VIRTUALIZATION AND YOUR BUSINESS November 18, 2010 | Worksighted.

VIRTUALIZATION AND YOUR BUSINESS

November 18, 2010 | Worksighted

Welcome / About

About the Presenters

Matt Maines VMware Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Technical Professional

Tom Visser VMware Certified Professional Cisco Certified Network Engineer

Agenda

Welcome / About What is virtualization? Impact on Small and Mid-Sized

Businesses Examples Summary Questions

What is Virtualization?

1:1 relationship between applications and hardware

Relevant cost metric = cost per server

Traditional Architecture• Legacy rule: Run only one

application per server because single application crashes resulting in OS or server failure

• Typical hardware utilization below 8% - wasteful

Traditional Server Build1 server per application

What is Virtualization?

Many:1 relationship between applications and hardware

Relevant cost metric = cost per application

Virtualized Server BuildMany applications – 1 server

Server Consolidation: • New rule: Run multiple applications

per physical server because OS/applications are isolated from one another

• Typical hardware utilization 80% - efficient

What is Virtualization?

Confused yet?

Are there any questions before moving on.

VMware impact on small and midsized environments

Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost3

Increase Flexibility4

Increase Application Availability1

Increase Data Recoverability2

Reduced down-time of failed serversTypical downtime per failure

4 hours

Average failures per year

2

Lost revenue per hour

$12,019

Lost staff productivity per employee per hour

$50/hour

Average Downtime Costs*

* Average company with 100 employees, 10 servers and $25,000,000 a year in sales

$136,153 per year!

OSAPP

ESX

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

ESX

OSAPP

OSAPP

Failed OS or server

Two levels of Application Protection

High Availability

In the Event of hardware failure, the VM’s intelligently start on a safe piece of dedicated hardware. Downtime is greatly reduced, but not eliminated.

Fault Tolerance

Zero-downtime failover; VM’s are mirrored in real time and migrate off of failed servers.

Increase Application Availability1

iSCSI Shared Storage

OS

APP

Agent-less, disk-based backup and recovery of your VMs using VMware Data Recovery.

VM or file level restore

Incremental backups

Snapshots to reduce risk during server patching

Restore VMs to different hardware

ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

Agent-less snapshots

Built in data protection saves time and money

• Simplifies administration

• Faster recover times

• Less downtime = higher staff productivity

Increase Data Recoverability2

Storage

Physical Servers 10

Utilization 8%

Hardware Warranty

$5,000

Annual Power and Cooling Costs

$8,334

Total Operating Cost

$13,334

Physical Servers 3

Utilization 80%

Hardware Warranty

$1,500

Annual Power and Cooling Costs

$2,499

Total Operating Cost

$3,999

Before VMware

After VMware

More applications per machine = less machines

Over $9,000 per year in savings!!!

Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost3

Application Server

$5,000

Database Server $5,000

Hardware Warranty

$1,000

Annual Power and Cooling Costs

$1,667

Virtual Machines 2

Physical Servers 0*

Hardware Warranty

$0

Annual Power and Cooling Costs

$0

Before VmwareAfter VMware

More applications per machine = less machines

Over $12,000 in savings for upgrade project!!

Increase flexibility4

Adding new application

requires new hardware purchases

*Assuming available resources on physical servers

What is Virtualization? Revisit

Many:1 relationship between applications and hardware

Relevant cost metric = cost per application

Virtualized Server BuildMany applications – 1 server

Server Consolidation: • New rule: Run multiple applications

per physical server because OS/applications are isolated from one another

• Typical hardware utilization 80% - efficient

Example 1

Customer Profile: Small business has three servers that are out of warranty.

Needs:• New hardware that is supported• Phased approach to spread costs• Scalable for future

Example 2Example 1: Traditional/Physical

• 3 new physical servers• Significant labor costs for migration

Traditional Solution

3 New Servers $15,000.00

Labor $6,000.00

Total $21,000.00

Migrate each server, upgrade software.

Old Servers

New Servers

Example 2Example 1: VMware Virtualization

Virtual Solution

VMware Essentials Plus $495.00

1 New Server $5,000.00

Labor $1,000.00

Total $6,495.00

• Phased approach to spread costs Phase 1 only moves the existing servers to

virtual environment.

• Scalable for additional growth Separated servers from hardware, making

decisions easier. Can migrate applications without having to upgrade software.

Phase 1: P2V to new hardware

Example 2Example 1: VMware Virtualization

Phase 2: Increase CapacityAdd more VMsAdd a second physical server and shared storage

Server Failure

New Server

Migrate VMs

Normal Operation

Failover Operation

iSCSI Shared Storage

iSCSI Shared Storage

The Importance of Shared StorageShared Storage is a requirement for:

-High Availability-Fault Tolerance-Vmotion

Data must be available to all hosts, all the time. Local storage doesn’t make much sense if you want your workload to be portable.

Shared storage to be covered in the next presentation in greater detail… stay tuned

Example 2

Customer Profile: Fast growing company with 2 physical servers needs to upgrade to 6 total servers to support growth and needs high availability.

Needs:• Keep costs down• All Applications must have continuity in

event of HW failure at server level.• Scalable for additional growth

Example 2Example 2: Traditional/Physical

Almost double the cost and that doesn’t include maintenance and management costs!!!

• 10 new physical servers• $ Replication licensing

Traditional Solution

10 New Servers $50,000.00

Replication Software $20,000.00

Total $70,000.00

2 servers must be allocated for every application to provide high availability!

Exisiting Servers

New Servers

RedundantServers

Example 2Example 2: VMware Virtualization

Virtual Solution

VMware Essentials Plus $3,495.00

iSCSI Storage $20,000.00

2 New Servers $10,000.00

Total $33,495.00

iSCSI Shared Storage

• Keep costs low Buy 2 servers instead of 4, lower

maintenance and support costs.

• All Applications must have continuity in event of HW failure

HA (High Availability)

• Scalable for additional growth Servers have additional capacity, SAN can

be added to increase redundancy and storage.

Worksighted: Best Practice

Solution has many desirable characteristics:

-Highly Available -> Workloads can move seamlessly between physical servers

-Scalable -> CPU, Memory, and Storage can be increased with quickly and cost effectively

-Efficient -> Fewer servers are required to run the same workload. Use less power, take up less space etc.

Dell Equalogic iSCSI Shared Storage

Dell R710 Dell R710

DC

FILE

EXCHANGE

QUICKBOOK

SSQL DB

FTP

Summary

Separates decisions regarding hardware and software Maximizes hardware utilization and capacity Reduces management, maintenance, power and cooling Provides scalability in terms of growth, redundancy and

recovery Proven solutions used by all types of organizations

Thank You!

Questions?(if you would like more detailed information on the possible

benefits for your business as well as a more detailed feature presentation please contact Matt Maines or Tom

Visser)

Matt Maines: [email protected] (616-582-1227)

Tom Visser: [email protected] (616-928-9064)