January 2009 New England VMUG at Gillette presentation

1. Case Study: How Martin’s Point Health
Care Increased Agility with Highly
Virtualized Storage and VMware.
Tom Ackerson
January 15, 2009

2. Company Information
Martin’s Point Health Care
• Leading New England health
plan and health center
provider
– 550 Employees
– 89,000 Customers
– 38,000 Patients
– 50,000 Health Plan
Members
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3. Why IT is Mission Critical at Martin’s Point Health Care
• Seen as IT innovators
– Electronic faxing
– ePrescribing
– Online Patient and
Member portals
• Update information
• Request an appointment
• Renew Prescriptions
– Partner with EMH to roll
out electronic health
records
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4. Martin’s Point Health Care’s Previous Environment
• Expensive & difficult to grow Traditional
Monolithic Architecture
– Limited number of host
connections to SQL
– Difficult to scale internally point-to-point or switched connection
– No virtualization
• Increased Management Complexity point-to-point or switched connection
– Limitations with Snapshot
Functionality
Host Connectivity
– No Service Level Optimization Data Cache
– No real data striping capabilities Disk Connectivity
• Limitations on Disaster Recovery
95% of servers using less than 6% of CPU!
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5. Martin’s Point Health Care’s Goals
• Scalable & Cost Effective 3PAR InSpire® Architecture
Environment
– Unlimited number of host
connections to SQL
– Highly virtualized for improved
utilization
• Easy to Manage
– Snapshot Functionality
– Service Level Optimization
– Data striping capabilities
• High Availability a finely, massively, and
automatically load
• Advanced Disaster Recovery balanced cluster
• Enables Business Continuity Host Connectivity
Data Cache
Disk Connectivity
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6. Virtualized Solution
• 3PAR
– 1xE200 with 16 TB of raw data
– 3PAR Dynamic Optimization
– 3PAR Virtual Copy
– 3PAR Recovery Manager for SQL
• VMware
• HP c-Class Blades
– 3 x BL685c, 1 x BL685c G5
• Microsoft SQL DB
– Monolithic storage limited SQL
connection to 10 hosts
– Virtualized environment now allows
>50 hosts to connect!
• GE Centricity EHR, E-Prescribing, Claims
Processing, ADP Payroll, Cognos
Presentation, Pharmacy System, Web
Portal and Exchange.
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7. Complete Utility Computing: 3PAR + VMware
Storage Server
Consolidation with Consolidation with
Cut Storage TCO by 50% or more Cut Server TCO up to 70%
Increase capacity utilization up to 75% Increase CPU utilization up to 80%
Increase server to administrator ratio
Reduce storage
administration effort 90% from 10:1 to 30:1
Seconds Hours
to provision new storage to provision a new server
One command Drag and drop
to optimize service levels / rebalance to optimize service levels / rebalance
3,500 kWh and $350 saved 6,800 kWh and $680 saved
per year per usable TB per year per workload virtualized
50% or more reduction in floor space 70% or more reduction in floor space
Simple and efficient Disaster Recovery for better Simple and efficient Disaster Recovery for better
and broader application recoverability and broader application recoverability
“With a highly virtualized environment, we can now snapshot & manipulate live
data without taking down a system!”
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8. CN1
Virtualized Storage
Highly Virtualized Storage
Traditional Storage
Low & Unpredictable Service Levels High & Predictable Service Levels
Controller Controller
fine & massive
resource utilization
coarse & narrow
resource utilization
Controller
Capacity utilization and performance are optimized
Capacity utilization and performance are tradeoffs
Realized a 25% cost savings by moving to a highly virtualized environment!
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9. Slide 8
This slide is very dark -- color scheme of the disks should be improved.
CN1
Craig Nunes, 12/29/2008

10. CN2
Utility Planning and Provisioning
Traditional Highly Virtualized
Seconds
Hours, Days, Weeks
to provision service levels
to provision service levels
Autonomic planning and configuration
Manual planning and configuration
Overall Configuration time reduced by 85%!
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11. Slide 9
Color scheme of the boxes does not make it very readable. Please adjust.
CN2
Craig Nunes, 12/29/2008

12. 3PAR Dynamic Optimization: Online, Non-Disruptive
Rebalance
• RAID 1 & RAID 5 Data Layout After HW Data Layout After
Upgrades Online Rebalance
• Increased flexibility to move
storage around
– Ensures 24x7 availability to
SMB customers
– Zero disruptions when new
150
100% 150
accounts are added 100%
– Ensures Increased
IOPS/ drive
IOPS / drive
Performance and Capacity
% Used
% Used
Utilization
• Decreased Complexity
– Administration &
Management is much more 0% 0%
0 0
elegant Drives 100s Drives
0 0 100s
– Fewer Resources needed
to manage storage
Reduce server and storage administration by 75% due to decreased
management complexity!
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13. CN3
3PAR Recovery Manager for Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft SQL Server-aware
• SQL Server elements automatically discovered
and mapped to snapshots
•Point-In-Time (PIT) copies
• Significantly reduces purchases for copy images
• Veritas NetBackup from Symantec
Support
• Delivers one-click backup to tape
• Automated point and click GUI
• Remote Copy integration
• Provides disaster recovery solution
• Guarantees data integrity and time-consistent
snapshots to the remote site.
“RMS has been a significant addition to our datacenter. We no longer have
to dedicate additional resources or purchase additional storage for
application backup and recovery.”
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14. Slide 11
Too many words. Shorten.
CN3
Craig Nunes, 12/29/2008

15. Highly Virtualized Computing - Benefits Summary
• Smart
– Reduce server and storage administration
by 75%
• Thin
– Reduce overall TCO by 60% or more
– Cut overall server and storage floor space
by 80% or more
– Cut power and cooling dramatically
• Ready
– Provision new server and storage resources
on demand
– Optimize server and storage service levels
on demand
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16. Thank you
Serving Information®. Simply.

17. 3PAR Platform Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server
3PAR's massively parallel and automatically load
Automatic Performance
balanced architecture improves performance and
maintains it automatically.
3PAR Utility Storage supports Microsoft's SQL Server Always
On Techologies and supports mission-critical applications
Always On Technologies
that demand the highest level of availability.
3PAR Fast RAID 5 technology cuts data protection overhead
Maximum Capacity by up to 87% while 3PAR Thin Provisioning cuts capacity
Utilization purchases by up to 75%, both without sacrificing performance.
Only 3PAR, with its cost-effective and SQL-aware snapshot
technology Recovery Manager for Microsoft SQL Server,
Rapid, Affordable SQL
allows users to recover quickly and affordably. Recovery
Server Recovery Manager for Microsoft SQL also provides quot;one-click,quot; non-
disruptive backup.
Accelerate the development and testing of new applications
Rapid Application
by sharing production-quality SQL Server data instantly,
Development affordably, and flexibly.
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