1. The VersaVirtual™ Appliance
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2. 1 2 3 4 The VersaVirtual™ Appliance: The solution for you?
Why Virtualize?
Available Services & Support
VersaVirtual™ Appliance Details

3. The VersaVirtual™ Appliance: The solution for you?
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4. Virtualization just out of reach? Not anymore.
Maintaining your infrastructure is now easier than ever.
Can’t manage the environment your applications are on?
Don’t have the staff to know the state of your servers and maintain them?
Are you looking to virtualize in a managed environment, or are you curious about what virtualization could mean to your organization?
Do you want to avoid a costly, time-consuming DIY solution?

5. Pre-configured virtualization, with support
Finally, you can virtualize with ease and peace of mind
Imagine saving time, money and the headaches that come with creating and managing a virtualized environment.
Worry-free management of an environment that can support up to 15 images
Created just for small to mid-sized solutions like yours
Support every step of the way

6. The VersaVirtual™ Appliance
Entry-level virtualization appliance that comes complete with managed services
A hyperconverged (compute, networking and storage) appliance for entry-level virtualization in an easily managed environment.
Ready-to-use and cost-effective for small- to medium-sized applications
Enables you to run your software applications in one location
Doesn’t require specialized IT/OT skills to set up.
The VersaVirtual Appliance can run a number of applications including:
FactoryTalk suite of software
Operator workstations
Engineering workstations
Third-party applications

7. The VersaVirtual™ Appliance is a great fit if…
You want to run up to 15 applications in one easy-to-manage location
You don’t want to worry about maintaining your infrastructure
You need a new virtualized system, or are replacing your current system
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8. VersaVirtual™ Appliance 1000
Capability
Included Support Services
Use Case
5-15 Virtual Machines (VMs)
Uplink: 2 ports copper 10GB links 
One-host solution with VMWare vSphere and vCenter
8x5 next-business-day hardware replacement
Monitoring and Administration services, allowing customers to focus on their application data. Includes 24x7 system support
A one host solution is ideal for non-critical application use. For situations where a test bed virtual infrastructure is needed, or a non- critical production application
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9. VersaVirtual™ Appliance 2000
Capability
Included Support Services
Use Case
5-15 Virtual Machines (VMs)
Uplink: 2 ports copper 10GB links 
2 node vSAN cluster with management node
N-1 failure redundancy
8x5 next-business-day hardware replacement
Monitoring and Administration services, allowing customers to focus on their application data. Includes 24x7 system support
An ideal architecture for running production-critical applications for small- to medium-sized plants or production areas.
Hardware and software redundancy combine to minimize production risk of both failures and regular maintenance activities.
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10. Features & Benefits of the VersaVirtual™ Appliance
Boost productivity, add compute power, and rest easy with our trusted IT/OT services & support
Managed Services including support, remote monitoring and administration by a team of Rockwell Automation IT/OT professionals are included, so you don’t have to worry about needing specialized IT/OT skills to set up and manage.
Operational technology services help reduce downtime as well as capital and operating costs.
Information technology support services provide a worry-free experience
Designed to host a small solution that requires multiple applications, such as PlantPAX, FactoryTalk Suite, and solutions delivered by Rockwell Automation
Preconfigured and ready-to-use out of the box, making it easy to purchase and deploy
Minimize downtime and increase productivity with redundancy option

11. Why Virtualize?
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12. Cost of a DIY redundant solution
Doing it yourself is more time-consuming, costly and resource-intensive
$22,000
$14,500
$10,000
$6,000
$30,000 + + + + =
$82,500
Avg. cost of redundant server hardware and storage
Avg. cost of virtualization software
Avg. cost for 80 hours of working with vendors to design and verify
Avg. cost for 16 hours of configuration for virtualization software
Avg. cost for 120 hours of maintenance work
Avoiding a call at midnight to support your infrastructure is priceless.

13. Time and skill to deploy
DIY
VersaVirtual™ Appliance
vs.
Time and skill to deploy
15-16 engineering days
Specialty certifications
Multiple vendors
Tested, validated, designed, delivered
IT/OT experienced team
One purchase order
Desktop management
Desktops everywhere
Centralized management
Extended software lifecycle
Rapid deployment
Easy replacement

14. High availability and backup
DIY
VersaVirtual™ Appliance
vs.
High availability and backup
Loss of production time for redesigning desktops at failure
Low understanding of criticality of OT
Redundant architecture Virtual machine recovery averaging under 15 minutes
Support will notify you with an average three-minute response time
Support
Self supported – taking that call
Waiting 3 days to get a new desktop
Don’t know when parts break until production is impacted
24/7 Support by Rockwell Automation
Getting a new image spun up in 24 hours
Rockwell Automation monitoring the infrastructure and getting replacement parts to you

15. Defining virtualization
Virtualization is breaking the link between the operating system and the physical hardware.
High-speed replacement
Footprint consolidation
Increased application longevity
Enables us to change the hardware without replacing the OS or the application
Multiple instances of an OS with independent applications can be run on the same hardware
VMs exposed to the guest OS does not change when physical hardware is replaced
No data domain necessary

16. Available
Services and Support
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17. How can Virtualization Management Services help me?
From IT and OT perspectives, there are many benefits to these services
Does your organization have an IT department?
Does your IT department understand OT needs?
Does your IT department have the response time to maintain an OT infrastructure?
Do your OT folks understand how to run the servers your applications run on?
If you can answer “no” to one or more of these questions, consider learning more about how virtualization management services can help you save money, decrease downtime and increase efficiency.

18. Reduce cost of downtime with monitoring
$20 Billion
76% of the time before the fixing even starts
COST OF UNSCHEDULED DOWNTIME
Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic Solutions help resolve issues faster, minimize unneeded maintenance activity, and get you back up and running faster
47% is finding the resources to fix the problem
21% is spent diagnosing the problem
Industry reports have approximated that the cost of unscheduled downtime is estimated at $20B. When we consider how problems are traditionally detected, diagnosed, and fixed, approximately 76% of the unscheduled downtime is spent before any action is taken to fix the issue. Driven by this need to reduce time-to-detect an issue, we have developed a suite of services to remotely monitor, detect, and resolve issues as quickly as possible to maintain uptime.
8% is spent figuring out there is a
real problem

19. Trained IT/OT professionals available
What services are included with the purchase?
Consistently exceeds customer expectations with average response time of 3 minutes
Virtualization management specific administration
Monitoring
Administration
Real-time monitoring of:
Physical hardware status
Device health
Faults
Alarm reaction
Global technical support
Customer success
Knowledgebase
Hardware replacement
Access to firmware updates
Remote connection to site
Service restoration
Configurations of ports, devices and VLANs
Documentation updates
Image creation
Template creation
vSwitch configuration
Trained IT/OT professionals available
24/7
24/7 Monitoring of critical system parameters helps mitigate outages and failures

20. The foundation for additional managed services
The Data Center Management Managed Services offering provides more comprehensive support
The VersaVirtual™ Appliance allows for additional service capabilities such as Application Patching
Patching
Images focused on maintaining security of the network through threat detection and anti-virus management can be run on the VersaVirtual Appliance
Security
The Virtual Support Engineer used in the VersaVirtual Appliance provides the platform access needed to provide enhanced application asset support
Application support
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21. VersaVirtual™ Appliance Details
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22. VersaVirtual™ Appliance
What is in a
VersaVirtual™ Appliance
1000
2000
Server
Intel Xeon Silver core 96 GB RAM
Intel Xeon Silver core 128 GB RAM
Storage
2 TB usable
2 TB usable
Network I/O
10G networking internal to server communication Uplink: 2 ports copper 10 GB
10G networking internal to server communication Uplink: 2 ports copper 10 GB
Virtualization
vSphere Standard
vSphere Standard
vSAN Standard
24x7 support • Remote monitoring and administration
1 year hardware / software warranty

23. Cabinet recommendations
42.0 in (1066mm)
23.9 in (606mm)
48.4 in (1230mm)
Cabinet recommendations
Below is a recommended cabinet validated to fit the VersaVirtual™ Appliance from Panduit
Qty.
Description
P/N 1
Dynamic MDC
MDC48D 2
PDU- Horizontal, C19, (NA) L6-30P, single phase
(EMEA) IEC60309, single phase
P16D14M
P16D37M

24. Additional Start-Up Services
The VersaVirtual™ Appliance comes pre-engineered and configured with the virtualization environment ready to use.
To integrate into your network, Rockwell Automation can provide on-site services through our local Field Engineers or our Authorized Service Providers (where available) to provide:
Additional services, including application installation, can be purchased locally.
Physical installation
Set up
Verification
On-the-job training

25. Thank you