Data Center Server Consolidation Roadmap

Los Angeles CountyeCloud OverviewNovember 26, 2012

1Data Center 540 Physical Servers

Physical Infrastructure:540 Servers5 Distribution switches46 Access switches40 Racks144 Electrical circuitsConsolidation (2005):58 Servers4 Distribution switches0 Access switches12 Racks24 Electrical circuits

Data Center Server ConsolidationData Center eCloud virtualizationVirtualization (2010):20 Servers2 Distribution switches0 Access switches2 Half full Racks4 Electrical circuits2

eCloud architecture

AT&T MON circuits

eCloud Phase 2 SANeCloud Phase 2eCloud Witness(monitoring from a third site)eCloud Phase1(currently 903 vms)

Downey Santa Ana (LRC)

AsynchronousSANReplication+SRMSynchronousSANReplicationeCloud Phase1(Currently 903 vms)

Current Workloads 1247 Virtual Server 7626 Virtual Desktops 29915 Exchange Mailboxes3eCloud servicesRetail (Department runs Application Software)Reduced retail hosting rate by 27% - 66% depending on server sizeReduced server storage rate 75%Base virtual server of 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAMadditional cost per vCPUadditional cost per GB of Memoryadditional cost per GB of Disk Storage

Wholesale (Department runs Windows OS and Application Software)Reduced server storage rate 75%Base virtual server of 1 vCPU, 2GB RAMadditional cost per vCPUadditional cost per GB of Memoryadditional cost per GB of Disk Storage

4eCloud Service Layers

eCloud retailincludes:eCloud wholesaleincludes:5

Service

Definition Details6Why eCloud?Greater Department Control and Agility (for Wholesale Customers)Spin-Up New Servers in Minutes Wholesale versus Retail

More Staff Focus on Department Issues

Built-In Disaster Recovery

Lower CostsEconomies of ScaleLeveraging New TechnologyShut Down of Data Centers & Computer Rooms

7Questions & Follow up

Jac Fagundojfagundo@isd.lacounty.gov(562) 658-45058

Access switches

Core switches

Distribution switches

EMC SAN

EMC SAN