Virtualization Go Green

Virtualization Go Green

Health Canada GTEC2008

Agenda

• Introduction• Where we were• What we planned• Where we are today• Results• What’s next• SADATE• Expected Final Results

Presenters

• Karen Crawford – Director, IT Operations, Health Canada

• Steve McAllister – Chief of Enterprise Novell Services, IT Operations, Health Canada

• Stéphane Robinson – Virtualization Product Manager, IT Operations, Health Canada

Where we were

SITUATION: Independent States

•Highly decentralized IT Services

•Branch managed IT

•Initial estimate was ~500 servers

•Over 700 servers in the NCR

•Over 200 servers in the regions

•Over 50 locations (computer rooms) in

the NCR and 46 in the regions

•~13,000 SQ FT of data centre space

in the NCR

•Server energy consumption was

~59,500 V A enough to power 2

households for one year

CHALLENGES:

•Silo culture

•Disparate governance

•Disparate application tools

•Service consistency

•Significant operational costs

•Complex OS upgrades

•Complex infrastructure mgmt.

•Incompatible architectures

•Expertise

•Aging infrastructure

Decentralized infrastructure

• Pockets of servers• Aging infrastructure

Collaborative Effort

Shared Vision

Stakeholder Negotiations

Strategic Partnerships & Alliance

Consultation

Commonality

Collaboration

Agreements

What we planned

Phase IConsolidate and rationalize NCR servers

–Dual datacentre strategy

•MCDC for Production

•PDP for BCP and Development

•Mains Stats for the network core

–Use virtualization technologies where it best fits

Phase II

Expand project to Regional servers

–Consolidate at selected datacenters

Server Consolidation NCR

MCDC

PDP

• Consolidate production servers at MCDC• Use PDP as our DR site

Where we are today

NCR Status– 7,100 SQ FT total data centre space for 4 data centres (down from 13,000 sqft). Reduction

of more than 45% of physical space in NCR; also a cost savings of 53% (or $2.4M).

– Server energy consumption is 23,600 V A. Reduction of 60% energy use for servers.

– 563 servers from 741. Reduction of 24% of # servers across the nation

– Production NCR Servers - Virtualization

•10 physical servers equipped with Quad Core CPUs hosting 238 virtual machines

– Development Shared Application Development and Test Environment (SADATE) and BCP Datacenter

•8 physical servers equipped with Quad Core CPUs hosting 134 virtual machines

Regional Status– Production regional servers Virtualization - Winnipeg

•3 physical servers equipped with Quad core CPUs hosting 46 virtual machines

Overview of Current Environment

• Equivalent of 168 dual core servers• Equivalent of 336 single core servers equipped with 4GB of RAM

Current Virtual Machine Workloads

~ 450 Virtual Machines~ 20 % Host CPU Utilization~ 45TB allocated, 38TB used

Results

• High Availability Infrastructure

• Centralized, Simplified Architecture

• High Degree of Standardization–Use of server templates

–Common approach to service delivery

• Users experience:–Minimal downtime

–Improved Service Levels

–Faster turn around time for IT service delivery

• Systems administrators experience:–Higher capability environment–Faster server provisioning–Simplified systems monitoring and management

What’s next

• Expand deployment of virtualization and consolidation to the regions

–171 physical servers in 46 locations in the Regions

–Reduce to 24 sites and 48 Physical servers

–Deploy 2 node virtualization cluster solution

Project is well underway with new hardware in place at 2 locations with expected completion by March 31, 2009

Regional Model

8 way

8 way

PDP

8 way

8 way

• 2 node virtualization cluster solution to replace aging physical servers• Data will synch over WAN to DR site• Centralized management of servers and services

SADATEShared Application Development & Test environment

• Using virtualization to host SADATE environment• Advantages

–Provisioning from templates

–Individual Web entitlements

–Archiving

–Snapshot/Rollback

–Fast server provisioning

–Effective utilization of server infrastructure

–Reduced hardware / software requirements

–Isolation capabilities i.e. SANDBOX

Expected Final Results

• Lower administration and operational costs• Lower total cost of ownership and increased

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) & RTO (Return to Operations)

• Reduced maintenance costs: Overall expected reduction of 50 %

• Reduced power, cooling costs & footprint: Expected reduction of 45%

• Platform for “The Way Forward”