ICT conference (Evaluating virtualisation 2014)

Evaluating Virtualisation

PRESENTERS AND AGENDA Part 1 Introduction What is Cloud?

Part 1 Part 2 What Technology is out there?

Part 3 Summary Q&A Both

Mark Skelton | OCSL Microsoft Consultancy Practice Lead

ABOUT OCSL • IT Solutions Integrator • HP Platinum Partner (multi-award-winning) • Microsoft Systems Integrator (UK Partner of the Year) • Highest level VMware Partner (Premier) & Citrix (Gold)

• Long-standing and diverse client base • Broad range of reference sites and case studies

• Based in London, Birmingham, Sussex, and our own Tier 3 Data Centres in Cambridgeshire

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Infrastructure virtualisation Business Continuity Desktop virtualisation Management

Software Partners

Transformational Trends

Evolution of the Datacenter

IT as a Service

Just-in-time, self-service provisioning and scaling of services on shared hardware

Today’s Transformation – Cloud

Gartner – Virtualisation Magic Quadrant

Virtualisation Market Leaders:

 VMware  Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtualised workloads are changing Public Cloud adoption on the increase

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure growth Better hardware consolidation

Virtualisation – What Next

 Further consolidation now possible

 Reduce data centre costs even further  Solutions have become less complex  Infrastructure less overhead to manage  Management solutions have become key  New innovations on managing supporting infrastructure

Virtualisation – How has hardware changed?

Existing customer 255 physical servers Virtualisation Scenario

Socket Licenses

Cores/Server

GB RAM/Server

Virtual Hosts

Consolidation Ratio

(Vmware\MSFT)

HP ProLiant DL380 G6 (2009)

8

64

25

~10:1

50

HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (2011)

12

96

21

~12:1

42

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen8 (2014)

20

256

10

25:1

20

(Existing Customer)

Virtualisation – What's the latest?

5.5 Extended vGPU Support for improved Graphics acceleration  nVidia, Intel and AMD GPUs now supported  Graphic intense workloads  Support for Windows 7, 8 and Linux

New levels of performance and cross platform support

vSphere Storage enhancements

More control of networking fabric

 62TB VMDK (previous limit 2TB)

Increased management efficiency and automation

vSAN Storage Appliance

New options for simplified cost effective virtual desktop infrastructure

New Storage options

Virtualisation – What's the 2014 trends?

VSAN

Storage Spaces VSA

and

NSX

Server 2012 R2 Network Virtualisation

OpenFlow

Managed Services

Virtualisation – What's the challenges?  High initial up front cost

 Hardware  Software  Design and planning time  Dependency on solid networking  Dependency on Storage  Application Support  Backup policies

 Virtual Machine sprawl  Solution Management

Today’s Reality in Operations Management

Monitoring Data Overload

Alert Storms

DBA

VI

Over-provisioning

Storage

Finger Pointing

Microsoft private cloud management

VMware vSphere

Windows Server 2012

Next Steps….  Re-visit capacity planning

 VMware capacity planner  Microsoft assessment and planning tool kit  Evaluate Latest Products  VMware 60 day trial  Server 2012 R2 120 day trial

DEMOS

 Explore management tools  HP management tools

 System Center

 vCenter

 Veeam

NEXT STEPS Microsoft or VMware Readiness Assessment

Free-of-charge on site workshop to help identify the right Virtualisation Technology for your organisation.

New to virtualisation or simply looking to upgrade ?

Workshop will be tailored to the specific interest areas for your IT team Duration: 2 hours ContactTousBook: to book : marketing@ocsl.co.uk marketing@ocsl.co.uk 0845 605 2100 0845To605 2100 Book: marketing@ocsl.co.uk 0845 605 2100

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