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ABSTRACTNowadays the IT world is going with use of virtualization technology in various aspects such as lab experiments, clustering, parallel processing, distributed system etc. in educational system. Educational systems are looking to virtualization to reduce cost and increase security concern solutions as a suitable infrastructure models. Relatively new to educational, the concept of virtualization is proving itself in the business and consumer world as “the next big thing.” The concept of virtualization is very broad and can be applied to devices, servers, operating systems, applications and even networks [7]. Entire classes or departments can be quickly and easily set up with new desktop devices and applications because installation and configuration are done once, at the server, and duplicated as often as needed. Users can log on to virtual desktops from any device in the network [11]. VMware provides an excellent platform for deployment and VMM of Server Virtualization. Academic Institutions can take benefit of this platform for use in Laboratory to provide cost effective solutions. The infrastructure created can also be intelligently used for teaching networking concepts to students with the tremendous advantage of having everything at one place. Providing a good platform where algorithms on parallel computing, distributed computing can be tested is a necessity, which can be met with this type of infra-structure. The future research work in Server Virtualization will be carried in private cloud building and its virtual clustering [2]. In educational system the problem is how to utilize the old infrastructure to perform lab exercises which requires high performance computing resources in educational system by the use of Virtualization environment. This paper is based on experimental procedure to obtain a specific model to implement a standardized server virtualization using VMware ESXi with VSphere on server side and VClient on client side. This paper also focuses on green computing with the major factor Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).Keywords: - Educational Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Environment, Virtual Machines, Green Computing, Open Source, Clustering, TCO.TRANSCRIPT
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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS
Server Virtualization Implementation: An Experimental
Study for Cost Effective and Green Computing Approach
towards Educational Infrastructure Management Yogesh Ghorpade [1], Tajuddin Bennur [2], Dr. H. S. Acharya [3]
Dr. R. Kamatchi [4] Research Scholar [1]
Department of Computer Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
Tanil Nadu
Assistant Professor [2], Professor [3] Department of Computer Sciecne
Allana Institute of Management Sciences, Pune India
ABSTRACT Nowadays the IT world is going with use of virtualization technology in various aspects such as lab
experiments, clustering, parallel processing, distributed system etc. in educational system. Educational systems
are looking to v irtualization to reduce cost and increase security concern solutions as a suitable infrastructure
models. Relatively new to educational, the concept of v irtualization is proving itself in the business and
consumer world as “the next big thing.” The concept of virtualizat ion is very b road and can be applied to
devices, servers, operating systems, applications and even networks [7].
Entire classes or departments can be quickly and easily set up with new desktop devices and applications
because installation and configuration are done once, at the server, and duplicated as often as needed. Users can
log on to virtual desktops from any device in the network [11]. VMware provides an excellent platform for
deployment and VMM of Server Virtualizat ion. Academic Institutions can take benefit of this platform for use
in Laboratory to provide cost effective solutions. The infrastructure created can also be inte lligently used for
teaching networking concepts to students with the tremendous advantage of having everything at one place.
Providing a good platform where algorithms on parallel computing, distributed computing can be tested is a
necessity, which can be met with this type of infra -structure. The future research work in Server Virtualizat ion
will be carried in private cloud building and its virtual clustering [2].
In educat ional system the prob lem is how to ut ilize the old in frastructure to perform lab exercises which
requires h igh performance comput ing resources in educat ional system by the use o f Virtualization
environment. Th is paper is based on experimental procedure to obtain a specific model to implement a
standardized server virtualizat ion using VMware ESXi with VSphere on server side and VClient on client side.
This paper also focuses on green computing with the major factor Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Keywords: - Educational Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Environment, Virtual Machines, Green
Computing, Open Source, Clustering, TCO.
I. INTRODUCTION
The paper overcomes the prob lem of ut ilizing the
old in frastructure to perform lab exercises which
requires h igh performance computing resources
in educational system by the use of Virtu alizat ion
environment. It is based on experimental
procedure to obtain a specific model to implement
a standardized server virtualization using VMware
ESXi with VSphere on server side and VClient on
client side. In section 2 the paper covers the Life
cycle of virtualization with 4 phases. Section 3 and
4 covers the need and architectures of virtualizat ion
for the implementation purpose.
The user role, implementation procedure and its
outcome snapshots are discussed in section 5, 6 and
7 respectively. Evaluating Comparison of Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO) in section 8 is discussed.
This paper also focuses on green computing with
the major factors reusability and power
consumption of virtualized environment in section
9.
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II. LIFE CYCLE OF
VIRTUALIZATION
FIGURE 1: THE VIRTUALIZATION
LIFECYCLE
2.1 Requirement Management Phase
Virtualization teams use th is phase to understand
the current educat ional in frastructure requ irements
and the possible v irtualization targets and the
desired development and test env ironments.
Once in frastructural requirements have been
understood, the v irtualization leads then identify
the environment build strateg ies [8]. There are
always a few components in any env ironment
which have very s imple behav iors with low test
data management complexit ies and neg lig ib le
access constraints. These have low TCO and are
therefore not ideal targets for serv ice
virtualizat ion [6]. In educat ional system the
problem is how to utilize the o ld infrastructure to
perform lab exercises which requ ires high
performance computing resources [4].
2.2 Analysis and Design Phase
Based on the requ irements gathered from the
prev ious phase, the v irtualizat ion teams plan and
document the p rocess for v irtualizat ion
in frastructure in the analysis and des ign phase.
Analysed the laborato ry pract ical work to be
virtualized as per the requ ired s kills to balance
the infrastructural resources.
In th is phase, v irtualizat ion teams focus on
applicat ions identified for v irtualizat ion and their
associated funct ionalit ies. For linking the
funct ionalities to the app licat ions, v irtualizat ion
teams use a variety of arch itectu ral design .
Virtualizat ion teams must ensure that they use
valid input & output pairs fo r all scenarios in a
given virtual environment.
vCenter Server is a crit ical app licat ion fo r
managing your v irtual in frastructure. Its
implementat ion should be carefu lly des igned and
executed to ensure availability and data
protect ion. When d iscussing the deployment o f
vCenter Server and its components, the
fo llowing questions are among the most common
questions to ask:
* How much hardware do I need to power
vCenter Server?
* Which database server should I use with
vCenter Server?
* How do I p repare vCenter Server fo r d isaster
recovery?
* Should I run vCenter Server in a VM? [16].
2.3 Implementation Phase
The implementat ion phase invo lves the creat ion
of v irtual in frastructural environment fo r
fu lfillment o f educat ional infrastructural
requ irement. Various components of vSphere are
properly dep loyed to create v irtual env ironments.
It also invo lves implementat ion o f the
virtualizat ion strategy with selected tools [10].
2.4 Deploy and Manage Phase
Used fo r dep loy ing and managing the v irtual
applicat ions and refin ing requ irements for the
next iteration . Deploy ing VMware vSphere is
more than just v irtualizing servers. The effects o f
storage, networking , and security in a vSphere
deployment are as equally sign ificant as they are
with the physical servers themselves. As a result
of th is b road impact on numerous facets o f your
organ izat ion 's IT, the process of p lann ing the
vSphere dep loyment becomes even more
important. Without the appropriate p lann ing fo r
your vSphere implementation , you run the ris k o f
configuration prob lems, instab ility,
incompat ib ilities, and d imin ished financial
impact.
Your plann ing process for a vSphere dep loyment
involves answering a number of questions
* What types of servers will I use fo r the
underlying physical hardware?
* What kinds of storage will I use, and how will
I connect that storage to my servers?
* How will the networking be configured?
vSphere vCente r is requ ired to be properly
deployed to manage the vSphere components
such as ESXi (host), VM vClient and resources
like data store, memory, etc. with it [16].
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III. NEED OF EXPERIMENTAL
DESIGN OF SERVER
VIRTUALIZATION?
The previous research paper was based upon the
purpose and need of designing of server
virtualizat ion which includes all the basics terms,
factors, structural overview etc. [2].
IV. VIRTUALIZATION
ARCHITECTURE AND POLICY
FOR IMPLEMENTING OF
PLATFORM
The implementation of virtualizat ion technology
using VMware requires different phases as per the
resource availability. High resource availab ility in
educational scenario about virtualizat ion is lacking.
Therefore the implementation building is done with
the help of available old resources.
In the figure 2 vSphere arch itechture the required
components to build the vCenter is shown with
management scope. The functionality within
vCenter server and Database server ig given.
FIGURE 2: VSPHERE ARCHITECTURE AND SCOPE
[16].
a. Integrated Cluster Architecture
The below arch itecture in figure 3 gives an overall
structural design and basic resource availability.
Integrated architecture is the combination of
various clusters link together to the vCenter Cluster
controller. Th is single cluster is the combination of
various Virtual Machine (VM) nodes connected
with single ESXi. Each ESXi uses either Type 1 or
Type 2 Machines within the provided Lab with
available Datastore. This VM are accessed via
vClient software by either old desktop or thin client
having low resources. This experiment is Design
in AIMS lab 5 with 1 Gbps Ethernet cable and 100
mbps speed switches. The vCenter Cluster
Controller plays a main role in this virtualizat ion
infrastructure implementation.
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FIGURE 3: INTEGRATED CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE
4.2 Single Cluster Architecture
The architecture in figure 4 is based upon detailed
requirement of Software and Hardware resources
for designing of single cluster which includes
VMware components, operating system, desktop
/thin client, based upon Hypervisor, Server
machine, Datastore etc. The information about
Processor type, family, total cores, hyper threading
etc. is useful for making configuration of VM as
per the required resources.
One of the operating system within the cluster in
ESXi is used for user management and database
name creation by installing Windows server 2008.
If new machines are not availab le for vClient then
system admin istrator goes for old machines and old
machines are not available then they go for thin
clients with low resources availability. For different
subject labs the system administrator installs
different operating system and applications as per
the requirement e.g. Linux, Windows, JDK,
MYSQL, etc. Each ESXi as shown in arch itecture
supports 4 VM’s within a cluster.
FIGURE 4: SINGLE CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE
4.3 Storage Architecture
The main role of Datastore lies within the Storage
architecture for the purpose of storage access via
client or ESXi. The datastore in the experiment is
implemented as per the resource availability within
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the server and new or old desktops. Thus the VM
client’s datastore can be categorized on the basis of
the storage available as shown in Figure 5. That
means if thin clients are used the datastore will be
available through ESXi or vCenter. The role of
datastore in vCenter is for Server OS, VM, active
directory, DHCP, etc. [5].
FIGURE 5: STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
4.4 IP addressing Policy
FIGURE 6: IP ADDRESSING POLICY FOR VIRTUALIZATION IMPLEMENTATION
IP address subnetting procedure without VLAN is carried in the experiment as shown in figure 6. Different IP
address ranges are assigned for vCenter, ESXi, VM etc. As per the user requirement the class is assigned and
subnetted. The auto configuration of IP addressing can be done through DHCP in active directory in windows
server 2008 VM. Further VLAN and switching techniques can be carried in future experimental study.
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V. USER ROLES
Users Role Systems Tasks
System
Administrator VMware vCenter
User management
Integrating of ESXi
vCenter, ESXi and VM deployment
Teacher / Trainer
Vsphere ESXi
User management
Integrating of VM
VM deployment
Application installation
Students /
Employees
VM vClient
VM access
Application access
TABLE 1: USER WISE T ASK DETAILS
Roles are distributed according to their tasks
obtained as shown in the table.1. The different
categories are set for defining of ro les by which a
proper management policy is maintained and well
implementation and use of virtualization plat form
takes place. Primary user is System administrator
whose main role is to control the vCenter with all
the safety and security control measures. He is also
responsible for deployment of VMware
components and applications. Time spent on
routine System administrative tasks are Backup and
data protection, Application availab ility, Ability to
respond to changing educational needs,
Organizational continuity preparedness and
Organization profitability and growth rate.
The secondary role is done by the Teacher or
Trainer for creating of several or individual subject
lab with user management. The student role is the
access only towards VM and applicat ions from any
desktop or thin client.
VI. PROCEDURE OF IMPLEMENTATION
6.1 Deploying vCenter Server Instance
Installation of core components with a single virtual machine. The components are vCenter Single Sign -On,
vSphere Web Client, vCenter Inventory Service and vCenter Server.
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FIGURE 7: IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURE
Prerequisites for vCenter Server are shown in appendix 2.
We will deploy a single vCenter Server instance that meets the requirements for most educational institutes,
paying careful consideration to the various steps and configurations.
6.1.1 vCenter Single Sign-On
6.1.2 vSphere Web Client Install
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6.1.3 vCenter Inventory Service
6.1.4 vCenter Server
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6.2 Deploying vSphere ESXi 5.5
ESXi Server 5.5 is the bare metal hypervisor that will run our VMs and may be one of several servers you wish
to build into a cluster managed by vCenter server to provide HA, DRS and vMotion features for VMs. The ESXi
server installation is straightforward, at this initial stage all we need to do is get the hypervisor installed, give it
an IP address and password before proceeding with the various steps for the vCenter Server install. Prerequisites
for vSphere 5.5 are shown in appendix 3.
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VII. SNAPSHOTS OF IMPLEMENTED OF VIRTUALIZED SCENARIO
FIGURE 8: STORAGE SETUP
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FIGURE 9: NETWORK CONFIGURATION
FIGURE 10: VIRTUAL MACHINE SETUP AND CLUSTER SUMMARY
VIII. COST COMPARISON
The main problem is to determine resource demand
of each application and to allocate resources in the
most efficient way. To deal with this problem the
authors apply an economic framework: the system
allocates resources in a way that maximizes the
"profit" by balancing the cost of each resource unit
against the estimated utility that is gained from
allocating that resource unit to a service [17].
The basic parameters, structural design for cost
comparison between virtualized and non-
virtualized environment have been discussed in our
previous research paper [2]. The additional
informat ion of cost for implementation of this
experiment is given in below table 2.
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Non-Virtualization Virtualization
Parameters Cost % Parameters Cost %
Hardware 150000 89 Hardware 80000 84
Software 10000 6 Software 10000 11
Support (Staff, external
providers, contractors)
5000 3 Support (Staff, external providers,
contractors)
2000 2
Network Communication 3000 2 Network Communication 3000 3
Total 168000 100 Total 95000 100
Note:- Virtualization->Considering 1 Cluster=5 machines (4 VM & 1ESXi)
Non-Virtualization->Considering 5 machines
Cost is given in Rs(INR) TABLE 2: COMPARISON OF TCO BETWEEN NON VIRTUALIZED AND NON-VIRTUALIZED (GARTNER
RESEARCH, 2007)
FIGURE 11: BAR CHART FOR COST COMPARISION
FIGURE 12: PIE CHART FOR COMPARISION OF TCO
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IX. GREEN COMPUTING
The basic parameters and power consumption for Green
computing have been discussed in our prev ious research paper
[2].
a. Managing Energy and Server Resources in
Virtualized Environment:
The main resources are used in ESXi and vCenter Server for
the management of Virtualized Environment v ia Thin clients
or old desktops (which have less resource). In educational
organization according to the available budget and current
QoS requirements, i.e. balancing cost of resource usage
(energy cost) and benefit gained due to usage of this resource.
This enables a virtualized environment to improve the energy
efficiency under fluctuating workload, dynamically match
load and power consumption, and respond gracefully to
resource shortages [17].
b. Ways to reduce IT Load:
Since powering the IT load in educational infrastructure is
such a large portion of the overall electricity cost in a
Virtualized Environment, reduction of this load must be a
primary consideration in any energy efficiency in itiative.
There are a number o f ways to reduce this load including the
following:
• Virtualize or consolidate servers
• Reuse servers for ESXi which are no longer in use
• Enable power management
• Replace inefficient servers
• Power down servers when not in use
X. BENEFIT OF VIRTUALIZATION
There are number of benefits in educational organizations of
virtualizat ion. It reduces operational complexity, maintains
flexib ility in selecting software and hardware p latforms and
product vendors. It also increases flexibility in managing
different virtual environments. Some of the benefits of
virtualization are:
*Server and application consolidation
Virtual machines are used to consolidate the workloads of
under-utilized servers on to fewer machines , perhaps a single
machine. It includes savings on hardware and software
resources, management, and administration of the server
infrastructure. In virtualization the execution of applications is
well served by virtual machines. It consolidates various
heterogeneous applications running on single platform for
better utilization of resources.
*Multiple execution environments and Resource sharing
Different operating system and various applications are
accessed by students on different desktops or thin clients via
this platform. Virtual machines also provide hardware
configuration such as SCSI, Ethernet, CD / DVD drives
devices. It can also be used to simulate networks of
independent computers. In virtualization ESXi platform run
multip le operating systems simultaneously having different
versions like in Linux Fedora 11, 12 etc., or even different
vendors like Linux, Windows etc. Virtualizat ion empowers
the operating systems, applications to run on shared memory
multiprocessors. It also shares Datastore, network devices and
many more resources.
*Debugging and Performance
Virtualizat ion in VM enables powerful debugging and
performance monitoring tools. It also provides fault and error
regulation by isolating applications and services on which
they run [3]. Virtualization handles tasks such as system
migrat ion, backup, and recovery easier and more manageable.
Virtualizat ion is a great tool for research in academic
experiments. They provide isolation, and encapsulate the
entire state of a running system. Since we can save the state,
examine, modify and reload it. Hence it provides an
abstraction of the workload being run [12].
XI. CONCLUSION
-After implementat ion o f virtualizat ion p latfo rm the TCO
is reduced by 43%. This number shows that the cost
efficiency in educational o rgan ization is well ut ilized for
ROI.
-The Green Comput ing leads to manage power
consumption by reducing carbon footprints. The o ld
resources o f the educat ional o rgan ization in Virtualized
Environment are reused.
-Built app licat ions on v irtual machine as per the p ract ical
domain scenario and p roper implementation of operating
systems as per the categorization of practical labs.
-Configurat ion and dep loyment methodology for the proper
implementat ion o f vSphere and related required
components for built of educational platform is achieved.
-Implemented proper authent icat ion , authorization and
privileges with accountability are managed.
-Benefits of virtualized environment are adopted.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our sincere thanks to Dr. H. S. Acharya for the accurate
research coordination, Dr. R. Ganesan, Prof. Jawed Khan for
resource utilization and Allana Institute of Management
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Sciences: MCA Department, Pune for their constant
encouragement.
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1
Checklist 1: Pre Checklist for Hardware, software and storage.
You can use the following worksheet to organize your
evaluation process
HARDWARE CHECKLIST: Comment
All hardware has been validated against the
VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardware
Compatibility List (HCL).
Each server has 1x 1GB or 2x 1GB network
cards connected to a common switch (this
will be configured as a network adaptor
team).
Each server has the required HBA/network
adaptor to access shared storage.
SOFTWARE CHECKLIST:
VMware vSphere/VMware ESXi installation
media is available.
VMware vCenter™ Server appliance is
downloaded.
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VMware vSphere® Client™ is installed.
ESXi host 1 hostname.
ESXi host 2 hostname.
ESXi host 3 hostname.
Subnet, netmask and default gateway for
management network.
Subnet, netmask and default gateway for
virtual machine network.
Subnet, netmask and default gateway for
vMotion network.
STORAGE CHECKLIST:
All servers can see at least three common
available LUNs (or NFS exports).
Datastore 1 name.
Datastore 2 name.
Datastore 3 name.
Appendix 2
PREREQUIS ITES for vCenter 5.5 Comment
Deploy, and name accordingly, two W indows -
based virtual machines with two volumes each.
Assign a static IP address to both virtual
machines.
Confirm forward and reverse DNS resolution
of hostname and IP address on both virtual
machines.
Add the Windows virtual machines to the
Active Directory environment.
Confirm that virtual machine time is
synchronized with an Active Directory domain
controller.
On one virtual machine, install and configure
Microsoft SQL Server.
Create an empty database.
On the other virtual machine, create and name
an x64 ODBC data source name for the newly
created database.
Create an Active Directory domain account to
be used as the service account for running
vCenter Server.
Appendix 3
PREREQUIS ITES for vSphere ESXi 5.5 Comment
ESXi 5.5 will install and run only on servers
with 64-bit x86 CPUs.
ESXi 5.5 requires a host machine with at least
two cores.
ESXi 5.5 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU
instructions.
ESXi 5.5 requires the NX/XD bit to be enabled
for the CPU in the BIOS.
ESXi requires a minimum of 4GB of physical
RAM. Provide at least 8GB of RAM to take
full advantage of ESXi features and run virtual
machines in typical production environments.
To support 64-b it virtual machines, support for
hardware virtualizat ion (Intel VT-x/AMD
RVI) must be enabled on x64 CPUs.
One or more Gigabit or 10Gb Ethernet
controllers. For a list of supported network
adapter models
AUTHORS PROFILE
Yogesh Ghorpade received M.C.A.
degree from University of Pune and
pursuing Ph.D. in the area of “Server
Virtualizat ion” from Bharatiar
University, Tamil Nadu. Currently he is
working as a Sen ior Trainer, at one of
the Corporate Organization. His main
areas of research interest are planning
and creation of Virtualization Infrastructure, deployment of
Virtualizat ion Infrastructure, HPC and Network Monitoring.
He has written 8 research papers in international and 2
research papers in national journals in computer category. One
of the papers is best rated in Academia Research open access
journal and excellent paper award in International Conference
(IRAJ). He has written several books in the field of
Networking, Information Security.
Tajuddin Bennur received M.C.A.
degree in 2009 from University of
Pune. Currently he is working as an
Assistant Professor, at Allana
Institute of Management Science,
Pune. He has 5 plus years academic
experience and also has hands on
experience in software development.
His main areas of research interest
are Virtualizat ion, Network
Monitoring and medical informat ics. He has written many
research papers in international and national journals in
medical informatics and virtualizat ion. He has also achieved
excellent paper award in International Conference (IRAJ).