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2008 Infrastructure 2008 Infrastructure AssessmentAssessment
• 2008IA Summary of Assessment
• 2008IA Technology Improvements
• 2008IA Best Practices (Governance)
2008IA Summary of Assessment2008IA Summary of Assessment
Emerging Technologies (Virtualization Technologies & Server Consolidation)
• Enterprise Architecture Reference Models: Recommend the development of an enterprise assessment process and technology frameworks. This will allow FHLBank-Pittsburgh to evaluate the strategic value of enterprise technologies that support multiple products and solutions. These technologies include virtualization, server consolidation, SOA, Identity Management, etc.
• Enterprise Interoperability Specifications: Recommend the development of additional infrastructure technology assessment criteria to determine the potential value and risks of integrating new technologies and solutions.
• Emerging Technology Projects: Recommend the implementation of virtualization technology layers to provide the current data center with more agility and infrastructure on demand capabilities.
High Level Management Best Practices
• Business Process Analysis: Recommend the implementation of business intelligence tools to create data-driven executive and business analyst dashboards that depict the direct relationship between processes and the supporting infrastructure.
• Enhancement of Enterprise Architecture Governance: Recommend an increase in enterprise infrastructure oversight to provide strategic alignment and governance. (i.e., avoid server proliferation by implementing into virtualization and consolidation).
• Creation of a Business Computing Architecture Team (bISComp): We recommend the change in name and structure to bISComp. This will provide business and technology strategic alignment. bISComp will have executive sponsorship and IT management leadership to establish a strategic balance between enterprise projects and infrastructure technology.
Summary of Proposed Virtualization ProjectsVirtualization Projects Business Imperatives Success Indicators
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)Project scope (high level):•Finalize requirements for Backup & Recovery.•Analyze Backup & Recovery processes and policies for potential modification.•Test synchronization of Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual SANs (vSANs)Project scope (high level):•Finalize storage requirements for Production, Test/Dev and DR.•Establish process and procedures for storage partitioning, access and management as a shared resource.•Test synchronization between Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual Servers - ConsolidationProject scope (high level):•Finalize requirements for Production, Test/Dev and DR server environments.•Establish process and procedures for server acquisitions and application verification before virtualization.•Test synchronization between Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)Project scope (high level):•Determine target operating systems and analyze PC/Laptop refresh process.•Test streaming application and desktop internally and remotely (DR included).•Implement as needed.
• Reduce manual backup & recovery (infrastructure on demand).
• Identify the risks and rewards of records retention compliancy.
• Establish a process and solution for Information Lifecycle Management.
• Reduce the time and effort involved with physical tape backup.
• Implement better storage allocation and management to support the dynamic needs of test/dev, production and DR areas (infrastructure on demand).
• Address business continuity risks of decentralized storage.
• Provide automated and faster data replication between Grant St. and Vista.
• Provide dynamically allocated resources for business applications (infrastructure on demand).
• Mitigate the risk of uncontrolled server growth.
• Reduce the complexity and risks of decentralized server management and support.
• Provide business applications on demand (infrastructure on demand).
• Provide data compliancy and risk mitigation by centralized desktop management.
• Reduce purchase and support costs of desktop and laptops.
• Reduction in time and effort of backup & recovery operations.
• Reduction in risk of data loss due to physical tape malfunctions and device failures.
• Reduce the physical amount of required storage for backup & recovery operations.
• Faster response to archived data requests.
• Faster fulfillment of storage requests.• More continuity between test/dev and
production deployments.• More efficient and cost effective use of
storage resources.
• Faster response to increasing business application demands.
• Near zero system downtime.• Faster and more efficient migration of
applications from test/dev to production.
• Reduction in data loss and compromise risk events.
• Reduction in the time and effort needed to support desktops and laptops.
• More security of desktop and laptop resources and data.
Agreed Acceptance of Proposed Virtualization ProjectsProposed Virtualization Projects Agreed Acceptance Equivalent Success
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)Project scope (high level):•Finalize requirements for Backup & Recovery.•Analyze Backup & Recovery processes and policies for potential modification.•Test synchronization of Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual SANs (vSANs)Project scope (high level):•Finalize storage requirements for Production, Test/Dev and DR.•Establish process and procedures for storage partitioning, access and management as a shared resource.•Test synchronization between Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual Servers - ConsolidationProject scope (high level):•Finalize requirements for Production, Test/Dev and DR server environments.•Establish process and procedures for server acquisitions and application verification before virtualization.•Test synchronization between Grant Street and Vista sites.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)Project scope (high level):•Determine target operating systems and analyze PC/Laptop refresh process.•Test streaming application and desktop internally and remotely (DR included).•Implement as needed.
Backup-to-Disk• Determination made not to limit capability
to virtual tape only - by project team.• Backup/Recovery Requirements Finalized.• Storage Management Team created to
review processes and manage changes.• Backup-to-Disk evaluation includes
replication to recovery site.
SAN Expansion• Virtual SAN cost prohibitive at this time.• Implement storage framework and
management to support the dynamic needs of various environments.
• Purchase and Install large amount of commodity disk to complete framework.
• Current replication matches SAN replication.
Virtual Servers - Consolidation• Provide dynamically allocated resources for
business applications (infrastructure on demand).
• Server life cycle has been changed to evaluate virtual allocation first.
• High Availability is part of new architecture.• Phase 2 will focus on recovery site needs
MS Windows Upgrade & VDI• MS Windows determined as target PC
operating system.• Using Microsoft Virtual PC for desktops
allows modular environment.• Use of Citrix has lightened desktop
environment and will simplify refresh.
• Reduction in time and effort of backup & recovery operations.
• Reduction in risk of data loss due to physical tape malfunctions and device failures.
• Reduce the physical amount of required storage for backup & recovery operations.
• Faster response to archived data requests.
• Faster fulfillment of storage requests.• More continuity between test/dev and
production deployments.• More efficient and cost effective use of
storage resources.
• Faster response to increasing business application demands.
• Near zero system downtime.• Faster and more efficient migration of
applications from test/dev to production.• Better server resource management.
• Reduction in data loss and compromise risk events.
• Reduction in the time and effort needed to support desktops and laptops.
• More security of desktop and laptop resources and data.
Network Bandwidth Assessment - WANNetwork Bandwidth Assessment - WAN
The network is running efficiently with its present traffic rates.
The WAN has plenty of room for expansion of applications and replication.
The user’s network has fast, stacked switches and has plenty of performance for future expansion.
The user ports are only 100 Meg and that could eventually become an issue, depending on how demanding the virtualization to the desktop becomes.
100 Meg port should be sufficient for a “proof-of-concept” test.
The server portion of the network is all gigabit stacked switches but only has a single gigabit connection back to the rest of the network.
This could become a performance bottleneck.
The final issue is the core routing device and the use of a PC for this purpose.
This is not a scalable solution and should be reconsidered.
Utilization is calculated with Speed of 100.0 Mbps Traffic IN AVG : 3.37% Traffic OUT AVG : 0.14%
100 Meg Vista link Utilization Measurements
Our Acceptance of Network Bandwidth Our Acceptance of Network Bandwidth AssessmentAssessment
The network is running efficiently with its present traffic rates.
The WAN has plenty of room for expansion of applications and replication.
The user’s network has fast, stacked switches and has plenty of performance for future expansion.
We Agree with Following Points:We Agree with Following Points:
Recommended Governance ModelRecommended Governance ModelBusiness / Technology DomainsBusiness / Technology Domains
Domain Teams
Systems Mgmt Domain Access Domain
Application Domain Integration Domain
Security Domain Privacy Domain
Network Domain Platform Domain
Information Domain
Enterprise Projects
Methodology Cost Analysis
Risk Mitigation Business Requirements
Business Processes Business Drivers
Business Applications
bISCOMP
Drive-IT
Enterprise Architecture
PMO
Portfolio Management
Recommended Business and IT Alignment Recommended Business and IT Alignment When, Why and How?When, Why and How?
Current State Future State
Current technology inhibits faster response to business changes.
Technical complexities reduces application integration opportunities.
‘Silo’ solutions increase total cost of ownership and risk.
Rigid technical infrastructure reduces capability for dynamic change and adjustments for business purposes.
2009 2010 2011
Application Environment
Infrastructure
Desktop Upgrade
Server Virtualization
Modular HVAC
Business Analysts
Analytics & Reporting
Executive Dashboard
Application Upgrades
Shared Architecture
Application Integration
Data & Information
Support Dynamic Business Change – Faster time to market with new applications.
Leverage Shared Architecture - Develop once, service many.
Cost Containment - Infrastructure consolidation reduces total cost of ownership.
Self-service Reporting - Implement Ad hoc reporting and predictive dashboards to support analytical processing and performance reporting.
Business Transformation
INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVES FOR RECOMMENDED FUTURE STATETECHNOLOGY
LAYER 2009 2010 2011 TARGET STATE BUSINESS VALUE
Controlled Staging
True Server Staging Area
HVACUpgrade System and Increase Efficiency
Server RoomSecure,
Segregated, & Dust Free
Operations Center
Secure and Segregated
Optimized Data Center EnvironmentOptimized Data Center Environment
RAMP
PDU
STAGING AREA UPS ROOM
SEGREGATED SERVER ROOM
(NOC) OPERATIONS CENTER
11Th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Secure Electrical Door
PHAC
N3 N2 N1
Operator Cubes
Column
Secure Door
Secure Door
PHHP SAN & Server Racks
SUN Server Racks
Test Rack
HP1 HP2 HP3 HP4
OF
Network Racks & OF
New Liebert AC(2010)
SUN1
SUN2
SUN3
SUN4
SUN5
New Liebert AC(2010)
New Liebert AC(2009)
SUN6
SUN7
SUN8
HP5 HP6 HP7
Phone System
Secure Electrical Door & Keypad
Secure Door
TPSecure Door & Keypad
Window
Optimized Data CenterOptimized Data Center
SAN Expansion - Before & AfterSAN Expansion - Before & After
Production
New Non-Prod
Fiber Channel
Fiber Channel FATA
7.3 TB 1 TB Free
4.5 TB + 7.5 TB 16.8 TB1 TB29.8 TB (Usable)
1 TB Free
Fiber Channel
Non-Prod
New Production
Fiber Channel
32.6 TB (Usable)
16.8 TB
FATA
7.3 TB + 7.5 TB1 TB 16.8 TB
4.5 TB
Yes
Move forward with virtualization planning.
Does the server meet utilization metrics?
Server may be best suited to reside on physical hardware or increase
dedicated resources and priority in virtualized environment
Validate compatibility with virtualization solution.
Are devices physically attached to the server?
YesNo
No
Is the server a vendor turnkey or bundled
solution?
Virtualization may require vendor authorization.Yes
No
Is the server a special purpose server (i.e.,
Db, proprietary, etc.??
Virtualization may not be an optimum choice. Requires detailed license and performance reviews.
No
Yes
Server Virtualization Decision TreeServer Virtualization Decision Tree
““Light” PC System OverviewLight” PC System Overview
• Limited Processing Needs
• Simplified & Modular
• Appliance-Like
• Quick to Repair
• Basic Management
• Quick to Upgrade
Hardware
MS Windows Host OS
Limited Software & Data Storage
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Vista OS, Firewall & Antivirus Software
Launch Point for Local or Data Center Software
CURRENT – Personal Computer
300 “Thick” Clients
FUTURE – Personal Computer
DATA CENTER
“Light” Clients
Goal - 90% of Applications Will Run in Data Center
Simplified PC EnvironmentSimplified PC Environment