Virtualizing Your World

Virtualizing

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Virtualizing Your World Let’s Take a Historical Tour….

Let’s Take a Historical Tour….

Virtualizing Your World

Virtualizing Your World Multi-use servers Email Word processing Databases File Sharing Calendar Printer pools

Virtualizing Your World Easy for users to connect to single source Efficient use of datacenter physical space Efficient use of CPU Easy to maintain Less hardware expense And it was good…

Easy for users to connect to single source

Efficient use of datacenter physical space

Efficient use of CPU

Easy to maintain

Less hardware expense

Virtualizing Your World … and bad Applications didn’t always play well together Difficult to secure one application from another

Virtualizing Your World Single-Use Servers Email Web User Directory Database File Sharing

Virtualizing Your World And it was good… Easy to control the flow of data between servers Programs running on separate platforms didn’t conflict with each other

Virtualizing Your World … and bad Inefficient use of server CPU Increased need for space in datacenters Increased energy costs Increased expense of equipment Increased server management needs Increased deployment time

… and bad

Inefficient use of server CPU

Increased need for space in datacenters

Increased energy costs

Increased expense of equipment

Increased server management needs

Increased deployment time

Virtualizing Your World So what if you could combine the best of both worlds?

Virtualizing Your World One big server…

Virtualizing Your World … with several smaller servers running on it Active Directory Web Database File Sharing

Virtualizing Your World What exactly is Virtualization?

Virtualizing Your World Virtualization lets you transform hardware into software

Virtualizing Your World Individual application servers run in their own private, protected space

Virtualizing Your World Allows multiple operating systems to run on one hosting server Novell Windows 2003 Standard Windows 2003 Enterprise Linux Physical server

Virtualizing Your World Allows quick deployment of new servers Active Directory Web Database Calendar VM Template

Virtualizing Your World Or conversion of Physical to Virtual Web Server

Virtualizing Your World Allows easy creation of test environments Active Directory Web Database Development Web

Virtualizing Your World Maximizes server stability and up-time Clustered ESX Servers X

Virtualizing Your World More efficient CPU use Clustered ESX Servers

Virtualizing Your World Makes Upgrading Easier Clustered ESX Servers

Virtualizing Your World Minimizes the amount of physical resources needed

Virtualizing Your World But wait! There’s more!

Virtualizing Your World VM Workstation

Virtualizing Your World VM Workstation Office 2003 Contribute Acrobat Writer Inkjet printer Office 2007 Dreamweaver QuickBooks Color printer

Office 2003

Contribute

Acrobat Writer

Inkjet printer

Office 2007

Dreamweaver

QuickBooks

Color printer

Virtualizing Your World VM Workstation Dell Inspiron Dell Latitude HP Pavilion Toshiba Tecra Acer Aspire

Virtualizing Your World Portability to VMServer

Virtualizing Your World Expensive start-up costs Duplicate higher-end servers Storage area network Software Training High learning curve

Expensive start-up costs

Duplicate higher-end servers

Storage area network

Software

Training

High learning curve

Virtualizing Your World Limits on peripheral hardware SVGA only Limited NIC cards Not all software is compatible Patching ESX can be a nightmare VMWorkstation is a resource hog

Limits on peripheral hardware

SVGA only

Limited NIC cards

Not all software is compatible

Patching ESX can be a nightmare

VMWorkstation is a resource hog

Virtualizing Your World ESX Servers are a finite resource Email Web User Directory Database File Sharing Calendar Linux

Virtualizing Your World Virtualizing the College of Agriculture at UGA

Virtualizing Your World NetApp Development & Test Tier 2 Test servers 1 Monitor server 2 Web servers 1 Database server 2 Application servers 1 AD server 2 UPS 2 Monitors & KVMs

Virtualizing Your World 2 Dell 2950s 16 GB memory 3 Additional 1GB NIC cards Hardware Retained 2850 for VirtualCenter Software VMWare Infrastructure 3 VMWare VirtualCenter

Virtualizing Your World NetApp Development & Test Tier Physically 2 ESX servers 1 VCenter server 2 UPS 1 Monitors & KVMs Virtually 4 Web servers 1 Database server 1 Staging server 2 Monitoring servers 2 AD servers 4 Application servers 1+ Test server

Virtualizing Your World Mobile Lab Dell laptop - XP operating system

Virtualizing Your World Benefits to Date Reduction in rack space One-stop management of servers Improved “up-time” Easy deployment of new applications Portability to other platforms

Reduction in rack space

One-stop management of servers

Improved “up-time”

Easy deployment of new applications

Portability to other platforms

Virtualizing Your World NetApp Production Tier 2 Web servers 2 Database servers 1 Staging server 1 AD Server 1 Filesharing server 1 Ghost server 2 Application servers

Virtualizing Your World NetApp Production Tier Physical 2 ESX servers 1 AD Server 1 Ghost server Virtual 2 Web servers 2 Database servers 1 Staging server 1 AD Server 2+ Application servers

Virtualizing Your World Questions? Discussion?

Virtualizing Your World For more information: Diana Williams [email_address]