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South Dakota Infrastructure and Roadmap

South Dakota Infrastructure and Roadmap. South Dakota VMUG Meeting November 3, 2011. Virtualization Background. Initial Infrastructure Two Datacenters on campus Pieced together infrastructure Agency based projects drove the initial infrastructure

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South Dakota Infrastructure and Roadmap

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  1. South Dakota Infrastructure and Roadmap South Dakota VMUG Meeting November 3, 2011

  2. Virtualization Background • Initial Infrastructure • Two Datacenters on campus • Pieced together infrastructure • Agency based projects drove the initial infrastructure • Servers were sized to meet the agencies projects • Two HP C7000 blade chassis • BL 460s and 490s servers • VMware ESXi version 3.5 • Upgraded to vSphere 4.0 ESXi • Existing FC based storage served by HP EVAs • Hosting physical server workloads like Exchange, SQL, and file services • Multiple 1G Ethernet connections • Connections were configured using Ethernet pass-through modules to networks already in place.

  3. Initial Deployment Challenges • Chassis standardization • Needed a more consistent compute platform across the farm • Storage • No array based replication between datacenters • No VAAI support • No FC network in Madison • Network • Cable Management • Lack of network continuity between all ESX hosts

  4. Goals • Immediate goals • Server consolidation • Virtualize First Policy • Keep infrastructure current (covered under a hardware warranty) • Provide high availability for all virtual systems • Solution must be flexible and scalable • Keep it simple • Foundation built to add VDI • Long term goals • Geographic Datacenter Protection • Site Recovery Manager • Reed network / Madison • Datacenter portability and self provisioning services. • vCloud Director

  5. Updated design • New Infrastructure • Multi-site design • Dual socket HP BL460c servers • 6 core Nehalem processors • 96 gigs of ram per host • VMware ESXi version 4.1 • Planning on moving to vSphere 5 • 10G ISCSI storage using HP P4500/P4800 infrastructure • Network RAID 10 across datacenters • Redundant 10G Ethernet connections • Juniper Core with Layer 2 connectivity between Datacenters • Nexus 1000v virtual switch and VLAN tagging

  6. Current statistics • VMware Farm Summary • 42 hosts • 455 Virtual Machines • 5 clusters • 81 Data stores • Workloads being virtualized today • Web and application Servers • File and Print servers • Exchange Servers • SQL Servers

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