Building your own internal private cloud is actually lot harder than just creating and managing virtual machines. To fully realize the benefits of private cloud, you must have a full self-service catalog that includes both virtual and physical infrastructure. You must be able to automate all the things that take you long time to move to an agile IT. The current traditional IT cannot be transformed to full agile and adaptive IT if some parts of the infrastructure management are still manual. You must have an orchestration engine and end-to-end automated processes in place to move to an agile IT – the real promise of private clouds.
Most of the cloud platforms lack a management layer which can handle physical, virtual and cloud based resources. They are worried that they will be forced to use multiple tools to manage different sets of environments. Having a diverse set of management tools not only adds to the complexity but also increases the failure rate. IT leaders expect a single set of integrated solution that offers them an end to end solution to manage the entire lifecycle of the complex IT environment. You can reduce operational overhead by automating entire IT stack.
Following points highlight why you need to automate physical infrastructure as well.
Self-service creation of end-to-end application environments: Self-service creation of entire application environment requires automated provisioning and configuration underlying physical and virtual components. A seamless approach to linking and automating management processes and tasks across physical and virtual infrastructures is needed.
Physical Infrastructure Service Catalog: Organizations can extend the current service catalog offerings of virtual machines and virtual desktops to physical infrastructure services. It really opens up new market opportunities for service providers to offer physical infrastructure services.
Virtual data center explosive growth: Data centers of today are facing explosive growth with the advent of virtual environments. The new generation virtualized data centers require the speed and agility of underlying physical infrastructure provisioning and configuration. Organizations cannot expand and keep up with the pace of virtual environment expansion without physical infrastructure automation capabilities.
Single management interface: Giving organizations the ability to manage and orchestrate their entire infrastructure from a single management console yield considerable operational and administrative cost savings.
End-to-end service performance: Understanding the application layer and underlying supporting infrastructure is critical to deliver on SLAs, End-to-end service monitoring and performance can be achieved by integrating and automating both physical and virtual data collection.
End-to-end service visibility: Bringing together data from across disparate parts of the virtual and physical infrastructures can improve the visibility from a service perspective. You need datacenter management solutions that automate cross-silo virtualization capabilities to deliver end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures.
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