This document summarizes a presentation about automating cloud recovery using OVH's cloud services. It discusses using OVH's private and public cloud along with replication and failover capabilities to ensure workloads are recovered when on-premises infrastructure goes down. The presentation includes a demo of how applications are automatically failed over from an on-premises environment to OVH's public cloud when networking is lost. It also discusses how the "Mother" application was created using the vCloud API to monitor replications and initiate failovers when needed to provide automated cloud recovery without downtime.

1. Ashley Neely
Sr. Solution Strategist
LHC1951BE
#VMworld #LHC1951BE
Let OVH Help You Automate
your Cloud Recovery for when
you are Nuked from Orbit:
It’s the only way to be sure.

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AUTOMATE CLOUD RECOVERY
it’s the only way to be sure…
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Ashley Neely | Sr. Solution Strategist

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AGENDA
1. About OVH – 5 minutes
2. On-Prem Environment review – 5 minutes
3. It’s 2AM and Everything is Down — 5 minutes
4. Demo of a Full Failover — 5 minutes
5. The Building of Mother— 15 minutes
6. Expanding on the Idea — 5 minutes
7. New Possibilities with OVH — 10min
8. Q/A – 10min
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WHO IS OVH?

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OVH is a global, hyper-scale cloud provider
that offers our customers maximum performance and value
• Vertical integration (constructing own servers, data centers) and proprietary green water cooling technology allows
OVH to save costs and pass savings to customers
• Named largest hosting & cloud provider in Europe and third largest global hosting provider by Netcraft
https://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-analysis/
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OVH GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

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Over 1.2 Million Business Clients in 138 Countries
Own 11+ Tbps
Network
with
32 PoPs
2016
20 data centers in
5 countries and
4 continents
2017
27 data centers
in 11 countries
2020
50 data centers
Hosting capacity: 1.3
million physical servers
270,000 already deployed
OVH IS A GLOBAL CLOUD LEADER

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OVH BUILDS OUR OWN DATA CENTERS

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30% natural air cooling
+
70% water cooling
=
0% air conditioning
OVH USES GREEN TECHNOLOGY TO MANUFACTURE SERVERS

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+ Dedicated Cloud
+ Virtual Private Cloud
+ Disaster Recovery
+ VMware SDDC
+ Open API
+ Automation Compatibility
+ Scalability
+ Bring you own License
+ Non-Virtual Workloads
+ Proprietary Software
Dedicated Servers
Bare Metal
Customer Support & Services
Global Hyper-Scale Reach
OVH’s Fiber Optic Network (11+ Tbps) + Anti-DDoS + Private LAN
Public Cloud
SOLUTIONS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS
Hosted Private Cloud
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ON PREMISES APPS AND REQUIREMENTS

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HCX – ANY-TO-ANY CLOUD
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HCX – Any-to-Any
• Tether legacy vSphere 5.1 to next-gen vSphere 6.5 and above
• Seamless application mobility between different VMW stacks
• Secure L2 Extension w/o need for NSX on site
• Automatic VPN connectivity across sites
• vMotion and replication across disparate VMW stacks
Features
Benefits
• Move to cloud w/o need to upgrade vSphere on-prem
• No need to upgrade networking architecture to extend L2 to cloud
• Transform from legacy stack to next-gen SDDC+NSX without
downtime
• Transform with no change in networking, IP or IT policies
• Automatic secure, high performance connection between sites
vSphere 5.1+
VCF or
VC + NSX
HCX Hybridity

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ON PREMISES TO vCLOUD AIR ARCHITECTURE
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Mother@10.10.10.99
10.10.10.0/24
Dedicated DR with
ANS Premium
Dedicated DR Cloud

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EXPORT REPLICATION APPLIANCE DATA
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Mother@10.10.10.99
10.10.10.0/24
Dedicated DR with
ANS Premium
Dedicated DR Cloud
Highlight all replications and choose to Export

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vCLOUD AIR REPLICATIONS LIST
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DEMO

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IT’S 2AM AND EVERYTHING IS DOWN
1. Switch handling on premises VLAN2 (running all 10.10.10.1/24 addresses) was
unplugged to trigger the failover
2. Mother app is running in vCloud Air, pinging on premise VMs across the Layer2
Extension provided by HCM every 30 seconds
3. Tier 1 Application is my ElasticSearch cluster running Logstash and Kibana, defined
failover time is 1 minute
4. Tier 2 applications are my CentOS VMs, defined failover time is 5 minutes
5. Tier 3 applications are my Ubuntu server VMs, defined failover is 10 minutes
6. Kibana is monitoring traffic data being sent and received, allowing us to visualize when
the networking is lost
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DEMO
https://youtu.be/ZntpN-EyJVE

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MEET MOTHER

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vCLOUD API
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Retrieving a
session token

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vCLOUD API
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Body returned
after obtaining a
session token

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vCLOUD API
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Org API return
that includes the
list of VDCs in
the environment

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vCLOUD API
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VDC API return
that has the URL
to pull all
enabled
replications for
the VDC

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vCLOUD API
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VDC/replications
API return

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vCLOUD API
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Replication by
UUID API return

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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$pip install vcloudair

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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$python3 mother/start.py
#pulls replication UUIDs and VM names from the vCloud Air environment and matches them
#to what was pulled from the replication appliance, then starts ping script

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Obtain a session & authentication token to manipulate the API

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Login to vCD
Org and VDC

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Login to vCD
Org and VDC

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Login to vCD
Org and VDC

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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$python3 mother/start.py
#pulls replication UUIDs and VM names from the vCloud Air environment and matches them
#to what was pulled from the replication appliance, then starts ping script

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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$python3 mother/start.py
#pulls replication UUIDs and VM names from the vCloud Air environment and matches them
#to what was pulled from the replication appliance, then starts ping script

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Take replication
appliance
ExportList.csv
and match it to
replication
UUIDs in vCloud
Air

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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$python3 mother/start.py
#pulls replication UUIDs and VM names from the vCloud Air environment and matches them
#to what was pulled from the replication appliance, then starts ping script

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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mother/ping.py
“””
Designed to instantiate a monitor object and call the ping utility
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From monitor import Monitor
startup = Monitor()
startup.ping_util()

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Background ping
and failover
process

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vCLOUD AIR SDK
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Successful failovers, as seen in the log file:
• Session obtained at time of failover
• VM Name and status of failover is displayed

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EXPANDING ON THE IDEA

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OTHER vCLOUD AIR USE CASeS
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Monitor & Manage Shared Cloud
Environments

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OTHER vCLOUD AIR USE CASES
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Monitor & Manage Dedicated Cloud Environments

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OVH CAPABILITIES

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NSX & vRACK
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NSX is available within OVH’s Private
Cloud environments. We are able to
run a full SDDC stack, with NSX and
vSAN. These environments can be a
true Data Center replacement option,
which can then employ vSphere
Replication to replicate to a vCloud Air
environment or even use Zerto to
replicate to a second Private Cloud
Data Center in another OVH
Datacenter.
vRack can interconnect (at Layer 2)
any OVH environments. vRack
Connect (or Direct Connect) can
connect your on premise Data Center
to any OVH POP, allowing Layer 2
connectivity between on premises and
your OVH environments.

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OVH API
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OVH API
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OVH API
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Q & A

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