Datacentre Optimisation Solutions from Platespin

1. DatacentreOptimisation Solutions from Platespin Mark Round [VCP] Systems Engineer, EMEA PlateSpin Ltd. Euretco Expo Center - Houten FINAL

2. About PlateSpin • Global independent software vendor (ISV) • Founded in 2000 • Headquartered in Toronto, Canada • Offices in UK, Germany, Australia, and USA • Global Distribution + Re-Seller Channel • Over 2000+ Satisfied Customers • Experts in solutions for virtualised datacentres • Recent Awards and Recognition • Winners -International Business Awards for 2005 & 2006 • Best Company Overall (2006) • Ranked as the 4th fastest growing Canadian IT Company

3. Two Thousand+ Customers • Health Care • Banking • Insurance • Pharmaceuticals • IT • Utilities • Education • Telecom • Financial Services • Government

4. Business / Technology Alliances& Certifications

5. Channel Model / Technical Certification • Build success through partners and strategic relationships • Industry recognised accreditation (CPSA) • Fast track programme for training partner network

6. Goals + Agenda

7. Presentation Goals • To show you how Platespin products can help you with:- • Sizing new Virtual Infrastructure environments • Accelerating Server consolidation projects • Optimise the datacentre through intelligent software solutions from Platespin

8. Agenda • Platespin PowerRecon 2.x • Consolidation Planning Module • Features • Platespin PowerConvert 6.x • Features • Solution Areas • Continuous Datacentre Optimisation • Q+A

9. The PlateSpin Equation Awareness of Resources + Awareness of Workloads + OS Portability = Optimized Datacenter

10. How PowerRecon Helps • Platespin PowerRecon helps you to see • What resources are in the datacenter? • What workloads are running on those resources? • How effectively workloads are assigned to resources? Workload Resources

11. Life without Platespin PowerRecon MISSING IN ACTION Datacentre Manager LAST SEEN : Behind communications rack number 7

12. What is a resource? Resources are typically Hardware Assets with finite reserves that can be supplied to meet demand - In other words - the underlying physical makeup of the server hardware

13. What is a workload? Workloads are defined as the operating system, applications, and data stack running on a server – these are seen as demands on the underlying resources • with 5 quantified dimensions of Processor, Memory, Disk I/O, Disk Space, Network I/O

14. Introducing Platespin PowerReconwith Consolidation Planning Module Inventory Utilisation + Workload profiling

15. PowerRecon Features and Benefits • Key Features • No physical contact with servers required • Completely AGENTLESS • Windows and Linux measurement • Virtual hierarchy aware (VMWare / MSVS) • Customizable resource and workload reports • Quick Start - Ready to run reports • Secure and contained data collection and analysis • One click monitoring + analysis • Benefits • Not a one-time use product • Use for consolidation or ongoing optimization

16. Platespin PowerRecon 2.2Enhancements • Data collection capabilities expanded :- • VMware Infrastructure 3 • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 • Scalability enhancements • increased number of servers monitored per instance of PowerRecon to accommodate larger datacentres • Application and services workload reports with advanced filtering capabilities • Detailed processor inventory gathering including cores and hyper-threading awareness for Microsoft Windows • Discover and inventory by IP range or CSV file input • Enhanced Workload Scaling in Consolidation Planning Module

17. Question? • Would you like to collect hardware and software inventory for 500 servers without leaving your chair? • Platespin offer Datacentre Server Inventory and Discovery for FREE to help you “Jump-Start” your server consolidation projects.

18. Life with Platespin PowerRecon

19. Platespin PowerRecon3 versions • (Free Edition) • PowerRecon for Inventory • HW + SW Inventory only (500 servers) • Innovative Usage Based Pricing (Pay as you go) • PowerRecon for Monitoring • $1 per server per day (100 days minimum) • Purchase from re-seller or Platespin PowerStore • PowerRecon for Planning • $2 per server per day (100 days minimum) • Purchase from re-seller or Platespin Powerstore Time Limited Offer until November 30th 2006

20. Acclaim for Usage Based Pricing “Usage based pricing is an innovative pricing structure which will be embraced by datacentres. By providing pricing structures that do not depend on CPU power or static allocation of physical boxes, solutions such as Platespin's are paving the way to cost structures that are more equitable and affordable.” Bob Gill, Chief Research Officer of TheInfoPro TheInfoPro (TIP) is an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry

21. Introducing PowerConvert • What is OS Portability? • Technology that automates the streaming of operating system, applications, data between infrastructures Decouple workload from host Infrastructure Physical • NEW • FEATURE • LIVE • TRANSFER * Blade Peer-to-Peer Workload Movement Virtual Deploy or Recover Workload from Archives and Backups Image Reconfigure Workloads Dynamically OS + applications are decoupled from Hardware

22. Starting a Server Consolidation Project

23. 4 step approach • Inventory Servers • servers are added and static data is collected. • Collect Data • servers are monitored and dynamic data is collected. • Select Candidates • servers are selected for consolidation. • Plan Consolidation • the most optimal consolidation scenario is identified. USING - Platespin PowerRecon & Consolidation Planning Module

24. Platespin PowerRecon • Windows Server with IIS + dot NET framework 2.0 • Platespin PowerRecon Server • Platespin PowerRecon Client • Database (MSDE) or SQL 2000 • Can be physical or Virtual MachineMonitored Hosts • Windows NT4 (needs WMI core*), 2000, 2003, XP • Redhat Linux • MSVS R2, VMWare GSX, VMWare Server, VMWare ESX 2.x, VI3 / ESX 3.x • No need for host agents • WMI for Windows, RPC, DCOM • /proc/ for Linux, SSH connection • Admin / Root or equivalent level credentials

25. Requirements – Platespin PowerRecon 2.2 • Trial Installation: 0 to 10 Servers • 1 GB memory, Pentium 3, 2.0 GHz, MSDE installation acceptable – 2 GB limit • 4 GB free disk space • Small Installation: 10 to 100 Servers • 2 GB memory, Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz with hyper-threading • SQL Server, 20 GB free disk space • Medium Installation: 100 to 250 Servers • 4 GB memory, Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz with hyper-threading • SQL Server, 50 GB free disk space • Large Installation: 250 to 750+ Servers • 4 GB memory, Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz dual core or multi-processor • SQL Server, 100 GB SCSI free disk space Guidelines : 250 MONITORED SERVERS PER CPU CORE

26. Requirements • Guideline of 250 monitored machines per CPU core in the Platespin PowerRecon server • Raw Database growth (estimated) • 2 MB/server/1 day • 60 MB/server/1 month • 6 GB/100 servers/1 month • 36 GB/100 servers/6 months • 15 GB/250 servers/1 month • Platespin PowerRecon uses summarisation techniques to keep these databases manageable.

27. Step 1: Inventory • Install Platespin PowerRecon server into environment • Define CREDENTIALS • Remotely discover servers WITHOUT AGENTS • Organise servers by discovered properties (e.g. by O/S) or into custom groups • Run your 1st Report

28. Step 1: Inventory(All available for FREE) • HW Inventory Reports • Dynamic interactive reports – rank by • operating systems • installed applications • patch levels • CPU • Memory • Network • disk resources etc. • Acrobat Reader style report viewer • Export in wide choice of formats (PDF, Excel etc.)

29. Step 2: Collect • Choose RESOURCES for which you would like to collect utilization data • One click MONITORING • Record utilization data over days, weeks, or months based on business need

30. Step 2: Collect • Higher accuracy of raw counters (Burst Sampling Technique) • View summary data, or drill down to granular levels (counters) • Rank servers by CPU, network, disk etc. & group them for further analysis • Rich visualization tools • MIN, MAX, AVG, STDEV • Generate custom charts & export them as BMP, WMF or raw values

31. Step 3: Select + Plan • Ready to run Analysis reports – or build your own in minutes – e.g. Hardware Utilisation – Peak • Find workloads that do not match their resources • Identify sub-optimal servers quickly and easily • Create Consolidation Candidate lists for use in the Consolidation Planning Module

32. OptimizationPre-requisites Consolidation Candidates Target Server Templates Scale-up Scale-out

33. Server Consolidation Assessment • Create Target Server Templates • Define templates for scale-up / scale-out • Define if used in Consolidation to Virtual Infrastructure or NONE

34. Server Consolidation Assessment • Create new Consolidation Project • Select Candidates from Logical Group / or Filters • Select Time range Dimensions

35. Create Project &Calculate Workloads 5D Workloads + Time Profile Consolidation Candidates

36. Server Consolidation AssessmentProjects Explorer • Create new Scenario (Determine minimum number of servers)

37. Optimization • Create a scenario • Find the minimum number of target servers I. Pack workloads

38. Optimization • Create a scenario • Find the minimum number of target servers II. Balance workloads across resources 3 1 2 4

39. Review Scenario Report + Charts

40. View Workload Summary

41. Optimization of freed-up resources • Create a scenario • Specify the number of target servers I. Pack workloads Leftover Workloads 3 1 2 4

42. Compare ALL ScenariosConsolidation Project report

43. Consolidation Planning ModuleFeatures + Benefits Benefits • Intelligent distribution of workloadsacross available servers to maximize server utilization • Balance application workloads by time and hardware resource to minimize resource contention • Advanced workload sizing and optimization produce accurate consolidation plans that minimize cost by reducing the need for “just in case” servers Features • Onsite data analysis, visualization and reporting • Automated generation of consolidation plans and reports • What-if, scale-out and scale-up scenarios • Implement scenarios using Platespin PowerConvert 6.0

44. IntegrationPlatespin PowerRecon 2.2 / Platespin PowerConvert 6.0 • Platespin PowerRecon + Platespin PowerConvert integration • Implement scenarios from consolidation project

45. Implementing Scenarios • When the job is initiated, PowerRecon: • Authenticates the servers • Creates and runs server discoveries for PowerConvert • Creates and saves conversion jobs • In Platespin PowerConvert • Load pre-built JOB • Amend any final configuration details • START the job • Optionally monitor while the conversion completes • P2V complete !

46. PlateSpin PowerConvert

47. The PlateSpin Equation Awareness of Resources + Awareness of Workloads Awareness of Workloads + OS Portability = Optimized Datacenter

48. PlateSpin PowerConvert OS Portability • Key Features • No AGENTS or physical contact required with servers • Stream servers between physical, virtual and image • Connect, drag-and-drop, walk away • Configure target resources on-the-fly • 1 at a time / or / parallel conversions • Windows and Linux • Built on .NET API • Benefits • 50:1 time savings • Single point of control • Use to solve multiple problems in the data center

49. PlateSpin PowerConvert Infrastructure Support

50. Platespin PowerConvert 6.x RESOURCE POOLS