ThinCity Systems

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ThinCity Systems
ESX Server 2
ESX Server 1
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Zero Downtime

• What causes downtime?
• Hardware
• proprietary hardware
• updates to any hardware (capacity, scalability)
• Software
• death by driver
• change/maintenance windows
• poorly behaved applications
• QOS
• provisioning of hardware
• setup time
• increased resources increased risk of failure

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Zero Downtime

• How to we mitigate these risks?
• Virtualization of network
• Virtualization of worker threads
• Virtualization of storage
• Workload management
• Virtualization of applications

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Demonstrations

• VMware
• Virtualization
• Management User Interface (MUI)
• Virtual Center
• VMotion

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Demonstrations

• Datacore SANMelody
• Automatic Provisioning (Virtual Capacity)
• Fiber Channel compatibility
• iSCSI compatibility
• VMware compatibility

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Demonstrations

• Automatic process prioritization
• Process grouping
• CPU equal sharing