1. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution Brief Building a Microsoft Hyper-V cloud with IBM solutions IBM System x3650 M3 and IBM XIV Storage help maximize cloud deployments A private cloud is a combination of physical servers, storage, Highlights networking and management software that enables customers to receive capacity on demand by creating virtual machines from physical Deploy a private cloud to attain highly resource pools. Companies can realize the following benefits: agile and dynamic IT environments Realize higher resource utilization and Deploying a private cloud in an organizations data center can help optimization of resources through businesses attain highly agile and dynamic IT environments. shared use Abstracting the physical hardware infrastructure allows higher resource Monitor, deploy and maintain physical utilization and optimization of resources through shared use. and virtual servers using cloud Using cloud management tools to monitor, deploy and maintain management tools physical and virtual servers can occur while providing reporting, Provide reporting, metering and metering and resource billing as needed. resource billing as needed Creating resource groups for customers from the clouds pool of Associate billing metrics for each capacity can enable IT organizations to associate billing metrics for resource unit such as CPU, memory each resource unit such as CPU, memory and storage. and storage From the IT consumer perspective, cloud services appear to have infinite capacity and are accessed via a self-service portal that allows individual organizations to create and repurpose virtual resources as needed. The IBM Private Cloud Offering (PCO) for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track configuration is a validated, ready-to-use configuration of servers, networking and storage systems that provide a reliable, scalable, available, high-performance, fault-tolerant management and computing platform for your cloud deployments. Building a complete cloud platform with Microsoft and IBM components A private cloud environment built upon a robust and reliable foundation of IBM System x servers, IBM XIV Storage Systems, IBM switches and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V hypervisor provides exceptional high availability and fault tolerance for the most demanding virtual environments. To successfully achieve the uptimes demanded by todays critical business applications and organizations, the private cloud must contain both management and production layers.

2. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefThe private cloud management layer is built on a pair of IBM performance workhorses in the industry. XIV Fibre ChannelSystem x3650 M3 systems using Windows failover clustering (FC) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) connectivity are well suitedand Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Microsoft for private cloud end-to-end virtualization environments.Hyper-V. For domain authentication, an IBM System x3550M3 active directory server facilitates cloud security. Cloud Finally, the private cloud layers are linked together by amanagement utilizes Microsoft System Center Operations converged networking framework made up of redundant IBMManager (SCOM) with the IBM Hardware Management Pack; B32 and IBM B24Y switches in a fault-tolerant configuration.Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Each host server in the management and Hyper-V productionwith the IBM Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) clusters uses two Brocade dual-port converged networkPack; and Microsoft SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 services. adapters (CNAs) to provide highly optimized redundant pathsThis unique combination of Microsoft System Center tools, for both SAN and LAN traffic.extended with IBM upward-integration components, supportskey administrative cloud functions. Together, these components form a high-performing, cost- effective solution that supports Microsoft Hyper-V cloudThe private cloud production layer consists of an 8-node environments for business-critical applications that includecluster of IBM System x3650 M3 2-socket servers running Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 R2 SP1. All cluster servers are attached SharePoint and even many custom third-party solutions.to the highly reliable IBM XIV Storage System, which scalesup to 243 TB of usable enterprise-class disk storage for cloud Figure 1 shows the general configuration of the IBM PCO.servicing needs while being one of the most user-friendlyFigure 1: The IBM Private Cloud Offering 2

3. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefMicrosoft Hyper-V and failover clustering virtual hard disk files. Creating several large CSVs helps to hostMicrosoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is an virtual machine operating system files and balance the load acrossincreasingly key cloud component that is included as a role in Microsoft cluster nodes. Optional CSVs help host virtual hardx64 versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise disk (VHD) files for application data depending on theirand Datacenter editions or as a stand-alone, console-based functional design. Using fixed VHDs helps to maximizehypervisor in the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product (available performance. Additional storage volumes help provide iSCSI orfor download from http://www.microsoft.com/hvs). Virtual VM pass-through disks as required.machines can support up to four virtual processors and 64 GBof memory, depending on the operating system loaded. Furthermore, spreading virtual machines and CSVs across an active/active group of cluster members helps to maximizeEach virtual machine has its own operating system instance hardware resource utilization based on the number of highlyand is completely isolated from the host operating system as available virtual machines present and the total number ofwell as other virtual machines (VMs). VM isolation helps parent hosts participating in the cluster. Similarly, thepromote higher business-critical application availability while spreading of XIV LUNs across every spindle inside the XIVthe Microsoft failover clustering feature, found in the storage array provides consistent I/O response to the clusterWindows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Datacenter without needing administrator planning or intervention.Editions, can dramatically improve production uptimes. As Users should still make sure enough physical server resourcessuch, Microsoft failover clustering plays a pivotal role in the are available to handle all virtual machines in an N-1IBM PCO solution and careful consideration is built into the configuration to accommodate maintenance windows ornetwork and storage design. unplanned cluster failovers. Once a management failover cluster is successfully deployed, a separate virtual machine canEach clustered Hyper-V node uses four converged network be created for SCVMM.ports to handle LAN and SAN communication functions suchas Hyper-V management, VM connectivity, failover cluster Microsoft System Center Virtual Machineheartbeats, cluster shared volume (CSV) traffic, and live Manager 2008 R2migration communication as well as other desired networks. SCVMM simplifies private cloud management for bothSAN I/O is spread across all four Brocade CNA ports using physical and virtual systems from a single administrativeMicrosoft Windows native multipath I/O (MPIO) enabled by console. Administrators have the ability to create virtualthe XIV Host Attachment Kit. Using the Brocade Host machine templates to rapidly and intelligently deploy VMsConnectivity Manager, logical separation of the Ethernet to Microsoft failover clusters. Acting as a virtual machinenetworks is achieved through the use of two CNA network deployment hub, SCVMM supports live migrations, quick-interface card teams comprised of separate cluster role-based storage migrations and straightforward automationvirtual LANs. capabilities leveraging Windows PowerShell. It enables performance and resource optimization of virtual machinesThe majority of IBM XIV Storage System volumes are allocated triggered by SCOM alerts, which contribute to greater VMfor virtual machine CSV use. In order to eliminate storage control and efficiency. PRO Packs, such as the IBM PROarrayrelated hot spots, XIV volumes (LUNs) are automatically Pack, allow automated VM cluster migrations in response tospread across every disk inside the XIV storage array. The XIV defined SCOM triggers that can resolve problematicLUN is then defined by single LUN-to-CSV mapping via the resource states or balance critical workloads across clustereasy-to-use XIV GUI. In other words, each individual XIV LUN hosts. Part of the same family, SCVMM tightly integratesrepresents a single CSV. CSVs are concurrently visible to all with SCOM and substantially enhances private cloudcluster nodes and store the virtual machine configuration and management and monitoring. 3

4. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefMicrosoft System Center Operations IBM System x3650 M3Manager 2007 R2 At the core of the IBM PCO solution, IBM System x serversSCOM provides centralized administration from a single deliver the performance and reliability required forGUI, and provides multilayer monitoring of health, virtualizing business-critical applications in Hyper-V cloudperformance and availability of private cloud environments environments. To provide the expected virtualizationacross hardware, hypervisors, operating systems and even performance to handle any Microsoft productionapplications. The IBM Hardware Management Pack is environment, IBM System x3650 M3 servers can be equippedavailable to add IBM-specific monitoring and information to with up to two Intel 6-core processors for a total ofSCOM. Operations Manager primarily caters to Windows- 12 processing cores and up to 288 GB of memory. Hot-based monitoring but also supports heterogeneous swappable power supplies and fans as well as remoteenvironments for customers who want to build non-Windows management via keyboard, video and mouse, which enablesvirtual machines. Additionally, SCOM 2007 R2 also offers continuous remote management capabilities, help solidifyuncomplicated reporting and authoring capabilities to track the dependability IBM customers have grown accustomedperformance against private cloud service-level agreements. to with System x servers.Through the Microsoft Self-Service Portal, administratorsactually define many of the service-level resources and By virtualizing with Microsoft Hyper-V technology on IBMcomplete the private cloud management layer. System x3650 M3 servers (Figure 2), businesses reduce physical server sprawl, data center footprints, powerMicrosoft SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO). VirtualizingSCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 is the primary customer the server environment also results in lower serverweb-based interface for dynamic virtual machine administrative overhead, giving IT administrators themanagement. It is a free, partner-extensible software package capability to manage more systems than with exclusivelythat allows service providers to dynamically pool, allocate and physical environments. Highly available critical applicationsmanage data center resources. Private cloud administrators residing on clustered host servers can be managed withsell virtual resource services to customers seeking to reduce greater flexibility and minimal downtime due to the Hyper-VIT costs. Budget-oriented organizations can purchase virtual premier migration features. Perform live migrations duringinfrastructure resources made up of server, storage, and physical server maintenance windows to prevent productionnetworking hardware that is managed and hosted by private downtime by simply failing over virtual machines. Continuouscloud service providers. This increases IT flexibility for those operation is accomplished by transferring VM memory pagescustomers that benefit from an automated, user-friendly web between servers across the network while VMs are stillportal. SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 easily supports cloud running. The final transition occurs within the TCP/IPcustomer solutions by providing metering, billing and timeout window, resulting in zero client downtime. Realizereporting. SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 is also tightly greater IT flexibility by using virtualization to streamline theintegrated with the System Center family of products, and deployment and upgrade processes for both physical andsimplifies service provider billable unit mappings for server, virtual machines.storage and networking hardware resources. 4

5. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefIn addition, experience a greater return on investment (ROI) optimizes performance and integrates seamlessly with cloudand a lower TCO from reduced hardware requirements technologies to give you the agility needed to handle growthby maximizing resource utilization of all physical server while helping ensure high availability and data protection.investments. Benefit by optimizing infrastructure to simplifyand standardize IT administration and curb labor costs. The XIV data protection design incorporates active-active N+1Also realize reduced downtime costs by easily moving and redundancy of all data modules, disk drives, interconnectbalancing workloads across different resources. Improve switches and UPS units, and offers multipath FC and iSCSIoperational agility and flexibility in managing maintenance host connectivity. Three UPS units protect all disks, cache andschedules when responding to todays dynamic IT demands. electronics with redundant power supplies and fans, which help to further promote impressive hardware and software reliability with enterprise-class availability. The XIV also employs a predetermined data distribution model that helps ensure fast recovery from failures by anticipating and predicting failures through proactive error and pre-failure detection, and employing corrective healing before failures occur. From a storage administrators perspective, XIV has earned a reputation for being one of the most user-friendly storage arrays available. The XIV storage array incorporates a management architecture that allows XIV storage to grow or change without a need for hot spot administration andFigure 2: IBM System x3650 M3 planning. Combining the no-hot-spot management feature with the XIV familys ability to self-heal and automaticallyIBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems load balance server workloads minimizes the need for storageIBM XIV Storage Systems are excellent choices for administration time and skills.Microsoft virtualized cloud environments. The IBM XIVfamily of arrays was built to provide easy-to-use, enterprise- In addition to the high availability and reliability features,class storage, offering IBM CE installation and maintenance, the XIV family offers performance characteristics to meetphone home, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, demanding cloud-based workloads. The 15-module XIVsnapshots, thin provisioning, performance reporting and 2810/2812-A14 distributed architecture provides a combinedredundant hardware components. The IBM XIV total of up to 240 GB of cache and individual modulescomplements IBM System x3650 M3 servers and the powered by quad-core Intel Xeon processors; similarly, theBrocade converged networking infrastructure in an end-to- new XIV Gen3 model provides even higher performance withend Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution by up to 360 GB of cache. Six dedicated host interface modulesdelivering proven disk storage, starting as small as six ensure optimal, pseudo-balanced data distribution among allmodules and 27 TB (usable) and scaling to 15 modules and 180 1 TB or 2 TB Serial ATA (SATA) disks to eliminate hotover 243 TB (usable). IBM XIV eliminates the complexity of spots. This data distribution feature has become increasinglymanaging enterprise storage, never compromising important due to the larger LUNs used by multiple virtualperformance or reliability, while offering incredibly low machines typically deployed in cloud environments. Since everyTCO. Its grid architecture delivers virtual storage that LUN has access to all operating spindles, all the time, the chance of bottlenecking on the storage is greatly reduced when compared to traditional architectural approaches using RAID sets and hot spares. 5

6. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefThis unique grid architecture helps provide the following key With the XIV familys one price for all features pricingbenefits: model, there are no hidden costs for multipath software or replication featuresspecifically, every XIV includes the Continuous, predictable high performance without following with purchase: snapshot capability, thin provisioning, traditional complex tuning requirements asynchronous and synchronous data replication, advanced 4 Gb FC and 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity management, performance reporting, monitoring and alerting, No single point of failure and full support of Microsoft technologies including Industry-leading rebuild times in the event of disk or module GeoClustering, Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) failures (less than 60 minutes for 2 TB drives) and MPIO. Innovative snapshot functionality that includes snap-of-snap, restore-of-snap and a nearly unlimited number of snapshots IBM Converged Switch B32 Nondisruptive maintenance and upgrades The IBM Converged Switch B32 (Figure 3) enables access Per host/cluster QoS capability to prioritize workloads based to LAN and SAN environments over a common server on business criticality connection by utilizing data center bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols. The B32 usesThe newest model in the XIV family, the IBM XIV Storage full Fibre Channel Forwarding capabilities and connects toSystem Gen3 storage array (model 2810/2812-114) contains servers via Brocade CNAs. The switch offers 24-10 Gbpsall the benefits of the XIV family plus the following DCB Ethernet ports that can transport both FCoE andperformance enhancements: regular Ethernet traffic. FCoE can be forwarded into an FC SAN network through the eight 8 Gbps FC ports on the B32. Up to 4 times the throughput (10 GB/sec) of the previous generation, improving performance for business intelligence, The consolidation of server SAN and LAN ports and archiving and other I/O-intensive applications corresponding cables simplify configuration and cabling in Up to 3 times improved response time of the previous server cabinets and reduce acquisition costs. With fewer generation, enabling faster transaction processing and greater components using power and cooling, organizations can save scalability for online transaction processing, database and significant operating costs as well. For the IBM private cloud email applications solution, 10 Gbps DCB Ethernet ports provide connectivity Power to serve even more applications from a single system between hosts and uplinks to the LAN aggregation layer and with a substantial hardware upgrade that includes an to the IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y carrying iSCSI traffic. FC InfiniBand interconnect, larger cache (up to 360 GB of ports are used to connect to the IBM XIV Storage System. combined memory), faster SAS disk controllers and increased processing powerplus, each Gen3 interface module delivers 8 Gb FC and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity Option for future upgradeability to solid-state drive (SSD) Caching for breakthrough SSD performance levels at a fraction of typical SSD storage costs (planned availability for Gen3 in the first half of 2012) Figure 3: IBM Converged Switch B32 6

7. IBM Systems and Technology Group System StorageSolution BriefIBM Ethernet Switch B24Y IBM XIV storage, can provide up to 96 physical CPU cores, justThe IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y (Figure 4) is a high- over 2 TB of memory and up to 243 TB of usable disk space.performance Ethernet/IP switch offering 24-1 GbE ports and The IBM Hardware Management Pack and PRO Pack, forfour 10 GbE ports versatile enough to be used for stacking, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and Systemuplinks or connectivity to end devices. Designed for wire-speed Center Virtual Machine Manager, provide valuable monitoringand non-blocking performance, the B24Y with symmetric flow of cloud environments and identify and resolve potential issuescontrol capabilities is well suited for connecting servers to before they negatively impact business-critical applicationstorage in an iSCSI environment. Users can manage the device uptimes. In addition, you can streamline organizational processesusing an industry-standard command-line interface or through and costs by rapidly deploying, managing and recycling virtuala web management GUI. machines using SCVMM while employing Microsoft Self- Service Portal 2.0 to provide metering, billing and self-serviceThe IBM private cloud solution uses the B24Y to provide a provisioning to supported organizations.secure, redundant back-end management network to theattached hosts and Microsoft Active Directory servers as well For more information or to place an order, please contactas iSCSI connectivity to the XIV storage. your IBM sales or business partner representative. The following IBM Business Partners can provide integration and customization services for your IBM-based, Microsoft Private Cloud or Hyper-V project: Avanade Inc. (www.avanade.com): Avanade provides business technology services and solutions that connect insight, innovation and expertise in MicrosoftFigure 4: IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y technologies to help customers improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries.Realizing value with the IBM Private Avanade has the expertise to automate IT operationalCloud Offering processes in a Microsoft environment. Through automation,Discover the true value delivered by IBMs affordable and Avanade can help clients reduce their dependency oninnovative private cloud solutions for Microsoft environments manual tasks, reducing opportunity for error, and freeing ITbased on insight and proven experience gained from IBMs operational staff to focus on higher-value activities.diverse partner and customer relationships. IBM and itsbusiness partners are committed to the tradition of providing The Avanade knowledge can help extend proactive (andindustry-leading server, storage and networking hardware and automated) management of supporting infrastructures,virtualization services and solutions that improve high including network, storage, security and other componentsavailability, efficiency, ROI and satisfaction for the most that are core to delivering IT services. Avanade Clouddemanding Microsoft IT environments. Services Manager helps provide a renewed and enhanced perspective on IT Service management, extending acrossThe IBM Private Cloud Offering for Microsoft Private various Information Technology Infrastructure LibraryCloud Fast Track helps bring business to the next level of (ITIL) principles, including Incident Management,virtualization. It successfully creates a capacity-on-demand Problem Management, Change Management andenvironment that pools compute, storage and networking Configuration Management.resources. Combine IBM System x servers, XIV storage systemsand Brocade networking with Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization For additional information, refer to www.avanade.com or sendto optimize utilization levels and maximize return on investment. an e-mail to Avanade directly at DataCenter@avanade.comAn 8-node cluster of IBM System x3650 M3 servers, backed by to get started. 7

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