Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center Hosted by GTSI and Cisco

Jim Sweeney, Manager, Virtualization Consulting Practice, GTSI

Imagine a Better Virtualization Solution Respond faster to changing business requirements Reduce your overall data center costs by up to 50% One virtualization platform One consolidated server infrastructure One converged data center fabric One unified storage architecture One data center infrastructure to manage One common shared dynamic infrastructure

Unleash Virtualization’s True Potential Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization Continue moving deployments out of early phases Increasingly more applications can be virtualized today Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos) Unlock the business and IT benefits constrained within each silo Gain a truly shared infrastructure Enable greater savings and agility Explore the potential of cloud services Take agility to the extreme with self-service Virtualization enables the adoption and control of cloud computing

Next-Gen Data Centers Are Service Oriented Building Point Solutions Building Horizontal Infrastructure Business Need Business Need Applications Applications Virtualization-Aware Network Virtualization-Aware Unified Fabric Servers Virtualized Storage Servers Network Ethernet, FC, IB Virtualized Dynamic Infrastructure Storage Project-Based Vertical Decision Silo Service-Based Holistic Decision 5 5 5

Data Center Evolution Toward IT as a Service Application- Based Silos Zones of Virtualization ITaaS (aka Internal Cloud) External Cloud Services Apps Servers Network Storage From Silos… …to Virtualized Dynamic Data Centers Standardize Consolidate Virtualize Automate Self-Service Centralize Work with your partner to map out your path when you are ready! 6

Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Technology Virtualize everything with VMware® vSphere® and View Unified server infrastructure with Cisco UCS Unified fabric with Cisco Nexus Unified storage with NetApp® FAS storage

Application-Based Silos Challenge Dedicated resources: Provide isolation and security Ensure quality of service Old silo-based decisions mean Slow response to business needs Inefficient resource utilization Inconsistent availability Result in higher cost Application-Based Silos Apps Servers Network Storage ERP HR CRM 8

Cut Data Center Capex and Opex in Half Infrastructure Virtualization One unified storage Natively supports all protocols Reduces storage capacity Eliminates multiple storage devices for tiering Apps Servers One virtualization platform Easy scalability for VMs or VM clusters Apply cost savings across your entire data center Increase availability and agility for all your applications Network Storage ERP HR CRM Cut Data Center Capex and Opex in Half 9

Centralize and Simplify Management Apps VMware vCenter NetApp Storage Plug-ins UCS Manager VMware® vCenter™ Automate workflows Scalable, extensible platform Cisco UCS Manager Embedded unified management Integrated with vCenter NetApp® Storage Plug-Ins Manage storage from within vCenter Empower server admins to perform storage tasks 10

Virtualization Journey Application Silos ITaaS (aka Internal Cloud) Zones of Virtualization Apps Servers Network Storage Business apps

Performance for Business Critical Applications VMware ESX 3.5 100,000 9 Gb/s 64 GB per VM 4 VCPUs VMware ESX 4.0 300,000+ 20 Gb/s + 255 GB per VM 8 VCPUs 95% of applications 1 to 2 CPUs < 4 GB at peak < 2.4Mbits/s % of Applications < 100 at peak Application Performance Requirements Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments 12

Transparent Failover Eliminates Downtime VMware: VMware® HA automatically detects server failures, restarts ALL workloads VMware FT enables instant failover between VM instances VMware HA and FT Cisco: UCS and Nexus deliver full fabric redundancy Nexus 1000V transparently manages path failover for network Cisco UCS and Nexus NetApp: Highly redundant array with no single point of failure MetroCluster stretches storage HA up to 100 KM MetroCluster Building 1 Up to 100 km Building 2 13 13

Recovery from Site Outages in Minutes VMware: Site Recovery Manager automates and simplifies DR and DR testing Coordinates failover of server, storage, and network Site Recovery Manager Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Cisco: DCI provides simplified and robust disaster recovery Thin replication via SnapMIrror Data Center 1 Thousands of kms Data Center 2 NetApp: SnapMirror provides bandwidth- efficient replication SnapMirror integration with SRM enables rapid VM recovery 14 14

Virtualization Journey Application Silos ITaaS (aka Internal Cloud) Zones of Virtualization Apps Servers Network Storage Virtualize All Applications (infrastructure, bus. applications, dev/test, desktops, etc.)

Challenges/Requirements Scale environments up and down at a moment’s notice Nondisruptively move applications to maintain service levels Maintain policies, controls, security, and isolation as applications move across resources

Rapidly Scale Infrastructure Rapidly provision servers and storage together Clone virtual servers in seconds Thousands of desktops in minutes Dynamically scale infrastructure Quickly create entire application or development environments Repurpose or reallocate capacity as business needs change 17

Virtualization Journey Application Silos ITaaS (aka Internal Cloud) Zones of Virtualization Apps Servers Network Storage Internal Cloud

ITaaS Challenges/Requirements Infrastructure metering/chargeback Service automation and management Self-service Instant delivery and capacity elasticity

Results you Can Measure: Typical Gains from a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center Area Dynamic Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency Compute: Consolidate servers 10:1 Storage: Use 50% less storage Network: 90% fewer cables and ports Power and cooling 25%-50% less Management Manage 10x-20x more per FTE Provisioning new infrastructure Minutes Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery TCO 25% to 50% savings 20 20 20 20

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