Cold Jet VMWare Consolidation Ben Snowden

Agenda Problems Project Description and Use Deliverables Demonstration Conclusion

Problems  Cold Jet’s current infrastructure has several problems  Heat  Average server room temp is 100F. Ideal temp is 70F  Lack of rack space  No more space to add new servers  Business Continuity  Currently only data is backed up, not entire system  Inefficiency  Current servers only use a fraction of their capacity

Project Description and Use  Consolidate the number of servers using VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3  Installation and configuration of SAN  Install VI3  Migrate physical servers

Deliverables  Senior Design III  Complete installation of VI3  Migrate remaining servers  Implement backup strategy  Document infrastructure

Rack Space  Removed six servers from the rack adding 12U’s of available space.  2U’s available before the consolidation

Heat  Server room temperature reduced by 18 degrees, doubling the life of the components

Inefficiency VMWare Dynamic Resource Scheduler automatically distributes the load of virtual machines among all servers

Business Continuity Maintenance mode allows a server to be shutdown without affecting the running virtual machines

Business Continuity VMWare HA automatically restarts virtual machines on an operational server in the event of a failure

Business Continuity VCB allows for easy backup of an entire virtual machine. Can be restored on any ESX server.

More Agile Virtual machines can be provisioned from templates with a matter of minutes

Conclusion  Cold Jet’s overheating and rack space problems solved by removing six servers  Cold Jet’s inefficiency problem solved by DRS  Cold Jet’s business continuity problem solved by maintenance mode, HA, and VCB

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