1. Free Virtualization?! Amost-BYOH (Bring Your Own Hardware) December 7, 2011, 3:15-4:30 pm Hub Tag: #Tech11 LA1 Joe Aldeguer, Society of American Florists Renato Sogueco, Society of American Florists

2. Agenda Virtualization at 40,000 feet Society of American Florists (SAF) is the case study Explore Free Virtualization options Software / Hardware

3. Got Virtualization!? VMWare / Microsoft / Xen Perspectives: CIO / Systems Admin Benefits realized? Why SAF explored “free”

4. Free Virtualization Options KVM http://www.linux- kvm.org/page/Management_Toolshttp://www.linux- kvm.org/page/Management_Tools Open Vz http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Pagehttp://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page Xen http://xen.org/http://xen.org/ VirtualBox (Desktop) https://www.virtualbox.org/

5. ProxMox VE http://www.proxmox.com/ What is ProxMox VE? Built on top of Debian Linux Combines KVM and Open VZ Open Source = Control

6. Rethink Hardware Recycle / Reuse Consider Whitebox Make sure hardware supports virtualization

7. Cost Comparison Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus ProxMox VE 2 licenses (1 license per server) 1 license (allows installation on 3 hosts) N/A $ SAF cost canvass to Virtualize 10 servers on two physical boxes to provide hardware redundancy but not HA

8. Test Drive SAF’s ProxMox Install

9. Questions?

10. Contact Information Joe Vincent Aldeguer Systems Administrator Society of American Florists (703) 339-0938 jaldeguer@safnow.org www.safnow.org Renato Cruz Sogueco Chief Information Officer Society of American Florists (571) 366-0280 rsogueco@safnow.org www.safnow.org