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STATE OF SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
Paul SchaapmanSolutions Architect
Servers, Storage & Virtualization Solutions Practice
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Agenda
Introduction
What is available today
What works
Show me the money
How do I get started
How can CDW help
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State of Virtualization
What is available today
• VMware’s vSphere– Key Features
• Market Leader
• Virtualizes 54 Guest OSs
• Server virtualization solution with HA and load balancing
• Enhanced vMotion
• Memory Over commit
• Transparent Page Sharing
• Patch Management
• Fault Tolerance built in
• Certified on over 450 servers
• FC, iSCSI, NFS Supported
• Power Management
• Distributed switch
• Supports storage management
• Storage vmotion
What is Available today
• VMware’s vSphere….cont.– IT functions supported with vSphere
• Disaster Recovery (SRM)
• Client Virtualization (View)
• Application Virtualization (presentation) (ThinApp)
• Client side VMs for PC and MAC (Workstation, Fusion)
• SDLC cost reduction (Lifecycle manager, LabManager)
• Capacity Planning (CapacityIQ)
• Application SLM (AppSpeed)
• Data Protection (Data Recovery)
• Availability Management (vCenter Server Heartbeat)
• Cost Control (Chargeback)
What is Available today
• Citrix XenServer– Key Features
• Server virtualization solution with HA (requires Citrix Esentials)
• XenMotion
• No memory overcommit
• Certified on over 200 servers
• FC, iSCSI, and NFS supported
• Virtualizes 21 guest OSs
• No Power Management equivalent
• No Fault Tolerance
• No distributed switch YET?
• No storage vmotion (StorageLink has potential but not widely adopted)
What is Available today
• Citrix XenServer– IT Functions Supported
• Server virtualization
• Comprehensive Client Virtualization
• Comprehensive Application Virtualization
What is Available today
• Microsoft Hyper-V– Key Features
• Server virtualization solution with HA (MS uses MSCS for HA)
• Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), which is critical to HA, should be released in 2 weeks – this technology is not mature
• Live Migration – also brand-new functionality
• HA with System Center VM Manager (SCVMM)
• No memory over commit
• Support for servers certified for Server 2008
• No Fault Tolerance
• Virtualizes 11 Guest OSs
• FC, iSCSI supported
• No true power management
• No distributed switch
• Limited storage management
• No storage vmotion
What works
VMware• VMware has been in the released ESX and GSX 1.0 in 2001. Virtual Center
released in 2003.– Has the most experience– Is the farthest along– Very mature product suite– Focus is on integrating IT process automation around virtualization
Citrix• Citrix XenServer acquired XenSource on August 15th, 2007
– Has working low cost server virtualization solution– Focus is on client virtualization
Microsoft• Microsoft Hyper-V (formerly ‘Windows Server Virtualization’)
– Standalone version released in October 2008– Real solution (one with HA) has been out since August 2008.
What's in it for me?
• Higher availability
• Faster provisioning
• Higher resource utilization
• Adaptive and scalable infrastructure
• Reduced hard and soft cost
• Staff more perfective/strategicly focused
• Ability to consistently recover the business
$how me the money
• Physical server costs 1K/year power and cooling– 100 servers cost 100,000.00/year in power– Same servers virtualized cost 3,000.00 in power
• Server provisioning time (weeks to minutes)• Increased availability • Reduced TCO• Increased business agility• Must go ‘All In’ to realize full benefits• Backups no longer constrained to backup window• Simplified and real DR solution• Increased server utilization
How do I get started?
• Bring in a CDW Solutions architect (Server, Storage, Virtualization (Server/Client), UC, Network)
• Tell us about your environment• What are your goals?• What standards do you have in place?• Is DR part of your strategy?• We will work with you to define the requirements and a
build a solution.
How can CDW help?
• Solutions Architect • Assessment• Detailed design• Jumpstarts including P2V• Health check
Solution Specialists & Architects
• Custom solutions for every need– Discovery, planning, design, product
overviews
– Vendor evaluations & recommendations
– Product demonstrations
– Detailed configurations & proposals
• Outstanding Virtualization Expertise– Server, Storage, Desktop, Application,
Presentation, Profile and Network Virtualization knowledge and certifications
– Virtualization brands include Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Vizioncore etc.
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Virtualization Assessment Team (vAT)
• Dedicated Team– Focused, VMware Capacity Planner-certified
– Gather & analyze systems metrics; translate into detailed report
– Over 300 Assessments completed 1H09
• Detailed Assessment Report– Provides justification for virtualization, a fully
certified HW/SW solution and implementation guidance
– No-cost for qualified customers
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The assessment didn’t just get our foot in the door with virtualization, it allowed us to walk right through it,” Bryan Langer, Mercy Health System
