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Experiences with virtualization from the hosting industry

Experiences with virtualization from the hosting industry. Pieter Dijkhuis, Director Of Finance Leaseweb bv. Who is Leaseweb ?. For IT professionals, Leaseweb provides high quality IT hosting services at competitive prices using our own carbon neutral datacenter. Leaseweb in figures.

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Experiences with virtualization from the hosting industry

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  1. Experiences with virtualization from the hosting industry Pieter Dijkhuis, Director Of Finance Leaseweb bv

  2. Who is Leaseweb ? For IT professionals, Leaseweb provides high quality IT hosting services at competitive prices using our own carbon neutral datacenter

  3. Leaseweb in figures 11.000 servers 75 Gbps in traffic; 150Gbps uplink capacity 20 MW electrical power 90% growth per year in sales Capacity of 3.000 server cabinets 70 employees

  4. Leaseweb main products Dedicated servers Shared hosting Virtual servers Housing Internet access

  5. Core competence Delivering and hosting the IT infrastructure for our customers better, faster and cheaper than they can do it themselves

  6. Our operational goals Achieve the lowest TCO for large scale internet hosting platform with a guaranteed quality

  7. VMWare platform 2 x Clusters of25 ESX servers connected to a SAN of 50 TB Vmotion enabled VMware High Availability (HA) enabled Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) enabled

  8. Benefits of virtualization Operational benefits Higher utilization rates Pooling of resources Delivery process Qualitative benefits Higher availability Scalability

  9. Higher utilization rates Lower power costs Less data center space required Lower cost per GB storage Lower depreciation rates / required investment

  10. Un optimized servers waste energy Blue = CPU utilization Red = Energy consumed Source: Dell Study November 2007

  11. Pooling of resources Ability to deal with variability in computing demand Ability to switch on / off servers via VMware DRS

  12. Delivery process From batch production to continuous process Servers have become bits of software instead of “hard iron” Vmotion: life migration of servers

  13. Higher availability Built in VMware High Availability Cluster computing

  14. Scalability VMware in combination with SAN leads to scalability advantages

  15. But what is holding back virtualization ?

  16. Conclusion Real benefits are within reach Disruptive technology But a comprehensive operating system for the datacenter is still missing

  17. Contact Leaseweb bv JW Lucasweg 35 2031 BE Haarlem Tel. 020 3162880 Fax 020 3162890 Email sales@leaseweb.com Web www.leaseweb.com

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