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Next-Gen Data Center Virtualization:

Studies in Implementation

Anil Vasudeva President & Chief Analyst

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• Markets Drivers / Industry Dynamics

Mainframes to Blade Servers - Evolution in Tiered Computing

Segmenting Applications/IT Workloads – TC, HPC

Motivators, Inhibitors

Market Penetration

• Virtualization Implementation

Implementation At Various Levels – OS, Server, Network, Stg

Economics of Virtualization

• Futures

Next-Gen Data Center: Integration, Virtualization, Autonomics,

Grids, Services


Chaos in the Enterprise . . .

Server/OS

Network

Application

Storage

Test

Backup

Disaster

Recovery

Database

Financials

TM

D/R plan (MF only)

STK Silos Tape

TM

TM

TM

IBM3090-600J MVS/ESA IMS / ADABAS

BU by FDR Upstream

HP UX 10, 11.0, 11.2 MPE Sybase 11.9, 12

Fujitsu DS90UX P/M

8mm Backup

Legato to DLT

IBM ADSM3490

HP OmniBack

Sun Solaris 3.2, 3.4, 3.5 Oracle 7.5, 8.0

IBM RS6000 AIX 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 DB2/6000

Compaq ProLiant 2500,5500 NT 3.5, 4.0 SQL

Cheyenne to 4mm

Batch

IBM AS/400 OS/400

Inventory

Exchange

CAD/CAM E-commerce

Lotus Notes OLTP

CICS

File transfers AIX to HP/UX via Platinum 9.9

FTP between Sun - NT

Database extracts MVS to SP2 via MQ Series 4.4

PeopleSoft

(1) Scales poorly (2) Difficult to manage (3) Reliability is questionable (4) Management costs out of control


DC Mgmt Nightmares Driving Virtualization

Servers Servers/Admin

Storage Terabytes/DBA

MIS Alerts Urgent Alerts/Day

System

Availability

Servers Utilization

Win 5-10%, SMP 20-35%, MF 30-50%

80+%

15-30 300+

1TB 100TB

20-40

4-5

HAL- 3 (99.9%)

HAL- 5 (99.999%)

Storage Utilization

30-45% Disk, 20-40% Tape

75+%

Application Application/Server

1

20


*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms)

(RAID - 0, 3)

500 100 MB/sec

10 1 50 5

1K

10 K

100

10

1

Market Segments by Applic./Workloads

eCommerce

Transaction

Processing

OLTP

Data

Warehousing

Visual DB

DSS (RAID - 1, 5, 6)

IOPs (Latency)

Streaming Reference Data

Audio/Video

Scientific Computing

Imaging

NIC

TPC

HPC


Genesis of VZ & Grid Computing

CFO vs. CIO - Shocking Observations • IT Infrastructure Investments yet to achieve TCO/ROI Financial Objectives

• Expected Boost in Corporate Productivity not Visible

• Post 2000 Dictum: Do More with Less

Reason – IT Spiral • Web Growth > New Apps Mushroom > Lo Cost Win Servers Sprawl (Tier-1)

• Business Growth > Need More Computing Power > App/DB Servers (Tier-2,3)

• More Servers > Storage > DC Facilities > IT Support > IT Staff

• More Low Cost Servers > 5% Utilization >Scale Out Infrast. (Racks & Blades)

• IT Costs == Business Growth

Profit

VZ SW

Multiport

NIC

1 Physical Server 4 Virtual Servers

Problem Solution


Next Gen Data Center – Key Initiatives

Integration

Integrates physical infrastructure using

standardized devices for CAPSIMS: Cost, Availability, Performance, Scalability, Inter-

operability, manageability & Security

Virtualization Pools Resources. Allocates,

Monitors, and Meters the

Usage of Pooled Resources

Provisioning Provisions the Resources

Required to Deliver a

Business Service

Automation Automatically Maintains

Application Service

Level Objectives


End to End IT Infrastructure with HA & Security

Enterprise

Tier-3

Data Bases Tier-2

Applications

Tier-1

Edge Computing

Management Directory Security Policy

Software OS Platform

Caching, Proxy,

FW, SSL, IDS,

DNS, LB, Web

Servers

IntrDet

IntrDet

Layer 3

Switches

(Routers)

Layer 4-7

Switches

Layer 2

Switches

Stg Fibre

Switches

Application,HA,

File/Print, ERP,

Security, SCM,

CRM Servers

Database,

Middleware,

Data Mgmt

Servers

Internet ISP

Core Optical

Networking

Edge

Access

ISP

ISP

ISP

IntrDet

Supplier/Partner

Remote Office

Home Networks

DSL

Cable Modem

MP3 VOD

Wireless Cellular

xSP

App.Server

VPN

IntrDet

WebServices DBServers

ISP

ISP


Consolidated Data Center

Tier-1

Edge

Servers

Internet ISP

Core Optical

Networking

Edge

Access

ISP

ISP

ISP

IntrDet

Supplier/Partner

Remote Office

Home Networks

DSL

Cable Modem

MP3 VOD

Wireless Cellular

xSP

App.Server

VPN

IntrDet

WebServices DBServers

ISP

ISP

Enterprise

Tier-3

Data Base

Servers Tier-2 Apps

Management Directory Security Policy

Software OS Platform

Switches: Layer 4-7,

Layer 2, 10GbE, FC Stg

FC/

IPSAN

Caching, Proxy,

FW, SSL, IDS, DNS,

LB, Web Servers

Application,HA,

File/Print, ERP,

SCM, CRM Servers

Database,

Middleware, Data

Mgmt Servers

Tier-1

Edge

Apps


SNMP,

IETF/

CIM,

SMI-S,

SMASH.

Quadrics,

Myrinet,

InfiniBand,

Ethernet / IP,

Ethernet IP

w/TOE,

Ethernet IP

w/TOE and

RDMA.

SCSI,

Fiber

Channel,

ISCSI.

Ethernet,

Wi-Fi. Network Fabric

Sys

tem

Fa

bric

Ma

na

ge

me

nt

Fa

bri

c

Fabric based Integrated Architecture


TCO Savings with Virtualization

w/o VZ w VZ

Provisioning

VZ SW & Supp

HardwareSAN

Network

Power & Cooling

DC Real Estate

Disaster Recovery

Downtime

Co

st

over

3 y

ears

995 Servers Pre VZ 78 VZ Servers


Servers - TCO Savings & ROI w Blades

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

1 2

% C

on

trib

uti

on

OPEX

CAPEX33%

67%

46%

25%

Blade Servers Rack Servers

3 Year TCO Savings

Rack vs. Blade Servers OPEX

Staff/

Support

25% Maintenance/

Downtime

54%

Facilities/

Power

21%

CAPEX

Servers

46%

SW

Infrastructure

22%

Storage

Infrastructure

13%

Networking

19%

TCO Savings in..

Data: IMEX Research 2005


Implementing Virtualization

Storage Arrays

Application &

DB Servers

Client

Workstations

SAN

GbE or FC

Switches

LAN

Ethernet

Switches

At Various Levels

Microprocessor – Intel VT, AMD-Pacifica

OS - zOS, pOS, UNIX, Windows, Linux

- IBM, HP, Sun, VMWare, Xen, SWSoft …

File System - DFS …

Networking

- Multiport NICs

Storage

- Host, SAN, Controller

- In-Band, Out-of-Band Management


Processor Virtualization

Sourc

e: A

MD

VZ Extensions at Processor

X86 Instruction Set


Storage Virtualization

Storage

Servers

Clients

SAN

LAN

Storage Virtualization Implementations

Host SAN Cntrllr.

Out-of-Band Symantec, StorageAge

EMC, Fujitsu

In-Band Cloverleaf, IBM, DataCore, FalconStor

HDS, NetApp, Sun

Storage VZ Must Have Features • Scale Non-Disruptively in Capacity

• Snapshot Point-In-Time across Stg.devices

• Remote Replication across Heterogeneous Stg. Devices

• Policy Based Non-Disruptive Data Migration between

Heterogeneous Stg Systems & Between Stg Tiers

• Centralized Mgmt of all Stg.VZ under Single Image

• Support Tiered Storage

• Volume Management for Multivendor Stg. Systems

• Common Set of Tools: Provisioning, Mgmt & Replication


Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization

0 20 40 60 80 100

Medium

Enterprise Empl

100-1K

Large Enterprise

Empl 1K-10K

Very Lg.

Enterprise Empl

>10K

%

Deployed + Deploying within 1 yr Don't Know No

Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization


Economics of Virtualization

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

1000

w /o Stg VZ w Stg VZ

Exp

en

ses/Y

ear

$K

HW

SAN

Admin

SW

Total Svgs

- 21%/yr.

- 24%

- 16%

- 19%

Savings achieved through Storage Virtualization

Virtualization results in overall cost reduction 35-60%

Storage VZ alone has produced ~20% cost reductions


Future: Storage Management on a chip

Host Services Integration Storage

Provisioning

Layer

SAN

Management

Layer

Device

Service

Layer

File system monitoring

SAN Management

Management

Console

Management of

iSCSI HBAs

MultiPath IO Supp

and Failover

Security

(iSNS, CHAP, SRP)

Virtualization Mirroring Snapshot Fail-Over

iSCSI Target Management LVM, Error Handling, SCSI Daemon, API Interoperability

HW Acceleration: TOE, iSCSI Offload, IPsec

Storage provisioning Win, LINUX, Solaris

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