Automation Symposium 2015

1. Tomorrow’s Automation, Today
A Symposium on Virtualization For the Process &
Manufacturing Industries

2. Hassan S. Goraya
Project Manager - IX
Oct. 20th, 2015 | 12:45 - 13:30
TR01A – Virtualization & Plant PAx

3. Virtualization
& Plant PAx
Agenda
Plant PAx : Fitting the blocks
Plant Pax : Full Filling different information needs
Think…..Virtualization
Virtualization Key Component Explained
Benefits of virtualization revisited
Virtualization Demo
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4. Plant PAx : Simple solution for complex problems
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HMI
SERVER
HISTORIAN
SERVER
OPERATOR
STATION
ENGINEERING
STATION
DNS
SERVER
CORE
SWITCHES
REPORTS AND
KPI SERVER WEB PORTAL
FIELD AND
AUTOMATION LEVEL
MANAGEMENT
LEVEL
INFORMATION
LEVEL
STORAGE
SERVER 1 SERVER 2
DATA CENTER

5. Plant PAx : How the integration happens?
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FACTORYTALK SERVICES PLATFORM
Advantages of following
this approach?
• Modularity
• Scalability
• Ease of deployment
• Cost

6. Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..
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First stop is the control
room..
• Process Data
• Real Time
information
• Perfect for operators
• Useful in a meeting
managers??

7. Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..
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Second Stop is the
meeting room..
• Historical Data
• Performance graphs
• Useful for decision
making

8. Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..
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Can be published on
web as well so it is in
your palm..
• Integrated with all
common web
browsers
• Perfect for remote
viewing
• Interactive

9. Journey of Data: From Control Room to Board Room…..
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If you are more into
facts and figures..
• Great Excel
Integration
• Values can be used
for further analysis

10. Virtualization: Where to start?
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Understand how the sizing is done for a virtual infrastructure
Understand the VM Ware Licensing
What about the Virtual Machines themselves?
How to make
a transition
from Physical
to Virtual??

11. How to size a virtual infrastructure?
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Go back in time to late nineties
when you bought a computer
system…recall the questions?
Resource Pool
How much processing speed is
required?
How much HDD capacity is
required?
How much RAM is required?
How many NICs Cards are
required?
Do you need redundancy?...Lets
take it as Yes.

12. VMWare Licensing
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How the VM Ware Licensing
works?
Resource Pool
Only criteria is the no. of CPUs
installed on the motherboard.
Where does VM Ware component
fits?

13. Conversion of Physical Machines to Virtual Machines
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VMWare tools are available to perform this conversion automatically
No shutdown required in most cases
Risk Free

14. Virtualization: Understanding Key Components
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Hypervisor
vSphere
vCenter

15. Hypervisor
• Linux based Operating system
to allow Host Machine
resources to be used by Guest
Machines (VMs)
• So how does a Hypervisor
looks like?
• Completely bare OS with DOS
type interfacing
• To interact with this server you
need to use vSphere

16. vSphere
• Front end of Hypervisor, all
configurations are done using
vSphere.
• So how does a vSphere looks
like?
• This is available online and can
be downloaded directly from
servers as well.

17. vCenter
• vCenter is an essential
component of a multi server
environment
• Allows creation of server
clusters and resource pools
• vMotion, High Availability and
other high end functionality is
only possible because of
vCenter
• Comes in form a virtual
machine which can be
deployed and configured to
match you requirements
• Accessed using a web interface

18. Benefits of having
a Virtualized
Infrastructure….
Revisited
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Fault Tolerance
Application Load Balancing
Rapid Disaster Recovery
Reduced physical foot print

19. Benefits….
Adding a few
more to an
already
impressive list
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Creating VMs using templates
Ability to take timed backups and perform
recovery
Simplified network management
Snapshots

20. Key Concept - Revisited
For most of these options the VM-image must run
on the NAS- storage!!! …a multi server
environment is required
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21. Live Demo of a
Virtual
Infrastructure….
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Overview of the physical servers
Overview of the running VMs
Overview of the VM Templates
Overview of the server loading graphs

22. Question & Answers
Thank You for Your Valuable Time
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