constellation energy group (ceg) vsphere beta presentation
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Constellation Energy Group (CEG) vSphere Beta Presentation. Presented By: Steve Krasic Date: 20 May 2009. Agenda. High Level Overview of CEG’s Production Virtual Infrastructure High Level Overview of CEG’s vSphere Beta environment Review vSphere Features tested during Beta - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Constellation Energy Group (CEG)
vSphere Beta Presentation
Presented By: Steve Krasic
Date: 20 May 2009
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Agenda• High Level Overview of CEG’s Production
Virtual Infrastructure
• High Level Overview of CEG’s vSphere Beta environment
• Review vSphere Features tested during Beta– Simplified Management– Power Management with Fully Supported DPM– Storage Optimizations– Networking– Availability
• Why Constellation will migrate to vSphere
• CEG’s Migration Strategy
• Questions
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CEG Production Virtual Infrastructure•81 Production Hosts•1100 Virtual Servers (40% Prod)•300 Virtual Desktops•75TB EMC Clariion SAN Storage
•In Excess of $3,500,000 savings just in Server Hardware purchases alone
•Future Projects•P2V 700+ servers
•Migrate Test/Dev to lower tiered storage
•Thin provision VM’s
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CEG vSphere Beta environment
•4 x HP BL460 (2 at each DC)•2x Dual Core 2.66GHz•6GB Ram•Dual Nic•2x FC Cards
•2 vCenter’s - One in each DC (Linked Mode)•10 Virtual Machines•200GB EMC Clariion SAN Storage•100GB EMC Symmetrix SAN Storage (SRDF)
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vSphere Features tested during Beta
Simplified Management•vCenter 4
•Host Profiles
•vApp
•Licensing
•Performance Charts
•Events and Alarms Enhancements
•Centralized Datastore Management
Simplified Management with vCenter 4
Host Profiles
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Host ProfileMemory Reservation
StorageNetworking
Date and TimeFirewallSecurityServices
Users and User GroupsSecurity
ClusterReference Host1
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Simplified Management with vCenter 4
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• vApps are multi-tier application services that you can manage as a single inventory item.• Provides for single-step
management• Eliminates complex setup
and configuration
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App Server
VM
vApp
OVF Descriptor
App Server
VM
Database
VM
Resource PoolDistributed Virtualization
Layer
vApps
Licensing• Simple license keys instead of flex
1 license per edition 1 key for many hosts
• New centralized license key administration in vCenter No separate license server to manage or monitor Centralized host and license monitoring through vCenter enabling easy
compliance
• New license portal provides more accurate view of entitlement
Simplified Management with vCenter 4
Performance Charts
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Simplified Management with vCenter 4Events and Alarms Enhancements
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Simplified Management with vCenter 4
Centralized Datastore Management
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vSphere Features tested during Beta
Power Management with fully supported DPM
• DPM consolidates workloads to reduce power consumption– Cuts power and cooling costs– Automates management of
energy efficiency
• Supports three wake protocols:– Intelligent platform
management interface (IPMI)– Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)– Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
• Configure and test wake on every host in cluster
Resource Pool
Power Optimized
Standby Host Server
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vSphere Features tested during Beta
Storage Optimizations
•Thin Provisioning
•Volume Grow
•Hot VMDK Extend
Datastore
60GB
20GB
100GB Capacity80GB
Used
20GBThick
40GBThin
100GBThin
20GB160GB
Allocated
Virtual Disks
40GB20GB
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vSphere Features tested during Beta• Networking
• Distributed Switch
• 3rd Party Virtual Switch Support (Cisco Nexus1000v)
Virtual Machines Service ConsoleVMotion
Hidden vSwitches (IO plane)
Distributed Switch(Control Plane)
DistributedPort Groups
Service Console
ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2
Virtual
Physical
vCenterServer
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vSphere Features tested during BetaAvailability
• Fault Tolerance (FT)
• vCenter’s Linked Mode
VMkernel
Log Buffer
VMkernelVMM VMM
PrimaryVirtual Machine
SecondaryVirtual Machine
Log BufferHeartbeat?
Record Logs
Read/Write Read
Single Copy of Disks on Shared Storage
Log Update? Log Read?
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Why Constellation will migrate to vSphere
• Free with an active support contract• Thin Provisioning • Administration Improvements
– Linked Mode vCenter– Host Profiles– Distributed Switch– Performance Charts– Events and Alarms
• Distributed Power Management (Full Support)• Improved Storage Management (EMC Power Path)• Fault Tolerance
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CEG’s Migration Strategy
• Upgrade vCenter 2.5 to 4.0• Create distributed Switches and configure all VLAN’s• Enter one host from each cluster into Maintenance Mode• Rebuild each of those hosts with vSphere and HP
management agents• Configure them to connect to the correct Storage and
Distributed switch• Relicense them with the new licensing scheme• Create Host profiles based on these new hosts• Then one by one enter host into maintenance mode,
rebuild, install HP Management agents, and apply appropriate host profile
• Upgrade all VM’s Vmtools via SMS
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??Questions??