Road to Virtualisation Australian Catholic University Tuan Trinh

ACU 1. I’m not a system or network guy 2. I’m not from Queensland. 3. What the hell am I doing here?

Virtualisation History Virtualisation started in early 2006 with VMWare ESX 2.5. VMWare Workstation. Prior to CAUDIT agreement, purchased our own VMWare licenses Up until 2 months ago, we still had 7 VMWare ESX 2.5 servers, with approximately 25 VMs

Virtualisation History Seriously looking at Virtualisation when CAUDIT agreement with VMWare was signed. Did not have dedicated resource to manage the virtualisation project. Network infrastructure is inadequate to effectively utilise VMWare features.

Virtual Environment IT Infrastructure: –18 ESX 3.5 hosts 115 VMs –2 vSphere hosts (Proof of concept) 7 VMs –Approx. 100 VMs on Zen servers Client Services –2 ESX 3.5 hosts Approx. 15 VMs

ESX 3.5 Environment

vSphere Vcenter Environment

Virtualisation Goals Migrate to vSphere by April Upgrade to SAN infrastructure by March Achieve 95% virtualisation by end of 2010 Virtual Desktop infrastructure for staff by March 2011

Capacity Planning

SAN Options SAN upgrade options –FC = 180 IOPS –SAS = 150 IOPS –SATA = 100 IOPS –Solid State = 10,000 IOPS (Suitable if planning to deploy VDI)

Infrastructure Upgrade Separate VLAN for VMKernel (vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA etc...) 10G Data Centre links: Upgrade Syd- Melb link from 1Gb to 10Gb by Gb for all campuses: Upgrade all links from 1 Gb to 10Gb by Gb Data Centre links: Upgrade Syd- Melb link from 10Gb to 40Gb by 2015

Vsphere Upgrade Steps 4 Stages approach: 1.Migrate ESX 3.5 Hosts to vCenter 4 (to take advantage of new features) 2.New Dev/Test servers will be commission on vSphere hosts 3.New Production servers will be commission on vSphere hosts 4.Migrate ESX 3.5 hosts to vSphere

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