The document discusses the Royal Court of Bahrain's implementation of a private cloud infrastructure to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and cost savings while supporting the organization's strategic goals. Key aspects of the implementation included standardizing and consolidating systems onto a virtualized server and storage infrastructure with loosely coupled components from multiple vendors integrated using open standards. This provided flexibility while reducing costs and improving operations through automation, self-service, and disaster recovery capabilities enabled by the cloud model.

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Getting Virtualized : Doing More withDoing More with
LessLess
Taufik KurniawanTaufik Kurniawan
Head of IT InfrastructureHead of IT Infrastructure
Royal Court of BahrainRoyal Court of Bahrain
taufik.kurniawan@rc.bhtaufik.kurniawan@rc.bh
27/05/2012 Muscat 2012 | DatacenterDynamics

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Agenda
n Background and Introduction
n How cloud infrastructure can help
organization’s goals and objectives
n An implementation approach to cloud
infrastructure
n Q and A

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Background and Introduction
n RC [Royal CourtRoyal Court] Vision Statement
q To pro-actively provide efficient and effective service to meet all of the
requirements of HM The King, His Majesty’s Families and Other Members of
the Royal Family and establish the Royal Court as a model service
organization in the Kingdom of Bahrain
n RC-ISD [Information System DirectorateInformation System Directorate] Vision and Mission
q To establish the Private Information System Directorate as a model service
organization within Kingdom of Bahrain, Utilizing the latest developments in
Information Technology which would directly support and benefit the Royal
Court as a whole.
q In line with the Royal Affairs organizational mission – to provide the highest
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) experience to support
Royal Court’s Business Objectives.

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n Excellent Service to Support RC VisionRC Vision and
ObjectivesObjectives
n Increase EfficiencyEfficiency and EffectivenessEffectiveness of RC
Business and Social Activity/Process
n Integrate TechnologyTechnology to support RC’s humanhuman
resourcesresources to conduct their business processprocess to
accomplish organization’s Vision and Objectives
n Build RC Private Cloud Infrastructure to be high
performanceperformance, highly reliablereliable , SecureSecure and Cost-Cost-
EffectiveEffective
Background and Introduction

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Strategy and Technology
n State CIO Priorities 2012
q Strategy and Solution :
n Consolidation/Optimization
n Budget and Cost Control
n Governance
q Technologies
n Virtualization
n Legacy Application Modernization/Renovation
n Cloud Computing

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Business and Technology
n Gartner top 10 business and technology
Priorities 2011
q Business:
n increase enterprise growth (1)
n attract and retain new customer (2)
n reducing enterprise cost (3)
q Technologies
n Cloud Computing (1)
n Virtualization (2)
n Mobile Technologies (3)

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Private Cloud Infrastructure
n (2012) UK Study of CIO : cloud computing
and virtualization technology had the biggest
positive impact on businesses in 2011
n Gartner Report 18 May 2009 : Introducing
Second Network Vendor Saves Money and
Solidifies Operations: Second ServerSecond Server
Vendor?Vendor? Second Storage Vendor?Second Storage Vendor?
n Doing More with Less : More positive outcomes, fasterMore positive outcomes, faster
with less resourceswith less resources

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Cloud Computing
n Characteristics
q On Demand – Self Services
q Broad Network Access
q Resource Pooling
q Rapid Elasticity
q Measured Services

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Cloud Computing
n Deployment / Type
q Public Cloud
q Private Cloud
q Hybrid Cloud
n Services Model
q IaaS
q PaaS
q SaaS

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Cloud Computing
n Road Map to Cloud Computing
q Standardization/Consolidation
q Virtualization
q Automation
q Self-Service

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Virtualization Implementation
n Vendor-driven Solution
q HP Converged Infrastructure
q Cisco Unified Computing
q IBM
q Fujitsu
q Ecosystem Approach:
n VCE (Vmware, Cisco, EMC) Vblock
n IVA (Cisco, NetApp, Vmware) FlexPod
n Gartner Report : Try to avoid vendor lock-in

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Virtualization Implementation
n End User Customized Solution
q Network Infrastructure
q Server Infrastructure
q Storage Infrastructure
n Gartner Report :
q Introducing Second Network Vendor Saves
Money and Solidifies Operations
q Reduced 30% Capex while minimal increase of
OPEX

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Virtualization Implementation
n Loosely coupled our
q Network (Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Force10 etc.)
q Servers (IBM, HP, DELL, FUJITSU)
q Storage (EMC, NetApp, HP, Fujitsu etc.)
n Tightly Integrated with standard technology
q IP
q iSCSI
q LACP (802.3ad)
q Ethernet ( 10, 100, 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G )

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Virtualization Implementation
n Loosely Coupled Tightly Integrated Approach
qq Loosely coupledLoosely coupled our infrastructure resources
(networks, servers and storages) then tightlytightly
integratedintegrated them with open standard technology to
get the most benefit private cloud infrastructure.
q Less vendor lock-in / more flexible to vendor
choice
q More Efforts to implement and to operate and
maintain

15. Organization’s Strategic Business ObjectivesOrganization’s Strategic Business Objectives
Others
ERP
Business Process Management Layer
Business Application Services Layer
GIS
ECM,BW
Applications
PM,QM
Technology and InfrastructureTechnology and Infrastructure
FrameworkFramework
Organization’sOrganization’s
Vision & MissionVision & Mission
Infrastructure Framework

16. Logical Network
Layout
Physical Network
Layout
10G Base T
Stack and Cluster
Virtual Chassis or VSS or MLAG
8x 10G Base T
Uplink Bonding
8x 10G Base T
Uplink Bonding
Network Infrastructure
Area Discussion:
-Stack and
Cluster
-Layer 2 and
Layer 3
redundancy
- Virtualization
Aware
Area Discussion:
-Security
Implementation
- Design
Topology

17. Server year -1
Server year –N
And Growing
Physical Servers Layout
Logical Layers Layout
Network Layers Layout
Server Layers Layout
VMware Layers Layout
Server Infrastructure
Area Discussion:
-Blade Server Vs Rack Server
-Processor and Memory
-No. of VM per HW Server
-HA, FT and DRS
-Virtualization OS

18. Storage
year -1
Storage
year –N
And Growing
Network Layers Layout
Server Layers Layout
VMware Layers Layout
Storage Layers Layout
Storage Infrastructure
Area Discussion:
-NAS vs SAN
-iSCSI FCOE
-NFS, CIFS
-Scale Up vs Scale Out
-Scalability
-Storage Cluster / Redundancy/
-High Availability

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Virtualization OS
n Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
Infrastructure (26 May 2010)
q Vmware
q Microsoft
q Citrix
q Oracle VM
q Red Hat
q Novell
q Parallels

20. APPS1APPS1
APPS3APPS3
APPS2APPS2
APPS4APPS4
Network Layers Layout
Before
OSOS OSOS OSOS OSOS
Infrastructure Framework
Server
Storage
Storage

21. Network Layers Layout
Server Layers Layout
VMware Layers Layout
Storage Layers Layout
OS Layers LayoutOSOS OSOS OSOS
APPS1APPS1
APPS3APPS3
APPS2APPS2
APPS4APPS4
ETCETC
After
Infrastructure Framework