Unit 3

Working with Private Cloud

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 • Private Cloud Characteristics
• Private Cloud Deployment Models
- Internal
- Managed
- Virtual/Hosted
Working with Private
Cloud • Private Cloud Building Blocks
- Cloud Management Layer
- Virtualization Layer
- Physical Layer
• How to build a Private Cloud?
• Challenges with Private Cloud
• Private Cloud Vendors
• Benefits of Private Cloud 3
Private Cloud Characteristics

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Private Cloud

Private clouds are ideal when organizations :

– need to accelerate innovation (agile development)
– or have large compute and storage requirements
– or have very strict control, security, and compliance needs

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Private Cloud : Characteristics

• On-demand self-service
– The term on-demand self service means that an end user (or IT administrator) has a simple,
standardized and totally automated way to operate computing infrastructure
– Once resources are pooled, end user can get applications and resources as services

• Rapid elasticity
– Resources can quickly be expanded or contracted through automation
– This means your environment and resources can scale up or down almost instantly to meet business
requirements

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Private Cloud Deployment Models

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Private Cloud : Deployment Models

• Internal
• Managed
• Virtual/Hosted

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A Scenario

• The ABC Bank has data of about 1,000,000 customers

• Bank has been operating since 30 years so it has large Infrastructure but each system has
been working as a standalone server
• Bank has enough IT staff
• But due to increasing load systems are not working efficiently

What can be done to make the system more efficient, more available without compromising
data security?

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Private Cloud : Deployment Model

• A Solution to the Scenario:

– Organization had large computation and storage requirements
– Wants to keep the data within Corporate Firewall
– They have enough compute and storage resources
– They have experts in Cloud Infrastructure

How can they deploy their Private Cloud?

Internal Private Cloud

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Private Cloud : Internal Private Cloud

• Data center is inside the organization

• Infrastructure is owned, operated and managed by organization itself

Enterprise DC

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Private Cloud : Managed Private Cloud

• Data center is inside the organization

• Infrastructure is operated and managed by some service provider

Enterprise DC

Enterprise
Service Provider

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Private Cloud : Hosted Private Cloud

• Infrastructure and Data Center is owned, operated and managed by some service
provider

Enterprise

Enterprise
Service Provider

• Virtual Private Cloud = Virtual Private Network + Cloud Technology Stack

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Private Cloud : Vendors (open source)

• CloudStack
• Eucalyptus
• OpenStack
• OpenNebula

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Private Cloud : Vendors (commercial)

• IBM SmartCloud Foundation

• Microsoft Private Cloud
• VMware Private Cloud Computing
• Citrix CloudPlatform
• Rackspace Private Cloud (Powered by OpenStack)
• Cisco Private Cloud solutions
• Red Hat Cloud

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Private Cloud : Vendors (commercial)

• Dell Cloud Solutions

• Nimbula (acquired by oracle)
• SUSE Cloud (Powered by OpenStack)
• Abiquo Private Cloud Solutions
• Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (Acquired by Virtustream)
• Novell Cloud Manager
• Piston Cloud Computing (Enterprise OpenStack)

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Virtual Private Cloud : Vendors

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

• Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Solutions
• Virtustream Virtual Private Cloud
• GoGrid cloud hosting platform

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Private Cloud Building Blocks

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Private Cloud : Building Blocks

• Private cloud can be divided into three basic horizontals

Cloud Management Layer

Virtualization layer

Physical layer (server, storage, network ..)

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Private Cloud : Physical Layer

• Physical layer is the foundation layer of the architecture

• Fundamental blocks include:

– Servers
– Storage
– Network
– Data Center facility that includes power, AC etc.

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Private Cloud : Virtualization layer

• Provides abstraction of physical infrastructure into units of compute, memory and storage
• Ensures that applications or services are not directly tied to underlying hardware

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Private Cloud : Virtualization layer

• Hypervisor is a piece of computer software that creates, runs and manages virtual
machines
• Available hypervisors
– Opensource
• Xen
• KVM
• vSphere
– Commercial
• Hyper-V (Microsoft)
• vSphere ESX and ESXi (VMWare)
• XenServer (Citrix)

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Private Cloud : Virtualization – How It Works?

• Two main building blocks of virtualization

– Virtual Machine: is a separate and independent software instances that has a full copy
of the OS and application software, within a physical server

– Host Server: is the hardware where VM runs

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Private Cloud : Virtualization – How It Works?

• Virtual Machine is created from the consolidated resources CPU, RAM, Hard Disk and
Network through hypervisor
• VM runs with its own operating system and applications just like a real computer

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management Layer

• Cloud Management Layer includes components required for

– Deploying and managing large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available,
highly scalable Cloud Infrastructure
– Providing elasticity
– Configuration management
– Monitoring etc.

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management Layer

• Cloud Management Layer can be divided further

• Vendor specific variations
• Basically, can be divided into three layers
– Service Access Layer
– Orchestration Layer
– Deployment Layer

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management –
Service Access Layer

• Service Access Layer exposes an interface for end users to request, consume and
administrate the cloud services available in enterprise
• Also exposes interfaces for administrators to manage these cloud services

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management –
Orchestration Layer
• Provides interfaces to carry out the instruction received from the users/administrators
• Provision/de-provision the cloud services
• Provides elastic scaling to handle varied load
• Monitors the health of services provisioned

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management –
Deployment Layer
• Receives the request from the orchestration layer and provision the actual cloud services
on the virtualized infrastructure
• Manages software update management of underlying hardware, the hypervisor, the OS
and the application components

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Private Cloud : Cloud Management Layer

• Available Cloud Management Server

– Opensource
• CloudStack
• OpenStack
• Eucalyptus
• OpenNebula
– Commercial
• vCloud (VMWare)
• Citrix CloudPlatform
• Microsoft Private Cloud
• IBM Smart Cloud
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How to build a Private Cloud?

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How to build a Private Cloud?

• Steps to set up a private cloud:

– Choose the right option amongst public, private or hybrid cloud and brainstorm the need
of bringing private cloud
– Choose the best possible private cloud vendor in terms of cost, resource availability etc.
– Check if the vendor provides suitable hypervisors for your virtual machines
– Create a prototype and test it before migrating the entire stack

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Challenges with Private Cloud

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Challenges with private cloud

• Greater initial cost

• Unpredicted market trends
• Skillset
• Your security is entirely your responsibility

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Solution

• Organization can use their Private Cloud Infrastructure for those applications which use
mostly propriety data that needs to be kept behind a firewall.

• And for other applications/services can use public clouds

• The trend in current deployments is one that capitalizes on the better side of public and
private clouds to form a mixed cloud or hybrid model

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Private Cloud Vendors

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Eucalyptus

License Open source

Codebase Java, C
Supported Hypervisors KVM, Xen, vSphere
Hybrid Cloud compatibility Strong Amazon Web Services
integration
Offers Computation, storage and network

http://www.eucalyptus.com/
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Eucalyptus : Components

• Cloud Controller
• Manages the virtualization resources (Storage, compute and network) and APIs
• Provides web interfaces
• Walrus (S3 storage)
• Provides persistence storage to VMs
• Cluster control
• Controls VMs execution and their networking and communicates with storage
• Storage controller
• Provides block level storage to VMs
• Node controller
• Controls VMs via hypervisors
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Cloud Stack

License Open source

Codebase Java
Supported Hypervisors KVM, Xen, vSphere, Citrix XenServe
Hybrid Cloud compatibility Limited Amazon Web Services
integration
Offers Computation, storage and network

http://cloudstack.apache.org/

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Cloud Stack : Components

• Management Server
– Provides interface to setup infrastructure
– Interface for provisioning/de-provisioning of VMs
– Interface for administrative tasks
• Hypervisor nodes
– Manages host server to run VMs
• Storage nodes
– Provides Primary Storage for infrastructure to store Images
– Provides Storage for VMs

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Microsoft

License Commercial
Supported Hypervisors Hyper-V
Hybrid Cloud compatibility Provides Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Offers Computation, storage and network

www.microsoft.com/privatecloud

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Microsoft :Components

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012

– the operating system that runs your private cloud.
• Hyper-V
– the server virtualization technology
• System Center Orchestrator
– a workflow engine that allows you to automate the creation, deployment and monitoring
of resources
• System Center App Controller
– a Silverlight web-based interface that allows you to manage, build, configure and deploy
services

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Microsoft :Components

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager

– provides you with virtual machine management and service deployment.
• System Center Operations Manager
– provides you with deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring
• System Center Service Manager
– Provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s It
service Best practices
• System Center Data Protection Manager
– Enables disk-based and tape-based data protection and recovery for servers

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Comparison

Eucalyptus CloudStack Microsoft

License Open source Open source Commercial
Code Java , C Java Native C#
Hybrid Compatibility Yes Yes (but limited) Yes (but limited)
Offers network, computation Yes Yes Yes
and storage services

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 Benefits of Private Cloud

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Benefits of the Private Cloud

Private clouds help companies get the benefits of the more elastic and flexible cloud
computing model while reducing some typical CIO concerns about the cloud, such as lack of
control over data, security concerns, and adherence to regulatory and compliance needs.
Since the private cloud is within the company firewall, internal IT owns and controls it.
A few major benefits are:
– Better Security
– Quick Scalability and Redundancy
– Much better freedom and proper remote access
– Optimal consumption and distribution of costs
– A sensible and reduced expense choice to utilize innovation

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Learning Outcomes
After going through this unit, you are able to :
• Identify the scenarios when to migrate to a private cloud
• Understand the building blocks of private cloud
• Compare the different private cloud vendors based on their service offering

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Thank You

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