This document provides troubleshooting information for issues that may occur when using vSphere features and components, including:
- Troubleshooting steps for resolving common virtual machine problems like fault tolerant configuration errors and USB device connectivity issues.
- Troubleshooting hosts, including vSphere HA states and Auto Deploy problems.
- Troubleshooting the vCenter Server and vSphere Web Client, as well as Linked Mode, certificates, and plug-ins.
- Troubleshooting availability features like vSphere HA, DRS, and fault tolerance.
- Troubleshooting storage, networking, licensing, and other resource management problems.
Vmug v sphere storage appliance (vsa) overviewsubtitle
The document discusses the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) which provides shared storage for small to medium businesses without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. The VSA deploys virtual appliances on each ESXi host that replicate and aggregate local storage into a shared NFS datastore. This allows features like vMotion and HA to be enabled. The VSA provides resilience against failures through data mirroring across nodes and seamless failover of the NFS datastores.
1. A distributed switch functions as a single virtual switch across all associated hosts and is configured in vCenter Server at the data center level. It consists of a control plane in vCenter Server and I/O planes in the VMkernel of each ESXi host.
2. Key components of a distributed switch include distributed ports, uplinks, and port groups. Distributed ports can connect VMs or VMkernel interfaces. Uplinks associate physical NICs across hosts. Port groups define connection configurations.
3. Configuring a distributed switch involves adding the switch in vCenter Server, creating distributed port groups, and defining properties like uplink ports and multicast filtering mode. This provides a consistent network configuration template across
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.0 Lab ManualSanjeev Kumar
This document provides instructions for installing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6. It outlines the prerequisites needed, such as compatible versions of vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller installed on the protected and recovery sites. The steps of the SRM 6 installation process are described, including selecting installation options, registering with the PSC, and configuring local site settings. Key SRM components like the storage replication adapter and vSphere Replication appliances are also introduced.
The document announces a seminar on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.4 hosted by IBM and Peanuts. The agenda includes presentations on IBM and Peanuts, new features in TSM 6.3 and 6.4 like deduplication and replication, improved reporting, TSM and virtualization, and a demonstration of the solution.
vSphere provides tools like vCenter, ESXTOP, and PowerCLI to monitor the performance of CPU, memory, network, and storage. Key metrics include CPU and memory usage, network packet drops, storage latency, and swap rates. Issues like oversubscription, capacity limitations, and configuration errors can be identified by watching for saturated resources, dropped packets, and high latency or queueing. External monitoring of physical infrastructure can also provide useful visibility.
This presentation provides an overview of vSAN components and fault tolerance methods. It discusses how vSAN objects are divided into components that are placed across hosts. It covers the different states components can be in, such as active, degraded, absent, and how resync, rebuild, repair, and reconfiguration processes work. It also explains how vSAN uses voting and quorum to determine which cluster partition remains available in a network partition scenario.
This document discusses storage allocation and LUN creation on an EMC Symmetrix storage array. It describes using the symconfigure command line tool to create multiple striped meta LUNs from existing hyper LUNs on a Symmetrix array with a serial ID of 1098. The symconfigure operation creates two meta LUNs, one from devices 10E8, 10E9, and 110E, and another from devices 111A, 111B, 111C, 111D, 111E, and 111F, configuring them both in a striped format. It also validates the changes against the Control Center management tool.
This document provides troubleshooting information for issues that may occur when using vSphere features and components, including:
- Troubleshooting steps for resolving common virtual machine problems like fault tolerant configuration errors and USB device connectivity issues.
- Troubleshooting hosts, including vSphere HA states and Auto Deploy problems.
- Troubleshooting the vCenter Server and vSphere Web Client, as well as Linked Mode, certificates, and plug-ins.
- Troubleshooting availability features like vSphere HA, DRS, and fault tolerance.
- Troubleshooting storage, networking, licensing, and other resource management problems.
Vmug v sphere storage appliance (vsa) overviewsubtitle
The document discusses the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) which provides shared storage for small to medium businesses without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. The VSA deploys virtual appliances on each ESXi host that replicate and aggregate local storage into a shared NFS datastore. This allows features like vMotion and HA to be enabled. The VSA provides resilience against failures through data mirroring across nodes and seamless failover of the NFS datastores.
1. A distributed switch functions as a single virtual switch across all associated hosts and is configured in vCenter Server at the data center level. It consists of a control plane in vCenter Server and I/O planes in the VMkernel of each ESXi host.
2. Key components of a distributed switch include distributed ports, uplinks, and port groups. Distributed ports can connect VMs or VMkernel interfaces. Uplinks associate physical NICs across hosts. Port groups define connection configurations.
3. Configuring a distributed switch involves adding the switch in vCenter Server, creating distributed port groups, and defining properties like uplink ports and multicast filtering mode. This provides a consistent network configuration template across
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.0 Lab ManualSanjeev Kumar
This document provides instructions for installing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6. It outlines the prerequisites needed, such as compatible versions of vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller installed on the protected and recovery sites. The steps of the SRM 6 installation process are described, including selecting installation options, registering with the PSC, and configuring local site settings. Key SRM components like the storage replication adapter and vSphere Replication appliances are also introduced.
The document announces a seminar on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.4 hosted by IBM and Peanuts. The agenda includes presentations on IBM and Peanuts, new features in TSM 6.3 and 6.4 like deduplication and replication, improved reporting, TSM and virtualization, and a demonstration of the solution.
vSphere provides tools like vCenter, ESXTOP, and PowerCLI to monitor the performance of CPU, memory, network, and storage. Key metrics include CPU and memory usage, network packet drops, storage latency, and swap rates. Issues like oversubscription, capacity limitations, and configuration errors can be identified by watching for saturated resources, dropped packets, and high latency or queueing. External monitoring of physical infrastructure can also provide useful visibility.
This presentation provides an overview of vSAN components and fault tolerance methods. It discusses how vSAN objects are divided into components that are placed across hosts. It covers the different states components can be in, such as active, degraded, absent, and how resync, rebuild, repair, and reconfiguration processes work. It also explains how vSAN uses voting and quorum to determine which cluster partition remains available in a network partition scenario.
This document discusses storage allocation and LUN creation on an EMC Symmetrix storage array. It describes using the symconfigure command line tool to create multiple striped meta LUNs from existing hyper LUNs on a Symmetrix array with a serial ID of 1098. The symconfigure operation creates two meta LUNs, one from devices 10E8, 10E9, and 110E, and another from devices 111A, 111B, 111C, 111D, 111E, and 111F, configuring them both in a striped format. It also validates the changes against the Control Center management tool.
Advanced performance troubleshooting using esxtopAlan Renouf
This document discusses using esxtop and resxtop tools to troubleshoot performance issues on VMware ESXi hosts. It provides 10 key things to know about esxtop counters and how they work. It then gives examples of using esxtop to troubleshoot common problems like CPU contention, memory issues, network throughput problems, and disk I/O latency. It also lists some other diagnostic tools that can be used along with esxtop.
XenServer 6.0 includes enhancements to simplify management, improve performance and scale, and integrate additional high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Key features include integrated StorageLink for storage management, workload balancing via a virtual appliance, vApps for controlling VM startup order in HA and DR scenarios, and support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM. GPU pass-through and IntelliCache are optimized for XenDesktop deployments.
This document provides an overview of vMotion capabilities in VMware vSphere, including:
- Types of virtual machine migrations like vMotion, Storage vMotion, and shared-nothing vMotion.
- Requirements for vMotion like compatible CPUs and network connectivity.
- Enhanced features in vSphere 6 like separate vMotion networking stacks and long distance vMotion.
- Best practices for vMotion planning, limitations, and troubleshooting migration errors.
Diretrizes para Implementação do Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 em Servidores HP Prol...Lorscheider Santiago
This technical white paper provides guidelines for implementing Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 on HP ProLiant servers. It identifies system requirements, recommended ProLiant server models, software drivers, storage and networking components, known issues and workarounds, and additional resources for support.
VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
The needs for immediate responsiveness of VMs in the virtualized environments have been on the rise. Several services in SKT also require soft realtime support for virtual machines to substitute the physical machines to achieve high utilization and adaptability. However, consolidated multiple OSes and irregular external events might render the hypervisor infringe on a VM's promptitude. As a solution of this problem, we are improving Xen's credit scheduler by introducing the RT_PRIORITY that guarantees a VM's running at any given point in time as long as credits remains to be burn. It would increase the quality of service and make a VM's behavior predictable on the consolidated environment. In addition, we extend our suggestion to the multi-core environment and even a large number of physical machines by using live migrations.
In vSphere 5.0, VMware has released a new storage appliance called VSA. VSA is an acronym for “vSphere Storage Appliance”.
This appliance is aimed at our SMB (Small-Medium Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and therefore do not have shared storage. Without access to a SAN or NAS array, SMB customers are unable to implement many of vSphere’s core technologies, such as vSphere HA & vMotion. Customers who decide to deploy a VSA can now benefit from many additional vSphere features without having to purchase a SAN or NAS device to provide them with shared storage.
This document provides an overview and introduction to virtual storage concepts in VMware vSphere, including NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, and Virtual SAN datastores. It discusses storage protocols, multipathing, and best practices for configuring and managing different types of datastores. The document is divided into several sections covering storage concepts, iSCSI, NFS, VMFS, and Virtual SAN datastores.
This document provides an overview of Oracle VM server virtualization technology. It discusses Oracle VM features such as the ability to run Linux and Windows guests, 64-bit support, live migration, and integrated management. Performance results show Oracle VM introduces minimal overhead. Case studies demonstrate how Oracle VM allows customers to reduce hardware, increase utilization rates, and lower support costs.
This document discusses best practices for deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It provides an overview of Hyper-V functionality and deployment strategies. It also covers Virtual Machine Manager architecture, requirements, installation, host and cluster configuration, delegation, and Performance and Resource Optimization capabilities.
The VCP5 blueprint covers planning, installing, configuring and upgrading vCenter Server and VMware ESXi, as well as securing, networking and storing vSphere environments. Key topics include installing vCenter Server and ESXi, configuring vSphere networking using vSS and vDS, planning and configuring vSphere storage, deploying and administering virtual machines and vApps, and establishing and maintaining service levels through clusters, fault tolerance and resource pools. The VCP4 blueprint focuses on similar ESXi and vSphere configuration and management topics.
This document discusses enhancing pass through device support with IOMMU. It covers the current status of pass through device support in Xen, areas for further enhancement including hardening the host from device failures, improving functionality by standardizing CFGS emulation, and handling more corner cases such as device reconfiguration and Qemu support for PCIe devices. It calls for community efforts to push these enhancements forward.
Excessive interrupts can hurt I/O scalability in Xen. The proposals discuss software interrupt throttling and interrupt-less NAPI to reduce interrupt overhead. They also discuss exposing NUMA information to Xen to improve host I/O NUMA awareness and enabling guest I/O NUMA awareness by constructing _PXM methods and extending device assignment policies.
Introduction - vSphere 5 High Availability (HA)Eric Sloof
VMware HA clusters enable a collection of ESXi hosts to work together so that, as a group, they provide higher levels of availability for virtual machines than each ESXi host could provide individually. When you plan the creation and usage of a new VMware HA cluster, the options you select affect the way that cluster responds
to failures of hosts or virtual machines.
Visão geral sobre Citrix XenServer 6 - Ferramentas e LicenciamentoLorscheider Santiago
This document provides an overview of Citrix XenServer, including:
- Why use XenServer over VMware, with XenServer having leadership in the market share and lower costs.
- An overview of XenServer's key features like virtual memory licensing, clusters and pools, live migration, snapshots, and high availability.
- A comparison of XenServer and VMware features around licensing, importing VMs, backup solutions, and more.
- Details on newer versions of XenServer that include integrated disaster recovery, provisioning services, and monitoring solutions.
Citrix leverages the open source Xen hypervisor as the core virtualization engine for its XenServer product. While XenServer and open source Xen share the Xen hypervisor, XenServer offers additional tested and polished features designed for production use. XenServer is easier to use than open source Xen due to rigorous testing, optimization, and the inclusion of 75% proprietary code. XenServer provides an enterprise-grade virtualization platform with high availability, disaster recovery, workload visibility, and dynamic provisioning capabilities.
Comparação entre XenServer 6.2 e VMware VSphere 5.1 - Comparison of Citrix Xe...Lorscheider Santiago
The document compares Citrix XenServer 6.2 and VMware vSphere 5.1. It discusses that both pioneered server virtualization and how their architectures have evolved. It then analyzes key areas like memory management, storage management, infrastructure management, and disaster recovery planning. It notes XenServer uses open standards like VHD and avoids proprietary formats. For desktop virtualization, it highlights XenServer integrates with Citrix XenDesktop and its Provisioning Services for template management to efficiently deploy golden images at scale.
Mythbusting goes virtual What's new in vSphere 5.1Eric Sloof
The document summarizes new features in vSphere 5.1 that address common myths about virtualization limitations. It discusses that vMotion can now occur without shared storage using enhanced vMotion, vSphere management no longer requires Windows with the new web client, vSphere Replication provides site disaster recovery without SRM, the VMFS host limit for linked clones increased from 8 to 32, and distributed switch configurations can now be backed up and restored.
This document discusses Citrix Cloud Center (C3), which provides a service delivery infrastructure for hosting, managing, and delivering cloud-based services. It covers concepts and components of C3 including XenServer for server virtualization, XenDesktop for desktop virtualization and application delivery, and tools for remote access management and datacenter automation through workflow automation. The document also includes diagrams of C3 implementations and lab environments.
vSphere defines VMware's virtualization product suite, including the ESXi hypervisor, vCenter management server, and vSphere Client interface. ESXi uses a proprietary kernel called vmkernel along with some open source components. Key features of vSphere include VMware HA, vMotion, and DRS for managing and migrating VMs across hosts. Troubleshooting performance issues involves tools like esxtop to monitor CPU, memory, and swap usage on ESXi hosts and VMs.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
The document discusses key considerations for planning a successful data center migration. It identifies three main areas to focus on: 1) Deciding whether to replicate the existing infrastructure or create something new, noting the tradeoffs of each approach. 2) Carefully planning the logistics of moving equipment and finding experienced help. 3) Anticipating challenges and having contingency plans, and getting buy-in from management and other stakeholders. Thorough preparation from multiple angles can help ensure a smoother transition.
Best Practices for Data Center Migration Planning - August 2016 Monthly Webin...Amazon Web Services
Migrating large scale data centers to the cloud can be challenging and there are generally many ways to execute these projects successfully. Using the right AWS services and tools can help you lower migration risk and expense.. This webinar will recommend a project management and decision-making approach that will help you make the right AWS migration decisions while minimizing unnecessary expenses and maximizing ROI.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to migrations
• Understand financial considerations (ROI, CapEx versus OpEx, budgeting for overlapping expenses)
• Learn a method for prioritization of workloads (both technical and financial)
• Understand how different project management approaches (Traditional, Kanban/Lean) can be used most effectively
• Learn how to lower project risk and difficulty using key AWS services (Snowball, Direct Connect, RDS, DMS)
• Learn how to define project completion criteria - when is a migration really done?
Advanced performance troubleshooting using esxtopAlan Renouf
This document discusses using esxtop and resxtop tools to troubleshoot performance issues on VMware ESXi hosts. It provides 10 key things to know about esxtop counters and how they work. It then gives examples of using esxtop to troubleshoot common problems like CPU contention, memory issues, network throughput problems, and disk I/O latency. It also lists some other diagnostic tools that can be used along with esxtop.
XenServer 6.0 includes enhancements to simplify management, improve performance and scale, and integrate additional high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Key features include integrated StorageLink for storage management, workload balancing via a virtual appliance, vApps for controlling VM startup order in HA and DR scenarios, and support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM. GPU pass-through and IntelliCache are optimized for XenDesktop deployments.
This document provides an overview of vMotion capabilities in VMware vSphere, including:
- Types of virtual machine migrations like vMotion, Storage vMotion, and shared-nothing vMotion.
- Requirements for vMotion like compatible CPUs and network connectivity.
- Enhanced features in vSphere 6 like separate vMotion networking stacks and long distance vMotion.
- Best practices for vMotion planning, limitations, and troubleshooting migration errors.
Diretrizes para Implementação do Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 em Servidores HP Prol...Lorscheider Santiago
This technical white paper provides guidelines for implementing Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 on HP ProLiant servers. It identifies system requirements, recommended ProLiant server models, software drivers, storage and networking components, known issues and workarounds, and additional resources for support.
VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
The needs for immediate responsiveness of VMs in the virtualized environments have been on the rise. Several services in SKT also require soft realtime support for virtual machines to substitute the physical machines to achieve high utilization and adaptability. However, consolidated multiple OSes and irregular external events might render the hypervisor infringe on a VM's promptitude. As a solution of this problem, we are improving Xen's credit scheduler by introducing the RT_PRIORITY that guarantees a VM's running at any given point in time as long as credits remains to be burn. It would increase the quality of service and make a VM's behavior predictable on the consolidated environment. In addition, we extend our suggestion to the multi-core environment and even a large number of physical machines by using live migrations.
In vSphere 5.0, VMware has released a new storage appliance called VSA. VSA is an acronym for “vSphere Storage Appliance”.
This appliance is aimed at our SMB (Small-Medium Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and therefore do not have shared storage. Without access to a SAN or NAS array, SMB customers are unable to implement many of vSphere’s core technologies, such as vSphere HA & vMotion. Customers who decide to deploy a VSA can now benefit from many additional vSphere features without having to purchase a SAN or NAS device to provide them with shared storage.
This document provides an overview and introduction to virtual storage concepts in VMware vSphere, including NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, and Virtual SAN datastores. It discusses storage protocols, multipathing, and best practices for configuring and managing different types of datastores. The document is divided into several sections covering storage concepts, iSCSI, NFS, VMFS, and Virtual SAN datastores.
This document provides an overview of Oracle VM server virtualization technology. It discusses Oracle VM features such as the ability to run Linux and Windows guests, 64-bit support, live migration, and integrated management. Performance results show Oracle VM introduces minimal overhead. Case studies demonstrate how Oracle VM allows customers to reduce hardware, increase utilization rates, and lower support costs.
This document discusses best practices for deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It provides an overview of Hyper-V functionality and deployment strategies. It also covers Virtual Machine Manager architecture, requirements, installation, host and cluster configuration, delegation, and Performance and Resource Optimization capabilities.
The VCP5 blueprint covers planning, installing, configuring and upgrading vCenter Server and VMware ESXi, as well as securing, networking and storing vSphere environments. Key topics include installing vCenter Server and ESXi, configuring vSphere networking using vSS and vDS, planning and configuring vSphere storage, deploying and administering virtual machines and vApps, and establishing and maintaining service levels through clusters, fault tolerance and resource pools. The VCP4 blueprint focuses on similar ESXi and vSphere configuration and management topics.
This document discusses enhancing pass through device support with IOMMU. It covers the current status of pass through device support in Xen, areas for further enhancement including hardening the host from device failures, improving functionality by standardizing CFGS emulation, and handling more corner cases such as device reconfiguration and Qemu support for PCIe devices. It calls for community efforts to push these enhancements forward.
Excessive interrupts can hurt I/O scalability in Xen. The proposals discuss software interrupt throttling and interrupt-less NAPI to reduce interrupt overhead. They also discuss exposing NUMA information to Xen to improve host I/O NUMA awareness and enabling guest I/O NUMA awareness by constructing _PXM methods and extending device assignment policies.
Introduction - vSphere 5 High Availability (HA)Eric Sloof
VMware HA clusters enable a collection of ESXi hosts to work together so that, as a group, they provide higher levels of availability for virtual machines than each ESXi host could provide individually. When you plan the creation and usage of a new VMware HA cluster, the options you select affect the way that cluster responds
to failures of hosts or virtual machines.
Visão geral sobre Citrix XenServer 6 - Ferramentas e LicenciamentoLorscheider Santiago
This document provides an overview of Citrix XenServer, including:
- Why use XenServer over VMware, with XenServer having leadership in the market share and lower costs.
- An overview of XenServer's key features like virtual memory licensing, clusters and pools, live migration, snapshots, and high availability.
- A comparison of XenServer and VMware features around licensing, importing VMs, backup solutions, and more.
- Details on newer versions of XenServer that include integrated disaster recovery, provisioning services, and monitoring solutions.
Citrix leverages the open source Xen hypervisor as the core virtualization engine for its XenServer product. While XenServer and open source Xen share the Xen hypervisor, XenServer offers additional tested and polished features designed for production use. XenServer is easier to use than open source Xen due to rigorous testing, optimization, and the inclusion of 75% proprietary code. XenServer provides an enterprise-grade virtualization platform with high availability, disaster recovery, workload visibility, and dynamic provisioning capabilities.
Comparação entre XenServer 6.2 e VMware VSphere 5.1 - Comparison of Citrix Xe...Lorscheider Santiago
The document compares Citrix XenServer 6.2 and VMware vSphere 5.1. It discusses that both pioneered server virtualization and how their architectures have evolved. It then analyzes key areas like memory management, storage management, infrastructure management, and disaster recovery planning. It notes XenServer uses open standards like VHD and avoids proprietary formats. For desktop virtualization, it highlights XenServer integrates with Citrix XenDesktop and its Provisioning Services for template management to efficiently deploy golden images at scale.
Mythbusting goes virtual What's new in vSphere 5.1Eric Sloof
The document summarizes new features in vSphere 5.1 that address common myths about virtualization limitations. It discusses that vMotion can now occur without shared storage using enhanced vMotion, vSphere management no longer requires Windows with the new web client, vSphere Replication provides site disaster recovery without SRM, the VMFS host limit for linked clones increased from 8 to 32, and distributed switch configurations can now be backed up and restored.
This document discusses Citrix Cloud Center (C3), which provides a service delivery infrastructure for hosting, managing, and delivering cloud-based services. It covers concepts and components of C3 including XenServer for server virtualization, XenDesktop for desktop virtualization and application delivery, and tools for remote access management and datacenter automation through workflow automation. The document also includes diagrams of C3 implementations and lab environments.
vSphere defines VMware's virtualization product suite, including the ESXi hypervisor, vCenter management server, and vSphere Client interface. ESXi uses a proprietary kernel called vmkernel along with some open source components. Key features of vSphere include VMware HA, vMotion, and DRS for managing and migrating VMs across hosts. Troubleshooting performance issues involves tools like esxtop to monitor CPU, memory, and swap usage on ESXi hosts and VMs.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
The document discusses key considerations for planning a successful data center migration. It identifies three main areas to focus on: 1) Deciding whether to replicate the existing infrastructure or create something new, noting the tradeoffs of each approach. 2) Carefully planning the logistics of moving equipment and finding experienced help. 3) Anticipating challenges and having contingency plans, and getting buy-in from management and other stakeholders. Thorough preparation from multiple angles can help ensure a smoother transition.
Best Practices for Data Center Migration Planning - August 2016 Monthly Webin...Amazon Web Services
Migrating large scale data centers to the cloud can be challenging and there are generally many ways to execute these projects successfully. Using the right AWS services and tools can help you lower migration risk and expense.. This webinar will recommend a project management and decision-making approach that will help you make the right AWS migration decisions while minimizing unnecessary expenses and maximizing ROI.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to migrations
• Understand financial considerations (ROI, CapEx versus OpEx, budgeting for overlapping expenses)
• Learn a method for prioritization of workloads (both technical and financial)
• Understand how different project management approaches (Traditional, Kanban/Lean) can be used most effectively
• Learn how to lower project risk and difficulty using key AWS services (Snowball, Direct Connect, RDS, DMS)
• Learn how to define project completion criteria - when is a migration really done?
The document outlines a client's project to migrate their tier 1 enterprise applications and infrastructure services from an existing data center to a new data center. It discusses the key tasks of determining what applications need to migrate, managing stakeholders and vendors, and creating tools to manage the migration. It then presents and analyzes four options for performing the migration - "forklift", "build new", "virtualize", and "serial number swap" - weighing the risks, impacts, costs, and resources required for each. It concludes by outlining the consultant's process for planning and executing the migration through a "playbook" approach.
Data Center Consolidation and Optimization By Magnus Manders, CTO of Infrastr...Capgemini
This document discusses strategies for relocating, consolidating, and optimizing data centers to reduce risks and improve business value. It outlines key driving forces like cost reductions, legislation, and energy management that are pushing organizations to transform their data center operations. The document emphasizes that each project will have different challenges and objectives, so guidance principles are needed around standardization. It also stresses the importance of planning to prevent failures, having the right team composition, and defining key performance indicators to measure success and manage stakeholders.
Data Center Migration Essentials - Adam Saint-Prix Tim WongAtlassian
This session will explore the key steps involved in planning a move to JIRA and Confluence Data Center. We'll walk through and highlight some of the essential planning steps for a successful migration to Atlassian's HA/Clustering Solution. Topics to include a planning framework for migration and a discussion on how to avoid common resource, process, and execution pitfalls.
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
Preparing a data migration plan: A practical guideETLSolutions
The document provides guidance on preparing a data migration plan. It discusses the importance of project scoping, methodology, data preparation, and data security when planning a data migration. Specifically, it recommends thoroughly reviewing all aspects of the project and data in the planning stages to identify risks and issues early. This helps reduce risks and ensures the migration is completed according to best practices.
The Just Switch It program provides partners with resources to help customers upgrade their core network infrastructures through simplified migration and upsell offers to Cisco's newest switching and wireless solutions. It offers deeper discounts and product bundles to increase partner profits. Targeted data helps partners identify customers ready to upgrade. Smart services provide network insights to drive technology migration and recurring service revenue. Marketing campaigns promote migrating to Cisco's latest campus and data center switching and wireless portfolios.
Due to increases in technology, data, and security concerns, data center migrations and relocations have become more common. Texas Moving Co. offers experienced specialists and custom equipment to safely relocate mission critical IT equipment. Their services include removing equipment from racks, transport in climate-controlled trucks, and reinstalling everything at the new location. They manage all aspects of data center relocation projects.
We explore some of the top benefits of data center colocation, and why it is a very big deal for your business. If your current data center is becoming too costly, is running low on expandable space, or lacks redundancy, then colocation is a very good option to consider.
Some of the benefits include:
-Higher redundancy levels
-CAPEX savings
-Better scalability and room to grow
If colocation is something you are beginning to consider for your business, we encourage you to read through this presentation to learn more! It's definitely one of the most worthwhile business decisions you can make.
The document provides guidelines for legacy system migration projects, including planning activities such as reviewing inputs, describing management approaches, identifying prototyping and piloting needs, and determining support requirements. It also discusses phasing system builds, completing the migration, and establishing practical guidelines such as analyzing stakeholder needs, developing success measures, avoiding big-bang approaches, establishing priorities, and actively managing the migration effort.
Where to Begin? Application Portfolio Migration - Miha Kralj, Principal Consultant, AWS
Application portfolio assessment is a technique used at the beginning of enterprise application migration process. It helps migration team to gather, analyse and understand their app portfolio before deciding on priorities and sequences of application migration. This session will present the app assessment process, the most common migration strategies and tools, and the placement of application portfolio migration in a complete IT Transformation process.
Is your organization considering migrating an existing data center over to AWS to reduce cost, improve reliability, security, and operational performance of your IT operations? If so, join us for a webinar on how to plan and execute your migration to the cloud from classification of applications, assessing your application needs, identifying the target applications and other various migration strategies.
Migrating data without proper tools and methodology can lead to significant risks and issues. The document recommends best practices for data migration including using tools and methodologies, having an experienced team, and conducting assessments. It outlines a recommended process including scoping, assessments, core migration, and decommissioning to help identify and mitigate risks.
This document discusses data migration in Oracle E-Business Suite. It covers migrating data to Oracle using open interfaces/APIs, Oracle utilities like FNDLOAD and iSetup, and third party tools like DataLoad and Mercury Object Migrator. It also discusses migrating data from Oracle by creating materialized views or using the Business Event System to define custom events. The document provides an overview of different data migration scenarios and options for loading both setup, master, and transactional data in Oracle E-Business Suite.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
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Many significant business initiatives and large IT projects depend upon a successful data migration. Your goal is to minimize as much risk as possible through effective planning and scoping. This paper will provide insight into what issues are unique to data migration projects and offer advice on how to best approach them.
This webinar discusses RISO Inc.'s experience migrating their on-premise data center to the AWS cloud with assistance from Apps Associates. [1] Apps Associates designed and implemented the new infrastructure on AWS, migrating applications like Oracle ERP and SQL servers. [2] This provided benefits like a 35% reduction in backup costs, 50% fewer IT vendors, and the ability to relocate offices without interrupting operations. [3] The webinar explores considerations for cloud migrations and the hybrid cloud model.
This document discusses data center consolidation as a key strategy for IT cost cutting. It notes that 69% of IT costs come from operations and maintenance of existing systems, and that consolidating data centers can reduce these costs by decreasing the number of data centers, servers, software licenses, and power usage. The document recommends migrating to virtualized hardware and cloud platforms as part of consolidation efforts to further reduce costs, while also implementing strategic disaster recovery functionality. It emphasizes planning application migrations carefully to avoid issues that could extend timelines or budgets.
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The document summarizes 11 IT projects completed by Actra between 2014 and May 2015, including:
1) Migrating Exchange servers from 2010 to a new virtualized Exchange 2013 environment and decommissioning the old server.
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This document outlines the steps for setting up a server management environment using VMware and SAN storage, including planning capacity and networking, installing vCenter and ESXi, configuring virtual machines with VMware tools, and setting up the SAN by configuring RAID, storage, networking, and iSCSI connections to virtual machines. The process involves tasks like downloading VMware software, mapping ISO images of client operating systems, setting static IPs, allocating storage, and enabling features like vMotion and snapshots. Configuration is then repeated for each virtual server.
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Apache Kafka with all its simple but needed offerings has left deep footprints in the software industry. And, with the ever-growing and maturing Kafka ecosystem, Kafka Connect allows us to focus on the data transformation rather than handling Kafka nitty-gritty details (which is mandatory if someone is using Kafka’s Producer/Consumer APIs). Kafka Connect in contrast, provides developers and operators a simple way of accessing, transforming and delivering data to connect an organization’s applications with their event streaming platform in the form of connectors.
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This presentation kicks off with a discussion of some key points of configuration management and their benefits and drawbacks, building on real world examples (well, pseudo examples, mostly too silly to have ever really happened... or maybe not?)
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OAM 3G Network Ericsson discusses operation and maintenance of Ericsson's 3G radio access network. Session 1 covers the OSS, EMAS and other tools used for network operation. Session 2 discusses commissioning radio base stations, replacing modules, backing up network nodes, and upgrading base station capacity. Key tools include OSS, EMAS, element manager and scripts for configuration tasks. Proper planning, tools and procedures are needed for tasks like commissioning, module replacement, backups and hardware upgrades.
2. This process was used to move:
◦ 100’s of Servers
◦ Over 300 Terabytes of SAN
◦ Between multiple Client Data Centers
I was the Project Manager responsible for
the SAN Team
Program was completed within Schedule
and Budget!
Overview
3. PREPARATION
60 to 0 Days prior to Forklift
Client Performs
PI TEAM backups
1. Verify Bundles
2. Provision Storage
2.a. Submit Ticket
2.b. Ticket Approved
3. Migration Tickets
3.a. Submit Migration
Ticket STORAGE TEAM
3.b. Migration Ticket 1. Verify Bundles
Approved 2. Verify Storage
2.a. Amount of SAN
2.b. How long to copy
BU PMs 2.c. Which Tool to use
1. Verify Bundles Symetrics >> Open Replicator
2. Hour by Hour Plan Clariion >> SAN Copy
2.a. Released to Storage WINTEL >> Host Copy
2.b. Expected return to client 3. Submit RFCs
3. Priority - Client requirement 3.a. RFCs Approved
4. Storage Point of Contact 4. Prepare for Migration
5. System Administrator 4.a. Create LUNs
6. Issue Resolution 4.b. Setup Copy Sessions
7. Issue Escalation 5. Prioritize Copy Sessions
8. Identify backup requirements 6. BCV Allocation
4. MIGRATION
Average Start Friday at 5:00 PM or Sooner
Sending DC - Server Loaded on Truck - Driven to Receiving DC
Platform TEAM
1. Verify Bundles
2. Flash Archive Back-up
Execute EMC Grabs
2.a. Analyse Grab Data
2.b. Plan Remediation
3. Submit RFCs
3.a. RFCs Approved
4. Perform Remediation Hands On TEAM
4.a. Re-run EMC Grabs 1. pre-forklift
checkout
2. Cold Boot
3. un-racks
4. Prepares to ship
5. Informs PM
PMs STORAGE TEAM
1. Informs Storage Team 1. Storage copy initiated
Server is Powered Down 1.a. Captures Timestamp
2. Informs Leadership 1.b. Informs PM
5. SETUP and VERIFICATION
STORAGE TEAM STORAGE TEAM STORAGE TEAM
2. Copy 3. SAN Allocated 5. SAN Issues
Completed 4. Storage is online 6. Update CMDB
2.a. Informs PM
2.b. Informs 4a. Informs PM 7. Closing RFCs
Leadership 4.b. Informs Leadership 8. Update EMC resource Sheet
Platform TEAM
5. OS Configuration
6. Power Path
Configuration
7. VERITAS Configuration Client testing & Sign-off
8. All Operational Agents
(ECC or NAVISPHERE)
9. Re-run EMC Grabs
If support is needed and there
is not an existing problem ticket,
the resolving party must create
Hands On TEAM an incident ticket and route to
1. Racks & Installs Server Support Infrastructure. In that
Data Ctr Ops ticket you should be clear what
2. post-forklift checkout
Create Ticket server you need service on,
2. Connects Network exactly what you need, and also
555-555-1212
3. Powers Up Server reference the RFC that the
4. Hands Off to Ops server work falls under
If support is needed and there is not an
PMs existing problem ticket, the resolving
party must create an incident ticket and
1. Informs Forklift Team route to Support Infrastructure. In that
2. Informs Leadership ticket you should be clear what server
3. Updates Client you need service on, exactly what you
4. Monitors progress need, and also reference the RFC that
the server work falls under
5. Manages Issues and escalations