April 2009 Release Customer Webinar
April 2009 Release Webinar Steve Brodie Chief Products & Marketing Officer Skytap, Inc.
Agenda • Release Summary
• What’s New Highlights • New Release Demo • Skytap Roadmap Highlights • Q&A
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April 2009 Release Summary • Release Timing – Release on Sunday, April 19th maintenance window
• What’s New Summary – – – – –
Richer, More Granular User Access Control (UAC) Project Sharing Enhancements Improved Navigation, Search & Filter Add & Grow Virtual Machine Disks – Beta Software Load Balancer in Library (Zeus)
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UAC & Sharing Goals • Offer more granular user access control (UAC) – – – –
Important for accounts with large # of users Add project roles: Admin, Editor, User Support concept of “project jailed” user Enable/disable Public Lib & Personal Workspaces
• Improve usability of project sharing – Still confusing for many users how to share – Provide easy way to share items with all users on account
• Provide filter to only show my content in projects – Hard to find my content when many users on one project
• GOAL: Minimal usability impact while adding richer UAC
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User Level Permission Settings • Account Administrator (Default: No) – Is user an account admin? Skytap allows more than 1 admin – Admin has full permissions on account including • Manage users, projects & user-level quotas • View & manage all account objects • Audit trail & usage reporting
• Public Library Access (Default: Yes) – Can user view and use Public Library & Assets?
• Private Workspace Enabled (Default: Yes) – Does user have personal work space not visible to other users? – If not enabled, user must work in shared Project(s) – If enabled, private workspace is default location for all workobjects
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Project Roles & Permission Users can be assigned to 1 or more projects with a role on each • Manager – Full project including ability to add members & share workobjects to project – Example Users: Course Manager, SE Manager, QA Manager
• Editor – Rights to share workobjects with project, but cannot add members to project – Example Users: Course Developer, Demo Creator, Build Manager
• Member – Rights to use workobjects in Project but cannot share workobjects with project – Example Users: Trainer, SE, Tester
Project & user creation • Only Account Administrators can create projects and users
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Project Sharing Enhancements • Auto-Add New Users to Project – Project option to automatically add new users to project – Facilitates “account-wide” shared workobjects
• Sharing Operation – New Sharing button on Lib, Lab & Assets – Easily share workobjects without switching to Project page – Can still add workobjects to project from Project page
• Sharing Indicator – Clearly identify objects shared with projects – Show which projects template has been shared with
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Navigation, Filter & Search • Improved Navigator Pane – Common navigator pane on Lib, Lab, Assets – Option to display only my workobjects – Selector to display work items for specific project
• Enhanced Library Filter – Less frequently used filters moved to filter dialog (Vendor, Language) – Filter setting clearly displayed in filter bar – Filters persist across page changes & sessions
• Advanced Search Queries – Wildcard: Sky* returns Skytap, Skype … – Phrase: “My CentOS” returns My CentOS 4.6, MyCentOS 5.1 … – Boolean (AND, OR, NOT): Vista OR XP returns Win Vista, Window XP, …
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Add & Grow VM Disks (Beta) •
Grow Virtual Machine Disk – VM Disk size can be increased; CANNOT be shrunk – Max Disk Size: 2047GB (~2TB) – For Windows VMs with Basic disk format & 1 partition, partition is auto-resized •
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For all other cases, user must resize the partitions manually using disk partition utility
Add Disks to Virtual Machine – Can add more disks to a virtual machine – Size: 2GB – 2047GB (~2TB) – Disk created with partition table, but user must partition manually
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Extensively tested on common OS and disk configurations – Beta since as some possible corner case configs where disk edit may fail
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Disk Modifications Risky, STRONGLY RECOMMEND: – Cleanly shutdown VMs before disk editing – Create backup snapshot of all VMs being edited
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DEMO
Skytap Roadmap Highlights •
Upcoming Release & Maintenance – – –
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Major Release cycle every 2 months Next Major Release: Mid-Late June Minor Release: Mid-April – minor enhancements & fixes
2009 Roadmap Priorities – – – –
VPN: IPSec Support, Bi-Directional Addressing RDP Access via Standard Ports 8GB+ RAM File/Asset Management Enhancements •
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File Transfer Optimization •
– – – – –
Grow Share Drive, Asset/Share Drive Unification, Asset Folders/Organization, Self-Service VM Import/Export, Unify Asset Upload & FTP Uload, File Transfer Accelerators
API Extensions – Projects, File/Asset Mgmt Multi-NIC & Multi-Subnet Support Snapshot Manager & Rollbacks Scheduling & Reservations Misc Usability Features •
VM Boot Ordering, More Auto-Suspend Enhancements
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Questions & Feedback
• You will be asked to complete a short survey when you exit webinar • We encourage you to provide your feedback! Contact Info: [email protected]
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Agenda • Release Summary
• What’s New Highlights • New Release Demo • Skytap Roadmap Highlights • Q&A
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April 2009 Release Summary • Release Timing – Release on Sunday, April 19th maintenance window
• What’s New Summary – – – – –
Richer, More Granular User Access Control (UAC) Project Sharing Enhancements Improved Navigation, Search & Filter Add & Grow Virtual Machine Disks – Beta Software Load Balancer in Library (Zeus)
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UAC & Sharing Goals • Offer more granular user access control (UAC) – – – –
Important for accounts with large # of users Add project roles: Admin, Editor, User Support concept of “project jailed” user Enable/disable Public Lib & Personal Workspaces
• Improve usability of project sharing – Still confusing for many users how to share – Provide easy way to share items with all users on account
• Provide filter to only show my content in projects – Hard to find my content when many users on one project
• GOAL: Minimal usability impact while adding richer UAC
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User Level Permission Settings • Account Administrator (Default: No) – Is user an account admin? Skytap allows more than 1 admin – Admin has full permissions on account including • Manage users, projects & user-level quotas • View & manage all account objects • Audit trail & usage reporting
• Public Library Access (Default: Yes) – Can user view and use Public Library & Assets?
• Private Workspace Enabled (Default: Yes) – Does user have personal work space not visible to other users? – If not enabled, user must work in shared Project(s) – If enabled, private workspace is default location for all workobjects
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Project Roles & Permission Users can be assigned to 1 or more projects with a role on each • Manager – Full project including ability to add members & share workobjects to project – Example Users: Course Manager, SE Manager, QA Manager
• Editor – Rights to share workobjects with project, but cannot add members to project – Example Users: Course Developer, Demo Creator, Build Manager
• Member – Rights to use workobjects in Project but cannot share workobjects with project – Example Users: Trainer, SE, Tester
Project & user creation • Only Account Administrators can create projects and users
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Project Sharing Enhancements • Auto-Add New Users to Project – Project option to automatically add new users to project – Facilitates “account-wide” shared workobjects
• Sharing Operation – New Sharing button on Lib, Lab & Assets – Easily share workobjects without switching to Project page – Can still add workobjects to project from Project page
• Sharing Indicator – Clearly identify objects shared with projects – Show which projects template has been shared with
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Navigation, Filter & Search • Improved Navigator Pane – Common navigator pane on Lib, Lab, Assets – Option to display only my workobjects – Selector to display work items for specific project
• Enhanced Library Filter – Less frequently used filters moved to filter dialog (Vendor, Language) – Filter setting clearly displayed in filter bar – Filters persist across page changes & sessions
• Advanced Search Queries – Wildcard: Sky* returns Skytap, Skype … – Phrase: “My CentOS” returns My CentOS 4.6, MyCentOS 5.1 … – Boolean (AND, OR, NOT): Vista OR XP returns Win Vista, Window XP, …
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Add & Grow VM Disks (Beta) •
Grow Virtual Machine Disk – VM Disk size can be increased; CANNOT be shrunk – Max Disk Size: 2047GB (~2TB) – For Windows VMs with Basic disk format & 1 partition, partition is auto-resized •
•
For all other cases, user must resize the partitions manually using disk partition utility
Add Disks to Virtual Machine – Can add more disks to a virtual machine – Size: 2GB – 2047GB (~2TB) – Disk created with partition table, but user must partition manually
•
Extensively tested on common OS and disk configurations – Beta since as some possible corner case configs where disk edit may fail
•
Disk Modifications Risky, STRONGLY RECOMMEND: – Cleanly shutdown VMs before disk editing – Create backup snapshot of all VMs being edited
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DEMO
Skytap Roadmap Highlights •
Upcoming Release & Maintenance – – –
•
Major Release cycle every 2 months Next Major Release: Mid-Late June Minor Release: Mid-April – minor enhancements & fixes
2009 Roadmap Priorities – – – –
VPN: IPSec Support, Bi-Directional Addressing RDP Access via Standard Ports 8GB+ RAM File/Asset Management Enhancements •
–
File Transfer Optimization •
– – – – –
Grow Share Drive, Asset/Share Drive Unification, Asset Folders/Organization, Self-Service VM Import/Export, Unify Asset Upload & FTP Uload, File Transfer Accelerators
API Extensions – Projects, File/Asset Mgmt Multi-NIC & Multi-Subnet Support Snapshot Manager & Rollbacks Scheduling & Reservations Misc Usability Features •
VM Boot Ordering, More Auto-Suspend Enhancements
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Questions & Feedback
• You will be asked to complete a short survey when you exit webinar • We encourage you to provide your feedback! Contact Info: [email protected]
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