Welcome to ANS Group

Andy Barrow Technical Director, ANS Group

10 Proven Steps to Building Your Next-Generation Data Centre

Introduction ANS Group – Paul Sweeney, Managing Director

15 Years in the Datacentre £45m Turnover, 150 Staff

Cisco, NetApp, VMware

UK wide across Public and Private Sector

Traditional Enterprise Infrastructure

Tape Backup

NAS (File Based)

SAN (Block Based)

Blade Arrays

Blade Centre

Modules

Rack Optimised Computing

IP Top of Rack FCP

Top of Rack

LAN/WAN As complex as its ever been…

Core Network Typical Chassis Based

Top of Rack Switching

IP - 1U 48 Ports FC – 1U 24 Ports

SAN

Block I/O, Speed High Throughput DB IBM DS/EMC/HDS/HP

NAS

Oracle DB/File Services iSCSI More Storage

less cost

Typical Challenges/Observations (Enterprise DC)

Backup / Recovery Process

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity

Cable I/O Provision LAN/SAN

Application Mobility

Environmental Considerations

Infrastructure Cost Management Points/Packs Application

Provision

1# Know Where You Are…

Annualised Maintenance Costs Storage TAX

Networking (Cost Per

Connection) Power/Cooling/

Space

1# Continued….

CAPEX Summary (Previous 3 Years)

Totals CAPEX

Core IP Network £162,000

Edge IP Network £100,000

Core FC Network £251,000

Edge FC Network £28,000

Rack Optimised Servers £196,500

Blade Servers £451,000

Transceivers £61,000

Virtualisation Software £391,600

Storage £200,000

Total £1,449,500

1# Continued

Totals* OPEX

Total Power & Cooling ~£101,000

Total Rack Unit Cost ~£99,000

General Maintenance ~£230,000

Backup ~£35,000

Total ~£465,000

OPEX Summary (Per Annum)

Infrastructure Characteristics

1400 Cables 236 Rack Units Stateful Computing ~8 Management Packs ~64 KW 74 Management Points 178 CPU’s (Virtual Estate) Avg 8-10 VM’s per Host

Multiple Speeds / Cable Types o 1Gbps/4Gbps/10Gbps

Multiple Fabrics Active/Standby Configuration Tape Backup 4.896 TB RAM (Memory Virtual)

o Avg 27.5 RAM per CPU

*Approximate Cost

2# Standardise and Simplify

Critical Vendor Choice – Time to go Strategic….

Data Storage for a Particular Purpose (SAN/NAS)?

Multiple Points of Backup and Data Protection

Multiple Points of Management & Control

Can you Workflow, Automate and Orchestrate

so many vendor products??

Reduce the Points of Management…

3# Service Elasticity

Data and Service Mobility…

Next Generation Network Technology is helping achieve this goal (LISP/OTV/Fabric Path)…

Long Distance vMotion – Data Evacuation/Ease of Maintenance

Moving the Service is great flexibility, account for the data movement not just VM

Synchronous Technology

Great should the data restores be application consistent

A Single Virtual Data Centre….

Physically Split over 2 Locations

4# I/O Consolidation

Chassis Mgmt

Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt

Ethernet Blade Switch Mgmt

Ethernet Switch Mgmt

FC Switch Mgmt Provide Hypervisor

Visibility and/or Pass Through

Native 10Gbps – Not for Bandwidth, I/O Consolidation and Simplification (10 Cables to 1) Reduce Modules/Ancillary Components Reduce Switchports

4#... Continued – Why?

An average input into 10Gbps blade port (based on previous) = 20723000bps 20723000bps = 20.73Mbps / 0.020Gbps / 0.0020TeGps

Cost per Connection: Blade Centre Module = £6,500 (for 8 x 10Gb ports) = £812 Top of Rack Switchport = £541 (4900M, fully populated with 24 x10Gbps ports) Cable = £70 Cost per Connection = £1,423 Power = 0.02Kw (Switch) + 0.013Kw (Module) = 0.033Kw @ 9p (Incl. Cooling) = £52 PA

Utilisation = 0.02% £28.46 is utilised, £1,394 Wasted + £51.99 Power/Cooling PA Virtualised Servers, at 10:1 Ratio = £280.46 = £1,142 Wasted

£££ Wasted I/O Costs

Average Taken

Some Ports @ > 10Mbps Some @ < 30Mbps

#4… Continued – Back to ‘Know Where You Are’!

Using Microsoft SharePoint as an example:

Presumptions: 2000 Concurrent Users 175KBytes page load (Microsoft published average*) Average 40 Page Loads Per Hour

175,000 Bytes × 8 = 1400000bps ×40 per hour = 56000000bps ÷3600 (sec per hour) = 15555bps ×2000 Users = 31.11Mbps

A Virtual Supervisor Switching Output (6509): (5000 User Network, 200 Site MPLS)

Port-channel1 is up, line protocol is up (connected) Hardware is EtherChannel, address is 0023.acbe.f000 (bia 0023.acbe.f000) Description: VSS link to Secondary switch <Output Omitted for Clarity> 5 minute input rate 562477000 bits/sec, 63869 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 411378000 bits/sec, 54627 packets/sec 562Mbps (Peak Time)

*http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc745931.aspx

5# Any Protocol – Any Wire (Unified Fabric)

A Single Ubiquitous Fabric

Any Protocol, Any Wire, Any Rack, Any Server, Any VM Node

Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, FCoE – (Note the increase in the use of NFS)

Next Gen Ethernet – Data Centre Bridging (DCB)

Cloud Style Infrastructure Should Provide ALL Protocols!

Typical DC ~700 VM’s > 40 Cables

Single Network/Fabric, All Protocols

6# Storage Efficiency

Data Growth

Snapshots

Raid-DP

Thin-Provisioning Thin Cloning

De-Duplication

Flash Cache

Along with obvious cost savings, storage reduction techniques provide good

operational value in a cloud style environment:

Snapshots assist instant backup and recovery

RAID-DP boosts data protection

Flash Cache provides 10x performance

Thin Cloning provides instant read only ‘0 Space’ data copies for development

Data Reduction Techniques become increasingly important…

7# Drive Down ‘Cost Points’

1 Management Entity 1 IP Address

LAN SAN/NAS

PCIe Performance

CACHE

Scale Out SATA

Rack

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Memory Expansion Infrastructure scale without prohibitive cost spikes

SAN LAN

Chassis-9/Blade-2

Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN

8# Stateless Compute

Does to Hardware as Hypervisors do to Operating Systems

Infrastructure Re-Purpose Daily/Nightly Tasks

All Compute Attributes Configurable from a Single GUI

Openly Configurable via API

Rapid Scale, Instant Provision

Cloud/IaaS Ready

No Assembly Required!!

Chassis-1/Blade-5

9# Cost per Transaction

Sometimes… We need a more ‘Business Like Way’ to present the case

Cost Per Transaction Comparison* Traditional Next Gen Infra.

CAPEX – 3 Years £1.4 Mil £900k

OPEX – 3 Years £465k £220k

Total Cost £2.795 Mil £1.56 Mil

Cost Per Transaction (730,000 Transactions Per Year) £1.27 £0.71

Choose a Mission Critical Service…

Point of Sale Transaction

Customer ‘Check In’

Web Application ‘Hits’

How Many ‘Transactions’ Are Completed?

44% Decrease in the infrastructure cost

of the main business application

*Approximate Cost

10# Remember…… S to the Power of 4!

MAKE HOLISTIC DECISIONS!!!

Switching Server Compute

Security Storage

Infrastructure 3.0 – Powered by FlexPod

LAN Breakout Service Mobility

Unified Storage Instant Backup/Restore Storage Efficient

Uni

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Fab

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System Based I/O & Management

Autom

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Stateless Compute

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