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

2. Jim Sweeney, Manager, Virtualization Consulting Practice, GTSI

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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.)

16. 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

17. 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

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

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

20. 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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