W-04: Experiences in Virtualization. Panelist: Happy Jenkins, DNR . DNR Virtualization IPMA 2012. Goal. Reduce power consumption Reduce Data Center footprint Reduce operating costs Virtualization assessment provided by CDW Dell Puget Sound Energy Grant. Environment : Phase 1 . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
W-04: Experiences in Virtualization
W-04: Experiences in Virtualization
Panelist: Happy Jenkins, DNR 1DNR VirtualizationIPMA 2012
GoalReduce power consumptionReduce Data Center footprintReduce
operating costs
Virtualization assessment provided byCDWDellPuget Sound Energy
Grant
Environment : Phase 1 HP DL380 G6 HP/Lefthand iSCSI storage72GB
RAM Dev/96GB RAM Prod
130 Servers, 72% virtualizedHyper-V r2 (core) is the
platform
2 servers Devel4 servers Prod
4Lessons LearnedMaintain cross training. Monitor at a minimum
CPU, Memory, Storage Capacity and PerformanceUnderstanding
workloads not just monitoring them is critical.Understand vendor
metrics.
5Environment : Phase 2 HP DL380 G7 EMC NS-480 storage72GB RAM
Dev/96GB RAM Prod
130 Servers, 80+% virtualizedHyper-V r2 (core) is the
platformMSSQL 2008 virtualizedCitrix (XenApp) virtualized in
June
1 server Devel7 servers Prod
6Lessons Learned/Scope updateManage both customer and management
expectations.Maintain overhead for growth.
We are working in partnership with the Department of Agriculture
to share this environment.Currently housing AGR dev environment -
30% virtualization.
End gameDev environment will contain1 HP DL380 G6, 72GB RAM1 HP
DL380 G7, 72GB RAM1 Next Gen server?Prod environment will contain5
HP DL380 G6, 96GB RAM7 HP DL380 G7, 96GB RAM# Next Gen server?
