IT Assist Virtualisation Pilot

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IT Assist Virtualisation Pilot

• VMWare Strategic Server tool
• Selected candidate server base
• Platespin
• Implement Recommendations

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Processor Usage
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Memory Usage
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4 Key Recommendations

• Consolidate 43 servers to 5 Dual-Processor
  Quad-Core servers.
• Expand existing storage area network (SAN).
• Implement resource pools and VMwares Distributed
  Resource Scheduler (DRS) for high availability.
• Implement VMwares VirtualCenter configuration
  management.

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Some Quick Points

• The green impact. A reduction of 351,051lbs (159
  tons) of carbon emissions, equivalent to the
  average emissions of taking 29 cars off the road
  per year.
• With the reduction in overall number of servers,
  reducing operating power by 13,323kWatts, cooling
  power by 16,543kWatts, and data center space
  savings by 3.5 racks
• Achieve an ROI of 940.5 from an investment of
  30,765 in VMware Infrastructure, and projected
  direct savings of 250,884, indirect savings of
  38,448.

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Critical Success factors to Achieving the Benefits

• Potential Barriers
• Not disrupting daily business operations while
  shifting to a virtualized infrastructure.
• Assuring business functions they will still own
  their servers and applications (even though they
  will share technology resources).
• Knowing the capabilities and limitations of
  server hardware and software.
• Creating a server infrastructure that will scale
  with my growing business needs.

How We Will Overcome the Barriers Careful
planning of how to shift applications and
operating system software from existing servers
to new servers and virtual machines. Pointing
them to other customers and whose applications
have shifted to virtualized infrastructures. Worki
ng closely with hardware and software engineers
and those of our alliance partners (e.g., VMware)
to know what is and is not technologically
possible. Setting up the new virtualized
infrastructure in a way that makes it easy to
expand applications and servers.
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What Next?

• Audit NICS server estate
• Agree what should not be virtualised
• Full Virtualisation Strategy Servers, PCs and
  Storage
• Choose the solutions that suits NICS best

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Any Questions?

• John.Nugent_at_dfpni.gov.uk
• 028 90 523 647