Msardell Virtualization Presentation

8/8/2019 Msardell Virtualization Presentation

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Virtualization Services In Scope

Introduce new services utilizing virtualization

including:

Applications

VMware pilot program

Storage


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VMware product overview VMware is one of several server

virtualization products

VMware vSphere 4.0 Enterprise Edition High Availability

Thin provisioning

VC Agent

Update Manager

VMSafe Data Recovery

Hot Add

Fault Tolerance

Storage VMotion

VMotion

DRS + DPM

Virtual Center vSphereManagement Console


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Physical Server Resources

14 Multi-Processor VMware Servers Total

6 Academic Services 4 node production cluster, 1 dev server, 1 test server

Location: CC data center

Storage: FAS 2050 High Availability Network-attached Storage

4 Enterprise Apps 2 x 2 node clusters

Location: 2 node cluster in each data center

Storage: HP EVA 6100 Fibre Channel SAN

4 NTS/Security 4 individual servers

Location: CC data center

Storage: Local storage only


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Production software that is

virtualized Academic Services

IS Keyserver

Computer Lab imaging servers Computer Lab statistics collectors

Wiki.uoregon.edu Confluence Installation

CentralEPO McAfee EPO Anti-Virus Server

New Ithelp RT system

Systems IS Print servers

IS MSSQL 2007 service

IS Sharepoint installation

IS WSUS Server for domain administration

Centralized MySQL master server Cobbler system deployment tool

Jabber.uoregon.edu IS Chat collaboration tool

IS Content Management Systems (WordpressMU virtual hosting)


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Production software that is

virtualized continued

Administrative Services

Active Directory to Identity Manager gateway

LDAP Proxy

Ufolio.uoregon.edu WordpressMU site

Ufolio-test Test WordpressMU site

Eportfolio.uoregon.edu website (AAA)

VPFA Web hosting box vpfa-prod drupal sites and otherhosting (VPFA)


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Production software slated for

virtualization

Academic Services

Virtual Computing Labs - Researching Replacement mailing list management software (Sympa) NEW

Systems

Enhancements to test environment - NEW

Administrative Services

Document Imaging - Migration

Clean Address mailing verification software - NEW

Resource25 Web interface - NEW

UO Departments and Units

Blackboard Application Servers - Migration

College of Education Lecture and class recording software NEW


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Additional Value of VMware

Development Environments

Testing new applications, methods, and migrations

AD project has used VMware extensively to speed

testing and ease provisioning of production resources.


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AD Development Lab


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Philosophy: Consolidation fromwithin

26 Dell PowerEdge x950 servers in CC Data Center

Most average less that 10-20% CPU utilization and cansupport large volumes of additional memory up to 64GB

convert hardware to VMware servers as needed

Progress: RT servers, IS Print server, and IS Sharepointserver

Future: Blackboard application servers

Cost: Approximately $16,000 per server converted


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Questions?


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VMware Pilot Program

What it is:

Virtual servers hosted in Information Services VMwarecluster(s)

Physical to Virtual conversion assistance

Lig ts-out management vSp ere Conso e Access

What it isnt:

Managed server environment

Application administration


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Simple Process

Identify your application and contact

[email protected]

Assess current resource utilization

Configure performance monitoring and statistics gathering

Analyze historical performance data

Propose tier of VMware service or customized servicelevel

Perform test migration

Schedule downtime and final cutover


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Available VMware Tiers

Tier 1

Single CPU, 24GB storage and 1024MB of RAM (minimumresource reservation of 15% a physical CPU and 50% ofallocated memory)

Two CPUs, 32GB storage and 2048MB of RAM (minimumresource reservation of 25% a physical CPU and 75% ofallocated memory)

Tier 3

Multiple CPUs, 32GB storage plus additional storage purchasedfrom storage offering, and more than 2048MB of RAM(guaranteed resource reservation).


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Success Stories

VPFA Web Server

Hosting over 80 sites

Presidents Blog

ODT Professional Development Website

DPS

many others.

Systems worked with VPFA staff to coordinate physical tovirtual migration of test and production hardware

Server is now hosted in IS data center and did not sufferany loss of availability during power issues


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Success Stories

Eportfolio.uoregon.edu

Server hosted in AAA with older hardware

RAID failure resulted in total loss of data

Restored server from bare-metal backup to a running VM

Restored service for the application as soon as the backuprecovery completed


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Questions?


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Storage Virtualization

Storage virtualization refers to the process of

separating (through abstraction) logical storage fromphysical storage. The term is today used to describe thisseparation at any layer in the storage software and

.

Data is no longer tied to a specific disk or a specificlocation and is now free to wander as needed


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So What?

You no longer have to worry about single disk failure

If you need better performance, all you have to do isadd more or better disks

,

more disks

You now have a multitude of options to increase yourdata redundancy

Access level (SAN/iSCSI fabric) Block level (adjustable RAID configurations)

Logical level (selective multiple site replication)


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Netapp 3070 Single-Site High

Availability


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Netapp 3170 - Multi-Site

Continuous Access


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IS - Virtualized Storage Usage

Approximately 50,000 email accounts

Provide 2GB of highly available disk space for eachstaff/faculty/student

UO homepage and associated Virtual Hosts

UO Webmail system and older Alphamail system

Provide storage service to AAA

Provide storage service to NERO


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Netapp Filer Storage Service

Block level storage virtualization

iSCSI

Fiber Channel

NFS (Unix/Linux)

CIFS (Windows/Mac)


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Possible Storage Applications

Departmental file shares

My Documents redirection Student or lab file storage

Workgroup file storage

Off-site backup-to-disktargets

Production application data

Database volumes

Archival storage


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Tiered Service OfferingsFAS3070 HA Single Site FAS3170 CA Multi Site

Tier 1 StorageFiber Channel Tier 2 StorageSerial Attached SCSI X

Tier 3 StorageLarge Serial ATA X

Single Site offerings are more cost-effective for applications that do not

require multi-site high availability


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Service Offering Details

Installation, maintenance, and configuration of new and

existing hardware, firmware, license codes, andsoftware on storage appliance

Incident res onse related to disru tions of service from

the storage subsystem including but not limited to diskfailures, controller failures, fan failures, and otherequipment failures typical of a storage appliance

Provisioning of storage volumes or LUNS for presentationto clients via one or more protocols


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Service Offering Details Integration of storage volumes into monitoring and alerting

system

After-hours response to system outages in accordance withthe Systems on-call policy

Configuration of De-Duplication (ASIS) and Snapshottechnology or other advanced storage system features.

Managing and processing renewal of all support agreements

covering hardware or software related to the storageappliance

Access to Systems Hotline for direct support


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Questions?