Scale-on-Scale : Part 1 of 3 - Production Environment
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How Scale Computing uses Scale's ICOS Storage
Webcast 1 of 3 – Scale Production
Bill Waller
Director of IT
Agenda
Who We Are
ICOS
Virtualization
Monitoring
Scale Production
Who We Are
Founded in 2007, Scale Computing has led the way in unified, scale-out, enterprise class storage for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company is rapidly growing with offices in California, Indianapolis and London with global distribution partners.
Scale ICOS
Every Scale storage cluster is powered by ICOS™ Technology: an advanced storage operating system combining powerful features with intelligence that makes storage easy-to-manage, even for novices.
Generation 3.0 Storage
Scale-Out ArchitectureCapacity Performance
Density Agnostic
Unified SAN/NAS
No Controllers
Thin Provisioning
Global Namespace
ReplicationAuto-load balancing
Snapshots
Virtualization
Virtualization is transforming the IT landscape, and with good reason. With virtualization, traditionally static resources such as networking, desktops, and servers are dynamically allocated and centrally managed. This flexibility has far-reaching business benefits: •Get more out of existing resources. Non-virtualized servers rarely exceed 30% resource utilization. Consolidation into a virtualized environment can exceed 80% utilization of the hardware.
•Increase the availability of workloads. Virtualization provides methods to migrate workloads to different hardware in the event of planned maintenance or unplanned downtime.
•Improve IT service levels. Provision and deploy servers and desktops faster with reduced management overhead.
•Shrink operational costs. By reducing the physical footprint of the datacenter, costly data center build out are avoided and power and cooling costs shrink.
•Leverage legacy applications. Lengthen the life of legacy applications by operating them on virtual machines.
Distributed Office Locations
Distributed Production Environment
2 - Virtual Servers3 - S4 Storage Nodes
2 - Virtual Servers3 – S1 Storage Nodes
4 – Virtual Servers3 - R4 Storage Nodes
Scale Production Environment
• 4-Node ESXi 4.1 HA Cluster
• 3-Node R4 Scale Storage Cluster (12TB)
• 100% Virtualized Environment– Exchange 2010 (DAG)
– Windows 2008 R2 (Domain Controllers/Active Directory)
– Linux/CentOS (Web Site/MySQL/Atlassian Tools)
– 45 Virtual Machines
• Highly Available/Fully Redundant environment
• Scalable
Scale Production Monitoring
• Monitor the percentage full (<80%)
Scale Production Monitoring
• Perfmon
• Current Disk Queue
• Disk Writes/Sec
• Disk Reads/Sec
Scale Production Monitoring
• VMware vSphere monitoring
• Avg. Read/Writes per second