Virtualization 2.0

Virtualization 2.0

Unitiv Overview

Unitiv, Inc. is a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions.

‣Headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia

‣Regional Office in Iselin, New Jersey

Founded as Intelligent Technology Systems (ITS) in 1995.

Take a strategic approach

‣ Data Center Efficiency/ Virtualization

‣ Project Services

‣ Procurement

Why is Unitiv different?

‣ Premium First-Call Support – Intelligent Help Desk

‣ Experience

‣ Knowledge

Single Point of Contact and Responsibility . . .

Assets QuestionsSystems IssuesStorage ProblemsNetwork

Asset Management

Contract/Lease Management

Case Management

Vendor Dispatch

History/Reports

Software Release and Patch Notifications

Multi-vendor SupportVendors

. . . for 24x7 Delivery of Support Services

Intelligent Help DeskTM

(150+ 3rd Party)

Customer

Virtualization 2.0Don’t Virtualize Without It!

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Promises of Virtualization

‣ Reduced Cost– Hardware/software

– Power/cooling

– Administration

‣ Greater Service Levels– Systems

– Applications

‣ Ease of Management

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Issues that Break the Promises

‣ How Do You . . . – Provision and manage the life cycle of VMs

– Keep track of where VMs are and what resources are in use

– Identify resource contention

– Update and patch VMs

– Handle scheduled downtime

– Migrate physical/virtual to virtual

– Test and perform DR

– Chargeback use of resources internally

– Backup and recover

‣ Manual vs. Automatic

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‣ New items and relationships not present in physical environment New entities New attributes New actions

Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the Game

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‣ Dynamic and fast-growing environment Easy to create VMs Move VMs around Make changes

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Maturity of Virtualization

Virtualization 2.0(management layer)

Virtualization 1.0(virtual layer)

Physical Resources

Policies

Procedures

Tools

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Virtualization 2.0

‣ A complete suite of Virtualization Management Solutions

– Tools➡ Discover/Assess➡ TCO/ROI

– Professional Services➡ Assess➡ Analyze➡ Recommend➡ Implement

– Technology➡ Software➡ Hardware

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Case Study‣ Challenges

– Partial virtual implementation of 70 servers using VI3 Standard

– 6:1 ratio with 4 islands of servers

– Migration of 280+ additional physical servers

– Many of the issues that “break the promises”

‣ Solution– Server Consolidation Assessment using

IBM, VMware Tools

– Roadmap, defined project, presented TCO/ROI

– New hardware: Blade servers

– New software: vSphere 4➡ Upgraded existing licenses to Enterprise Plus; additional licenses➡ Added vCenter Server

– Implementation services

‣ Benefits– Improved ratio to 19:1 on 18 physical servers– Increased availability, DR capabilities; automated management

vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform

High Availability

STANDARD ENTERPRISE PLUS

VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX

4-way vSMP

VC Agent

6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory

VMotion™

High Availability


4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ADVANCED

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

VMotion™

High Availability


8-way vSMP

VC Agent

12 Physical Cores / CPUNo License Memory Limit

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

Distributed Switch

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Host Profiles

High availability products for

protecting critical production

applications

Basic consolidation of a lab or

small environmen

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Large scale management of critical production applicationsNew – simplified licensing,

per host

VMotion™

High Availability


4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ENTERPRISE

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager

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VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs

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Multi-pathing APIs

Virtualization 2.0

‣ Address your Issues– Citrix, Microsoft, VMware

‣ Fulfill the Promises– Reduced Cost

➡ Hardware/software➡ Power/cooling➡ Administration

– Greater Service Levels➡ Systems➡ Applications

– Ease of Management

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Thank you!

‣ For more information, please go to www.unitiv.com.