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
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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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