Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Optimizing Blade Deployment with Virtual Infrastructure Eric Horschman Group Product Marketing Manager

Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

Optimizing BladeDeployment with Virtual Infrastructure

Eric HorschmanGroup Product Marketing ManagerVMware, Inc.March 2005

2Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

Agenda

• Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• Server Consolidation With Blades

• Deploying Blades with Virtual Infrastructure

• Customer Examples

• Summary and Q&A


Virtual Infrastructure Overview


• Infrastructure is what links resources to your business

• Virtual Infrastructure is a dynamic mapping of your resources to your business

• It is extremely flexible and simplifies management, so the organization can get resources on demand

Decreased costs, increased efficiencies and responsiveness

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

Network

EthernetFibre ChannelInterconnect

OS

App

OS

App

Storage Compute

What is Virtual Infrastructure?


Virtualization takes an application and its operating system and wraps them into a transportable virtual machine

Virtual Machine

The Foundation of Virtual Infrastructure

Physical Machine

• Breaks hardware dependencies

• Multiple applications on a single system


Hardware

Application

Operating System

Virtual MachinePhysical Machine

Virtualization takes an application and its operating system and wraps them into a transportable virtual machine

• Breaks hardware dependencies

• Multiple applications on a single system

The Foundation of Virtual Infrastructure


System without VMware Software System with VMware Software

VMware software insulates the BIOS / Operating System / Applications from the physical hardware, so many systems can share hardware, or be moved to different hardware with no service interruption.

Virtual Infrastructure Enables Server Consolidation


Benefits: Partitioning, Isolation, and Encapsulation

• Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine

• Fully utilize server resources

• Shared data is cluster-ready for failover and redundancy

Partitioning

• Fault and security isolation at the hardware level

• Control CPU, memory, disk and network resources per VM

• Guarantee service levels

Isolation

• Entire state of the VM is encapsulated: memory, disk images, I/O state

• VM state can be saved to a file – checkpointing, aka “Suspend / Resume”

• Re-use or transfer whole VMs with a file copy

Encapsulation


VMware GSX Server - Hosted Architecture

Extend existing Host OS to support virtual machines in addition to applications

• Installs and runs like an application

Use Host OS services to implement virtual I/O devices

• Highly portable, easy to configure resources


VMware ESX Server - Bare-Metal Architecture

• Runs directly on hardware

• Manages resource allocations

• Strong fault and security isolation

• Shared data cluster-ready

• Virtual SMP for large virtual machines and high performance


Virtual Infrastructure Management

• VMware VirtualCenter• Centralized management interface

• VM provisioning with templates

• Performance monitoring

• Secure access control

• SDK for automation

• VMotion™ Technology• Dynamically move VMs

• No downtime or service interruption

• Zero-downtime hardware maintenance


Instant Provisioning

1) Start Deployment Wizard

2) Choose Server Template

3) Select Server location

4) Click Next, Next, Done

• Takes under 10 minutes

• Speed of a file copy

• Hardware-independent

• Template based

• Fully leverages the SAN

• Automatic & standardized

VirtualCenter Provisioning Process


ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Continuous Workload Consolidation

Dynamically manage workloads across blades, in response to an unexpected increase in SAP utilization

Apache

SAP

Exch Server

Citrix

DNS/DHCP

Oracle

SQL Server


ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Apache

SAP

Exch Server

Citrix

DNS/DHCP

Oracle

SQL Server

Dynamically manage workloads across blades, in response to an unexpected increase in SAP utilization

Continuous Workload Consolidation


Server Consolidation With Blades

Blades & VMware “The Perfect Match”


Why Use Blades?

• Blade Servers Reduce Overall TCO• Improve management of IT assets

• IT assets will be cheaper to acquire

• Density reduces operational costs

• Blades Provide a Flexible Computing Platform• Dynamically provision IT resources

• Platform for server consolidation

• Market Acceptance• IDC Research predicts blade server market share will grow to 23%

of units shipped for x86–based servers in 2005

• 2-CPU is fastest-growing segment for VMware (~70% of all licenses sold)


Blades Have Limitations

• Blade server cost efficiency declines sharply if its density potential is underutilized

• Local storage availability on blades is limited

• Blades offer few expansion slots

• Additional blade peripherals may reduce density

• Cost of deploying each additional blade chassis is a step function


Deploying Blades With Virtual Infrastructure


VMware on Blades

Blade servers without Virtual Infrastructure Blade servers with Virtual Infrastructure


Virtualization for Scale Out vs. Scale Up

Virtualization on scale-out Blade server fits best

Virtualization on scale-up High-end server fits best

Types or workloads File/ print, web servers Databases, ERP, CRM infrastructure

Attached storage and Little attached storage Lots of attached storageI/O density low I/O density high I/O density

Deployment Growth Dynamic Incremental Static size growth

Factors restricting Floor space Number of physical unitsgrowth under management

Availability tolerance N+1 design avoids Resiliency built into under management single point of failure single server


Virtual Infrastructure + Blades Equals…

• A 100-300% increase in utilization

• Zero-downtime hardware maintenance

• Operational flexibility

• Instant provisioning and system management

• Rapid rollback and recovery

• Blade partitioning

• Central monitoring and reporting

• N+1 high availability at lower cost


A Quick Comparison

** Assume blade ghosting/cloning is employed

Platform 1U Rack-Mount Servers

Blade Servers Blade Server with Virtual

Infrastructure

Utilization 5-15% 5-15% 60-80%

Operational Costs X X-25% X-85%

Maintenance Downtime

Requires 1-3 hour maintenance window

Change management

Requires 1-3 hour maintenance window

Change management

Zero downtime with VMotion

Provisioning Time 3-10 days hardware procurement

1-4 hours provisioning new server

3-10 days hardware procurement

1 hour provisioning new server *

Minutes using templates in VirtualCenter

Moving applications to a new server

4-6 hours for migration

Service interrupted for duration of maintenance window

Change management

4-6 hours for migration

Service interrupted for duration of maintenance window

Change management

2-5 minutes using VMotion (no service interruption)

10 - 30 minutes w/out VMotion


Comparing TCO with VMware on Blades

Low-Specification Blade Server

High-Specification Blade Server with

Virtual Infrastructure

Cost Savings

# of Workloads 3000 3000 -

# of Blades 3000 600 (80%)

# of Blade Chassis * 375 75 (80%)

# of Racks 63 13 (79%)

Estimated H/W costs $12M $6.5M (46%)

VMware license costs N/A $1.8M 0%

3-year cost of floor-space, cooling, power

$8.5M $1.7M (80%)

3-year H/W, S/W maintenance costs

$29.3M $16.7M** (43%)

Total 3-year Costs $49.9M $24.9M (51%)

* Assumes 8 blades per chassis

** Estimated VMware support/subscription costs over three years


Customer Examples


Customer: Cellcom

The ChallengeCellcom, the largest cellular company in Israel, needed a scalable IT infrastructure to keep up with business growth while lowering their TCO.

The Virtualization SolutionVMware ESX Server, VMware VirtualCenter and VMware VMotion on blade servers optimizes performance and cuts costs.

• 13:1 server consolidation

• Mainframe levels of reliability and data security at lower cost

• Blade server utilization increased from 5-15% to 35-50%

• Reduced hardware costs

• Better project quality with more rigorous testing on different operating systems

“The VMotion technology lets us migrate a server from one hardware platform to another without any service interruption, allowing us to schedule maintenance of the hardware without notifying users or taking down the systems residing on the server.”

David BarakSystem NT Expert

Cellcom


30:1

• Qualcomm

20:1

• AIG Technology

15:1

• Applied Innovation

10:1

• National Gypsum

10:1

• Antares IT

10:1

• 7-Eleven 8:1• State of Montana

VMware Customer Consolidation Ratios

• Conseco Finance 8:1


Summary• Blades are ideal for deploying virtual infrastructure.

• Virtual infrastructure increases blade utilization and scalability

• Virtualization allows partitioning of blades with mainframe-class resource management

• Virtualization on blades enables• Server consolidation

• Faster server provisioning

• Low-cost business continuity solutions

• Software dev/test automation

• High density + high operational efficiency

• VMware Virtual Infrastructure Node bundles (ESX Server + Virtual SMP + VMotion + Virtual Center Agent) available with special blade pricing (43% off)


Thank you!

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