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Richard Dawson Sustainable Ict
1. Your Organisation and Sustainable ICT
SOCITM 2009
Bracknell Forest Council
Richard Dawson
IT Services Manager
2. Agenda
■ Presentation Aims
■ About Bracknell Forest Council
■ Bracknell Forest’s Green Projects
■ Managing Upgrades and New Systems
■ Savings
■ Benefits to Bracknell Forest
■ Questions
3. Presentation Aims
■ How to reduce costs through virtualisation when
upgrading your infrastructure
■ How to justify your investments in infrastructure refresh
■ Managing the timing of scheduled IT infrastructure refresh
projects when considering virtualisation deployment.
4. About Bracknell Forest Council
■ Unitary Status Council
■ Located in Thames Valley
■ 4000 Staff, 1800 IT Users, 1500 Desktops
■ An annual turnover of £140m
■ 115,000 residents
■ 46 national and international business HQ’s
• BMW, DELL, Johnson & Johnson, 3M,
Novell, Waitrose.
5. Bracknell Forest’s Virtualisation Project
■ Why did we embark on Virtualisation ?
• Increasing server estate
− 190 physical servers
− 176 applications council wide
• Space constraints
• Power constraints
• UPS constraints
• Cooling constraints
• Financial constraints.
6. Bracknell Forest’s Virtualisation Project
■ Where to start ?
• Business Case
• Research
− Vendors
− Partners
− Tools
• Audit and Benchmark
• Pilot
• Project
• Deployment
• Operational – ITIL Processes
Project Time Line.
7. Bracknell Forest’s Virtualisation Project
■ 2005 - 2007
2 X ESX 2.5 Servers Installed
Running Invest to Save
CRM Applictions Approved New SAN and ESX
12 virtual Servers Environment running
New SAN
Pilot Vmware GSX Serve Invest to Save and Servers Intalled
Used for Test Systems Process Started May 2007
1/1/06 1/1/07
Jun 1, 2005 Dec 2, 2007
8. Bracknell Forest’s Virtualisation Project
■ 2008 - today
150 physical servers
removed to date
SAN + 6 ESX Hosts(16GB) SAN + 6 ESX Hosts SAN + 6 ESx Hosts
70 virtual Hosts 3 X 16GB and 3 X 64GB 210 Virtual Hosts
2.5TB of Disk Space 170 virtual hosts 21TB of Disk Space
Power Reduced by
£40k PA
1/1/09
Dec 1, 2008 May 24, 2009
9. How to reduce costs through
virtualisation when upgrading your
infrastructure
■ Traditionally
• Hardware costs
• Speed of deployment
• Cost of deployment
• Complexity
• Disaster recovery.
■ In a virtual configuration
• Hardware costs - Zero
• Speed of deployment – Hours not Days
• Cost of deployment – Hundreds not Thousands
• Complexity – Significantly Reduced
• Disaster recovery – Significantly made easier.
10. How to justify your investments in
infrastructure refresh
■ Invest to Save and a solid business case
■ Staff Time
• Less Procurement
• Installation
• Build
• Test
■ Cloning
■ Testing
■ Power reductions
■ Cooling reductions
■ CO2 reductions
■ Space.
11. Managing the timing of scheduled
IT infrastructure refresh projects
when considering virtualisation
deployment
■ When is the right time.
• Dependant on business processing and cycles
• Funding
• Hardware life cycles.
■ Bracknell’s experience.
• Resources
• Little business down time.
12. Benefits to Bracknell Forest
■ Invest to Save – savings on target to be realised
■ Power Savings est. £40k P.A
■ Reduced project delivery times
■ Reduction in Cooling
■ Organisation CO2 target reductions
■ European Data Centre Code of Conduct
■ Service Availability
■ Disaster Recover
■ Staff Costs
■ Potential to sell data centre space….
15. Partners
■ VMWare -ESX Server
■ Dell / EMC -Design, Server Hardware, EMC SAN
■ Intercept-IT -Design and deployment
■ RES -RES Wisdom
■ Novell PlateSpin -Audit and P to V migration tools
■ ESX Ranger
■ Future Tech
