session agenda introducing the serverquarium for 2013
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Serverquarium 2013Powering the Hands-On-Labs at MMS
Steve ColeDirector, Technology ServicesXtreme Consulting Group, Inc.
Paul Gavin Training Manager
HP Cloud Solutions for Microsoft
Introducing the Serverquarium for 2013 Microsoft’s Jeff Woolsey and HP’s Jeff Carlat
Why a Private Cloud solution for labs?Steve Cole, XCGI
What’s under the hood for 2013?HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft: Servers, Storage and Networking, Management IntegrationPaul Gavin, HP
Q&A session with the engineers who made it happen
Session Agenda
Introducing the Serverquarium for 2013
Jeff WoolseyPrincipal Group Program
Manager
Windows Server Virtualization
Microsoft
Jeff CarlatDirector of Product
Marketing
Industry Standard Servers
HP
What is the Serverquarium?
fastflexible
integrated
innovative
validated
federated
virtualized
resilient
redundantautonomic
secure
managed
multi-tenant
efficient
balancedavailable
• MMS ’09, all labs delivered via 650 physical servers!• Power consumption was 114,000 watts
• MMS ‘10, first year all labs were 100% virtualized• 41 Servers in 3 racks using local storage, 40,000 VM’s, power use down to 9000 watts, 650
thin clients
• MMS ‘11, the Cloud rolls in• 32 servers in 2 racks using SAN storage and 1TB less RAM still running 40k VM’s and using
8400 watts
• MMS ‘12, turning up the volume• More complex labs offered with more VM’s per lab meant upping the RAM per blade to 192GB
and bringing in 3PAR Storage• Over 50,000 VM’s in four days!
It’s a process…
• We can provision well over 500 VM’s per minute
• With the HP 3PAR StorServe P10800 and HP IO Accelerator Cards from Fusion-io, we’re at almost 8 million IOPS
• We’re averaging ~20% CPU utilization, peaking at 30%
• All with centralized web based self service portals that allow us to evenly distribute the load and cope with massive spikes in demand.
The need for speed
The environment we support is a bit more complicated than usual• As of this morning, more than 6.5k labs with over 20k VM’s total• Peak of 2.5k simultaneous VM’s
For ILL’s, we need to provision an average of 1400 VM’s to 400 users to four physical locations in less than 10 minutes 5 times per day
To do that, we have:• Active Directory controlling lab availability to physical locations• Dynamic Memory dramatically increasing efficiency during VM run time• System Center monitoring Host and Virtual Machine health and
performance
No ordinary labs
Serverquarium is highly customized for our unique business needs
• Anonymous logons• Rapid response times
Our “non-needs” could be your priority list• High Availability for user sessions• 5 9’s uptime• User security
But the tools we used are the same
A private fabric makes a custom platform!
It’s a custom job…
Based on HP’s VirtualSystem VS3 for Microsoft
Serverquarium MMS 2013 Overall Configuration
HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft
Accelerates journey to cloud with turnkey solution
High performance platform for the Microsoft CloudOS
Proven solution – Designed with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track compliance in mind
Flexible configurations to meet customer requirements
Optimized converged infrastructure that is factory integrated
Deployed onsite and integrated into customer’s environment
Tightly integrated management from infrastructure to application
Available now worldwide
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1. Storage: 3PAR StoreServ
2. FlexFabric FCoE and 10GbE simultaneously + IRF
3. Management: Insight Control & System Center Management servers: DL360p Gen8
4. Host servers: C7000 + BL460 Gen8
Serverquarium MMS 2013 Overall Configuration Compute: 32x BL460c Gen8
2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 2.6GHz / 8 cores256GB RAM2x 300 GB SAS drives785GB / 1.2TB HP IO Accelerator cardHP VirtualConnect FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port
Management: 2x DL360 Gen8
2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 2.0Ghz / 8 cores192GB RAM2x 300 GB SAS drives10 Gb Ethernet 2-port PCIStorage / Data NetworkingHP 5920 Series Ethernet SwitchesHP B-Series FibreChannel SAN Switches
Serverquarium MMS 2013 Microsoft Management Compute: Windows Server 2012 with
Hyper-VUp to 100 VM’s per node at any timeLocal agents for SCVMM and SCOMUp to 30 virtual networks per node at any time
Management: Windows Server 2012 cluster
System Center 2012 SP1HP Insight Control for System CenterCentralized web service for self-service provisioningNetworkingIP network monitored by System Center 2012Fiber throughput near 1GB per second
Provides comprehensive system health, configuration management,
and software deployment
• Ideal for customers who have standardized on Microsoft System Center as their management platform
• Licensed and included with HP Insight Control
• Integrates directly into System Center consoles
• Included as key management component in HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft
Brings the native manageability of HP hardware to System Center 2012 environments
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Server Management
Comprehensive Health Monitoring
Driver andFirmware Updates
Bare Metal OS Deployment
Detailed HP Inventory
Total Remote Control via iLO
Advanced• Agentless Gen8• Windows• Linux• VMware• Blade enclosures
Automated Virtual Machine
Management
Provides comprehensive system health, configuration
management, and software deployment
Serverquarium MMS 2013 HP Server Management
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Hardware Storage: HP
3PAR StoreServ 10800
153.6 TB in total128 x 600 GB FC disks64 z 200 GB SSD disks32x 2TB NL disks4 controller nodesHP 5920 Series Ethernet SwitchesHP B-Series FibreChanmelSAN Switches
Autonomic: Reduce time spent managing storage by 90%• System responds effortlessly and
instantly to new workload demands
Efficient: Reduce capacity requirements by 50% • Hardware enabled thin technologies and
tiering for high efficiency without tradeoffs.
Multi-tenant: Double VM density per server • Bulletproof tier-1 resilience for massive
consolidation of unpredictable mixed workloads
Federated: Non-disruptive data mobility between systems• HP Peer Motion for easy refresh and data
services management across multiple arrays
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Management
• Integration simplifies management of Microsoft Hyper-V environments
• Rapidly provision new Virtual Machines
• Storage Management• Discovery• Manage HP 3PAR Virtual Volumes• Manage HP 3PAR Snapshots
Managing storage systems within System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
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Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Management
• Manage HP 3PAR Storage System with System Center 2012 Operations Manager
• Consolidate Event/Alert Management with System Center 2012 Operations Manager
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Serverquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Technology
• Uses HP Virtual Connect Technology• Reduces wiring costs and complexity
• Shared connection for FC and ISCSI and Ethernet• Reduces adaptor count
• VCEM • Allows multi cabinet network
management
Blade Servers (BL460c G8) Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 5
Port 6
Port 7 Internal Crossover
Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 5
Port 6
Port 7 Internal Crossover
FC-A-1 (8Gb)
FC-A-2 (8Gb)
Flex-Fabric –Bay 2
NIC Teaming
VirtualSwitch/
Virtual SAN
FC-A-3 (8Gb)
FC-B-1 (8Gb)
FC-B-2 (8Gb)
SUS-B5 (10Gb)
FC-B-3 (8Gb)
Flex Fabric 10/24 Interconnects
SUS-A5 (10Gb)
SUS-A6 (10Gb)
SUS-B6 (10Gb)
2 FF Modules
Port 8
Port 8
Internal Crossover
Internal Crossover
Flex-Fabric –Bay 1
Production
LOM_2AProduction-B (1Gb)
LOM_2CCSV (1Gb)
LOM_1AProduction-A (1Gb)
LOM_1BFC-A (8Gb)
LOM_1CLiveMigration (1Gb)
LOM_2DUnassigned
LOM_1DUnassigned
LOM_2BFC-B (4Gb)
FC-A
FlexibleLOM
FlexibleLOM
FC-B
Port 4 FC-A-4 (8Gb)
Port 4 FC-B-4 (8Gb)
Network Connectivity – Fibre Channel Connectivity
Serverquarium MMS 2012 HP Network Technology• Tested and Validated
Rack servers Blade servers
Legacy Architecture HP FlexFabric Architecture
High-performance 4-chassis virtualized
core
Rack servers
Blade servers
IRF
IRF Virtual Connect
Faster
Live Migration
500x faster recovery time
2x network performance
Source: Test commissioned by HP: “NetworkTest: FlexNetwork Architecture Delivers Higher Speed, Lower Downtime With HP IRF Technology” http://www3.networktest.com/hpirf/hpirf1.pdf
• HP Fabric Management Add-in for SCVMM planned for future release• Available as part of Insight Control for System Center
• SCVMM 2012 SP1 provides capability for HP specific functionality integration directly into the SCVMM console
• Extends view of HP Converged Infrastructure elements which will provide:• Summary view• Diagram view from VM to external switch
• Combines logical and physical elements from:• Hyper-V• Windows Networking• SCVMM• HP Virtual Connect
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Management ManagementTechnology Preview
SCVMM
Serverquarium combining VC and SCVMM
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• HP Virtual Connect elements are not exposed in SCVMM• Difficult to get an end-
to-end view of connections and relationships
HP Virtual Connect
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Management
Enclosure/Profile
ServervSwitchVMs
FlexNICs
Downlink
Ports
I/O Module
Uplink PortsExternal Switch
Actions
iLO ConsoleiLO WebVCM ConsoleOA Console
Launch Tools
Severquarium MMS 2013 HP IO Enhancement
Scale Up VM Performance Density Add more and larger VMs per server Add larger workloads to each VM
1.2TB HP IO Acceleratormezzanine card
• Extend virtualization to more I/O-intensive applications
• Maximize virtualization & infrastructure efficiency• Reduce power and footprint, simplify management• Eliminate I/O constraints, unleash VM performance
Introducing the team who built the systemQ&A
Conrad CahillSenior Virtualization
ArchitectXtreme Consulting Group
Dung Hoang KhacPrincipal Engineer
Virtualization Engineering Group
HP
Call to Action A ‘single pane of glass’ view of storage resources from HP at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/13OyD0t
See tech exposure of HP Storage integration w/MSFT System Center suite of products at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/13OyD0t
See session “HP Private Cloud Management w/System Center” Monday, April 8th b/twn 2:00-3:30pm http://bit.ly/13OyD0t #MMS2013
Accelerate your pathway to the cloud with HP at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 #Serverquarium
Stop at the #Serverquarium & take the tour w/one of our HP technical experts on site http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 # MMS2013
See HP demo HP Cloud Solution for MSFT—an ideal foundation to move you along your journey to the cloud http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 # MMS2013
Visit the Serverquarium
What is the ServerQuarium?
fastflexible
integrated
innovative
validated
federated
virtualized
resilient
redundantautonomic
secure
managed
multi-tenant
efficient
balancedavailable