Virtualization at MSU: A Central IT View

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Virtualization at MSU A Central IT View
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Why consider virtualization?

• Datacenter limitations
• Increasing total server costs
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability
• Service offering of guest VMs to other IT
  departments

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What we did

• Research, research, then more research
• Test installs
• Expanded install - learning
• Storage RFP

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Where we are today

• ATS
• 150 VMs
• 6 Hosts
• Mirrored Storage
• Range of guest OS
• Linux (all flavors)
• Windows
• Servers and Desktops

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Where we are today (cont.)

• AIS
• 113 VMs
• 23 Hosts
• Mirrored storage
• Windows and Red Hat guest VMs

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Outcomes

• Expected
• Easier provisioning
• Lower cost of ownership
• Lower power consumption
• Lower cooling needs
• Better disaster recovery options

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Outcomes (cont.)

• Unexpected
• More efficient resource usage
• Security model
• Networking options
• Virtual Desktop features
• Virtual Consolidated Backup
• Shared storage benefits
• Authentication and authorization options
• Ease of adoption

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Going forward

• Continue to virtualize both the ATS and AIS
  Datacenters
• Expand virtualization to include desktops
• Offer a virtual hosting service to the MSU IT
  Community

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Virtual hosting service

• Base a la carte pricing
• 1 GB mirrored on 300GB Fiber drives 8.66 per
  year
• 1 GB mirrored on 1TB SATA drives 2.66 per
  year
• .5 GB Memory 140 per year
• 1 CPU 140 per year
• Configuration Change Fee 50 per virtual server
• Setup Fee 100 per virtual server
• Optional file level backup (self-managed
  only) .29/GB per month
• Yearly Management fees (managed only)
• Windows 2,357
• Red Hat 2,566

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Sample base configurations

• Small 32.13/m - 385.56/yr
• 1 CPU/512MB RAM/12GB HDD
• Domain controllers
• Small web servers
• Small app servers
• Base system for file servers (additional SATA
  required)
• Medium 56.91/m - 682.92/yr
• 1 CPU/1GB RAM/30GB HDD
• Web Servers
• Application servers
• Large 91.20/m - 1,094.40/yr
• 1 CPU/2GB RAM/45GB HDD
• Java based web servers
• Memory intensive application servers
• prices based on yearly cost

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Panel discussion