Virtualization 2.0
May 24, 2015
Virtualization 2.0
Unitiv Overview
Unitiv, Inc. is a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions.
‣Headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia
‣Regional Office in Iselin, New Jersey
Founded as Intelligent Technology Systems (ITS) in 1995.
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Virtualization 2.0Don’t Virtualize Without It!
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Promises of Virtualization
‣ Reduced Cost– Hardware/software
– Power/cooling
– Administration
‣ Greater Service Levels– Systems
– Applications
‣ Ease of Management
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Issues that Break the Promises
‣ How Do You . . . – Provision and manage the life cycle of VMs
– Keep track of where VMs are and what resources are in use
– Identify resource contention
– Update and patch VMs
– Handle scheduled downtime
– Migrate physical/virtual to virtual
– Test and perform DR
– Chargeback use of resources internally
– Backup and recover
‣ Manual vs. Automatic
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‣ New items and relationships not present in physical environment New entities New attributes New actions
Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the Game
Has anyone seen my SQL VM?
VMsVMsSnapshot
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ClonesClones Templates
Templates
‣ Dynamic and fast-growing environment Easy to create VMs Move VMs around Make changes
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Maturity of Virtualization
Virtualization 2.0(management layer)
Virtualization 1.0(virtual layer)
Physical Resources
Policies
Procedures
Tools
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Virtualization 2.0
‣ A complete suite of Virtualization Management Solutions
– Tools➡ Discover/Assess➡ TCO/ROI
– Professional Services➡ Assess➡ Analyze➡ Recommend➡ Implement
– Technology➡ Software➡ Hardware
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Case Study‣ Challenges
– Partial virtual implementation of 70 servers using VI3 Standard
– 6:1 ratio with 4 islands of servers
– Migration of 280+ additional physical servers
– Many of the issues that “break the promises”
‣ Solution– Server Consolidation Assessment using
IBM, VMware Tools
– Roadmap, defined project, presented TCO/ROI
– New hardware: Blade servers
– New software: vSphere 4➡ Upgraded existing licenses to Enterprise Plus; additional licenses➡ Added vCenter Server
– Implementation services
‣ Benefits– Improved ratio to 19:1 on 18 physical servers– Increased availability, DR capabilities; automated management
vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform
High Availability
STANDARD ENTERPRISE PLUS
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
12 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
ADVANCED
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
8-way vSMP
VC Agent
12 Physical Cores / CPUNo License Memory Limit
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
Distributed Switch
DRS / DPM
Storage VMotion
Host Profiles
High availability products for
protecting critical production
applications
Basic consolidation of a lab or
small environmen
t
Large scale management of critical production applicationsNew – simplified licensing,
per host
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
ENTERPRISE
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
DRS / DPM
Storage VMotion
Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager
Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin ProvisioningThin Provisioning
VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs
Hot Add Hot AddHot Add
Multi-pathing APIs
Virtualization 2.0
‣ Address your Issues– Citrix, Microsoft, VMware
‣ Fulfill the Promises– Reduced Cost
➡ Hardware/software➡ Power/cooling➡ Administration
– Greater Service Levels➡ Systems➡ Applications
– Ease of Management
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