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Data Center Cloud Consolidation
About RDS
RDS is a vendor and technology neutral company, we test
and evaluate the best and most secure technologies
available today from the leading manufacturers. We
customize each solution to meet our customer’s unique
requirements, making RDS a single source for choosing and
implementing the best solutions to your most challenging
problems. Our customers have relied on us to provide single
source solutions since 1996.
Our Partners
Our promises are real. Today, we have a growing list of
deployments at prominent corporations and partners, including
the ones shown below.
RDS strives to be one of the premier
storage solutions designers in the network
storage industry.
To leverage industry expertise and solve
current integration needs by offering:
Business Continuity Services
Data Management Services
Consolidation and Migration Services
Networked Storage Services
Consulting and Residency Services
.
Vision
To serve as an integrator to our clients by
bringing hardware and software together into a
seamless and viable solution. Cultivating long-
term customer focused relationships.
Overview
Objectives
Strategies
Our clients
Our clients
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Why Cloud?
Our Cloud methodology helps you to meet your business
demands for ever-increasing speed, agility, and cost savings by
providing effective tools for managing IT in a new cloud-based
paradigm. Regardless of the type of cloud environment you deploy
(private, public, hybrid, or a “cloud bursting” model), there are two
foundational pillars that form the basis of successful cloud
computing initiatives. Our compute platform provide both pillars - a
web-based, self-service portal with an automation orchestration
engine and a compute platform that is built from the ground up with
the ability “to be orchestrated”. The solution has the following key
attributes which are critical to the success of a development cloud
deployment.
Improving time to operational value: A shorter time is required to
build the solution due to fewer elements, pre-integration, and a
modular non-coding approach to content definition. A simple
workflow takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete versus days in
competing solutions.
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Why Cloud? (continued)
Enhancing coverage and flexibility: The solution includes an
industry-leading, comprehensive service catalog with strong
ITIL support, governance policies over service consumption,
and open standards Portlet integration. It works with any
hardware and virtualization product in the market, as well as
any management framework. In addition, it goes beyond
simple provisioning cloud services to automation of the entire
spectrum of operation processes for runtime production
operation of cloud services and infrastructure. It also
automates ongoing maintenance, health checks, incident
management, compliance, capacity management, footprint
optimization, and so on.
Enriching user and administrator experience: Our Cloud
methodology offers the market’s best end-user storefront
interface. It is easy to configure and operate workflows.
Detailed automation summaries keep administrators in control
and accountable
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Why Cloud? (continued)
Reducing TCO: This right-size solution provides a core
service automation stack (catalog, orchestrator) that works
with existing ticketing systems, CMDB, resource managers,
and infrastructure from any vendor. It does not force you to
buy the entire portfolio but gives you the flexibility to buy what
you need when you need it, from vendors you prefer with the
capacity to grow as you grow. In addition, it offers a low
license price compared to typical competition pricing.
Our computing platform provides a highly available
and flexible environment based on current Intel technology.
RDS has been in this service industry for a long time, in this
system integration efforts in recognizing that the in addition to
a strong Service Catalog / Orchestration Engine offering.
There has been a need in the industry for a compute platform
that is designed from the start be orchestrated.
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Why Cloud? (continued)
In response to this industry need, Cisco developed the Unified
Computing Platform with the attributes listed below which
enable pools of resources in a cloud to be deployed cost
effectively within minutes and according to rapidly changing
requirements for both virtualized and non-virtualized servers.
Stateless Computing with Service Profiles-This capability
abstracts the attributes of each server blade and essentially
virtualizes the bare metal server underneath the hypervisor or
single OS, allowing deployment of bare metal servers with the
same ease as a virtual server.
Unified Fabric- Provides every server in the system high I/O
access to SAN, NAS or iSCSI storage as needed within
minutes without a separate storage network.
Virtualization Aware Networking –Enables the virtual;
adapters to be assigned to individual virtual machines
providing full network visibility to individual VMs.
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Why Cloud? (continued)
Virtual Adapter Technology – Allows the addition of up to
256 virtual Ethernet NICS and/or HBAs within minutes without
adding additional hardware making the number of adapters in
a system a “boot time” decision rather than an “ordering time”
decision.
Extended Memory Technology – Cost effectively extends the
memory available for two socket servers for application where
memory rather can CPU is the key bottleneck (such as VDI).
Single Point of Management – Provides an GUI interface
allowing all components within the compute system to be
orchestrated as a whole according to predefined policy.
Our template on (Gartner’s) approach to a
Cloud solution
Project Initiatives
Data Center
Consolidation
Server/Storage
Virtualization
Infrastructure
Convergence
Cost
Optimization
Negotiating
Vendor
Contracts
Strategic
Planning
Disaster
RecoveryAutomation
Vendor
Management
Reference: Gartner Report “IT I&O Key Initiatives: Why, How and Who” Publication Date : 3 May 2010
Exploratory Initiatives
Cloud
Computing
Infrastructure & Operations
Maturity
Server Computing Platform Overview
Server virtualization impacts critical imperatives: (1) costs are
lowered by the higher utilization rates achievable as compared to
non-virtualized environments; (2) service reliability is improved by
clustering and making I&O more manageable; and (3) agility is
improved by the ability to respond more rapidly to workload levels.
Two physical sites
A total of ten (10) clusters
consisting of thirty-two (32)
ESX hosts
Load balancing and
VMware High Availability
included
One vCenter Server per
site
Virtualization
Reference
Architecture
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Server Design FrameworkNew Server infrastructure will be highly virtualized to facilitate cloud
model ensuring rapid provisioning, resource pooling and high availability
characteristics.
Considerations
Migrate from physical to virtual platform with same or better performance
Align to the cloud computing model capable of dynamically allocating system resources
Develop highly available server computing platform
Maximize density and minimize power consumption
All physical servers including ESXi hosts should boot from SAN
Assumptions
New hardware for server virtualization compute systems for Production and DR mirror systems to
ensure a highly available environment
SAN based storage platform with data replication between primary and secondary data centers
Network design based on Cisco Nexus switches with capacity for 10GbE connections, fully redundant
within the datacenter, and is resilient and capable of supporting N+1 failures
Test and Development systems to be located in the second datacenter, and will utilize separate
storage systems.
Test systems to be repurposed as Production systems in the event of DR
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Storage Design FrameworkStorage consolidation, virtualization and optimization will provide
significant savings. Strategic sourcing of enterprise solution, including
storage, data replication, backup and recovery will further savings.
Considerations
Affordable, elastic storage, backup/recovery, and disaster purpose
Implement Storage Virtualization
Increase Storage Utilization and improve Hardware Utilization
Allow online Data Movement Based Upon Business Value of Data
Reduce Reliance on Higher Costs Tiers
Provide capabilities for automation of manual tasks
Consolidate Storage devices
Reclaim trapped storage
Reduce disc in reserve capacity on subsystems and on servers
Automate Storage Optimization
Implement dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers
Reduce storage needs by elimination of redundant data using De-duplication
techniques
Reduce data backup time by archiving stale data out of the primary backup set
Provide 3D scaling storage architecture to scale up, scale out and scale deep
Optimize Backup/Recovery
Implement Virtual Tape Library
Backup to Cloud (Cloud storage service providers include Amazon Web
Services, AT&T, Iron Mountain and Nirvanix)
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Storage Design Framework
Upgrade to Director Level Switches such as (CISCO’s MDS or Nexus 3K, 5K , or 7K
switches).
Let us take CISCO Switches for example….
MDS9509’s or NX 3K, 4K, 5K for Host Edge and Storage Edge which can support FCOE.
MDS9513 or the NX 7K to function as Core switch and support Enterprise backup
solution and DR platform setup
Proposed Director level switches have advanced features for creation of virtual storage
area networks for different environments for example Production, Test and Dev.
Backup device can connect to Core switch and support enterprise backup/recovery of
data stored in local drives or SAN devices
SAN Considerations
Low-cost, custom-built modular scale-out storage. Suggested use a mix of custom-
designed and branded hardware, leverage existing data center investments.
Design driven by optimization and innovation in our cloud storage environment with a
focus on keeping costs down while simultaneously catering for near-unlimited capacity
scaling based on customer demand.
There are examples of leading "commodity" cloud storage providers shunning purchases
of traditional branded storage arrays and opting to head down the innovation route.
Amazon is a case in point, having validated this market early by offering Internet
Protocol-based access to clusters of DAS; it claims to have designed its entire
infrastructure (not just storage) from the ground up.
Low-cost, custom-built, scale-out commodity storage hardware is strongly suited for
large-scale cloud deployments, providing extreme scalability at low price points. While
this approach offers high scalability at very low price points, it requires a significant
amount of technical expertise and
R&D investment, and continuous monitoring and design. The newer generation of scale-
out architectures and/or object-based storage platforms, in which, the focus is on low-cost
scalability.
Integration of deduplication-enabled backup software/appliances, such as Symantec
NetBackup and Commvault Simpana.
Introduction of cloud storage gateway appliances (aka controllers or accelerators) can
compress and deduplicate data on the way to the public-cloud storage environment and
also make the internal data center agnostic to the architecture at the public-cloud
provider location.
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Cloud Storage Platform Storage
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Private Cloud Infrastructure Convergence
Server virtualization impacts critical imperatives: (1) costs are lowered by the higher
utilization rates achievable as compared to non-virtualized environments; (2) service
reliability is improved by clustering and making I&O more manageable; and (3) agility is
improved by the ability to respond more rapidly to workload levels.
Features
Powerful APIs for automation and customization
Billing integration
Multiple users and ACL for each organizations
Dedicated portal views at every level
Resource metering and usage accounting
Automated fault tolerance
Intelligent workload scheduling
Integrated secure console access
Scalable Design
Thin Provisioning
Fault Tolerance
Design Principles
Built on low-cost commodity hardware
Built with multi-tenancy and tiered delivery
Should be open and interoperable
Fault tolerance should be inherent in the system
Self-service driven by on-demand provisioning of CPU, RAM and Network
Conform to existing business models
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RISK ManagementConsolidation of servers and storage at the strategic sites while virtualizing servers during
the migration has minimal risk to the availability of the business function. Final cut-over of
applications will be planned with failback options thoroughly tested.
# Risk Mitigation Probability Impact
1 Migration to new datacentre facility may causes
degradation of performance for some
application due to network latency
Use WAN Optimization appliances to
increase performance
Medium High
2 Hard coded IP Address being embedded within
applications application configurations
Use DNS Naming methodology to resolve
Name to IP AddressMedium High
3 Storage devices damaged during the physical
move
Back up all data before moving storage to
leased storage devicesLow High
4 Slower than expected data migration over WAN
to the new facility could prolong migration and/or
problematic data migration
Use reliable data replication appliances
for migration
Medium Medium
5 Upgrade during the migration process Freeze application upgrades during the
migration processLow Medium
6 Current staff’s lack of expertise of new cloud
computing platform
Training requirements will be identified to
prepare SJHS staff for day 1 supportMedium Low
7 Likelihood of additional space being unavailable
within the same co-location facility in a few
years
Lock-in growth space for near future
and/or ensure right of first refusal clause
in the contract with the service provider,
whereby you would have the option of
locking-in the last space before it was
leased to someone else.
Low Low
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Migration PlanA Low level step by step approach on how migration needs to be performed on
the infrastructure (Server & Storage).
Migration Approach
Description Pros Cons
Virtualize &
Consolidate in
flight
Virtualize during moves
Virtualize over the WAN
30% to 40% system reduction
Utilizes virtual infrastructure
within strategic site
Greatly reduced physical
complexity: systems &
ports
No hardware failure risk for
VM
Simple back-out (return to
physical device)
Single wire migration
option
Large project cost / time
risk
Time intensive Physical to
virtual (P2V) copy
Guidelines Boot from SAN for all open systems from the mirrored devices (replicated devices) as against local SAN
devices.
Re-cycle/reuse servers from existing Regional Datacenters (Prod) and install them in DR (PHX).
Process controls should be set in place to incorporate in the Change management process to
concurrently deploy/implement O/s & Application Upgrades in production and DR.
Implementation Approach New hardware will be installed at the primary and the secondary data centers.
Implement HDS’s VSP to virtualize the storage platform to manage a multivendor storage arrays.
Storage migration appliance. (tools such as (Ope Replicator, SAN Copy, Viacom DME, CISCO’s DMM)
VMware images of the existing 3.X & 4.X Versions of servers located and migrated to VMware 5.x
platform at new primary and secondary sites.
Questions?
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