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Addressing Mission-Critical x86 Computing Requirements With a DYNAMIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Alex Yost – Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM System x and BladeCenter


Dynamic Infrastructure: Addressing Mission-Critical x86 Computing Requirements

Globally, systems and infrastructure are reaching a breaking point

85% idleIn distributed computing environments, up to 85% of computing capacity sits idle.

Consumer product and retail industries lose about $40 billion annually, or 3.5 percent of their sales, due to supply chain inefficiencies.

33% of consumers notified of a security breach will terminate their relationship with the company they perceive as responsible.

33%

40 billion

Explosion of information driving 54% growth in storage shipments every year.

1.5x

70¢ per $170% on average is spent on maintaining current IT infrastructures versus adding new capabilities.



In a smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. Building a Dynamic Infrastructure:

Service Management

Virtualization

Energy Efficiency

Business Resiliency

Security

Information Infrastructure

Provide visibility, control and automation across all the business and IT assets to deliver higher value services.

Maximizing the value of critical business and IT assets over their lifecycle with industry tailored asset management solutions.

Leadership virtualization and consolidation solutions that reduce cost, improve asset utilization, and speed provisioning of new services.

Address energy, environment, and sustainability challenges and opportunities across your business and IT infrastructure.

Maintaining continuous business and IT operations while rapidly adapting and responding to risks and opportunities.

End to end industry customized governance, risk management and compliance solutions.

Helping businesses achieve information compliance, availability, retention, and security objectives.

Asset Management



Virtualization progression

Inhibitors

Skills & standards

Fear of VM sprawl

ROI doesn’t meet hurdle rate

Test & Development Consolidation

ProductionVirtualization

Inhibitors

Inadequate service levels

High failure impact

Time and resources to implement

Business critical

Automation

Solutions

Proven solution

Integrated virtual & physical management

Requires fewer servers, helping to optimize ROI

Solutions

Leadership virtualization performance & capacity

Extensive array of features to improve availability

Extensive experience

RealizedValue from

Virtualization

IBM and VMware solutions are designed to helps clients increase value



Increased Hardware Utilization Before VMware software After VMware software

“The real driver behind this trend is simple economics. An IBM and VMware virtualized x86 solution offers the required size, performance, availability, and manageability to run mission- critical workloads – but, in many cases, at a much lower price point than alternatives.

The troubled economic climate will accelerate this trend as more companies look to cut costs and increase efficiency.”Gabriel Consulting, March 2009*



Utilization Example: Industry-leading Exchange usage 16,000 “Heavy” Exchange users on one IBM System x3850 M2 Server

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# CPUs (cores)

Best-ever capacity:16,000 mailboxes on one server

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s/core

1,000 mailboxes/core5MB/mailbox

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/ibm_exchange_vmworld.htm

Virtually eliminates historical software limitations

Exceeds capacity of native deployments

Extracts more work from hardware resources

Unprecedented achievement highlighting the value of scale-up

Scalable Platform Technology

IBM x3850 M2 Server

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/ibm_exchange_vmworld.htm



VMware vSphere with IBM Systems: Meeting the Needs of Business-Critical Applications

Virtualize mission-critical workloads

Small applications benefit from high consolidation ratios

All applications benefit from portability, manageability and availability

E.g. SAP, Microsoft Exchange 2007 and other major enterprise applications

Identify the best consolidation candidates through virtualization assessments

Large and growing ISV ecosystem

Improve availability, security and scalability

Continuous availability for critical applications with Fault Tolerance

Non-disruptive scale-up of virtual machine CPUs, memory and disks



The system technologies you choose will have a significant impact on your success

Why choose IBM?

Implement wisely

Breadth and depth of virtualization experience

Knowledge and deep insights from repeated client successes

Proven execution model and available resources

Maximize results

Flexibility and reliability to consolidate more work onto fewer servers

Best-in-class performance and energy efficiency

Common management across diverse environments

Solution breadth

Solutions for virtualization across your entire enterprise

Broad portfolio to optimize for different requirements

First to market with innovative solutions



Joint Innovation and Partnership

IBM x86 Virtualization:

First VMware system vendor

First VMware joint development partner

First to offer comprehensive VMware support

First blade to include VMware

First demonstrated VMware embedded hypervisor

First VMware managed desktop offeringInnovation driven by• R&D collaboration• Innovative service offerings• End-to-end IBM solutions



VMware vSphere 4.0 and System x and BladeCenter for a Dynamic Infrastructure

A Dynamic Infrastructure reduces costs, improves service, and manages risk.

Virtualization is a key element of a Dynamic Infrastructure.

vSphere 4.0 with System x and BladeCenter delivers efficiency, control and choice.Reduce cost and increase efficiency with vSphere 4.0 on System x and BladeCenter

Cut your x86 server sprawl by more than 50% and deliver better than 35% TCO Savings1.

Deploy more VM’s per server with vSphere 4.0 and IBM’s uniquely scalable eX4 platforms

Consolidate operations, eliminating redundancy and increasing overall systems control

Consolidate workloads on a platform that offers built-in virtualization and versatile compute capacity with a wide choice of processor, memory, I/O and storage options

Control power consumption by combining VMware with energy-efficiency built into the server design

Improve service and control with unparalleled RAS features & innovative management

Stay up and running with 3 levels of memory protection with IBM Active Memory means more transactions and revenue for your business

IBM’s scalable x86 systems run faster, use less energy, are more reliable, easier to manage and significantly better for virtualization than competitive offerings

Stay up and running longer with best-in-class reliability, I/O redundancy and automatic failover - VMware and System x deliver solutions that you can rely on

Manage risk and improve flexibility using proven technology from System x and VMware

Scale to new levels with the most multi-core processors, largest memory footprint which means the maximum number of virtual machines per serer for better virtualized application performance

Comfortably virtualize your database and business applications on fewer systems without impacting performance and know that you have room to grow with System x and BladeCenter



The New Generation of IBM System x & BladeCenter

IBM System x3650 M2 and x3550 M2• New, energy smart design features lower wattage efficient power supplies, counter

rotating fans, altimeter, & advanced power management• Next generation systems management tools• Best-in-class features for reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)• Maximum storage flexibility with support for 12 x 2.5” hot swap HDD’s in x3650 M2

and 6 in x3550 M2

IBM BladeCenter HS22• Performance-tuned with memory capacity up to 96GB, speeds up to 1333MHz,

and support for 2 top-bin processors• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD, & performance SSD• Backwards compatible with all BladeCenter chassis• Best-in-class server RAS and next generation systems management tools

The new generation servers take full advantage of the entire feature set of the Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors including Turbo Boost and

Hyper-Threading.Powerful, energy-efficient servers for virtualized workloads.

HS22

x3550 M2

x3650 M2



Selecting the Right Server for Virtualization

Powerful, expandable 4P+ servers designed to handle any virtualization project with ease, especially when >48GB memory, intensive I/O, or server reliability are critical considerationsLarge 20+:1 virtualization projects while maintaining peak load application responsiveness

2 socket licensing, excellent price/performance/watt with quad-core technology on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture make these servers ideal for smaller IT virtualization projectsSmall to medium size consolidation typically ranging from 8-16:1 of infrastructure apps

Lowest Server Count

Memory and I/O Intensive

Less Predictable Workloads Headroom For Peak Demand

Raise Server Utilization Small Infrastructure Apps

Predictable, Stable Workloads

Consolidation/Large-scale virtualization

Infrastructure Virtualization

x3650 M2x3550 M2

BladeCenter HS22

x3850 M2x3950 M2



Storage systems for a cost-effective, scalable VMware environment

IBM System Storage

Full range of efficient storage systems for a VMware environment

Cost-effective storage for high ROI on virtualization deployments

Support for consolidated backup, VMware Site Recovery Manager

See and hear more – click to view video– www.vmware.com/go/ibm - upper right of page

DS3300

DS4000/DS5000

Part of a complete line of IBM System Storage solutions

http://www.vmware.com/go/ibm



DS5000 Delivers Real-world Performance and Industry Leading Scalability

For increasing numbers of Virtual Machines

For superior Database response times

For outstanding Sequential Application throughput

Providing headroom for backup and disaster recovery services

Balanced performance for applications including WebSphere, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle…

Demonstrates sustained balanced performancefor concurrent applications running on VMware



Proof: VMware Infrastructure Real-world Performance on IBM System Storage DS5000

Concurrently delivers – Email – 17,512 Exchange mailboxes– Database – 9,164 IOPS– Web Server – 4,551 IOPS– Backup Job – 425 MBPS

First concurrent mixed-workload storage test for a virtual environment

– IBM, VMware and ESG jointly

Time is Money– Email response time ≤

16 ms, under 20 ms max recommended by MS

– Database response time ≤

6ms

Outstanding response times, especially at high IOPS levels



Efficient Systems Management with IBM Systems Director Virtualize more, manage less

Common toolset

Modular, industry standards- based approach

Leverages investments in IBM platform management

Integrates with IBM service management offerings from IBM Tivoli group

Supports IBM and third- party extensions

Simplified management of physical and virtual infrastructure

Rapid deployment and optimization of IT resources

Reduction in time-consuming management tasks

“ . . . IBM Systems Director could become the primary point of control -- not just for IBM Systems, but entire datacenters.” (1) (1) Source: Ideas International, Tony Iams, ‘IBM Puts Friendly Face On Heterogeneous Virtualization’ blog posting,

November 2, 2006; http://ideasint.blogs.com/ideasinsights/2006/11/ibm_puts_friend.html



Comprehensive suite of virtualization service offerings from IBM Global Services

Analytics provide important insights that can help achieve 20% or more savings

Proven reference architectures and leading practices accelerate design and implementation

Consolidation alone has helped clients achieve 3x improvement in storage utilization

Recent investments in Novus and Softek deepen storage virtualization support

Services include assessment, planning, strategy development, implementation and support for IBM and third-party technologies, such as VMware

Spans multi-platform, multi-vendor systems – servers, storage and networking

Managed services can build and maintain a highly virtualized environment – helping save over $100/seat/year



Despite the recent economic volatility, organizations can't afford not to begin the transition toward a dynamic infrastructure.

That’s why IBM IGF has developed programs that will help conserve cash and fund 2009 IT Information Infrastructure investments.

With IGF, clients can:

Manage the planning process for transformational projects and technology acquisition

Lower the cost of technology acquisition

Lower TOC, while adhering to strategy and maintaining service levels

Avoid financial, logistical, and legal burdens associated with disposing of retired IT assets

IBM Global Financing Affordable, Simple, Accessible, Complete



IBM/VMware solutions enable IT simplification, quick ROI

Consolidated & virtualized 89 standalone servers to 5 System x servers and one IBM BladeCenter – enabling a new application to be deployed in minutes rather than weeks

Bryant Bryant UniversityUniversity

AISO.netAISO.net60 percent reduction in power and cooling costs through virtualization-based datacenter consolidation

Implemented an IBM Scalable Modular Data Center solution yielding 40 to 50 percent reduction in floorspace; estimated 30 percent more efficient in power and cooling

St. Helens St. Helens Council Council

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VMware and IBM: Comprehensive Solutions for Virtualizing Mission-Critical Workloads

High-performance System x servers and storage

VMware virtualization software leadership

Large IBM-VMware ecosystem

Continuing IBM/VMware innovation

Complemented by IBM services and financing

System x andBladeCenter

System Storage

IBM Global Services



THANK YOUYOU!

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