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Serverquarium 2013 Powering the Hands-On-Labs at MMS

Serverquarium 2013 Powering the Hands-On-Labs at MMS. Paul Gavin Training Manager HP Cloud Solutions for Microsoft. Steve Cole Director, Technology Services Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc. Session Agenda. Introducing the Serverquarium for 2013

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Serverquarium 2013 Powering the Hands-On-Labs at MMS

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  1. Serverquarium 2013Powering the Hands-On-Labs at MMS Paul Gavin Training Manager HP Cloud Solutions for Microsoft Steve Cole Director, Technology Services Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc.

  2. Session Agenda Introducing the Serverquarium for 2013 Microsoft’sJeff Woolseyand HP’s Jeff Carlat Why a Private Cloud solution for labs? Steve Cole, XCGI What’s under the hood for 2013? HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft: Servers, Storage and Networking, Management Integration Paul Gavin, HP Q&A session with the engineers who made it happen

  3. Introducing the Serverquarium for 2013 Jeff Woolsey Principal Group Program Manager Windows Server Virtualization Microsoft Jeff Carlat Director of Product Marketing Industry Standard Servers HP

  4. What is the Serverquarium? fast flexible efficient federated redundant autonomic virtualized innovative balanced available integrated managed multi-tenant secure resilient validated

  5. Why a Private Cloud?It’s just labs, right?

  6. It’s a process… • MMS ’09, all labs delivered via 650 physical servers! • Power consumption was 114,000 watts • MMS ‘10, first year all labs were 100% virtualized • 41 Servers in 3 racks using local storage, 40,000 VM’s, power use down to 9000 watts, 650 thin clients • MMS ‘11, the Cloud rolls in • 32 servers in 2 racks using SAN storage and 1TB less RAM still running 40k VM’s and using 8400 watts • MMS ‘12, turning up the volume • More complex labs offered with more VM’s per lab meant upping the RAM per blade to 192GB and bringing in 3PAR Storage • Over 50,000 VM’s in four days!

  7. The need for speed • We can provision well over 500 VM’s per minute • With the HP 3PAR StorServe P10800 and HP IO Accelerator Cards from Fusion-io, we’re at almost 8 million IOPS • We’re averaging ~20% CPU utilization, peaking at 30% • All with centralized web based self service portals that allow us to evenly distribute the load and cope with massive spikes in demand.

  8. No ordinary workloads

  9. No ordinary labs The environment we support is a bit more complicated than usual • As of this morning, more than 6.5k labs with over 20k VM’s total • Peak of 2.5k simultaneous VM’s For ILL’s, we need to provision an average of 1400 VM’sto 400 usersto four physical locations in less than 10 minutes5 times per day To do that, we have: • Active Directory controlling lab availability to physical locations • Dynamic Memory dramatically increasing efficiency during VM run time • System Center monitoring Host and Virtual Machine health and performance

  10. Built with System Center 2012 Orchestrator Plus PowerShell 3.0

  11. Managed with SC2012 Virtual Machine Manager

  12. Monitored with SC2012 Operations Manager

  13. It’s a custom job… Serverquarium is highly customized for our unique business needs • Anonymous logons • Rapid response times Our “non-needs” could be your priority list • High Availability for user sessions • 5 9’s uptime • User security But the tools we used are the same A private fabric makes a custom platform!

  14. Serverquarium 2013What’s under the hood this year?

  15. Serverquarium MMS 2013 Overall Configuration Based on HP’s VirtualSystem VS3 for Microsoft 1 4 • Storage: 3PAR StoreServ • FlexFabric FCoE and 10GbE simultaneously + IRF • Management: Insight Control & System Center Management servers: DL360p Gen8 • Host servers: C7000 + BL460 Gen8 3 2

  16. Serverquarium MMS 2013 Overall Configuration • Compute: 32x BL460c Gen8 • 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 2.6GHz / 8 cores • 256GB RAM • 2x 300 GB SAS drives • 785GB / 1.2TB HP IO Accelerator card • HP VirtualConnect FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port • Management: 2x DL360 Gen8 • 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 2.0Ghz / 8 cores • 192GB RAM • 2x 300 GB SAS drives • 10 Gb Ethernet 2-port PCI • Storage / Data Networking • HP 5920 Series Ethernet Switches • HP B-Series FibreChannel SAN Switches

  17. Serverquarium MMS 2013 Microsoft Management • Compute: Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V • Up to 100 VM’s per node at any time • Local agents for SCVMM and SCOM • Up to 30 virtual networks per node at any time • Management: Windows Server 2012 cluster • System Center 2012 SP1 • HP Insight Control for System Center • Centralized web service for self-service provisioning • Networking • IP network monitored by System Center 2012 • Fiber throughput near 1GB per second

  18. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Server Management Brings the native manageability of HP hardware to System Center 2012 environments • Ideal for customers who have standardized on Microsoft System Center as their management platform • Licensed and included with HP Insight Control • Integrates directly into System Center consoles • Included as key management component in HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft Provides comprehensive system health, configuration management, and software deployment

  19. Serverquarium MMS 2013 HP Server Management Comprehensive Health Monitoring Total Remote Control via iLO Advanced • Agentless Gen8 • Windows • Linux • VMware • Blade enclosures Bare Metal OS Deployment Provides comprehensive system health, configuration management, and software deployment Automated Virtual Machine Management Driver andFirmware Updates Detailed HP Inventory

  20. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Hardware • Storage: HP 3PAR StoreServ 10800 • 153.6 TB in total • 128 x 600 GB FC disks • 64 z 200 GB SSD disks • 32x 2TB NL disks • 4 controller nodes • HP 5920 Series Ethernet Switches • HP B-Series FibreChanmel • SAN Switches • Autonomic: Reduce time spent managing storage by 90% • System responds effortlessly and instantly to new workload demands • Efficient: Reduce capacity requirements by 50% • Hardware enabled thin technologies and tiering for high efficiency without tradeoffs. • Multi-tenant: Double VM density per server • Bulletproof tier-1 resilience for massive consolidation of unpredictable mixed workloads • Federated: Non-disruptive data mobility between systems • HP Peer Motion for easy refresh and data services management across multiple arrays

  21. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Management Managing storage systems within System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager • Integration simplifies management of Microsoft Hyper-V environments • Rapidly provision new Virtual Machines • Storage Management • Discovery • Manage HP 3PAR Virtual Volumes • Manage HP 3PAR Snapshots 22

  22. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Storage Management • Manage HP 3PAR Storage System with System Center 2012 Operations Manager • Consolidate Event/Alert Management with System Center 2012 Operations Manager 23

  23. Serverquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Technology • Uses HP Virtual Connect Technology • Reduces wiring costs and complexity • Shared connection for FC and ISCSI and Ethernet • Reduces adaptor count • VCEM • Allows multi cabinet network management Network Connectivity – Fibre Channel Connectivity

  24. Serverquarium MMS 2012 HP Network Technology • Tested and Validated High-performance 4-chassis virtualized core IRF Faster Live Migration 500x faster recovery time 2x network performance Virtual Connect IRF Rack servers Blade servers Rack servers Blade servers Legacy Architecture HP FlexFabric Architecture Source: Test commissioned by HP: “NetworkTest: FlexNetwork Architecture Delivers Higher Speed, Lower Downtime With HP IRF Technology” http://www3.networktest.com/hpirf/hpirf1.pdf

  25. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Management Management Technology Preview • HP Fabric Management Add-in for SCVMM planned for future release • Available as part of Insight Control for System Center • SCVMM 2012 SP1 provides capability for HP specific functionality integration directly into the SCVMM console • Extends view of HP Converged Infrastructure elements which will provide: • Summary view • Diagram view from VM to external switch • Combines logical and physical elements from: • Hyper-V • Windows Networking • SCVMM • HP Virtual Connect

  26. Serverquarium combining VC and SCVMM HP Virtual Connect SCVMM • HP Virtual Connect elements are not exposed in SCVMM • Difficult to get an end-to-end view of connections and relationships +

  27. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP Network Management Actions iLO Console iLO Web VCM Console OA Console I/O Module Enclosure/Profile FlexNICs Server vSwitch VMs External Switch Uplink Ports DownlinkPorts Launch Tools

  28. Severquarium MMS 2013 HP IO Enhancement • Scale Up VM Performance Density • Add more and larger VMs per server • Add larger workloads to each VM 1.2TB HP IO Accelerator mezzanine card • Extend virtualization to more I/O-intensive applications • Maximize virtualization & infrastructure efficiency • Reduce power and footprint, simplify management • Eliminate I/O constraints, unleash VM performance

  29. Q&A

  30. Q&A Introducing the team who built the system Conrad Cahill Senior Virtualization Architect Xtreme Consulting Group Dung Hoang Khac Principal Engineer Virtualization Engineering Group HP

  31. Call to Action A ‘single pane of glass’ view of storage resources from HP at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/13OyD0t See tech exposure of HP Storage integration w/MSFT System Center suite of products at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/13OyD0t See session “HP Private Cloud Management w/System Center” Monday, April 8th b/twn 2:00-3:30pm http://bit.ly/13OyD0t #MMS2013 Accelerate your pathway to the cloud with HP at #MMS2013 http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 #Serverquarium Stop at the #Serverquarium & take the tour w/one of our HP technical experts on site http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 # MMS2013 See HP demo HP Cloud Solution for MSFT—an ideal foundation to move you along your journey to the cloud http://bit.ly/10vJkh0 # MMS2013 Visit the Serverquarium

  32. What is the ServerQuarium? fast flexible efficient federated redundant autonomic virtualized innovative balanced available integrated managed multi-tenant secure resilient validated

  33. Thank You!

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