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VMware Solutions in the Public Sector
Kevin ConnorVMware; Sr. System [email protected]
Rick Scherer, VCPVirtual Infrastructure Architect
San Diego Data Processing Corp
Agenda
1 – Why organizations are turning to VMware
2 – Customer Experience: City of San Diego DPC
3 – Getting Started
4 – Questions
Which software providers are gaining share of your IT spending dollars?
12 Quarters#
Source: Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey, Nov 2nd, 2008
VMware Continues to be the #1 Software Investment for CIOs in a Tough Economy
Gaining
1. VMware2. Cisco Software3. Red Hat4. Oracle5. Informatica6. salesforce.com7. Microsoft8. EMC Software9. Symantec10. Citrix
VMware
Top 3 Reasons Organizations Turn to VMware
Increase Productivity, OperationalFlexibility and Responsiveness3
Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost (e.g. Power & Cooling)2
Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost1
Total Savings Per Workload
Servers 1000 80 $5,816Network Switches
84 10 $296
Power (kWh) 407 52 $759Cooling (kWh) 509 64 $949Real Estate (Sq ft) 2053 257 $431Savings per Workload (Over 3 years)
$8,251*
BEFORE AFTER SAVINGS
• Actual customer savings per application; represents typical savings• Includes estimated cost of VMware licenses, Support and Subscription
VMware consolidates servers, storage and networking infrastructure to safely achieve higher utilization
Physical Infrastructure1
Operating Cost2
Underutilized Assets
% CPU Busy (8 LCPVs w/HT)
Right size applications & servers
Classic Case for Server Consolidation
Reduce Per-Server Spend Through Capex & Opex
VMware…
Decouples software from hardware
Encapsulates Operating Systems and applications into “Virtual Machines”
A Server or Desktop Virtual Machine
Decreasing Operating Costs
Workloads per Admin
30–75
Before VMware After VMware
90–225
Source: IDC and VMware TAM program
Do more work with the same number of people = operating cost savings
Drivers of productivity improvements:
Instant provisioning
Centralized Management
Dynamic patching
Zero downtime maintenance
Built-in high availability
Automated disaster recovery
Productivity, Flexibility & Responsiveness3
Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customer
Current Future
The Promise – Spend IT Budget Where it Makes a Difference…
Application Innovation
23%
Application Maintenance
30%
Infrastructure Maintenance
42%
Infrastructure Investment
5%
Application Investment
55%Application
Maintenance20%
Infrastructure Maintenance
15%
Infrastructure Investment
10%
The City of San Diego and VMware Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment
Rick Scherer, VCPVirtual Infrastructure ArchitectSan Diego Data Processing Corp.
• Server Sprawl• One application per server is inefficient, but this is the common support practice for
the average Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
• Low Resource Utilization• We recognized an average of 5-10% CPU utilization because we were deploying
one application per server
• Long Deployment Time• Design to deployment would average a 2-3 week turnaround
• High Procurement Costs• Our generic use HP DL380 costs on average $7,000 – this does not include
environmental concerns such as power, cooling, maintenance and other infrastructure costs
• Overwhelming Management Complexities• Multiple monitoring solutions, backup strategies and server provisioning guidelines
set by individual departments
• Expensive Storage Provisioning• Deploying SAN based storage to an individual physical server can be costly, not to
mention add another level of complexity to your environment.
On-Going Technical Challenges
Why VMware for Virtualization?
VMware vSphere Basics
#1 in Server Consolidation
Built for Business Continuance
VMotion
Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS)
High Availability (HA)
Fault Tolerance (FT)
Automated Disaster Recovery
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
High Performance Virtual Computing
8 vCPU
255GB RAM
400,000 IOPS
40Gb/s Network Throughput
VMware is the Industry Leaderin x86 Virtualization.
“vSphere will let companies virtualize all of their workloads.”
-Paul Maritz, CEO - VMware
64 Processing Cores per Host 512GB Physical RAM per Host
2048 Processing Cores per Cluster16TB Physical RAM per Cluster
Enterprise Level Features and Management
Not Found in ANY Other Product
Some of the Benefits Gained from our VMware Deployment
• Deployment Time• VMware vCenter allows you to keep multiple templates of your base
Operating System installations, allowing you to deploy them within minutes
• Better Performance• In some circumstances we’re recognizing better performance of some
applications within a virtualized environment.
• Overall Simplicity• A single application set for management, monitoring, remote accessibility,
backups and updates. Regardless of the guest operating system.
• Higher SLA’s - Regardless of Application• Applications that do not support Clustering or other methods of High
Availability can now leverage the HA offerings in VMware vSphere, such as: VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMware FT and VMware SRM.
Immediate ROI with Initial Deployment
WITHOUT VMware WITH VMware– 24 – HP DL380 G5– Direct Attached– 72 cables/ports– 1 Large Rack/48U– (400W x 24 = 9.6kW)
2 – HP DL580Fibre Attached SAN12 cables/ports1 rack / 8U(775W x 2 = 1.6kW)
ServersStorageNetworkFacilitiesPower
Initial Server Costs$7,000 x 24 = $168,000 $22,000 x 2 = $44,000
$3,495 x 8 = $27,960$71,960
Conservative Consolidation Ratio – 25:1
Approximated Savings: > $275,000*All figures are based on retail prices
and are not an exact representation of savings.
Altiris and Citrix Upgrade
VMware vSphere Ent. Plus:Total Cost w/ VMware:
The City of San Diego’s vCloud
SDDPC has built a robust and scalable internal vCloud at multiple locations within the City.
Enterprise Operations17 ESX Hosts
vCenter Server
Enterprise Operations Secondary Site
2 ESX Hosts
City Retirement2 ESX Hosts
Metro Wastewater Dept. 3 ESX Hosts
Police & Fire Communications
3 ESX Hosts
Best Practices for Running Tier-1 Applications
Plan just like you would for physical
Follow the ISV best practices for deploying the application
Watch your Memory Over-Commitment
Applications like SQL and SAP Pre-Allocate Memory
Use Memory Reservations to guarantee the minimum amount needed
The difference between Reservation and Limit is created in a VM Swapfile (VSWP)
Large VSWP files can create I/O Contention, Slow VMotion Performance and Waste Valuable SAN Storage
If using SQL server use “Fixed Memory Allocation”
Multiple VM Datastores on Separate Physical RAID Groups
Separate your Capture and Retention Data - Physically
Put your Capture Data on Faster Disks (SAS/FC)
Put your Retention Data on Slower Disks (SATA)
We’re Back to Scaling Horizontally….but Virtually
Two VMs with (1) vCPUs is more efficient than One VM with (2) vCPUs
Best Practices for Running Tier-1 Applications
Get State of the Art
Multi-Core CPU Architecture (Intel Nehalem)
Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization (Intel VT & AMD-V)
Maximize your Memory Investment, Find Your Sweet Spot
SAN or NAS – It Doesn’t Really Matter
FC, NFS or iSCSI Datastores – It Doesn’t Matter
VMDK Traffic Requires Low Latency, Not High Bandwidth
NFS and iSCSI are Cost Effective, High Performing Alternatives to Fibre Channel
For Large Deployments 10GbE are Becoming Industry Standards
Best Practices for Running Tier-1 Applications
Verify your Service Console Settings Allocate Maximum RAM to the Service Console (ESX only)
Enable NTP and make sure its in Sync
Make sure DNS is functioning (forward and reverse lookups)
Make Your Service Console (SC) network redundant
vCenter Services and HA rely on your SC being connected
VMware Tools
For all these great vCPU Scheduling and Memory Sharing Capabilities, VMware Tools on your Virtual Machines MUST always be Up To Date!
Case Study: Running SAP on VMwareVirtualized SAP Development
Four HP DL580 G5 Servers
(4) Quad Core Intel Xeon E7340 Processors 2.4GHz (153 GHz in Cluster)
128GB RAM (512GB in Cluster)
(8) Gigabit Ethernet Ports
39 Virtual Machines (2 vCPU / 12GB Average)
NFS Based Datastores
VMware ESX 3.5 U4
NetApp 6030 Cluster
10GbE on Private VLAN For Storage Traffic
RAID6-DP with three separate RAID Groups for O/S, DB and Logs
SnapManager for VI + SnapMirror + FlexClones
Full Redundancy
Fast Recovery utilizing NetApp SnapManager for VI
SDDPC + VMware & The Future
Virtualization Projects
Just Finished Microsoft SQL Virtualization Project
18 Instances – Separated to Individual VM Guests on 1 Host
Greater Chargeback Capabilities
Large City of San Diego SAP Implementation
Go Live – July 1st, 2009
Still only 55% Virtualized
Plan to Virtualize 100 Additional Physical Servers by 2010
Virtualized Desktops Possibly on the Road-Map
With over 8,000 thick desktops across the City, VDI would bring huge cost savings
Upgrade to vSphere!!!
Part of vSphere Beta, already drafted upgrade plan Just need to wait for the final release!
Capacity On Demand
Hypervisor
Management
Virtual Infrastructure
AutomateSeparate Consolidate Aggregate
Self-Managing Datacenter
Server Consolidation
Test and Development
Computing Clouds
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Management
Hypervisor
Management
Virtual Infrastructure
Automation
Liberate
CapEx Savings
OpEx Savings
Business Agility
Platform Adoption – From Cost Savings to Innovation
Available Resources
Online ROI/ TCO Calculator: Robust and customizable analysis of virtualization’s impact on your IT budget and datacenter costs
www.vmware.com/calculator
Why Choose VMware: Vendor selection checklist to ensure a Complete, Robust, Proven Virtual Infrastructure
www.vmware.com/technology/why vmware/
Available Resources
Evaluation Products: VMware offers fully functional evaluations of all products.
www.vmware.com/download
Hardware & OS Compatibility List: A useful guide for identifying validated server, storage and network systems.
www.vmware.com/resources
What Questions do you have?Energy rebates
High availability?
Architectural guidance?
Training requirements?
