Rewatch my session with Onni Rautanen at VMworld EMEA 2019 where we cover the clouds that we are building together with Tieto.
Rewatch my session with Onni Rautanen at VMworld EMEA 2019 where we cover the clouds that we are building together with Tieto.
Description: In this session, you will get a technical deep dive into Tieto’s next generation service provider cloud hosting platform running on VMware vCloud Director Cloud POD architecture deployed on top of VMware Cloud Foundation. Administrators and cloud engineers will learn from Tieto cloud architects about their scalable design and implementation guidance for building a modern multi-tenant hosting platform for 10,000+ VMs. Other aspects of this session will discuss the API integration of ServiceNow into the VMware cloud stack, Backup and DR, etc.
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This article details all of my and Atlantis’ activities at VMworld US. Read more to get an introduction of what we will be doing and announcing and a sneak peek at our upcoming technology roadmap that solves some of the major business issues concerning performance, capacity and availability today. It is indeed going to be a VMworld with ‘no limits’ and one of the great innovations that we will be announcing is Teleport. More on this later!
No limits with Teleport
I’ll be at in San Francisco from Saturday 23rd August until Thursday 28th August where I’ll be representing the USX team and looking after the Hands on Labs, running live demos and having expert one on ones at the booth. Come and visit to learn more about USX and how I can help you get more performance and capacity out of your VMware and storage infrastructure. I’d love to hear from you.
Where can you find me?
Atlantis is a Gold sponsor this year with Hands on Labs, a booth and multiple speaking sessions. Read on to find out what we’ll be announcing and where you can find my colleagues and me.
Booth in the Exhibitor Hall
I’ll mostly be located at booth 1529, you can find me and my colleagues next to the main VMware booth, just head straight up pass the HP, EMC, NetApp and Dell stands and come speak to me on how USX can help you claim more performance and capacity from these great enterprise storage arrays.
Speak to me about USX data services and I’ll show you some great live demos on how you can reclaim up to 5 times your storage capacity and gain 10 times more performance out of your VMware environment.
Here’s one showing USX as storage for vCloud Director in a Service Provider context and also for Horizon View.
If that’s not enough then come and speak to me about some of these great innovations:
If you’ve been waiting for a VVOL compliant all software vendor to try VVOLs with vSphere 6 beta then wait no more.
VMware VVOL Support – all of your storage past, present and future instantly become VVOL compliant with USX.
Teleport – the vMotion of the storage world which gives you the ability to move VMs, VMDKs and files between multiple data centers and the cloud in seconds to improve agility (if you’re thinking its Storage vMotion, trust me it is not).
And more….
Location in Solutions Exchange
Sessions
We have three breakout sessions this year, two of them with our customers UHL and Northim Bank where Dave Rose and Erick Stoeckle respectively will take you through how they use USX in production.
The other breakout session is focused on VVols, VASA, VSAN and USX Data Services and will be delivered by our CTO and Founder Chetan Venkakesh (@chetan_). If you have not had the pleasure to hear Chetan speak before, then please don’t miss this opportunity. The guy is insane and uses just one slide with one picture to explain everything to you. He is a great storyteller and you shouldn’t miss it – even if it’s just for the F bombs that he likes to drop.
Chetan will also do a repeat 20-minute condensed session in the Solutions Exchange for a brain dump of Atlantis USX Data Services. Don’t miss this! Chetan will take you through the great new technology in the Atlantis kitbag.
This HOL consists of three modules, each of which can be taken separately or one after the other.
Modules 1 and 2 are read and click modules where you will follow the instructions in the lab guide and create the USX constructs using the Atlantis USX GUI.
Module 3 however uses the Atlantis USX API browser to quickly perform the steps in Module 1 with some JSON code.
All three modules will take you approximately an hour and a half to complete.
I had an interesting time writing this lab which was a balancing exercise in working with the limited resources assigned to my Org VDC. Please provide feedback on this lab if you can, it’ll help with future versions of this HOL. Just tweet me at @hugophan. Thanks!
Note that performance will be an issue because we are using the VMworld Hands on Labs hosted on Project NEE/OneCloud. This is a vCloud Director cloud in which the ESXi servers that you will see in vCenter are actually all virtual machines. Any VMs that you run on these ESXi servers will themselves be what we call nested VMs. In some cases you could actually see 2 more or nested levels. How’s that for inception? Just be aware that the labs are for a GUI, concept and usability feel and not for performance.
If you want to see performance, come to our booth!
VMware Hands on Labs with 3 layers of nested VMs!
Hands on Labs modules
Module #
01
Module Title
Atlantis USX – Deploying together with VMware VSAN to deliver optimized local storage
Module Narrative
Using Atlantis USX, IT organizations can pool VSANs with existing shared storage, while optimizing it with Atlantis USX In-Memory storage technology to boost performance, reduce storage capacity and provide storage services such as high availability, fast cloning and unified management across all datacenter storage hardware.The student will be taken through how to build a Hybrid virtual volume that optimizes VMware VSAN allowing it to delver high performing virtual workloads from local storage.
Build an USX Capacity Pool using the underlying VMware VSAN datastore
Build an USX performance pool from local server RAM
Build a Hybrid USX virtual volume suitable for running SQL Server
Present the Atlantis USX virtual volume to ESX over NFS
With Atlantis USX In-Memory storage optimization, processing computationally extensive analytics becomes easier and more cost effective allowing for an increased amount of data being processed per node and reduced the time to complete these IO intensive jobs, workloads may include Hadoop, Splunk, MongoDB.During this lab the student will be taken through how to build an Atlantis USX virtual volume using local server memory.
Build an USX Performance Pool aggregating server RAM from a number of ESX hosts.
Log into the web based management interface, and connect it the vCenter hosting the ESX infrastructure
Export the memory from the three ESX hosts onto the network using Atlantis aggregation technology.
Combine the discrete RAM resource into a protected performance pool with the Pool creation wizard.
Build an In-Memory virtual volume suitable for running a big data application
Run through the Create Virtual Volume wizard selecting In-Memory and deploying the In-Memory Virtual Volume
Present the Virtual Volume (datastore) to ESX over NFS.
Add the newly created datastore into ESX.
Module Objectives
Development Notes
The use case for this lab is increasing application performance by taking advantage of the storage optimization features in Atlantis USX.Estimated module duration: 30 minutes
Module #
03
Module Title
Atlantis USX – Using the RESTful API to drive automation and orchestration to scale a software-based storage infrastructure
Module Narrative
Atlantis USX has a powerful set of RESTful APIs. This module will give you insight into those APIs by using them to build out a Virtual Volume. In this module you will:
Connect to the USX API browser and review the available APIs
Create a Capacity and Memory Pool with the API
Create a Virtual Volume with the API
Module Objectives
Development Notes
The intent of this lab is to provide an example of how to use the Atlantis USX RESTful API to deploy USX at scale.Estimated module duration: 15 minutes
Giveaways
Oculus giveaway! See the reality in software defined storage
That’s right! I’ll be giving some of these away at the booth, make sure you stop by to see the new reality in software defined storage!
You can also pick up some of the usual freebies like T-shirts, pens, notepads etc.
There are also Google Glasses, Chromecasts, quad copters and others. We’re also working on something special. Watch this space.
Live Demos at the Booth
Come and speak to me and my colleagues to learn how USX works. We will be running live demos of the following subjects:
USX – Storage Consolidation for any workload on any storage.
USX – Database Performance Acceleration.
Run Tier-1 workloads on commodity hardware.
Run Tier-1 high performance workloads on non all-flash or hybrid storage arrays.
USX – All Flash Hyper-Converged with SuperMicro/IBM/SANdisk.
USX – Teleport (think vMotion for VMs, VMDKs and files over long distances and high latency links). Come talk to me for a live demo.
Beam me up Scotty!
USX Tech Preview – Cloud Gateway – using USX data services with AWS S3 as primary storage.
USX – VDI on USX on VSAN.
VDI – NVIDIA 3D Graphics.
Atlantis Events
SF Giants Game
SF Giants Game, Mon, Aug 25th at 19:00. Please contact your Atlantis Representative or ping me a note if you haven’t received an invite.
USX Partner Training & Breakfast, Wed, Aug 27th at 08:00. Please contact your Atlantis Representative or ping me a note if you’re an Atlantis Partner but have not received an invite.
Let’s meet up!
If you’re at VMworld or in the SF Bay area then let’s meet up and expand our networks.
Please influence the success of VMworld by spending some time to vote for the sessions that you would like see at San Francisco and Barcelona. Voting is as simple as a left mouse click, by going to http://www.vmworld.com.
This year I decided to submit three sessions for VMworld based on work that I have done over the past few months.
However, only one of which is available for public voting, the other two, unfortunately, are deemed top secret and cannot be disclosed until VMworld. Let’s hope they make it as they are different and focussed on real-life use cases and customer design considerations of product features based on VMware’s upcoming releases. Get your cool-aid ready.
Session ID: 2335
Title: Bring Your Desktop to Your Mobile – Bringing EUC to the User
Abstract: With EUC becoming more prevalent in organizations that demand agile, mobile and secure client computing, the use of thin clients and all in one devices are ever becoming the normal operating model of organizations deploying EUC.
The use of mobile devices such as smartphones to access VMware View desktops could be the option going forward.
Let’s bring EUC to the user by allowing the user to access secure VMware View sessions on their own devices eliminating the need for organizations to manage the thin client devices.
Tracks: End-User Computing
Technical Level: Business Solution.
This session focuses on the possibilities of using Horizon Mobile to allow secure computing from mobile smartphone devices (cell phones). I’ve briefly blogged about it in my previous post to give you a taster. If the session is accepted, I’m hoping to make it stand out by including gadgetry, big screens and the like for a live demonstration with a little help from some friends. There won’t be any PowerPoint that’s for sure!
