Next-Gen Data Center Virtualization: Studies in Implementation

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Next-Gen Data CenterVirtualization: Studies in Implementation

Anil Vasudeva Principal Analyst & President [email protected]


•• Markets Drivers / Industry DynamicsMarkets Drivers / Industry DynamicsMainframes to Blade Servers Mainframes to Blade Servers -- Evolution in Tiered ComputingEvolution in Tiered ComputingSegmenting Applications/IT Workloads Segmenting Applications/IT Workloads –– TC, HPCTC, HPCMotivators, InhibitorsMotivators, InhibitorsMarket PenetrationMarket Penetration

•• Virtualization ImplementationVirtualization ImplementationImplementation At Various Levels Implementation At Various Levels –– OS, Server, Network, StgOS, Server, Network, Stg

Economics of VirtualizationEconomics of Virtualization

•• FuturesFuturesNextNext--Gen Data Center: Integration, Virtualization, Autonomics, Gen Data Center: Integration, Virtualization, Autonomics,

GridsGrids, ServicesServices


Chaos in the Enterprise . . .

Server/OS

Network

Application

Storage

Test

Backup

Disaster Recovery

Database

Financials

TM

D/R plan (MF only)

STK Silos Tape

TM

TM

TM

IBM3090-600JMVS/ESAIMS / ADABAS

BU by FDR Upstream

HPUX 10, 11.0, 11.2 MPE Sybase 11.9, 12

Fujitsu DS90UX P/M

8mm BackupLegato to DLT

IBM ADSM3490

HP OmniBack

SunSolaris 3.2, 3.4, 3.5Oracle 7.5, 8.0

IBM RS6000AIX 4.1, 4.2, 4.3DB2/6000

Compaq ProLiant 2500,5500NT 3.5, 4.0 SQL

Cheyenn e to 4mm

Batch

IBM AS/400OS/400

InventoryExchange

CAD/CAME-commerce

Lotus NotesOLTP

CICS

File transfers AIX to HP/UX via Platinum 9.9

FTP between Sun - NT

Database extracts MVS to SP2 via MQ Series 4.4

PeopleSoft

(1) Scales poorly (2) Difficult to manage (3) Reliability is questionable (4) Management costs out of control


DC Mgmt Nightmares Driving Virtualization

ServersServers/Admin

StorageTerabytes/DBA

MIS Alerts Urgent Alerts/Day

SystemAvailability

Servers Utilization

Win 5-10%, SMP 20-35%, MF 30-50%80+%

15-30300+

1TB100TB

20-404-5

HAL- 3 (99.9%)

HAL- 5 (99.999%)

Storage Utilization

30-45% Disk, 20-40% Tape75+%

Application Application/Server

120


End to End IT Infrastructure with HA & Securitywith HA & Security

Enterprise

Tier-3Data Bases

Tier-2Applications

Tier-1Edge Computing

ManagementDirectory Security Policy

Software OS Platform

Caching, Proxy, FW, SSL, IDS, DNS, LB, Web

Servers

IntrDet

IntrDet

Layer 3 Switches (Routers)

Layer 4-7 Switches

Layer 2 Switches

Stg Fibre Switches

Application,HA, File/Print, ERP, Security, SCM, CRM Servers

Database, Middleware, Data Mgmt

Servers

InternetISP

CoreOptical

NetworkingEdge

Access

ISPISP

ISP

IntrDet

Supplier/Partner

Remote Office

Home Networks

DSL

Cable Modem

MP3 VOD

WirelessCellular

xSP

App.Server

VPN

IntrDet

WebServices DBServers

ISP

ISP


Consolidated Data Center

Tier-1Edge

Servers

InternetISP

CoreOptical

NetworkingEdge

Access

ISPISP

ISP

IntrDet

Supplier/Partner

Remote Office

Home Networks

DSL

Cable Modem

MP3 VOD

WirelessCellular

xSP

App.Server

VPN

IntrDet

WebServices DBServers

ISP

ISP

Enterprise

Tier-3Data Base

ServersTier-2 Apps

ManagementDirectory Security Policy

Software OS Platform

Switches: Layer 4-7,Layer 2, 10GbE, FC Stg

FC/ IPSAN

Caching, Proxy, FW, SSL, IDS, DNS,

LB, Web Servers

Application,HA, File/Print, ERP, SCM, CRM Servers

Database, Middleware, Data Mgmt Servers

Tier-1 EdgeApps


*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms)

(RAID - 0, 3)

500100MB/sec101 505

1K

10 K

100

10

1

Market Segments by Applic./Workloads

eCommerceeCommerceTransaction Transaction ProcessingProcessing

OLTPOLTPOLTP

Data Warehousing

Visual DB

DSS(RAID - 1, 5, 6)

IOPs (Latency)

StreamingStreamingStreamingReference Data Reference Data

Audio/VideoAudio/Video

Scientific ComputingScientific Computing

ImagingImaging

NICNICNIC

TPC

HPCHPC


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 LessReason – 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

Revenue Growth

IT Costs (Actual)

IT Costs (Targeted)Profit

VZ SWMultiport

NIC

1 Physical Server 4 Virtual Servers

Problem Solution


Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization

Market Adoption of Storage Virtualization

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Medium EnterpriseEmpl 100-1K

Large EnterpriseEmpl 1K-10K

Very Lg. EnterpriseEmpl >10K

Deployed + Deploying within 1 yr Don't Know No


Implementing Virtualization

Storage Arrays

Application & DB Servers

Client Workstations

SAN GbE or FCSwitches

LANEthernet Switches

At Various LevelsMicroprocessor – Intel VT, AMD-PacificaOS- zOS, pOS, UNIX, Windows, Linux- IBM, HP, Sun, VMWare, Xen, SWSoft …File System- DFS …Networking- Multiport NICsStorage- Host, SAN, Controller- In-Band, Out-of-Band Management


Implementing Virtualization

Sour

ce: A

MD

VZ Extensions at Processor


Blade Infrastructure:Local Area Grid (LAG© )

MidplaneW/Connectors

To Blades & BackModules

Storage: IP NAS or FC SAN Switch

Management Modules Remote Mgmt+KVM over IP

Cooling N+1Fans/Cooling ModulesPower: N+1Power Supplies

Networking: Gbit Ethernet Switches

BladeControlPanel

Processor Blades(6-24 typically)

MemoryDDR wECC

GbitEthernet

I/FSystemsMonitorModule

Micro-Processors

USB Ports, CD/Floppy I/F

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~ GbE Switch supportsTrunking/Port AggregationFlow ControlQoS Packet PrioritizationSNMP/RMONIGMP/BOOTP/TFTP……

http://www.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/blade?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz


SNMP,IETF/ CIM,

SMI-S,SMASH.

Quadrics,Myrinet,InfiniBand,Ethernet / IP,Ethernet IP w/TOE,Ethernet IP w/TOE and RDMA.

SCSI,Fiber Channel,ISCSI.

Ethernet,Wi-Fi.Network Fabric

System FabricM

anag

emen

tFa

bric

Fabric based Integrated Architecture


Server Virtualization - Competition

Company Server Virtualization ProductAkimbi Systems Altiris BladeLogic Operations ManagerBMC Software Performance Manager Performance Assurance CA Unicenter Advanced Systems ManagementCassatt Collage Cross Virtualization ManagerCirba Data Center IntelligenceHP Virtual Server EnvironmentIBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Intelligent Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 MOM System Center VMMNovell Xen SuSE SEL 10Opsware Server Automation SystemPlatform VM OrchestratorQlusters Red Hat Xen RHEL 5SolarWinds SWsoft Virtuozzo for LinuxSun Virtual Iron Xen Virtual Iron Platform

GSX Server GSX Server ESX Server VMotion VirtualCenter

Xen Source XenVMware

Server Virtualization


Storage Virtualization

Storage

Servers

Clients

SAN

LAN

Storage VZ Implemented at Different Levels by Vendors

Host SAN Cntrllr.

Out-of- Band

Symantec, StorageAge

EMC, Fujitsu

In- Band

Cloverleaf, DataCore, IBM, FalconStor

HDS, NetApp, Sun


Storage Virtualization – Desired Features

Storage

Servers

Clients

SAN

LAN

Storage VZ Must Have Features

• Scale Non-Disruptively in Capacity• Snapshot Point-In-Time across Stg.devices• Remote Replication across Heterogeneous Stg. Devices• Policy Based Non-Disruptive Data Migration betweenHeterogeneous Stg Systems & Between Stg Tiers

• 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


Storage Virtualization - Competition

Company Storage Virtualization ProductCloverleaf Datacore EMC InvistaFalconStor Fujitsu Hitachi Data Systems TagmaStor Universal Storage PlatformIBM SAN Volume ControllerNetApp StorageAge Sun 6920 W StorEdge Pool ManagerSymantec/Veritas

Desktop Virtualization – Interested Companies

Altiris, AppStream, Ardence, Checkpoint, Citrix, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, IBM, LeoStream, NEC, Parallels, Platform Computing, Softricity/Microsoft, Sun, Wyse

Storage Virtualization

Desktop Virtualization


The Next Gen Data Center

IntegrationIntegrationIntegrates physical infrastructure using standardized devices for CAPSIMS: Cost, Availability, Performance, Scalability, Inter- operability, manageability & Security

VirtualizationVirtualizationPools Resources. Allocates, Monitors, and Meters the Usage of Pooled Resources

ProvisioningProvisioningProvisions the Resources Required to Deliver a Business Service

AutomationAutomationAutomatically Maintains Application Service Level Objectives


Servers - TCO Savings & ROI

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

1 2

% C

ontr

ibut

ion

OPEX

CAPEX33%

67%

46%

25%

Blade Servers Rack Servers

3 Year TCO Savings Rack vs. Blade Servers

OPEXStaff/

Support25%Maintenance/

Downtime54%

Facilities/Power21%

CAPEX

Servers46%

SWInfrastructure

22%

Storage Infrastructure

13%

Networking19%

TCO Savings in..

Data: IMEX Research 2005


Economics of Virtualization

0100200300400500600700800900

1000

w /o Stg VZ w Stg VZ

Expe

nses

/Yea

r $K

HW

SANAdmin

SW

Total Svgs - 21%/yr.

- 24%

- 16%

- 19%

Savings achieved through Storage Virtualization

Virtualization results in overall cost reduction 35-60% Storage VZ alone has produced ~20% cost reductions


Next Gen Data Center Virtualization:

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Next-Gen Data Center Virtualization: Studies in Implementation