ibm global technology services september 19, 2012

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IBM Server Virtualization Efficiency StudyHow our new service offering can help you optimize your VMware infrastructure

IBM Global Technology Services

September 19, 2012

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Today’s Agenda

TIME TOPIC PRESENTER

11:00-11:05am ET(5 min)

Welcome and Introduction Davy Summers Business Unit Executive IBM Data Center Services

11:05 - 11:35am ET (30 min)

Challenges in the market today

Complexities within a virtual environment

What is a Virtualization Efficiency Study?

What does a Virtualization Efficiency Study deliver?

Benefits of a Virtualization Efficiency Study

Duane QuinternServer Virtualization ClientTechnical SpecialistIBM Data Center Services

11:35 - 11:45am ET (10 min)

Next Steps Q & A

Davy SummersBusiness Unit Executive IBM Data Center Services



Introducing: IBM Server Virtualization Efficiency Study

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There are significant CHALLENGES lurking within virtual infrastructure!

Broken promise of virtualization – low density, high cost, performance issues and operational challenges

Return-on-Investment (ROI) objectives have not been achieved.

Management is reactive due to a lack of visibility.

Performance issues due to a misallocation of resources are common.

Hardware is routinely over-provisioned to off-set risk.

– But excess capacity doesn’t solve the problem - workload placements and resource allocations that align with service level requirements, operational policies and utilization profiles are critical to ensuring performance and efficiency.

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Traditional approaches to infrastructure resource management introduce COMPLEXITIES in managing virtual environments

IT teams are struggling to answer critical questions:

How much infrastructure is required to run my workloads and satisfy policy requirements?

How much resource does each individual workload require to avoid performance issues without over-allocating resources?

Where should I place this workload to comply with policies and optimize use of infrastructure?

How can I prevent capacity shortfalls with the changing demand in my environment?

How can I increase responsiveness to the business when they ask if there is room for a new workload? 555




What concerns you the most?

1. Do I have the proper amount of capacity to efficiently and safely run my virtualized infrastructure?

2. Determining how much resource I need to allocate for each virtual workload.

3. How to find spare capacity on my existing servers to run new workloads (without having to buy new hardware).

4. Am I at risk of capacity shortfall in periods of peak demand?

5. How can I plan for future growth?

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IBM VES SOLUTION - a server efficiency study to assess the health of existing virtual infrastructure

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Using advanced analytics, IBM can evaluate the operational dynamics of your infrastructure to help identify optimization opportunities and remediate risks.

Install analytics software

Identify up to 500 virtual machines for analysis at customer site

Gather seven to fourteen days of data from VMware vCenter

Review client VMware virtual infrastructure

Review Vcenter and ESX data gathering configuration

Finalize VMware virtual instance in scope

Review analysis template configuration

Review client policies

Review business constraints and objectives

Analyze gathered data showing current performance and stability

Rerun analysis applying best practice polices

Identify recommended remediation steps

Provide a detailed report:

Showing efficiency and risk at the virtual machine, host and cluster levels

Show policy change impact

Provide VM rebalancing recommendations

Show over-provisioned hosts and guests

Show under-provisioned hosts and guests

Data collectionReview current

requirements and policies

Analyze data Final report



We use advanced analytics to help gather data on your operational environment and measure workload performance

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Data collection

VMware operational data Detailed placements

and allocations

Management policiesVisibility to expose waste and issues

Industry-leading analytics

Brain

IBM, CiRBA



Defining workload-based policies and standards is key to managing an optimized virtual infrastructure

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Review current requirements and policies

Productioncritical

Production IT

Production cloud

Production batch/HPC1 Pre-prod

Dev and test

Density Low Medium Medium Low Medium High

Performance High Medium Medium Very high Medium Low

Availability N+2 N+1 N+1 N/A N/A N/A

Compliance Rigorous Medium Multitenant Low to none None None

Volatility Low Medium High High Medium High

Operational cycles

Business defined

IT defined Unbound Windowed Simulated None

AutomationApproval based

Semi-auto Semi-auto Fully autoProcess defined

Developer defined

1 High Performance Computing



We help identify areas of over- and under-provisioning at the virtual machine, host and cluster level

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Analyze data

Clusters

Actions to “move to center”

Hosts

Guests

Policy-based“goal posts”

Risks Inefficiencies



We provide a report with actionable recommendations to help improve the performance and utilization of your virtual infrastructure

Our detailed report may contain the following:

Single view showing efficiency and risk at the virtual machine, host and cluster levels

Efficiency measurement for clusters incorporating policy change impact

VM rebalancing recommendations

Recommended next steps

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Final report



Benefits of a virtualization efficiency study?

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Virtualization health checkHelp reduce risk and identify potential efficiency improvements through standalone analysis of existing virtual environment

Hardware refreshHelp reduce risks and assess current efficiency before replacing hardware

Physical to virtual into existing environmentCheck health and available capacity of virtual environment before adding new workloads

Cloud readinessClean up existing virtual environment in preparation for moving to a cloud



What benefits would apply to you the most?

1. Help to reduce the risk and identify efficiency improvements

2. Ability to check health and available capacity of virtual environment before adding new workloads

3. Help to assess current efficiency before replacing hardware

4. “Clean up” existing virtual environment in preparation towards moving to cloud computing

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Next steps

Contact us to set up a meeting to discuss your business and IT requirements around virtualization.

– [email protected]

– 1-888-426-4343 and mention code 609CG83W

You will quickly be directed to your IBM Data Center Services representative.

More information on VES:– Web page

– White paper: Accelerate server virtualization to lay the foundation for cloud

– Data sheet: Virtual Efficiency Study

– Refer a colleague: Webinar replay will be posted HERE

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Thank you for your time today!

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Questions?Questions?

Davy Summers

IBM Sales Executive

Contact me

Duane Quintern

IBM VES Technical Specialist

Contact me

Alan Fishman

IBM VES Offering Manager

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