0-Day Virtual Infrastructure deployment

Presentation given at the UK VMUG 2013 on the journey I had finding a way to deploy a full system from zero

Transcript

1. UK VMUG
   0-DAY DEPLOYMENT
   

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2. A little about myself
   • Maish Saidel-Keesing - @maishsk
   • Blogger – Technodrone
   (http://technodrone.blogspot.com)
   • Platform Architect – Cisco, Israel
   • Co-Author of VMware vSphere
   Design
   • vExpert, VCAP5-DCD/DCA blah blah blah …..
   

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3. We will cover…
   • The problem …
   • The Journey …
   • Why was it so difficult?
   • Tools of the trade …
   

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4. Things you won’t get (Today
   )
   • An End-to-End Solution
   • Code Samples (unless they are
   already public).
   • The pot at the end of the rainbow.
   

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5. The Typical Datacenter #1
   • Mine is better
   

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6. • What do they all have in common?
   • Existing Infrastructure
   •Storage
   • Network
   • Virtual Infrastructure
   The Typical Datacenter #2
   

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7. Docklandsboy (flickr)
   What if that wasn’t
   the case?
   And all you had
   was this ?? VMware vCenter Server
   Manage
   Manage
   VMware vSphere VMware vSphere VMware vSphere
   

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8. First THE PROBLEM…..
   • Install Hardware
   • Servers
   • Network
   • Storage
   • Virtualization Stack
   • Operating Systems
   • Applications
   

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9. ……
   • ~0 margin for error
   • Easy to implement in the field
   • Rinse and repeat (100’s of times)
   

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10. This is what we got.
    

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11. What is a must for Automation?
    

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12. What comes first?
    Jasonunbound (flickr)
    

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13. Uplink Switches and FI’s
    

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14. UCS configuration
    • Houston we have an API!
    • Cisco UCS and VMware Integration
    (http://bit.ly/1bFIDdT)
    

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15. Hypervisor
    • Kickstart
    • USB Key
    • Deployment appliance (Razor)
    Power On Server
    Boot from CDROM/PXE
    ESXi Kickstart installation
    Engineer
    Engineer
    Provide Kickstart
    File
    

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16. Static IP’s + Hostnames
    • External CSV file
    • Plant the hostname
    after kickstart in the host
    • Set static IP
    

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17. Engineer
    Engineer
    vSphere Client
    Deploy vCenter and vCenterDB
    Images
    Engineer
    Engineer
    vSphere Client
    Configure IP
    vCenter VM
    vSphere Client
    Configure IP
    vCenterDB VM
    Setup VMware environment
    Engineer
    Engineer
    Powershell
    Deploy vCenter
    • 2 predefined OVF’s
    • vCenter (http://bit.ly/18Osy1l)
    • Oracle Database
    • No VCSA
    • External Oracle DB
    • Was not production ready until
    vSphere 5.5
    

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18. How to connect the ESXi hosts
    to vCenter?
    • vCenter deployment script
    • PS:\> PowerCLI
    • Kickstart
    • Puppet vCenter Module
    

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19. Dude where’s my Storage?
    • Standard Arrays (NetApp/EMC)
    • Predefined scripts for configuration
    • IP’s
    • LUNs / Volumes / NFS
    

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20. aarongilson (flickr)
    The VM’s ….
    • Clone / Deploy ?
    • Razor – handoff to Puppet Broker
    (Nickapedia)
    

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21. Deploy Applications
    • Tags were already there (Razor)
    • Active / Passive Nodes
    • Puppet Modules
    

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22. Tools
    • How To Deal With a Complex
    Project – (http://bit.ly/1hWoy8t)
    • PowerShell/bash/Python/…
    • Razor
    • Puppet
    

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23. Looking forward
    • Handling the Workflow
    • Wrapping this in a
    normal interface
    

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24. • Questions???
    

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