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Virtualization Services Virtualization Services: FY10 Strategic Initiative #5

This document discusses Information Services' virtualization services initiative for fiscal year 2010. It provides an overview of VMware virtualization software and the physical server resources available. It then lists production software that is already virtualized or slated for virtualization across various university departments. Benefits of virtualization like development environments and testing are mentioned. Details are provided on a VMware pilot program and available tiers of virtualized storage. Success stories from adopting virtualization are shared. Finally, storage virtualization concepts and possible applications are outlined along with NetApp storage service details.

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Virtualization Services Virtualization Services: FY10 Strategic Initiative #5

This document discusses Information Services' virtualization services initiative for fiscal year 2010. It provides an overview of VMware virtualization software and the physical server resources available. It then lists production software that is already virtualized or slated for virtualization across various university departments. Benefits of virtualization like development environments and testing are mentioned. Details are provided on a VMware pilot program and available tiers of virtualized storage. Success stories from adopting virtualization are shared. Finally, storage virtualization concepts and possible applications are outlined along with NetApp storage service details.

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Virtualization Services

FY10 Strategic Initiative #5


Virtualization Services In Scope
Introduce new services utilizing virtualization
including:
 Applications
 VMware pilot program
 Storage
VMware product overview
 VMware is one of several server
virtualization products

 VMware vSphere 4.0 Enterprise Edition


 High Availability
 Thin provisioning
 VC Agent
 Update Manager
 VMSafe
 Data Recovery
 Hot Add
 Fault Tolerance
 Storage VMotion
 VMotion
 DRS + DPM

 Virtual Center vSphere


Management Console
Physical Server Resources
 14 Multi-Processor VMware Servers Total
 6 Academic Services
 4 node production cluster, 1 dev server, 1 test server
 Location: CC data center
 Storage: FAS 2050 High Availability Network-attached Storage
 4 Enterprise Apps
 2 x 2 node clusters
 Location: 2 node cluster in each data center
 Storage: HP EVA 6100 Fibre Channel SAN
 4 NTS/Security
 4 individual servers
 Location: CC data center
 Storage: Local storage only
Production software that is
virtualized
 Academic Services
 IS Keyserver
 Computer Lab imaging servers
 Computer Lab statistics collectors
 Wiki.uoregon.edu Confluence Installation
 CentralEPO McAfee EPO Anti-Virus Server
 New Ithelp RT system

 Systems
 IS Print servers
 IS MSSQL 2007 service
 IS Sharepoint installation
 IS WSUS Server for domain administration
 Centralized MySQL master server
 Cobbler system deployment tool
 Jabber.uoregon.edu IS Chat collaboration tool
 IS Content Management Systems (WordpressMU virtual hosting)
Production software that is
virtualized … continued

 Administrative Services
 Active Directory to Identity Manager gateway
 LDAP Proxy

 UO Departments and Units


 Ufolio.uoregon.edu WordpressMU site
 Ufolio-test Test WordpressMU site
 Eportfolio.uoregon.edu website (AAA)
 VPFA Web hosting box vpfa-prod drupal sites and other
hosting (VPFA)
Production software slated for
virtualization
 Academic Services
 Virtual Computing Labs - Researching
 Replacement mailing list management software (Sympa) – NEW

 Systems
 Enhancements to test environment - NEW

 Administrative Services
 Document Imaging - Migration
 Clean Address mailing verification software - NEW
 Resource25 Web interface - NEW

 UO Departments and Units


 Blackboard Application Servers - Migration
 College of Education – Lecture and class recording software – NEW
Additional Value of VMware
 Development Environments

 Testing new applications, methods, and migrations

 AD project has used VMware extensively to speed


testing and ease provisioning of production resources.
AD Development Lab
Philosophy: Consolidation “from
within”
 26 Dell PowerEdge x950 servers in CC Data Center
 Most average less that 10-20% CPU utilization and can
support large volumes of additional memory up to 64GB
 Strategy: Migrate physical servers to virtual servers and
convert hardware to VMware servers as needed
 Progress: RT servers, IS Print server, and IS Sharepoint
server
 Future: Blackboard application servers
 Cost: Approximately $16,000 per server converted
Questions?
VMware Pilot Program
 What it is:
 Virtual servers hosted in Information Services VMware
cluster(s)
 Physical to Virtual conversion assistance
 Lights-out management (vSphere Console Access)

 What it isn’t:
 Managed server environment
 Application administration
Simple Process
 Identify your application and contact
[email protected]
 Assess current resource utilization
 Configure performance monitoring and statistics gathering
 Analyze historical performance data

 Propose tier of VMware service or customized service


level
 Perform test migration
 Schedule downtime and final cutover
Available VMware Tiers
 Tier 1
 Single CPU, 24GB storage and 1024MB of RAM (minimum
resource reservation of 15% a physical CPU and 50% of
allocated memory)

 Tier 2
 Two CPUs, 32GB storage and 2048MB of RAM (minimum
resource reservation of 25% a physical CPU and 75% of
allocated memory)

 Tier 3
 Multiple CPUs, 32GB storage plus additional storage purchased
from storage offering, and more than 2048MB of RAM
(guaranteed resource reservation).
Success Stories
 VPFA Web Server
 Hosting over 80 sites
 Presidents Blog
 ODT Professional Development Website
 DPS
 many others….
 Systems worked with VPFA staff to coordinate physical to
virtual migration of test and production hardware
 Server is now hosted in IS data center and did not suffer
any loss of availability during power issues
Success Stories
 Eportfolio.uoregon.edu
 Server hosted in AAA with older hardware
 RAID failure resulted in total loss of data
 Restored server from bare-metal backup to a running VM
 Restored service for the application as soon as the backup
recovery completed
Questions?
Storage Virtualization
 Storage virtualization refers to the process of
separating (through abstraction) logical storage from
physical storage. The term is today used to describe this
separation at any layer in the storage software and
hardware stack. (Wikipedia)

 Data is no longer tied to a specific disk or a specific


location and is now free to wander as needed
So What?
 You no longer have to worry about single disk failure
 If you need better performance, all you have to do is
add more or better disks
 If you need more capacity, all you have to do is add
more disks
 You now have a multitude of options to increase your
data redundancy
 Access level (SAN/iSCSI fabric)
 Block level (adjustable RAID configurations)
 Logical level (selective multiple site replication)
Netapp 3070 – Single-Site High
Availability
Netapp 3170 - Multi-Site
Continuous Access
IS - Virtualized Storage Usage
 Approximately 50,000 email accounts
 Provide 2GB of highly available disk space for each
staff/faculty/student
 Storage platform for VMware
 UO homepage and associated Virtual Hosts
 UO Webmail system and older Alphamail system
 Provide storage service to AAA
 Provide storage service to NERO
Netapp Filer Storage Service
 Block level storage virtualization
 iSCSI
 Fiber Channel

 Network attached storage virtualization


 NFS (Unix/Linux)
 CIFS (Windows/Mac)
Possible Storage Applications
 Departmental file shares
 My Documents redirection
 Student or lab file storage

 Workgroup file storage

 Off-site backup-to-disk
targets

 Production application data

 Database volumes

 Archival storage
Tiered Service Offerings
FAS3070 HA Single Site FAS3170 CA Multi Site

Tier 1 Storage
Fiber Channel ✔ ✔
Tier 2 Storage
Serial Attached SCSI ✔ X
Tier 3 Storage
Large Serial ATA ✔ X
Single Site offerings are more cost-effective for applications that do not
require multi-site high availability
Service Offering Details
 Installation, maintenance, and configuration of new and
existing hardware, firmware, license codes, and
software on storage appliance

 Incident response related to disruptions of service from


the storage subsystem including but not limited to disk
failures, controller failures, fan failures, and other
equipment failures typical of a storage appliance

 Provisioning of storage volumes or LUNS for presentation


to clients via one or more protocols
Service Offering Details
 Integration of storage volumes into monitoring and alerting
system
 After-hours response to system outages in accordance with
the Systems on-call policy
 Performance monitoring of existing hardware
 Configuration of De-Duplication (ASIS) and Snapshot
technology or other advanced storage system features.
 Managing and processing renewal of all support agreements
covering hardware or software related to the storage
appliance
 Access to Systems Hotline for direct support
Questions?

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