Virtualizing Your Data Center

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Virtualizing Your Data Center

• Bill Cashman - Solutions Design Manager
• Peak 10 Data Centers
• November 18, 2008

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About Peak 10
Peak 10 is a Data Center Operator and Managed
Services Provider.

• Managed Data Center
• Five Points of Physical Security
• N1 Power and Environmentals
• 24/7 on-site support
• Reliable, Burstable Bandwidth
• 20Gb private mesh network
• Multiple ISPs and Fiber Access
• BGP route optimization
• Complex Hosting
• Server Management and Monitoring
• Backup and Storage Management
• Managed Security
• Virtual Services Management
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

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About Peak 10
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Server Virtualization
What is Virtualization?
Bare-Metal Virtualization
Host-Based Virtualization
VS
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Anatomy of a VM
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Evolution of Virtualization
60s IBM M44/44X
80s-90s Near-total abandonment
1999 VMware founded x86 virtualization
2003 First public release of open-source Xen
August 14, 2007 VMware IPO sets records August
15, 2007 Citrix announces intent to purchase
XenSource
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Available Options

• VMware ESX
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Citrix XenServer
• Virtual Iron
• Oracle VM
• Solaris Containers

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Why Do It?

• More Efficient Resource Utilization
• Industry server CPU utilization average lt 7
• As much as 80 lower power and space utilization
• Improved IT Flexibility
• Rapid server deployment via templates
• Resource on Demand
• Hardware Independence
• Higher Application Availability
• Live Migration-enabled rolling updates
• Server Instance Resilience

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Case Study Small Business

• Requirements
• Single web server with single database server
• Uptime is paramount
• Perceived Pains
• High-Availability capital costs are high
• Complex solutions require manpower
• Solution
• Hosted Virtual Servers
• Benefits
• Minimal Capital Expenditure
• Scalable and Resilient Infrastructure
• Comparatively Low Total Cost of Ownership

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Case Study Mid-Size Business

• Requirements
• Typical IT Infrastructure - 15-20 Servers
• In-House application development
• Perceived Pains
• Faster Time-to-Market
• Scalability and Hardware Refresh
• Solution
• Dedicated Clustered Virtual Solution
• Benefits
• SAN Infrastructure for scalability
• VM Cloning for On-Demand development
• Lower Recurring Costs offset initial Capital
  Costs

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Case Study Enterprise Data Center

• Requirements
• Enterprise-Class IT Infrastructure 240 Servers
• Second Site Capabilities
• Perceived Pains
• Server Sprawl
• Replication Complexity
• Solution
• Multi-Site Dedicated Virtual Solution
• Benefits
• SAN Replication for Synchronous Second Site
• Drastic Server Footprint Reduction
• Ease of Management Optimizes Workforce

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How Do We Proceed?

• VMware Converter
• Near-zero downtime P2V
• Inline Guest OS individualization
• Imports disk image clones
• Capacity Planner
• Automated server discovery
• Robust performance monitoring
• Extensive Hardware database
• Third Party Utilities
• Platespin
• Vizioncore Vconverter

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Q A

• Thanks for Attending!

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