Class overview :

Class goals :

• Build dedicated and hosted private cloud solutions to optimize IT service delivery
• Assess private cloud computing options to solve business problems
• Leverage open source and proprietary private cloud products
• Manage and monitor your cloud infrastructure to improve resource utilization
• Secure key components of your private cloud implementation
• Integrate your private cloud with a public cloud to create a hybrid cloud solution

Content of Implementing a Private Cloud Solution

Introduction to Private Cloud Computing

• Defining private cloud computing models
• Specifying architectural components
• Comparing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS service models
• Leveraging a virtualized infrastructure
• Identifying cloud market players

Solving IT Challenges with Cloud Technologies

Applying the benefits of private cloud computing in your organization

• Identifying the business drivers
• Maximizing resource utilization
• Improving service provisioning time

Estimating private cloud implementation costs

• Analyzing the cost benefits with a decision matrix
• Comparing pricing models
• Calculating hosted fees vs. on-premises costs

Implementing an On-Premises Private Cloud

Leveraging open source solutions

• Identifying architectural components in OpenStack
• Exploring OpenStack community projects
• Enabling application computing power
• Fabricating facilities for redundant data storage
• Connecting private cloud components through the virtual network

Extending investment in proprietary technologies

• Examining the Microsoft private cloud solution
• Creating a Hyper-V private cloud
• Building a virtual network
• Customizing storage allocation
• Monitoring and reporting on private cloud resource utilization

Automating self-service provisioning with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager portal

• Planning host sizing and consolidation
• Working with templates and clones
• Deploying virtual machine images
• Managing hosts and virtual machines

Deploying an Off-Premises Private Cloud Solution

Building and managing a dedicated infrastructure

• Differentiating between hosting models: physical vs. virtual
• Optimizing the infrastructure based on usage patterns

Commissioning physical hosted servers

• Starting with bare metal configurations
• Automating installation tasks
• Administering servers from a Web-based control panel

Provisioning virtual hosted dedicated servers

• Specifying instance resources appropriately
• Scaling computing and storage based on demand
• Scheduling near-line backups and images

Amazon Web Services (AWS) multitenant servers

• Networking with Virtual Private Cloud to ensure maximum security
• Creating and attaching Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes
• Launching Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instances

Securing the Private Cloud

Evaluating the layers of cloud security

• Applying certification standards as a security benchmark
• SAS70 Type II
• PCI DSS Level 1
• ISO 27001
• FISMA
• Enhancing account access security features
• Safeguarding physical and logical assets

Virtualizing security components

• Configuring virtual private cloud firewalls
• Establishing Virtual Private Network (VPN) segments
• Authenticating users and authorizing access
• Selecting trusted availability zones

Integrating Disparate Cloud Types

Creating a hybrid cloud

• Interconnecting public, private and community clouds
• Handling excess demand with cloud bursting

Ensuring hybrid cloud security

• Maintaining sensitive data on- and off-premises
• Federating security policies across clouds

Achieving project delivery success

• Planning your private cloud road map
• Realizing business and capacity objectives