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Storage for VirtualEnvironmentsStorage virtualization is still a fairly new technology, but it is gradually
gaining prominence in data centers across businesses of all sizes.
Although the potential for storage virtualization and the benefits it
delivers are great, there is still some confusion in the market about
what it can do and what it is all about.
While this technology continues to gain momentum, it is important to
have a solid grasp on the concepts of storage virtualization and how it
is rapidly changing the way storage is managed.
This E-Guide, featuring articles from SearchStorage.com and
SearchServerVirtualization.com, provides a complete outline of
storage virtualization and other virtualization techniques, including:
• Virtualization Trends in 2007
• Integrating Storage and Server Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery Options for VMware users
• Five Tips for Understanding Virtualization
• The VMware and NetApp Integration
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E-Guide
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents:The Virtual Machinist: Virtualization trends in 2007
Top five tips for understanding virtualization
Integrating storage and server virtualization
VMware users explore disaster recovery options
VMware and NetApp in cahoots?
Resources from Insight
Storage for VirtualEnvironments
E-Guide
The Virtual Machinist: Virtualization trends in 2007
By Alessandro Perilli
Today what we call server virtualization is a compelling technology, quickly pervading worldwide data centers with
the promise of cost-savings and more efficient management.
While this is true, there are a lot of factors which concurrently reduce the benefits of server virtualization: high
starting costs for hardware, complexity and discrepancies in software licensing, lack of support, lack of experienced
professionals and training and lack of tools able to address long-term issues.
Server virtualization is a revolutionary technology, for sure, but it's still very immature in several aspects. I think
the shortcomings listed above will drive future market trends.
First of all SANs (Storage Area Networks) will become a mandatory companion for virtualization, obliging even
smaller companies to purchase network storage equipment. Some, however, will fall back to cheaper Network
Attached Storage, but only for very small projects.
To reduce costs and be ready to scale up, cheaper iSCSI models with modular architectures will be the preferred
choice.
At the same time virtualization will drive sales of high-density multi-core CPUs, which leads to higher consolidation
ratios. A single eight-core host will easily accommodate 32 virtual machines on average, which is more than enough
to build a complete datacenter for many SMBs.
Get ready for overkill: Intel is working on an 80-core prototype, available in production within five years.
In this scenario of rapid advances, hardware will more redundant and reliable than ever, obliging customers to buy
more expensive hosts with each physical component doubled, including motherboard and CPU.
Looking beyond the hardware scene, this year vendors will start to satisfy a moderate demand for enhanced disas-
ter recovery capabilities in virtualization platforms. This is good news for those running enterprise data centers with
severe high-availability requirements.
In the coming year, more and more companies will want traditional IT solutions to be supported in virtualization
scenarios. Also, demand for application virtualization solutions will increase. These changes will bring demands for
software houses to reconsider their support and licensing models and will push the evolution of licenses onto yet
another new path. I think that usage tracking of physical resources is the best way to go.
Anyway, changing licensing models will take lot of time, and there is almost no chance for a neat, new model to
appear this year.
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The Virtual Machinist: Virtualization trends in 2007
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Going further on software side, the most compelling issue customers will face will be management of hundreds,
even thousands of virtual machines (VMs). Already, some vendors are offering data center automation tools to
streamline VM management. Those first out of the gate with products have a chance to be very successful, espe-
cially later in 2007 when VM sprawl begins to be a problem for early adopters. Expect to see introductions of many
virtualization management tools this year.
All in all, server virtualization is a technology doomed to success.
Look for excitement on the client side. Application virtualization market will start growing in the second half of
the year, after Microsoft, Citrix and Symantec will attempt to streamline application distribution by tweaking and
regurgitating products acquired during 2006.
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The Virtual Machinist: Virtualization trends in 2007
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Top five tips for understanding virtualization
By Jack Loftus
Virtualization is a hot trend, but that doesn't mean every IT shop has to jump on the bandwagon just yet. There
are some shops that just won't need this technology no matter how big the hype becomes this year.
For those shops that decide virtualization is the right move for them, there has to be a complete understanding of
existing resources, hardware and applications before they take action.
A well-virtualized data center is a well-educated data center, and these top tips, provided by U.K.-based C&C
Technology Consulting's practice leader Shane Colombo, put users well on their way to understanding how this
technology could work best for them.
1. Understand your infrastructure. Before you make a decision about virtualization, it is imperative to
learn about your shop's existing infrastructure. This includes the numbers and types of servers, operating
systems, CPU and memory utilization, application names and versions. "Without a thorough understanding
of these components, it would be difficult to understand how virtualization technologies could best be used
within your organization," Colombo said.
2. Don't virtualize everything. Although virtualization is a flexible technology and can bring benefits to a
wide variety of environments, it is not the answer for everything. Operating system virtualization provides
the most benefit when it replaces a physical server that is underutilized. As an example, Colombo cited a
server running Active Directory that is using a small percentage of its processing power. "[This situation] is
therefore ideal for virtualization," he said.
3. Understand your administration model. Virtualization brings a new style of administration that may
impact the existing processes within an organization. Realize that existing server teams with provisioning
responsibilities could have to adapt to this new model in order to create new virtual servers.
4. Understand the applications you have. "Before virtualizing any applications, it is best practice to under-
stand exactly what applications are included in the estate, what versions they are currently using and how
they work," Colombo said. When you have a complete understanding of your applications, you'll be able to
make the best decisions when considering virtualizing those applications.
5. Make capacity planning decisions. Understanding the infrastructure that will be used to virtualize
an environment is a mustçespecially the specification and capacity of the chosen systems. If you do it
incorrectly, then the solution you choose may not provide the expected performance and service levels.
Also, with open source applications—especially with virtualization on a Linux platform—there is a vast com-
munity of users who can help you understand the various virtualization technologies present today.
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Top five tips for understanding virtualization
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For cutting-edge and cost-effective storage solutions, contact Insight Integrated Systems for a needs based analysis.
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Integrating storage and server virtualization
By Rick Cook
What you will learn about virtualization: Knowing your storage and server hardware and checking its compati-
bility is a critical step in integrating virtual servers and virtual storage. This tip offers practical advice for integrating
virtualization products.
Storage virtualization remains a fairly new technology, and Windows server virtualization is even newer, yet it's tak-
ing time to make sure both kinds of virtualization can play well together. But, this is happening. Increasingly over
time, if you encounter problems regarding their compatibility, those issues are likely to involve poor performance
rather than complete failure. To ensure adequate performance, it is important to fully understand both the server
and storage virtualization products you are attempting to integrate.
Of course, you've got to know what you're virtualizing. One of the first steps in any virtualization project, whether
it's storage or server and especially both, is to conduct an inventory of the servers, storage devices and such
that will be involved. This includes things such as the host bus adapters (HBA) and storage area network (SAN)
switches, and the software and firmware revisions.
Check the hardware compatibility lists (HCL) for both virtualization products and make sure your configuration con-
forms. This is getting easier as virtualization vendors work to make their products interoperable. For example,
VMware Inc., now owned by EMC Corp., is aggressively promoting its VMware Infrastructure 3, which ties VMware's
ESX Server 3 and related products with storage virtualization, and associated hardware and software. Recently, both
Emulex Corp. and QLogic Corp. announced that they now have HBAs that are supported by VMware's architecture.
It takes some additional steps to integrate virtual servers and virtual storage. (For one example, see this study,
which was conducted to determine if using virtual storage in virtual server environments makes sense.)
It's best to start by virtualizing the lightly loaded servers, both for cost-benefit and performance reasons. If you
have, say, three servers and each has less than 30% utilization, you'll see more immediate economic benefits by
virtualizing them all on one server than if you start with heavily loaded servers running high-intensity applications.
Also, your operation will take less of a hit while you iron out any performance problems than if you were trying to
start with the heavily loaded server.
Performance issues
The surprising thing about modern virtualization is how little overhead it adds, but it still increases cost in terms of
time, performance and capacity. Of course, this added cost is well worth it if you see benefits. However, you need
to keep track of costs. That means you need to monitor the system's underlying performance with tools, such as
Iometer and vendor-specific tools.
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There are some kinds of storage you don't want to virtualize in a virtual server installation, notably those directly
involved in running the virtual machines themselves. VMware, for instance, recommends keeping a VMFS (VMware's
native file system) partition on either locally attached storage or LUN-0 (logical unit number) of your SAN to use for
swap space. Since virtual machine systems rely heavily on swapping so it's important that this partition be sized
and configured for best performance. For this reason, VMware doesn't recommend putting the swap partition on a
network attached storage (NAS) device. For the same reason, the VMware kernel core dump partition (vmkcore)
should also be locally attached or in LUN-0.
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ACCELERATING GROWTHWITH SERVER VIRTUALIZATIONFOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
ACCELERATING GROWTH
Virtualization has been viewed as an option primarily for large enterprises with sizeable IT budgets to manage the prolifera-
tion of servers, to increase server utilization and to support large mainframes. Now, high-performance workstations and servers are making virtualization a possibility for small and medium busi-nesses (SMBs). A recent Yankee Group report, SMB Infrastructure Goes Virtual, noted, “As hardware becomes more powerful, virtu-alization will become a necessity – even for businesses running a handful of servers.”
Insight Investments, Corp., a rapidly growing systems integrator and technology leasing firm in Orange, California, epitomizes the benefits that rapidly growing organizations can enjoy through vir-tualization. Insight’s server consolidation – which involved consoli-dating 15 physical servers onto three VMware ESX servers – resulted in greater IT resource utilization, freed up server-room space, and cut cooling, power, and operating costs by an estimated 65%.
This paper examines the pro-
cess Insight Investments followed
in its successful server and data
consolidation project. For medium-sized enterprises with limited IT staffs and budgets,
it provides real-world feedback about how to use virtualization to increase utilization,
improve high availability, minimize routine maintenance, and provide ongoing
improvements to a computing infrastructure.
Insight Investments, Corp., server consolidation resulted in greater IT resource utilization, freed up server room space, and cut cooling, power, and operat-ing costs by an estimated 65%.
Insight Investments, Corp., server consolidation resulted in greater IT resource utilization, freed up server room space, and cut cooling, power, and operat-ing costs by an estimated 65%.
VMware users explore disaster recovery options
By Alex Barrett
Improving your disaster recovery posture gets a lot of lip service, but for most companies, not a lot of action. But
IT managers are finding that using virtualization software can make it easier—and cheaper—to move disaster
recovery out of the planning phase and in to production.
"DR's been on my to-do list for much longer than I care to admit," said John Kutz, director of information services
and systems at Minneapolis, Minn.-based Verifications, Inc., a provider of pre-employment background checks. Last
year, when the company began to look in to VMware virtualization as a means to improve utilization and reduce
infrastructure, Kutz also discovered that virtualization would help them implement DR. That realization sealed the
deal. "The ability to do DR drove us to making the [virtualization] selection much more attractive," Kutz said.
Working with VMPowered, A VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) in Circle Pines, Minn., Verifications began replicat-
ing its virtual machines to their disaster recovery site 200 miles away using the SnapMirror feature on the Network
Appliance 3020 disk arrays at their primary and secondary sites, which copies the changes made to a snapshot of
the virtual machines (VMs).
"What I like is how [virtualization and DR] complement one another—I get my application and my OS in one fell
swoop," Kutz said, without having to have an exact replica of server hardware sitting idle at the remote site. "All I
know is that within 20 minutes I can bring replicated VMs back online," he said.
Array replication vs. host-based replication
But when it came to replicating its VMs, Verifications went down a path that not all IT shops can afford. Array-
based replication software typically comes as an add-on license to an already pricey storage area network (SAN)
set-up. A replication license on your typical Fibre Channel SAN device usually starts at around $10,000 per device—
of which you need two—plus the cost of Fibre Channel-to-IP conversion equipment, said Eric Schott, director of
product management at iSCSI SAN vendor EqualLogic. Schott added that EqualLogic does not charge extra for
replication on its arrays.
Furthermore, IT managers that choose array-based replication need to pay careful attention to how the replication
is configured. At its core, array-based replication doesn't replicate virtual machines per se, but the volumes that
they are stored in. As such, virtualization and storage administrators need to ensure that all VM files that need to
be replicated are stored in a properly replicated volume.
Host-based replication software is an arguably simpler way to steel virtual machines against disaster.
Gene Barnes, IT manager at S.H. Smith and Company, Inc., an independent wholesale insurance broker in West
Hartford, Conn., set up high availability and disaster recovery for six servers using a combination of VMware GSX
(now VMware Server) and replication software from Double-Take Software in Southborough, Mass. Barnes installed
VMware GSX on a free server and used VMware's old P2V Assistant physical-to-virtual migration tool to create back-
up virtual versions of the company's Exchange, file and application servers. He then installed Double-Take within
the primary application servers and set it up to replicate to their virtualized clones on the GSX host.
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Barnes also uses Double-Take to replicate a file server at a remote office in Needham, Mass. back to a virtual
machine in West Hartford headquarters, helping Barnes ensure that the file server always gets backed up. "We
don't have an IT presence in Needham; by replicating [the file server] down here, we just back it up using our
normal SAN and backup software," he said.
Pricing for Double-Take in a virtual environment runs $7,995 for up to five replicated Windows VMs, regardless of
where they are running in an ESX cluster. The company also offers a more affordable replication option for VMware
users that leverages VMware's own built-in snapshot capabilities. Announced in February, Double-Take for VMware
Infrastructure 3 (VI3) runs in the ESX service console and will replicate up to 10 VMs for $2,495.
Other than price, the advantage of running Double-Take from within the service console is that users can replicate
any VMware supported operating system—not just Windows—without having to load any software into the guest,
said Dave Demlow, Double-Take CTO. The downside, however, is running within the service console doesn't give the
replication software as granular a view of the replicated system.
"When you're running within the VM, there are a lot more things you can do by being aware of the specific
operating system, by optimizing failover, and by deciding which files really need to be replicated and which don't,"
Demlow said. "We can really pick and choose what we replicate."
Ultimately though, keeping the entry cost to disaster recovery low is key, said Chris Ackerberg, vice president of global
sales and marketing at Vizioncore Inc. in Buffalo Grove Ill., whose esxReplicator competes against Double-Take.
"We're not going for the top tier of organizations," Ackerberg said—those with the budget and expertise in house to
do array-based replication. "We're going for the next group of people that would like their information to be repli-
cated, but don't have a ton of money." In some cases, those can be departmental IT managers within a large
organization and "that don't want to contact their SAN administrator."
Vizioncore introduced a new version of esxReplicator last month. Among other features, version 2.0 include better
performance, VMotion, DRS and VirtualCenter integration, and the ability to bulk load VM images and resynch if
connectivity is lost between the VM and its replica. To keep costs low, esxReplicator copies virtual machine files to
an offline VM, Ackerberg said, which is only turned in the event of a disaster. That way, "there's no operating cost,
no OS licensing, no maintenance," he explained.
But at $499 per replicated virtual machine, some experienced VMware administrators may still forego a commercial
tool like esxReplicator and simply write some scripts that take a snapshot of a VM and copy it off-site. To that,
Ackerberg said, "For $500, we give you a GUI and scheduling abilities. Sure, some guy could achieve the same
thing using home grown scripts, but they could get disgruntled or get hit by a bus. What we do is take a lot of
complicated Linux scripting and wrap it in to a package that any admin can use."
Even with all these choices, what if IT admins are still discontented with their DR options? Stay tuned, said
EqualLogic's Schott: at VMworld next September, don't be surprised if VMware reveals new products and
functionality that further streamlines the protection of a virtual machine against disaster.
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VMware and NetApp in cahoots?
By Alex Barrett
Sources close to VMware Inc. and Network Appliance Inc. say that engineers at the two firms are working closely to
improve integration between VMware's ESX virtualization platform and NetApp's storage software, specifically its
snapshot capabilities.
"They are basically developing a SnapManager for VMware, just like they have for SQL Server or Exchange," said
a systems integrator familiar with the companies' roadmaps. Right now, NetApp storage can do a snapshot of
virtual machines at the logical unit number (LUN) level, he explained, but "NetApp can't directly quiesce a virtual
machine today."
That's not to say that people don't use NetApp snapshot technologies in VMware environments today; they do. But
in order to get a consistent copy of a VMware virtual machine, they need to use VMware's own snapshot function,
which consumes resources on the host. In contrast, NetApp performs its snapshots on the array, consuming no CPU
resources.
Today, integrating the two technologies also requires some VMware scripting prowess. For example, in the NetApp
bulletin "Five ways to use NetApp SnapShot copies and VMware VI3," NetApp professional services consultant Mike
Slisinger describes one joint customer, Loyola Marymount University (LMU), which uses NetApp Snapshots to
protect its VMware environment. To do so, "LMU developed its own script to automate backups and is working with
NetApp to document its implementation," Slisinger wrote. "This script uses the VMware snapshot capability to
quiesce the virtual machine so that a consistent NetApp Snapshot copy can be created."
NetApp neither confirms nor denies
A NetApp exec's corroborates the notion of collaboration between the two companies. Server virtualization "creates
a powerful need for storage virtualization," said Phil Brotherton, NetApp senior director of enterprise alliances and
solutions. "VMware integration is good today, but we are committed to tightening it up even more."
"VMware," Brotherton added, "is my life right now."
By NetApp's own account, catering to VMware users is critical to its future. As it stands, the company counts more
than 4,000 of its systems connected to VMware ESX—and many more if you include servers running VMware Server,
the company's free product, Brotherton said. Given market predictions, that number will only increase. "NetApp
believes that, within three years, 50% of servers will be running within VMware or some form of virtualization."
Brotherton estimated that about 40% of NetApp customers connect their arrays to ESX hosts via Fibre Channel,
another 40% via iSCSI, and 20% via NFS.
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NetApp storage software already has a lot to offer VMware environments, Brotherton added. Take FlexClone, the snap-
shot implementation built on top of the FlexVol flexible volume manager in Data ONTAP 7G. When creating a clone,
"we only store the changed blocks, so you basically get a clone for free," Brotherton said. In storage-hungry VMware
environments, the ability to consume minimal resources when cloning virtual machines is a compelling feature.
It should be noted that NetApp is not the only vendor working to integrate its storage software with VMware virtual
environments. Vizioncore with its esxRanger and esxReplicator backup and replication software has emerged as one
of the leading third-party VMware tool providers; replication vendors like Double-Take Software have VMware-cen-
tric versions of their products, and all the major backup software vendors—Symantec Corp., CommVault, and EMC
Corp./Legato, to name a few—have announced integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), VMware's tool
for offloading the backup of virtual machines from the ESX host.
EMC no obstacle
In the technology industry, it's rare to find a company that's enthusiastic about its primary competitor. But even
though EMC owns VMware outright—and will continue to own about 90% of it following VMware's initial public offer-
ing this year—Brotherton is undeterred.
"VMware has been absolutely great as a partner and operates on a very level playing field," Brotherton gushed.
"They treat all the major vendors equally, including EMC."
The IPO should only strengthen that position. "It will level the playing field even more, making it contractually
level."
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Virtualization Assessments are used as analysis, planning, and decision support tools to direct the key phases within a variety of infrastructure assessment projects, as described below: • Assess – the current state of an infrastructure’s workload capacity through comprehensive discovery and inventory of IT assets. Measure server loads and resource utilization across various elements of the IT infrastructure—including by function, location, and environment. • Plan – for capacity optimization through detailed utilization analysis, benchmarking, trending, and identification of capacity optimization alternatives. Identify resources, and establish plan for virtualization, hardware purchase, or redeployment. • Decide – on the optimal solution by evaluating various alternatives through scenario modeling and “what-if” analyses. Determine which alternative best meets the business objectives. • Monitor – resource utilization through anomaly detection and alerts based on benchmarked thresholds. Help generate recommendations to ensure ongoing capacity optimization.
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