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ITS Virtualization Project: Building the UAlbany Cloud

ITS Virtualization Project: Building the UAlbany Cloud. Eric Torgersen and Sara Dearing June 2010. Why virtualize. Make more efficient use of hardware resources. Faster provisioning. Smaller physical footprint.

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ITS Virtualization Project: Building the UAlbany Cloud

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  1. ITS Virtualization Project:Building the UAlbany Cloud Eric Torgersen and Sara Dearing June 2010

  2. Why virtualize • Make more efficient use of hardware resources. • Faster provisioning. • Smaller physical footprint. • Better business continuity with high availability hardware fail over within the primary data center. • Position for redundancy allowing disaster recovery. • Position for data center migration.

  3. Progress SMO Development Environment • heavily used • ~60 VMs on 2 blades • hardware upgrade purchased this year Production Environment • 125 VMs on 11 blades (will increase to 12 blades shortly) • ~155 VMs by 2013 • would like 100% servers in VMware but in reality (various technical reasons) ~35 will remain physical by 2013

  4. Growth in our virtual environment

  5. Growth in our virtual environment

  6. SRM Progress Site Recovery Mananger • Allows for failover of VMware environment from primary data center to redundant site • Proof of concept testing completed. • ESX servers at redundant site in process of being set up. • Expected implementation of redundancy by end of FY09-10.

  7. Futures • Infrastructure is in place for continued growth. • Within ITS, we have started to funnel new services to the VMware environment when it is feasible (i.e. ask whether the service is "virtualize-able".) • We view the ITS VMware environment as the focal point for virtualization services on campus (UAlbany cloud) • Possible way to house servers that currently reside outside of ITS data center - creating efficiency campus wide

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