1. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Next generation of virtual infrastructure with Hyper-V Juraj Sucik, Michal Kwiatek, Rafal Otto CERN IT-IS

2. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Agenda Experience since 2006 New Hyper-V infrastructure Real life use cases What’s next Summary 2

3. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Experience since 2006 Server Self Service Center (S3C)  Choose your server from a set of predefined images  Take resources from the pool of available HW  Available within minutes 3

4. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Requirements have evolved New requirements identified  Flexibility of resource allocation  Higher performance  High-availability model adapted to customers Larger scale  Efficient management 4 Source: Gartner (August 2008)

5. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t New Hyper-V infrastructure 5

6. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t New Hyper-V infrastructure 6 Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager Windows powershell SOAP services Virtual Machine Manager Admin Console Virtual Machine Manager Admin Console CERN Virtual Infrastructure Web Interface CERN Virtual Infrastructure Web Interface Backups OS Maintenance LAN DB Application Management Hyper-V

7. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t CERN Virtual Infrastructure Demo 7

8. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t SOAP method calls 1)Request VM 2)Delete VM 3)Start VM 4)Stop VM 5)Save State of VM 6)Import / Export 7)Snapshots Virtual Machine Request (Create) / Delete Import / Export Snapshots Save State Start / Stop 8

9. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Real life use cases Video streaming for LHC First Beam Day  6 virtual machines needed for ~1 week Terminal Servers for Engineering Apps Oracle Application servers CERN Media Archive CERN Alerter web server  Physical server with 2xCPU, 4GB RAM  Upgrade necessary because of OS driver issue  Virtual server set up “on demand”  Resources limited to 1xCPU, 2 GB RAM Etc, etc. 9

10. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t What’s next IT-IS group  Install more hardware to satisfy the demand Hypervisor 2.0 in Windows 2008 R2  Enhanced support for Linux  Further performance improvements  High availability (live migration, failover)  Power efficiency (core parking)  Easier management  Expected later this year, RC1 since May’09 10

11. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Summary Easy to use self-service Service in production since 2006 Latest edition based on Hyper-V  Improved performance  Efficient resource allocation  Flexibility of hardware provisioning  Ease of management  Web interface, SOAP, SCVMM  Integration with IT services  Network database, update distribution, backups, etc.  High-availability model adapted to customer requirements 11

12. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Thank you! 12 Questions? Comments? Thank you! http://cern.ch/cvi

13. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t More info... Amazon Cloud pricing Hardware Microsoft Virtualization...... and its interoperability Hyper-V scalability Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Hyper-V V2 Features System Center Virtual Machine Manager... and its new features in R2 13

14. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Amazon pricing compared 14 What Unit price USD Initial payment USD CHF per year CVI equiv CHF Amazon EC2 Small (1 CPU, 1.7 GB RAM) per hour0.1101069.596597 Amazon EC2 Small (1 CPU, 1.7 GB RAM) with 1y lump payment0.04325749.694597 Amazon EC2 Large (4 CPU, 7.5 GB RAM) per hour0.4404278.3842213 Amazon EC2 Large (4 CPU, 7.5 GB RAM) with 1y lump payment0.1613002998.7762213 Amazon prices don't include data transfer used - you need to add it on top: Amazon EC2 100 GB of data per month0.170226.440 Amazon EC2 1TB of data per month0.1702318.74560 Combining CPU, RAM and data transfer: Amazon EC2 Small (1 CPU, 1.7 GB RAM) with 1y lump payment + 100 GB data976.134597 Amazon EC2 Large (4 CPU, 7.5 GB RAM) with 1y lump payment + 1TB of data per month5317.52162213

15. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t Hardware Standard configuration  7 Pyramid servers single quad-core CPU 24 GB RAM, RAID10 with 10 250MB disks  5 HP Proliant DL360 G5 2 quad-core CPU 32GB RAM RAID10 with 4 399GB SAS disks HA configuration  2 HP Proliants  HP MSA2000i SAN RAID6 with 10 750 GB disks 15

16. CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/i t HEPiX Spring ’09 - 16

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