Dynamic Infrastucture using IBM X86

Virtualisation, Energy Efficiency, Management & Control

Tikiri Wanduragala

Senior Consultant Server Systems

Overview

Maximise datacenter capacityDeploy less serversDeploy less desktopsUse less energyImprove availabilityReduces Management Service Costs

Doing IT betterDoing IT smarter

Doing IT differently

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Simplified

Shared

Siloed

Dynamic Dynamic Infrastructure

Dynamic Infrastructure

Consolidation & VirtualizationFrom Silos to Clouds

.…delivers superior business and IT services with agility and speed

Innovation and Technical Leadership - Choice

Source: xSeries Linux Marketing Management & Strategy

Customer value

IBM's best technology

Shared innovation

Faster servers

Improved availability

Faster to market

Investment leverage

Series UniqueTechnologies

z/OS, AIX 5L™, OS/400, Windows Operating System, FICON Express

SharedComponents

BladeCenter, Linux, Processors, I/O Power, Hardware Console, Adapters, Switches,

Power/Mechanical frames

Autonomic Computing

WorkLoad Mgr,Virtualization, Partitioning, Security, Systems Mgmt

System z10 ™

System p6™

System x™System i6™

Enterprise Storage Server™

BladeCenter™

iDataPlex

Customer Driven Market Driven

The real picture from data center input to usage: Where are the Watts consumed ?

Memory; 11%

Fans; 9%

Processor

30%

HVAC,UPS 40%

IT power

60%

Used Resource

20%

= 3,6% of total

Idle;

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+1 W equiv. used ressource5 W equiv processor16 W equiv IT power27 W data center

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Servers Hardware

Server Loads

X1,7 x3 x5

Planar; 4%

PCI; 3%Drives; 6%

Standby; 2%

DC/DC losses; 10%

AC/DC losses; 25%

Need one more W of compute energy ?

Typical Utilization Mainframe 80 – 90%Unix 10 – 20% Wintel 5 – 12%

SPL Sites & Facilities GTS STG Systems Design

STG Lab Services

GTS DC Design – Southbank Ground Floor Lab

Extending the life of an existing data center

• IBM’s Enterprise Computing Model– Projected results– Virtualise 25% of IBM’s server

infrastructure– 80% reduction in energy use– 85% reduction in floor space– Accelerate time-to-value for

clients based on internal IBM process automation

• IBM Lexington – Results– Increased IT capacity by 8

times in same space– Virtualised 70% of baseline

workload– Differed $50m capital

upgrade to datacenter– Avoided $2.4m HW

purchase by re-deploying servers

– Saved $162,000 or 10% annual energy savings

Simple, powerful and easy power management

Trackheat emitted

Compare rackactual power vs.label power

Trend poweruse over time

Compare actual vs. name platepower at system level

View inlet andexhaust temperature

Trend temperatureover time

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Energy efficiency, can virtualisation help?

• Typical Intel type server utilisation is quite low (15 - 40%)• Tools like VMWare can increase utilisation and unlock new

processing capability for scale up and scale out without adding to power at the rack level

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Virtualisation – The Killer Application

• Benefits– Increase workloads by combining applications– Reduce physical population of servers– SW server – break link with HW

• Concerns– Management

• Must have automated management– “All eggs in one basket”

• Must have disaster recovery• Opportunities / Directions

– Virtualise I/O / Storage– Virtualise Desktops

• Security• Service / Support• Energy Efficiency 150W -> 15W

Target Environments

Transaction Workers, Call centersKnowledge Workers

Remote AccessDeveloper Desktops

Virtualized Hosting Client Infrastructure

• Central management

• Back end storage of Desktop

• Off-line patching of Desktop

• Security policies

• Access to your desktop from virtually any PC at any time

• Highly secure access to enterprise resources and data

• Deploy virtually any application

• Consolidate multiple developer desktops

• Highly secure offshore development

• Centrally manage developer desktop

• Replace desktop environment with virtual environment

• Preserve desktop usability

• Central management of all desktops

• Deploy virtually any application

• Flexible architecture to increase decrease number of seats

Branch Office Workers• Highly secure access to

Banking Applications

• Increased Security by replacing fat clients with thin clients

Choosing Virtualisation Platforms“Virtualisation capacity is a function of how much

memory and I/O bandwidth/capacity one can provide a core/socket at a given energy level”

Energy efficiency

Performance

Reliability

Physical VM Isolation / Granularity

HW/SW Management

Ease of Upgrade

BladeCenterEnterprise eX4

The Total Systems Management ExperienceDelivering innovations throughout the systems management stack

Integrated Management Module (IMM)• Standards-based hardware which combines

diagnostic and remote control

UEFI—next generation BIOS• Richer management experience and future-ready

Hardware and firmware advances which are standard across all new systems

ToolsCenter• Consolidated, integrated suite of management

tools• Powerful bootable media creator

Redesigned system tool portfolio for single-system management and scripting

IBM Systems Director• Platform management that is easy and efficient• Management of physical and virtual resources

across heterogeneous systems

IBM Systems platform solution for System x, BladeCenter, Power Systems, System z and storage

IBM TivoliUpward integration into Tivoli Service Management

“a server or desktop is a file”

Combining Scale Up and Scale OutA Smart, Flexible, Energy Efficient - Computing Platform

StorageBackup

Network

Management & Control

Scale Up/Out CombinationMaximum Flexibility & ChoiceBalance Market & Customer DrivenEnergy & Systems ManagementInvestment/Technology Protection

Scale Up

Scale Out

Portfolio that Covers the Spectrum of Business Needs

BladeCenter

Enterprise eX4

iDataPlex

IBM give you the RIGHT choice for your business needs• Scale Up Enterprise eX4 Rack Servers for Consolidation ,Virtualization and

Database Serving• Scale Out BladeCenter for Infrastructure Simplification and Application

Serving• Scale Out iDataPlex for Internet Scale Applications.

Infrastructure Simplification,

Application Serving

Web 2.0, HPC, Grid

Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Scale OutS

cale

Up

IBM Introduces new x3850/3950 M2 models

Scalability Controller

Memory Controller

Xcel4v Cache

1066 MHz

1066 MHz

1066 MHz

1066 MHz

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

MemoryInterface

5.12 GBps

2.13 GBps

533 MHz

IBM Controls memory and I/O the most important resources for virtualised environments

Industry leader in memory and I/O resources available per socket/core-Better Performance and capacity-Get more out of SW licence per socket/core

Ability to use DDR memory Vs FBD results in 20% performance improvement with 37% reduction in power consumption

4th Generation chipset optimised over 8years for virtualised and database environments

Portfolio that Covers the Spectrum of Business Needs

BladeCenter

Enterprise eX4

iDataPlex

IBM give you the RIGHT choice for your business needs• Scale Up Enterprise eX4 Rack Servers for Consolidation ,Virtualization and

Database Serving• Scale Out BladeCenter for Infrastructure Simplification and Application

Serving• Scale Out iDataPlex for Internet Scale Applications.

Infrastructure Simplification,

Application Serving

Web 2.0, HPC, Grid

Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Scale OutS

cale

Up

IBM BladeCenter HT Ruggedized, high performance

IBM BladeCenter E Best energy efficiency,

best density

IBM BladeCenter H High performance

IBM BladeCenter T Ruggedized

A common set of bladesA common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics

A common management infrastructure

Extend blade benefits to your entire business

IBM BladeCenter S Distributed, small office,

easy to configure

HS21Proc: Xeon Quad CoreMem: 4 DIMM / 16GBHDD: 2

HS21xm/22Proc: Xeon Quad CoreMem: 8 DIMM / 32GBHDD: 1

LS21Proc: Opteron Dual CoreMem: 8 DIMM / 32GBHDD: 1

LS41Proc: Opteron Dual CoreMem: 16 DIMM / 64GBHDD: 2

HC10Proc: Conroe dual core Mem: 4 DIMM/8GBHDD: 1

QS21Proc: Cell BEMem: 2GB (XDR)HDD: 1

JS12/22Proc: PowerPCMem:4 DIMM / 16GB

HDD: 2

“Blades have revolutionised the Data Center”

“BladeCenter S brings the Blade revolution to the

Office/Branch/Shop/School”

IBM BladeCenter S

• Branch / Shop IT Consolidation

• 6 Blades– 2 Server– 2 Desktop Consolidation– 1 Video – Security– 1 VoIP

• Shared Low cost storage

• Office-friendly 240v power

• Centralised Remote Management

• Easy to deploy

• Low cost service

• Low cost upgrade

• Stable flexible platform eg. BladeCenter E 2002 > 2009+

Office / BoxBranch Office / Shop - in a box

RIGHT

Portfolio that Covers the Spectrum of Business Needs

BladeCenter

Enterprise eX4

iDataPlex

IBM give you the RIGHT choice for your business needs• Scale Up Enterprise eX4 Rack Servers for Consolidation ,Virtualization and

Database Serving• Scale Out BladeCenter for Infrastructure Simplification and Application

Serving• Scale Out iDataPlex for Internet Scale Applications.

Infrastructure Simplification,

Application Serving

Web 2.0, HPC, Grid

Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Scale OutS

cale

Up

New ThinkingCustomer Requirements

Optimized CapEx and OpEx

Efficient power and cooling

Usable density

Single point of management

Open infrastructure

Flexible configuration

Rapid scalability

Global deployment

Open infrastructure

Increases Density for Space Savings

Optional Rear Door Heat eXchanger

iDataPlexTypical Enterprise RackFull-fan air depth

Half-fan air depth

42U Enterprise Rack1

42U Enterprise Rack2

• Optimized rack design more than doubles server density per rack

• Air flow efficiency equals power savings of up to 20% and 30-40% lower airflow impedance

• IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger provides the ultimate in cooling savings

Top-down view

New Efficient Form Factor

PDUs

3U Chassis

2U Chassis

Switches

Rack Management Appliance

iDataPlex Rear Door Heat Exchanger

HPC ServerWeb Server

Storage Drives & Options

I/O TrayStorage Tray

A New Way to Cool the Data Center

• Liquid cooling at the rack is 75%-95% more efficient than air cooling by a CRAC

• Can eliminate rack heat exhaust

• No electrical or moving parts

• No condensation

• Chilled water or evaporative liquid

Provides up to 67% cooling power reduction

A More Intelligent Approach

• 40 servers per rack

• 4 network leaf switches

• 2 enterprise racks

• Configured onsite

Optional Rear Door Heat eXchanger for even greater data center power and cooling efficiency

Traditional Rack

Servers

Internet-Scale iDataPlex

• 138% better density

• 50%+ less floor space

• 75% fewer fans

• 66% less fan power consumption

• $10,148 energy savings per rack

• $1.2M data center energy savings*

• Ships complete, ready to deploy

* For typical Data Center

A dynamic infrastructure…

.…delivers superior business and IT services with agility and speed

Support Foils

Network Virtualisation

Blade Deployment Made Easy

Software utility in Advanced Management Module MAC, WWN address assignment and management for initial blade deployment and

re-deployment

Optional standalone utility for advanced functions MAC, WWN Address assignment and management for initial blade deployment and

re-deployment Creates blade failover pools – Event Action Plans Provides I/O parameter and VLAN migration in case of

failover

Embedded switch enhancements Easy to use GUI for switch configuration Switch stacking for network simplification

Introducing Open Fabric Manager

IBM BladeCenterOpen Fabric

Open Fabric Manager Open Fabric Manager in AMM simplifies server deployment and failover

Blade 2 Blade 2

BladeCenter

VLAN B

VLAN D

VLAN A

VLAN C

Ethernet MAC addressesare assigned to blade slot by

AMM

Blade 1 Blade 1

MA

C 1

MA

C 2

Blade 14 Blade 14

MA

C 3

MA

C 4

ManagementModule

ManagementModule

Any switch or pass through

Open Fabric Manager Open Fabric Manager in AMM simplifies server deployment and failover

Blade 1 Blade 1

BladeCenter

VLAN B

VLAN A

Any switch or pass through

MA

C 1

MA

C 2

Blade 2 Blade 2

MA

C 3

MA

C 4

SpareBlade SpareBlade

MA

C 3MA

C 4

ManagementModule

ManagementModule

Blade 14 Blade 14 VLAN D

VLAN C

New blade inherits I/O addressesmove to new blade assigned to

slot

Manage failover across your data center

1) Blade X fails in chassis SIX 3) Blade Y in chassis FORTY receives blade X I/O parameters

2) Failover pool event action plan executes

• 14 down & 10-ports of Uplink bandwidth at less $500 per port• Investment Protected:

– Can connect to 1Gb or 10Gb datacenter infrastructure (1G or 10G uplinks)

– Can support 1Gb or 10Gb adapters– Can support Convergence network traffic

• Throughput performance no longer an issue

– Up to 40 ports (10Gb each) per BladeCenter H chassis– Up to 40Gb per blade server

• The only switch you will ever need

– Serial over LAN & cKVM support

BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module

Introducing the 1Gb, 10Gb, and Convergence Ready switch

High on function, low on power, low on cost…

Hypervisor w/ vSwitch

BladeCenter 10Gb switch can create up to 1024 virtual paths today per port assigned to each VM using industry standard VLAN

technology.

10Gb NIC

10Gb Switch

VM 1 VM 2 VM3 VM 4

Industry standard networking practices insure continuity of VLAN path even during network disruptions.

Using vCenter user creates port groups in the vSwitch and assigns to individual VMs

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Using CLI or SmartConnect* user creates VM groups in the switch

Using vCenter user can assign any bandwidth to each individual VM

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Map each VM group to port groups in vSwitch

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Low cost open solution

The standards-based Integrated Management Module (IMM) gives you better error diagnostics, a virtual presence, and remote control to more easily manage servers from a central location

The new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a intuitive interface allowing you to add features and functions across the all new generation servers quickly

IBM Systems Director 6.1 makes it easy to configure and deploy

IBM ToolsCenter reduces complexity of choosing, finding, and learning platform management tools

Active Energy Manager monitors, measures and controls server energy usage and activity

Systems Management for the new generation servers is a complete end-to-end stack designed to deliver future-proof systems management today

HP OpenView

Improve service with better systems management

Super I/O

CPU Core

Crypto AES

VideoComp.

VideoController

USB 1.1/2.0 Devices

DDR2 Memory

Controller

BMC I/O

IMM

Super I/O

CPU Core

Crypto AES

VideoComp.

VideoController

USB 1.1/2.0 Devices

DDR2 Memory

Controller

BMC I/O

IMM

ToolsCenter

IBM Systems Director

IMM and UEFI

Tivoli Service Management

ToolsCenter

IBM Systems Director

IMM and UEFI

Tivoli Service Management

IBM Systems Director 6.1Platform management that is easy and efficient

Key Features

Customer Benefits

New design to provide unsurpassed ease-of-use and quick time-to-value

• New web-based GUI provides quick response and easy, intuitive access to powerful management functions

• Time-to-value is fast--one hour or less to install and begin use. • Tasks are made easier with an extensive set of wizards, online help and tutorials to

guide customers.• Customers familiar with HP SIM can leverage that knowledge to quickly learn to

manage IBM System x and BladeCenter with Systems Director with the HP SIM transition tool

Delivers broad cross-platform support

• Systems Director 6.1 manages IBM Power Systems, System z and storage, thereby leveraging a customer’s investment in skills, training and tools across a broader set of systems.

• Non-IBM x86 systems can also be managed

Provides new levels of integration

• New integration of virtualization manager means the same tool can be used for virtual as well as physical resources

• Use of a shared, common agent with Tivoli provides simpler integration of Systems Director and select Tivoli products

• Same look-and-feel as ToolsCenter and IMM for a unified platform management experience

• Capabilities can be extended with plug-ins such as Active Energy Manager, Service and Support Manager and BOFM

Virtualisation Attributes / Scope

• Utilisation– Multiple environments– Over commit HW

resources– Reduce HW platforms

• Emulation / Grouping– Utilise existing

resources– Increase lifespan of

products

• Replacement– Improved availabilty– Improved Service

• Clustering– Multiply existing

resources