Sustain.Ability Honeywell Users Group EMEA. Virtualization Solutions: Improving Efficiency, Availability and Performance

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Sustain.Ability.

2012 Honeywell Users Group EMEA

Virtualization Solutions:

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Virtualization… Today’s hot topic

More Virtual

Machines are being

deployed today than

physical

Over 40% of todays

machines are now

virtualized

Over 75% of servers

will be virtualized by

2014

Over 50% of our

largest customers

are already

virtualizing today at

L3/L4

Over 80% of our

largest customers

have plans to

virtualize at L2

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Challenges for Plants Under Construction

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Constant pressure to reduce construction times

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Increasing design complexity

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Geographically distributed nature of construction process.

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Reduce computers

Other Customer Concerns

Challenges for Existing Systems

• Rate of change

• Management complexity

• Lack of skills

• Need to reduce overall lifecycle management costs

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Customers Building New Plants

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Design Independence

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Start engineering straight away and extend freeze dates

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Virtual FAT and Staging

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Execute FAT without having to fly people in.

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Flexible Hardware Procurement

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Development can start without hardware

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Design Opportunities

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Reduce space, power, weight and cooling

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New high availability options

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Improved agility and flexibility

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Customers with Lifecycle Challenges

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Hardware Refresh Optimization

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Facility and Utility Savings

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System Management Benefits

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High Availability Solutions for Computer Hardware

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Improved Hardware, OS and App Compatibility

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Simplified and lower risk upgrades and patching

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Hardware Refresh Optimization

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Customer Problem

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Too many machines to maintain

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Constant refresh churn

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Impact of refreshes are high

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Experion Virtualization Solutions

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Virtualized Experion ICSS

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Hardware optimized for TCO benefits

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Customer Benefits

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Reduced server and workstation count

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Reduced refresh frequency and Impact

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System Management Benefits

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Customer Problem

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Reduction in maintenance staff

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Difficult to get the required skills

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Pressure to deploy new projects faster

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Central management console for the monitoring and deployment

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Customer Benefits

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Reduced administration time

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Reduced time to provision new machines

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System Management Benefits

Access the desktop of any virtual machine

from a single screen

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System Management Benefits

See the status and performance of all VMs

from one window.

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Facility and Utility Savings

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Customer Problem

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Fixed space in equipment rooms

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Exhausting UPS capacity.

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Challenges with cooling

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Optimized for space, power and cooling

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Customer Benefits

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Avoid increases in UPS and cooling capacity

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High Availability Solutions for Computer Hardware

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Customer Problem

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Disruption cased when upgrading

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Continual desire for improved availability

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Reduce recovery times

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High availability hardware and virtualization features

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Built in backup package optimized for virtualization

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Customer Benefits

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Improved availability over traditional control System

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High Availability Solutions for Computer Hardware

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Improved Hardware, OS and App Compatibility

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Customer Problem

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Difficult to get hardware for older OS’s

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Multiple Apps running together one box

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Extensive range of OS support

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Isolate applications on a single box

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Customer Benefits

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Avoids PC refreshes due to OS obsolescence

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Simplified and lower risk upgrades and patching

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Customer Problem

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Desire to reduce Migration time, risk and cost

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Experion Off Process Solution

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Migration service

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Customer Benefits

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Reduced Risk

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Reduced Time

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Once virtual machine is built, run for as long as hardware provides acceptable performance (OS and App Support excluded)

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Simplified and lower risk upgrades and patching

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Improved desktop security with lower heat & noise

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Customer Problem

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Desire to improve System Security

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Reduce space, heat and noise

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Improve reliability for desktops

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Virtualized Station Environment

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High availability Use of Thin Clients

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Customer Benefits

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Improved System Security

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Reduced space, heat and noise

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Experion Virtualization Capabilities

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Support for all Experion nodes

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Supports all Series C controllers including a wide range of SCADA

interfaces

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Single and Multiple Clusters

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Supports the same performance limits as traditional deployments

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FTE Compatible

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Support for Experion Orion and R400

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Comprehensive deployment guide

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Experion Virtualization Thin Client Capabilities

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Flex Stations and Console Stations supported

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Honeywell qualified and supplied WYSE R10L

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Highly secure and locked down Thin Client with no file system reducing

attack surface.

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Up to two monitors supported

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Optional Dual Ethernet support for additional reliability

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Keyboard support for IKB (Serial/USB) and OEP Serial

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Diskless and Fanless with very low power usage.

Making Control Rooms quieter

and more secure.

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Virtual Machine Replication

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Improved availability during maintenance or failure

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Added new management network options

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Non Redundant 2.5 and Standalone management network

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Simplifies the deployment of virtualization infrastructure

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Improved Backup / Restore Guidance

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Supporting the latest version of VMware Data Recovery 2.0

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Procedures on how to Backup the Backup

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Officially recommending the Iomega PX4-300 D and PX4-300 R NAS

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Support for Server 2008 for Flex and Console Stations

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Single operating system for all virtual machines

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Support for Serial IKB and OEP keyboards with thin clients

Released Q1 2012

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1Q 2010

First Experion Virtualization Release

• Support for Experion Off Process

• Experion HS, LS and eServer

• First advanced apps

1Q 2011

Support of Experion SCADA

• Support of Experion SCADA virtualized for On Process. Shared Storage and for

transparent hardware upgrades and replacements

• BCC Solution Released

4Q 2011

Experion is supported On Process for Cxx Controllers

• Support for any sized Experion System talking to process controllers

• Flex and Console Station support

2Q 2012

Experion Orion Support

1Q 2012

Experion On Process Update

• Virtual Machine

Replication for increased availability

• Server OS support for Stations

• Improved keyboard support

Future

Experion High Availability Support with Blade

• Support for Blade

hardware with Shared Storage

• Automatic host recovery and transparent

hardware upgrades and replacements

• Improved template support

• Higher consolidation for servers and console

stattions

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Next Experion Virtualization Release

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Experion systems with process controllers will now support automatic

recovery from failed hosts

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Experion systems with process controllers will support moving virtual machines transparently between hosts

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Installation and Provisioning improvements

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System management integration

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Higher consolidation ratios for Experion Server and Console Station.

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Benefits will include

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Improved availability

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Vastly improved deployment times.

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Improved host usage efficiencies

Coming

Soon

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Traditional Deployment

Before 30-node System 2 Experion Servers 18 Operator Stations 5 Engineering Stations Sim FDM Alm Mgmt ACE Domain Control

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2 Experion Servers 18 Operator Stations 5 Engineering Stations Sim FDM Alm Mgmt ACE Domain Control

Virtual Deployment using regular servers

80%+ Reduction in Maintenance, Space, Energy Use and Better Security

Before

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Each blade is a server

Experion Virtualization – Blade

Additional

80%

reduction

Virtual Deployment using Blade

Coming Soon

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Blade Benefits

Compact

Supportable

Simple &

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Why Honeywell?

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Provide a solution not just a tick of approval

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Full installation and configuration guide to aid in deployment

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Ability to Design, Supply and Support these solutions

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VMware certified TAC engineers in every region

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Strategic, long-term approach to virtualization

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Full roadmap outlining our vision

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See virtualization as transformative and industry changing

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Joint development effort with the industry leader VMware.

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Domain expertise

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What’s in the Demo Room?

Experion Virtualization Backup Control Center Solution

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Summary

- Ease of Design, Implementation & Change management Reduced Computer Hardware with in built resilience.