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Utilizing Virtualization to Improve Sustainability Goals in Energy FacilityRick WrightSenior Technical Engineer - Process ControlsDTE Energy

Nabil SalmanSystems Integration EngineerInnovative Controls

11/11 /2013-11/12/2013



Agenda

Lessons Learned - Sharing

Virtualization Evolution

Stockton Biomass Project

Brief Company Profiles

Overview



Key FactsKey Facts

Who is DTE Energy?

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• Revenue $8.8 Billion• Net Income $610 Million• Assets $26 Billion• Current Employees 9,900 DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE) is a diversified energy company involved in the

development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide.

DTE Energy CompanyOne Energy Plaza

Detroit, Michigan



Power and Industrial Businesses

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Power and Industrial Project SitesProviding fully integrated, comprehensive energy solutions


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• 25 MW waste-wood facility• Woodland, California• Acquired in 2005• Sells renewable power to PG&E under a long term PPA

• 60 MW coal/wood (50/50) co-firing facility• Mobile, Alabama• Acquired in 2004• Provides power and steam to Kimberly-Clark under a long term agreement

• 40 MW coal-to-waste-wood facility• Cassville, Wisconsin• Acquired in 2008• Sells renewable power to Dairyland Power Cooperative under a long term PPA

• 45 MW coal-to-waste-wood facility• Stockton, California• Acquired in June 2010• Contract signed with PG&E to deliver renewable power - commercial operation date

scheduled for 4Q 2013

Woodland (In Operation)Woodland (In Operation)

MESC (In Operation)MESC (In Operation)

Stoneman (In Operation)Stoneman (In Operation)

Stockton (In Development)Stockton (In Development)

• 45 MW coal-to-waste-wood facility• Bakersfield, California• Acquired in November 2010• Contract signed with PG&E to deliver renewable power - commercial operation achieved

February 2012

Mt. Poso (In Operation)Mt. Poso (In Operation)

Renewable Energy: Wholesale Power & Renewables



Innovative Controls is a leading Systems Integrator applying technologies to industrial manufacturing, municipal and OEM customers in the southeast and abroad.

Innovative Controls



Overview

Location: Port of Stockton California

200,000 PPH (pounds per hour of steam) coal-fired boilers have been demolished and will be replaced with a 430,000 PPH grate-fired biomass boiler.

100 percent biomass fuel, mainly wood fuel derived from urban wood waste, tree trimmings and agricultural

45 megawatts (MW) of electricity or 32,000 residential homes



Plant Overview



Network & Hardware Architecture



Why Virtualization?

Re-think the Norm

Every Server is not a Physical Machine.

Depart from Tradition

Using the Hardware Cycle for Software Upgrades.

Minimize Risk

Keep patches from breaking the system.

Peace of Mind

No more emergency Server repairs in middle of the night.

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Key Dates VMWare in the PCN

2007 DTE Non-Utility convert IT infrastructure

Nov. 9, 2009 Rockwell Automation Supports Virtualization With VMware

2010 First Non-Utility DTE Process Control Network (PCN) VMWare

2011 low cost NAS hardware adapter (iSCSI)

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Shenango Inc- Implementation 2010

Started with single ESXi

Used VMWare Converter to convert existing Servers.

No Redundancy

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Shenango – First Plant for VMWareStandardized Hardware, 2011

Shenango Architecture FactoryTalk Historian FactoryTalk Live Data Server (Historian Interface) FactoryTalk Transaction Manager

The Platform Two Dell Host Servers, NAS, Cisco Switches VMware ESXi embedded O/S no drives vMotion

Had Host Server memory failure on one server with 30 second downtime.

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VMWare Control System Rollout

Shenango 2011 (10 Virtualized Severs)

Stockton 2012 (4 Virtualized Servers)

Stoneman 2013 (6 Virtualized Servers)

EES Coke 2014

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The New Environment

Highly Available

Fault Tolerant

Maintainable

Scalable

Remotely Support

Secure

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Convergence –Support Roles IT/Engineering/Techs

Lead site Techs Start, stop reboot guest server.

Engineering Start, stop, reboot, modify guest server. Create server from template or modify any guest server.

IT Support Modify or reboot host Monitor hardware/software performance and reliability VLAN creation and deployment Backup and Restore Guest Server Template management

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Other Things to Worry About

Dust free rack (NEMA 12) - Cooling

Backups - VEEAM

Licensing Full-Packaged Product (FPP) OEM Volume

Locate VCenter outside of VMWare

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Use Templates

Build Golden Images save time ensure consistency

Build your own or start with Rockwell Automation’s

Templates configured per your standards preloaded with patches, Antivirus, Security

Tested, Validated, Characterized (Rockwell Automation)

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DTE Energy’s Power & Industrial Group

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414 S. Main Street, Suite 600Ann Arbor, MI 48104734-302-4800www.dteenergy.comOctober 2013

Providing fully integrated, comprehensive energy solutions

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