1. CMS – Server Virtualization
State of Illinois Central Management Services
Server Virtualization Randy Anderson Server Virtualization Manager

2. CMS – Server Virtualization
Reasons why CMS looked at a virtual server solution
Agency Consolidation to Primary Datacenter
Physical Space
Power
Hardware Refresh
High Availability

3. CMS – Server Virtualization
The New Physical Environment
Water Cooled Racks
Hardware
HP Blade Servers –
Dual AMD 2.6GHZ dual core
16GB ram
SAN attached
EMC Symmetrix DMX
VMware ESX 3.5
16 blades per VM clusters
VM clusters spread across 4 racks and 4 enclosures

4. CMS – Server Virtualization
Virtualization Project – phase 1
Server Assessment
380 servers assessed
4 servers were deemed as “not candidates”
Physical to Virtual process (P2V)
Planning is the most important step
Time for P2V to run is unknown
Documentation – the before and after settings

5. CMS – Server Virtualization
Virtualization Project – phase 1
Issues we ran into
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) - #1 Problem
Hidden legacy server problems
Conversion time – no way to predict
Digital Certificates had to be recreated
Application Licenses tied to MAC address

6. CMS – Server Virtualization
Virtualization Project – phase 1
Current Numbers
Total number of physical servers removed – 280
Total number of virtual servers – 471

7. CMS – Server Virtualization
Virtualization Project – phase 2
Project will continue with the next set of servers
The remaining Windows servers will be assessed
Netware servers
Legacy virtual servers moved to new environment