ITaaS Solution Guide - VMWare/Netapps

While I covered VCE Private Cloud(IaaS) and Microsoft PaaS (Cloud-in-a-Box) in earlier blogs, We can also look at what they call as ITaaS(IT as a Service):
A VMware-Netapps solution - Look st the Architecture Guide through link attached.

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3866.pdf

VMware vCloud Director and NetApp unified storage provide the capability to build highly scalable, elastic, and secure multi-tenancy solution. VMware vCloud Director provides a rich set of built-in role-based access control (RBAC), enabling the cloud administrators to have a holistic view of the cloud environment and also allowing individual tenants to view and control their resources, clearly separate from those of other tenants in a multi-tenant model.

VMware vSphere compute, storage, and network resources can be pooled to serve multiple tenants, with vSphere resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to changing customer demands.

VMware handles this through the use of the ESX/ESXi host hypervisor, ESX host clusters, vSphere resource pools, vNetwork distributed switches, and VMware vCloud Director network pool.

The compute cluster can easily scale up and out by adjusting the resource pool allocation and adding additional ESX servers to compute clusters, respectively.

NetApp unified storage with MultiStore capability offers a very dynamic and scalable virtual storage infrastructure. MultiStore extends the value of VMware vCloud Director by providing the capability to divide a physical storage array into multiple, isolated virtual storage partitions called vFiler units. IP spaces and VLAN segmentation ensure secure isolation between multiple vFiler units.

NetApp Data Motion allows seamless migration of an entire vFiler unit from one physical storage array to another without disrupting ongoing tenant activity. NetApp Data Motion is complementary to VMware vMotion, making it simple to migrate data on a large scale. 

Through VMware vCloud Director and NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC), compute and storage resources can be rapidly provisioned and elastically grown or shrunk to provide dynamic scale-out and scale-in.

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