Stellar Stars – Reflections of a Center CIO Mike Bolger (KSC) and Kelly Carter (HQ) August 16, 2011

Trend to Data Center consolidation is industry-wide (Gartner) Data Center modernizations and consolidation are key initiatives for IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers (Gartner) Data Center Consolidation is the process of physically and logically co-locating computer systems Consolidation aims to reduce overall business costs by optimizing expenditures associated with: Energy Consumption Operational Support Facility Utilization Physical System Security Hardware UtilizationSystem Maintenance Consolidation Basics 2

It’s More Than Just a Good Idea! Presidential Memorandum – June 2010 “…in order to address the growth of data centers across the Federal Government, agencies shall immediately adopt a policy against expanding data centers beyond current levels, and shall develop plans to consolidate and significantly reduce data centers within 5 years.” OMB Agency Consolidation Plan – Feb 2010 “…Data Center Consolidation and the Cloud Computing Issue Areas will be government-wide priorities for all agencies (including the Intelligence Community) beginning in FY2010.” NASA Lori Garver Memo – Aug 2010 “…The objective of this initiative is to reduce the overall cost of data center services by leveraging newer and more efficient technologies, reducing power consumption and consolidating locations to increase space usage densities, and decreasing the real estate footprint of Federal data centers….Mission Directorate Associate Administrators and Center Directors shall direct their staff to cooperate fully and openly with these discussion initiatives.” NASA OCIO Priorities Consolidation of Data Centers –“NASA will be required to submit a plan to OMB outlining the approach to reduce IT energy consumption by a minimum 30% over a 3-year period (FY )” Security & Efficiency of Data Centers –“By April 30, 2010, the Agency will provide OMB with the list of all data center construction, expansion and/or consolidations activities currently planned or underway and by June 30, 2010, the Agency will integrate the approved data center consolidation plan into the FY 2012 budget.” 3

4 NASA’s Data Center Strategy  Promote at least one healthy Data Center for each NASA Center  Focus on increasing IT efficiency: »Fully utilize existing Data Centers for initial consolidation efforts »Implement strategic improvements to strengthen health and availability of objective Data Centers »Employ best practices »Eliminate underutilized facilities, systems and applications  Aggressively work to eliminate “server rooms”

Data Center Consolidation Management Established an Program Executive position within OCIO to lead Agency Data Center consolidation efforts Established the Agency Data Center Consolidation (ADCC) Project Office at KSC to: –Coordinate Data Center consolidation activities with local Center reps –Deploy and manage an Agency-wide automated IT discovery and application mapping capability –Implement a dashboard to monitor and track Agency Data Center consolidation progress 5

OCIO Initiatives to Address Current Deficiencies Conducted a manual inventory of server class assets Agency-wide using NPROP and mapped data onto Center GIS floor plans to identify rooms that could be potential Data Centers Deployment of an enterprise discovery tool to automate the collection of IT Inventory data and conduct application mapping 6

Implement real-time power monitoring of Data Centers with the assistance of Power Assure Application Rationalization Analysis to identify candidates for consolidation, virtualization and cloud potential, with focus on current inventory of applications 7 OCIO Initiatives to Address Deficiencies (cont.)

Consolidation Results Initial consolidation activities –Eliminated 13 Data Centers and 19 rooms (Returned 22,289 sq ft of space) –Estimated energy savings $337,210 per/year Established goals for the next 6 month period 8

Consolidation Timeline , Data Centers 22 Data Centers 21, Data Centers Physical Servers Reduce 10%10% 50%50% Virtualized Servers Increase

Estimated Savings 10 Continue to work across the Agency to reduce Data Center facility space and IT power consumption Today Today Per Year

11 Virtualization Ratio Physical Servers Decrease Virtual OS Increase 10% per year 10 % 50 % IaaS SaaS Cloud Services Physical Servers Virtual Servers

Continue to aggressively pursue Data Center Consolidation –Local Center participation and support of MDs is key to success Work with Centers to develop an Agency long-term consolidation plan (through FY2015), to outline how Data Center consolidation will be achieved and to identify any significant budget augmentation or construction of facilities efforts necessary 12 Next Steps

Kennedy Data Center (KDC) 250 Servers 10 TB distributed storage No centralized power distribution / UPS No centralized keyboard-video- mouse (KVM) capability Servers (42% virtual) 180 TB centralized storage 40% of equipment receives centralized power / UPS Centralized KVM capability

Discovery Inventory & Coordination Schedule Development Execution - What are the systems/applications? - What are their consolidation requirements and constraints? Business Case justification? - Housing vs. Hosting - Where are the systems/applications? - What is their impact on their current facility? - What order should the systems move? - When? KDC Consolidation Roadmap 15

Strategic Schedule Servers New Facility Shuttle T&R 4 Data Centers 3 Data Centers 1 Data Center Data Centers Data Centers 16

17 HQs Work: Progress 78%

18 Early Returns Make the IT power consumption fall at KSC Realize Real Savings (Per Year to Date)

19 Start Count 1957 *Remaining 1426 Number of Servers Still a Long Road Ahead *A realistic number for servers remaining at KSC after consolidation would be 500. Thus our goal of remaining work is 1426.

NASA Headquarters Data Center Consolidation

Headquarters Data Center Originally built housed an IBM mainframe Under a consolidation initiative the mainframe was relocated to MSFC Common services were consolidated into HQ “Infrastructure” based services Former Office & “Code” specific servers/services were decommissioned HQ server room (~25) consolidation initiative All server room assets were moved to the HQ Data Center Established the HQ Server Operations Team Standardized configuration and security controls Standardized and Centralized O&M Life Cycle management Next Step Consolidation into an Agency Data Center(s)

Headquarters Data Center 134 Hosting servers (0% virtual) 12 Housed servers (Agency services) 380 TB centralized storage Enterprise backup and recovery Automated monitoring and alerting Centralized Operations & Management 2700 Square feet Raised floor Dedicated cooling Facility UPS Backup electrical generators Automated power and environmental conditions monitoring Current State

Headquarters Data Center ~17 Housed/Hosting servers (90% reduction) Services limited to infrastructure and Agency devices to support HQ workstations Centralized storage re-scaled Enterprise backup and recovery Automated monitoring and alerting Centralized Operations & Management 1200 Square feet (60% reduction) Raised floor Dedicated cooling Facility UPS Backup electrical generators Automated power and environmental conditions monitoring Estimated power savings $127K Target State

Initial Consolidation Initial Consolidation Analysis Plan & Schedule Development Execution  Application utilization & portfolio analysis  Identification of opportunities for consolidation, modernization, or elimination  Service assessment to determine appropriate hosting facility  Identified under-utilized assets  Decommissioned/consolidated 24 servers  Archived 21 applications and web sites  Agency Data Center(s)  Architecture  Migration plan HQ Consolidation Roadmap 24

Strategic Schedule Physical Servers Physical Servers Virtualization and migration to Agency Data Center(s) Future State 25 Analysis & plan development

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