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1. US Air National Guard - DoD Private Cloud Initiative –
How Virtualization Saved $45 Million in
PowerCooling and Life Cycle Management
Mike Colson, Tec-Pros
Jason Scanga, VMware
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Jason Scanga, CIM Solutions Architect
VMware Public Sector S.E.T.
jscanga@vmware.com
www.vm5280.com
Mike Colson, Director of IT
m.colson@tec-pros.com
@mike_colson
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OPSEC Preface

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Operations Transformation in the Cloud Era
IT Ops in cloud era – is different than IT Operations in Client/Server era.
Success – requires more than incremental change addressed by continuous
improvement, lean methodologies, best practices etc...
Cloud Era – requires Ops Transformation.

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More Virtualization, Greater Success
2
Cost per VM hour
(2GB instance)
20¢
18¢
16¢
14¢
12¢
10¢
8¢
6¢
4¢
2¢
0¢
30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80%
Standardization
and pooling
1
Utilization
Automation

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Momentum in Virtualization - Rates Continue to Increase
19%
31%
44%
59%
73%
2009 2010 2011 2012 In 2 Years
% of Workloads Virtualized
Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010, Jun 2011, Mar 2012
Question: Please indicate percentage of x86 server operating system instances (e.g., Windows, Linux) that run in virtual machines

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Evolution of Server Virtualization Continues
Source: IDC Market Analysis Perspective: Cloud Virtualization System Software, December 2012, Doc # 238638

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Federal Budget Circus
 What we know
• FY13 Spending Cuts for DoD $37 Billion
• 11 Days of Furloughs for 700,000 Gov’t Employees
 What is being proposed
• One round of BRAC in 2015
• Program Budget Shifts or Cancelations
• Reductions in Force (RIF)

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Fuzzy Math or Factual Funds
 ANG Civil Engineering provided statistical input to findings based
on 5 year ROI
 US National Average for power cost $.13 per KWh
 10 to 1 Server consolidation saves 47.52 KW per day,
17,344.80 per year
• Annual Savings of Virtualizing just 10 servers is $2,254 on power alone
 Cooling is the biggest energy consumer in the datacenter
• 10 Servers = 180,201.12 BTU per day
• 1 Virtual Host = 18,020.11 BTU per day

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Lifecycle as a Service
 Lifecycle Data was pulled from ANG Lifecycle Management Team
 Average Lifecycle of a server is 5 years
 Average server cost $7,500 w/ 3 yr support
• Annual Support for years 4/5 $1,725
 Average virtual host cost $10,000 w/ 3 yr support
• Annual Support for years 4/5 $2,300
 Savings on 10 to 1 virtualization $94,900 over 5 years

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VDC
ANG PHASE I
ASSESSMENT
ANG PHASE II ANG PHASE III
Virtualization Is for Everybody
ANG PHASE II
DESIGN &
IMPLEMENTATION
ANG PHASE III
OPERATIONAL
CHANGES

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US Air National Guard Use Case Prior to Virtualizing
 5-7 full racks at each base
 50-75 server and storage devices
 Each system required its own power supply, management system
 Typical base NCC required 57925 BTU per day to operate
Space, Cooling and Power

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US Air National Guard Use Case Prior to Virtualizing
 The ANG was on a break fix maintenance contract
 The average cost to refresh a single server (total of 50 per base)
would be around $7500.00 per server, with Microsoft Licenses
came to a total of $942,523 per location
Refresh Savings

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VDC
ANG PHASE I
ASSESSMENT
ANG PHASE II
DESIGN &
IMPLEMENTATION
ANG PHASE III
Design to Virtualize and Virtualize First
ANG PHASE III
SAVINGS

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Leading to a
More Flexible and
Mission Ready
Workforce
Enabling Greater
Business Agility…
Customer Directive
Enable the ANG by
Simplifying and Automating IT in the Cloud Era
Optimizing IT
Efficiency…
Enabling Business Transformation thru IT Transformation

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IT Mandate
IT will always be pressured to …
enable greater business agility,
while becoming more efficient.

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IT Is Traditionally Forced to Focus on Non-Value-Add Activity
Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers
Overwhelming complexity
+
Brittle infrastructure
=
< 30% of IT budgets
goes to innovation
IT Investment
42%
Infrastructure
Maintenance
30%
Application
Maintenance
23%
Application
Investment
5%
Infrastructure
Investment
Mission Agility
Depends on IT Agility

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Obviously Something Isn’t Working Very Well…
…so what should we do?

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Drive IT Agility to Increase Business Value
Core Benefits
1. Reduce
the Complexity
to simplify operations
and maintenance
2. Dramatically
Lower Costs
to redirect investment into
value-add opportunities
3. Enable Flexible, Agile
IT Service Delivery
to meet and anticipate the
needs of the business

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ANG Goals
 Consolidation – Reduce the number of servers and hardware
variances for security and baseline
 Containment – Curb variance and sprawl by standardizing and
providing centralized oversight
 Availability – Introducing virtualization to increase application
availability and data recoverability
…there are many more benefits of virtualization

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Hypervisor Selection Made Easy
 Proven in the Trenches
• 400,000+ VMware Customers
• 100% of Fortune 100
• 100% of Fortune Global 100
• 99% of Fortune 1000
• 97% of Fortune Global 500
 Supported by Many
• Best-in-class Commercial Support
• 44,700+ Solution Providers
• 59,000+ VMware Certified Professionals
• Active and engaged VMware community

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VMware vSphere Platform
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
Automation
VMware vSphere
Security
• vShield Endpoint
• Security APIs
• Hot Add
• DRS/Storage DRS
• Profile-Driven Storage
• Auto Deploy
• I/O Controls
• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance
• vMotion/Storage vMotion
• Data Protection
• Replication
Availability
NetworkStorage
• Distributed Switch
• SR-IOV Support
• Thin Provisioning
• VMFS
• Storage APIs
• Storage Appliance
• Hypervisor
• Memory Overcommit
Compute
Management Services (vCenter Operations Management, vCenter Server, vCenter Orchestrator)

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VMware: Consistent Delivery, Continuous Innovation
“…and the company doesn't
show any signs of relinquishing
that title any time soon…”
Paul Ferrill, ServerWatch (May 7, 2012)
2011
2010
2009
2008
20072006
VI 3
 HA
 DRS
 VCB
 NAS & iSCSI support
 4-way vSMP
 16GB RAM per VM
VI 3.5
 Embedded, OS-free
hypervisor
 Storage vMotion
 Guided consolidation
 256GB host memory
support
 Large memory page NPT
support
vSphere 4.1
 Memory Compression
 Storage and Network
I/O Control
 DRS Host Affinity
 Linked mode
 Boot from SAN
 vStorage APIs
 8-way vMotion
 3000 VMs per cluster
vSphere 5
 Storage DRS
 Profile-driven Storage
 Auto Deploy
 Improved HA engine
 Metro vMotion
 vSphere web client
 vCenter Server Appliance
 32-way vSMP
 1 TB RAM per VMvSphere 4
 Fault Tolerance
 vNetwork Distributed
Switch
 vShield Zones
 Host Profiles
 Thin Provisioning
 8-way vSMP
 255GB RAM per VM
2012
vSphere 5.1
 vSphere Data Protection
 vSphere Replication
 Improved Auto Deploy
 Improved Distributed
Switch
 vCenter Single Sign-on
 64-way vSMP
“VMware has been a market
leader in virtualization as long as
there's been a market…”

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US Air National Guard Use Case After Virtualizing
 NCC-R is a single rack with 5 servers and a single Storage Area
Network (SAN)
 Current utilization between 5-10% of the 5 server CPU capacity and
1/3 of the SAN capacity
 NCC-R platform requires 12,902 BTU per day to operate, resulting
in $13,267,982.69 in five year power and cooling savings
Space, Cooling and Power

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US Air National Guard Use Case After Virtualizing
 The average cost of the NCC-R server (requires more memory)
is $10,000 each
 The cost of the storage array is $50,000 for a total cost of $100,000
 MS Data Center license were used to reduce cost resulting in a
savings of $505,873.98 per base or $40,469,918.40 over 5 years
Refresh Savings

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VDC
ANG PHASE I
ASSESSMENT
ANG PHASE II
DESIGN &
IMPLEMENTATION
ANG PHASE III
OPERATIONAL
CHANGES
Operations Simplified

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US Air National Guard - Before
 Platform Sustainment was complex, manually intensive and
required a lot of local touch management support
 Impossible to identify the proper life-cycle management for
each location
Ease of Use

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US Air National Guard - Before
 ANG operators were forced with sustaining multiple baselines and
images across each server (e.g. patch status, configuration
settings)
 Hardware across the enterprise varied and firmware versions and
builds were inconsistent
 There was very little to no ability to assess backup and DR
capability at each location
Consistent Baseline

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US Air National Guard - After
 The NOSC maintains a gold (STIG’d, standard) single image that
are deployed across each NCC
 Scripted baseline checks to ensure consistency
 A centralized backup solution which gives GNOSC operators
visibility, consistency and control of backups and DR across
deployed locations
Resulting Consistent Baseline

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US Air National Guard - After
 Single pane of glass the operators from the NOSC
 Full command and control support of the NCC-R platform
 Local operators can be granted access to make changes on an as
needed basis
 Life-cycle management of the entire solution becomes a
manageable task and completed with no down-time to the NCC-R
platform
Ease of Use

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Meeting the Mission of the Future
Operate as one enterprise
Rapid Deployment of Mission Applications
Business Needs and Requirements
Meet change mission requirements
Cloud
Services
Cloud Consumer
Enforce Governance and Control
Cloud Admin
Cloud
Services
Source: Server Provisioning Automation: Vendor Landscape,
Donna Scott, Ronni J. Colville, February 3, 2011.
Time to provision virtual servers
4-6 hours over multiple days even weeks
  
StorageVirtual
Step 1 Step 2
Network
Step 3 Step 4 Step N
Apps Track
Self
Service

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Enablement Through Virtualization
 The ANG took to virtualization early with Datacenter
virtualization first
 This was soon followed by the base level deployments
 Currently the branch units are finalizing their virtual infrastructure
deployment
 This solution has been replicated on VMware through out the ANG
environment at all levels
 Virtualization has become the de facto standard with this
deployment being used as the spring board for VDI, Application
Delivery and Backups across the cloud
 Centralized management and security are just some of the
operational advantages gained through virtualizing

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Cloud Computing is an that leverages the efficient pooling
of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.
Pooling
From machines to highly
elastic resource pools, with on-
demand capacity
Zero-Touch Infrastructure
Policy-driven automation of
provisioning, deployment and
management
Self-Service
Easy access with policy-
based provisioning and
deployment
Control
Application-aware
infrastructure with built-in
availability, scalability, security
and performance guarantees
Open & Interoperable
Application mobility between
clouds, based on open
standards
Leverage Existing
Investments
Benefits of cloud computing to
existing applications and
datacenters
Efficiency thru Utilization
and Automation
Agility with Control Freedom of Choice
Meeting the Mission of the Future

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
 Group Discussions:
OPT1004-GD
IT Financial Management for the Cloud with Khalid Hakim

35. THANK YOU

37. US Air National Guard - DoD Private Cloud Initiative –
How Virtualization Saved $45 Million in
PowerCooling and Life Cycle Management
Mike Colson, Tec-Pros
Jason Scanga, VMware
OPT4968
#OPT4968