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Constellation Energy Group (CEG) vSphere Beta Presentation

Constellation Energy Group (CEG) vSphere Beta Presentation. Presented By: Steve Krasic Date: 20 May 2009. Agenda. High Level Overview of CEG’s Production Virtual Infrastructure High Level Overview of CEG’s vSphere Beta environment Review vSphere Features tested during Beta

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Constellation Energy Group (CEG) vSphere Beta Presentation

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  1. Constellation Energy Group (CEG)vSphere Beta Presentation Presented By: Steve KrasicDate: 20 May 2009

  2. Agenda • High Level Overview of CEG’s Production Virtual Infrastructure • High Level Overview of CEG’s vSphere Beta environment • Review vSphere Features tested during Beta • Simplified Management • Power Management with Fully Supported DPM • Storage Optimizations • Networking • Availability • Why Constellation will migrate to vSphere • CEG’s Migration Strategy • Questions

  3. CEG Production Virtual Infrastructure • 81 Production Hosts • 1100 Virtual Servers (40% Prod) • 300 Virtual Desktops • 75TB EMC Clariion SAN Storage • In Excess of $3,500,000 savings just in Server Hardware purchases alone • Future Projects • P2V 700+ servers • Migrate Test/Dev to lower tiered storage • Thin provision VM’s

  4. CEG vSphere Beta environment • 4 x HP BL460 (2 at each DC) • 2x Dual Core 2.66GHz • 6GB Ram • Dual Nic • 2x FC Cards • 2 vCenter’s - One in each DC (Linked Mode) • 10 Virtual Machines • 200GB EMC Clariion SAN Storage • 100GB EMC Symmetrix SAN Storage (SRDF)

  5. vSphere Features tested during Beta • Simplified Management • vCenter 4 • Host Profiles • vApp • Licensing • Performance Charts • Events and Alarms Enhancements • Centralized Datastore Management

  6. Simplified Management with vCenter 4 Host Profiles 2 • Host Profile • Memory Reservation • Storage • Networking • Date and Time • Firewall • Security • Services • Users and User Groups • Security 3 5 4 6 Cluster ReferenceHost 1

  7. Simplified Management with vCenter 4 vApps • vApps are multi-tier application services that you can manage as a single inventory item. • Provides for single-step management • Eliminates complex setupand configuration vApp App Server App Server Database Resource Pool Licensing Distributed Virtualization Layer … VM VM VM OVF Descriptor • Simple license keys instead of flex • 1 license per edition • 1 key for many hosts • New centralized license key administration in vCenter • No separate license server to manage or monitor • Centralized host and license monitoring through vCenter enabling easy compliance • New license portal provides more accurate view of entitlement

  8. Simplified Management with vCenter 4 Performance Charts

  9. Simplified Management with vCenter 4 Events and Alarms Enhancements

  10. Simplified Management with vCenter 4 Centralized Datastore Management

  11. vSphere Features tested during Beta • DPM consolidates workloads to reduce power consumption • Cuts power and cooling costs • Automates management of energy efficiency • Supports three wake protocols: • Intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) • Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) • Wake-On-LAN (WOL) • Configure and test wake on every host in cluster • Power Management with fully supported DPM Resource Pool Power Optimized Standby Host Server

  12. vSphere Features tested during Beta Virtual Disks • Storage Optimizations • Thin Provisioning • Volume Grow • Hot VMDK Extend 160GB Allocated 20GBThick 40GB Thin 100GB Thin 20GB 40GB 20GB Datastore 100GB Capacity 60GB 80GB Used 20GB

  13. vSphere Features tested during Beta … DistributedPort Groups • Networking • Distributed Switch • 3rd Party Virtual Switch Support (Cisco Nexus1000v) vCenter Server VMotion Virtual Machines Service Console Distributed Switch(Control Plane) Service Console Hidden vSwitches (IO plane) Virtual Physical … ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2

  14. vSphere Features tested during Beta • Availability • Fault Tolerance (FT) • vCenter’s Linked Mode Primary Virtual Machine Secondary Virtual Machine VMkernel VMkernel VMM VMM Log Update? Log Read? Record Logs Log Buffer Log Buffer Heartbeat? Read/Write Read Single Copy of Disks on Shared Storage

  15. Why Constellation will migrate to vSphere • Free with an active support contract • Thin Provisioning • Administration Improvements • Linked Mode vCenter • Host Profiles • Distributed Switch • Performance Charts • Events and Alarms • Distributed Power Management (Full Support) • Improved Storage Management (EMC Power Path) • Fault Tolerance

  16. CEG’s Migration Strategy • Upgrade vCenter 2.5 to 4.0 • Create distributed Switches and configure all VLAN’s • Enter one host from each cluster into Maintenance Mode • Rebuild each of those hosts with vSphere and HP management agents • Configure them to connect to the correct Storage and Distributed switch • Relicense them with the new licensing scheme • Create Host profiles based on these new hosts • Then one by one enter host into maintenance mode, rebuild, install HP Management agents, and apply appropriate host profile • Upgrade all VM’s Vmtools via SMS

  17. ??Questions??

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