Infrastructure Optimization

The Infrastructure Optimization Problem

Key IT Objectives Key IT Challenges/ Constraints

Server Hardware ~$5,500/
1 Server / year
Costs
1 Reduce Capital and Operational
Costs Operating ~ $4,000/
2 Expenses Server/year

3 Time to provision / Weeks/ months

Move / Change
2 Simplify Management
4 % Spend ( Maintain 72% / 28%
vs. innovate)

5 Hi-Availability / DR < 10% Coverage

Plan Coverage
3 Meet Service Levels Efficiently
6 Resource Utilization < 20%
by workloads
 Unmet Needs

“I want to keep my fixed capacity as low as possible

and maintain it, yet shrink and grow my flexible
capacity as the business requires…”
VP & GM Infrastructure & Operations
A Global 20 Company Semiconductor Division

“Why can’t my Data Center be as easy to use as the USB

port on my Macintosh? It’s plug and play, mix and match,
multi-function, and it just works—every time, and on the fly.
That’s what I want, I want a USB Data Center! Whoever
figures that out, will really be on to something big…”
- Chief Information Officer, Fortune 200 Mfr and Fashion Retailer
Piecing together the Optimization Puzzle

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Automate key processes
Meet to deliver higher levels
Service Levels of service at lower costs
Efficiently

2 Manage infrastructure
efficiently and spend more
Simplify Management time on strategic initiatives

1 Consolidate and simplify

infrastructure while reducing
Reduce Costs operating costs
 Virtualization can help..

Virtualization will be the most The primary reasons for using

impactful trend in infrastructure virtualization technology as a
and operations through 2010, core underpinning in server
changing: consolidation projects are
based on three drivers:
§
§How you plan §greater flexibility in use of
§How, what and when you buy systems architecture resources;
§How and how quickly you deploy §improved application isolation
§How you manage and availability; and
§How you charge §The ability to meet the changing
requirements for systems
§Technology, process, culture
resources and capacities

Additional quote by Gartner to consider – “IT Execs must consider virtualization as

part of strategy, Foundation for automation and Change in the relationship with
customers”
..As proven for these Customers..
Reduce Costs
“Using VMware software has brought a huge cost benefit to IT - avoiding costs by $1.1
million is fantastic. For every production virtual machine, we estimate a $7,500 cost
avoidance per server. We multiply 150 applications by $7,500 and estimate a $1.1 million cost
avoidance.
Barry Naber, Technology Manager at International Truck and Engine Corporation

Simplify Management
The net impact of utility computing with VMware Infrastructure 3 for the business is higher
service levels, for IT - it is simplified and easier to manage infrastructure.

Mornay Van Der Walt, Vice President and System Architect, IXIS Capital Markets

Meet Service Levels Efficiently

Using VMware virtual infrastructure, we can offer the same levels of service and
more flexibility for up to 40 percent lower server and operating costs.”

Rob Jones, Director of Technology, ALSTOM

.. And others across Industries
Automotive / Insurance Financial Services Technology Government/
Aviation Public Sector

Engineering/ Retail Services Telecom

Healthcare Heavy Industry
Virtualization Technology Overview

Virtualization Properties
•Separation of OS and
hardware
•Encapsulation of OS and
Virtualization Layer application into VMs
•Isolation
•Hardware independence
•Flexibility
 Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual
Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory Pool

Storage Pool

Network Pool
A Complete Solution for Infrastructure Optimization
Service Level Assurance (Automate)
High Availability
Dynamic
Resource On Demand Automate
Scheduling Capacity
•High Availability
Virtual Center (Manage)
•Dynamic Resource Balancing
•On Demand Capacity
Virtual Machines

(Consolidate & Simplify)

Manage
•Resource pooling & allocation
Aggregated Virtualization
•Instant Provisioning
Server Farm
•Easy, Non-disruptive Scaling

Network Consolidate
•Multiple Workloads / Server
Storage
•Simplified Management
•Opex and Capex Savings
 Consolidate and Simplify Infrastructure

•Consolidate any workload on any h/w

•Consolidate heterogeneous workloads
(including legacy applications) on the
same server
•Migrate workloads from physical to virtual
environments easily
•Consolidate multiple environments
(Production, Disaster recovery, Development
or Branch office)

•Achieve Consolidation ratios of up to

20:1!
Reduce Excess Server Capacity

BEFORE VMware AFTER VMware

Servers 1,000 80
Storage Tiered SAN and NAS
Direct attach
Network 400 cables/ports
Facilities 3000 cables/ports 10 racks
200 racks 20 power whips
400 power whips

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 Decrease Capital Investment

BEFORE AFTER

Before After
Type Quantity Price Type Quantity Price
1 CPU 300 $4,000 1 CPU 0 $4,000
2 CPU 500 $6,500 2 CPU 38 $10,000
4 CPU 200 $14,000 4 CPU 38 $23,000
8 CPU 0 $30,000 8 CPU 4 $45,000

$5,816 saved per

workload over 3 years
($5.3M total)

Server Hardware Savings

Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
$ (1,434,000) $ 2,416,667 $ 2,416,667 $ 2,416,667 $ 5,816,000

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Cut Related Data Center Requirements

BEFORE AFTER

3 network ports per server 5 network ports per ESX host

3000 network ports / cables 400 network ports / cables
200 racks and 2,000 sq ft. 10 racks and 250 sq ft.

$296 network savings per

workload over 3 years
$430 space savings per workload
over 3 years

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 Ease Data Center Power Needs
•Server power
requirements and costs
are growing
$759 and 355W saved
per workload over 3
years
•Heat dissipation costs
more than power
consumption
$949 and 444W saved
per workload over 3
years

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 Benefits of Consolidation
3-Year Cost Savings / Workload

•Fewer Servers to Manage Server Hardware $5,816

•Less Power required

Power Costs $759
Cooling Costs $949
+
•Less Space needed
Data Center Real $431
Estate
•Less Cabling required + Network Infrastructure $296

+ TOTAL $8,251

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Manage Infrastructure like a Power Plant
Power Plant

Resource Pooling + Instant Provisioning + Easy Scaling

Compute Plant CRM Exchange File / Print App A

Common Resource Pool

Web Apps App B

Bus Apps BI Apps
 Efficient Resource Pooling on a Shared Infrastructure

Development Production BI CRM Virtual Desktops

Applications Marketing

SHARED HARDWARE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Aggregate capacity:
30 x (3GHz, 16GB) = 90GHz, 480GB

VI provides a Shared Infrastructure foundation for deploying SOA and SaaS Architectures
 Flexible Approach to Capacity Management
Global Energy Customer Large Online Retail Customer

• •
•Free-up and leverage unutilized capacity •Fewer servers req’d to meet more needs
•Create “common pool of “Flexible” capacity that •Respond faster to changing needs
can shrink or grow easily
Instant Resource Provisioning

§Provision resources to meet new

application needs in just
minutes!
§Fast and easy creation of new
virtual machines
§Respond quickly to changes by
migrating virtual machines
üTakes less than 10 minutes
> 60% time Savings
üSpeed of a file copy
üHardware-independent
üTemplate based
üFully leverages the SAN
Improve service responsiveness while
üAutomatic and Standardized freeing up time for more strategic activities !
 Datacenter Scaling : Multiple Bottlenecks

OS and app coupled to physical network, storage, D/C layout

1 1

2 2

3 3

4 4

5 5

6 6

7 7

8 8

9 9

FAN FAN
STATUS STATUS
 New Approach To Datacenter Scalability

•Simplify the containers

•Scale with regular interfaces
•Automate service provisioning
•Standardize for all Apps and OSs
Centralized Management
Centrally manage your infrastructure from a single console

2
Server
Provisioning
1 3

Virtual Machine Workload

Management Migration

7 4
Resource
Programmatic Management
Interfaces

6 5
Rich Security System
and Access Monitoring
Controls
 Free Up $$$ from Maintenance to Innovation

Pre-Virtualization Post-Virtualization

Application
maintenance
Application 15%
maintenance
30%
Application
Infrastructure innovation
maintenance Infrastructure 45 %
42% maintenance
Application 30%
innovation
23%
10%
Infrastructure
Infrastructure innovation
innovation Source: Fortune 100
5% Customer’s IT department
 Automate Resource Assurance

•Dynamicallybalance resources
across apps from resource pools
•Continuously Monitor resource Exchange Citrix
utilization across resource pools !
•Set rules, policies and priorities as
for resources sharing (incl. SQL SAP DNS/DHCP
Server
dedicated resources)
•AutomaticMigration of workloads to
meet changing resource needs Oracle Apache

•No downtime during workload

migration or server maintenance Resource Pools
 Increase Availability across Applications
CONTINUOUS
Without Virtual Infrastructure
CLUSTERED

AUTOMATED
RESTART
With Virtual Infrastructure
UNPROTECTED
Application coverage
noi t acil pp A

Virtual Infrastructure at a Major Pharma Co.

200 200
ytili bali av A

5 7

>1000 Days Non-Stop Operation……

 Always On, On Demand Data Center
As virtualization matures and becomes default, the "next big thing" will be automation.

+
Automated Resource Increased Availability On Demand Capacity

+
Assurance
• • •
Dynamic Balancing Automated Non-disruptive Scaling
Continuous Optimization Across Applications Flexible, Reconfigurable

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Meet Optimization Objectives & Transform key metrics

Key IT Objectives Key IT Metrics

>90% apps assured of
Automate 6 >99.9% availability
3 Meet Service levels Service Level
efficiently Improve resource utilization
Assurance
5 across all apps by 3-4X

Time to provision, move,

Manage 4
change - down to minutes!
2 Simplify Management Infrastructure
Efficiently & Increase time spent on
3
Effectively strategic projects by 2X

2 Defer Data Center

Expansion by years
1 Reduce Capital and
Consolidate
Operational Costs and Simplify Reduce Capex by >70%
1
Infrastructure and Opex by > 80%
Questions?