NASA Data Center Consolidation

AFCEA, SunComm 2011

Tony AnaniaKennedy Space Center

Trend to Data Center consolidation is industry wide Data Center modernizations and consolidation are key

initiatives for IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers Data Center Consolidation is the process of physically and

logically co-locating computer systems Consolidation aims to reduce overall business costs by

optimizing expenditures associated with:

» Energy Consumption Operational Support» Facility Utilization Physical System

Security» Hardware Utilization System Maintenance

Consolidation Basics

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Federally Mandated Work

Presidential Memorandum – June 2010

“…in order to address the growth of data centers across the Federal Government, agencies shall immediately adopt a policy against expanding data centers beyond current levels, and shall develop plans to consolidate and significantly reduce data centers within 5 years.”

OMB Agency Consolidation Plan - Feb 2010

“…Data Center Consolidation and the Cloud Computing Issue Areas will be government-wide priorities for all agencies beginning in FY2010.” FDCCI

NASA Lori Garver Memo – Aug 2010

“…The objective of this initiative is to reduce the overall cost of data center services by leveraging newer and more efficient technologies, reducing power consumption and consolidating locations to increase space usage densities, and decreasing the real estate footprint of Federal data centers….Mission Directorate Associate Administrators and Center Directors shall direct their staff to cooperate fully and openly with these discussion initiatives.”

NASA OCIO Priorities

Consolidation of Data Centers

• NASA tasked by OMB to prepare a plan outlining the approach to reduce IT energy consumption by a minimum 30% over

a 3-year period (FY 2010-2012)

Security & Efficiency of Data Centers

• In April 30, 2010, NASA provided OMB with the list of all data center construction, expansion and/or consolidations activities currently planned or underway as of June 30, 2010, the Agency integrated the approved data center consolidation plan into the

FY 2012 budget

In Sep 2011 NASA updated it’s “Long Term Data Center Consolidation Plan” addressing agency-specific strategic consolidation goals, consolidation approaches, risk management, acquisition strategies, governance, schedules of closures, and planned data center savings

From the new Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel – Oct 2011"I basically told the team when I came on board that I wanted to scope it so everything is game. We also are expanding the project to more

aggressively consolidate our data center footprint. First, we are widening the scope of the project to include even the smallest data center3

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NASA’s Data Center Consolidation Strategy

Promote at least one healthy Data Center for each NASA Center

Focus on increasing IT efficiency: »Fully utilize existing Data Centers for initial

consolidation efforts» Implement strategic improvements to strengthen health

and availability of objective Data Centers»Employ best practices»Eliminate underutilized facilities, systems and

applications Aggressively work to eliminate rouge “server rooms”

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NASA’s Data Center Environment

79 Data Centers and Neumerous Rooms Supporting Institutional &

Mission Needs

Scope of Service Consolidated Data Centers at Each Center

Varies by Data-Center Security Physical and Logical Access Compliant with Federal Requirements

Varies by Center Quality of Service High Availability

Varies by Center Service Delivery Standard Agency Services Model

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Initial StateInitial State Future StateFuture State

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Future Environment

StandardData Center Architecture

ConsolidatedData Centers

at EachCenter

NEBULACloud

NEBULACloud

Public Cloud When Applicable

OMB Data Center Consolidation Goals

Broad reductions of 10% in each of FY12, FY13 & FY14 in each of the various measurable Data Center areas:

» Total # of Data Centers» Aggregate gross floor area» Total number of racks» Total number of servers» Total energy use

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Consolidation alone will not provide the savings required by future budgets

Reshape Data Centers to Gain Full Economies of Scale

Colocation may exacerbate, rather than diminish, the cost of technology

The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiatives (FDCCI) should meet the following additional requirements:

» Tactical: improve energy efficiency, increase utilization and availability, and support disaster recovery

» Strategic: increase standardization, leverage virtualization and scalability and improve governance

» Innovative: where appropriate, incorporate cloud services, develop shared-service models and leverage centers of excellence

More than Just Consolidation

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Data Center Consolidation Management

NASA established an Program Executive position within OCIO to lead Agency Data Center consolidation efforts

NASA established the Agency Data Center Consolidation (ADCC) Project Office at KSC to:» Coordinate Data Center consolidation activities» Deploy and manage an Agency-wide automated IT discovery and

application mapping capability» Implement a real-time dashboard to monitor and track NASA Data

Center consolidation progress

Facility• Room/Sq Ft Reduction

• Energy Reduction

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IT Infrastructure Servers & Storage

Reductions• Virtualization• Cloud Services

Domains of Data Center Consolidation

Application Rationalization

Platform Consolidation Consolidated Data Centers• Efficient• Reliable • Available

RESULTS

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Compute Services Stack

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Host Computing Service Compute Power Throughput StorageGeneral Utility Computing Services Generally Available Compute Power and Low Node Count General Bandwidth / Latency Tolerant GeneralCluster Computing Services "Scale Out" Computer Power/Nodes using tuned node interconnects High Bandwidth Local Area Connections General to High-endDistributed/Grid Computing Services Distributed and variable Compute Power/Nodes and interconnect speeds General Bandwidth / Latency Tolerant General/High-EndSpecialized Computing Services Custom Custom CustomHigh-Performance Computing Services "Scale up" Computer Power/Nodes using tuned high-speed interconnects High Bandwidth / Low Latency High-End

Hosted Service Categories and Characteristics

Host Computing Service Environment

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Strategic Preference

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NASA Host Computing Strategy

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Data Center Discovery

Semi-manual inventory of server class IT assets Agency-wide» Used NASA Property Database (NPROP)

to identify servers and network equipment by location and mapped onto GIS floor plans from each Center to identify rooms/facilities that could qualify as potential Data Centers

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Deployment of an enterprise discovery tool to automate the collection of IT asset data and conduct application mapping

Automated IT Asset Discovery

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Data Center Consolidation Dashboard

Discovered Servers Mapped Applications

Discovered Server Trend Application Mapping Trend

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•Data center power monitoring and management solution, provided as a hosted on-site Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) offering

•Provides a web-based mechanism to allow users at NASA facilities to monitor the power consumption at designated NASA data centers

•Users can view current and historical power consumption data, and generate and export energy consumption and efficiency reports

Data Center Power Monitoring Service

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Temperature fog -

Rack temperature map -

Pressure distribution under the raised floor -

CFD Modeling& Analysis

Simulating Cooling Performance of Data Centers

Determine and optimize the efficiency of data center cooling system

Find additional capacity without modifying cooling infrastructure

Faster, more practical and flexible “what-if” analysis for data center modifications than physical testing

Show benefits of implementing best practices (hot/cold aisle, blanking panels, etc)

Analyze impacts of adding/removing hardware BEFORE implementation and find “best fit”

Avoid unforeseen infrastructure modifications as a result of consolidations or other changes

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Identified candidates for consolidation, virtualization and Cloud potential, with focus on current inventory of applications» Phase 1 - Identified system level information, utilizing FISMA related security plans information to

create a list of systems that have applications that are believed to be candidates for consolidation, virtualization or the cloud

» Phase 2 - Gathered detailed application level data on potential system identified in Phase 1 to determine if they are candidates for consolidation/virtualization with minimal or significant effort

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Consolidation PotentialCandidates for Consolidation that would require minimal work

Candidates for Consolidation that would require significant work

Probably cannot be consolidate

No Need to Consolidate

Application Rationalization Analysis

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Cloud Potential

Community Cloud

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Not enough Information

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Consolidation Timeline

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

10,000

54 Data Centers 22 Data Centers

21,500

2010

79 Data Centers

Physical Servers Reduce

10%

50%

Virtualized Servers Increase

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Virtualization Ratio

Current - 2011 Desired - 2015

Physical Servers

Virtual OS

Physical Servers

VirtualServers

• Physical Servers Decrease• Virtual OS Increase 10% per year

10 %

50 %IaaS

SaaS

Cloud Services

Cloud ServicesPhysical Servers

VirtualServers

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Estimated Savings 1st Year

Work across the Agency to reduce Data Center facility space and IT power consumption

Today

Today

Consolidation activities FY11» Eliminated 13 Data Centers and

19 rooms (Returned 22,289 sq ft of space)

» Estimated energy savings of $337,210 per/year

Established goals for the next

12 month period

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Continue to aggressively pursuing Data Center Consolidation, local Center participation and support of NASA Mission Directorates is key to success

Work with Centers to develop an Agency long term consolidation plan (through FY2015), to outline how Data Center consolidation will be achieved and to identify any significant budget augmentation or construction efforts necessary

Next Steps

KSC Data Center Consolidation

Goal: A successfully consolidated Data Center environment» Exists in one physical location…ideally (some systems can’t move)

» Achieves optimization by employing a combination of physical and virtual servers

» Offers a standard set of defined services (Service Catalog)» Provides a trained, dedicated support team» Encourages business-wide platform standards for application

development

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Kennedy Data Center

Much Inefficiency » Power - Whole Bldg. sections powered 24/7 to accommodate one small

room or a few rooms with a server etc

» Planned facility outages become a major challenge

Presently 4 Buildings with significant Data Centers » VAB , SSPF, CIF, O&C

Many Admin areas in buildings utilized as IT type servers rooms (closets, server under desk etc.)

Initial Stateof Facilities

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307 Rooms in 58 Buildings

(Some require portable generators to be installed)

State of Applications

• M ultip le instances of identica l or s im ilar applications and

system s exist a t KSC

» D uplicate functionality and capabilities across the

C enter

» Lim ited in tegration betw een services, system s and

applications

• Multiple instances of identical or similar applications and systems exist at KSC»Duplicate functionality and capabilities across the

Center»Limited integration between services, systems and

applications

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SharePointA

SharePointB

SharePointC

MaximoC

MaximoA

MaximoB

WindchillB

WindchillA

WindchillC

Objective State

All applicable KSC systems consolidated into a single Data Center facility by 2015» Infrastructure will support existing systems and be scalable to support new Program and

Institutional needs

» Employ virtualization techniques for maximum optimization (more apps on less hardware)

Data Center Capabilities Available as an IT Service» In line with OCIO mission “…to increase the productivity of scientists, engineers, and mission

support personnel by responsively and efficiently delivering reliable, innovative and secure IT services.”

Will achieve this vision while maintaining compliance with existing and future IT initiatives» Agency Data Center Consolidation (ADCC)

» “Cloud First “ philosophy (Migrating appropriate applications offsite)

» Enterprise Architecture (based upon common standards)

» “Green IT” (Reduction of carbon footprint)29

Green Data Center

End StateBenefits

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To KSC as a whole» Cost savings stay on center, where they can be applied to other

priorities» New mandates are easier to adopt and require fewer resources

across the various organizations required to support them» World Class Data Center capabilities become a selling point in

bringing new business and jobs to KSC» Timely consolidation brings us into alignment with mandates from

OMB and NASA OCIO

Approach

Discovery

Inventory & Coordination

Schedule Development

Execution

- Where are the systems/applications?- What is their impact on their current facility?

- What are the systems/applications?- What are their consolidation requirements and constraints? Business Case justification? - Housing vs. Hosting

- What order should the systems move?- When?

- Interim location- Final location

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Analysis

Inventory aggregates existing information and data obtained from system owners to build a baseline

Discussion with system owners and IT Relationship Managers to understand the systems and the best options for consolidation (Housing vs. Hosting)

Conduct Business Case justification (Cost, Impacts, Risk, Return on Investment)

Coordination between IT, Facility Management and customers to determine where/when to move candidate systems and what changes must be made to the existing Kennedy Data Center to accommodate it

While there may be impacts the goal is to ensure an efficient move

End product is a prioritized list of discovered systems with a coordinated timeframe for consolidation

ApproachInventory And Coordination

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ApproachSchedule Development

Refine prioritized list created during Inventory and Coordination

Establish an order for system to move at a high level

Coordinate key milestones for individual moves with stakeholders

Identifies long term growth for new and existing Data Center Facilities

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KDCC Approach to Schedule

KDC

2011 2012 2013

KDC

2014 2015

Agency Cloud

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Apps moved to cloud will be on-going

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NEW KDC

Data Center B

Data CenterA

Kennedy Data Center

Server Rooms in Admin Areas consolidated into KDC

KDC nears end of life. Major consolidationswill go to new facility

New KDC Scalable Facility can absorb the rest

ShuttlePost T&R

New Facility under construction nears completion

Older established Data Centers can now be consolidated

Data Center Consolidation is a required activity that will have a positive impact» It saves local operational resources

» Reduces yearly power usage and frees up floor space

» Provides a managed and more secure IT environment

» It enables KSC to address IT mandates more efficiently

» Facilitates innovation through implementation of new technologies like virtualization and cloud computing

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Conclusion

Kennedy Data Center

Q & A

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