STATE OF SERVER VIRTUALIZATION Paul Schaapman Solutions

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State of Server Virtualization
Paul Schaapman Solutions Architect Servers,
Storage Virtualization Solutions
Practice Paul.schaapman_at_cdw.com
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Agenda
State of Virtualization

• Introduction
• What is available today
• What works
• Show me the money
• How do I get started
• How can CDW help

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What is available today

• VMwares vSphere
• Key Features
• Market Leader
• Virtualizes 54 Guest OSs
• Server virtualization solution with HA and load
  balancing
• Enhanced vMotion
• Memory Over commit
• Transparent Page Sharing

• Patch Management
• Fault Tolerance built in
• Certified on over 450 servers
• FC, iSCSI, NFS Supported
• Power Management
• Distributed switch
• Supports storage management
• Storage vmotion

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What is Available today

• VMwares vSphere.cont.
• IT functions supported with vSphere
• Disaster Recovery (SRM)
• Client Virtualization (View)
• Application Virtualization (presentation)
  (ThinApp)
• Client side VMs for PC and MAC (Workstation,
  Fusion)
• SDLC cost reduction (Lifecycle manager,
  LabManager)
• Capacity Planning (CapacityIQ)
• Application SLM (AppSpeed)
• Data Protection (Data Recovery)
• Availability Management (vCenter Server
  Heartbeat)
• Cost Control (Chargeback)

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What is Available today

• Citrix XenServer
• Key Features
• Server virtualization solution with HA (requires
  Citrix Esentials)
• XenMotion
• No memory overcommit
• Certified on over 200 servers
• FC, iSCSI, and NFS supported

• Virtualizes 21 guest OSs
• No Power Management equivalent
• No Fault Tolerance
• No distributed switch YET?
• No storage vmotion (StorageLink has potential but
  not widely adopted)

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What is Available today

• Citrix XenServer
• IT Functions Supported
• Server virtualization
• Comprehensive Client Virtualization
• Comprehensive Application Virtualization

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What is Available today

• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Key Features
• Server virtualization solution with HA (MS uses
  MSCS for HA)
• Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), which is critical
  to HA, should be released in 2 weeks this
  technology is not mature
• Live Migration also brand-new functionality
• HA with System Center VM Manager (SCVMM)

• No memory over commit
• Support for servers certified for Server 2008
• No Fault Tolerance
• Virtualizes 11 Guest OSs
• FC, iSCSI supported
• No true power management
• No distributed switch
• Limited storage management
• No storage vmotion

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What works

• VMware
• VMware has been in the released ESX and GSX 1.0
  in 2001. Virtual Center released in 2003.
• Has the most experience
• Is the farthest along
• Very mature product suite
• Focus is on integrating IT process automation
  around virtualization
• Citrix
• Citrix XenServer acquired XenSource on August
  15th, 2007
• Has working low cost server virtualization
  solution
• Focus is on client virtualization
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Hyper-V (formerly Windows Server
  Virtualization)
• Standalone version released in October 2008
• Real solution (one with HA) has been out since
  August 2008.

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What's in it for me?

• Higher availability
• Faster provisioning
• Higher resource utilization
• Adaptive and scalable infrastructure
• Reduced hard and soft cost
• Staff more perfective/strategicly focused
• Ability to consistently recover the business

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how me the money

• Physical server costs 1K/year power and cooling
• 100 servers cost 100,000.00/year in power
• Same servers virtualized cost 3,000.00 in power
• Server provisioning time (weeks to minutes)
• Increased availability
• Reduced TCO
• Increased business agility
• Must go All In to realize full benefits
• Backups no longer constrained to backup window
• Simplified and real DR solution
• Increased server utilization

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How do I get started?

• Bring in a CDW Solutions architect (Server,
  Storage, Virtualization (Server/Client), UC,
  Network)
• Tell us about your environment
• What are your goals?
• What standards do you have in place?
• Is DR part of your strategy?
• We will work with you to define the requirements
  and a build a solution.

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How can CDW help?

• Solutions Architect
• Assessment
• Detailed design
• Jumpstarts including P2V
• Health check

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Solution Specialists Architects

• Custom solutions for every need
• Discovery, planning, design, product overviews
• Vendor evaluations recommendations
• Product demonstrations
• Detailed configurations proposals
• Outstanding Virtualization Expertise
• Server, Storage, Desktop, Application,
  Presentation, Profile and Network Virtualization
  knowledge and certifications
• Virtualization brands include Citrix, Microsoft,
  VMware, Vizioncore etc.

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Virtualization Assessment Team (vAT)

• Dedicated Team
• Focused, VMware Capacity Planner-certified
• Gather analyze systems metrics translate into
  detailed report
• Over 300 Assessments completed 1H09
• Detailed Assessment Report
• Provides justification for virtualization, a
  fully certified HW/SW solution and implementation
  guidance
• No-cost for qualified customers

The assessment didnt just get our foot in the
door with virtualization, it allowed us to walk
right through it, Bryan Langer, Mercy Health
System
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Resources
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• please contact your CDW Account Manager.

Paul Schaapman paulsch_at_cdw.com