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Metron. The Role of Performance Management in Server Consolidation. Role of Athene. Understanding the current situation. Understanding the business and IT interaction. Planning the required resources Rightsizing Assessing the interaction of workloads Reducing the risk of failure.

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  1. Metron The Role of Performance Management in Server Consolidation

  2. Role of Athene Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction • Planning the required resources • Rightsizing • Assessing the interaction of workloads • Reducing the risk of failure Negotiation with suppliers Safeguard future levels of service

  3. Market Trends Mainframe Serverproliferation Distributed Consolidation SLA’s ReduceTCO End To End

  4. Capacity Planning The on-going process of providing the appropriate configurations to deliver acceptable service levels for the business now and in the foreseeable future.

  5. Objectives Reduce hardware and software costs Remove duplication of staff tasks Improve reliability Secure and professional management Re-align IT to business objectives

  6. Stages Co-location Storage Consolidation Workload Consolidation

  7. Stages - Start

  8. Stages – Co-Location

  9. Stages – Storage Consolidation

  10. Stages – Workload Consolidation

  11. Benefits • Financial • 10% on hardware maintenance • 20% on software license charges • 15% on staff costs • 20% on overhead

  12. Benefits • Financial • 5 x reduction in the number of servers

  13. Benefits • Financial • 5 x reduction in the number of servers Many servers <20% utilized Moore’s Law Easy targets, e.g. Exchange

  14. Benefits • Resilience and reliability • Fewer points of failure • Centralized management

  15. Athene’s Role • Example consolidation exercise • Workloads from two identical servers (UNIXP and UNIXQ) to be brought together on original UNIXP hardware • Growth of 30% per annum assumed for merged system with no effect on current service levels

  16. Athene’s Role Understanding the current situation

  17. Athene’s Role Resources Workload Service Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction

  18. Athene’s Role Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction

  19. Athene’s Role Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction • Planning the required resources • Rightsizing • Assessing the interaction of workloads • Reducing the risk of failure

  20. Planning the changes Workload1 Config1 Workload2 Config2 Baseline1 Baseline2 UNIX P UNIX Q Assumptions - • Storage consolidation exercise already completed • Both systems are running on identical configurations

  21. Planning the changes Workload1 Config1 Workload2 Config2 Baseline1 Baseline2

  22. Athene’s Role Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction • Planning the required resources • Rightsizing • Assessing the interaction of workloads • Reducing the risk of failure Negotiation with suppliers

  23. Planning the changes Workload1 Config1 Workload2 Config2 Baseline1 Baseline2 Merged Workload New/Existing Config Projection Models

  24. Athene’s Role Resources Resources Resources Workload Workload Workload Service Service Service Safeguard future levels of service Time

  25. Conclusions Understanding the current situation Understanding the business and IT interaction • Planning the required resources • Rightsizing • Assessing the interaction of workloads • Reducing the risk of failure Negotiation with suppliers Safeguard future levels of service

  26. Athene Product Services Independence Quantification of requirements Financial Justification Evaluation of alternatives Money not wasted on excess resources Crises post-consolidation minimized

  27. Metron Rich Fronheiser rich@metron-athene.com 1-877-4-ATHENE www.metron-athene.com

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