NTT : BUILDING VIRTUALIZATION

INFRASTRUCTURE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS

KARTHIC C M
IMG SECTION E
ROLL NO 133078
 VIRTUALIZATION
Virtualization is the process of presenting a set of computing resources so that they
can all be accessed in ways that are not restricted by physical configuration or
geographic location

• Most commonly, it refers to running multiple operating systems on a computer

system simultaneously

• Server Virtualization is a common method of reducing technology costs by

providing the ability to host multiple systems on a single machine

• Most servers run at 15 to 20 percent of the capacity and virtualization can boost
sever utilization rates to 70 percent or higher

• Virtualization also enables multiple physical resources to appear as a single

logical resource as in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

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 NTT DATA INDIA
• NTT Data was established in 1967, headquartered in Tokyo and runs business operations in 42 countries

• Encompasses NTT Communications Corporation, NTT East, NTT West, Dimension Data Plc. and NTT
DOCOMO

• NTT Data India started the operations in 1990s and caters to over 1000 enterprise clients, generating over
300 million USD per annum

• It has seven data centers spread over 5 million square feet area and over four cities in India

• NTT DATA India offers a diverse portfolio of services in consulting, staffing, outsourcing, cloud services,
infrastructure, testing, business intelligence etc

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 INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES
• NTT DATA India center was developing software on a heterogeneous server fleet including
servers from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and other leading vendors
• Distributed across a primary datacenter in Bangalore, India, and server rooms in three or four
other locations, this server fleet ran development environment for offshore business, systems
used for demonstrations to customers, critical Enterprise applications, and home-grown tools, like
a ticketing system
• However, this physical infrastructure was struggling to support NTT Data North America’s offshore
development demands, and the business needed to make a change
• There was power issues, struggles with cooling and real-estate costs
• The process of procurement was tedious and expensive. At a particular time, the procurement
requests were too high that it lead to a procurement gap and hence purchase of high-end
desktops
• Added problem with the high-end desktops was that only a limited capacity i.e. a fraction of the
CPU resources of each desktop could be utilised, as each desktop was dedicated to a single
project
• Overcrowded rack of servers consuming huge power and generating tremendous heat added to
environment footprint
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IMPACT OF VIRTUALIZATION : OVERCOMING
CHALLENGES
• By 2008, NTT Data North America wanted to stop the proliferation of servers and high-end
desktops. Doing so would enable the business to reduce its costs and environmental footprint
by recovering real estate in its datacenters and server rooms

• In the same year, Dell introduced NTT Data North America to server virtualization through
VMware vSphere 3.5. NTT Data North America conducted a detailed evaluation that made
clear the benefits of virtualization, and seized the opportunity to virtualize the servers used for
the non-critical activities

• NTT virtualized two of the three Dell blade servers they were using to run the demo systems,
and deployed an entry-level EMC storage area network to provide the required capacity

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IMPACT OF VIRTUALIZATION : OVERCOMING
CHALLENGES
• The success of this first phase in virtualization paved the way for NTT Data North America’s
India development infrastructure team to secure trust and buy-in from other teams in the
business. The business was able to meet its objective of considerably reducing its datacenter
real estate, including from three or four server rooms each in Chennai and Bangalore to one
rack for blade servers and one for storage equipment at each location

• Reduced real-estate investment for data center maintenance

• The seven data centers spread across four cities were reduced to just one rack, which
accommodated blade servers and one rack which had storage equipment at each location

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 CLOUD VIRTUALIZATION AT NTT
• As cloud-based infrastructure as a service models matured, the operation decided to transform the
way it provided technology resources to its development team

• NTT wanted to fully automate the provisioning of virtualized resources to users

• NTT Data North America’s India development operation expanded its use of VMware products to
include the entire VMware vCloud Suite. By late 2015, the operation had completed pilots and
proofs of concept, including running a couple of workloads in VMware vCloud Suite, and was
preparing to roll a private cloud out into production

• VMware’s sales team and Professional Services Organization performed critical roles in helping
NTT Data North America’s India development operation develop the private cloud and optimize its
virtual infrastructure

• VMware IT Business Management has played a critical role in enabling NTT Data North America’s
India development operation to optimize its VMware infrastructure and develop a private cloud.
NTT invested considerable financial resources in the blade servers and storage required to
support their fast-growing virtualized infrastructure
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 CLOUD VIRTUALIZATION AT NTT
• To calculate the benefits of further investments in virtualization, NTT Data North America’s India
development infrastructure team wanted to obtain metrics around the savings derived from using
virtualization to provision virtual machines to users as a service

• This enabled NTT to calculate the per-unit cost of infrastructure resources such as memory,
processing and storage, enabling it to calculate the cost of virtual machines

• This further enabled the team to generate reports and invoice project teams and the broader
business for their use of infrastructure resources

• Moreover, the release of VMware IT Business Management gave the infrastructure team an
opportunity to obtain even deeper insights into the use of virtualized infrastructure by the business.
The team undertook a comprehensive, four-month assessment of the value VMware IT Business
Management could deliver to the business

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 CLOUD VIRTUALIZATION AT NTT
• NTT found that they could undertake trend analysis to support budgeting and forecasting,
including utilization over the previous few months and likely utilization for the following few months

• NTT could calculate whether their existing capacity is likely to meet their requirements or how
much additional capacity they are likely to require and the investment needed

• VMware IT Business Management also enabled NTT to customize values to more accurately
reflect the returns that they were achieving on the investments

• NTT look forward to build on the value delivered by VMware IT Business Management and other
VMware tools with the launch of the new private cloud

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THANK YOU!
133078@fsm.ac.in

KARTHIC C M