Walk-Through an IT Makeover, End-to-End,

and See the Results!

Ron Petti, PBS Engineering and Environmental

Todd Leavitt, PBS Engineering and Environmental

Todd Barton, Dell

Dina O’Mara, VMware

VSVC5130

#VSVC5130

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Agenda

A Walk Through: Before

IT Nightmares - It Can Happen to You!

Implementation and Tips to Ensure Success

What We Did - A Walk Through: After and DEMOS

Debunking the 5 Top Myths of Virtualization

Results

Looking Forward

How to Get Started, Resources

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A Walk Through – Before

Can you afford downtime?

Aberdeen Group, Oct. 2012

Data is the lifeblood of any business—big or small.

of organizations have experienced

a data loss, with over half saying

data loss due to hardware failure.

of companies that have disaster,

go out of business within a year.

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A Walk Through – Before

Five years ago, began virtualizing the PBS data center

Mix of 30 to 35 servers and desktop class PCs

Virtualizing onto five Dell 64-bit servers with

VMware vSphere 3.5, using all of the extra capacity

Helped to keep the IT room cool

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You! Fire Suppression System Inadvertently Discharged

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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IT Nightmares – It Can Happen to You!

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Implementation – What We Did

1. Needs Assessment Dell’s DPACK

2. Estimated 6-8 weeks to finish

3. Resources

4. COMMUNICATION

5. Project Plan

Proactively helps in the event of changes

Define a scope

Dependencies

6. Establishing who does what

7. Looking beyond DR

8. Testing

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Implementation – Timeline

Create and

complete SOW

Assess current

data centers

(Dell tool used)

Install new hardware

Install software such as

vCenter and linking sites

Complete full integration

into our VMware cloud

systems

Install vCenter Site Recovery

Manager (SRM)

Install vCenter Operations

Management Suite

Complete initial replications

and build out SRM

Full testing of

systems

Optimizations

of systems (using

vCenter Operations

Manager and

Dell San HQ) and

realizing results

Week 1 Week 6 Week 7

and Ongoing Weeks 2 - 3 Weeks 4 - 5

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Implementation – Tips to Ensure Your Success

Establish

Goals

Create

Implementation

Plan

Leverage

Existing

Hardware

Utilize

VMware

Support Implement

Increase

efficiency,

reduce costs,

and simplify IT

infrastructure

PBS’ Virtualization Roadmap

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What We Did – A Walk Through: After

A Q&A With Our Partner and Customer

Todd Barton Americas Enterprise Storage Sales & Strategy

Dell

Todd Leavitt IT Manager

PBS Engineering and Environmental

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Implementation – What We Did

Hardware

3-2-1 Hardware Bundle

3 Dell Power Edge Servers R620

Intel Dual Processor

128B RAM

2 146GB 15k RPM SAS Hard Drives

2 Dell Power Connect 6248

1 Dell EqualLogic Storage Array

• 7.2TB storage capacity with 24X 300GB hard drives

• Mission Critical Support (Three (3) year term)

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Implementation – What We Did

Software

Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit – license

384GB memory for 6 sockets: 64-way vCPU

entitlement per VM, vCenter Server Standard,

vSphere Storage Applicance

SRM Standard 25 pk

vCenter Operations Management Suite

Enterprise

Standard Support (One (1) year term)

Service

Agile consulting with Dell, which includes a

Dell 3-2-1 installation for 3 servers, 2 switches

and 1 storage array, with data migration and

SRM Replication Enablement.

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DEMO: PBS’s Real-Time Use

SRM and vCenter Operations Management Suite

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DEMO: PBS’s Real-Time Use

Screenshots

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Debunking the 5 Top Myths of Virtualization - Learnings

Change is

scary.

My company

doesn’t have the

manpower.

I don’t have

the time.

Virtualization

is expensive.

I lack the

expertise.

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PBS Results

Reduced # of

servers from

Saved

in energy costs

Improved performance

monitoring within

of installing vCenter

Operations Manager

efficiency

footprint.

Reached green goal. customer confidence

in systems and high

availability

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PBS Results – What They Can Say to Their Clients

Deliver services to a larger customer base with relatively less

substantial costs

Gain greater efficiency and productivity, means we can deliver even

better solutions, faster, for our customers /prospective clients

Can get clients up and running quickly

Easily adapt to / scale with clients’ on-demand needs, and

growth/change

Virtually 100% uptime / reliability

Proactive – technology provides single pane view of what’s

happening in the IT infrastructure:

• Monitor resource utilization

• Respond quickly to the needs of customers

Reduced our foot print - aligned to vision of company to be

sustainable and green

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Looking Forward

Have an aggressive plan in place:

Expand web hosting, web technology

Expand virtualization and cloud solutions -

As PBS looks to plan for the future, this

experience and the long-term business goals

have convinced PBS team they need to

virtualize even further

Create an even more robust site recovery

management plan - PBS is excited to build out

its existing virtualized infrastructure and

Everyone is equally excited about the smaller

environmental footprint that comes

with virtualization and cloud solutions

“PBS now has an

Enterprise-Level IT

infrastructure in place that

many national firms do not

have …..we are very well

positioned to scale our

web-technologies services

which allows us to

compete with the bigger

players in our industry.”

– Ron Petti, CEO, PBS

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Bringing it to life!

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Video Summary

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How to Get Started VMware Dedicated Account Executive Team

Please call:

877-486-9273

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Resources

Links

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Desktop End-User Computing

VMware.com

Go to our VMware eSTORE

Dell EqualLogic Solutions

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Resources

Demos and Knowledge

VMware Educational Services

Social Communities For You to Follow

Go to our VMware SMB Blog

Follow us on VMware SMB Facebook page

Follow us @VMwareSMB

Check our Spiceworks Community for updates

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Resources

www.techpageone.com/sponsor/vmware

THANK YOU

Walk-Through an IT Makeover, End-to-End,

and See the Results!

Todd Barton, Dell

Todd Leavitt, PBS Engineering Environmental

Dina OMara, VMware

Ron Petti, PBS Engineering and Environmental

VSVC5130

#VSVC5130