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UTO Virtualization Project

UTO Virtualization Project. Prepared by: Jack Hsu. Virtualization Project. The Pilot project started in the Summer of 2007 The Project officially kicked off in the beginning of 2009 and the target completion date is end of FY 10/11 Projection is 75% virtualized at the end of the project

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UTO Virtualization Project

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  1. UTO Virtualization Project Prepared by: Jack Hsu UTO DC

  2. Virtualization Project • The Pilot project started in the Summer of 2007 • The Project officially kicked off in the beginning of 2009 and the target completion date is end of FY 10/11 • Projection is 75% virtualized at the end of the project • Project Scope: • Virtualize Physical server • Server Consolidation • Convert Vmware to Xen (add on 2009)

  3. Virtual Environment - Sever • First generation of standard Servers purchased are Dell 1950’s with 16 gig of memory • The second generation of standard servers purchased are Dell 1950’s with 32 gig of memory • Currently standard server is Dell R610’s with 96 gig of memory • Newer server allows more VMs on one host • One rack per year will cover the normal growth & save floor space

  4. Virtual Environment - Server • Standard Server Rack • 20 physical 1U servers • Four Cisco 3750E switches • Two stacks together with four 10G link upstream to distribution Cisco 6500E switch for Data network • Other two stacks together with four 10G link upstream to Dual distribution 6500E for Storage network • One Cisco 4948 switch for management network • Each server is connected to every switch with Ethernet bonding & all VLANs truncked • Total cost per rack is about $300K today

  5. Virtual Environment - Server • Two production racks each at ISTB1 and ECA • One development and QA rack in ISTB1 • Citrix XenServer is our VM platform of choice • Each Xen pool (a group of up to 16 physical servers) is distributed between two buildings • The VM (guest) can be migrated within a pool without outage

  6. Virtual Environment - Storage • Xen Storage • Two NetApp FAS6080 • One filer is at ECA and one at ISTB1 with MetroCluster • 300 GB fiber channel disks with RAID 6 DP and sync-mirror between two ECA and ISTB1 • Using Netapp Snapshot to backup VM • Using Netapp Snap Vault to move backup to offsite at West campus • IP SAN instead of Fiber Channel

  7. ECA ISTB1

  8. Virtualized Servers by Platform

  9. Summary • As of today : • Power consumption dropped from 70% to 44% UPS draw. • 62.5% of total servers are virtualized. • Total of 103 XenServers • Needs help from UTO to complete the rest

  10. What’s Next ? • Install second redundant Data network distribution switch at ISTB1 • Complete the project – Virtualize what we can • Exchange ? Exchange 2010 & virtualized, Outsourcing, Microsoft BPOS. • Develop Strategy for non virtualized servers due to application/vendor support issues • Build DR Site for CHS at West

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