Navigating your hybrid multicloud vision with IBM Power Systems Joe Cropper Senior Technical Staff Member Chief Architect IBM Power Systems Hybrid Multicloud Management July 2020 IBM Power Systems Contents 01 02 03 Life in a hybrid multicloud world Hybrid multicloud High-level motivators and use cases reference architecture 04 05 06 Reference journey to the Deploy hybrid cloud on Seamlessly integrate with hybrid multicloud IBM Power Systems IBM Power Systems 01 | Life in a hybrid multicloud world Life in a hybrid multicloud world Cloud computing has undoubtedly changed how A clear vision enterprise IT is delivered. It has opened the door to compute and storage resources without A recent Gartner survey showed that 81% of limits, as well as a wealth of cloud services (e.g., organizations utilizing public cloud services are 1 artificial intelligence, weather data, etc.) for IT using more than one public cloud provider. And, administrators to leverage and create the next according to the RightScale 2019 State of Cloud wave of enterprise innovation. This paper provides report, “Enterprises are prioritizing a balance of a practical guide for IBM Power System™ users public and private clouds.”2 to gain an understanding of the POWER® cloud Hybrid multicloud has become a reality for portfolio and how to map out a journey to a secure enterprise and technology leaders. Yet, there is and reliable hybrid multicloud infrastructure. a need for a clear vision of how to navigate and Navigating a complex IT infrastructure operate in this environment. Today, cloud computing provides many What is hybrid multicloud? opportunities to run your enterprise infrastructure A hybrid cloud is a computing environment that more effectively including on-demand access to combines a private cloud and a public cloud compute resources, disaster recovery solutions, by allowing applications and data to be shared invisible infrastructure maintenance, security between them. A multicloud refers to a cloud patches and more. Whether you’re creating environment made of more than one cloud service, an on-premises private cloud, leveraging from more than one cloud vendor. Thus, a hybrid one or more off-premises public clouds (i.e., multicloud combines a private cloud, a public multicloud) or taking a hybrid cloud approach, cloud and more than one cloud service, from more cloud infrastructure capabilities can expand your than one cloud vendor. business opportunities. A multicloud strategy can unlock tremendous Given this broad range of technologies, how can organizational value because it combines the best IBM Power Systems users, running IBM AIX®, IBM of both private cloud and public cloud. It allows i and Linux® enterprise apps, understand these organizations to run mission-critical applications 81% capabilities and create a technology roadmap in an and host sensitive data on-premises. It offers approachable and methodical manner? the flexibility of public cloud. And, it enables the movement of information between the private and organizations using public services. more than one public 1 cloud provider 3 02 | Hybrid multicloud motivators and use cases Hybrid multicloud motivators and use cases There are several motivators driving enterprises to by adopting Power Systems hybrid multicloud Modernize existing applications to adopt Integrate IBM Power Systems with the broader construct a hybrid multicloud platform. Let’s explore technologies and processes within the data center. cloud-native software development cloud strategy some of the more prevalent scenarios for POWER principles (e.g., containers and customers (several of them are often pursued in Increase operational and budgetary microservices) As the industry shifts towards hybrid multicloud, parallel): flexibility by way of levering IBM Power a comprehensive cloud management strategy has Systems in a public cloud Containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat® OpenShift® become increasingly important. According to the Deliver streamlined deployment of enterprise have unquestionably transformed how software RightScale 2019 State of Cloud Report, “enterprises, resources, including AIX, IBM i and Linux One of public cloud’s major advantages is that it is packaged, installed and operated — paving the optimizing cloud costs (84 percent in 2019 vs. 80 virtual machines (LPARs) and containerized provides effectively limitless access to compute way for new software delivery models. To that end, percent in 2018) and cloud apps capacity billed as an operational expense. With a enterprises worldwide are exploring container few clicks of the mouse on cloud.ibm.com, users technology and developing plans on how to governance (84 percent in 2019 vs. 77 percent in 2 Users have grown to expect easy and on-demand get immediate access to new virtual machines or integrate them into their technology stacks, while 2018) are growing challenges.” Long gone are the access to IT resources through a cloud experience. containers — where they want, when they want. delicately balancing the ongoing business need days of building siloed infrastructures. Enterprises are Developers, QA engineers and line-of-business IBM Cloud is the perfect place to spin up QA, to deploy, manage, operate and integrate with striving towards a model of interconnectedness so that users want simplified access to infrastructure production or high availability (HA) and disaster today’s virtual machine-based applications. the collective strength of their platforms and cloud and applications. IT administrators want trusted recovery (DR) environments for your Power providers can be leveraged to create the next wave of enterprise-grade security and simplified operations. Systems estate. innovation. Streamlining all of these processes is made possible 4 03 | High-level reference architecture High-level reference IBM Power Systems Other Compute Infrastructure architecture Architected for emerging and mission critical apps Shown here in Figure 1 is a hybrid multicloud reference Existing apps Emerging apps architecture inclusive of the major industry hardware platforms Mission critical Data Intensive Containerized Cloud native — IBM Power Systems™, IBM Z® and x86. Power Systems is architected to economically scale mission-critical data- Containerized Cloud Paks intensive apps, either virtual-machine based or containerized apps Application Data Apps running on — delivering industry leading reliability to run them and reduce IBM Z and x86 the cost of operations with built-in virtualization to optimize Red Hat OpenShift capacity utilization. It also provides flexibility and choice to deploy apps in the cloud of your choice. the Ansible automation across From a cloud deployment perspective, the on-premises entire hybrid multicloud private cloud solution includes PowerVC that provides the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) layer and Shared Utility Capacity (previously Enterprise pools 2.0) to deliver a pay-per- Choose where you deploy (on-prem, public, private) use consumption model with permanent activation of installed capacity. These solutions deliver agility and economics IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management: of cloud in an on-premises environment while enabling Securely automate deployment, management and governance of multi-platform clouds organizations to rapidly respond to shifts in workload demand. Power Systems servers are also available in the IBM Cloud Private Cloud Solution and other public clouds, providing flexibility and choice Shared Utility Capacity to deploy HA/DR, DevTest and more. Sitting atop the IBM Cloud infrastructure layer is Red Hat OpenShift, which provides the enterprise Kubernetes platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer. Low upfront Pay per use Optimun Other Public Clouds cost consumption resource OpenShift users can run their software of choice, including utilization IBM’s enterprise software delivered via IBM Cloud Paks™, Cloud environments on ISV software, open source software and custom enterprise On-Prem IaaS: IBM PowerVC IBM Z and x86 software. To manage and operate everything from a centralized location, the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management can be Other Compute used to connect the historically separate cloud infrastructures. Power Systems Infrastructure Lastly, the Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform can be Infrastructure leveraged across the entire landscape to provide a consistent approach to manage all of your operating systems, cloud infrastructures — regardless of the platforms you’re running. Figure 1: Cloud Architecture 5 04 | Reference journey to the hybrid multicloud Reference journey to the Explore in parallel hybrid multicloud Journey to hybrid multicloud with IBM Power Systems While each organization will have its own unique characteristics, Figure 2 serves as a general blueprint to guide POWER users through the myriad of cloud technologies and remove the mystery from the journey. The path to hybrid multicloud begins with a solid foundation of infrastructure and hardware management capabilities. From there, users are directed towards establishing a cloud experience Traditional IT Private Cloud Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud within their own data center (i.e., a private cloud), offering simplified virtualization management and Leverage enterprise Ensure business continuity Quickly provision VMs for QA Deploy your apps where automation with with on-demand capacity or production usage you want, when you want operations, advanced automation and a platform to existing infrastructure Modernize existing apps or Create HA/DR environment Simplify