Data Center Consolidation and Optimization By Magnus Manders, CTO of Infrastructure Service Nordics

Relocate, Consolidate & Optimize Data Centers Strategies to reduce risks and improve business value

Magnus Manders CTO, Capgemini Infrastructure Services Nordics

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Relocate, Consolidate and Optimize Data centers | Magnus Manders | January 2014

Driving Forces

One size does not fit all

Every project face a different combination of challenges and objectives… …resulting in §  complex projects §  difficult stakeholder management

Risk & Legislation

Cost

Reductions

Acq

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& c

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Energy Management

Lifecycle

Managem

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and

Con

trol



Guiding principles – Transform & optimize

Improving and enforcing common standards and processes across the organization

Cloud services

Private Cloud services

Infrastructure as a service

Platform as a service

New Target Architecture

Transformed services New target data centers Existing data centers

vSphere 4.1, dedicated virtualization platform, one cluster in 2 DC’s

200 vm’s

ESX$ho

st$1$

ESX$ho

st$1$

ESX$ho

st$2$

ESX$ho

st$1$ ESX$host$1$

ESX$host$1$

ESX$host$2$

ESX$host$1$

Oracle$RAC1$ Oracle$RAC2$Oracle RAC

Oracle$RAC$ Oracle$RAC$Oracle RAC

WAS$ WAS$ WAS$

WAS$ WAS$ WAS$

MQ$ MQ MQ

SWIFT$ SWIFT SWIFT WMB

SWIFT$ SWIFT SWIFT SWIFT

SWIFT SWIFT voice$ lp$telep$

ENOT$ Liveserver$ WAS$ lp telep

WAS$ WAS$ WAS$

MQ$ MQ MQ

SWIFT$ WMB$

SWIFT$

ENOT$ Liveserver$

MB$

Tandem$Tandem$

Fail-over

z/OS z/OS

Fail-over

iSeries iSeries

Fail-over

Windows$$&$Linux$

Windows$$&$Linux$

Mirrored$Storage$

Storage$

Mirrored$Storage$

Storage$

Shared Cloud

Shared Cloud BACKUP!BACKUP!

Espoo Helsinki

Physical$Servers$ AD FSMO



Planning – Key to Success

Change batches Stream Criticality SLA Platform App/Web/DB Storage Migration Strategy 1 High Sunday night AS400 App + DB IBM DAS Tool – XYZ, Methodology – A 2 Medium Monday night Linux Web/App Internal Tool – XYZ, Methodology – B 3 Low Tuesday day Windows Email NAS – NetApp Tool – XYZ, Methodology – C

No planning – No control Application: §  Criticality – High,

Medium, Low §  Environment – Dev/

Test/Prod

Technology: §  Platform/OS/Storage

used §  App/Web/DB

Target architecture: §  Platform/OS/Storage

virtualized?

Risk profile: §  Definition of roll-

back scenarios

Business: §  Business impact §  Service Windows §  Business cycles



Risk handling – Managing the complexity

Identifying the risk profile for each system/server is necessary: §  Criticality of the application/system/server §  Impact on possible migration scenarios §  Test profile determines the extent of testing

necessary

…resulting in: §  detailed execution, test & verification plan §  required rollback scenarios and other counter

measures

Complexity

Met

hods

Low Medium High

L&S 1 2 3

V2V 1 2 3

P2V 1 2 3

P2P 1 2 3

New platforms 1 2 3

Technical Test

Bus

ines

s Te

st Low Medium High

Low 1 2 3

Medium 1 2 3

High 1 2 3

Technical risk

Bus

ines

s Im

pact

Low Medium High

Low 1 2 3

Medium 1 2 3

High 1 2 3

Infrastructure

Activity



Fit-for-purpose principles in terms of risks & costs

Old hardware

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

vSphere vSphere vSphere

Operating System

Physical to Virtual (P2V)

Physical to Physical (P2P)

Physical to Physical (Swing Kit)

Hardware

Application

Operating System

Hardware

Application

Operating System

Hardware

Application

Old hardware

Old hardware

Old hardware

Operating System

Hardware

Application Re-platforming

Old hardware

Operating System

Hardware

Application

Operating System

Hardware

Application

Operating System

Hardware

Application

New hardware

Identical hardware

New hardware

Lift & shift

Operating System

Application

Operating System

Application



Red Zone

Yellow Zone

Green Zone

Zone Concept

Introduce a Zone Concept, based on criteria for §  Infrastructure components §  Processes & documentation §  Security Red and yellow zones are only temporary… §  …move here first if necessary, then

transform to the Green Zone …Enables a quicker close down of old

DCs

The Zone Concept allows you to keep up the momentum in the project



Fit-for-purpose KPIs

KPIs to measure success §  KPIs & measurements are

important success factors… §  …but they need to be relevant! Examples: §  Unplanned service outages §  Lights out in relocated data centers §  Achieved virtualization ratios

Relevant KPIs allows for better stakeholder management and gives accurate view of progress

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Executing DC Transformations

Transform

DURING TRANSITION

Secure THE BUSINESS CASE

Team

COMPOSITION IS KEY

Planning

PREVENTS FAILURES

DCCO projects can offer savings up to 20%

of the IT Operations budget



QUESTIONS?

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