1. Welcome to EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2007 Navigating the Rapids of Campus Technology Monday, June 11, 2007 2:15 PM Managing Infrastructure with Virtual Servers John Robbins – jorobbins@davidson.edujorobbins@davidson.edu David Link – dalink@davidson.edudalink@davidson.edu

2. VMware Who wants it? Why do we have it?

3. Success Stories Exchange 2007 Edge deployment in an afternoon Test Environment is much improved

4. Davidson College’s environment 19 – Dell PowerEdge 2950’s 8 – Dell PowerEdge 2850’s 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2650’s 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2550’s 5 – HP-UX servers for Oracle 55 – Virtual Guest OS systems 1 – EVA 5000

5. Your environment Who is running ESX now? Microsoft anyone?

6. Davidson’s VM environment 8 VMware ESX 3.0.1 servers Three production, three DMZ, and two test / development servers 60 virtual servers Dell PE 2950, 16 GB RAM, disk (mirror/hotspare/15K) Virtual servers have 18 GB OS drives on SAN shared storage – 400 GB chunks

7. Demo How to deploy a virtual server? How long does it take? Can you drink that cup of coffee?

8. VMotion Demo Can you just move a server from one hardware platform to another? My hardware failed what do I do? I have 30 virtual servers on that one piece of hardware? What happens when I go home for the day?

9. 64-bit Support

10. Can you VMotion between Servers?

11. Can’t VMotion now what? You can always Migrate to a new host. Migrate can move from old hardware to new hardware It can also move from an old disk drive to a new disk drive. When VMotion can’t do what you want, try to Migrate.

12. Thank you for coming Before you go we should clean up. How do I remove a virtual machine?

13. Questions? John Robbins – Senior System Analyst jorobbins@davidson.edu 704-894-2435 David Link – System Analyst dalink@davidson.edu 704-894-2507

14. How to get the best performance Give the guest OS enough memory Make sure you have the latest version of VMware Tools Disable screen savers Disable unused devices – CD-ROM Driver – Floppy Drives – LPT Ports – COM Ports – USB Devices Schedule backups, Anti-virus, and defragmenters to run in off hours