Rise of the Virtual Machine: IST VMware ESX and VMs for Campus Academic Support Areas

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Rise of the Virtual Machine IST VMware ESX and
VMs for Campus Academic Support Areas

• Jason Gorrie

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Agenda

• IST Environment
• Future plans
• Discussion on Campus Trends

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Deja Vu

• Presented similar at OUCC in 2010

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Environment - Recap

• Vmware ESXi 5.1
• Dell
• Netapp

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VM Count
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Cost

• ESX Licenses 40 Enterprise Plus Licenses
• Servers four refreshes (PE2950 ? R900 ? R810 ?
  R820)

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Memory Expanded

• 2010 2.4GB RAM/Server
• 2013 5.7GB RAM/server
• Clusters 2.0/2.8/1.0 T
• 1000 Vms?
• Example Sharepoint 2013

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CPU

• Clusters 272/307/150 Ghz
• Example Security Cameras

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Storage

• NFS mounted from Netapp Devices
• Data retained in 2 places

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Network

• 10G if gt 25 VMs
• VM Side

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Reliability

• No Data loss Same
• Issues (2013)
• June 2013 Driver FW issues (tg3)
• July 2013 Dev storage latency issues
• July 2013 Datastore full when not
• Sept 2013 Driver FW issues (igbx)
• Nov 2013 ESX Host became slow

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Environment is Critical

• Default Virutal
• uwaterloo.ca
• Sharepoint 2013
• Lync
• Waterloo Works (Jobmine replacement)
• All sorts of smaller apps

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Former Challenges

• USB Failures ? SD in RAID1
• Reactive not proactive ? Monitoring stepped up

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Current Challenges

• Vmware License renewal/upgrades (still)
• VM's are candy
• Cleanup

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Service definitions - Internal

• PaaS Platform as a Service
• IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
• SaaS Software as a Service

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VM as a (Campus) Service

• Campus service already
• CPU 1 4 (lt2)
• RAM 1-8GB (lt2GB)
• Disk lt100G is nice (lt40GB)
• OS

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VM as a (Campus) Service

• SLA Dev RTO 12H, RPO 2H
• SLA Prod RTO 2H, RPO 1H
• Discussion Why or why not are you using it?

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Future Plans

• IST license admin
• Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Public cloud bursting?
• Self Provisioning virtual/real
• Throwaway VMs / Applications
• Cloud

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Campus Adoption of Hypervisors

• Who uses hyper visors on campus?
• Discussion What do you use? Why?

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Campus Adoption of Cloud

• OpenStack/CloudStack/Eucalyptus/vCAC/AWS/Azure/Oth
  ers?
• Rise of the meta hypervisor?
• Why use it?

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Cloud Discussion topics

• Interest in
• Self provisioning
• VM
• Application stack
• Show back/ charge back
• Automated workflow of VM vs. of OS? (config
  management)?