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Agenda
The Datacenter Climate Crisis
Prioritizing Green Datacenter Initiatives
Laying a Foundation for Efficiency
Continuous Rightsizing of IT Infrastructure
VMware’s Economic and Environmental Impact
VMware Customer Successes
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Market Perspective
Datacenters becoming exponentially more dense
Datacenter refresh driven by power/cooling/space
Energy cost is consuming more budget and is harder to ignore
The divide between IT and facilities is narrowing
Environmental impact, govt awareness and corporate initiatives on the rise
kW per Rack
Cost to Power Server Will Soon Exceed Purchase Price
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Today’s Model is BrokenPoor forecasting + low flexibility = excess capacity
Typical datacenter: 3 years excess server capacity
Servers consume >50% of average power when idle
Datacenters are outdated and hugely inefficient
Cooling servers often requires 2x the power consumed
Over-provisioned Capacity
Inefficient Datacenter Design
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Power Consumption in the Datacenter
Computer Rm. AC 34%
Server/Storage 50%
Conversion 7%
Network 7%
Lighting 2%
Source: APC
Where Does the Power Go?
Compute resources and particularly servers are at the heart of a complex, evolving system!
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Agenda
The Datacenter Climate Crisis
Prioritizing Green Datacenter Initiatives
Laying a Foundation for Efficiency
Continuous Rightsizing of IT Infrastructure
VMware’s Economic and Environmental Impact
VMware Customer Successes
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Business Critical Applications – Yes we did!http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/
Find the Reference Architectures for running the most demanding applications in VMware.
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BEFORE VMware
1,000Direct attach3000 cables/ports200 racks400 power whipsPlanning expansion
ServersStorageNetworkFacilities
Consolidating Server, Storage, Network & Facilities
VMware consolidates servers, storage and networking infrastructure to safely achieve higher utilization
AFTER VMware
80Tiered SAN and NAS300 cables/ports10 racks20 power whipDefer/avoid $1k per sqft
Source: Actual customer data
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VMware Delivers Higher and Safer Consolidation
Customer Example: Large manufacturer with 50k+ employees
Mainly HP DL585s with 16GB physical RAM
Many production workloads across multiple Oses: Java, Citrix, SQL Server, …
~60 VMs (1GB RAM each) per ESX Server
~60GB of aggregate virtual memory allocated
Memory Optimization+
Dynamic Balancing=
Higher Utilization
ESXi: 32MB thin, production-proven, OS-independent, secure hypervisor
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Agenda
The Datacenter Climate Crisis
Prioritizing Green Datacenter Initiatives
Laying a Foundation for Efficiency
Continuous Right-sizing of IT Infrastructure
VMware’s Economic and Environmental Impact
VMware Customer Successes
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VMware Right-Sizes IT Infrastructure
Consolidate… …entire farms of servers and storage…
…and dynamically optimize to only consume the resources you need!
HW HW HW HW HW
HW HW HW HW HW
HW HW
HW HWHW
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HWHW
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A Key technology!!!
VMotion®: Let’s you move live, running virtual machines from one host to another while maintaining continuous service availability.
Optimal Utilization, 9-to-5 Maintenance, Zero Downtime Reconfiguration
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Dynamic Resource Scheduling
Balance workloadsRight-size hardwareOptimize real time
High Availability
Restart immediately when H/W or OS failProtect all apps
On-demand Capacity
Scale without disruption Reconfigure on the fly Save time
The Always On, Optimized, Energy Efficient Datacenter
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Distributed Power Management*
Consolidates workloads onto fewer servers when a cluster needs fewer resources
Places unneeded servers in standby mode
Brings servers back online as workload needs increase
Minimizes power consumption while guaranteeing service levels
No disruption or downtime to virtual machines
Resource Pool
Physical Servers
* Experimental support in VI 3.5
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DPM Integrated into DRS with Flexible Configuration
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments are subject to change and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
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Manual or Fully Automated Right-Sizing
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments are subject to change and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
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All the Benefits of VI for Desktops
APP
OS
APP
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APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
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APP
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Websphere Exchange File/PrintDesktops!
ESXi: 32MB thin, production-proven, OS-independent, secure hypervisor
Same infrastructure can be used for dev/test, production and desktop infrastructure…with all the benefits of VI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure reduces energy consumption by 70% with thin clients
Time to replacement can be doubled, reducing costs and e-waste
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vMotion Extended to Storage
Storage VMotion: live migration of VMs across storage disks
Zero downtime to virtual machines
LUN independent
Minimizes planned downtime due to storage
Enables storage tiering
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Optimization Throughout VM and Software Lifecycle
Dev and QA Staging Production
Infrastructure Admins
Infrastructure AdminsApp
Admins
App Admins
Stage Manager
Developers QA engineers
Developers QA engineers
Lab Manager
Lifecycle Manager
Site Recovery ManagerSite Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager
(Failover site)(Failover site) (Failover site)
(Failover site)
Resource Pool
Resource Pool
Resource Pool Resource Pool
VMware Virtual Infrastructure
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How VMware Reduces Energy Cost / Consumption
Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
Highest consolidation rates on most secure and reliable virtualization platform
Safely improve utilization rates
80% energy reduction
Dynamic server and storage migration
Power off unneeded servers in real-time
Migrate storage dynamically
25% energy reduction
Host desktop PCs in the datacenter
Use thin clients, double refresh cycle
Reduce storage for similar desktop images
70% energy reduction
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Customer Successes
Solution Impact
VI3 for DR, simplified management and environmental impact
Reduced carbon footprint
Created spare capacity
Replaced 400 desktops with thin clients with VDI
72% less power & cooling
Consolidated 70 servers on 6 hosts with spare capacity for 40 VMs
76% less power
84% less cooling
$70k / year
Achieved 20:1 consolidation increasing utilization from 0.1 to 70%
Regained 32 tons cooling capacity
More success stories at http://www.vmware.com/solutions/greenIT/customers.html
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Conclusions – How Customers Win
Right-sizing IT infrastructure from the desktop to the datacenter with VMware is the best opportunity to improve energy efficiency
VMware live migration, dynamic balancing and automation are essential to ongoing optimization
Do more with less – VMware offers improved service levels, responsiveness and availability with a smaller energy footprint
Virtualization lets customers reclaim expensive datacenter floor space and avoid costly datacenter expansion
Reduce your impact on the environment and contribute to corporate initiatives
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Assessing the Opportunity and Potential Impact
Green Calculator: Quick online assessment of economic and environmental impact of server consolidation
Online ROI/TCO Calculator: More robust and customizable analysis of virtualization’s impact on datacenter power and cooling
Virtualization Assessments: Professional capacity planning analyses to
Profile physical environment
Identify candidate workloads
Assess energy impact
Define implementation strategy
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/green/calculator.html
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Other Aspects of Green IT at VMware
Utility Incentive Programs
Incentives up to $300 per server consolidated and $4 million per site help customers fund projects
Industry Leadership
Founding member of Green Grid, providing datacenter energy efficiency industry thought leadership
Corporate Sustainability
Procurement, facilities, programs and corporate policies aimed at reducing carbon footprint