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How virtualization can enable your business
Richard Allen, IBM Alliance, VMware0780-966.5800 [email protected]
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The ‘physical’ Datacenter
Cost of…
…acquisition
…setup
…power
…heat
…physical rack space
…(re-)configuration
…maintenance
…support….
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The VMware Datacenter
Flexibility
Rapid provisioning
Disaster Recovery
High Availability
Automation
87% of VMware customers deploy in production
950 days uptime
Hidden benefits…
• The set of devices presented to every VM is identical
• single image required for your whole company
• hardware-independency = even hw upgrades do not require new VMware images; even if you switch vendors
• Power and heat
• VMware is licensed by socket…quad core is optimal
• A server running at 25% and 75% are almost identical from a power and heat perspective…so get your servers to 75% before buying more…
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• Installs like an application and runs on any standard x86 hardware
Hardware
Windows/Linux
VMware
Hosted virtualization
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Bare-metal virtualization -- VMware ESX
Bare metal installation: stable, secure and high performance
Which OS can I run in an ESX Virtual Machine?
4-way Virtual SMP; 16GB VM memory
64-bit or 32-bit
32-bit only
ESX Server only: Hot Migration VMotion
Moves running VMs between hosts while maintaining continuous service availability
• - Continuous Workload Consolidation• - Zero-Downtime Maintenance
56% use in production; 80% using or evaluating
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Physical server generates hardware prefailure alert
Integration with Systems Management
VMware VirtualCenter
IBM Director System Management Server
SAN, iSCSI, NFS
ESX Server
ESX Server
ESX Server
ESX Server
ESX Server
VM 4
VM VM VM VM
VM
VM VM
VM VM VM
VM 3
VM 2
VM 1
Alert sent to Systems Management Server Systems Management Server sends command to VirtualCenter
VirtualCenter initiates live migration of VMs using VMotion
Virtual machines migrated intelligentlyServer maintenance\upgrade – with zero downtime
client always connected to
VM4
1. Overloaded host: automatic workload balancing
ESX Server only: VMware DRS
• Automated load balancing
• Dynamically add resources
VMware Infrastructure Resource Cluster
VMotion
2. Dynamically add resources: DRS rebalances load
ESX Server only: VMware HA
VMware Infrastructure
• Automates virtual machine restart
• Independent of OS and applications
2-way System
2-way System
4-way System
8-way System
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Hardware-independent recovery
VMware Infrastructure Solution
• Different servers at primary and secondary site
• Fewer servers at recovery site
• Use retired production servers
at recovery site
Primary Data Center Recovery Data Center
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68 IBM Servers
hw or IP
50 IBM Servers
Storage Array Storage Array
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI sizer: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdi_sizing_vi3.pdf
Client Device(Thin Client or PC)
Load-balancing (via eg: Propero)
VMware Infrastructure…including VMware HA,
DRS, VMotion
Dynamic application publication (via eg: Softgrid)
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How do I size? - VMware Capacity Planner
Accurate agentless workload analysis…
CP collector
