Physical And Virtual Server Management

Physical and Virtual Server Management Amit Gatenyo Infrastructure & Security Manager Dario IT Solutions ltd [email_address] 054-2492499

Background Check

IDC - “Nearly 50% of all new physical servers shipped will be virtualized by 2011”

Garner - “Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place.”

Albert Einstein - “I never think of the future - it comes soon enough”

Agenda

Turning IT into a service

Data Center Management

Virtual Management

Operations Management

Configuration Management

Data Protection

Summary

Main objective - Turning IT into a service Solution: Dynamic provisioning of servers are based on real-time needs using a single management platform Challenge: Inability to respond quickly to changing needs at the datacenter

Data Center Management

A Centralized, Heterogeneous Management Solution For The Virtual Datacenter

VMM 2008 Architecture VMware VI3 Windows ® PowerShell VM VMM Library Server VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

Managing Virtual Machines

" באמצעות Operation Manager 2007 אנחנו מסוגלים לנטר מקצה לקצה את מערכות הזמנת הרכב של אלדן , לדמות את חווית המשתמש ולקבל התרעה במידה ויש תקלה או בעיית ביצועים " כוכב ששון , מנהל אבטחת מידע וטכנולוגיות , אלדן

IT services, applications and servers must run smoothly

Increasing pressure for service levels that ensure optimal uptime and responsiveness

Proactively monitor availability, performance and configuration across heterogeneous platforms

Perform deep application and service-level monitoring

ERP Application Databases Order Tracker DB Servers Web Servers DN-App1 OTW-IIS-01 OTW-IIS-02

Performance And Resource Optimization (PRO) For more information read this post on Dario’s blog.

Performance And Resource Optimization (PRO)

Monitoring Physical & Virtual Servers

Non-Microsoft Monitoring

Citrix

Network: Cisco, Juniper, Nortel

Apache

SAP

WebSphere

Siebel

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, DB2

Linux – RH, Suse, Debian

Unix – Solaris, AIX

And a lot more…

" הבנו שהטמעת Configuration Manager תאפשר לנו לנהל את תחנות העבודה והשרתים באופן פשוט ולהבין בקלות איזה תוכנות מותקנות ועם איזה חומרה עובד כל אחד " גיל קרפט , מנהל סיסטם , סימטרון

Power, space and maintenance costs forcing more efficient use of resources

Dispersed servers and applications difficult to manage and update

Manage virtual machines to consolidate physical servers

Provision operating systems, applications, and patches in the data center

Offline VM Patching

Managing Physical & Virtual Servers

High availability and business continuity needed to meet service levels and optimal uptime

Simple disaster recovery and backup & restoration of data and information

Dynamically replicate and move virtual machines and applications to distribute workloads in the event of an outage

Recover and restore the physical and virtual environments in the data center through continuous data protection

Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 file shares and directories

Disaster Recovery Staging Data Protection every 15 minutes … DPM System State daily … DPM P2V – Physical to Virtual weekly … VMM Data Protection every 15 minutes … DPM System State daily … DPM P2V – Physical to Virtual weekly … VMM Data Protection every 15 minutes … DPM System State daily … DPM P2V – Physical to Virtual weekly … VMM

Server Management Suite Enterprise

Unlimited Virtualization With Datacenter Host OS Included

Summary

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