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Data Center Cloud Consolidation

About RDS

RDS is a vendor and technology neutral company, we test

and evaluate the best and most secure technologies

available today from the leading manufacturers. We

customize each solution to meet our customer’s unique

requirements, making RDS a single source for choosing and

implementing the best solutions to your most challenging

problems. Our customers have relied on us to provide single

source solutions since 1996.

Our Partners

Our promises are real. Today, we have a growing list of

deployments at prominent corporations and partners, including

the ones shown below.

RDS strives to be one of the premier

storage solutions designers in the network

storage industry.

To leverage industry expertise and solve

current integration needs by offering:

Business Continuity Services

Data Management Services

Consolidation and Migration Services

Networked Storage Services

Consulting and Residency Services

.

Vision

To serve as an integrator to our clients by

bringing hardware and software together into a

seamless and viable solution. Cultivating long-

term customer focused relationships.

Overview

Objectives

Strategies

Our clients

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Why Cloud?

Our Cloud methodology helps you to meet your business

demands for ever-increasing speed, agility, and cost savings by

providing effective tools for managing IT in a new cloud-based

paradigm. Regardless of the type of cloud environment you deploy

(private, public, hybrid, or a “cloud bursting” model), there are two

foundational pillars that form the basis of successful cloud

computing initiatives. Our compute platform provide both pillars - a

web-based, self-service portal with an automation orchestration

engine and a compute platform that is built from the ground up with

the ability “to be orchestrated”. The solution has the following key

attributes which are critical to the success of a development cloud

deployment.

Improving time to operational value: A shorter time is required to

build the solution due to fewer elements, pre-integration, and a

modular non-coding approach to content definition. A simple

workflow takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete versus days in

competing solutions.

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Why Cloud? (continued)

Enhancing coverage and flexibility: The solution includes an

industry-leading, comprehensive service catalog with strong

ITIL support, governance policies over service consumption,

and open standards Portlet integration. It works with any

hardware and virtualization product in the market, as well as

any management framework. In addition, it goes beyond

simple provisioning cloud services to automation of the entire

spectrum of operation processes for runtime production

operation of cloud services and infrastructure. It also

automates ongoing maintenance, health checks, incident

management, compliance, capacity management, footprint

optimization, and so on.

Enriching user and administrator experience: Our Cloud

methodology offers the market’s best end-user storefront

interface. It is easy to configure and operate workflows.

Detailed automation summaries keep administrators in control

and accountable

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Reducing TCO: This right-size solution provides a core

service automation stack (catalog, orchestrator) that works

with existing ticketing systems, CMDB, resource managers,

and infrastructure from any vendor. It does not force you to

buy the entire portfolio but gives you the flexibility to buy what

you need when you need it, from vendors you prefer with the

capacity to grow as you grow. In addition, it offers a low

license price compared to typical competition pricing.

Our computing platform provides a highly available

and flexible environment based on current Intel technology.

RDS has been in this service industry for a long time, in this

system integration efforts in recognizing that the in addition to

a strong Service Catalog / Orchestration Engine offering.

There has been a need in the industry for a compute platform

that is designed from the start be orchestrated.

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In response to this industry need, Cisco developed the Unified

Computing Platform with the attributes listed below which

enable pools of resources in a cloud to be deployed cost

effectively within minutes and according to rapidly changing

requirements for both virtualized and non-virtualized servers.

Stateless Computing with Service Profiles-This capability

abstracts the attributes of each server blade and essentially

virtualizes the bare metal server underneath the hypervisor or

single OS, allowing deployment of bare metal servers with the

same ease as a virtual server.

Unified Fabric- Provides every server in the system high I/O

access to SAN, NAS or iSCSI storage as needed within

minutes without a separate storage network.

Virtualization Aware Networking –Enables the virtual;

adapters to be assigned to individual virtual machines

providing full network visibility to individual VMs.

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Virtual Adapter Technology – Allows the addition of up to

256 virtual Ethernet NICS and/or HBAs within minutes without

adding additional hardware making the number of adapters in

a system a “boot time” decision rather than an “ordering time”

decision.

Extended Memory Technology – Cost effectively extends the

memory available for two socket servers for application where

memory rather can CPU is the key bottleneck (such as VDI).

Single Point of Management – Provides an GUI interface

allowing all components within the compute system to be

orchestrated as a whole according to predefined policy.

Our template on (Gartner’s) approach to a

Cloud solution

Project Initiatives

Data Center

Consolidation

Server/Storage

Virtualization

Infrastructure

Convergence

Cost

Optimization

Negotiating

Vendor

Contracts

Strategic

Planning

Disaster

RecoveryAutomation

Vendor

Management

Reference: Gartner Report “IT I&O Key Initiatives: Why, How and Who” Publication Date : 3 May 2010

Exploratory Initiatives

Cloud

Computing

Infrastructure & Operations

Maturity

Server Computing Platform Overview

Server virtualization impacts critical imperatives: (1) costs are

lowered by the higher utilization rates achievable as compared to

non-virtualized environments; (2) service reliability is improved by

clustering and making I&O more manageable; and (3) agility is

improved by the ability to respond more rapidly to workload levels.

Two physical sites

A total of ten (10) clusters

consisting of thirty-two (32)

ESX hosts

Load balancing and

VMware High Availability

included

One vCenter Server per

site

Virtualization

Reference

Architecture

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Server Design FrameworkNew Server infrastructure will be highly virtualized to facilitate cloud

model ensuring rapid provisioning, resource pooling and high availability

characteristics.

Considerations

Migrate from physical to virtual platform with same or better performance

Align to the cloud computing model capable of dynamically allocating system resources

Develop highly available server computing platform

Maximize density and minimize power consumption

All physical servers including ESXi hosts should boot from SAN

Assumptions

New hardware for server virtualization compute systems for Production and DR mirror systems to

ensure a highly available environment

SAN based storage platform with data replication between primary and secondary data centers

Network design based on Cisco Nexus switches with capacity for 10GbE connections, fully redundant

within the datacenter, and is resilient and capable of supporting N+1 failures

Test and Development systems to be located in the second datacenter, and will utilize separate

storage systems.

Test systems to be repurposed as Production systems in the event of DR

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Storage Design FrameworkStorage consolidation, virtualization and optimization will provide

significant savings. Strategic sourcing of enterprise solution, including

storage, data replication, backup and recovery will further savings.

Considerations

Affordable, elastic storage, backup/recovery, and disaster purpose

Implement Storage Virtualization

Increase Storage Utilization and improve Hardware Utilization

Allow online Data Movement Based Upon Business Value of Data

Reduce Reliance on Higher Costs Tiers

Provide capabilities for automation of manual tasks

Consolidate Storage devices

Reclaim trapped storage

Reduce disc in reserve capacity on subsystems and on servers

Automate Storage Optimization

Implement dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers

Reduce storage needs by elimination of redundant data using De-duplication

techniques

Reduce data backup time by archiving stale data out of the primary backup set

Provide 3D scaling storage architecture to scale up, scale out and scale deep

Optimize Backup/Recovery

Implement Virtual Tape Library

Backup to Cloud (Cloud storage service providers include Amazon Web

Services, AT&T, Iron Mountain and Nirvanix)

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Storage Design Framework

Upgrade to Director Level Switches such as (CISCO’s MDS or Nexus 3K, 5K , or 7K

switches).

Let us take CISCO Switches for example….

MDS9509’s or NX 3K, 4K, 5K for Host Edge and Storage Edge which can support FCOE.

MDS9513 or the NX 7K to function as Core switch and support Enterprise backup

solution and DR platform setup

Proposed Director level switches have advanced features for creation of virtual storage

area networks for different environments for example Production, Test and Dev.

Backup device can connect to Core switch and support enterprise backup/recovery of

data stored in local drives or SAN devices

SAN Considerations

Low-cost, custom-built modular scale-out storage. Suggested use a mix of custom-

designed and branded hardware, leverage existing data center investments.

Design driven by optimization and innovation in our cloud storage environment with a

focus on keeping costs down while simultaneously catering for near-unlimited capacity

scaling based on customer demand.

There are examples of leading "commodity" cloud storage providers shunning purchases

of traditional branded storage arrays and opting to head down the innovation route.

Amazon is a case in point, having validated this market early by offering Internet

Protocol-based access to clusters of DAS; it claims to have designed its entire

infrastructure (not just storage) from the ground up.

Low-cost, custom-built, scale-out commodity storage hardware is strongly suited for

large-scale cloud deployments, providing extreme scalability at low price points. While

this approach offers high scalability at very low price points, it requires a significant

amount of technical expertise and

R&D investment, and continuous monitoring and design. The newer generation of scale-

out architectures and/or object-based storage platforms, in which, the focus is on low-cost

scalability.

Integration of deduplication-enabled backup software/appliances, such as Symantec

NetBackup and Commvault Simpana.

Introduction of cloud storage gateway appliances (aka controllers or accelerators) can

compress and deduplicate data on the way to the public-cloud storage environment and

also make the internal data center agnostic to the architecture at the public-cloud

provider location.

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Cloud Storage Platform Storage

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Private Cloud Infrastructure Convergence

Server virtualization impacts critical imperatives: (1) costs are lowered by the higher

utilization rates achievable as compared to non-virtualized environments; (2) service

reliability is improved by clustering and making I&O more manageable; and (3) agility is

improved by the ability to respond more rapidly to workload levels.

Features

Powerful APIs for automation and customization

Billing integration

Multiple users and ACL for each organizations

Dedicated portal views at every level

Resource metering and usage accounting

Automated fault tolerance

Intelligent workload scheduling

Integrated secure console access

Scalable Design

Thin Provisioning

Fault Tolerance

Design Principles

Built on low-cost commodity hardware

Built with multi-tenancy and tiered delivery

Should be open and interoperable

Fault tolerance should be inherent in the system

Self-service driven by on-demand provisioning of CPU, RAM and Network

Conform to existing business models

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RISK ManagementConsolidation of servers and storage at the strategic sites while virtualizing servers during

the migration has minimal risk to the availability of the business function. Final cut-over of

applications will be planned with failback options thoroughly tested.

# Risk Mitigation Probability Impact

1 Migration to new datacentre facility may causes

degradation of performance for some

application due to network latency

Use WAN Optimization appliances to

increase performance

Medium High

2 Hard coded IP Address being embedded within

applications application configurations

Use DNS Naming methodology to resolve

Name to IP AddressMedium High

3 Storage devices damaged during the physical

move

Back up all data before moving storage to

leased storage devicesLow High

4 Slower than expected data migration over WAN

to the new facility could prolong migration and/or

problematic data migration

Use reliable data replication appliances

for migration

Medium Medium

5 Upgrade during the migration process Freeze application upgrades during the

migration processLow Medium

6 Current staff’s lack of expertise of new cloud

computing platform

Training requirements will be identified to

prepare SJHS staff for day 1 supportMedium Low

7 Likelihood of additional space being unavailable

within the same co-location facility in a few

years

Lock-in growth space for near future

and/or ensure right of first refusal clause

in the contract with the service provider,

whereby you would have the option of

locking-in the last space before it was

leased to someone else.

Low Low

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Migration PlanA Low level step by step approach on how migration needs to be performed on

the infrastructure (Server & Storage).

Migration Approach

Description Pros Cons

Virtualize &

Consolidate in

flight

Virtualize during moves

Virtualize over the WAN

30% to 40% system reduction

Utilizes virtual infrastructure

within strategic site

Greatly reduced physical

complexity: systems &

ports

No hardware failure risk for

VM

Simple back-out (return to

physical device)

Single wire migration

option

Large project cost / time

risk

Time intensive Physical to

virtual (P2V) copy

Guidelines Boot from SAN for all open systems from the mirrored devices (replicated devices) as against local SAN

devices.

Re-cycle/reuse servers from existing Regional Datacenters (Prod) and install them in DR (PHX).

Process controls should be set in place to incorporate in the Change management process to

concurrently deploy/implement O/s & Application Upgrades in production and DR.

Implementation Approach New hardware will be installed at the primary and the secondary data centers.

Implement HDS’s VSP to virtualize the storage platform to manage a multivendor storage arrays.

Storage migration appliance. (tools such as (Ope Replicator, SAN Copy, Viacom DME, CISCO’s DMM)

VMware images of the existing 3.X & 4.X Versions of servers located and migrated to VMware 5.x

platform at new primary and secondary sites.

Questions?

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