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1 Schneider Electric 1 Foundational BUSINESS OVERVIEW Rev 2 Virtualization and physical infrastructure – Integrations with Microsoft and VMware

2 Schneider Electric 2 … are now talking to each other Virtual machine management and physical infrastructure management… Physical infrastructure management Virtual machine management vSphere™

3 Schneider Electric 3 What’s the problem? ● Which VMs are on a host server with compromised physical health? ●Power ●Cooling ● Where should I move a VM, or add a new one? ●What is the best “healthy” host server? ●How do I find this place? ● How do my VMs migrate? ●When a physical event occurs, who/what will move the VMs? ●Is this an automated or a manual process? ● Effect on business process? ●In a physical event, what business process(es) could be impacted?

4 Schneider Electric 4 4 Virtualization – efficient and simple ProcessorMemoryStorage VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM A server “simulator” VIRTUALIZED SERVER TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL SERVERS

5 Schneider Electric 5 5 Virtualization – efficient and simple ProcessorMemoryStorage VIRTUALIZED SERVER Virtual machine Operating system App (VM) Virtual machine (VM) VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM A server “simulator” TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL SERVERS

6 Schneider Electric 6 6 ●CPU efficiency Traditional server utilization rate: ~10-15% (usually higher for storage) Virtualized server utilization rate: Up to 80% VMs can be turned off when not needed ●Server consolidation Fewer servers to buy/install/maintain ●Floor footprint Reduced floor space because fewer servers needed ●Disaster recovery Virtualized servers can be easily mirrored in case of trouble with their physical host server ●Labor cost Easier hardware provisioning and maintenance Fast server deployment No need to purchase and deploy new physical servers, which can take weeks Quick review – Why virtualize?

7 Schneider Electric 7 7 Analysts are reporting the trend… IDC Presentation, "The Changing IT Landscape: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and New Datacenter Requirements," Michelle Bailey, 2010

8 Schneider Electric 8 Virtualization and automation tools are among the top 5 efficiency strategies …

9 Schneider Electric 9 9 IDC Presentation, "The Changing IT Landscape: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and New Datacenter Requirements," Michelle Bailey, 2010

10 Schneider Electric 10 VMs migrate to a more productive “work space”... Processor Memory Storage Virtualization platform If a VM needs more PROCESSOR, MEMORY, or STORAGE, it migrates to a physical server with available resources Processor Memory Storage Virtualization platform PHYSICAL SERVER WITH MORE RESOURCES PHYSICAL SERVER Virtual machine manager Virtual machine including its operating system and running applications The “big two” VM managers are...

11 Schneider Electric 11 Schneider Electric 11... to maximize computing throughput Virtualized servers VMs move around as their computing demands vary, to optimize use of physical server resources Virtualization is part of a general move toward optimizing the ultimate data center efficiency metric: COMPUTING PER WATT

12 Schneider Electric 12 Schneider Electric 12 But equally important… COOLING VMs depend critically on the POWER and COOLING that keeps their host server healthy POWER VMs must not only be PRODUCTIVE...... they must also be physically HEALTHY

13 Schneider Electric 13 Schneider Electric 13 Why move a VM? Reasons on both sides... The virtual machine manager ●Not enough PROCESSOR ●Not enough MEMORY ●Not enough STORAGE Not enough COMPUTE resources... ● Power outage – on battery, low battery ● Cooling trouble – failure of a cooling device ● Loss of redundancy in power or cooling Power Cooling Operations There is physical DANGER... OR watches this side PowerCooling ™

14 Schneider Electric 14 Schneider Electric 14 What if VMs could know when to migrate away from an unhealthy server? COOLING POWER XX

15 Schneider Electric 15 Schneider Electric 15 Now they can ! Virtual machine manager Operations COMPUTE management and PHYSICAL management are talking… COMPUTE management Moving VMs for best productivity Keeping watch on power and cooling PHYSICAL management Trouble OK, taking action!

16 Schneider Electric 16 Schneider Electric 16 Operations Virtual machine manager Rack 15 The new conversation POWER ALERT at rack 15 Rack 12 OK, moving VMs out of rack 15 – TO WHERE? Rack 12 looks good Done !

17 Schneider Electric 17 Schneider Electric 17 Virtual machine manager New teamwork HOW to move… ●How to move VMs ●How to find computing capacity in the healthy racks you tell me about I KNOW... WHERE to move… Operations ●Bad at THIS rack ●Good over at THOSE racks I KNOW conditions are...

18 Schneider Electric 18 Schneider Electric 18 Getting started: A human configures the system ●LAYOUT of room and racks ●POWER TRAIN from UPS to rack ●LOCATION and TYPE of power/cooling devices ●VM IDENTIFICATION for each VM ●VM GROUPS with similar physical requirements (criticality, redundancy) ●ALERT PROFILE for each group Virtual machine mapPower/cooling map ●Rack location ●Business process running on it ●Owner Operations

19 Schneider Electric 19 Schneider Electric 19 The power/cooling “map” Location of racks and power/cooling equipment From this map and airflow modeling, Operations can calculate which racks will be affected by a power/cooling event

20 Schneider Electric 20 Schneider Electric 20 Alert profile ●Specified for each user-defined VM “group” ●Specifies thresholds and conditions that should trigger an alert for the group ●Examples: ●Cooling system failure ●Power approaching overload ●Low battery ●Power/cooling redundancy compromised Each profile can be tailored to comply with the organization’s policies for incident management

21 Schneider Electric 21 Schneider Electric 21 Virtual machine manager I know where my VMs are I know the POWER/COOLING landscape The result: Automated vigilance... and I will move them to a safe rack when you tell me there is trouble... and I will tell you when there is danger to your VMs and where it is safe to move them Operations

22 Schneider Electric 22 Schneider Electric 22 InfrastruXure Operations Virtual machines (VMs) Physical infrastructure Power Cooling Redundancy Physical server Virtual machines (VMs) UPS A UPS B Operations A bridge between VMs and their physical infrastructure

23 Schneider Electric 23 Schneider Electric 23 An “incident” looks like this... Impacted Host This host is impacted by a failure in the physical infrastructure. StruxureWare Operations has detected that this host is in a critical state and is no longer suitable for hosting virtual machines. This monitor tracks the impact of the physical infrastructure such as power supply and cooling. The host is currently impacted by a physical incident. Cause and resolution This host relies on physical infrastructure which is currently in a critical state. To ensure that the virtual machines running on this host remain available, PRO will migrate them to a healthy host.

24 Schneider Electric 24 Schneider Electric 24 InfrastruXure Operations UPS A UPS B UPS on battery 1 Operations Anatomy of an incident

25 Schneider Electric 25 Schneider Electric 25 Central Monitoring software InfrastruXure Operations UPS A UPS B Central sees the problem 2 Operations Anatomy of an incident

26 Schneider Electric 26 Schneider Electric 26 Monitoring software InfrastruXure Operations UPS A UPS B Anatomy of an incident Central notifies Operations 3 Operations Central

27 Schneider Electric 27 Schneider Electric 27 Monitoring software InfrastruXure Operations UPS A UPS B Anatomy of an incident Operations tells the VM manager which VMs are affected 4 Operations Central

28 Schneider Electric 28 Schneider Electric 28 Monitoring software InfrastruXure Operations UPS A UPS B Anatomy of an incident The VM manager moves the affected VMs to a healthy rack 5 Operations Central

29 Schneider Electric 29 Schneider Electric 29 Behind the scenes: How do they talk to each other? Operations Virtual machine manager Web services API A networked meeting place to exchange data in a non-proprietary “open” format

30 Schneider Electric 30 Schneider Electric 30 Operations Your VM manager in concert with… Central Aggregates monitored data from physical infrastructure devices “appliance” The Physical infrastructure Virtualized servers How does it collect real-time data? Behind the scenes:

31 Schneider Electric 31 Schneider Electric 31 Automated communication with networked devices “OUT of the box” deployment Access to rack-level data No custom programming when deployed with devices or other supported vendors* ●Temperature/humidity ●Power/cooling health ●Power/cooling redundancy ●Physical security ●Non-proprietary web-services access ●Multi-vendor support Open protocol ●Auto-discovery of manageable devices ●Mass configuration for updates to settings FAST EASY INTEGRATED Central Data interpretation ●Reports ●Trending ●Analysis The “hub” of physical infrastructure monitoring *For vendors not automatically supported, we provide a service to configure StruxureWare Central to receive data from any device using SNMP or Modbus TCP protocol

32 Schneider Electric 32 Schneider Electric 32 Part of the software family The “appliance” Central Operations Capacity Change ●Where can I add a new server? ●Do I have “stranded capacity” of power, cooling, or space? ●Monitor physical conditions ●Warn of trouble spots ●Talk to the VM manager ●Track inventory and provisioning of equipment The physical server for automation tools This is the one we’re talking about, for communication with VIRTUAL servers These are for management of PHYSICAL servers

33 Schneider Electric 33 Schneider Electric 33 Virtual machine manager Physical infrastructure manager ●No communication between virtual machines and their physical environment ●Virtual machines didn’t know if there was power or cooling trouble at their rack BEFORE Virtualized servers were “in the dark” regarding physical threats Central

34 Schneider Electric 34 Schneider Electric 34 InfrastruXure Operations Virtual machine manager Operations Physical infrastructure manager Virtualized servers can now respond to physical threats Central NOW

35 Schneider Electric 35 Beyond automation A view into the “other side” Operations Each manager can see real-time information in the other’s domain Facilities manager IT manager IT Physical infrastructure I need to service rack 12 – who needs to be notified? Where in the room are the servers that run my email VMs?

36 Schneider Electric 36 Schneider Electric 36 Virtualized servers...

37 Schneider Electric 37 Schneider Electric 37 Plus integrated management with physical infrastructure Operations

38 Schneider Electric 38 Schneider Electric 38 Will save you... ●Energy ●Staff time to “babysit” physical threats ●VM downtime from physical events ●Damage to business relationships ●Lost sleep due to worrying what might happen next All affecting...

39 Schneider Electric 39 Schneider Electric 39 Questions?


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