Ch13 M4cloud Computing

MODULE – 13
CLOUD COMPUTING
EMC Proven Professional. Copyright © 2012 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Module 13: Cloud Computing 1
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Chapter 13: Cloud Computing
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Explain the characteristics of cloud computing.
• Describe cloud services and deployment models.
• Describe cloud computing infrastructure.
• Discuss the challenges of cloud computing.
• Discuss cloud adoption considerations.
Chapter 13: Cloud Computing
Lesson 1: Cloud Computing Overview

During this lesson the following topics are covered:
• Definition of cloud computing.
• Essential characteristics of cloud computing.
• Benefits of cloud computing.
• Cloud enabling technologies.
Drivers for Cloud Computing
• Business requirements
 Transformation of IT processes to achieve more with less.
 Better agility and higher availability at reduced expenditure
 Reduced time-to-market,
 Accelerated pace of innovation.
• IT challenges to meet business requirements are:
 Serving customers worldwide round the clock, refreshing
technology quickly, faster provisioning of IT resources – all at
reduced cost.
• These challenges are addressed with the emergence of cloud
computing.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing
A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to

a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., servers, storage,
networks, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
– NIST
• Essential Cloud characteristics

 On-demand self-service
 Broad network access
 Resource pooling
 Rapid elasticity
 Measured service
On-demand Self-service
• Enables consumers to unilaterally provision
computing capabilities (examples: server time and
storage capacity) as needed automatically without
requiring human interaction with each service
provider.
• Consumers view service catalogue via a Web-based
user interface and use it to request for a service.
Broad Network Access
• Computing capabilities are available over the
network.
• Computing capabilities are accessed from a
broad range of client platforms such as:
 Desktop computer
 Laptop
 Tablet
 Mobile device
Resource Pooling
• Provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve
multiple consumers using a multitenant model.
• Resources are assigned from the pool according to
consumer demand.
• Consumers have no control or knowledge over the exact
location of the provided resources.
• Ex: resources include storage, processing, memory &
network bandwidth.
Rapid Elasticity
• Computing capabilities can be elastically
provisioned and released.
• Computing capabilities are scaled rapidly,
commensurate with consumer’s demand.
 Provides a sense of unlimited scalability.
Measured Service
• Cloud computing provides a metering system that
continuously monitors resource consumption and
generates reports.
 Helps to control and optimize resource use.
 Helps to generate billing and chargeback reports.
 Ex: storage, processing, bandwidth and active user
accounts.
Benefits of Cloud Computing
Benefits Description
Reduced IT cost • Reduces the up-front capital expenditure (CAPEX)
• Provides the ability to deploy new resources quickly

Business agility
• Enables businesses to reduce time-to-market
• Enables consumers to scale up, scale down, scale out,
or scale in the demand for computing resources easily
Flexible scaling
• Consumers can unilaterally and automatically scale
computing resources
• Ensures resource availability at varying levels,
High availability
depending on consumer’s policy and priority
Cloud Enabling Technologies
Technologies Description
• Form of distributed computing

Grid computing • Enables resources of numerous computers in a network to
work on a single task at the same time
• Service provisioning model that offers computing resources
Utility computing
as a metered service
• Abstracts physical characteristics of IT resources from
resource users
Virtualization
• Enables resource pooling and creating virtual resources
from pooled resources
Service-oriented
• Provides a set of services that can communicate with each
architecture
other
(SOA)
Lesson 2: Cloud Service and Deployment Models
• Cloud service models
• Cloud deployment models
Cloud Service Models
According to NIST, cloud service offerings are classified

primarily into three models:
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)
• Consumers deploy their software, including OS and application
on provider’s infrastructure
 Computing resources such as processing power, memory, storage,
and networking components are offered as service
 Example: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Consumers have control over the OSs and deployed applications
Consumer’s Resources Application
Database
OS
Provider’s Resources Compute
Storage
Cloud
Network
Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS)
• Consumers deploy consumer-created or acquired applications
onto provider’s computing platform
 Computing platform is offered as a service
 Example: Google App Engine and Microsoft Windows Azure
Platform
• Consumer has control over deployed applications
Consumer’s Resources Application
Database
Provider’s Resources
OS
Compute
Storage
Cloud
Network
Software-as-a-Service(SaaS)
• Consumers use provider’s applications running on the cloud
infrastructure
 Applications are offered as a service
 Examples: EMC Mozy and Salesforce.com
• Service providers exclusively manage computing infrastructure
and software to support services
Application
Database
OS
Compute
Storage
Cloud
Network
Cloud Deployment Models
• Public
• Private
• Community
• Hybrid
Public Cloud
Enterprise P Enterprise Q
Cloud Service Provider’s

Resources
User R
Private Cloud
On-Premise Private Cloud Externally Hosted Private Cloud
Enterprise P
Enterprise P
Resources of Cloud Service
Enterprise P Provider’s Resources
Dedicated for
Enterprise P
Community Cloud
Community Users
Enterprise P Enterprise Q Enterprise R
Cloud Service
Dedicated for
Community Users
Hybrid Cloud
Enterprise Q
Enterprise P
Cloud Service
Resources of
Enterprise P
Public Cloud Private Cloud

User R
Lesson 3: Cloud Infrastructure, Challenges, and Considerations
• Cloud infrastructure
• Challenges of cloud computing
• Cloud adoption considerations
Cloud Computing Infrastructure
• A Cloud Computing Infrastructure is the collection of hardware 7 software
that enables the five essential characteristics of cloud computing.
• It consists of the following layers:
1) Physical Infrastructure
2) Virtual Infrastructure
3) Applications and platform software
4) Cloud management and service creation tools
The resources of these layers are aggregated and coordinated to provide cloud
services to the consumers.(Fig 13.6)
Cloud Infrastructure Framework
Cloud Management and Service Creation Tools
Applications and Platform

Software
Virtual
Infrastructure
Physical
Infrastructure
Figure13.6 Cloud Infrastructure Layers
Physical Infrastructure
• Physical infrastructure includes physical IT resources
 Physical servers
 Storage systems
 Networks
• Physical servers are connected to each other, to the storage
systems, and to clients via networks
• Physical resources may be located in a single data center or
distributed across multiple data centers
Virtual Infrastructure
• Virtual infrastructure consists of:
 Resource pools
 CPU, memory, network bandwidth, storage pools
 Identity pools
 VLAN ID and VSAN ID pools
 Virtual IT resources
 Virtual Machines (VMs), virtual storage volumes, virtual networks
(VLAN and VSAN)
• Virtual IT resources obtain capacity and identity from resource
and identity pools respectively
Applications and Platform Software
• Suite of software that may include:
 Business applications
 Platform software such as OS and database
 Provide environments for applications to run
• Applications and platform software are hosted on VMs
 To create software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service
(PaaS)
Cloud Management and Service Creation Tools
• Include three types of software:
 Physical and virtual infrastructure management software
 Unified management software
 User-access management software
• These software interact among themselves to automate
provisioning of cloud services
Cloud-optimized Storage
• Provides rapid elasticity, global access, and storage capacity on-
demand
• Leverages object-based storage technology
• Enables self-service and fully metered access to storage
resources
• Key characteristics of cloud-optimized storage solution are:
 Massively scalable
 Unified namespace
 Metadata and policy-based information management
 Secure multitenancy
 Multiple access mechanisms (through REST and SOAP web service
APIs and file-based access)
Cloud Challenges – Consumer’s Perspective
• Security and regulation
 Consumers are indecisive to transfer control of sensitive data
 Regulation may prevent organizations to use cloud services
• Network latency
 Real time applications may suffer due to network latency and
limited bandwidth
• Supportability
 Service provider might not support proprietary environments
 Incompatible hypervisors could impact VM migration
• Vendor lock-in
 Restricts consumers from changing their cloud service providers
 Lack of standardization across cloud-based platforms
Cloud Challenges – Provider’s Perspective
• Service warranty and service cost
 Resources must be kept ready to meet unpredictable demand
 Hefty penalty, if SLAs are not fulfilled
• Complexity in deploying vendor software in the cloud
 Many vendors do not provide cloud-ready software licenses
 Higher cost of cloud-ready software licenses
• No standard cloud access interface
 Cloud consumers want open APIs
 Need agreement among cloud providers for standardization
Cloud Adoption Considerations
• CIOs/IT Managers seeking to move to the cloud face several
questions:
 Which deployment model fits organization’s requirements?
 Private, public, hybrid
 Which are the applications suitable for cloud?
 How do I choose the cloud service provider?
 Is the cloud infrastructure capable of providing the required
Quality of Service (QoS)?
 Performance, availability, and security
 What is the financial benefit in adopting cloud?
What Deployment Model Fits for You?
Individual Startup SMB Enterprise
Public cloud Hybrid cloud

• Convenience outweighs risk • Tier 1 apps: private cloud
• Low cost or free • Tier 2-4 apps (backup,
• Ex: Picasa, Google apps archive, testing): public
cloud
Private cloud
Public cloud • Tier 2-4: private cloud
• Tier 1: may continue to run in a
• Convenience outweighs risk
traditional data center
environment
Choosing Applications for Public Cloud
• Some key questions to ask before migrating a consumer
application to the public cloud:
 Is the application compatible to cloud platform software? Is it a
legacy application?
 Is the application proprietary and mission-critical? Does the
application provide competitive advantage?
 Is the application workload network traffic intensive? Will
application performance be impacted by network latency and
limited network bandwidth?
 Does the application communicate with other data center
resources or applications?
Financial Advantage
• Require analysis of financial benefits in adopting cloud
• Consider CAPEX and OPEX to deploy and maintain own
infrastructure versus cloud-adoption cost
Cost of Owning Infrastructure Cloud Adoption Cost

CAPEX OPEX OPEX
• Servers • Power and cooling • Migration
• Storage • Personnel • Compliance and
• Operating system • Bandwidth security
(OS) • Maintenance • Subscription fee
• Application • Support
• Network equipments • Backup
• Real estate
Selecting a Public Cloud Service Provider
• Some key questions to ask before selecting a provider:
 How long and how well has the provider been delivering the
services?
 How well does the provider meet the organization’s current and
future requirements?
 How easy is it to add or remove services?
 How easy is it to move to another provider, when required?
 What happens when the provider upgrades their software? Is it
forced on everyone? Can you upgrade on your own schedule?
 Does the provider offer the required security services?
 Does the provider meet your legal and privacy requirements?
 Does the provider have good customer service support?
QoS Considerations
• Consumers should check whether the QoS attributes meet their
requirements
• SLA is a contract between the cloud service provider and
consumers that defines QoS attributes
 Attributes examples: throughput, uptime, and so on
Concept in Practice:
• Vblock
Vblock
• Integrated cloud infrastructure
package
 Includes compute, storage, network,
and virtualization products Applications
 Delivered by EMC, VMware, and Cisco OS
• Enables building virtualized data Virtualization

center and cloud infrastructure
• Pre-architected, preconfigured, Compute
pretested, and ready to be deployed Network

 Saves cost and deployment time Storage
Vblock Infrastructure Package
Module 13: Summary
Key points covered in this module:
• Characteristics of cloud computing
• Cloud services and deployment models
• Cloud computing infrastructure
• Challenges of cloud computing
• Cloud adoption considerations

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MODULE – 13

Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

Lesson 1: Cloud Computing Overview

A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to

• Essential Cloud characteristics

Reduced IT cost • Reduces the up-front capital expenditure (CAPEX)

• Provides the ability to deploy new resources quickly

• Form of distributed computing

According to NIST, cloud service offerings are classified

Provider’s Resources Compute

Cloud Service Provider’s

On-Premise Private Cloud Externally Hosted Private Cloud

Enterprise P Enterprise Q Enterprise R

Public Cloud Private Cloud

Cloud Management and Service Creation Tools

Applications and Platform

Figure13.6 Cloud Infrastructure Layers

Individual Startup SMB Enterprise

Public cloud Hybrid cloud

Cost of Owning Infrastructure Cloud Adoption Cost

 Delivered by EMC, VMware, and Cisco OS

• Enables building virtualized data Virtualization

pretested, and ready to be deployed Network

Vblock Infrastructure Package

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