Effective capacity management at the heart of green IT

Effective Capacity Management

At the Heart of Green IT

Why Green IT?

• IP traffic will grow to more than half a zettabyte in the next three years– > 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

• In excess of 1 billion transistors per human on the planet– 92 transistors in the first computer

• 4 billion Mobile phone users

• 30 billion RFID tags



‘But we’re doing it already...’

Are you keeping up?– Virtual server sprawl– Consolidation ratios– ‘Cloud bursts’

Network Firewall

Proxy

VirtualWeb

ServersDirectory

Server

Load Balancer

App Servers

Mainframe

DB

Partner App

ExternalCloud

Web Services

Msg. Broker

Firewall

VirtualWeb

Servers

App Servers

Partner App

Internal user

>$100K

Internet user


Will you continue to keep up?

Clients

IRSIRS


Be sure you keep ahead!

Requirement to :-•Monitor•Measure•Predict•Control

Challenge of Green IT

Data Center

Cluster

Power

Cooling

Printers

Management View/Scope

Server

Application

Network

Service

Infrastructure

Framework

GREEN IT OBJECTIVES

COSTCOSTSERVICESERVICE

Development

ApplicationBusin

ess

Demand

ServiceWorkloadDemand

ITResourcesSupplied

Capacity Management Balance

Capacity Management

Monitor

Alert

Analyze

Report

Trend

Model

PastPast PresentPresent FutureFuture

Value$$

Time

Trending and Modeling

Utilization

Time

MainframeMainframe

DistributedDistributed VirtualizationVirtualization

Service AssuranceService Assurance

Server proliferation

Server proliferation

SLA’sSLA’s Cost ReductionCost Reduction

Metron – Market Trends

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Forrester

Capacity management is the top operational concernForrester study commissioned on behalf of CA, 257 virtualization decision makers, December 2009

Virtual Server Sprawl

• Increased Infrastructure costs

• Increased management • Server software license

costs• Power costs

• Reducing the x86 consolidation ratio from 10:1 to 8.3:1 will cost $256k over 3 years for every 100 servers virtualized– VMware

Fundamentally, we believe virtualization sprawl can be a much bigger problem than physical sprawl

– Thomas Bittman, Gartner Analyst

Complexity

‘Use a single tool for managing performance and capacity planning for physical and virtual environments’

Gartner, ‘2009 Data Center Polling Shows Best Practices Need to Improve in Performance Management and Capacity Planning’

Network Firewall

Proxy

VirtualWeb

ServersDirectory

Server

Load Balancer

App Servers

Mainframe

DB

Partner App

ExternalCloud

Web Services

Msg. Broker

Firewall

VirtualWeb

Servers

App Servers

Partner App

Internal user

>$100K

Internet user

Where Metron helps

• Optimization Services• Audit

• Process Gap Analysis

• Capacity planning

• Virtualization Healthcheck

• Performance Tuning

• Software – Athene Capacity Management• Monitor

• Analyze

• Report

• Predict

Partners & Data Sources

http://www.facilita.co.uk/web2/index.php

http://welcome.hp.com/country/uk/en/welcome.html

http://h20229.www2.hp.com/

https://partner.microsoft.com/global/30000104

http://www.oracle.com/

http://www.redhat.com/

http://www.oracle.com/

http://www.tevron.com/

Physical, Virtual & Business

Control CenterControl Center

Capacity DatabaseCapacity Database

OS, Application , Business, Framework,

VirtualPhysical OpenView

Tivoli WMIUnicenter

Custom

Athene Integrator

Capacity

Database

Air ConPower Network Footprint

Athene Example Rack % Utilized

Analysis Period: 03/07/2010 – 04/07/2010

03/07/2010 04/07/2010

Athene Example Rack Free U count

Analysis Period: 03/07/2010 – 04/07/2010

03/07/2010 03/07/2010

Athene ExampleDashboard

Green IT

CapacityManagement

ServiceAssurance

Technology

Opt

imize

Monitoring

Planning

Repor

ting

Phy

sica

l

Virt

ual

Cloud

Metron – The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating

We are confident we will show you how you can enhance your capacity management activities to

optimize the savings from Green IT

