The Road to Advanced Virtualization & the Foundation for Private Cloud

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The Road to Advanced Virtualization &

the Foundation for Private Cloud

Barb Goldworm

President & Chief Analyst

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• President & chief analyst, FOCUS, LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), analyst firm focused on virtualization, cloud, systems, storage, & transformational technologies

• 30 years in technical, marketing & analyst roles with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates &multiple successful startups, started with virtualization late 1970s, built 1st_{ESD (electronic SW Distribution) solution late 1980s}

• Expert Columnist/Speaker since 1990s – NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld SNWOnline, IDG,

TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization, Information Week, Network Computing, Ziff-Davis • Author: 100s of research reports, surveys, white papers, columns, Wiley book

Blade Servers & Virtualization

• Conference Keynote Speaker/Chair/Advisory Board:

Chair/Advisor: Interop : Virtualization, Desktop Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Summit:

Private Cloud, Cloud Connect: Private & Hybrid Cloud, Comdex, Data Center Insights, Blade

Systems Insights, Server Blade Summit

Judge: Best of VMworld, Product of the Year

Keynote speaker: Interop, Tech Target Data Center Decisions, Storage Decisions, IT Sessions,

Avnet Road2Virtualization, Road2Storage Optimization, VirtualPath & StoragePath Universities, Avnet/Cisco The Way Forward, Educomm CIO Summit

Barb Goldworm

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• Introduction

– State of virtualization & cloud

– Adoption, trends, drivers, terms, benefits, pain points – What is Cloud

– The Road to Cloud

– Virtualization and Cloud management landscape

• Advancing virtualization

– Infrastructure optimization for virtualization/cloud – Workload automation & monitoring

– Performance, capacity management & cost visibility – Automated provisioning, self-service, service catalogs &cloud

stacks

• Microsoft solutions

– Windows Server 2012 & Hyper V 3.0 – Systems Center 2012

• Infrastructure considerations

• Conclusions and recommendations

Agenda

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Check out our previous webinar to learn about

how to start your journey:

Virtualization:

Helping SMBs thrive in 2013

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Poll Question

• Which of the following best describes your

attitude and progress towards private cloud?

 We already have a private cloud

 We are currently implementing a private cloud

 We are actively researching/evaluating private

cloud

 We have not started but plan to start within 12

months

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Adoption, trends, drivers, terms,

benefits, pain points

State of Virtualization & Cloud

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• 90% of organizations over 100 have server

virtualization

• 50-60% server workload virtualized

• SMBs started later but virtualize faster

• 75% of all x86 workloads will be virtualized by 2015

• Multi-hypervisor world: 2 hypervisors = 50%, 3 = 30%,

1 hypervisor = 5%

• Organizations not investing in management tools

beyond what comes with hypervisor

Most of the world is here (some virtual infrastructure)

State of the Industry:

Virtualization

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• 10x increase in private cloud deployments in 2012

(Gartner)

• Private cloud benefits – more agility than cost

• Hybrid – still rare but plans are affecting

architecture and vendor selection today

• Choices:

Virt platforms, cloud mgmt vendors,

cloud stacks, Private PaaS

• Hosted private clouds growing

Much of the world is trying to get here (cloud)

State of the Industry:

Private Cloud

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• Cloud fever/cloud washing

• Confusion

– Virtualization vs. cloud

– Between SaaS, IaaS, PaaS

• Virtualization success = economics of

consolidation

• Optimization and agility increasingly important

• Cloud drivers = agility, optimization, & economics

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_{Virtualization + optimization + agility = cloud}

State of the Industry:

Virtualization -> Cloud

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Big Cloud Plans

1/15/2013 © 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 10 Already using 18% Already using, and planning to expand usage 12% Plan to use within the next 12 months 10% Interested/ considering 24% No plans 24% Don't know 12%

Public Cloud Plans

Source: FOCUS Interop Survey Sept 2011

Already using 17% Already using, and planning to expand usage 15% Plan to use within the next 12 months 14% Interested/ considering 25% No plans 19% Don't know 10%

Private Cloud Plans

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Actual Benefits Achieved

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Improved desktop data security Desktop consolidation Improved desktop mgmt Improved application mgmt Enabled true DR plan for 1st time Improved app. service levels Reduction in storage hardware Improved response to users Increased availability Improved server manageability Improved disaster recovery plan Reduced provisioning time Improved IT agility Increased ROI of servers Reduced TCO of servers Reduced space/power/cooling Increased utilization of resources

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Cloudify to Reach

the Next Level

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The Road from Virtualization

to Private Cloud

From Virtualization to Private Cloud

Virtualized Infrastructure

Infrastructure optimized for virtualization

Automated, policy-based dynamic resource management Usage based cost visibility – chargeback/showback

Self-service provisioning Service Catalog

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So What’s a Cloud?

Operated and tailored solely for an organization, typically within the firewall, hosted by a CSP

Private Cloud

Operated and solely for an organization, typically within the firewall

Public Cloud

Accessible over the Internet for general consumption

Hybrid Cloud

Composition of 2 or more interoperable clouds, enabling data and application portability

Cloud Computing is

a way of doing

computing

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NIST Definition of Cloud

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The Roads to

Private Cloud

Private cloud:

virtualized, optimized, and automated – operates as self-managing, virtual infrastructure with self service portal

and service catalog

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• Virtualization management now morphed/merged into cloud • Base requirements – visibility, discovery, mapping, monitoring,

provisioning, automation/orchestration

• Orchestration may cross private/public/hybrid

• Workload/performance mgmt – required for agility, real-time

responsiveness and availability, troubleshooting, root cause analysis • Capacity planning & resource optimization required to achieve

cloudlike efficiency and elasticity

• Configuration mgmt/automated provisioning – standardization, image management, and automation for efficiency and agility • Infrastructure optimization – compute, network, & storage,

scalability, converged infrastructure/virtual I/O – mobility must include fabric of networking and storage

• Cloudstacks, portals, catalogs, orchestration • PaaS gaining traction to integrate development

Virtualization=>

Cloud Management

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• IT as a service provider, users as service consumers

• Must be easy to consume or users go public

• Define a service once (apps, drivers, hw, tools, mgmt

and policies), then deploy whenever/wherever

• Standardization, automation are key

• Break the IT silos and integrate - servers, storage,

networking, security, desktops, applications, mobile

• Start small but consider scale requirements

• Consider cost visibility as throttle before self service

• Optimize for today, plan for tomorrow

Public Lessons

for Private Cloud

Embrace the paradigm shift!

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Pros

Cons

Public

Cost efficiencies

Lack of control

No investment

Security concerns

Risk of new paradigm

Private

Customization

Ongoing operations

Complete control

Distraction from Biz

Considerations:

Public vs. Private

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Cloud Landscape

Vendor list is not exhaustive

Servers Private

Public

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Integration across

data center silos

Servers, storage, networking, security, desktops, applications, mobile

Cloud Impact

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• Embrace the paradigm shift to Cloud everywhere as appropriate

Public Cloud:

email, document sharing, word processing, web portals, web apps, SaaS apps, mobile apps…

Private cloud:

virtualized, optimized, and automated – operates as self-managing, self-service,

virtual infrastructure

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Virtualization and Private Cloud

Landscape Overview

State of virtualization & cloud

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• VMware – ESX/ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, DPM, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Site Recovery

Manager, Workstation, Player, ACE, Fusion, View Manager, View Composer, ThinApp, AppSpeed, RTO, vCenter Server Heartbeat, Chargeback, SpringSource, Hyperic, vShield , TriCypher, vCloud Director, Request Manager, vCenter Operations (vCOPS) , Navigator, Chargeback, Configuration Manager (Integrien, ConfigureSoft, FastScale, VMware vCloud Connector, Virtual Storage Appliance, App Performance Manager (AppSpeed+ Hyperic), AppDirector, IT Busines Management Suite (Digital Fuel), CloudFoundry, Wanova, Nicira • Microsoft –Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2 SP1, App-V Application Virtualization

(SoftGrid), Remote Desktop Services/Terminal Services, MED-V Enterprise Desktop

Virtualization (Kidaro), Systems Center 2012, VMM, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, System Center 2012, Orchestrator (Opalis), AppController (Concero Self-Service Portal), Service Manager, Azure

• Citrix – XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp hosted and streamed, Provisioning Server, Citrix

Delivery Center, Desktop Studio, Desktop Director, VMLogix, NetScaler, Branch Repeater, CloudGateway, CloudBridge, CloudStack, CloudPortal, AppDNA Apptitude

• OpenSource (KVM/Xen) – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M and RHEV-H) RedHat

Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Novell SUSE, Oracle VM

Virtualization &

Management Landscape

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Virtualization for Cloud

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Virtualization/Cloud Management

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Infrastructure optimization

The Road to Cloud - challenges,

considerations, tools

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Virtualization to Cloud Phases &

Challenges

1) Server

virtualization /consolidation

4) IT as a Service/Private Cloud

3) Management and Automation

2) Infrastructure optimization

A

B

Stall Points

TIME

V

A

L

U

E

C

New Delivery/ Business Model Networking Storage New Technology

Performance Tool Overload

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Obstacles

Virtualization not far enough along

20%

Storage and network infrastructure not ready/ optimized 25% Lack of automation and policy-based mgmt 28% Lack of self-service portal / Service catalog 7% Other 20%

Obstacles in the road from virtualization to

private/ hybrid cloud

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Workload automation,

Monitoring & Performance Management

The Road to Cloud - challenges,

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• Thresholds and actions

• Workload balancing

• Storage load balancing

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• Physical infrastructure monitoring has been a

mature market

• Virtualization/cloud requires new monitoring

components for hypervisors, multi-hypervisor

and multi-environment clouds

• Parameters and thresholds are now different –

Virtual CPU, memory, disk space

• Server workloads and desktop workloads

• Pooled resources and VDCs

• Hardware to VMs to clouds to applications.

Monitoring the

Virtual /Cloud World

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• Enterprise Strategy Group performance study

cited by MS

• Hyper-V Enterprise readiness/performance

• Claims Hyper-V best-in-class virtualization of

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• Automated discovery of components and relationships (P + V +C) • Visualization & Usability – customizable dashboards

• Monitoring vs management

• Datastore - flexibility, import/export, reporting, ad hoc query/reporting

• Breadth and depth – cross vendor, tiers (apps, VMs, hypervisor, server, storage, networking, DT) + drill down with detailed metrics

• Thresholds and Alerting – granularity and flexibility of responses • Policy-based responses/actions

• Recommendations – knowledge base • One-click actions

• Real-time – monitoring and management • Trending – historical analysis

• Integration with other tools (virt, cloud, desktop, ESM…) • Root cause analysis & correlation engine

• Business and services views • Scalability

Performance Monitoring &

Management Features

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Capacity management &

Cost visibility

The Road to Cloud - challenges,

considerations, tools

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Density (Consolidation Ratio) Low _High Low High Critical Production Workloads _Non-Critical Production

Workloads _{Batch &} Dev/Test Workloads

Cost Risk

Capacity Management:

The Economics of Workload Density

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Overprovisioning Underprovisioning

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• Application and infrastructure discovery & monitoring

• Profiling VM resources

• Understanding resource interdependencies

• Capacity Modeling (CPU, Mem, I/O) - what if analysis

• Capacity Management (CPU, Mem, I/O)

• Business Policy Overlay

• Point in time versus trending intelligence

• Candidacy analysis – Physical, virtual, Cloud

• Reporting – standard and ad hoc

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• Chargeback vs cost visibility (showback)

• X86 chargeback was by Server, SW, MB, & ports

• Now need per application or per user

• Should include VM (% of HW, OS and app SW,

power, backup/DR and mgmt SW), storage and

networking

• Excel, capacity tools, simple chargeback model,

high-end chargeback

• Service level tie-in

• Service providers and cloud vendors as models

• Path to consumption based pricing for cloud

Chargeback Considerations

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Automated Provisioning:

Life Cycle Management

The Road to Cloud - challenges,

considerations, tools

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• Plan, provision, police, put to bed

• Policies and products

• Provisioning management

• Optimization of resource usage

• Control for virtual sprawl

• Configuration and change control

• Automation of administrative tasks

• Workflow orchestration across systems

Automated Provisioning –

Life Cycle Management

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• Migration P2V, V2V, V2P

• Templates, cloning

• OS and Application Streaming

• User Profile/Personalization/Virtualization

• Automated policy-based provisioning

• Workflow orchestration

• Lab management

• Service management

• Self- service provisioning

• Service Catalog

Life Cycle Management

Provisioning Features

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• Automation – automate single task/process

• Orchestration – orchestrate workflows, multiple automated steps • Origins in virtual lab automation

• Built for dev/test – now leveraged for cloud

• Builds on VM monitoring, management, lifecycle management • Automate VM lifecycle from creation to decomission

• Policy-based for design, provisioning, monitoring and enforcement • Beyond scripting to be maintainable in an ongoing dynamic

environment, requires real-time config management

• Add self service front-end to automated back-end workflow

Automation & Orchestration

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• VM sprawl management

• Automatic infrastructure and VM,vApp

Discovery

• Inventory

• Configuration Mgt

• Change Mgt and Compliance Auditing

• Application and OS image and patch

management

• Retiring/ Decommissioning VMs

VM Life Cycle Management

Configuration/Change Control Features

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Self-service provisioning,

service catalogs

The Road to Cloud - challenges,

considerations, tools

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• Menu of services available via self-service portal

for IT service consumers

• Typically front-end Web-based listing of services,

products and pricing delivered by back-end IT

infrastructure

• Policy based back-end triggers orchestration/

automation of service provisioning steps

• Standardizes offerings and their implementations

• Integration with provisioning, change

management, service desk, CMDBs

• Enterprise App Store (including mobile)

Self Service Provisioning &

Service Catalogs

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MS Cloud Solutions

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• Private clouds manage compute, storage, & networking as

pooled, logical resources just as public clouds do

• Platform for MS public Azure Cloud &MS private clouds

• Public - Hosts Bing, Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office 365,

and Dynamics CRM

• Up to 64 virtual machine, 1 TB of virtual memory

• Also New

– Share-Nothing Live Migration- mirrored writes of the VM and its data to both the existing storage and destination storage

– Upgraded DirectAccess - route through one DirectAccess server & handle requests for access from Windows 8, XP, MacOS, and Linux or mobile devices. pushes policy objects into AD

– Added PowerShell 2400 management interface to System Center 2012 with Command Lets .

• Systems Center 2012 – self service across public/private,

Hyper-V, vsphere, XenServer, Azure

MS Windows Server 2012

“Built from the Cloud Up."

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Microsoft Private Cloud

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Systems Center 2012 features

• On prem and cloud VMs & move bw them

• VMs, cloud resources, fabric

• Self service and orchestration improvements

• Infrastructure and app performance awareness

• Private – Hyper-V, vSphere, XenServer

• Public – Azure

• Advisor – gathers and analyzes historical data

• Intune – deploys updates and reports, supports iPads,

iPhones, Android

• SCCM – mobile devices through connector to

ActiveSync (no agent for iPads, iPhones, Android)

• SCCM and InTune will become integrated continuum

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• Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 - services for creating &

managing clouds, updating/deploying VMs & apps. Resource pooling • App Controller 2012 - self-service portal for app owner requests to

private cloud. Service templates. invokes VMM 2012, Windows Azure • Service Manager 2012- automated IT service management, workflow

process with human approvals. Invokes Orchestrator

• Configuration Manager 2012 – user-centric app config, mgmt and delivery (inventorying, updating, orchestrating, delivery), local, VDI, apps (App-V or PS), mobile (Windows Phones, Symbian, iOS, Android), update/patch (MS, 3rd-party apps, HW drivers, BIOS), Windows, Linux • Orchestrator 2012 - automate interactions among other management

tools such as VMM 2012 and Service Manager.

• Operations Manager 2012 - monitor VMs, applications, and other aspects of private cloud, initiate actions to fix problems

Systems Center 2012

components

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Systems Center SP 1 Features

• Support for deploying and managing Windows Server 2012

& Windows 8

• Managing VMs both on-premises and in Azure including

Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012

• Windows Azure cloud integration, both for virtual machines

and for backup

• Expanded PowerShell support in Configuration Manager.

• SP1 components (except VMM & App Controller, run on

Windows Server 2008 R2 [Release 2], so IT can test now

• Inclusion of Intune allows IT to use either Configuration

Manager or Intune to manage devices(including mobile

devices & Windows RT devices) via Exchange ActiveSync

• DPM support for Windows Azure Online Backup Service to

use Azure for backing up to the cloud.

• Bundled SC licensing - standard (maximum of two VMs) and

Datacenter (unlimited number of VMs)

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• Part of Systems Center 2012

• Automatically collects information on server

configurations, notifies you of known or

potential problems and recommends a best

practice alternative

• Connects into Azure knowledge base of best

practices and problems

• Also available under software assurance for

Windows Server

MS System Center Advisor

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• Hyper-V Manager – built in, free, limited

• MS Systems Center 2012

• Veeam ONE – SMB

• Solarwinds – SMB

• Quest vFoglight and Vkernel vOps

• DynamicOps - large enterprises

• CiRBA - large enterprises

• Virsto storage “Hypervisor”

Management Support for

Hyper-V

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• Network interface card (NIC) teaming

• Hyper-V Replica - in-the-box, asynchronous,

application-consistent VM replication with data

compression and encryption

• Live storage migration, concurrent live migration,

share nothing migration

• Extensible virtual switch & Cisco Systems Nexus

1000V

• Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) support

• Predictive Failure (native ECC handling)

• App Controller update – Provider Foundation –

link to external providers for deployment

Hyper-V 3.0

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Hypervisor Wars

vSphere 5.1/vCD

• 2 TB physical RAM • 1 TB RAM/VM • 32 vCPUs • Nexus 1000v, VXLAN • 2 TB virtual disk max

• 32 Nodes, 3000 VMs /cluster • Live storage migration

• VSA shared nothing live migration • Self service portal

• AutoDeploy

• Fault Domain Mgr (new HA) • Host replication

• Dynamic power optimization • VMFS (FC, iSCSI, FCoE), NFS • Storage DRS & SIOC

• Policy driven storage provisioning

Hyper-V 3/SC 2012

• 4 TB physical RAM • 1 TB/VM

• 64 vCPUs

• Nexus 1000v, IP rewrite, GVRE • 64 TB virtual disk max

• 64 nodes, 8000 VMs /cluster • Live storage migration

• Shared nothing live migration • Self-service portal

• Automated provisioning • Failover clustering options • Hyper-V Replica

• Dynamic power optimzation • SAN (FC, iSCSI), FCoE, NAS

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Conclusions

Virtualization & Private Clouds:

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• If you haven’t already started virtualizing, start now

• Evaluate the changing landscape to meet your needs

• If you’ve started and hit VM Stall or VM sprawl,

evaluate virtualization mgmt tools. They will be the

path to private cloud

• Look at/optimize the whole virtual infrastructure

– Server, desktop, storage, networking

• Consider big picture - RAS, rapid provisioning, power &

space, performance, scalability, elasticity, mgmt,

security, policies, organizational issues, total costs and

ROI

• Leverage partner experience – avoid the potholes in

the road

Server Virtualization

Recommendations

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• Heterogeneous environs (servers, storage, OS, hypervisors)

• Out of the box capabilities • Lifecycle workflow

automation/integration • Automated provisioning

• Back end templates, controls • Self service portal usability

• Service catalog and admin tools • Consumption based pricing/

reporting, chargeback/showback • Sprawl, waste reclamation

• Change control/config mgmt

• Security and compliance reporting

• Real time end-to-end performance monitoring of apps and systems • Root cause analysis

• Ongoing resource optimization • Resource capacity planning/mgmt • Business view/overlay