Virtualization & Plant PAx

Tomorrow’s Automation, Today

A Symposium on Virtualization For the Process & Manufacturing Industries

Hassan S. Goraya

Project Manager - IX

Oct. 20th, 2015 | 12:45 - 13:30

TR01A – Virtualization & Plant PAx

Virtualization & Plant PAx

Agenda

Plant PAx : Fitting the blocks

Plant Pax : Full Filling different information needs

Think…..Virtualization

Virtualization Key Component Explained

Benefits of virtualization revisited

Virtualization Demo

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Plant PAx : Simple solution for complex problems

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HMI SERVER

HISTORIAN SERVER

OPERATOR STATION

ENGINEERING STATION

DNSSERVER

CORE SWITCHES

REPORTS AND KPI SERVER WEB PORTAL

FIELD AND AUTOMATION LEVEL

MANAGEMENTLEVEL

INFORMATIONLEVEL

STORAGE

SERVER 1 SERVER 2

DATA CENTER

Plant PAx : How the integration happens?

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FACTORYTALK SERVICES PLATFORM

Advantages of following this approach?

• Modularity • Scalability• Ease of deployment• Cost

Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..

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First stop is the control room..

• Process Data

• Real Time information

• Perfect for operators

• Useful in a meeting managers??

Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..

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Second Stop is the meeting room..

• Historical Data

• Performance graphs

• Useful for decision making

Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..

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Can be published on web as well so it is in your palm..

• Integrated with all common web browsers

• Perfect for remote viewing

• Interactive

Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..

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If you are more into facts and figures..

• Great Excel Integration

• Values can be used for further analysis

Virtualization: Where to start?

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Understand how the sizing is done for a virtual infrastructure

Understand the VM Ware Licensing

What about the Virtual Machines themselves?

How to make a transition from Physical to Virtual??

How to size a virtual infrastructure?

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Go back in time to late nineties when you bought a computer system…recall the questions?

Resource Pool

How much processing speed is required?

How much HDD capacity is required?

How much RAM is required?

How many NICs Cards are required?

Do you need redundancy?...Lets take it as Yes.

VMWare Licensing

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How the VM Ware Licensing works?

Resource Pool

Only criteria is the no. of CPUs installed on the motherboard.

Where does VM Ware component fits?

Conversion of Physical Machines to Virtual Machines

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VMWare tools are available to perform this conversion automatically

No shutdown required in most cases

Risk Free

Virtualization: Understanding Key Components

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Hypervisor

vSphere

vCenter

Hypervisor

• Linux based Operating system to allow Host Machine resources to be used by Guest Machines (VMs)

• So how does a Hypervisor looks like?

• Completely bare OS with DOS type interfacing

• To interact with this server you need to use vSphere

vSphere

• Front end of Hypervisor, all configurations are done using vSphere.

• So how does a vSphere looks like?

• This is available online and can be downloaded directly from servers as well.

vCenter• vCenter is an essential

component of a multi server environment

• Allows creation of server clusters and resource pools

• vMotion, High Availability and other high end functionality is only possible because of vCenter

• Comes in form a virtual machine which can be deployed and configured to match you requirements

• Accessed using a web interface

Benefits of having a Virtualized Infrastructure….Revisited

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Fault Tolerance

Application Load Balancing

Rapid Disaster Recovery

Reduced physical foot print

Benefits….Adding a few more to an already impressive list

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Creating VMs using templates

Ability to take timed backups and perform recovery

Simplified network management

Snapshots

Key Concept - Revisited

For most of these options the VM-image must run

on the NAS- storage!!! …a multi server

environment is required

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Live Demo of a Virtual Infrastructure….

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Overview of the physical servers

Overview of the running VMs

Overview of the VM Templates

Overview of the server loading graphs

Question & AnswersThank You for Your Valuable Time

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