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Software Defined Infrastructure [SDI]

D6

Develop and implement approaches and policies so that the IT infrastructure can be fully deployed and controlled by an application/code (this combines composable and converged/hyper-converged infrastructure systems with software-defined networking, storage, and compute, to build and manage the IT infrastructure).

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Software Defined Infrastructure [SDI] at each level of maturity.

2Basic
  • Practice
    To prepare for SDI, complete the virtualization for most of the server infrastructure, and start the virtualization of the storage and network infrastructure.
    Outcome
    The IT infrastructure is being prepared for the implementation of SDI by an increase in the level of virtualization, and is now primed to start pooling resources.
    Metric
    % server, storage, and network virtualization.
3Intermediate
  • Practices
    • Pool resources and provide automatic provisioning of IT servers, storage, and networks.
    • Provide the tools to support the creation of self-service portals.
    Outcomes
    • IT infrastructure resources are pooled and are automatically provisioned.
    • Supporting tools enable the creation of self-service provisioning portals.
    Metrics
    • % of resource pooling for servers, storage, and networks.
    • # of self-service portals.
4Advanced
  • Practices
    • Use orchestration to optimize the allocation of data centre resources.
    • Use automation and orchestration to manages performance issues, and to decide on the appropriate remedial actions.
    Outcomes
    • Data centre resource allocation is optimized.
    • Performance issues are automatically identified and resolved.
    Metric
    % orchestration of the IT infrastructure.
5Optimized
  • Practices
    • Use IT service management software to maintain the agreed service levels for each application and service.
    • Automatically assign resources to maintain compliance with service levels with no manual intervention.
    Outcomes
    • Service levels are automatically maintained to be in compliance with service level agreements with little or no manual intervention.
    • The environment ensures that all services and applications have the resources for optimal performance.
    Metrics
    • % of the IT infrastructure controlled by IT service management.
    • # of times that manual intervention is required to maintain the optimal IT infrastructure.