Virtualisation of IT

Resources for
Cloud Infrastructure

Virtualisation Technology Overview

Virtualisation Properties
Separation of OS and
hardware
Encapsulation of OS and
application into VMs
Isolation
Hardware independence
Flexibility

Virtualization Layer

Virtual Machine Hardware

Up to 3 ports Up to 4 ports
1 IDE
controller
Up to 4
CD-ROMs

1 floppy controller
Up to 2 floppy
drives

Up to
255GB
RAM
VM chipset
1 CPU (up to 8
CPUs
with VMware
Virtual SMP)

110 NICs
14 SCSI adapters;
115 devices per adapter

Virtual
machine
hardware
is scalable
enough to
meet most
business
and
application
needs.

Virtual Infrastructure

A Complete Solution for Infrastructure Optimisation

Service Level Assurance (Automate)
High Availability

Dynamic Resource
Scheduling

On Demand
Capacity

Virtual Infrastructure Manager

Automate
High Availability
Dynamic Resource Balancing

Virtual Machines

On Demand Capacity

Manage
Aggregated Virtualization
(Consolidate & Simplify)

Resource pooling & allocation

Instant Provisioning

Server Farm

Easy, Non-disruptive Scaling

Consolidate

Network

Multiple Workloads / Server

Storage

Simplified Management

Opex and Capex Savings

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Virtual Infrastructure

Online VM
Deploy
Migration to
according
needs

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 virtualised
Servers
Storage
Network
Facilities

AFTER virtualised

1,000
Direct attach
3000 cables/ports
200 racks
400 power whips

80
Tiered SAN and NAS
400 cables/ports
10 racks
20 power whips

Benefits of Consolidation
3-Year Cost Savings / Workload

Server Hardware

Fewer Servers to Manage

Less Power required

Less Space needed

Less Cabling required

$5,816

Power Costs

$759

Cooling Costs

$949

Data Center Real

Estate

$431

Network
Infrastructure

$296

TOTAL

$8,251

Data Centre Virtual Infrastructure Topology

VI
Client

Virtual Infra Mgr

Cluster 2

VM

VM

VM

VM

Graphical Terminal

Web

Browser

Cluster 2

Cluster 3

VM

Fabric IP

FC Sw

Hypervisor

FC SAN

iSCSI SAN

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NAS

Virtual Infrastructure Management

Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure Manager
Virtual Machines

VC Agent

VC Agent

VC Agent

VC Agent

VC Agent

VC Agent

VC Agent

ESXi Server ESXi Server ESXi Server ESXi Server ESXi Server ESXi Server ESXi Server

Server Farm

Network
Storage

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Anatomy of Virtual
Networking

Service Console
(management port)

ESX Host
VM0

VM1

VM2

VM3

Virtual
Machine (VM)

Service
Console

vmkernel

Virtual NIC
(vnic)
Port Group

Mac addresses (L2)

assigned to vnics

Virtual Switch
(vSwitch)

vSwitch

Physical NIC
(vmnic or pnic)

NIC Teams

Uplinks
Physical switch

Vmkernel
(port for IP Storage
and VMotion)

Production
Network

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VLAN Trunk
(overlaid on uplinks in
VST mode)

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Virtualised Hosts, Clusters and Resource Pools

Host
12
GHz
Cluster
48 GB RAM

Other VMs
VM

4 GHz
16 GB RAM

4 x 2 Financial
x 4GHz =Division
32 GHzRP
32 GB
Payroll
VM RAM

Accounting Dept RP

VM

VM
4 GHz
8 GHz
16 GB RAM

VM

VM

4 GHz
Cluster
16 GB RAM

32 GB RAM

Virtual
Physical
8 x 4 x 2 x 4GHz
=
256 GHz
8 x 32 = 256 GB RAM
x86 Server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM

x86 Server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM

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x86 Server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM

High Availability (HA) can be easily adopted to improve the

high availability of any application
What is HA?
HA is when a server failure
occurs the VMs on it will be
automatically restarted in
other physical servers.

Customer Benefits
High availability for all
applications and low cost
Hardware configuration need
not be exactly the same for all
servers.
Better cost advantages than
the traditional cluster, easy to
use and operate.

Resource Pool

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HA illustration

Virtualised Server
failed

Virtualised Servers
ensure High Availability
Virtual Infra Manager

SAN / NAS / iSCSI

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A V-Motion migration moves a powered-on virtual machine

from one host to another.
The demo below shows how V-Motion can reduce downtime
due to system maintenance.

V-motion migrates VMs

Virtualised Server

Virtualised Server

x86 Architecture

x86 Architecture

SANiSCSI or NAS

Uses of V-Motion:
To improve overall hardware utilisation

To allow continuous virtual machine operation while

accommodating scheduled hardware downtime
To allow Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to
distribute the virtual machine workload across hosts

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How V-Motion
Works

Memory
bitmap
V-Motion
network
Production
network

Memory
bitmap

Memory
Memory
Bitmap
bitmap
Copy pages

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Storage V-Motion Migration

Use Storage V-Motion for:

App

Performing storage maintenance

and reconfiguration

App
App

OS

Redistributing storage load

Evacuating physical storage about

to be retired
Storage tiering
Upgrading hosts without virtual
machine downtime

Storage V-Motion is storage

typeindependent.
Source and destination can be
different storage types.

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V-Motion Requirements
A virtual machine must meet certain requirements. For
example:
A virtual machine must not have a connection to a virtual device (such
as CD-ROM or floppy drive) with a local image mounted.
A virtual machine must not have CPU affinity configured.

The source and destination hosts must meet certain

requirements. For example:
Visibility to all storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or NAS) used by the
virtual machine
A Gigabit Ethernet backplane and access to the same physical
networks
Compatible CPUs:
CPU feature sets of both the source and destination host must be
compatible.
Some features can be hidden using Enhanced VMotion Compatibility or
compatibility masks.

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Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)/

Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Description
DRS continuously monitors virtual machines and physical servers to
optimally align compute capacity to application requirements based on
business priorities
DPM optimizes DRS clusters for the lowest possible power consumption

Business requirements & priorities

Benefits
Automated matching of application
demand to computing resources
Simplified operational management
and higher levels of utilization in virtual
environments
Up to an additional 20% reduction in
power
costs with DPM

Resource Pool

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Automate Resource Assurance

Dynamically balance resources

across apps from resource pools

Continuously Monitor resource

utilization across resource pools

Set rules, policies and priorities as

for resources sharing (incl.
dedicated resources)

Automatic Migration of workloads

to meet changing resource needs

No downtime during workload

Exchange

Citrix

!
SQL
Server

Oracle

SAP

Apache

Resource Pools

migration or server maintenance

22

DNS/DHCP

DRS for Load Balancing

Virt Server 1

Exch
Server

Citrix

SQL
Server

SAP

DNS/DHCP

Oracle

Apache

Virt Server 2

SAN Storage
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Virt Server 3

Always On, On Demand Data Center

As virtualization matures and becomes default, the "next big thing" will be automation.

Automated Resource
Assurance

Dynamic Balancing
Continuous Optimization

Increased Availability
Automated
Across Applications

X
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On Demand Capacity

Non-disruptive Scaling
Flexible, Reconfigurable

The Infrastructure Optimization Problem

Key IT Objectives

Key IT Challenges/ Constraints

Hardware Costs

~$5,500/ Server
year

Operating
Expenses

~ $4,000/
Server/year

1 Server

1 Reduce Capital and Operational

Costs

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

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Meet Optimization Objectives & Transform key metrics

Key IT Objectives
3 Meet Service levels efficiently

2 Simplify Management

Reduce Capital and Operational

1 Costs

Key IT Metrics
Automate

Service Level Assurance

Manage Infrastructure
Efficiently & Effectively

Improve resource
5 utilization across all apps
by 3-4X
Time to provision, move,
4
change - down to minutes!
3

Increase time spent on

strategic projects by 2X

Defer Data Center

Expansion by years

Reduce Capex by >70%

and Opex by > 80%

Consolidate

and
Simplify Infrastructure

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>90% apps assured of

>99.9% availability

Q&A
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