Understanding the HP CloudSystem Matrix Technology Technical white paper Table of contents Introduction..................................................................................................................................2 Overview: HP CloudSystem Matrix .................................................................................................3 How CloudSystem Matrix is used ...................................................................................................4 Designing and provisioning infrastructure services ........................................................................5 Optimizing the infrastructure for capacity planning and showback/chargeback.............................13 Protecting service continuity with automated cost-effective failover and disaster recovery .................16 Enabling technology ...................................................................................................................17 BladeSystem c-Class................................................................................................................17 Virtual Connect.......................................................................................................................18 Matrix Operating Environment..................................................................................................20 Multi-tenancy features in Matrix OE...........................................................................................20 Cloud Service Automation for Matrix.........................................................................................21 Storage technologies...............................................................................................................21 Security .................................................................................................................................22 Integrating HP CloudSystem Matrix into customer environments ....................................................22 Expanding beyond IaaS: CloudSystem portfolio .........................................................................24 Purchase and delivery .................................................................................................................25 HP services to make the most of CloudSystem.............................................................................27 Ready capacity when business demands with bursting and pay-as-you-use resources ......................28 Summary and conclusion.............................................................................................................29 Appendix A: Implementing an IaaS ..............................................................................................30 Appendix B: HP CloudSystem Matrix use cases..............................................................................30 Move your Test & Development environment to a Cloud ..............................................................30 Expand the Cloud to include your production infrastructure ..........................................................30 Deliver and monitor both infrastructure and applications..............................................................30 Appendix C: HP Cloud Maps—an example...................................................................................31 Glossary of terms........................................................................................................................34 For more information...................................................................................................................37 Introduction Businesses are moving to the cloud in accelerating numbers. Business users recognize cloud advantages that help speed innovation, accelerate business processes, and reduce time to revenue. Frequently, these users turn to public cloud services for the solutions they need. In fact, a Forrester study found that business is adopting cloud 2.5 times faster than is IT operations.1 IT directors, faced with the challenges associated with the rush to cloud-based services, are concerned: how can IT maintain adequate security, ensure service levels, integrate cloud-based services with existing traditional IT systems, and provide governance across the entire IT value chain? In addition, IT directors want to be sure that the decisions they make today about cloud technology suppliers don’t prevent them from innovating in the future. At the same time, IT departments are under tremendous pressure to keep pace with business demand. While IT infrastructure has made significant advances in performance and availability, the effort to meet increasing business demands has frequently led to “IT sprawl.” Computing resources proliferate, but remain underutilized and too hardwired to redeploy easily when business needs change. IT increasingly employs virtualization and automation to improve the flexibility and increase utilization of computing resources. However, this course has not yet eliminated the issues of over-provisioning and complexity. Too frequently, IT resources are dedicated to a particular application or business unit and any excess capacity remains unavailable for other uses. IT continues to be hampered in its ability to focus its resources on strategic objectives and driving innovation, resulting in slow time to revenue and lost opportunity. IT departments are evolving from the role of sole supplier to becoming both builder and broker of IT services. As such, IT must build its capability as an internal service provider that matches the transparency and flexibility of externally available services, as well as be able to source and consume services from a network of trusted suppliers. HP offers you a path to providing secure, predictable cloud-based services through Converged Infrastructure. Your IT staff can consolidate physical and virtual server, storage, and network assets into pools of virtualized resources. These resource pools can host sets of infrastructure services, which typically map to application services, including complex multitier, multi-node applications. IT personnel can flexibly provision and re-provision services, and can confidently optimize the underlying resources for performance, resiliency, and efficiency. HP Converged Infrastructure technologies are at the core of the HP CloudSystem portfolio: a comprehensive, integrated, and open solution that provides IT with a unified way to provision and manage services across private, managed, and public clouds. HP CloudSystem equips you to respond to customers or business units faster, more predictably, more efficiently, and with lowered costs. HP CloudSystem offerings provide a range of services as well as an avenue for growth and expansion. As shown in Figure 1, HP CloudSystem has three integrated offerings. • HP CloudSystem Matrix: Enables you to deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and provisions infrastructure and basic applications in minutes. • HP CloudSystem Enterprise: For those looking to deploy private and hybrid cloud environments and the full range of service models (IaaS, platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). This offering provides a single service view of your environments, from private cloud to public clouds to traditional IT, with advanced application-to-infrastructure lifecycle management. • HP CloudSystem Service Provider: Public or hosted private cloud designed for service providers to provide a public cloud IaaS and SaaS, including aggregation and management of those services. 1 Forrester Research, Inc., Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business, March 24, 2011 2 Figure 1: Three integrated HP CloudSystem offerings for a full range of cloud capabilities This whitepaper describes the HP CloudSystem Matrix solution, with a focus on how it delivers IaaS. The document is intended for IT directors, IT architects, solution architects, and other readers who are familiar with current HP BladeSystem offerings and existing server virtualization technology. The content should assist you in understanding how HP CloudSystem Matrix can benefit your IT environments with more flexible, efficient use of physical and virtual IT resources. The paper begins with a discussion of key architectural and operational concepts and then highlights the key enabling technologies; it concludes with a brief overview of the purchase and implementation process, including available services. Overview: HP CloudSystem Matrix HP CloudSystem Matrix is an IaaS solution for private and hybrid cloud deployments, built on proven HP Converged Infrastructure technologies, such as HP BladeSystem, Matrix Operating Environment and Cloud Service Automation for Matrix. HP CloudSystem Matrix allows you to: • Provision infrastructure and applications in minutes for physical and virtual environments. • Reduce TCO up to 56%2 with built-in infrastructure life-cycle management. • Integrate heterogeneous environments into your IaaS infrastructure. HP Cloud Maps accelerate automation of cloud service deployments and ensure consistency and reliability of the implementation of infrastructure service catalogs. CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated hardware, software, and services solution that helps you realize the full value of cloud computing as quickly as possible. The core elements of a CloudSystem Matrix solution are: • HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures (one or more) • HP Virtual Connect • HP Matrix Operating Environment • HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA)