NTS CAPTAIN / OpenNebula at Julius Blum GmbH
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Blum operates globally with 7,983 employees and extensive infrastructure including VMware hosts and VMs, primarily using Windows. The company aims to automate processes for faster VM deployment and improved efficiency, resulting in a significant reduction in request fulfillment time from two days to two minutes. Future plans include integration with MS Orchestrator and expansion of templates for additional departments.
NTS CAPTAIN / OpenNebula at Julius Blum GmbH
- 2. About Blum Our Infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 2
- 3. About Blum Our Infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 3
- 4. ▪ 7983 Employees worldwide ▪ 6037 Employees Austria ▪ 8 Plants in Vorarlberg, others in Poland, USA and Brasil ▪ 31 Subsidiaries ▪ 258 Employees in IS ▪ 17 Employees in Infrastructure ▪ 8 Employees in Datacenter Team (Cabling, Network, Storage, Phys./ Virt. Hardware, Printing, Backup) 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 4
- 5. About Blum Our Infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 5
- 6. ▪ 89 VMware Hosts in 23 Clusters ▪ 1526 VMs ▪ 514.63 TB VMWare Storage (Tier1 + Tier0) ▪ 17 Templates ( + 4 Opennebula) ▪ ~ 10% Linux, ~ 90% Windows ▪ ~ 400 VMs using the same template (Z-Point) ▪ Netbox as central IPAM/DCIM Tool 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 6
- 7. About Blum Our infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 7
- 8. Why NTS Captain? ▪ “Selfservice” for Users ▪ Automatisation of the processes (work in Progress) ▪ All Machines “the same” – creating Standards ▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department ▪ Faster deployment of new VMs 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 8
- 9. What did we wanted to automate? ▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN) ▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account) ▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool ▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer ▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups ▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 9
- 10. What happens exactly? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 10 VM created via GUI
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- 13. What happens exactly? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 13 VM created via GUI Hook for IPAM
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- 16. What happens exactly? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 16 VM created via GUI Hook for IPAM Hook for new VM
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- 18. 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 18 SCCM Windows Update Schedule
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- 21. 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 21 PowerShell Registryentry for Monitoring Description for VM in AD Account
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- 23. What happens exactly? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 23 VM created via GUI Hook for IPAM Hook for new VM Context. Windows
- 24. 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 24 Contextualisation
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- 27. What happens exactly? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 27 VM created via GUI Hook for IPAM Hook for new VM Context. Windows LAPS
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- 29. What did we wanted to automate? ▪ Automatic deployment of VM (VCenter Folder, VLAN) ▪ Automatic AD Domain Join (incl. Description in AD Account) ▪ Automatic sync for IP Adresses with IPAM Tool ▪ Automatic creation of Hosts in ASG RemoteViewer ▪ SCOM -> Automatic mapping of Supportgroups ▪ Windows Updateschedule automatically assigned in SCCM 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 29
- 30. How we build our templates 1. Install Windows 2. Install LAPS (LAPS -> Local Admin Password Solution) 3. Install Onecontext MSI 4. Sysprep 5. Convert VM to Template 6. Import Image in OpenNebula 7. Clone without Images 8. Copy Context-Script 9. Define Context-variables 10.Define Network 11.Done (Duration approx. 10 Minutes) 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 30
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- 35. Summary ▪ New Templates really easy to create and customise ▪ Shorter time to fullfill requests (from ~ 2 Days down to ~ 2 Minutes) ▪ Less work for Infrastructure-Department ▪ More satisfied Customers (Who loves to wait for a VM?) 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 35
- 36. About Blum Our infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 36
- 37. ExampleZ-Point (ControlPC for our productionlines) 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 37
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- 40. Example W2Kxx Standard VM 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 40
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- 43. About Blum Our infrastructure NTS Captain/OpenNebula at Blum Examples Next steps 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 43
- 44. 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 44 What’s next? ▪ Integration with MS Orchestrator for Ticketsystem and automation of AD Tasks ▪ Onboarding and templates for further Departments (BBA/Web/AppServer + SAP) ▪ Azure Deployment (Resource Model, not Classic VM)
- 45. Questions? 02.10.2019 | © Copyright by Blum | Name | Vertraulich/Confidential 45