This document discusses next-generation data center virtualization through the implementation of virtualization at various levels including the operating system, server, network, and storage. It notes how virtualization can help address challenges with current enterprise IT infrastructures like scalability issues, difficult management, questionable reliability, and high management costs. The document also outlines a vision for next-generation highly virtualized and automated data centers that integrate grids, services, and autonomics in addition to virtualization.

1. Next-Gen Data Center
Virtualization:
Studies in Implementation
Anil Vasudeva
Principal Analyst & President
anil@imexresearch.com
IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
408-268-0800
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

2. • Markets Drivers / Industry Dynamics
Mainframes to Blade Servers - Evolution in Tiered Computing
Segmenting Applications/IT Workloads – TC, HPC
Motivators, Inhibitors
Market Penetration
• Virtualization Implementation
Implementation At Various Levels – OS, Server, Network, Stg
Economics of Virtualization
• Futures
Next-Gen Data Center: Integration, Virtualization, Autonomics,
Grids, Services
Grids
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

3. Chaos in the Enterprise . . .
File transfers AIX to
Database extracts MVS FTP between Sun - HP/UX via Platinum
to SP2 via MQ Series 4.4 NT 9.9
Network
IBM3090-600J IBM RS6000
TM TM AIX 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 HP
MVS/ESA Sun DB2/6000 UX 10, 11.0, 11.2 MPE
Server/OS IMS / ADABAS Solaris 3.2, 3.4, 3.5 Sybase 11.9, 12
TM TM
Oracle 7.5, 8.0
Fujitsu
Database IBM AS/400 DS90UX Compaq
OS/400 P/M ProLiant 2500,5500
NT 3.5, 4.0 SQL
Application CICS
Batch CAD/CAM Inventory PeopleSoft
Financials Lotus
E-commerce Exchange Notes
OLTP
Storage
STK Silos Tape
Legato to DLT
BU by FDR 8mm Backup Cheyenn
Backup Upstream IBM e to 4mm HP
ADSM3490 OmniBack
Test
Disaster D/R plan (MF only)
Recovery
(1) Scales poorly (2) Difficult to manage (3) Reliability is questionable (4) Management costs out of control
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

4. DC Mgmt Nightmares Driving Virtualization
Servers Win 5-10%, SMP 20-35%, MF 30-50%
Utilization 80+%
Servers 15-30
Servers/Admin 300+
1
Application
Application/Server 20
30-45% Disk, 20-40% Tape
Storage
Utilization
75+%
1TB
Storage 100TB
Terabytes/DBA
MIS Alerts 20-40
Urgent Alerts/Day 4-5
System HAL- 3 (99.9%)
Availability
HAL- 5 (99.999%)
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

5. End to End IT Infrastructure with HA & Security
xSP IntrDet
VPN Enterprise
WebServices App.Server
DBServers
IntrDet Layer 3 Layer 4-7 Layer 2 Stg Fibre
Switches Switches Switches Switches
(Routers)
Supplier/Partner ISP
IntrDet
ISP Internet ISP
Core
Edge Optical
Networking ISP
Access
ISP
IntrDet
Remote Office ISP
Caching, Proxy, Application,HA, Database,
FW, SSL, IDS, File/Print, ERP, Middleware,
DNS, LB, Web Security, SCM, Data Mgmt
Servers CRM Servers Servers
Cable Modem Tier-1 Tier-2 Tier-3
DSL Edge Computing Applications Data Bases
MP3 VOD
Cellular Directory Security Policy Management
Wireless Home Networks
Software OS Platform
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

6. Consolidated Data Center
xSP
VPN
IntrDet
Enterprise
WebServices App.Server
DBServers
IntrDet
Supplier/Partner ISP Switches: Layer 4-7,
Layer 2, 10GbE, FC Stg
ISP Internet ISP
Core FC/
Edge Optical
Networking IPSAN
ISP
Access
ISP
Remote Office ISP Caching, Proxy, Database,
FW, SSL, IDS, DNS, Middleware, Data
LB, Web Servers Mgmt Servers
Tier-1
Tier-1 Application,HA, Tier-3
Edge File/Print, ERP,
Edge Data Base
Cable Modem Servers SCM, CRM Servers
Apps Servers
DSL Tier-2 Apps
MP3 VOD
Cellular Directory Security Policy Management
Wireless Home Networks Software OS Platform
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

7. Market Segments by Applic./Workloads
OLTP
Transaction
10 K Processing
eCommerce
Data DSS (RAID - 0, 3)
(RAID - 1, 5, 6)
1K Warehousing
IOPs Visual DB
(Latency)
100 Scientific Computing NIC
NIC
Imaging
TPC
10 Reference Data Streaming
Streaming
HPC
Audio/Video
1
1 5 10 50 100 500
*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms) MB/sec
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

8. Genesis of VZ & Grid Computing
CFO vs. CIO - Shocking Observations
• IT Infrastructure Investments yet to achieve TCO/ROI Financial Objectives
• Expected Boost in Corporate Productivity not Visible
• Post 2000 Dictum: Do More with Less
Reason – IT Spiral
• Web Growth > New Apps Mushroom > Lo Cost Win Servers Sprawl (Tier-1)
• Business Growth > Need More Computing Power > App/DB Servers (Tier-2,3)
• More Servers > Storage > DC Facilities > IT Support > IT Staff
• More Low Cost Servers > 5% Utilization >Scale Out Infrast. (Racks & Blades)
• IT Costs == Business Growth
Problem Solution
th
row
ue G
Re ven l) VZ SW
c tua
(A Multiport
ts
os NIC
Profit IT C d)
gete
(Tar 1 Physical Server 4 Virtual Servers
o sts
IT C
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

9. Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization
Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Medium Enterprise Large Enterprise Very Lg. Enterprise
Empl 100-1K Empl 1K-10K Empl >10K
Deployed + Deploying within 1 yr Don't Know No
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

10. Implementing Virtualization
Client At Various Levels
Workstations
Microprocessor
LAN
Ethernet
– Intel VT, AMD-Pacifica
Switches OS
- zOS, pOS, UNIX, Windows, Linux
Application &
DB Servers - IBM, HP, Sun, VMWare, Xen, SWSoft …
SAN
File System
GbE or FC - DFS …
Switches
Networking
Storage Arrays - Multiport NICs
Storage
- Host, SAN, Controller
- In-Band, Out-of-Band Management
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

11. Implementing Virtualization
VZ Extensions at Processor
Source: AMD
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

12. Blade Infrastructure:Local Area Grid (LAG©)
Management Modules Remote Mgmt+KVM over IP
Midplane Networking: Gbit Ethernet Switches
W/Connectors Storage: IP NAS or FC SAN
To Blades & Back
Switch
Cooling N+1Fans/Cooling Modules
Processor Blades Modules
(6-24 typically) Power: N+1Power Supplies
Blade
Control
Panel
USB Ports,
CD/Floppy I/F
~ GbE Switch supports
Trunking/Port Aggregation
Flow Control
Gbit QoS Packet Prioritization
Memory Ethernet SNMP/RMON
Systems I/F
Micro- DDR w IGMP/BOOTP/TFTP
Monitor
Processors ECC ……
© 2003-06 IMEX Research
Module
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

13. Fabric based Integrated Architecture
Ethernet,
Network Fabric Wi-Fi.
System Fabric
Quadrics,
Management
Myrinet,
SNMP, InfiniBand,
Fabric
IETF/ Ethernet / IP,
CIM, Ethernet IP
SMI-S, w/TOE,
SMASH. Ethernet IP
w/TOE and
RDMA.
SCSI,
Fiber
Channel,
ISCSI.
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

14. Server Virtualization - Competition
Server Virtualization
Company Server Virtualization Product
Akimbi Systems 
Altiris 
BladeLogic  Operations Manager
BMC Software  Performance Manager  Performance Assurance
CA  Unicenter Advanced Systems Management
Cassatt  Collage Cross Virtualization Manager
Cirba  Data Center Intelligence
HP  Virtual Server Environment
IBM  Tivoli Workload Scheduler  Intelligent
Microsoft  Virtual Server 2005 MOM  System Center VMM
Novell  Xen SuSE SEL 10
Opsware  Server Automation System
Platform  VM Orchestrator
Qlusters 
Red Hat  Xen RHEL 5
SolarWinds 
SWsoft  Virtuozzo for Linux
Sun 
Virtual Iron  Xen Virtual Iron Platform
 GSX Server  GSX Server  ESX Server 
VMware  VMotion  VirtualCenter
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
Xen Source  Xen
IMEX

15. Storage Virtualization
Clients
Storage VZ Implemented
at Different Levels by Vendors
LAN
Host SAN Cntrllr.
Servers
Out-of- Symantec, EMC, Fujitsu
Band StorageAge
SAN
In- Cloverleaf, HDS,
Storage Band DataCore, IBM, NetApp, Sun
FalconStor
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

16. Storage Virtualization – Desired Features
Storage VZ Must Have Features
Clients
LAN
• Scale Non-Disruptively in Capacity
• Snapshot Point-In-Time across Stg.devices
Servers • Remote Replication across Heterogeneous Stg. Devices
SAN
• Policy Based Non-Disruptive Data Migration between
Heterogeneous Stg Systems & Between Stg Tiers
Storage • Centralized Mgmt of all Stg.VZ under Single Image
• Support Tiered Storage
• Volume Management for Multivendor Stg. Systems
• Common Set of Tools: Provisioning, Mgmt & Replication
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

17. Storage Virtualization - Competition
Storage Virtualization
Company Storage Virtualization Product
Cloverleaf 
Datacore 
EMC  Invista
FalconStor 
Fujitsu 
Hitachi Data Systems  TagmaStor Universal Storage Platform
IBM  SAN Volume Controller
NetApp 
StorageAge 
Sun  6920 W StorEdge Pool Manager
Symantec/Veritas 
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization – Interested Companies
Altiris, AppStream, Ardence, Checkpoint, Citrix, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens,
Hitachi, HP, IBM, LeoStream, NEC, Parallels, Platform Computing,
Softricity/Microsoft, Sun, Wyse
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

18. The Next Gen Data Center
Automation
Automatically Maintains
Application Service
Level Objectives
Provisioning
Provisions the Resources
Required to Deliver a
Business Service
Virtualization
Pools Resources. Allocates,
Monitors, and Meters the
Usage of Pooled Resources
Integration
Integrates physical infrastructure using
standardized devices for CAPSIMS:
Cost, Availability, Performance, Scalability, Inter-
operability, manageability & Security
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

19. Servers - TCO Savings & ROI
3 Year TCO Savings
TCO Savings in..
Rack vs. Blade Servers
OPEX
100% Staff/
Support
Maintenance/ 25%
80% Downtime
54%
Facilities/
% Contribution
60% Power
67% OPEX 21%
40%
46% CAPEX
Networking
19%
20% Servers
33% 46% Storage
CAPEX 25% Infrastructure
13%
0%
1 SW
Rack Servers Blade2Servers Infrastructure
22%
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
Data: IMEX Research 2005 IMEX

20. Economics of Virtualization
Virtualization results in overall cost reduction 35-60%
Storage VZ alone has produced ~20% cost reductions
Savings achieved through Storage Virtualization
1000
Total Svgs
900
- 21%/yr.
800 SAN
Expenses/Year $K
700 Admin - 19%
600
500 SW
- 16%
400
300
200 HW
- 24%
100
0
w /o Stg VZ w Stg VZ
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX

21. Next Gen Data Center
Virtualization:
Studies in Implementation
For updated full set of slides go to
www.imexresearch.com/NGDC
or email request to
anil@imexresearch.com
Anil Vasudeva
(408) 268-0800
©2003-2006 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
IMEX