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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

How virtualization can enable your business

Richard Allen, IBM Alliance, VMware0780-966.5800 rallen@vmware.com

Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

The ‘physical’ Datacenter

Cost of…

…acquisition

…setup

…power

…heat

…physical rack space

…(re-)configuration

…maintenance

…support….

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The VMware Datacenter

Flexibility

Rapid provisioning

Disaster Recovery

High Availability

Automation

87% of VMware customers deploy in production

950 days uptime

Hidden benefits…

• The set of devices presented to every VM is identical

• single image required for your whole company

• hardware-independency = even hw upgrades do not require new VMware images; even if you switch vendors

• Power and heat

• VMware is licensed by socket…quad core is optimal

• A server running at 25% and 75% are almost identical from a power and heat perspective…so get your servers to 75% before buying more…

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• Installs like an application and runs on any standard x86 hardware

Hardware

Windows/Linux

VMware

Hosted virtualization

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Bare-metal virtualization -- VMware ESX

Bare metal installation: stable, secure and high performance

Which OS can I run in an ESX Virtual Machine?

4-way Virtual SMP; 16GB VM memory

64-bit or 32-bit

32-bit only

ESX Server only: Hot Migration VMotion

Moves running VMs between hosts while maintaining continuous service availability

• - Continuous Workload Consolidation• - Zero-Downtime Maintenance

56% use in production; 80% using or evaluating

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Physical server generates hardware prefailure alert

Integration with Systems Management

VMware VirtualCenter

IBM Director System Management Server

SAN, iSCSI, NFS

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

VM 4

VM VM VM VM

VM

VM VM

VM VM VM

VM 3

VM 2

VM 1

Alert sent to Systems Management Server Systems Management Server sends command to VirtualCenter

VirtualCenter initiates live migration of VMs using VMotion

Virtual machines migrated intelligentlyServer maintenance\upgrade – with zero downtime

client always connected to

VM4

1. Overloaded host: automatic workload balancing

ESX Server only: VMware DRS

• Automated load balancing

• Dynamically add resources

VMware Infrastructure Resource Cluster

VMotion

2. Dynamically add resources: DRS rebalances load

ESX Server only: VMware HA

VMware Infrastructure

• Automates virtual machine restart

• Independent of OS and applications

2-way System

2-way System

4-way System

8-way System

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Hardware-independent recovery

VMware Infrastructure Solution

• Different servers at primary and secondary site

• Fewer servers at recovery site

• Use retired production servers

at recovery site

Primary Data Center Recovery Data Center

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68 IBM Servers

hw or IP

50 IBM Servers

Storage Array Storage Array

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VDI sizer: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdi_sizing_vi3.pdf

Client Device(Thin Client or PC)

Load-balancing (via eg: Propero)

VMware Infrastructure…including VMware HA,

DRS, VMotion

Dynamic application publication (via eg: Softgrid)

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How do I size? - VMware Capacity Planner

Accurate agentless workload analysis…

CP collector

Thank you…

Richard Allen, IBM Alliance VMware0780-966.5800 rallen@vmware.com

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