Brian Martin Sr. Director, Partner Engineering, EMC Corp. VIR209

How to Build an Efficient Application Infrastructure Through Virtualization

Brian MartinSr. Director, Partner Engineering, EMC Corp.VIR209

EMC and Microsoft Hyper-VSolutions for efficient, effective, and affordable IT

Why EMC and MicrosoftThe virtualization imperativePhase 1 – consolidation & tieringPhase 2 – SLA managementPhase 3 – disaster recovery and business continuityPhase 4 – datacenter automation

EMC and Microsoft Extend Strategic AllianceEMC and Microsoft Extend Strategic Alliance Through 2011 to Deliver Efficient Information Infrastructures and Empower WorkersEMC CEO Joe Tucci and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showcase deep technology collaboration at New York CIO Summit.

New York - Feb. 3, 2009

Microsoft, EMC Partner on Security, SharePoint

The company responsible for creating most of the world's data has deepened its ties with the company most responsible for storing it.

Enterprise Storage Forum, February 4, 2009, Paul Shread

EMC and Microsoft: A Unique Alliance

Shared view of importance of information12+ year, continually expanding partnershipBroad and deep partnership across products and servicesJoint sharing of intellectual propertySignificant deployments of each other’s technology internallyThousands of joint customersCEO-sponsored worldwide go-to-market alliance

Top 5 Microsoft Revenue Driver

~1000 Microsoft-centric Consultants

Cooperative Support Agreement

$20M plus equipment in Redmond labs

Seven Microsoft Gold Competencies

Information Infrastructure

Excellence

EMC’s Unique Microsoft Customer

Value MSFT Expertise+ =

EMC Consulting for Microsoft~1,000 Microsoft consultants worldwide

Leader in SharePoint certificationsOver 75% of program managers are certified PMPs

Vast experience, many engagements:200+ for SharePoint Server 2007125+ for Exchange Server 2007

On staff industry experts and authorsAuthors of BizTalk, Windows Server 2008, Transparent IT books Contributing authors for Windows IT Pro, SQL Server, Align Journal, Digital Web Experience

Deep history of Microsoft partnershipCombined 18-time Partner of the Year winner, TAPs for Office 2007, Exchange 2007, Vista, Forefront, SQL Server 2008, OCS

2008 MS Partner of the Year: Business Process

and Integration

MS FastForward 2009 Enterprise Search Innovation Award

EMC for Microsoft Hyper-V: A Logical Fit

EMC is the preferred

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Why EMC and Microsoft The virtualization imperativePhase 1 – consolidation & tieringPhase 2 – SLA managementPhase 3 – disaster recovery and business continuityPhase 4 – datacenter automation

Why We VirtualizeDrive

Costs DownEnable

Business AgilityIncrease

IT Efficiency

Server ConsolidationEnergy & Space ReductionApplication Compatibility

Rapid ProvisioningHigh AvailabilityBusiness Continuity

Dynamic Datacenters and DesktopsAccelerated Responsiveness

“Why is virtualization such a big deal? A lot of people understand, and they think it's about saving money, it's about saving power, it's about green IT, it's about space, and that's certainly true. But in our perspective, it's much, much bigger than that, and people are just now beginning to understand that. We think that there's a major transformation taking place in IT. This major transformation that's been taking place for years is starting to accelerate, and we believe that virtualization is a major enabler and catalyst of that transition that's taking place.”- Tom Bittman, Gartner VP and Chief of Research of Infrastructure and Operations, at Microsoft’s Virtualization Launch Event

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Where do you want to be?

Reduce capital expenditureReduce operational expenditureDeliver higher service levelsMore responsive to business needs

EMC Datacenter VirtualizationBest practices in action

Statistics4068 virtual machines on 272 servers40:1 consolidation ratio (from initial 5:1)800 virtual desktops with goal of 100% by EOY100% virtualized by EOY, including 60k Exchange 2007 mailboxes

Savings$42M saved from Storage Consolidation$93M saved from Server Virtualization ($80M cost avoidance)$30M datacenter build avoided64% Reduction in on-going Power ConsumptionDeployment time reduced from 8 weeks to 3 days



Opportunities: • Retire older hardware• Reduce physical servers,

floor space, and power• Repurpose freed servers

for new business needs• Rejoice in the new

processor technologies

Server Consolidation The fastest way to reduce costs

Server Utilization

Virtualization Storage FundamentalsGood ideas for flexible designs

Don’t create one big volumeSure, it’s easy, but at what costLimits number of usable queuesLimits tuning & tiering options

Do balance the storageAcross storage controllersAcross multiple connectionsAcross multiple spindles

Size storage according to application requirements

Virtualization Storage FundamentalsVM storage options

Virtual hard disksDynamically expandingFixed sizedifferencing

Pass through disksDirect accessFC or iSCSIUsually higher performance

Direct iSCSI diskExposed directly to VM

Virtual (Thin) Provisioning

Reduces provisioning uncertaintyUnpredictable applicationsFlexible growth

Saves timeEasy to create Pools and LUN’sEasy to monitor and manage

Saves moneyHighly space efficient Resources shared across VMsAdd physical storage as required

perceived storage

Capacity on demand

Allocated AllocatedAllocated

Dynamically Expanding VHD

Virtual LUN TechnologyWhen your best guess isn't good enough

Storage needs changedUncertain requirementsUnexpected growth

Alter performance without disruption or downtime

Move between disk or RAID types

Tier virtual machine groupsMost efficient usage of storage

Virtual Servers

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Virtual LUN Technology

Storage Network Technologies

iSCSIMost flexible connectivityGenerally least expensiveRecommend isolating storage and network traffic

FibrechannelHigher usable bandwidthLower average latency

ConvergedSimplified connectivity, especially with dense server racksStandards still emerging

Virtualized Workloads

“Maxol runs Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, Terminal Services, and file and print servers as key workloads in its virtual environment. Going forward, nearly every

business application at Maxol will be a candidate for virtualization.”

Maxol Case Study

“We’ve seen first-hand that we can virtualize everything from file, print, and web servers to database servers running SQL Server and Oracle, and actually have

the virtual machine run *faster* than what it ran on our original physical box.”

Janssen Jones, Indiana University

Microsoft Exchange 2007

All Exchange 2007 roles supported for virtualizationEspecially in smaller or remote configurationsConsider databases on pass-through disks

Client Access Server, Edge ServerGood candidates for VHD placement

Hub Transport ServerCan reside with CASSame planning rules for storage as on physical server

Exchange Mailbox ServerSame planning rules for storage as physicalAvoid core and memory overcommit

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Excellent consolidation for underutilized serversStorage planning same as physical

Separate log and dataSize for expected performance and capacity

Performance considerationsDo not use dynamic VHDs Consider databases on pass-through disks as required

SharePoint Server 2007Recent SharePoint adopters are more likely to use server virtualization for deployments

Consolidation - Much more manageableEasier to scaleBalanced utilization and flexible configurationFarm mobility – HA, DR

Does your organization run SharePoint on virtual machines or physical servers

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, Dec 08

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Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, Dec 08

Among organizations that have been using SharePoint in production for less than 6 months, 42% have done so on a virtual infrastructure

Virtual Architecture SharePoint Server 2007 use case



Virtualized data center

Virtual Data Centers are Changing Storage RequirementsStorage infrastructures required to be more…

Flexible: Start small and grow without limits

Dynamic: Self managing to adapt automatically

Simple: Add more resources without adding more complexity

Efficient: Lower costs with increased functionality and capabilities

…And enable users to bridge between the physical and the virtual

Data center

End-to-end Physical/Virtual Management

Physical Environment

Virtual Environment

Fully support physical and virtual management across Microsoft and VMware ® infrastructure

Familiar interface and tools means minimal re-tooling of IT resources

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Follow standard I/O best practice recommendationsAlign application data disks

Windows 2008 automatically aligns NTFS at parent levelAlign pass through disk at VM level

Separate LUNs for binaries and application dataPass through or (fixed size) VHD for I/O intensive workloadsPass through usually performs slightly better than VHD

Spread load across multiple physical disksEFD for very high performance requirements

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The Challenge: Information Availability

Source: META Group

The Cost of Downtime: Millions of Dollars per Hour in Lost Revenue

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RETAIL BROKERAGE

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CREDIT CARD SALES AUTHORIZATION

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Business Continuity with Virtualization

Adding virtualization to your business continuity plan will reduce costs and minimize business downtime by: Increasing the availability of server infrastructure Inexpensively extending protection to more applications Minimizing time and resources needed to support

infrastructure

Disaster Recovery

High Availability

Backup and Recovery

Business Continuity

Quick/Live Migration

VHD

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Backup/Recovery

Clustering

Secondary SitePrimary Site

Storage Array

Storage Array

Disaster Recovery

Backup/Recovery Backup/Recovery

High Availability for Virtual EnvironmentsHost Clustering with Migration Capability

SAN

Virtual machine Guests failover from one node to another

Hyper-V leverages Windows Server

2008 Clustering for Quick Migration VHDs reside on

shared disk

Hosts are clustered

Guests are not clustered

Guest VMs can run any OS

High Availability Wizard

Disaster RestartBusiness Challenges and requirements

Meeting recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements with current plan

Business needs and/or regulatory needsNeed to reduce RPO and RTO times Need for continuous operations with no data loss

Cost of assets and maintenance at disaster recovery siteIdle assets at disaster recovery site is expensive and inefficientNeed to maintain software versions (updates and patches)

Reliability of the disaster recovery planNeed to address applications requiring dependent write consistency between and across operating systems Need to periodically test to ensure it will work when required

RecoverPoint/CE for Microsoft Failover Cluster

Integrates RecoverPoint family Microsoft failover clusterAutomatic site failover

Supports RecoverPoint continuous remote replicationFibre Channel or Gigabit Enet for asynchronous replication

Supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008Up to two nodes per site with Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS)on Windows Server 2003Up to eight nodes per site with Microsoft failover cluster withWindows Server 2008

Supports any array supported by RecoverPointHomogeneousHeterogeneous

Site B

RecoverPoint/CEMicrosoft Failover Cluster

Site A

RecoverPoint

File Share Witness with RecoverPoint/CE installed

LAN/WAN

Private Interconnect

Failover cluster supports up to eight nodes with Windows Server 2003 and 2008using Majority Node Set with and without File Share Witness

Cluster nodes with RecoverPoint/CE installed

RecoverPoint/CE Management

RP/CE and Node Failure EventFailover steps

Site A node fails, resulting in heartbeat response timeout Cluster reforms between Site B node and the File Share Witness nodeSite B node brings resource groups from Site A node online The latest image of the RecoverPoint volumes listed in the resource group are automatically recovered, read/write enabled, and mounted to the Site B nodeApplication listed as part of the failed Site A node resource group is restartedSite A node network address is added to the network interface of Site B node and client traffic is routed to Site B node

Site A Site B

RecoverPoint

Majority Node Set with File Share Witness

RecoverPoint/CE Failover

RecoverPoint/CE Failover

Benefits of RecoverPoint/CERapid site restart with RecoverPoint/CE

Provides automatic site failover for common disruptionsComplete site disastersServer or storage failureNetwork-related failures

Minimized site failback time with RecoverPoint Only changes are copied by RecoverPoint or RecoverPoint/SE to resynchronize the primary cluster storage system

Multi-array supportOne cluster can span storage arrays

Multiple storage arrays can be used at either or both sitesDifferent clusters can share storage arraysStorage arrays do not have to be identical between sites

Arrays can be consolidated at either siteOne array at production site to many arrays at remote siteMultiple arrays at production site to one array at remote site

Storage arrays can be heterogeneousAcross family, such as between CLARiiON and SymmetrixAcross vendors, such as between EMC and IBM



SC Virtual Machine Manager

The Power of Powershell

Automating Storage Management



EMC Offers Broad Hyper-V Support

Storage Platform support for Hyper-V

Qualified systems, published best practices

Backup and RecoveryIntegrated with VSS

EMC Proven SolutionsLab-validated architectures

Management IntegrationEMC Consulting readiness

“EMC's commitment to Microsoft's virtualization platform has been evident through our close engineering work, solution development, and consultant readiness efforts. Our work together will enable mutual customers to deploy integrated virtualization solutions with confidence.”—Zane Adam, Senior Director of Integrated Virtualization,

Microsoft Corp

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