Cloud computing is here to stay. On demand computing, self service, completely metered and easily scalable characteristics of cloud are very attractive and a breath of fresh air from the typical IT managed infrastructure. But adopting and moving to cloud has its own challenges. As a leader in online games, EA is stretching the boundaries of various hosting options including public and private cloud. Let us take you through the journey that details the process of comparing, contrasting, evaluating various providers, platforms and tools.
4. Hard Problem: Capacity Management
3 out of 4 cases it is going to be wrong. We
tend to build in the Safe to Wasteful zones
Above.
Doing it right requires Extreme Agility.
5. Capacity management
• Capacity management
• Has been a hard problem across the industry
• Highly underutilized infrastructure
• Typical average CPU usage is 10%-20%
• Higher utilization is key to infrastructure investment ROI
• Multi tenancy and Resource pooling is a necessity to increasing utilization
• Usage metering and billing become very important in resource pooled
environments
6. Infrastructure Management
• Managing disparate resources spread all over the globe is a hard
problem
• How do you get visibility into all the resources you have?
• How do you maximize capacity utilization?
• How do you react to changing demands quickly?
• How do you manage across your own resources and public cloud?
• How do you do this in near real time?
Need A Good infrastructure management Platform
7. Migration into future state
• Current legacy
• Legacy processes
• Tools
• Skills
• Need to run current business while evolving to future state
• Need to maintain SLA
Invest/innovate in new while running current platform!
11. Cloud
Components and
Services
H/W & Virtualization = Engine
Cloud Services = Chassis, Body
Management Tools = Dashboard,
controls, Steering wheel
Security
Monitoring
User
Interface
MultiTenancy
Recovery
Self Service
Provisioning
Hypervis
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Cloud
Platform
12. Typical challenges
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Many Resource Pools
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Bare metal
Virtualized
Public Cloud
Possibly private cloud
Lack of comprehensive
visibility
Lack of governance due to
direct consumption
Lack of standardization
THINK BIG!
THINK HOLISTICALLY!
13. Evaluation Approach
• Detailed RFP for evaluation (akin to Job Description)
• Operational and functional use cases
• Business & Technical success criteria
• Pricing
• Score RFP (akin to short list candidates)
• Conduct POCs (akin to onsite interviews)
• Setup Demo/POC environments
• Execute use cases on working platform. Seeing is believing.
Create options! Options provide negotiation power.
14. Use case areas
• Tenant Management
• Create a private cloud and register a Tenant
• Assign granular access to cloud services for a User/Tenant including
quota limits
• Service Management
• Self-Service Portal/API
• Service Catalog
• Provisioning
• Create Instances of different sizes and types
• Automation of creation/provisioning of cloud, Instances and Services
• Multi-Tenancy through Security Groups
• Scalability
• Auto Scale out/down
15. Use case areas
• Orchestration
• Automate server builds
• Automate application deployment workflows
• Metering
• Track Usage of service
• Cloud based pricing showback/chargeback
• Monitoring
• Infrastructure and App Monitoring
• Resource Utilization
• Asset Management
• Ease of adding/removing cloud resources
• Resource view across all clouds.
• High Availability
• Shared storage/Share-nothing live migration
• Auto migration of instances
16. Single Pane Management
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Inventory of all assets in
all locations
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Physical
Virtualized
Public
Visibility into workloads
running
Visibility into resource
Utilization
Consolidate underutilized
resources
