Doing more with less

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• Doing more with less
• Going Green with Virtualisation

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• Introductions
• Brian Cowan
• Gary Byrne

Nviron Business Development Manager Nviron
Advanced Infrastructure Team
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• Welcome to Nviron Today's objectives
• Raise awareness of the role Virtualisation has in
  todays greener infrastructures
• Explain the advanced technologies that comprise
  the VMware architecture
• Present how VMwares enabling architecture can be
  key to your organisation
• Introduce you to Nviron as a potential technology
  partner

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• Welcome to Nviron Qualifications
• VMware Enterprise Partner
• Microsoft Gold Partner
• EqualLogic Business Partner
• Riverbed Partner
• Stonesoft Senior Partner
• Symantec, Checkpoint, Tumbleweed Trend Micro
  Security partners
• Neverfail partner
• Qualified in-house technical team
• Excellent Case studies Reference sites

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Brian Cowan Nviron Virtualisation, an
introduction
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• Virtualisation an Introduction
• Server Virtualisation breaking hardware
  dependencies

Physical Machine
Disaster Recovery
Virtual Machine
Replication
P2V
O/S Application have no contact with server
Needs identical hardware software for Disaster
Recovery
No need for same hardware provided VMware
installed
Nviron Making virtualization a reality
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• Virtualisation Common Myths
• Virtualisation is new
• Virtualisation solves application problems
• Virtualisation costs jobs
• Virtualisation puts many eggs in one basket

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Gary Byrne Nviron Components of a Datacentre

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• Components of a Datacentre Where are we now
• Services delivered using a proliferation of
  disparate systems
• Consolidation There are good reasons why we do
  or dont do it
• What is right with this arrangement?
• Tacit simplicity Understood Exposure
  mitigation
• What is wrong with this arrangement?
• Cost
• Inefficiency inflexibility
• Duplication of Hardware inverse exposure
• Power and Air Conditioning costs
• Sizing, specification, Recovery, DR
• Lock-in of the Service...

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• Components of a Datacentre How can this change
• What is a service? Hardware O/S Application
  Data
• The deployment of Virtualisation What is it?
  Why now?
• VMware is a Datacentre class system Access
  previously inaccessible resources
• At its most basic it could be a single ESX server
• An Enterprise solution would comprise ESX
  Server(s) Virtual Centre SAN
• A SAN is needed to hold the Virtual Machine files
• A minimum of 2 ESX servers are required to use
  the advanced features

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• Advanced Features Relocating a Virtual Machine
• Real time relocation of a running Virtual Machine
  without user disconnection
• Requires Virtual Centre forming a centrally
  managed VMware Datacentre
• Requires central file storage i.e. a SAN
• Balances workload DRS HA
• Automatic optimisation of estate
• Why is this green?

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• Advanced Features Relocating a Virtual Machine
• Real time relocation of a running Virtual Machine
  without user disconnection
• Requires Virtual Centre forming a centrally
  managed VMware Datacentre
• Requires central file storage i.e. a SAN
• Balances workload DRS HA
• Automatic optimisation of estate
• Why is this green?

Business Demand
Resource Pool
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• Advanced Features Why is this green?
• Negates server proliferation traditional required
  to meet periodic demand
• Unused processing power has become accessible
  Significantly reduced footprint
• Compounding benefit
• New feature Dynamic Power off
• A transportable Service unit
• Service no longer tied to chassis

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• Advanced Features Relocating a Virtual Machine
• Negates server proliferation traditional required
  to meet periodic demand
• Unused processing power has become accessible
  Significantly reduced footprint
• Compounding benefit
• New feature Dynamic Power off
• A transportable Service unit
• Service no longer tied to chassis

Power Off
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• Advanced Features Why is this green?
• Negates server proliferation traditional required
  to meet periodic demand
• Unused processing power has become accessible
  Significantly reduced footprint
• Compounding benefit
• New feature Dynamic Power off
• A transportable Service unit
• Service no longer tied to chassis

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• Advanced Features Why is this green?
• How does virtualising a service save energy
  Isn't this yet more complexity?
• Maximised investment Work assets harder
  retain discretion
• Simplified backup and recovery Disc based
  archive off site snapshots
• Off site disaster recovery provisioning Like
  for like not required
• Dual site operations Place production work on
  the DR site cross replicate
• Centralised operations Reduce transport needs
• Reduces hardware deployment to a practical
  minimum
• Hardware can be scaled as and when required
• Whats the first step?...

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Brian Cowan Nviron Planning for
Virtualisation
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• Planning for Virtualisation Capacity Planning
• Average x86 utilisation 5 to 7
• Wasted Servers utilities resources
• Capacity planning service
• Understand resource use
• Physical to Virtual translation
• Plan configuration
• Plan savings and costs
• Typical example

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• Planning for Virtualisation Environmental
  Planning

• Demonstrable savings
• Understand Datacentre components
• Meet Green commitments
• Infinite adjustment through scalability

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• Planning for Virtualisation Financial Planning
• Your organisations call to action
• Compare costs for Traditional versus Virtual
• Schedule costs inline with project goals
• Allocate budget for rollout of virtualisation
• Balance project cost with efficiency gains and
  utility savings
• Capacity plan Design procure implement
  service
• Doing more with less, Going Greener with
  Virtualisation...

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Questions, Further events information Nviron
Learn more about these advanced technologies

• EqualLogic IP SAN VMware Demonstration Days in
  2007 2008
• Windows Server 2008 Early 2008
• Contact Debbie Brooks dbrooks_at_nviron.co.uk
• Carbon Trust Document CTV028
• Web recommendations
• www.nviron.co.uk www.equallogic.com
  www.riverbed.com www.vmware.com

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