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    Process enhancements not fully considered during designProve the benefit first; then develop how to operate it Little view towards automation

    First, looks at not as a project to virtualized, but to assess and optimize workloads to deliver maximum ROI.Don’t look at design as a blueprint, but as a series of decisions / choices that can impact future flexibility and agility.They don’t’ look at migration as a sequential process, but one of those area that they can step on the gas pedal & go a little faster. The faster they go, can speed ROI. They think about how they can streamline the process.  They don’t think about how to manage, but how to implement a culture of continuous optimization operations to make sure efficient and effective.Second, operation readiness is something to consider early in the approach, after the initial assessment, or early in the design phase, and that is followed by design and automation around that ITSM process area to gain the efficiencies.  They also recognize that this is an iterative process. The first deployment may take a portion of the server farm, there is going to be an iterative process and each time you need to do the appropriate workload analytics to understand where you’ll get the best benefit. This may necessitate a review of your design decisions and enhancing those, as well as feeding those into the migration process.

    BUT, what’s becoming evident as virtualization is becoming more pervasive is that…VIRTUALIZATION IS A DOUBLE EDGED SWORDCreating new challenges as many move down an “unplanned path” to virtual infrastructure. We see many customers struggling with unexpected consequences like:Unclear ROI, or worse, cost savings in one area are often resulting in unexpected cost escalations in others. Quite often we see customers go into virtualization with assumptions of the benefits, but no clear way to track Inflexible and chaotic infrastructure; ie. VM Sprawl, Unexpected data protection and management challenges, network slow down due to increased demands of virtual infrastructureOrganizational confusionIncreased RiskEnergy Waste There is of different approach, a better path to virtualization. One that results inFast, tangible ROIScalable & predictable infrastructureIT agility and improved Service levelsOrganizational Synergy… where silo’d organizational structures are broken down and groups start working together toward common organization benefits that v. promisesIT staff who are empowered for success in virtual world 

    In addressing a virtualization project, better path and typical path.. at the end of the day, the difference is often the scale of ROI that is realized In the early days, there is no significant difference in ROI between better path / typical pathAs virtual infrastructure grows, in terms of number of servers virtualized as well as the breadth of functionality deployed, challenges and inefficiencies that were not addressed in the “unplanned path” have dramatic impacts on the overall success of virtualization. customer experience shows …Virtualization success is a result of addressing people, process and technology requirements; collaborative environments enable faster rates of adoptionProcess impact may be significant, however, dependent on company size, process maturity and IT objectives; operational process scope is more than ITSMWe believe virtualization changes virtually everything and by harnessing the power of change you can increase the rate of adoption by up to 4 timesWe believe there is a ‘right path’ and an ‘unplanned path’ to achieving virtualization; by following the ‘right path’ you can realize expected benefits up to 3 times faster. We believe that Virtualization is the Greenest initiative available to you and will deliver up to 3 times reduction in power, cooling and space costs.

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    1. VM09 – IP Expo
      Matthew Pitchford
      Senior Solutions Architect
      October 2009
    2. VIRTUALIZATIONchanges everything
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      2
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      Virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations through 2012. - Gartner
      Changing
      • How you plan
      • How, what and when you buy
      • How and how quickly you deploy
      • How you manage
      • How you charge
      • Technology, process, culture
    3. Customer IssuesChelsea Building Society
      Business critical applications running on NT4 / W2K OS with 5 year + old hardware
      Application migration to modern OS deemed too complex and costly
      Current hardware outside of standard support model, proving both costly and risky to maintain
      No hardware refresh possible due to OS
      Limited DR capability for these applications
      Had a small VMware environment in place, but backup and restore of Virtual Machines was causing issues
      Asked Dell to investigate the use of virtualization to address these issues (first services engagement with customer)
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      3
    4. Customer IssuesHBOS
      6000 x86 Physical servers in 2 datacentres
      700 + new servers installed per year
      Datacentres over 95% capacity for power and cooling
      Need for consolidation or 3rd datacentre
      Long lead time to provision servers
      High effort in man hours to provision a server
      Low success rate in first time provision of servers
      Long lead time to provision storage and networks to new servers
      Recovery of physical servers consisted of Rebuild-Re-install-Reconfigure-Restore
      Existing Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 environment not scalable enough to reduce datacentre capacity
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      4
    5. TYPICAL PATH: Virtualization projects rely on traditional processes
      Operational Readiness
      Technology Centric Approach
      Migrate
      Design
      Assess
      Migrate
      But, virtualization breaks the traditional ITSM paradigm
      Configurations
      Chargeback
      Change management
      • Problem resolution
      • Performance/capacity planning
      • Security
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      5
    6. Dell SolutionChelsea Building Society
      Migrate and consolidate legacy applications to virtual platform
      Reduce disk space requirements of disk backup through compression and differential backups
      Build in robust backup and recovery for virtual machines
      Ensure that solution integrates with existing systems management
      Provide capacity management capability
      Integrate with existing hardware management solution
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      6
    7. Dell Solution HBOS
      Build Virtual Infrastructure to provide Virtual Servers as the standard deployment platform for new systems
      Migrate legacy physical servers onto Virtual Infrastructure to reduce datacentre power and cooling requirements
      Implement process management to control and streamline server provisioning process
      Implement Image level backups of Virtual Machines
      Replicate critical Virtual Machines to DR datacentre
      Capacity management built into the system design of the virtual infrastructure to guarantee complete DR capacity
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      7
    8. BETTER PATH: optimize processes based on new paradigm
      Workload
      Analytics
      Collaboration
      Operational Readiness
      Assess & Rationalize
      Manage & Continuous Optimization
      Design
      Decisions
      Streamlined Migration
      8
    9. Chelsea Building Society Results - Server Consolidation
      Legacy estate consolidated onto 3 physical servers
      Increase in server capacity to deploy new systems
      Decrease in Power & Cooling usage
      Deployment time of new systems reduced
      Systems running on new high performance hardware
      Increased resilience of Virtual Environment
      VMware High Availability
      Backup of Virtual Machine Images
      Recovery to any other VMware Infrastructure
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      9
    10. Chelsea Building Society Results – Operational Efficiency
      Improved backup and recovery capabilities of the virtual environment
      Decreased the disk space requirements for the backup solution
      Integrated the Virtual Infrastructure with Microsoft SCOM to maintain a consistent support platform
      Integrated the Virtual Infrastructure with Dell Open Manage to give a consistent hardware support platform
      Built in Capacity Management to the virtual infrastructure
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      10
    11. HBOSResults – Server Consolidation
      10:1 consolidation ratio achieved with complete DR failover capacity
      No requirement for 3rd datacentre
      Virtual Servers adopted as standard platform for deployment, an exception must be requested for a physical server
      Hundreds of physical servers migrated to virtual infrastructure
      Eliminated need for cold standby servers in DR datacentre through Virtual Machine replication
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      11
    12. HBOSResults – Operational Efficiency
      Server provisioning process documented, controlled, and streamlined (30 elapsed days removed from process)
      Storage and network pre-allocated to virtual environment to increase flexibility and responsiveness
      Virtual Machines backed up at image level to provide OS/Appplication/Configuration/Data in a set of encapsulated files
      DR Failover of replicated Virtual Machines tested and proven
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      12
    13. Virtualization can be A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD
      BETTER PATH
      • Fast, Tangible ROI
      • Scalable & Predictable
      • Agility & Improved Service
      • Organizational Synergy
      • Secure Environment
      • Green IT
      • Empowered Staff
      TYPICAL PATH
      Unclear ROI
      Inflexible & Chaotic
      VM Sprawl
      Organizational Confusion
      Increased Risk
      Energy Waste
      Services Annuity
      VS
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      13
    14. THE BETTER PATH EXTENDS BEYOND TECHNOLOGY
      DELL CONFIDENTIAL
      14
      Bring benefits forward …
      Opportunity
      Rate of Adoption
      BETTER PATH
      $$$
      Early
      Days
      TYPICAL PATH
      Time
      People Process Technology

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