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Cloud Infrastructure and Services Version 2 Lab Guide Cloud Infrastructure and Services Version 2 Lab Guide October 2014 EMC2 PROVEN PROFESSIONAL Copyright Copyright © 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 2013, 2014 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” EMC CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use, copying, and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. 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All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. © Copyright 2014 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. Revision Date: 10-17-2014 Revision Number: 1.0 MR-1CP-CISV2 EMC2 PROVEN PROFESSIONAL Document Revision History Rev # File Name Date 1.0 First Release 10/17/2014 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 3 This page intentionally left blank. 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 4 Table of Contents COPYRIGHT .......................................................................................................... 2 DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY ........................................................................... 3 LAB 1: CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE LAYERS .............................................................. 7 LAB 2: SERVICE MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY ................................................... 13 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 5 This page intentionally left blank. 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 6 Lab 1: Cloud Infrastructure Layers Purpose: To reinforce the concepts presented in the lecture portion of the course, module 1 through module 6. Tasks: Participants are required to provide a solution for the deliverables based on the given scenario and requirements. References: Module: Introduction to Cloud Computing Module: Building the Cloud Infrastructure Module: Physical Layer Module: Virtual Layer Module: Control Layer Module: Service and Orchestration Layers 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 7 Company Profile A financial organization has 6000 employees and provides services to more than 20 million customers. To deliver IT services to its business units, the organization operates two data centers at two different geographic locations. The data centers run their business applications on more than 300 physical compute systems. The infrastructure components (compute systems, network devices, and storage devices) are heterogeneous in nature. Some of the applications are proprietary (developed in‐ house by the organization) and some of them are off‐the‐shelf. Organization’s Challenges Over the past 10 years, the organization has made several strategic investments to build its market share. However, the organization is now facing a challenge to cope with the fast changing demands of customers about services provided by the organization. These demands are forcing the organization to develop and deploy several new applications and make the services available to the customers rapidly. With the current infrastructure, rapid deployment of application is very difficult. The utilization of the compute systems, network, and storage is less than 20 percent of the available capacity. Also, deploying a new application takes a long time because it involves purchasing new compute systems, installing software, configuring network and storage, and configuring security. Continued on next page 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 8 Deliverables The organization wants to transform their existing data center to cloud infrastructure to leverage the benefits of cloud. They would like to build the cloud infrastructure by repurposing their existing infrastructure. After deploying new services to the consumers the organization is expecting cloud burst to occur from time to time. They do not want to invest money on the infrastructure to provision resources to meet the requirements of the occasional increase in the peak workload. The organization plans to develop several new applications to offer new services to their customers. The proprietary application provides the organization competitive advantage and they therefore want to set up an environment for it on their infrastructure. They also require the environment to enable development, testing, and deployment of scalable applications in an agile manner. They also want to set up an environment to deploy the proprietary and off‐the‐shelf applications. As the existing infrastructure is heterogeneous nature, the organization requires the ability to automate the provisioning and configuration tasks based on defined policies. The organization requires the ability to dynamically, uniformly, and easily modify and manage their infrastructure. Also, the organization requires the ability to discover the available underlying resources and provides an aggregated view of the resources. Continued on next page 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 9 Solution: The organization needs to deploy the virtual, control, orchestration, and service layers on the existing physical layer to build the cloud infrastructure. Following points details how different layers and approach address the organization’s challenges: 1. Deploying virtual layer: a. Enables improving the utilization of infrastructure components i. With the help of VMs, VLANs, VSANs, thin LUNs and so on b. Enables rapid deployment of compute systems for applications i. With the help of VM template and virtual appliance 2. Deploy orchestration layer: a. Enables automated provisioning and configuration of tasks based on defined policies 3. Software‐defined approach: a. Ability to dynamically, uniformly, and easily modify and manage their infrastructure b. Ability to discover the available underlying resources and provides an aggregated view of the resources 4. Brownfield deployment option and integrating best‐of‐breed cloud infrastructure components a. Enable repurposing their existing infrastructure to build the cloud 5. Hybrid deployment model a. Enable accommodating increased peak workload that may occur from time to time Continued on next page 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 10 6. Platform as a Service a. Enable development and testing of scalable applications in an agile manner 7. Infrastructure as a Service a. Enable deployment of proprietary and off‐the‐shelf applications End of Lab 1 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 11 This page intentionally left blank. 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 12 Lab 2: Service Management and Security Purpose: To reinforce the concepts presented in the lecture portion of the course, Module 8: Security and Module 9: Service Management Tasks: Participants are required to provide a solution for the deliverables based on the given scenario and the requirements. References: Module: Security Module: Service Management 2 EMC PROVEN PROFESSIONAL 13 Scenario A cloud service provider uses 50 percent of its data center equipment to setup a cloud infrastructure. The remaining equipment is used for internal operations and for testing. The cloud infrastructure consists of a hypervisor cluster. A resource pool is created by aggregating the available resources of the hypervisor cluster. The cloud infrastructure is used to provide compute services. The services are allocated necessary processing power and memory resources from the resource pool. The hypervisor cluster is composed of 10 identical physical compute systems containing 2 redundant (passive) compute systems. This means that the cluster can absorb up to two compute system failures and continue to support all services at the same level of performance.
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