Private Cloud Analysis

PRIVATE CLOUD

PRIVATE VS PUBLIC CLOUD

Private Public

Single Tenant Multi Tenant

Virtualized Virtualized

Owned / Leased Rented

Highly Secure Debatable Security

STORAGE GROWTH WITH VIRTUALIZATION

EXISTING FULL BACKUP +

50GB PER VIRTUAL SERVER +

RESERVES

PROJECTED DATA STORAGE

TIERED SHARED STORAGE

TIERED STORAGE PRICING

STRATEGIC GROWTH

STORAGEWORKS P4000 VS EQUALLOGIC

LEFTHAND / P4000 BENEFITS

2 to 1

Network RAID

No Snapshot Reserves

EQUALLOGIC BENEFITS

Automatic Data Tiering

Ease of Management

Value

SIMILARITIES

iSCSI up to 10Gbps

Licenses Included

Thin Provisioning

Snapshots

Clustering

SERVER VIRTUALIZATIONReduce Hardware Costs

Enhance Availability

Improve Backup

Enable Disaster Recovery

REDUCE HARDWARE AND POWER COSTS

Virtualization Non-virtualized

2 Hosts @ $13k = $26,000

12 Servers @ $6000 = $72,000

HP StorageWorks P4000 SAS = $35,000

$61,000 $72,000

ENHANCE AVAILABILITY

IMPROVE BACKUPSnapshots

Virtual Machine Backups

Site to Site Replication

De-Dupe

ENABLE DISASTER RECOVERY

VMWARE VSPHERE 4

Fault Tolerance

Memory Overcommitment

Direct I/O

HYPER V R2

Necessary Features

Value

Integrated Advanced Backup

VMWARE VSPHERE 4 – 178 VMS WITH 20GB

VALUE OF OVERCOMMIT

8GB PC3-10600R-9 =

$1,050

vSphere 4 Hyper-V R2

VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus – 3 Hosts – 6 processors

$4493

System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise + Data Protection Manager Server - 3 Hosts – 6 Processors

$4175Memory Overcommit Integrated Agent Backup for

Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint

Ease of Management

ENTRY LEVEL PRICE COMPARISON

Vsphere 4 Hyper-V R2

VMWare Vsphere 4 Standard – 7 Hosts – 14 processors – Includes vCenter - 2 Years Support

$16,771

System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise + Data Protection Manager Server - 7 Hosts – 14 Processors – Software Assurance

$9,135Memory Overcommit Integrated Agent Backup for

Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint

Ease of Management

MID LEVEL PRICE COMPARISON

DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION

DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION

User Experience

Centralized Efficiency

Offline Access

Licensing

USER EXPERIENCE

CENTRALIZED EFFICIENCY

10 – 12 Desktops Per Core

1GB RAM Per User

Unique Operating Environments

Memory Overcommit

OFFLINE ACCESS

VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE CENTRALIZED DESKTOP

Per Device Licensing

$110 Per Year (OV)

VECD

VIEW VS XENDESKTOPPlatform Support

Session Virtualization

Architecture

Consistency of Management

CONCLUSION

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