VMware Virtualization: The Foundation for a Green Datacenter

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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Datacenters are outdated and hugely inefficient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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Datacenter Spend is on the Rise

Source: McKinsey & Co.

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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!

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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

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

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

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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

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Thank You!

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