Transcript GTSI Cloud Computing Customer presentation brief

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Delivering on the Promise of a
Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
Hosted by GTSI and Cisco
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Jim Sweeney, Manager, Virtualization Consulting
Practice, GTSI
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Imagine a Better Virtualization Solution
Respond faster to changing business requirements
Reduce your overall data center costs by up to 50%
One virtualization platform
One consolidated server infrastructure
One converged data center fabric
One unified storage architecture
One data center infrastructure to manage
One common shared dynamic infrastructure
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Unleash Virtualization’s True Potential
Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
• Continue moving deployments out of early phases
• Increasingly more applications can be virtualized today
Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still
silos)
• Unlock the business and IT benefits constrained within each silo
• Gain a truly shared infrastructure
• Enable greater savings and agility
Explore the potential of cloud services
• Take agility to the extreme with self-service
• Virtualization enables the adoption and control of cloud computing
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Next-Gen Data Centers Are Service Oriented
Building Horizontal Infrastructure
Building Point Solutions
Business Need
Business Need
Applications
Applications
VirtualizationAware Network
Servers
Virtualization-Aware
Unified Fabric
Network
Servers
Ethernet,
FC, IB
Virtualized Dynamic Infrastructure
Storage
Silo
Virtualized
Storage
Silo
Silo
ProjectBased
Vertical
Decision
Service-Based Holistic Decision
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Data Center Evolution Toward IT as a Service
ApplicationBased Silos
Zones of
Virtualization
ITaaS
(aka Internal Cloud)
External
Cloud Services
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
From Silos…
…to Virtualized Dynamic Data Centers
Standardize
Centralize
Virtualize
Consolidate
Self-Service
Automate
Work with your partner to map out your path when you are ready!
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Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Technology
Virtualize everything
with VMware® vSphere® and View
Unified server infrastructure
with Cisco UCS
Unified fabric
with Cisco Nexus
Unified storage
with NetApp® FAS storage
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Challenge
Application-Based Silos
Apps
 Dedicated resources:
• Provide isolation and security
• Ensure quality of service
 Old silo-based decisions mean
Servers
• Slow response to business
needs
• Inefficient resource utilization
Network
• Inconsistent availability
Storage
• Result in higher cost
ERP
HR
CRM
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Infrastructure Virtualization
 One unified storage
• Natively supports all protocols
• Reduces storage capacity
Apps
• Eliminates multiple storage
devices for tiering
Servers
 One virtualization platform
Network
• Easy scalability for VMs or
VM clusters
Storage
• Apply cost savings across
your entire data center
ERP
HR
CRM
• Increase availability and agility for
all your applications
Cut Data Center Capex and Opex in Half
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Centralize and Simplify Management
UCS
Manager
VMware
vCenter
Apps
NetApp
Storage Plug-ins
 VMware® vCenter™
 Automate workflows
 Scalable, extensible platform
 Cisco UCS Manager
 Embedded unified management
 Integrated with vCenter
 NetApp® Storage Plug-Ins
 Manage storage from within
vCenter
 Empower server admins to
perform storage tasks
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Virtualization Journey
Application
Silos
Zones of Virtualization
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
Business
apps
ITaaS
(aka Internal Cloud)
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Performance for Business Critical Applications
% of Applications
95% of
applications
VMware
ESX 3.5
VMware
ESX 4.0
1 to 2 CPUs
4 VCPUs
8 VCPUs
< 4 GB at peak
64 GB per VM
255 GB per VM
< 2.4Mbits/s
9 Gb/s
20 Gb/s +
< 100 at peak
100,000
300,000+
Application Performance Requirements
Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments
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Transparent Failover Eliminates Downtime
 VMware:
• VMware® HA automatically detects
server failures, restarts ALL workloads
• VMware FT enables instant failover
between VM instances
VMware HA
and FT
 Cisco:
• UCS and Nexus deliver full fabric
redundancy
• Nexus 1000V transparently manages
path failover for network
Cisco UCS
and Nexus
NetApp:
MetroCluster
Building 1
Up to 100 km
Building 2
• Highly redundant array with no single
point of failure
• MetroCluster stretches storage HA
up to 100 KM
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Recovery from Site Outages in Minutes
 VMware:
• Site Recovery Manager automates and
simplifies DR and DR testing
• Coordinates failover of server, storage,
and network
Site Recovery Manager
Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
 Cisco:
• DCI provides simplified and robust
disaster recovery
Thin replication via SnapMIrror
Data Center 1
Thousands of kms
Data Center 2
 NetApp:
• SnapMirror provides bandwidthefficient replication
• SnapMirror integration with SRM
enables rapid VM recovery
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Virtualization Journey
Application
Silos
Zones of Virtualization
ITaaS
(aka Internal Cloud)
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
Virtualize All Applications
(infrastructure, bus. applications, dev/test, desktops, etc.)
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Challenges/Requirements
• Scale environments up and down at a
moment’s notice
• Nondisruptively move applications to
maintain service levels
• Maintain policies, controls, security, and
isolation as applications move across
resources
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Rapidly Scale Infrastructure
 Rapidly provision servers and storage
together
 Clone virtual servers in seconds
– Thousands of desktops in minutes
 Dynamically scale infrastructure
– Quickly create entire application or
development environments
– Repurpose or reallocate capacity as
business needs change
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Virtualization Journey
Application
Silos
Zones of Virtualization
ITaaS
(aka Internal Cloud)
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
Internal Cloud
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ITaaS Challenges/Requirements
• Infrastructure metering/chargeback
• Service automation and management
• Self-service
• Instant delivery and capacity elasticity
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Results you Can Measure:
Typical Gains from a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
Area
Dynamic Data Center
Infrastructure Efficiency
Power and cooling
Management
Compute: Consolidate servers 10:1
Storage: Use 50% less storage
Network: 90% fewer cables and ports
25%-50% less
Manage 10x-20x more per FTE
Provisioning new
infrastructure
Minutes
Backup and Recovery,
Disaster Recovery
Minutes
TCO
25% to 50% savings
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