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W-04: Experiences in Virtualization Panelist: Happy Jenkins, DNR 1
W-04: Experiences in Virtualization
W-04: Experiences in Virtualization
Panelist: Happy Jenkins, DNR 1DNR VirtualizationIPMA 2012
GoalReduce power consumptionReduce Data Center footprintReduce operating costs
Virtualization assessment provided byCDWDellPuget Sound Energy Grant
Environment : Phase 1 HP DL380 G6 HP/Lefthand iSCSI storage72GB RAM Dev/96GB RAM Prod
130 Servers, 72% virtualizedHyper-V r2 (core) is the platform
2 servers Devel4 servers Prod
4Lessons LearnedMaintain cross training. Monitor at a minimum CPU, Memory, Storage Capacity and PerformanceUnderstanding workloads not just monitoring them is critical.Understand vendor metrics.
5Environment : Phase 2 HP DL380 G7 EMC NS-480 storage72GB RAM Dev/96GB RAM Prod
130 Servers, 80+% virtualizedHyper-V r2 (core) is the platformMSSQL 2008 virtualizedCitrix (XenApp) virtualized in June
1 server Devel7 servers Prod
6Lessons Learned/Scope updateManage both customer and management expectations.Maintain overhead for growth.
We are working in partnership with the Department of Agriculture to share this environment.Currently housing AGR dev environment - 30% virtualization.
End gameDev environment will contain1 HP DL380 G6, 72GB RAM1 HP DL380 G7, 72GB RAM1 Next Gen server?Prod environment will contain5 HP DL380 G6, 96GB RAM7 HP DL380 G7, 96GB RAM# Next Gen server?
