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Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation

Usages of Virtualization Technology. Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation. Intel ® Corporation 29 July 2008. Prev. day revisit. Virtualization Technology key takeways. Requirements for HW Architecture Virtualization – Popek and Goldberg

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Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation

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  1. Usages of Virtualization Technology Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation Intel® Corporation 29 July 2008

  2. Prev. day revisit Virtualization Technology key takeways • Requirements for HW Architecture Virtualization – Popek and Goldberg • Evolution for virtualization: from mainframes to x86 architecture due to business reasons • Challenges around x86 virtualization -> ISA doesn’t comply with P&G • Server virtualization approaches • Full Virtualization • Paravirtualization • Hardware Assisted Virtualization • Client virtualization approaches • Desktop virtualization • Server-side workspace virtualization • Client-side workspace virtualization • Application virtualization • Application isolation • Application streaming

  3. Agenda • Usages in Server platforms • Usages in Client platforms

  4. Server Platforms Virtualization In Servers

  5. Server Platforms VM1 VM1 VMn VMn … … VMM HWn HW0 App App App App HW OS OS OS OS Workload Consolidation description • Too many servers: Hot and underutilized • Server virtualization consolidates many systems onto one physical platform • Higher physical resource utilization • Improved utilization: Several users with different OS requirements can more easily share a virtualized server • It allows to run legacy and new operating systems concurrently Focus in Equivalence prop (P&G) • Hardware is more stressed: • More intense IO • More intense mem usage

  6. Server Platforms Workload Consolidation pros/cons • Pros: • Each application can run in a separate environment delivering true isolation • Cost Savings: Power, space, cooling, hardware, software and management • Ability to run legacy applications in legacy Oss • Ability to run through emulation legacy applications in legacy HW • Cons: • Disk and memory footprint increase due to multiples OSs • Performance penalty caused by resource sharing management Workload consolidation provides the basis most usages/benefits of virtualization

  7. Server Platforms VM1 VMn … … App App VMM App App OS HW OS OS HWn Workload Isolation • Virtualization can improve overall system security and reliability by isolating multiple software stacks in their own VMs • Security: intrusions can be confined to the VM in which they occur • Reliability: software failures in one VM do not affect the other VMs • As a side effect, if the hypervisor or drivers are compromised, the whole VMs can be compromised (equivalent to BIOS attack) Focus in Efficiency prop (P&G)

  8. Server Platforms App App App App OS OS OS OS What if these VMMs are different? Workload Migration • Migrate (move) running VMs to a different platform • Resources can be adjusted dynamically • VM migration can be triggered automatically by workload balancing or failure-prediction agents • It facilitates hardware maintenance operations • Both at server and data-center level VM1 VM1 VMn VMn … … VMM VMM HWn HW0

  9. Server Platforms App App App App OS OS OS OS What happens with the established connections, mem pages, disk? Workload Migration for Dynamic Load balancing • If a given application needs more resources, it could be easily moved to other physical host with more power • Several application replicas can be started in different physical machines and split the workload among them • While the applications should be engineered for this behavior, the deployment is simplified VM1 VM1 VMn VMn … … VMM VMM HWn HW0

  10. Server Platforms VMn’ VM1’ VM1 VMn VMM VMM HW0 HW0 App App App App OS OS OS OS How often should the VMM store the VM’s status? Workload Migration for Disaster Recovery • High Availability: if an application goes down, it is not necessary to wait for the reboot of the operating system/application • Virtualization allows to immediately put another replica up • State-less applications can be immediately restored from snapshots • Disk images should exist in external network storage (SAN, NAS) VMM HW

  11. Server Platforms App App App App App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS Deployment of standard environments • Service providers usually offer some standard services • Standard images can be provided instantaneously • Simplifies deployment procedures: everything is stored in a file that represents the VM • Easier backward compatibility (Gold Image 1, 2, 3, etc) Gold Image VM2 VM3 VM1 VMn VMM VMM VMM HW1 HW0 HW0

  12. Server Platforms App App OS OS Test and Development • Development and testing environments • A VM with standard tools is distributed amongst developers • Releasing new revisions of tools, patches, etc. is very simple • Business Agility and Productivity • It allows to easily transform environments (Development to test, back to development, etc) • Deployment of Patches in controlled environments • Allows for testing in production hardware before formal activation VMM HW

  13. Server Platforms Virtual Appliances • The convergence of virtual machine technology and a new initiative by several tool vendors is giving birth to this new form of software packaging called Virtual Appliance • Software appliance that includes necessary components to run in a virtual computing environment (VMware, Xen, Virtual Iron, …) • Both, software and virtual appliances, are aimed to eliminate the installation, configuration and maintenance costs associated with running complex stacks of software Software Appliance Virtual Appliance App. Middleware A software appliance is a software application combined with a tailored operating system Virtual Machine Fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and operating system environment OS Virtual Platform

  14. Client Platforms Game OS App OS Windows games emulation in Mac • Games are very dependant of the platform for which they were programmed • Creating games for each platform is too costly • Minimal emulation is needed for minimal performance degradation HW VMM HW

  15. Client Platforms App App OS OS Test and Development – also for clients • Development and testing environments • A VM with standard tools is distributed amongst developers • Releasing new revisions of tools, patches, etc. is very simple • Business Agility and Productivity • It allows to easily transform environments (Development to test, back to development, etc) • Deployment of Patches in controlled environments • Simplifies testing of P2P applications VMM HW

  16. Client Platforms VM2 VM1 App App OS OS Connectivity becomes the critical path Desktop infrastructure management • Migration to new hardware due to OS compatibility is too costly • Windows Vista slow adoption is an example • Gradual upgrade can be implemented • Desktops are underutilized (as opposed to previous) • Consolidate in the server, run remotely in the client VM2’ App OS HW VM1’ App VMM OS HW (new) HW

  17. Client Platforms VM2 VM1 App Personal Corp Personal App Corp OS OS OS OS OS OS My corporate PC within my PC • Users sharing their own PC with the corporate • A VM for own work • A VM for corporate usages • Can be extended to more profiles (secure, entertainment, etc) • Temporary remote employees are given a VM with expiration date VMM HW (personal) VMM VMM HW (corporation) HW (personal) Connectivity becomes the critical path

  18. Any Platform Common virtual machines format • New specification created by Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware, XenSource aims to become an industry standard • Will help ensure portability, integrity and automated installation/configuration of virtual machines • The proposed format, called the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF), uses existing packaging tools to combine one or more virtual machines together with a standards-based XML wrapper, giving the virtualization platform a portable package containing all required installation and configuration parameters for the virtual machines • This allows any virtualization platform that implements the standard to correctly install and run the virtual machines • With OVF, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) can potentially ship its solutions as a single virtual deployment package that is capable of running on any hypervisor

  19. Unit wrap-up • Server virtualization usages • Consolidation is the root of usages for Server platforms • Migration allows for dynamic planning in data centers, but require VMM compatibility • Server market is highly mature • Client virtualization usages • Usages are emerging to simplify IT management • No single solution has dominated yet • Look for new products in this area in the near future • DMTF Consortium working in cross VMM compatibility

  20. Questions?

  21. Backup

  22. Contacts Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation team from Virtualization Technology: • Guillermo Colsani: guillermo.e.colsani@intel.com • Gisela Giusti: gisela.giusti@intel.com • Pablo Pássera: pablo.r.passera@intel.com • Duilio Protti: duilio.j.protti@intel.com

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