The document outlines a comprehensive IT makeover process undertaken by PBS Engineering and Environmental, detailing the transition from a traditional to a virtualized IT infrastructure. Key sections highlight the challenges faced, the implementation timeline, and the resulting benefits such as reduced server count, enhanced performance monitoring, and increased reliability. The presentation also addresses common misconceptions about virtualization and provides steps for organizations looking to start their own transformations.

1. Walk-Through an IT Makeover, End-to-End,
and See the Results!
Ron Petti, PBS Engineering and Environmental
Todd Leavitt, PBS Engineering and Environmental
Todd Barton, Dell
Dina O’Mara, VMware
VSVC5130
#VSVC5130

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Agenda
 A Walk Through: Before
 IT Nightmares - It Can Happen to You!
 Implementation and Tips to Ensure Success
 What We Did - A Walk Through: After and DEMOS
 Debunking the 5 Top Myths of Virtualization
 Results
 Looking Forward
 How to Get Started, Resources

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A Walk Through – Before
Can you afford downtime?
Aberdeen Group, Oct. 2012
Data is the lifeblood of any business—big or small.
of organizations have experienced
a data loss, with over half saying
data loss due to hardware failure.
of companies that have disaster,
go out of business within a year.

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A Walk Through – Before
Five years ago, began virtualizing the PBS data center
 Mix of 30 to 35 servers and desktop class PCs
 Virtualizing onto five Dell 64-bit servers with
VMware vSphere 3.5, using all of the extra capacity
 Helped to keep the IT room cool

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!
Fire Suppression System Inadvertently Discharged

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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Implementation – What We Did
1. Needs Assessment
 Dell’s DPACK
2. Estimated 6-8 weeks to finish
3. Resources
4. COMMUNICATION
5. Project Plan
 Proactively helps in the event of changes
 Define a scope
 Dependencies
6. Establishing who does what
7. Looking beyond DR
8. Testing

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Implementation – Timeline
 Create and
complete SOW
 Assess current
data centers
(Dell tool used)
 Install new hardware
 Install software such as
vCenter and linking sites
 Complete full integration
into our VMware cloud
systems
 Install vCenter Site Recovery
Manager (SRM)
 Install vCenter Operations
Management Suite
 Complete initial replications
and build out SRM
Full testing of
systems
Optimizations
of systems (using
vCenter Operations
Manager and
Dell San HQ) and
realizing results
Week 1 Week 6
Week 7
and Ongoing
Weeks 2 - 3 Weeks 4 - 5

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Implementation – Tips to Ensure Your Success
Establish
Goals
Create
Implementation
Plan
Leverage
Existing
Hardware
Utilize
VMware
Support
Implement
Increase
efficiency,
reduce costs,
and simplify IT
infrastructure
PBS’ Virtualization Roadmap

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What We Did – A Walk Through: After
A Q&A With Our Partner and Customer
Todd Barton
Americas Enterprise Storage Sales & Strategy
Dell
Todd Leavitt
IT Manager
PBS Engineering and Environmental

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Implementation – What We Did
Hardware
3-2-1 Hardware Bundle
 3 Dell Power Edge Servers R620
 Intel Dual Processor
 128B RAM
 2 146GB 15k RPM SAS Hard Drives
 2 Dell Power Connect 6248
 1 Dell EqualLogic Storage Array
• 7.2TB storage capacity with 24X 300GB hard drives
• Mission Critical Support (Three (3) year term)

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Implementation – What We Did
Software
 Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit – license
384GB memory for 6 sockets: 64-way vCPU
entitlement per VM, vCenter Server Standard,
vSphere Storage Applicance
 SRM Standard 25 pk
 vCenter Operations Management Suite
Enterprise
 Standard Support (One (1) year term)
Service
Agile consulting with Dell, which includes a
Dell 3-2-1 installation for 3 servers, 2 switches
and 1 storage array, with data migration and
SRM Replication Enablement.

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DEMO: PBS’s Real-Time Use
SRM and vCenter Operations Management Suite

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DEMO: PBS’s Real-Time Use
Screenshots

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Debunking the 5 Top Myths of Virtualization - Learnings
Change is
scary.
My company
doesn’t have the
manpower.
I don’t have
the time.
Virtualization
is expensive.
I lack the
expertise.

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PBS Results
Reduced # of
servers from
Saved
in energy costs
Improved performance
monitoring within
of installing vCenter
Operations Manager
efficiency
footprint.
Reached green goal.
customer confidence
in systems and high
availability

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PBS Results – What They Can Say to Their Clients
Deliver services to a larger customer base with relatively less
substantial costs
Gain greater efficiency and productivity, means we can deliver even
better solutions, faster, for our customers /prospective clients
Can get clients up and running quickly
Easily adapt to / scale with clients’ on-demand needs, and
growth/change
Virtually 100% uptime / reliability
Proactive – technology provides single pane view of what’s
happening in the IT infrastructure:
• Monitor resource utilization
• Respond quickly to the needs of customers
Reduced our foot print - aligned to vision of company to be
sustainable and green

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Looking Forward
Have an aggressive plan in place:
 Expand web hosting, web technology
 Expand virtualization and cloud solutions -
As PBS looks to plan for the future, this
experience and the long-term business goals
have convinced PBS team they need to
virtualize even further
 Create an even more robust site recovery
management plan - PBS is excited to build out
its existing virtualized infrastructure and
 Everyone is equally excited about the smaller
environmental footprint that comes
with virtualization and cloud solutions
“PBS now has an
Enterprise-Level IT
infrastructure in place that
many national firms do not
have …..we are very well
positioned to scale our
web-technologies services
which allows us to
compete with the bigger
players in our industry.”
– Ron Petti, CEO, PBS

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Bringing it to life!

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Video Summary

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How to Get Started
VMware Dedicated Account Executive Team
Please call:
877-486-9273

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Resources
Links
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Desktop End-User Computing
VMware.com
Go to our VMware eSTORE
Dell EqualLogic Solutions

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Resources
Demos and Knowledge
VMware Educational Services
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Check our Spiceworks Community for updates

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Resources
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29. THANK YOU

31. Walk-Through an IT Makeover, End-to-End,
and See the Results!
Todd Barton, Dell
Todd Leavitt, PBS Engineering Environmental
Dina OMara, VMware
Ron Petti, PBS Engineering and Environmental
VSVC5130
#VSVC5130