Welcome to EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2007 Navigating the Rapids of Campus Technology Monday, June 11, :15 PM Managing Infrastructure with Virtual Servers John Robbins – David Link –
VMware Who wants it? Why do we have it?
Success Stories Exchange 2007 Edge deployment in an afternoon Test Environment is much improved
Davidson College’s environment 19 – Dell PowerEdge 2950’s 8 – Dell PowerEdge 2850’s 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2650’s 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2550’s 5 – HP-UX servers for Oracle 55 – Virtual Guest OS systems 1 – EVA 5000
Your environment Who is running ESX now? Microsoft anyone?
Davidson’s VM environment 8 VMware ESX servers Three production, three DMZ, and two test / development servers 60 virtual servers Dell PE 2950, 16 GB RAM, disk (mirror/hotspare/15K) Virtual servers have 18 GB OS drives on SAN shared storage – 400 GB chunks
Demo How to deploy a virtual server? How long does it take? Can you drink that cup of coffee?
VMotion Demo Can you just move a server from one hardware platform to another? My hardware failed what do I do? I have 30 virtual servers on that one piece of hardware? What happens when I go home for the day?
64-bit Support
Can you VMotion between Servers?
Can’t VMotion now what? You can always Migrate to a new host. Migrate can move from old hardware to new hardware It can also move from an old disk drive to a new disk drive. When VMotion can’t do what you want, try to Migrate.
Thank you for coming Before you go we should clean up. How do I remove a virtual machine?
Questions? John Robbins – Senior System Analyst David Link – System Analyst
How to get the best performance Give the guest OS enough memory Make sure you have the latest version of VMware Tools Disable screen savers Disable unused devices – CD-ROM Driver – Floppy Drives – LPT Ports – COM Ports – USB Devices Schedule backups, Anti-virus, and defragmenters to run in off hours