Sun Virtualization Solutions

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Systems Virtualization
Sun Virtualization Solutions
Tony Kay System Management Virtualization Produc
t Definition Group Sun Microsystems, Inc.
6th November 2007
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Virtualization Market
Virtualized Client market 2006 - 2011
2.54B
9.47B
5.94B
3.75B
Source Worldwide Virtual Client Computing
2006-2011 Forecast, April 2007, Humphreys Rose
Source IDC, 2006, Worldwide IT Consolidation
Market Opportunity
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Why Virtualization?
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Customer Challenges
Power and cooling constraints are very real
issues
Energy costs are draining the bottom line
Sprawling IT infrastructure is increasingly
hard to manage
Disaster recovery planning is non-negotiable
Underutilized, inefficient systems are limiting
business growth
Ability to deploy new services is critical
to remain competitive
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What Customers Are Telling Us
Data Center Operator
CIO
Developer

• I want to...
• Reduce costs
• Maximize assets
• Accelerate business
• Remain compliant
• Gain competitive advantage

• I would like...
• Many different environments for development
  test in a single server
• Continuing innovation and thought leadership

• I need to...
• Minimize server sprawl
• Simplify my IT infrastructure
• Improve system utilization
• Safeguard critical data
• Be prepared for disasters

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Why do People look to Virtualization

• Server Sprawl particularly Microsoft 1 OS/1
  App.
• Legacy OS and application support
• SLAs consolidate yet maintain and/or enhance
  SLAs
• Environmental issues heat, power, cooling,
  footprint
• Utilization raise average platform utilization
• Disaster Recovery
• TCO Support costs for aging servers
• Simplify platforms and infrastructure
• Flexibility time to deploy, agile, dynamic data
  center
• Security

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System Virtualization- Goals

• Drive up Server utilization
• Consolidate multiple (underutilized) physical
  servers onto single physical server
• Drive down hardware, infrastructure and
  administrative costs
• Eliminate server sprawl reduce power/cooling
  requirements
• Reduce expensive I/O connection point costs
• Reduce Data Center complexity
• Increase server availability
• Increase Server Admin efficiency

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Comprehensive Virtualization Offerings
WebServer
SunRayServer
AppServer
MailServer
WebServer
FileServer
IdentityServer
AppServer
App
CalendarServer
Database
Database
Database
OS
Server
Multiple OSs
Single OS
Trend to flexibility
Trend to isolation
Trend to flexibility
Trend to isolation
Dynamic SystemDomains
Solaris Containers (Zones SRM)? Solaris
Trusted Extensions Solaris Containers for
Linux Applications
Solaris ResourceManager (SRM)?
Logical Domains xVM Server Xen Vmware
ESX Microsoft Virtual Server
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Solaris The Industry's First and Most Secure OS
for Virtualization
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Solaris Containers for Virtualization
Strong isolation between App and System
Administrators
CalendarServer
WebServer
Application
Database
OS Virtualization built into the kernel
OS
Very light weight and scales with any Solaris
system
Server
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Server Virtualization
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Logical Domains UltraSPARC Virtualization
Solaris or Linux guest domains
MailServer
WebServer
FileServer
Application
OS
Solaris or Linux Control Domain
Server
Ultra lightweight Hypervisor in the firmware
Sun Fire CoolThreads Servers
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VMware ESX Windows Virtualization
Solaris, Linux and Windows support
MailServer
WebServer
FileServer
Application
Application
OS
Integrated Control Domain and Hypervisor
Server
Server
Sun Fire x64 Servers
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Hybrid Solutions
Hard Partitions OS Virtualization
Virtual Machines OS Virtualization
MailServer
WebServer
MailServer
WebServer
FileServer
Database
Server

• Dynamic System Domains with Solaris Containers
• Combine high RAS and proven robustness with
  flexible application environments
• Both can scale all the way up to 144 way systems
• Incur no extra overhead for Virtualization

• LDoms/xVM/Xen/VMware/MSVS with Solaris Containers
• Combine flexibility of OS version and type with
  secure application environments
• Live migration allows for off-loading a system in
  production for repair of DR

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Advantages to Customers
Hard Partitions
Virtual Machines
OS Virtualization
Resource Management
WebServer
SunRayServer
AppServer
MailServer
WebServer
FileServer
IdentityServer
AppServer
App
CalendarServer
Database
Database
Database
OS
Server
Multiple OSs
Single OS
Trend to flexibility
Trend to isolation

• Scalable, low overhead
• One OS to manage
• Divides system and app administration
• Fine grained resource management

• Very scalable and low overhead
• Single OS to manage
• Fine grained resource management

• Ability to live migrate an OS
• Run different OS versions types
• De-couples OS HW versions

• Very High RAS
• Very Scalable
• Mature Technology
• Ability to run different OS versions

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Desktop Virtualization
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The Ideal Virtualization Platforms
Sun Servers and Solaris
Next Gen AMD Now Shipping
10 Years Binary Compatibility 20 Years System
Compatibility
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Sun xVM
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Sun xVM Infrastructure
Sun xVM Infrastructure
Sun xVM Server (Hypervisor Family)?
xVM Ops Center (Management)?
gt Sun xVM Infrastructure is the complete solution
for virtualizing and managing your datacenter.
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Ops Center

• Highly scalable, full-stack management
• Manage thousands of hardware and software
  entities
• Unified management of xVM Server and Solaris
  Containers
• Built on proven technology from N1 and Sun
  Connection

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Ops Center 1.0 Building out a Platform
Core platform features
Management features
Core platform features
Management features
Core platform features
Management features

• User Management
• Grouping and organization
• Fine grained access control
• Distributed Notification System
• Multi-tier centralization of management
• Direct Integration with hardware
• Integrates with customer environment
• Self updating model
• Multi-model discovery and registration

• User Management
• Grouping and organization
• Fine grained access control
• Distributed Notification System
• Multi-tier centralization of management
• Direct Integration with hardware
• Integrates with customer environment
• Self updating model
• Multi-model discovery and registration

• User Management
• Grouping and organization
• Fine grained access control
• Distributed Notification System
• Multi-tier centralization of management
• Direct Integration with hardware
• Integrates with customer environment
• Self updating model
• Multi-model discovery and registration

• Hardware monitoring
• OS monitoring
• Hardware LOM control
• Firmware Provisioning
• OS Provisioning
• Bare metal appliance distro
• OS Update
• Application provisioning
• Application update

• Hardware monitoring
• OS monitoring
• Hardware LOM control
• Firmware Provisioning
• OS Provisioning
• Bare metal appliance distro
• OS Update
• Application provisioning
• Application update

• Hardware monitoring
• OS monitoring
• Hardware LOM control
• Firmware Provisioning
• OS Provisioning
• Bare metal appliance distro
• OS Update
• Application provisioning
• Application update

Highly scalable, asynchronous, delegative core
Highly scalable, asynchronous, delegative core
Highly scalable, asynchronous, delegative core
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Customers
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Joyent

• Massive data center complexity impeding
  scalability and increasing operational costs
• Proliferation of virtual servers
• Power Space Constraints
• Poor perfromance and system utilization

Challenge
XXXXXXX

• Consolidated from 4 racks of dual-processor
  Xeon-based servers to 1 rack of Sun Fire 1000
  servers.
• Procured Sun Fire T1000 servers through Sun's Try
  Buy program.

Solution

• Reduced operational complexity and cost
• Improved scalability
• Realized 4x space savings and 3x power savings
• Created gt 7x number of logical servers with
  Solaris Containers
• Gained more than 40 more RAM
• Simplified installation and management

Results
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New Energy

• Improve performance and accuracy with risk
  evaluation
• Increase computational speed and throughput
• Reduce data center power consumption, heat, and
  footprint
• Improve disaster rollover and customer response
  times

Challenge
XXXXXXX

• Migrated its grid computing infrastructure to Sun
  Fire x64 servers running Solaris, and deployed
  Sun Java Workstations for software development.
• Consolidated and virtualized legacy remote and
  back office x86 servers using Sun Fire x64
  servers running VMware GSX server.
• Moved from 18 x86 servers, 24 CPUs, 22 power
  supplies, 44 hard drives, and 26GB of RAM,
  consuming gt 14,000 watts of power, to 1 Sun Fire
  X4200 server.

Solution
Results

• Saved 30 of capital budget for CPUs
• Computations that took hours now take seconds or
  minutes
• Achieved consolidation ratios of 181 and 30
  heat savings
• Improved developer productivity
• Improved system availability and reliability with
  integrated LOM
• Use only 50 server capacity, reserving 50 for
  future growth

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Scottish Water

• Create a unified IT infrastructure from three
  merged smaller utilities
• Meet mandate to reduce overall operating costs by
  40
• Improve productivity of business users and IT
  staff
• Improve system availability and ensure disaster
  recovery

Challenge
XXXXXXX

• Migrated and consolidated server/storage
  infrastructure onto a Sun Enterprise
  Consolidation Solution.
• Moved from 30 servers running 80 applications
  and 3 databases to 2 Solaris-based Sun Fire 12K's
  with Dynamic System Domains (DSD) running 15
  applications and one database. Recently upgraded
  to 2 Sun Fire 25K servers.
• Use mirrored Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) for
  quick disaster recovery.
• Consolidated direct-attached storage onto a
  storage area network (SAN) consisting of two Sun
  StorageTek 9980 enterprise disk storage systems.

Solution
Results

• Reduced IT operating costs by 10 million
  exceeding 40 target
• Improved system availability from 80 to 99.8..
• Simplified system administration, reducing IT
  staff expenditures 150,000/year
• Improved data access and reduced storage costs by
  22

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DigiTar

• Improve customer response times while reducing
  costs
• Increase performance to meet customer demand
• Reduce complexity of existing High Availability
  infrastructure
• Reduce data center power and heat

Challenge
XXXXXXX

• Replaced 14 x86 servers with 1 Sun Fire T2000
  reducing space requirement from 14 U to 2U.
• Sun Fire T2000 8 core / 8GB system delivers 13.5X
  more operations per second running MySQL
• Previous power requirements of 3.5kW were reduced
  to 275 watts

Solution

• Improved customer experience and quality at lower
  costs than the competition
• Reduced operational costs and doubled data center
  capacity
• 50 - 75 operational savings
• 13x power savings in 1/7th of the footprint
• Simplified High Availability environment

Results
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Summary

• Virtualization a strongly growing market
• Diverse technologies and issues
• No one technology fits all
• Understand customers requirements
• Develop solution appropriately
• Only Sun brings together all the pieces
• Next Steps

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Next Steps

• Learn more at upcoming webinars
• Virtualizing Sun X64 Servers with VMware
• Getting the Most from Storage
• Access Blogs, Sales Tools, White Papers and more
  at ww.avnetvirtualexpert.com

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