texas technology forum data center consolidation: fact vs fiction july 28, 2008

Texas Technology Forum

Data Center Consolidation: Fact vs Fiction

July 28, 2008

Agenda

• Introductions

• Evolution of Data Center

• Examples of Data Center Migrations, Processes & Tools being used

• Abstracted Infrastructure, Virtualization for Consolidation

• Tomorrow Vision is now in DC Consolidation

• The Reason for Data Center Consolidation is not just cost savings

• Questions ???

Introduction

• 20+ years experience with Data Center Consolidations within Outsourcing industry for both Public, Private and Government sectors.

• Spent 18 years at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) leading the technology delivery organization and CTO for last two years before moving to Perot Systems for 3 years.

• My focus at Unisys has been working with Systems & Technology on cross-business unit coordination with Real Time Infrastructure (RTI). Provide leadership for GOIS with Enterprise Computing (EC) global view across theaters. Implementing key performance indicator measurements, working with theaters on global capacity model development for GOIS, working with GOIS portfolio team on changes with RIM / RTI capabilities, and assisting new client transformations such as Ciba. Also represent GOIS on the Unisys Technology Executive council.

• Contact Info: [email protected] Office: 469-892-3801

Cell: 214-763-0076

mailto:[email protected]

Introduction

• In today's economic conditions, it is more important than ever to drive efficiencies. As a result, government organizations are continuing to focus on simplifying, unifying, consolidating and collaborating. This session features some successful strategies, approaches and lessons learned in government and will help you build the case for your own consolidation

Data Center Management Pain Points

• Virtualization complexity

• Server sprawl

• Idle infrastructure

• Provisioning

• Configuration management

• Service Level Agreements

• Operational expenses

• Time to market

What’s bothering you right now?

Evolution of the Data Center

• Infrastructure

aligned to BU

• Manual Patches

• Infrastructure aligned to BU

• Manual Patches

• Low Utilization

• Element Management

• Heterogeneous OS

• Low Utilization



• Storage Silos

• Distributed DC

• Storage Silos

• Distributed DC Yesterday

• Infrastructure Consolidation

• SAN Virtualization



• Centralized Resources

• Open Source


• Open Source

• Improve Utilization

• Centralize DC


• Centralize DC

• Infrastructure aligned to application


• Active SAN/NAS Virtualization

• Server Virtualization



• Common OS

• Automated Purposing

• Fabric Management

• Common OS



Today

• Infrastructure aligned to business

• ChargeBack


• ChargeBack

• Intelligent Automation

• Utility Model

• Pool of Resources


• Utility Model

• Pool of Resources

• Policy Based Management

• Self Purposing


• Self PurposingTomorrow




• Manual Patches


• Manual Patches

• Low Utilization



• Low Utilization



• Storage Silos

• Distributed DC

• Storage Silos

• Distributed DC Yesterday






• Open Source


• Open Source


• Centralize DC


• Centralize DC







• Common OS



• Common OS



Today


• Optimized TCO


• Optimized TCO


• Policy Based

• Utility Model


• Policy Based

• Utility Model


• Self Purposing


• Self PurposingTomorrow

Intelligent Automation

Virtualization


Built on the Gartner Real-Time Infrastructure model in which IT assets are virtualized, self-managed, and business-driven, producing greater enterprise agility and lower IT costs

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Multitude of disparate systems, complex and manual operation

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Data Center Transformation

Repeatable Process

Discovery Analysis Design Pilot Implement

• Detailed Inventory of Existing Estate

• Hardware

• Software

• Applications

• Group Applications & Systems Discovered

• Determine Most Suitable Form of Optimization

• Understand current processes and people

• Produce Design

• Build project plan

• Build resource schedule

• Assist in developing business case

• Business Requirements and Restrictions

• Optional phase

• Implement representative sample

• Prove design and approach

• Fine ‘tuning’ for Implementation

• Implement target environment

• Migrate and consolidate applications

• Implement management & operational processes

Consolidation/Virtualization Roadmap

Toolsets for Successful Migrations

• Application Asset Manager (ITM Discovery)– Discovery of an existing server estate

• Windows, Unix, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle

– Deliver optimal strategy based on analysis of your environment

• Remote Telemetry/CS Sizer– Modelling of optimized target platform environment based on existing

performance data

• ITM– Application interaction modelling

• Traces network communications between applications to determine a business interactivity model

• Assists in determining capacity models and move sets

• Plate Spin (Real-Time Consolidation Accelerator)– Move physical servers to virtual servers– Move virtual partitions to other virtual partitions

Unisys PatentedUnisys

Patented

• Distributed IT

– Data Centers

– Networks

– APP’s design and support

• Duplication of APP’s

• 53 data centers worldwide ($130M expense)

• Strong G/M organization structure at country level

Environment (1990’s)

Unisys Data Center Consolidation Globally

• Integrated networks

• Skilled IT workforce

• Integrated e-mail

• Management commitment

• Technology trends

– Mainframes performance/footprint

– LANs

– Switched networks

– Open protocols

– Desktop power

Enablers


• Up to 12 teams active

• Team size up to 12 people Push/Pull on Phase 1

• Phase 1 duration 3 months then reduced

• Initial seed platforms in place

• Only current platforms moved (avoid museum)

• Phase 2 teams up to 50 people

• Standardization/consolidation undertaken if speed not impacted

Move Process


• Turf

• Loss of control

• Accurate cost data

• Layoffs, etc.

• Investment

• IT “It won’t work”

Resistance


• Migration covered four years (on plan)

• Cost benefit improved

Results


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• Established base for:

• APP centralization

• APP redesign

• Continuous improvement

• Large reduction in hardware acquisition over old decentralized model

• Senior line management had project in their objectives

• All business groups involved in business plan

• Open fact based communications

• Maximum involvement of all IT groups

• Rotate IT people – “burn out” is an issue

• User testing – good, they convince themselves

• Overkill platforms and network during migration if necessary

– A single problem will be magnified and cause undue delay and it’s easy to cut back later

• Started fast and kept up the pace.

Keys to Success


State of PennsylvaniaData Center Consolidation

Scenario: Consolidate 20 Data Centers into 2

Solution:

– IBM is subcontractor to Unisys– Scope of services very broad from facilities to Disaster Recovery

– Could not sever any State employees• All employees made redundant were placed in other positions in the State• Re-trained or re-purposed• Used to improve State services

– Implemented “Best Practices” Problem and Change Management

– Implemented Service Level Agreements

Benefit:– 20 data centers into 2

– 47 disparate Email systems to 1 (75,000 users);Exchange servers reduced by 50%

– 14 month transition

– $27M annual savings

State of TexasData Center ConsolidationScenario:

– Critical clients requirements• State regulatory mandate for project • Critical employees must be maintained for 2nd year• All work must be done in the State• All affected employees must be offered positions 1st year• Followed Gartner recommendation

– Consolidation / Migration Scope• 31 data centers to 2• 7,000 Windows servers, 1,400 Unix servers,16 Mainframes

Solution:– Scope of services very broad from facilities to Disaster Recovery

Benefit:

– Project Underway - Unisys is subcontractor to IBM

Benefits from the City of Mpls Virtualization

• Reduce server count 25 : 1– Power saving 55KW– Saving floor space

• Simplification of server support

• Unisys can now install new servers in days vers 2 to 3 weeks– i.e. in the recent 35W bridge disaster in Minneapolis, Unisys was

asked to install a new server to support the disaster on Friday afternoon and the new server was up and running supporting the disaster on Monday morning, in the past this would have taken 2 to 3 weeks to be installed.

• Server maintenance savings $154,000.00 per year

• Unisys can now perform maintenance on the host machine with out any client down time

Future State for City of Mpls

• Of a 128 servers 76 are being virtualized to 3 ES7000’s 8-CPU systems, running VMware ESX 3.0

• Represents a 25:1 reduction of physical assets

• Systems will be migrated using Real-Time Consolidation Accelerator for Physical to Virtual migrations

• Created a Blueprint for City of Minneapolis Server Infrastructure

Ciba Specialty Chemicals Global Data Center Transformation

• Data center locations being moved– Basel to Zollikofen, Switzerland

– Zurich DR to Berne, Switzerland

– High Point to Salt Lake City, USA

– Singapore to Shanghai, China

• Server Transformation for Data centers– 200 Physical to Virtual

– 40 Virtual to Virtual

– 100 Physical to Physical

• Further consolidation for remote sites once Data centers have been relocated on to new infrastructure.

Metric Number

Working Total Servers 623

O/S Reduction 95

Virtualization (All Sites) 288

Virtualization (Basel) 103

SQL Instance Reduction 21

Total number of servers today 891

Decommissioned now and future: 114New since contract start 97Removed File Consol 20Removed SQL consol 37Total servers removed 268Leaving total server count by O/S 623

Leaves 136 servers in 623 not consolidated.

PowerConvert

ConsolidationAccelerator

PowerConvertWindows and Linux Servers can be analyzed

VM Image

VM Image

VM Image…

VM Snapshots

VM Snapshots

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SoftwareLibrary

Storage Area Network (SAN)

VM Image

VM Snapshots

VM VM Virtual Machines – Windows or Linux

Image file that contains the OS and all related configuration for the VM

Point in time snapshot of the VM

ESX Host VMware ESX Host will host all the Virtual Machines

SoftwareLibrary

Contains ISO Images of CD for quick and easy installations

Physical Servers

VMVM

VMVM

VMVM

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ESX Host

VMVM

VMVM

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ESX Host

VMVM

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ESX Host

Enterprise Servers

PowerRecon

PowerConvert

Analyzes physical systems for workload such as processors, memory, disks and network.

Converts Physical to Virtual, Virtual to Virtual and Virtual to Physical

ConsolidationAccelerator

PowerRecon

Real-Time Consolidation Accelerator For single point of control operating system portability

Real-Time Consolidation AcceleratorFor automated movement of operating system, applications, and data between infrastructure types

• Key Features – Multiple source infrastructure platforms supported

– Dynamic OS configuration

– Workload right-sizing and optimization of resources

– Support for “Live Images” and backup repositories

– Remote job execution/hands-off

• Enables– Infrastructure Consolidation

– Recovery

– Test lab automation

– Maintenance support

– Hardware migrations

– Geographical migrations

Virtualized/ Utility Computing

On the Road to an Abstracted Infrastructure, Automation is Key

MultiInstance

Stacked Scaled

Standardized Servers

LAN + SAN

Shared Storage

Isolated Appliance Imaged

Server Pools

VLAN

Virtual Storage Pools

Applications Applications

Optimized Infrastructure Automated Computing

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Degree of Automation

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40% to 49%

30% to 39%

20% to 29%

10% to 19%

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Today (n = 203)

Two years from now (n = 211)

Source: Forrester Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2007

“Approximately what percentage of your x86 servers are virtualized today?”“Approximately what percentage of your x86 servers do you believe will be virtualized two years from today?”

Base: server decision-makers at North American and European organizations with 100 or more employees that have implemented server virtualization or are implementing in the next 12 months

Did you know?On average, respondents have virtualized 24% of their servers today and plan to have 48% virtualized in two years.

Firms plan to virtualize many more servers in the next two years

IT Optimization Consolidation / Virtualization

– Currently driving reduced server footprints along with lower energy (heating/cooling/power) requirements for demonstrable cost savings, greater control and improved SLA

• Typical server consolidation of 8:1 in production• TCO improvements of 20%+

– VMware is market leader in virtualization and expanding use cases to include desktop virtualization to enhance standardization of the desktop and reduce support costs.

– Look for more over time from Microsoft’s Hyper-V to catch up andtake some market share from VMware.

– VMware includes a mature and robust management solution

– Platespin “Power convert” can be used to simply migration ofserver images into Virtual images

– Virtualiron now using XEN hypervisor

Virtualization Technologies

Management Tools

http://www.xensource.com/index.html

http://www.virtualiron.com/

http://www.sw-soft.com/

http://www.xensource.com/index.html

VM Sprawl: Manage It Before It Manages You

The New Math:

One client alluded to it as being "addictive."

The Real Math:

V = Freecost

V =cost(Planning, Administration, Control, Optimization, Reclamation)

Source – Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit, June 2007;‘Managing the Virtual Server Environment’; Author: Cameron Haight

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Virtualization – a Two Edged Sword

Benefits/Opportunities

• Reduced Hardware Infrastructure

• Lower TCO

• Rapid provisioning

• Flexibility

• Increased productivity

• Workload management

• Ease of providing BC/DR

Costs/Issues

• Increased Software Complexity

• Cultural Issues

• Compliance

• Conflicting user demands

• Logical server sprawl

• Process/personnel discipline (ITIL/COBIT)

• Management of the new mixed Virtual/Physical infrastructure

The New Approach ToDatacenter Scaling

-‘Plug-and-Play’ Datacenter

Real Time Infrastructure

Adaptable Capacity

Tomorrow DC Level is Now Possible

• No 2:00AM visits to the data center

• No spending hours reloading software

• No changes to cables, network addresses, switches

• No changes to storage addresses, switches, LUNs

Rack once, cable once

One moment they are a Windows Email cluster, on an internal network, connected to LUN1 …

The next moment they are a Linux & Solaris Web Grid, on an external network, connected to LUNs 5 & 6 …

Virtualization at Data Center Layer Servers, Storage, & Network

• From dead, bare metal to live, networked servers

in 5 minutes or less

• Automatically configure network connectivity and storage access

• Repurpose servers dynamically, as needed

Controller

Controller GUI

GO!

Automatically configure vLAN

Boot server from network storage

Repurposing of Data Center Resources

Software for changing servers and network & storage connections, fast

Recovery and Capacity Repurposing

Virtualization – Storage View

IT Operations Automation Orchestration – Automated Resource Management

• Key Features– Provision physical and virtual servers– Configure multiple servers– Install OS’s remotely– Resource optimization based on load– Group management of servers– High Availability failover– Composite application resource

management– Windows and Linux– VMware interface

• Benefits– Assure service level performance– Operational cost savings– Utilize resources efficiently– Business driven IT

Provision and re-deployvirtual and physical resources

IT Service IT Service Governance

Composite ApplicationDiscover and

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Manage businessrules and policies

Monitor business activity




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Real-Time Orchestration & Provisioning

04/18/23

What is “Green IT”?

“IT suppliers and their corporate customers changing the way computing assets are designed, manufactured, operated, and disposed of to gain efficiency and cost savings while reducing environmentally harmful impacts”

– Forrester

04/18/23

Getting Started on the Path to Green

Power Efficiency • Increase server utilization – virtualization, consolidation

• Cool data centers more efficiently• Manage desktop power consumption

Promote Green Work Practices • Facilitate telecommuting options• Add green criteria to IT procurement practices• Source energy from greener producers• Purchase energy-efficient products

Reduce E-Waste • Recycle servers, PCs and other hardware• Recycle printer cartridges, paper, batteries• Set printer defaults to two-sided printing• Promote selective printing of documents and green document retention practices

Getting Started on the Path to Green

04/18/23

How Green Are We?Green Initiatives in PA and City of Phila.

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal

• State of PA 2008 budget allocates $650 to alternative and renewable energy – aimed at reducing dependence on foreign fuels

• Certification for green trades people originated in Philadelphia and spreading across the US (Green Advantage Contractor Training and Certification)

• State of PA green grant programs– $26.4 million alternative energy incentives

– $5 million under Energy Harvest program to promote awareness and build markets for cleaner or renewable energy technologies

– Business Pollution Prevention Assistance – up to $100k for projects that reduce waste, pollution or energy

• PA Energy Mgmt Assistance program provides free energy audits for small businesses; private firms do the same for the rest

The Cost Value of “Green” IT

• Energy Star-certified desktop computer systems can reduce energy consumption by up to 70%. (INPUT 6/08)

• Virtualization could save the federal government between $18 billion and $29 billion over the next 10 years. (INPUT 6/08)

• Switching to a more eco-friendly PC model can reduce power consumption by 20% or more. (Gartner 3/08)

• Simply putting machines into a lower power state after hours reduces energy costs from more than $75 a year to approximately $18 a year. (INPUT 6/08)

• A 1,000-person organization could save up to 1.6 million pages per year and $33,500 in costs by eliminating banner page printing. (Gartner 3/08)

– The savings realized could be higher, because many organizations actually print more (in some cases, 30% or more) than the 1,000 pages per employee per year used in Gartner’s model.

Server Cost Savings

• Thin clients draw between 6 and 40 watts per hour of usage, compared with 150 to 350 watts for typical desktop PCs. After allowing for increased server power and cooling demand, thin clients conservatively offer 25% energy usage reductions and similar drops in corporate CO2 emissions. (Forrester, 3/08)

• Many midsize businesses have reported that they are reducing their server population by nearly 25% or more by using server virtualization technology. (Gartner 6/08)

• Gartner estimates that virtualization can save a company 20% to 30% in operational costs. (Gartner analyst inquiry call, 7/08)

• Operational cost reductions of 10 percent to 20 percent are possible through server consolidation. In the right circumstances, a cost reduction of from 30 percent to 40 percent can be achieved over three years. (Gartner, 2/01)

Contact Info: [email protected] Office: 469-892-3801

Cell: 214-763-0076

Questions

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