Rise of the Virtual Machine: IST VMware ESX and VMs for Campus Academic Support Areas
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Rise of the Virtual Machine: IST VMware ESX and VMs for Campus Academic Support Areas
Jason Gorrie
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Agenda
IST Environment Future plans Discussion on Campus Trends
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Deja Vu
Presented similar at OUCC in 2010
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Environment - Recap
Vmware ESXi 5.1
Dell
Netapp
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VM Count
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Cost
ESX Licenses = 40 Enterprise Plus Licenses
Servers – four refreshes (PE2950 → R900 → R810 → R820)
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Memory Expanded
2010: 2.4GB RAM/Server2013: 5.7GB RAM/serverClusters: 2.0/2.8/1.0 T1000+ Vms?Example: Sharepoint 2013
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CPU
Clusters: 272/307/150 Ghz Example: Security Cameras
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Storage
NFS mounted from Netapp Devices Data retained in 2+ places*
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Network
10G if > 25 VMs VM Side
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Reliability
No Data loss – Same Issues (2013):
June 2013: Driver FW issues (tg3) July 2013: Dev storage latency issues July 2013: Datastore full when not Sept 2013: Driver FW issues (igbx) Nov 2013: ESX Host became slow
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Environment is Critical
Default Virutal uwaterloo.ca * Sharepoint 2013 * Lync * Waterloo Works (Jobmine replacement) * All sorts of smaller apps
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Former Challenges
USB Failures → SD in RAID1
Reactive not proactive → Monitoring stepped up
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Current Challenges
Vmware License renewal/upgrades (still) VM's are candy Cleanup
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Service definitions - Internal
PaaS – Platform as a Service IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service SaaS – Software as a Service
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VM as a (Campus) Service
Campus service already CPU: 1 – 4 (<2) RAM: 1-8GB (<2GB) Disk: <100G is nice (<40GB) OS
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VM as a (Campus) Service
SLA* Dev: RTO: 12H, RPO: 2H SLA* Prod: RTO: 2H, RPO: 1H Discussion: Why or why not are you using
it?
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Future Plans
IST license admin Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Public cloud bursting? Self Provisioning – virtual/real Throwaway VMs / Applications “Cloud”
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Campus Adoption of Hypervisors
Who uses hyper visors on campus? Discussion: What do you use? Why?
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Campus Adoption of Cloud
OpenStack/CloudStack/Eucalyptus/vCAC/AWS/Azure/Others?
Rise of the meta hypervisor? Why use it?
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Cloud Discussion topics
Interest in Self provisioning
VM Application stack
Show back/ charge back Automated workflow of VM vs. of OS? (config
management)?