MFCF's%20Virtualization%20Experience%20using%20VMWare

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MFCF's Virtualization Experience using VMWare

• Tom Serviss, Technical Manager, MFCF
• Greg Walker, Principal Consultant, Gibraltar
  Solutions Inc.

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Agenda

• Introduction to VMware
• Introduction to LeftHand Networks
• Proof of Concept at MFCF
• Live Demonstration

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Introduction to VMware

• Greg Walker, Principal Consultant, Gibraltar
  Solutions Inc.

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Server Virtualization

• Benefits
• Increase hardware utilization by sharing hardware
  resources across a large number of virtual
  machines.

ESX Server
Physical Server
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Anatomy of a Virtual Machine
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Virtualization of Servers, Storage and Networking

• Partition CPU and memory in multiple virtual
  machines
• Store virtual machine disks on local or shared
  storage. VMFS cluster file system manages virtual
  machine disk storage
• Build networks within or across ESX Servers.

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Heterogeneous Operating System Support
Freedom to choose the most appropriate OS for any
application
Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, Web Editions, and Small Business Server
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows XP Professional
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 3
Solaris 10 (on x86)
SUSE Linux 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
Novell NetWare 5.1, 6.0 and 6.5
FreeBSD 4.9

• Rigorously tested to run 28 versions of all major
  operating systems
• 64-bit operating system support (including Vista,
  Longhorn beta, and Linux)

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Enterprise Workloads
Run the most resource intensive enterprise
applications such as databases, CRM and ERP
applications in virtual machines

• 16 GB RAM
• Up to 4 virtual CPUs
• Support for powerful physical servers with up to
  32 logical CPU and 64 GB RAM

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VirtualCenter - Key Functionality
Centralized Management
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Live Migration Of Virtual Machines with VMotion

• What is it?
• Live migration of virtual machines with VMware
  VMotion
• Customer Impact
• Zero downtime
• Continuous service availability
• Complete transaction integrity
• Supported on Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN and NAS

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Resource Optimization with VMware DRS
Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware
resources to ensure optimal alignment between
business and IT

• What is it?
• Dynamic balancing of computing resources across
  resource pools
• Intelligent resource allocation based on
  pre-defined rules
• Customer Impact
• Align IT resources with business priorities
• Operational simplicity dramatically increase
  system administrator productivity
• Add hardware dynamically to avoid
  over-provisioning to peak load
• Automate hardware maintenance

Business Demand
Resource Pool
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Capacity on Demand with VMware DRS
Add hardware dynamically

• Provisioning is fire and forget
• Easily add more capacity
• Avoid over-provisioning to peak load

Resource Pool CPU 50 GHz, Mem 70GB Priority HIGH
Resource Pool CPU 36GHz, Mem 58GB Priority HIGH
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Ensure High availability with VMware HA
VMware HA enables cost-effective high
availability for all applications

• What is it?
• Automatic restart of virtual machines in case of
  server failure
• Customer Impact
• Cost effective high availability for all
  applications
• No need for dedicated stand-by hardware
• None of the cost and complexity of clustering

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Resource Pool
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Resource Pools
Aggregate collections of disparate hardware
resources into unified logical resource pools

• Customer Impact
• Failed server mean less resources not a failed
  application
• Dedicated (virtual) infrastructure for each
  business unit central IT retains control over
  hardware
• Delegation of resource and virtual machine
  management down to the business unit
• Management of an entire SOA application stack as
  a single entity

Business Unit
Resource Pool 3
Resource Pool 2
CPU 12GHz, Mem 22GB Priority LOW
CPU 36GHz, Mem 58GB Priority HIGH
Aggregate Resources
CPU 48 GHz, Mem 80GB
Servers, Storage, Networking
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Protect data with VMware Consolidated Backup
Centralized file level backup enables easy
reliable data protection

• What is it?
• Centralized agentless backup for virtual machines
• Move backup out of the virtual machine
• Eliminate backup traffic on the local area
  network
• Pre-integrated with major 3rd-party backup
  products
• Customer Impact
• Perform backup in the middle of the day

CentralizedData Mover
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VMware Infrastructure Key Solutions / Use Cases
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Solving the Problem

• VMware Infrastructure provides a managed approach
  to regain control over serve sprawl
• VMware customers have consolidated 1 mln servers
  to date

• Benefits
• Reduce hardware costs up to 30-50
• Reduce operations costs up to 70-80
• Reduce complexity
• Deploy new services efficiently

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VMware Infrastructure Cost Savings
Increase utilization From 5-15 To 60-80
Consolidate hardware 10-15 1 in production 15-20 1 in development testing 10-15 1 in production 15-20 1 in development testing
Reduce operating costs of rack space, power etc 3,000 per year electricity savings for 2CPU ESX Server 3,000 per year electricity savings for 2CPU ESX Server
Decrease labor cost by simplifying and automating labor intensive IT operations From 10 servers per sys admin To 30 servers per sys admin

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables
enterprises to host desktop virtual machines in
their data center on VMware software and provide
users access from a PC or thin client using a
remote display protocol.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Users
• Student Labs
• Outsourced call centers
• Offshore developers
• Branch office consolidation
• Desktop disaster recovery
• Value Central management, increased security,
  strong user isolation
• Products Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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Introduction to Lefthand networks

• Greg Walker, Principal Consultant, Gibraltar
  Solutions Inc.

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Scale Everything Architecture
LeftHand Clustered Architecture
Traditional SAN Architecture
Scale-out Storage
Scale-up Storage
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Keep Data Highly Available With Network RAID

• Synchronous Data Replication
• Real-Time Protection Levels
• 2-Way Replicated Volume
• 3-Way Replicated Volume
• Assigned on a per-volume basis
• Change replication levels on-the-fly
• Survive Entire Storage Module Failure
• No interruption of application data access
• Data access speeds remain constant
• No parity calculation required

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Campus SAN Real-time Protection from Site Failure

• Geographically distribute nodes to survive
• Facility disruption
• Natural disaster
• Technology failure
• Physical Separate Cluster By
• Rack
• Room
• Floor
• Building
• Prerequisite
• Gigabit Connectivity
• Low Latency

Location 1
Location 2
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SAN/iQ Campus SAN and VMware ESX Cluster
Location 1
Location 2
VMware ESX HA Cluster
LeftHand Networks SAN/iQ Cluster
SAN/iQ Cluster is configured with equal storage
in each site
ESX cluster is configured with equal hosts in
each site
SAN/iQ Network RAID replicates data between sites
synchronously
In the event of a site failure SAN/iQ keeps
volumes available
ESX High Availability boots up virtual machines
lost at the failed site
When the failed site comes back online ESX
rebalances virtual machines (DRS)
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Proof of concept at mfcf

• Tom Serviss, Technical Manager, MFCF _at_ UW

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Proof of Concept Components

• Purchased two new servers and an iSCSI array
• Servers HP DL380 G5
• Dual quad-core Xeon
• 16 GB RAM
• 2 dual-port NICs
• 1 dual-port iSCSI HBA
• Storage HP DL320s with LeftHand Networks SAN/iQ
• 12 x 146 GB drives
• 1.8 TB raw storage, 1.5 TB usable (RAID 5)
• Two additional demo units provided during
  training for replication purposes
• VMware Software Virtual Infrastructure 3
• 2 x VI3 Enterprise
• 1 x VirtualCenter Management Server

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Training

• Gibraltar Solutions provided 4 days training for
  MFCF
• Training in ESX Server- the robust foundation of
  the VMware Infrastructure
• Training in VirtualCenter- to provision and
  monitor virtual machines
• Training in P2V Assistant- to assist in
  converting from physical to virtual
• Training designed to demonstrate
• Sound foundation in VM concepts
• Understanding of the implementation procedures
• Introduction to management tools
• 5 people completed the training

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Early Successes

• Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 runs independently
  of the VM Installation
• Active Directory and IIS Servers cannot be run
  directly the Presentation Server
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

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Future Testing

• Maple TA virtual backup and failover
• Request Tracker (RT) Version 3.6.4
• Solaris 10 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise 5
• VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Project Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

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Lessons Learned

• Stability
• Virtual Center reporting loss of heartbeat
• The VMware heartbeat signal does not depend on
  the time sync of the system itself
• Performance
• Thus far acceptable but limited
• Time required to maximize performance
• Performance monitoring will be implemented later

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Lessons Learned

• Provisioning
• Current VM Servers all provisioned within
  minutes, not hours
• Applying new security updates
• Flexibility cannot be fully tested, within the
  limitations of the current environment
• Only one SAN available
• The high I/O requirements of database
  applications make virtualization a poor choice

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Conclusions

• The Green Initiative industry trend towards
  becoming energy efficient
• Consolidation survey pending in the new year
• Consolidation ratio of 101 can be achieved
• Benefits cooling, power and also reduces the
  overall server room footprint

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Live demonstration

• Greg Walker, Principal Consultant, Gibraltar
  Solutions Inc.