the virtualisation maturity model - the path to your virtualisation strategy

The Virtualisation Maturity Model

The Path to your Virtualisation Strategy

Andrew Cooke, Foundation IT

Session Overview

Background

Issues

Summary

Q&A

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The Virtualisation Maturity Model

Foundation IT Virtualisation Structure

The CloudThe Next Big Thing ?

What is the Cloud ? – Act 1

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

Internal Cloud

Software as a Service

Platform as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Private Cloud

The Vendor View….

So … What is the Cloud ?

A New Economic Model

A New Consumption Model

The Road Towards Utility Maturity

Inevitability (?) and a Challenge to every IT Professional !!

The Challenge

Be more aligned and responsive to the business needs - deliver agility to the business capability

Reduce technological complexity, and simplify the delivery and approach of services

Deliver a computing environment that secures the business appropriately

Reduce cost, power, cooling, space, manpower – fulfil our business’s green mission

Provide high levels of availability and protect the business in the event of a disaster

RespondRespond ReduceReduce SimplifySimplify ProtectProtect SecureSecure

Do More With Less !

Why Do You Need A Virtualisation Strategy ?

To maximise and realise your return on investment

To recognise and plan for the long term effort required

To secure appropriate stakeholders at a senior level

To define the correct level of investment over time (it’s not a one-off!)

To ensure ongoing alignment with the business

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To make sure you get the right skills at the right time

To ensure you have a long term vision to leverage virtualisation fully

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Key Reasons

Virtualisation Strategy Study – NCC and Foundation IT

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Yes Planning To No Don’t Know

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Yes - To A Great ExtentYes - To Some ExtentNo

Has your organisation defined a long term strategy to maximise the business benefits from virtualisation technologies ?

Will not having a clear strategy inhibit the future uptake of virtualisation projects ?

Virtualisation Strategy Study – NCC and Foundation IT

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Fully Mostly To Some Degree

Too Early

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Yes - Long Term Not Aware No

Yes - Short Term

Has your organisation achieved the expected Return On Investment for server virtualisation ?

Do senior management perceive virtualisation as a key technology to deliver business benefits to the organisation ?

Why Do Virtualisation Projects Fail ?

Unable to quantify the cost savings

Cannot demonstrate a clear ROI

Perceived as technology change project – no business change

No recognition that this is a long term strategy

No long term vision

Resistance to change

Business

Lack of resource

Adoption rate too fast / too slow

Perception this would be quick and easy

Incomplete scope that doesn‘t address people, vision, communication etc.

Application vendors and owners

Training

Project

VM sprawl

Storage explosion

Backups

Network impact

New technical issues

Virtualised layer introduces extra complexity

Skill silos

Performance concerns

Datacentre – not server consolidation anymore

Technical

Be Aggressive - But prepared for the Long Haul

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Start Year1

Year2

Year3

Year4

Year5

Physical Total Servers Conversion Momentum

100 servers

10% growth in server count / annum

30 servers per annum virtualised

At this rate Year 6 will have 100% conversion

To achieve a high virtualisation % needs 40+ servers per annum deployed for 3 years

Plan a long term commitment

Virtualisation Maturity Model

Experimental Tactical Strategic Transformation Utility

Business Alignment

Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical

•Some Production Deployments

•Consolidation Orientated

•Processes and Procedures Unchanged

•Little Or No Management Toolsets

•Lower % of Virtualised Servers

•Capex Advantages

Strategic

•Virtualise First Policy

•Workload Balancing

•DR and BC leverage

•Availability leverage

•Basic Automation

•Capacity Management

•Monitoring

•Minor Changes to Process and Procedure

Transformation

•Restructure Teams

•SLA based approach

•Self Provisioning

•Lifecycle Management

•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated

•Application Based Approach

•Completely Embedded into the Business

•Computing Resource Anywhere

•Public Cloud

•Federation

•I&O a Utility Service

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Virtualisation Maturity Model Characteristics

Business Alignment

• Requirements • Agility • Service

• Communications • Cost Model • Return on Investment

Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation


•Monitoring


Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation



•Futures considered

Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation


•Monitoring


Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation


•Monitoring


Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation


•Monitoring


Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental

•Pilots

•Dev/Test

•No Plans

•Reactive

Tactical






•Capex Advantages

Strategic





•Basic Automation


•Monitoring


Transformation





•Chargeback

•Private Cloud

•Business Agility

•Opex Advantages

Utility

•Automated




•Public Cloud

•Federation


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Business Alignment



Experimental Tactical Strategic Transformation Utility

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NCC and Foundation IT Study – Maturity Breakdown

15% 43% 17% 20%3%

40% have

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strategy40% have

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strategy

Virtualisation Maturity Model – Use Cases

Roadmaps & Strategy

Business Case

Virtualisation Policy

Scope & Objectives

Communication

Platform Selection

Management Toolsets

Capabilities

Skills Assessment

Virtual Team Structure

Cultural Change

Remove Silos

Service Management

Governance Plans

Service Tiering

Cost Models / Chargeback

How To Put The Virtualisation Maturity Model To Work

Experimental

Tactical

Strategic

Transformation

UtilityBu

siness

Alignment

Virtualisation Maturity Model – Summary

Discover

Design

Deploy

Leverage

Work out where you are today Analyse/understand the issues that you will face (don’t go overboard!) Define where you want to be in the medium and long term

Design strategically with your target maturity level in mind Define your roadmap for virtualisation Design your virtualisation policy based upon your target maturity

Deploy tactically – don’t get paralysed by discovery and design Put in the right resource to achieve your goals Deploy in a realistic timeframe – but be aggressive on conversions

Review and refine your deployment against your target maturity Break down technical and organisational silos Refresh your strategy and review your maturity target regularly

Virtualisation Maturity Model – Key Points

Plan strategically - design strategically - act tactically. (Don’t overanalyse!)

Use the VMM as a light framework to think about vision, people, process and technology – you will deploy a better long term solution this way

Be agressive in your plans - the technology can handle it and you will see the true benefits of a virtualisation strategy

Take Away These Three Points if Nothing Else !

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