David Palme Portland Schools

Why I’m Here Today Portland Public Schools Small Department 1.5 FTE Old Equipment 20 Servers (8 10+ years old, 5 ESXI, years old) Decreasing Funding Limited Time to Learn a New Technology Can’t Stop Meeting Needs My motto for replacing technology: Is there something better, cheaper?

This Summer it was Servers… Virtualization: The easy choice: ROI Needed Robust Solution: ESXI: Not Enough. Needs (replace 8 servers): Two Servers SAN Robust Switching Vsphere Essentials Plus Installation and Configuration Cost and Complexity?

Scale HC3 Who is Scale? What is HC3? Built on open source technology (Red Hat KVM) Datacenter-in-a-Box: Centralized Management Interface Managed Storage Servers Specifically Designed and Configured Virtualization Software Low Cost Growth Availability of a virtualized server and SAN Scalability of a clustered infrastructure Simplicity of a single server

Virtualization StorageServers Complexity of Virtual Infrastructure Made Easy!

Why HC3? Cost Easy to Set Up Easy to Configure Easy to Manage No Software to License Room to Grow Data Speed of a Storage Company Interoperability of Hardware

The Setup Process Pre-Installation Assessment Delivery and Setup Updates

HC3 Specs Up to 15 VMs per node (depending on RAM use) 28gb RAM per node 8 cores per node 1.2tb HDD per node

HC3 Other Items VLAN P2V, V2V Snapshotting New Company to this type of product Drives limited to 3 NICs

Demo

Comparison: HC3 vs. VM Ware Scope: HC3 vs. VSphere Essentials Plus Features Compared: Vmotion = HC3 Live Migration VM Ware HA (With SAN) = HC3 HA (3 Nodes: 30% vs 2 Servers: 50%) VM DR (with SAN) = HC3 DR

Compare: HC3 vs. VM Ware Support and Support/Installed Base Expansion Hardware. VMWare: New Server vs. HC3: New Node Software. VMWare: After 3 servers: VSphere Enterprise Plus ($$$) vs. HC3: add another node ($$) Add-ons: VMWare: additional cost vs. HC3: Free Cost Comparison

Questions? Thank You! David Palme Portland Public Schools