The session "Enabling the Private Cloud – building a private cloud with Hyper-V and System Center" was hosted by one of Intergen's VTSPs, Andrew Kosmadakis and Cisco NZ's Conrad Bullock. This was part of Microsoft New Zealand Cloud OS Summit in Auckland and Wellington, March 2014.

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3. Private Cloud – Hardware
• Hardware Infrastructure Layer
• Virtual and Physical Servers
• Multiple Hypervisors
• Blade and Rack Form Factors
• Integration with Existing Data Centre
• Network, Storage, Management
• Management Integration
• Hybrid Cloud – Public Cloud Integration

4. UCS Manager
Comprehensive Role-Based Management and
Automation for
Ease of Integration and Operation
Unified Fabric
Best-of-Breed Cisco Networking for Powerful
Simple Operation With FEX Architecture, FCoE,
Unified Ports
Virtualised I/O
Innovation for Scalable Flexibility
With Industry Leading Performance
and a Certified I/O Stack
Compute Without
Compromise
Support for Both Blade and
Rack-Mount Servers in a Single
UCS Managed Domain
What is Cisco UCS?
STANDARD
API’S
XML API

5. Traditional Element Configuration
Cisco UCS Manager
• Subject matter experts
consumed by manual
configuration chores
• Serial processes and multiple
touches inhibit provisioning
speed
• Configuration drift
and maintenance challenges
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LAN SAN
Network
SME
Server
SME
Storage
SME
Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software

6. UCS Service Profiles
Configuration Portability
SIM Card
Identity for a Phone
Service Profile
Identity for a Server
UCS Service Profile
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy

7. UCS Management with System Center 2012
Ease IT management through a single interface
Operations
Manager
Orchestrator
Management Pack Integration Pack
Unified Compute System
Software
Integration
Infrastructure
UCS Manager XML API
Physical Virtual&
Virtual Machine
Manager
UI Extension
.NET Library

8. FlexPod
Joint Cisco and NetApp Solution for Private Cloud
• Platform that hosts infrastructure software and
business applications in a virtualised and bare-
metal environment.
• Tested and validated by Cisco and NetApp
against wide range of hypervisors, management
platforms, applications
• Benefits
• Right-sized for scale
• Efficiency via unified storage, management
and networks
• Secure Multi-tenancy
FlexPod

9. Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture
Utilizes Hyper-V Extensible Switch Platform
Nexus
1000V VSM
Extensible vSwitch
Nexus 1000V VEM
VM VM VM VM
VNICs
Advanced NX-OS feature-
set
Innovative Services
architecture (vPath)
Consistent operational
model
SCVMM Integration
PNICs

10. Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture
Utilizes Hyper-V Extensible Switch Platform
Nexus
1000V VSM
Extensible vSwitch
Nexus 1000V VEM
VM VM VM VM
VNICs
Advanced NX-OS feature-
set
Innovative Services
architecture (vPath)
Consistent operational
model
SCVMM Integration
PNICs

11. Pooled Resources
Self-service
Elastic
Usage-based
Control
Customisable

13. • Manages the Private Cloud
• Library and Host Management
• Beyond VM Deployment – Service and
Lifecycle management
• Administration

14. • Starting point for VMs
• Specifies Hardware, Guest Profile,
Disks
• Specifies single machine
• “Fire and Forget”
• Windows and Linux support
• Starting point for services
• Defines multi-machine distributed
application
• Specifies multiple machines across
multiple tiers
• Windows and Linux support

15. • Operations Manager
• Performance and Resource Optimization
• Monitors health and performance of virtual machines
• SCVMM provides the capability to use SCOM’s
reporting functionality
• Orchestrator
• Create, modify, turn on/off and restart virtual machines
and services
• Move VMs
• Checkpoint VMs
• Scale out services
• SCORCH is used by Windows Azure Pack and System
Center Service Manager

17. start now.
http://www.Microsoft.com/
PrivateCloud
andrewko@intergen.co.nz
@KozNZ
cobulloc@cisco.com
@ConradAtCisco