Razor Technology Holistic Virtualization

Holistic VirtualizationPresented By: Jay GagneCTO, Razor Technology

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3 offices in the United States

Philadelphia (Headquarters) New York City New Jersey

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Specialized Infrastructure Solutions Partner serving the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast & Central United States

Core competencies in Storage, Servers, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Back-up, Recovery, Data Protection, Network, Security, Professional Services & Cloud/Managed Services

Solutions encompass 20 of the top 20 infrastructure vendors.

Over 8 years serving clients

200+ clients served since 2004

Certified technical engineers are former end users

Design, Deploy, Service and Support Infrastructure Solutions.

Company Overview

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Server + StorageSolutions

Virtualization Solutions

Backup + Recovery Solutions

Data Protection + Security Solutions

ProfessionalServices

Cloud Services

Unified Storage - SAN / NASData Classification / Tiered StorageApplication + WAN OptimizationEnterprise Class Servers + Blades

Two Factor AuthenticationContinuous Data ProtectionEmail ArchivingCompliance + Governance

Site ConsolidationStorage ManagementVirtual DesktopInfrastructure Optimization

Strategy, Design, IntegrationHealth ChecksInfrastructure AssessmentsData MigrationStaff Augmentation

Tape + Virtual TapeDisk-to-DiskDisaster Recovery SolutionsData Deduplication

Data VaultingManaged Services

Storage + ServerOS + Network

Storage Resource MgtC

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Razor Technology Solutions

Project Management + Support + Education + Training

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Cloud Services

Unified Storage - SAN / NASData Classification / Tiered StorageApplication + WAN OptimizationEnterprise Class Servers + Blades

Two Factor AuthenticationContinuous Data ProtectionEmail ArchivingCompliance + Governance

Site ConsolidationStorage ManagementVirtual DesktopInfrastructure Optimization

Strategy, Design, IntegrationHealth ChecksInfrastructure AssessmentsData MigrationStaff Augmentation

Tape + Virtual TapeDisk-to-DiskDisaster Recovery SolutionsData Deduplication

Data VaultingManaged Services

Storage + ServerOS + Network

Storage Resource MgtC

ust

om

ers

Project Management + Support + Education + Training

Razor Technology Solutions

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Cloud Services

The Virtual Ecosystem

Tools and Management

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Cloud Services



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Server + Storage

Solutions

Virtualization

SolutionsBackup + Recovery Solutions


Professional

Services

CloudServices



Top Challenges we are seeing in the Virtual Ecosystem

• Management Tools • Server vs. Desktop vs. Application Virtualization • Persistent vs. Non-Persistent Desktops • VDI Scaling from Hundreds to Thousands of Desktops• Backup and Recovery, Recovery, Recovery • Security • Cloud Integration • Proprietary vs. Heterogeneous Solutions • Disaster Recovery• One size doesn’t fit all • Server Sprawl • Storage Sprawl

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Server + Storage

Solutions

Virtualization



Professional

Services

CloudServices



Server vs. Desktop vs. Application Virtualization

• VD-why, what do I want to achieve?, lowering TCO?, business enabler, overall cost of ownership and cost reducer?

• What is the Business-case? • What is the user experience using

Multimedia, NextGen, Development, Video/Voice, 2D/3D applications? • Do you need local or centralized storage? • What is the impact on storage and how does it effect the business-case? • Do we focus on stateless/non-persistent (pooled, shared) and/or stateful/persistent

(assigned, private) images? • What is the performance and bandwidth impact on the network infrastructure?

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Server + Storage

Solutions

Virtualization



Professional

Services

CloudServices


Tools and Management Virtual Desktop Journey in your Virtual

Ecosystem

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Yesterday and Today Today & Short Term

Long Term

Virtualization Maturity

Workgroups Virtualization

Complete VDIFull Device and LocationIndependence

Centralized• Mgmt• Security• Backup

1st Generation MobileWorkforce

Complete Mobility Anywhere Anytime


VDI Planning

Low End Users Power Users

10-15 iops Average 40-45 iops

+/- 5 iops Average +/- 5 iops

15-20 iops Average 45-50 iops

30-35 iops

Server + Storage

Solutions

Virtualization



Professional

Services

CloudServices




VDI Planning – The Desktop Lifecycle

Addressed with Caching


VDI - Persistent vs. Non-Persistent


VDI - Persistent vs. Non-Persistent


VDI – Think Non-Persistent

Think like we did with Server Virtualization – Think Candidates.

Find similar groups of users and make as few images as possible

Non-Persistent Images will:

Cut down management time with templates and linked images

Remove the need for virus scanning the VM’s

Reduce the effort of software updates and patches

Reduce the read/write intensity on the VM storage through the use of private disk

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Server + Storage

Solutions

Virtualization



Professional

Services

CloudServices



Razor Approach to dealing with the Virtual Ecosystem

Customer Challenge – Need to find a better way to scale and support virtualized infrastructure while containing server/storage sprawl. Need to be able to rapidly deploy cookie cutter easy to support virtual environments.

Solution – Planned Virtual Communities, built on technical boundaries and sized for specific consumption rates.

Tight collaborationContainedRight SizedPlug and PlaySingle RackDeployment toolsApplication stacksPreplanned

Solution Design/Deployment Plan

Storage ServerNetworkingFabric Virtualization

Virtualization

Unix

Linux

Windows

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Virtualization

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Virtualization

Unix

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Virtualization

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VDI – Summary

Think about candidacy – Find the right users and remaining servers/applications

Think about the desktop lifecycle

Plan to use caching and/or Solid State Technology

Think candidacy for VDI too, go non-persistent whenever possible

What’s next for Virtualization?

Self Serving Portals – Click and Go

More orchestration

More Density

More Scale

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Questions?