IP Expo 2009 - The impact of Storage in a Virtualised Environment

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Dynamic Infrastructure – The Impact on Storage of a Virtualised Environment

Rick Terry & Steve Legg

IP Expo 09



Logical representation of resources not constrained by physical limitations

– Enables user flexibility

– Centrally manage many virtual resources as one

– Dynamically change and adjust across the infrastructure

– Create many virtual resources within single physical device

– Eliminates trapped capacities

IBM Virtualisation

A comprehensive platform tohelp virtualize the infrastructure

What is Virtualisation?

Removing the THING-ness

from a THING

A comprehensive platform tohelp virtualise the infrastructure



What is Real and What is Virtual?



Data Risk

The Information Challenge

Data Variety

• Much data is required to be retained beyond the life of the current medium on which it resides

• 80% of this data is now unstructured email, images, videos, documents

• Much of it is retained “Just in Case”, not for necessary business benefit

Cost Efficiencies GlobalizationRisk & ComplianceMergers & Acquisitions

Volume GrowthUnstructured DataMultiple VersionsInaccessible, Untimely

Data Retention

Data Volume

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Classic Enterprise Workloads

- Functionality- Availability- Disaster tolerance- Scalability- Manageability

- Low cost/commodity- Modular - New data types- Innovation/business value

Emerging Information Workloads

Transaction Processing

Business Intelligence

File Serving

Backup & Data Protection

Disaster recovery

HPC

Data Warehousing Storage Security

Automated Management

Video Serving

Medical Imaging

Searchable Archives

Next Generation Networks

Grid File Serving

Digital Video Surveillance

IPTV

Web 2.0SMB



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“Answers to Everything” #3 – The Internet!

1,668 million global users

185,497,213 sites



Cloud Computing: A New Paradigm

Enterprise Cloud

Network Cloud

INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MODELS

End Users / Requestors

Government/ Academics

Industry(Startups/ SMB/ Enterprise) Consumers

• An “Elastic” pool of high performance virtualized resources

• Cloud applications enable the simplificationof complex services

• A cloud computing platform combines modular components with a service oriented architecture

• New combinations of services to form differentiating value propositions at lowercosts in shorter time

SIMPLIFIED SERVICES

Source: IBM Corporate Strategy



Application LayerOptimized Infrastructure

Hypervisor Layer

Operating System Layer

Virtual File System Layer

Volume Controller Layer

Physical Layer

Virtual Network Layer

Virtual Runtime Layer

Operating System

Hypervisor

Virtual Machine

Volume Controller

Network End-point

Grid Scheduler

Virtual DiskVirtual Data Layer

Server Virtualization

NetworkVirtualization

WorkloadVirtualization

Grid Middleware

StorageVirtualization

InformationVirtualization

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Business Problems Driving Virtualisation

Speed to Market

Green Business Initiatives

Need to respond quickly to business demands

Lack of skilled IT staff to meet business needs

Explosive IT costs



Facing up to the Challenges of Hyper Data Growth in the Current Economy

time

Capex Budget

Capex RequiredDat

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TAKE CONTROL!

• True Cost of Operation

• Increased Utilisation through Virtualisation

• Reduced Footprint

• Intelligent Acquisition

Cost Avoidance > Cost Reduction

• Application of CLOUD concepts for a dynamic infrastructure



Simplify your IT



Questions?



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