 40 gig connections up to your data center network so it gives you a whole lot of bandwidth so it does truly scale correctly you're not going to meet bottlenecks unless you're running some some obscene network loads which maybe you should reconsider your network architecture at that one but a huge amount of network bandwidth available so what does sddc manager do right when you say okay I'm going to buy it I'm going to wheel it in turn it on what do I expect well the first step is obviously physical to point I have to wheel into my data center and I'm going to connect the power and the network up links to my network core and that's all done per site surveys that are accomplished ahead of time either from your integrated systems vendor or from the partner who's helping you with the DCN ready node do-it-yourself kind of approach we're going to do a power on inventory validation so as a system comes up sddc manager comes online and it checks all of the hardware that is out there you know figures out but it has to work with if you buy the integrated system so this would be the VX rack or prime flex products this is already done in the factory so you don't have to worry about this during the stage any DLA hardware is identified and addressed as necessary hopefully that that doesn't happen often and then from there we're going to gather some customer input this is some pretty basic stuff you know tell me about your data center what DNS servers should that going through what Active Directory servers ntp etc it's all in a very simple wizard and then what IP address ranges should should I be using for V motion V San and my VX LAN so you could just yield to find those for us if you don't there's there's some default things to choose from and then at that point the management cluster the first floor nodes and the first rack are stood up and that's going to have sddc manager running in it it's going to deploy the SDBC stack for you so it's going to deploy ESX on to the physical servers it's going to deploy be san and nsx it's going to create your visa and data store it will also configure the realized products do you realize login site and do you realize operations and it will turn on this your H a for you and it's building the experience environment the right way and then finally your sddc is ready to use will start to carve up what we call workload domains so for now it's kind of put the idea in your head and we'll cover local domains more in-depth further in the presentation but for now think of a workload domain as as a glorified vSphere cluster and you'll you'll see that it's actually more than that later but for now this think cluster so some of the other components that are deployed as part of this there's a lot of little bits under the cover that I want to describe to you the first is the VI a or via it's the imaging appliance this is what actually handles pushing out all the two software bundles all the bits and pieces that SDBC manager will deploy for NSX and V sanity's here and etc it handles pushing those types of things out getting the SDBC manager VM itself actually running so it's a very simple wizard and again if you're buying an integrated system the extra core prime flex this is done for you in the factory you don't have to worry about this but if you're building your own you know you'll use this tool then sddc manager is deployed during the imaging provide centralized access to your entire SBDC infrastructure the core underlying infrastructure st DC manager does not replace other vmware products it's not replacing the vSphere web client it's not replacing view realize automation or other tools that you might have rather augments them and provide that base level view of your private cloud resources so you can see what you have deployed you can see what capacity you have you can see what major tasks are running within your environment if you're doing configuration or upgrade tasks and be able to monitor monitor all that that low level stuff from this one new web-based dashboard again it's a clean simple UI it's it's going to deploy configure and manage all those base products and ongoing it's going to provide physical resource management workload domain management and the lifecycle management that the product brings in so quick point out some of the features here able to see your resources view the capacity of those resources create manage your workload domains all from one web interface there's hardware management services that run provides discovery bootstrap monitoring of hardware via your auto band connections it runs on the management switch actually and and you know keeps an eye on everything make sure it's healthy and if something does have a problem notifies sddc manager which will notify you of any problems there are infrastructure services VMs or ISBNs that run we provide three of these so you have redundancy and availability and we configure DRS anti affinity rules to make sure that there's always at least one is VM running even if you have multiple server failures and it provides a distributed data source service and distributed coordination service to ensure the health and accessibility of all your your cloud foundation services so it kind of runs in the background you don't have to deal with it but know that it's there and that we've thought through you know how it runs and how it stays available to make sure that all of your critical cloud foundation services stay running for you finally lifecycle management LCM is a huge huge part of cloud foundation it's built into the sddc manager access through the SDBC manager web interface provides automatic notifications when updates are available it will download and schedule the downloading of updates from your my VMware account to the cloud foundation instance and will view and monitor and track the status of actually pushing those updates out to your environment it includes an LCM repository and a backup repository kind of stay location as well as a Cassandra database that runs on the is TMS to keep a record of what's actually been patched and when and how sddc manager as I've already alluded to can can also deploy be realized login site and be realized we'll do that for you automatically put it into the management domain and and we'll monitor everything going forward for you so once running the management domain is deployed and we start thinking how do we deploy workload domains how do we start leveraging things we get into some of the basics of vSphere rights back to V sir clusters and distributed switches but what's different is you're not configuring these things manually this is all configured for you you say these are the IP ranges and the VLANs I want to use and it configures it all for you including deploying nsx edges and configuring you know routing between things correctly and deploys it all it it makes it simple simplification is really the name of the game on this and it's doing against standard vSphere components it does all of these things and I'm not going to bore you by reading bullet points but it fully automates the deployment of of NSX the deployment and configuration of it so NSX is ready to use so for those of you who say yeah Analects looks really cool maybe I did some hands-on labs with it you know I'd like to try it out but I just don't have the time to figure out how to install the thing how to use it in my environment it's too much I'm being asked to do too much can't add this one more thing in my plate well cloud foundation made everything really easy to deploy and took care of deploying NSX for you so you're not wasting time figuring out how to install a product there's no business value there you're spending time using the product to secure your business workloads there's a lot of value there so the software components give you an idea of what's out there and what lifecycle management will do for you the cloud foundation licensing includes the the imaging appliance the SDBC manager your your V Center and your platform services controller they're really one but deploys multiple VMs your ESXi any of these an and your NSX those are all part of the cloud foundation license when you buy the license from your reseller and you can see as we've moved from cloud foundation 2.0 to 2.12 to that 1.1 and today we're on to that 1.3 we continue to patch minor versions of these products as we go and before we just make a patch available to you to install it is fully tested fully validated and logic is pushed out to say this is the order that the patches need to be done in licensed separately but but managed by SDBC manager are going to be your VR ops your login site and the logging site agent horizon app volumes and and game are tools on the VMS that you push out then those are licensed separately but SDBC manager can fully deploy them for you there's also login site content packs and via ops management packs that as DBC manager knows about so with that the bits and pieces that are that are underlying hopefully interesting to an extent but really we're at an age where if you go to the public cloud you don't think much about which hardware they're running and how is it cabled right you just consume it you assume it's going to run and that's that's where we hope that cloud foundation can help take you in your private data centers so really the object of the interest becomes work load domains right this is where you're going to deploy your business workloads make things work so you know picture in your environment today you have a bunch of Eastern servers you've created a cluster you probably enabled DRS and h.a on it and say great know what you know deploy some workloads on it well do I need a management one and then the management one will manage a workload one how does that all work we we asked the same questions when we decide when we designed cloud foundation and we said the best way to do is to have dedicated vSphere clusters so we're going to have a dedicated cluster for management and then we offer two other types of workload domains one for virtual infrastructure is just running your standard VMs and one that runs your virtual desktop infrastructure so it will automatically deploy horizon create desktop pools and make them ready to run in a matter of minutes for you you can run multiple workload domains in parallel so your first four servers in the rack are going to be your management domain after that say you want to carve up seven servers and use that for virtual infrastructure go ahead tell your work will tell the SBDC manager how much resources you think you'll need it will choose the seven servers plug them in and start to use them same thing for virtual desktop infrastructure you know choose an X for you know it's very granular you can choose the right level for you and then each local of domain is deployed with its own dedicated vCenter server nsx manager and nsx controller cluster so you're able to almost have multi-tenancy right if your development group needs a worker domain and you want to give them vCenter access you can it's a V Center that's dedicated strictly to their workloads they're not going to muck up your on your other business critical applications that are running on a separate workload domain so let's break down these management domains and so the workload domains a little bit further we'll start with the management domain it's a special-purpose worker domain you're going to have one of them again comprised of the first four hosts some people say what happens if you know if I start deploying a lot of stuff in my management domain can I make a bigger yes you can scale it you know as as needed but we've tried to size it as appropriately as possible for the vast majority of workloads so it should fit you well initially the management domain is created automatically during the sddc manager bring up phase so it's all done for you and all the management components all the cloud infrastructure stuff runs it in Celestia manager your platform service controllers in V Center your login site your VR Ops your NSX all that runs in there and it has in addition as we deployed this other workload domains it will have the vCenter servers and the nsx manager VMs from from your workload domains the ones that are actually running your business VMs those will run in the management domain so you don't get into a case of the thing that's being managed has the manager inside of it right we keep the center out so even if all the hosts died vCenter would still live on and be able to manage them and keep configuration and keep things going so then the virtual infrastructure work will domain it's a dedicated vSphere cluster so we'll carve a cluster give it a vCenter server of its own that runs in the management domain and deploy your VMs on it when we think about the VDI workload domain we take a little further we deploy the full VDI infrastructure for you when you deploy a workload domain you specify the capacity the performance settings and the availability settings you want and we take care of the rest we we fully configure the vSphere you say in an nsx environment for you right away it just happens and then if you want to make the local domain bigger you can it's a couple clicks and more hosts are added to it and you've got more capacity if you don't need capacity you can delete workload domains you can scale them down you can eject toasts and and reclaim waste at the physical host level from your workload domain so looking at the shared components of workload domains and so this is particular to the management workload domain the the platform services controllers are shared they create a shared SSO domain that all of the other vCenter servers that are deployed and other workload domains will point back to they'll build leverage these PSC so you'll have single sign-on across your entire environment centralized monitoring and would be realizing log in site instances and then dedicated vCenter server and common DC anha and DRS policies and nsx controllers across the management domain so as you create a management sorry a workload domain many of them at this point the screenshot on the right is the actual screenshot from the workload domain creation wizard and SDBC manager so I'm dead simple you know what is the performance I need and this is going to be mostly particularly to two V Sam because the number of CPUs and the amount of memory in each piece and ready node is going to be fixed but you can choose do you want low balanced or high performance and low normal or high availability and what those settings are doing are playing with a failure to tolerate settings on V sin as well as object space reservations so you just dial it in as you need and off you go so as you create that workload domain very simple stuff that we're going to ask and this is an example of the virtual infrastructure workload domain what is the usage chain so this could be development this could be s ap or coordinate could be you know whatever and your organization name if you really want to put one in there choose the amount of resources that you want to reserve so you're just sizing it based on CPU memory and storage based on the number you put in here SK DC manager will figure out how many hosts you need to actually meet that demand and and add those to the workload domain for you again we're going to choose the the high medium low kind of settings here for performance and availability and some network settings excuse me so choosing your VLAN your subnets etc and off you go so the work domain is going to include a minimum of three hosts and do that for availability and it's going to again include its own dedicated vCenter server and nsx manager using those shared SSO servers from the management domain and it's going to be sized based on your calculations a little diagram here does kind of give you a mental picture of how it's all going to be deployed virtual San is going to be deployed that can be hybrid or it can be all flash we're going to carve up to disk groups per host and we're going to create just one VC and data store per workload domain so your v10 data start will span all the hosts that are in that workload domain and finally nsx will be deployed into the management domain and the controller cluster will be deployed into the workload domain and fully configured ready for use so off you go the VDI workload domain creation process is going to be pretty similar but it's going to be specific to to be more horizon so we're going to ask you the basic VDI usage name you know this is going to be the students of workload domain if you're an educational institute you know that kind of thing you're going to choose whether you want to deploy desktops immediately or if you just want to reserve the resources for the desktops later and you can go back and deploy them when you're ready you know maybe once you fine-tune your windows-based image that kind of thing you can choose your persistence type whether you want Lake clones or Foe clones and you can choose whether this is the desktops will be available just on the corporate network or if you'll be able to connect from anywhere if you choose connect from anywhere you'll get security server noir or the unified access gateways as we're naming them as we go forward you'll choose your desktop settings so this is the number of desktops that you want to be included in this work will domain and then choose the resources assigned per desktop so this is the number of CPUs amount of RAM and amount of virtual disk assigned to each desktop then finally choose the images that you want to work with so this is going to be your Windows Server ISO so that we can actually build your connection servers and security servers and whatnot for you and on availeth windows license key that you provide we're going to ask you for your Windows 7 OVA template so you're going to have a an OVA template authority you know fine-tune unneeded services are turned off antivirus installed and fine tuned etc all the stuff you would normally do in a VDI base image and then the password for that base image so that we can correctly access it and off you go so when we deploy the VDI workload domain you get all the same stuff as in the VI workload domain then we add horizon so that's horizon composure we're done in connection servers redundant security servers optionally we can deploy Active Directory servers for you if you don't want to point to your existing corporate ad or you know you can choose to just point to your corporate ad and we won't bother with with VCF deployed ad servers and finally we can deploy at volume servers for you as well so we've fully configured ready to run horizon environment in in really just a few simple clicks you've got desktops ready to give to your users you so workload domains are one huge part of the product right being able to just take a cloud environment that showed up overnight where it was real done your data center carve it up and make it ready to use give resources to the workloads that need them that's huge the second part of it that's huge is going to be your day to operations day to operations that that VCS can really help with are your patching and upgrading I often as I visit customers over the years especially as a consultant here you know I just I can't patch things I did a lot of work with with horizon customers I said oh I don't know if i patch composer first or vCenter first and if you do it in the wrong order you're in trouble you're not going to have a good week cloud foundation really fixes that for you so we offer upgrade bundles and update bundles so the upgrade bundles are going to be your quarterly releases so upgrade versions of all the components software usually containing new functionality and then the updates are published as needed so security fakes or you know some sort of patch or hot fix will will push out so Update Manager lifecycle management can handle both both types of updates the update bundles or upgrade bundles are all predefined we define them for you so you don't have to pick and choose and guess and hope you get it right or review compatibility matrices for hours on end we take care of that for you and then we pre validate all this we've done integration testing before we push it out to your cloud foundation instance and when I say push it out I don't mean we're just going to patch wheel amelie for you we're going to advertise that there is a patch available for you to choose and you can deploy it when you want to so as of cloud foundation 2.1 the things that we can automate the patching and upgrading for include SDBC manager ESXi the platform services controller the vCenter server your NSX components in BCAM you see on the right-hand column here the versions that are supported this is a little bit dated at this point again this was for cloud fun a Shinto dot one and we're on to dot one dot three and are expecting more version soon that will up these component versions further so in the future we also expect to be able to do full patching and upgrading for we realize operations login site horizon at volumes and probably some other products if you use your imagination there's there's a whole lot of capability right here that is available to you and also you say hey I just want to patch my environment if it runs via more stuff whatever that stuff is it can just get patched magically easily you don't have to think about it simple that's big it saves you a lot of time a lot of potential downtime and and hopefully a lot of frustrations is saved and not spent on on our products so the ultimate goal is to have FCC manager provide lifecycle automation across the entire VMware stack and they're coming soon there in the upper right hand corner kind of alludes to to what we have in mind so give you an idea of what the patching and upgrading interfaces look like you're going to receive an automatic notification when software becomes available so again VMware has fully tested the integration of the patches and it will make sure that we have complete interoperability between all the different components and and that the risk of failure when it's deployed to use is as low as can be will advertise it as you see in the the red box there highlighted for you hey there's an update you can view and download the available updates whenever you're ready so you see we have a software bundle that is released download it when you're ready see some here have already been downloaded to the repository that I have two new bundles that I could pull in as necessary you may see here in this slide that some artifacts here the product used to be called Evo rack or evil sddc so if you see those names we've we've changed the name to cross foundation they're they're synonymous so once the patches are downloaded you choose lended to deploy them and you're deploying them her workload domain so you could take down you know just the production workload the name one day you know after you've successfully deployed in the test and devoir codomain you know however you configured it you're going to schedule the date and time to apply the updates there's going to be just one update bundle active at a time right so you're not worrying about and did I deploy a bundle that I downloaded four weeks ago and am i deploying this you know different one that I downloaded yesterday at the same time no we don't let you do that we don't let you shoot yourself in the foot you're going to deploy one of the update bundles at the same time typically you're going to upgrade the management domain first and then take care of the others we take care of all the dependencies for you so if an update is dependent on another previous update we're not going to let you apply it right without having that that previous required update in place will one you hear the bright orange text saying hey timeout you got to do something else first buttons right there to let you download and and patch the previous required update and then you can carry on your your current version so you can see in the interface picture to the right that I have scheduled my updates for 319 p.m. I don't know who schedules things for the middle of the afternoon but that's that's what we chose here in our lab so scheduled and when when the updating begins you'll be able to see the process as it goes so we'll show you the number of tasks that are involved in that update and all the sub tests I'm patching these in are patching ESXi and patching NSX etc you can keep an eye on it as it's going and see when they're actually complete if an update fails you're going to see a failure message and then if it does fail which shouldn't happen often but you know on the occasion it does because of you know a dim was bad in the host or whatever you'll be restart the update once that failure has been resolved so it'll fix the bad dim go back in and say resume update and off it goes continues to patch right where it left off so two huge capabilities then right the ability to carve up your environment into the workload domains make make your infrastructure ready to run in doing it in a matter of days you know even hours making it ready to run and then lifecycle management ongoing taking and what oftentimes consumes a huge amount of virtual infrastructure admins time takes that and makes it go away so you can focus on things that are far more important right get rid of the patching nightmare and just run your infrastructure as though it's a cloud so if that sounds appealing to you how do you get started well first we have via more hands-on labs hopefully you all are well aware of hands-on labs at this point they're not just available at vmworld although it's a great time to do them but if i'm at v-- mode i like to attend sessions and you know meet people that i don't get to see very often so I'll do my hands-on labs at home or kick back with an adult drinking and click through and learn something so today we have a guided tour through the entire SDBC manager interface and the core capabilities of cloud foundation so a lot of the screenshots I saw today you will actually be able to click in and do some real stuff a little more exciting hopefully so do that if you do want to get an idea of the basic function whether you have sddc manager and what provisioning and lifecycle management looks like it only takes an hour or two if you're if you're interested in the technology you can work with either salespeople be it through a reseller or through your VMware sales rep to do a remote POC we do have some hardware available but you could access to do remote PLC's on excuse me and then finally we have a solution center out in our Palo Alto headquarters multiple racks of hardware from for multiple vendors that run the complete the amore cloud foundation software stack if you're going to do this usually you're a pretty serious purchaser really needing to get some hands-on fully understand that we'll bring you in for for anywhere from one to three days and do a guided engagement with our business units or our experts hands-on with you taking you through the entire product talking about your use cases how you go through it so speaking of use cases great time to start thinking where would I use this in my environment how would this solve my problems do I need to deploy a virtual infrastructure faster do I need VDI and you can talk about VDI but the deployment time and the quote that I got from my partner seems astronomical this can make it a lot simpler if it's just a few interface clicks and you have a full VDI environment that will be even self patching as as we saw in some future versions you know maybe you want to take on NSX and start to do some micro segmentation don't figure out how to deploy NSX by doing the installs and all the boring stuff figure out how to truly leverage it to protect your workloads so get an idea of how it would fit in your environment and start that conversation with your VMware partner European where sales rep and dig into what this really means for you so again just bounce back here to our consumption options to allows you what vendors are available to work with today the vendors that are available are our ever-increasing lot of the hardware community does want to work with us on this and are actively engaged in having their Hardware qualified so expect more coming down the pike so with that I'm going to leave you with a few links where you can learn more on our webpage our blogs our hands-on lab and the follow us on Twitter or the VMware communities and with that David I'll turn it back to you and we're going to go to some Q&A yeah excellent excellent presentation really lots of good in-depth info there on Cloud foundation and we have a lot of questions from the audience about you know what you talked about so I'm not going to try to filter them too much here I'll do my best but I'm just going to kind of run down the list we don't have a lot of time left for questions so let's just take them as they come in I guess so first one is can you kind of recap the difference between cloud foundation and VVD sure so vvd is is produced by the same business unit by our integrated systems business unit it's fully validated designs it's not Hardware it's not software it's just taking all the products and saying how do we best deploy them what design decisions do we have to make to ensure that these resources are available and accessible and and etc etc it's documentation so this is how you do it right if you're going to do it yourself cloud foundation is yeah it's great you know I trust me and where they wrote all that documentation I hope when they deploy a product they're going to follow it we do and you just want to buy the hardware and start actually using your cloud cloud foundation will do that for you and on top of that cloud foundation does offer the ability to create those workflow domains that we talked through you're not going to get that out of a vgd right that's not a construct it only exists within cloud foundation available through SDC manager and the same for the lifecycle management component you're only going to see that through cloud foundation ok Oscar here he's asking how many points of management essentially do you have I mean it does can you manage everything from sddc manager or do you have SDC manager for kind of the orchestration and upgrading and then you have the vSphere web client or how's that work yeah it's it's it's the latter so SDBC manager provides the you know the deployment of the physical resources and and will lay down your base software and do the patching for the day-to-day stuff if you want to clone a template to a new VM you're still going to use your VC web client for it you know I think we we all say where's my single pane of glass we've been asking for that for about 20 years 30 years right we it's probably not going to come what we've done is we've provided as two panes of glass as possible to to administer your environment the best way possible got it got it how is this different from VX rack they're asking so the ex wreck is Dells hardware implementation for cloud foundation so Belle chooses their hardware kit their switches they install cloud foundation for you they do the basic imaging of your of your environment ship it to you and turn it up you have SDBC manager as well as a few Dell specific add-ons you know specific to their hardware to use but it is Dells implementation of cloud foundation just like Fujitsu prime flexes is their implementation of cloud foundation okay what about VCE vision is that the same as SDBC manager um no it's mocha okay and then what about the difference between fgdc manager and a V realized suite yes so sddc manager is going to provide orchestration say zero day one day two type of stuff against the virtual infrastructure do you realize suite will monitor that virtual infrastructure right that's that's part of its job but the other part is monitoring and managing deploying providing content catalog through users to deploy IT services out of do you realize automation side more about the locals that run on top of VCF so really two different two different planes of Management two different purposes for them they fit together and in cloud foundation will will manage do you realize components for you going forward we we had a slide on that is that hopefully that explains it for you yeah yeah let's see can I bring my own licenses like with VX rail um yes so we have SKUs available for you to purchase where if you already have some components so you already have vSphere we can sell you a cloud foundation license that includes just the components you don't have so visa and NSX SDBC manager there are a whole lot of ways to do that just like purchasing any and any enterprise software there's all sorts of ways to do it to talk to your sales manager but short answers yes you can you can bring your own licensing ok and we'll do a few more questions but I know we're running over time now so let me go ahead and announce the winner of the Amazon 300 hour gift card that is Li Li si Han li li f e Hanley Haan lui congratulations we'll reach out to you via email if you have more questions or want to continue the QA stick around for a few more minutes if you have a few more minutes to do some QA josh dia yeah absolutely ok let's see just a few more questions there's a lot of good ones here so I want to try to get as many answered as we can is sddc manager included in the D Cloud suite it is not only available through cloud foundation okay and how is cloud foundation different from a private cloud or is it a private cloud so cloud foundation makes deploying your private cloud dead simple yeah if you were to deploy cloud foundation fully it is a private cloud okay and then you know you talked about deploying a lot of different components like during the setup yeah what they're asking here is once this whole cloud foundation is set up can the the admins on-site basically do whatever they want to it or did I have to call VMware today to make changes or how does that work where's the delineation line there yeah so there's a lot that the the admin can do themselves you shouldn't have to call VMware for anything unless you're poking around where you don't belong that said you do have to be careful with what you do it is possible if if you were to install an update to a component yourself and the inventory database didn't know about it it assumed you were still on VR off 62 and you would updated to 6 for you break lifecycle management capabilities so we're always looking for ways to improve on that but today you got a yes be careful a lot of that is in the documentation that's available to you okay and can cloud foundation run anything besides VMs like can it run containers um theoretically yes there's no reason why you couldn't create a DI workload domain and then deploy these four integrated containers inside of it absolutely no reason that you couldn't do that at all the only GOC is that it's not going to be automated for you yet okay let's see what about integration with V realized automation yes today in the version that's GA today we do not have integration would be realized automation but stop by the booths at vmworld and we can show you some neat stuff okay will there be a version that you don't have to use vfan but can you use your existing fan for storage it's a good question so in the version that's available today you can actually connect to external storage but we still require these hand to be available I don't know if we're ever going to have a Novus an at all option but you can use your external storage as it is today okay there's a couple questions here about partners Omar says we are a V can partner up the public V cloud provider can we offer VCS yes you can reach out to your partner benefit manager and start the conversation okay there's a new Intel processor coming out you know will that be supported so I think the question is basically you know when new hardware comes out how is that integrated or supported by vfc absolutely so it it will be within reason we do have the stipulation though that we we are going to test it we are going to validate thoroughly new hardware before we say yeah I go ahead and try it customer but we want to guarantee that your private cloud works and works correctly all the time got it and that makes sense because a huge part of ECF is availability and reliability all right I think that's all the time we have for questions but you know Josh you've got some great links up there on the screen the vm w ar e / VCF github page is really cool I've seen that before actually that's a great resource and of course the VMware hands-on labs are just an incredible totally free bring up some incredibly complex configurations at any time a great resource for everyone out there to go learn about cloud foundation NSX keys and you know everything the VMware has to offer thanks so much for being on the event today Josh yeah absolutely if you have further questions feel free to reach out to me get me on Twitter as you saw my handle earlier or any other way you want to track me down okay awesome awesome and thanks everyone out there for joining us on the VMware cloud foundation 101 event today make sure you check out some of those resources for more information and have a great day hi thanks everyone [Music] you

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Published: Thu Jul 06 2017