VMware Mini Forum Calgary Afternoon Keynote Presentation, February 18, 2010. Overview on how Virtualization Technologies can provide flexibility and additional value in the Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO). Topics discussed: Centralized vs. Distributed Deployment Models, Backup, Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, vSphere features, Site Recovery Manager, Virtual Desktop, WAN Acceleration.
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Overview of VMware & VMware Education from IBMctc TrainCanada
Presentation will be delivered by IBM Training VMware Instructor, Stephen DeBarros, and will cover:
Virtualization 101.
Advantages to Virtualization.
What is Vmware VSphere?
Using Vmware Overview.
Overview of VMware education offered at IBM and newly released education
Recorded webinar is available here:
http://www.traincanada.com/site/event/overview-of-vmware-vmware-education-from-ibm/
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Overview of VMware & VMware Education from IBMctc TrainCanada
Presentation will be delivered by IBM Training VMware Instructor, Stephen DeBarros, and will cover:
Virtualization 101.
Advantages to Virtualization.
What is Vmware VSphere?
Using Vmware Overview.
Overview of VMware education offered at IBM and newly released education
Recorded webinar is available here:
http://www.traincanada.com/site/event/overview-of-vmware-vmware-education-from-ibm/
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware 6Symantec
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Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations’ data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec’s approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information.
Adaptive Computing Using PlateSpin OrchestrateNovell
Adaptive computing goes beyond just intelligently utilizing available resources; it encompasses quality of service (QoS) targets, fault tolerance (high availability), monitoring, and iterative analysis of the resulting dataset to determine what corrective measures (adaptations) should occur at any given moment. As virtualization becomes widespread in the data center, the need for automating the placement and configuration of workloads (virtual machines) using an adaptive computing model becomes vitally important. This session demonstrates how to use events, introduced in PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2, to create rules that trigger workload provisioning, migration, and other virtual machine lifecycle operations. It will also offer a preview of new functionality included in the upcoming 2.1 release of the product.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
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Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management for NonprofitsNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how three nonprofits in particular- The Atlantic Philanthropies, Vancouver Convention Center, and Sesame Workshop- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware 6Symantec
Symantec’s latest version of Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware helps organizations improve storage input/output (I/O) performance and availability for VMware vSphere. As customers move their business-critical applications to VMware cloud infrastructure, Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware addresses the need for increased I/O performance, better visibility and management of the underlying storage, and improved availability of virtual machines and applications in SAN environments. In the event of a path failure, Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware automatically routes data to an available path and then restores the failed paths as they become available – providing efficient storage management and availability across disparate storage hardware.
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations’ data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec’s approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information.
Adaptive Computing Using PlateSpin OrchestrateNovell
Adaptive computing goes beyond just intelligently utilizing available resources; it encompasses quality of service (QoS) targets, fault tolerance (high availability), monitoring, and iterative analysis of the resulting dataset to determine what corrective measures (adaptations) should occur at any given moment. As virtualization becomes widespread in the data center, the need for automating the placement and configuration of workloads (virtual machines) using an adaptive computing model becomes vitally important. This session demonstrates how to use events, introduced in PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2, to create rules that trigger workload provisioning, migration, and other virtual machine lifecycle operations. It will also offer a preview of new functionality included in the upcoming 2.1 release of the product.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
ExaGrid and Veeam present the 5 Keys to Virtual Server Backup Excellence. Includes an overview of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replicaiton software, and customer case studies.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management for NonprofitsNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how three nonprofits in particular- The Atlantic Philanthropies, Vancouver Convention Center, and Sesame Workshop- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
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The concept of the software-defined datacenter (SDD) is gaining recognition, as IT moves away from infrastructure traditionally defined by hardware toward a more flexible infrastructure built around software and dynamic allocation of resources. In the SDD, all virtualized storage, server, networking and security resources required by an application can be defined by software and provisioned automatically. Virsto’s VM-centric storage hypervisor is purpose built to deliver software-defined storage: the missing link for storage agility, performance and efficiency to realize more agile IT.
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Similar to Flexibility In The Remote Branch Office VMware Mini Forum Calgary (20)
2. Simplify the Branch Office using Virtualization
Technologies
James Charter, Sr. Virtualization Consultant
3. Agenda
About Long View Systems
Branch Office Challenges
Opportunities for Change
Centralized vs. Distributed
Backup
Data Replication
Disaster Recovery
Q&A
Slide 3
4. About Long View Systems
Focused on end-to-end IT Infrastructure Operations &
Procurement Services
Extensive Client Successes with (complete lifecycle) in SMB to
enterprise corporations
Established in 1999, with US operations established in 2004 with
extensive growth and investment from 2006 to current
Slide 4
5. Manufacturers
VMware Premier Enterprise Partner (Canada/US)
VMware Authorized Consulting Partner
(1 of the first 4 VACP in the world)
A white label virtualization resource and delivery sub-
contractor for VMware, HP, NetApp, EMC, Ingram and Avnet
Slide 5
6. Branch Office Challenges
Lack of Standardization
Every server is different and configured in a unique way
Limited Space & Budget
Limited room, power and cooling
Cost constraints often mean:
• Fewer servers are deployed
• Additional roles are required per server (AD, File, SQL, Exchange)
• Server hardware configurations may be non-redundant
Slide 6
7. Branch Office Challenges (continued)
Remote Support
Lack of onsite IT resources (phone, quarterly visits, ship to site)
Deploying a new desktop may require a site visit
Geographic location may not qualify for 4 Hour Onsite Warranty
service and may only be Next Business Day.
Backup & Recovery
Tape changed by office personnel, backups unreliable
Where are the tapes being kept?
Slide 7
9. Benefits
Standardization with templates
Rapid provisioning based on your ‘gold master’ installation
Reduce your costs
Consolidate servers onto less hardware to reduce power and cooling
requirements. Do more with less!
Reduce desktop support and deployment costs
Encapsulation & Isolation
Split application and service roles into separate virtual machines; reduce
the impact of application outages when changing one virtual machine.
Virtual Machines are isolated and the stability of one virtual machine does
not impact the others.
Slide 9
10. Benefits (continued)
Centralized Management
Manage the environment with a remote connection
Backup & Recovery
Hardware independence for Virtual Machines makes restores
more flexible
Backup entire Virtual Machines for quick ‘bare metal’ restores
Slide 10
11. VMware Solutions
Protection against hardware failures
Planned maintenance with zero downtime
Protection against unplanned downtime
and disasters
Site
Recovery
VMware Fault Tolerance, Manager
High Availability, Storage
DRS Maintenance Mode, VMotion
VMotion
NIC Teaming,
Multipathing
VMware Data Recovery, VMware
Ready Data Protection solutions
from third-party partners
Component Server Storage Data Site
Slide 11
12. High Availability
HA – High Availability provides quick recovery from hardware
failure
Slide 12
13. Deployment Models
Centralized vs. Distributed
Centralized - All services are consolidated centrally, may include
desktops
Distributed – Branch Office services available locally, may
include desktops
What makes sense for your environment? What are the main
determining factors?
WAN connectivity
Data Locality
Slide 13
14. Centralized Deployment Model
All services are consolidated centrally
Reliable WAN links are required for connecting the branch
office to centralized resources
High bandwidth with low latency may be required for a
centralized model - WAN acceleration products can reduce
bandwidth requirements and improve user experience
Virtual desktops can be used to minimize remote site support
requirements
Data protection and backup are performed centrally
Slide 14
15. Centralized Example
Virtual Servers Virtual Desktops
WAN
Head Office
Datacenter
Branch Office WAN Acceleration
(IT Operations)
Slide 15
16. Distributed Deployment Model
Core services in central location, local services based on use
case.
Suitable for sites with unreliable or non-redundant WAN links
Less bandwidth may be required compared to a centralized
solution
Suitable for sites that have a requirement for local data
Remotely managed from a central location
Virtual desktops can be used to minimize remote site support
requirements
Data replication for centralized backup and disaster recovery
Slide 16
17. Distributed Example
Virtual Servers
(Core Services)
Virtual Servers
Virtual Desktops
WAN Head Office
Datacenter
WAN Acceleration (IT Operations)
Branch Office
Slide 17
18. Backup Options
Backup Agents in the Operating System
Traditional agent based backup (same as physical servers)
Image or File level backups with VMware Data Recovery
Image or file level backups with VCB & Backup Product
Backup the Virtual Machine to your backup product (disk, tape)
Backup files in the Windows Virtual Machine to your backup product
Snapshot based backups with replication
Leverage storage array snapshots and application integration
Use De-duplication to minimize storage requirements!
Slide 18
21. Data Replication
Data
Replication
Application
Operating System
Virtual Machine
Storage Volume
Enables centralized backup
Use WAN Acceleration to lower bandwidth requirements
Use De-duplication to lower storage requirements
Storage Array based replication enables more flexibility
Slide 21
22. Disaster Recovery - Manual
Data
Replication
Data Replication of Virtual Machine to Recovery Site
Make storage volume writable (re-signature, rescan)
Register Virtual Machine
Adjust Virtual Machine Networking
Power On and Virtual Machine Customization (IP addresses, DNS, etc)
Follow Run Book
Slide 22
23. Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware vSphere to deliver advanced
disaster recovery management and automation
Simplifies and automates
disaster recovery workflows:
Setup, testing, failover
Turns manual recovery
runbooks into automated
recovery plans
Provides central management
of recovery plans from the
VMware vSphere Client
Works with VMware vSphere to
make disaster recovery rapid,
reliable, manageable, affordable
Slide 23
24. SRM Topologies
Standard Deployment: Shared Recovery Sites:
1:1 mapping between each Multiple sites can be protected by a
protected site and its recovery site single, shared recovery site
Leverage for remote office/branch
office topologies
Slide 24
25. Summary – Remote Office Big Wins
Use Storage Replication for the most flexibility
Scalability & Simplicity over VM, App, or OS replication
Use De-duplication
Less data to move, less bandwidth required, less $/GB
Use WAN Acceleration to maximize links & user experience
More efficient data transfer = less $/link, more /user
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
Build a framework that will scale to DR/BC when your business needs it.
Centralize to Simplify when you can
Does Virtual Desktop fit? What can you move back to the core?
Slide 25
26. Thank You
Questions?
Contact:
James Charter
james.charter@lvs1.com
403.515.6900