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- 2. Adventures in Virtualisation: The Hosting Industry Aidan Finn Windows Server 2008 User Group: http://ws-ugi.spaces.live.com My Blog: http://joeelway.spaces.live.com
- 3. Agenda My background Challenges and Opportunities in hosting Virtualisation in the Hosting Industry
- 4. My Background Working in IT since 1996. Worked in all sorts of large infrastructures. Started doing things “my way” in 2003. Working in hosting industry for 12 months. Now employed by C Infinity. Working with Windows Server 2008 since last year.
- 5. Oh! I am slightly biased towards Microsoft-based solutions I’m more familiar with HP hardware and terminology ... IBM tends to have similar solutions.
- 6. Hosting – What is it? 3 Categories: Website/Email hosting Co-Location Server hosting/outsourcing Motivations of customer: Security Reduce cost of ownership Avail of high quality bandwidth Budgeting Remote disaster recovery
- 7. Hosting – What is it? Types of installation? 100% server outsourcing Web applications Intranet applications Disaster recovery Virtual Desktops Terminal Server applications
- 8. Hosting – What is it? Types of administration outsourcing? 100% outsourced. 0% outsourced: co-location. Operating system and hardware. *
- 9. Hosting – The Challenges Space Power More machines, more management, less staff Service Level Agreements Flexibility Disaster Recovery Business sense: Realistic technology and budget
- 10. Hosting – The Solution? Everyone’s talking about blade servers and virtualisation. “ Cloud Computing”
- 11. Cloud Computing My Definition: A fabric or matrix of technologies. Utilise the correct technologies for each service. Fault tolerant, agile and scalable. Well managed with automation – often forgotten.
- 12. Virtualisation/Redundancy At Every Level Firewalls: Clustered. Core Switches: Redundant. Machines: Virtualisation available. Server Hardware: Redundant. Storage/Network Connections: Abstracted and redundant. Storage: Virtualised and redundant.
- 13. Machine Virtualisation & Hosting Less hardware Less power consumption Rapid deployment Mobility of machines Lower operating costs = more competitive = more profit And it’s “Green Computing”
- 15. Post-Virtualisation Dude, where’s my hardware gone?
- 16. Virtualise Every Machine? Nooooooooo!
- 17. Virtualise Every Machine? Domain Controllers? I/O Intensive machines? CPU Intensive machines? Does your application have support?
- 18. Which Machine Virtualisation Solution? Two big players: Microsoft and VMware. VMware ESX/VI: Mature, relatively well known, trusted. Limited hardware, difficult to manage. Microsoft Hyper-V: Based on Windows, wide hardware coverage, easy to manage, heavily tested. New and will take time for market to trust it.
- 19. MS or VMware For Me? Important – think long term! : Costs Skills availability Manageability Will the vendor still be in this market in 5-7 years time? I’d choose Microsoft Hyper-V.
- 20. A Cloud
- 21. Why Blade and SAN? Flexible storage Denser CPU deployment Less power consumption There might be larger capital/installation costs. Operating costs are lower.
- 22. Virtual Connections Abstracted MAC address Abstracted World Wide Name Diskless Servers Servers => Replaceable Appliances
- 23. Server Hardware Virtualisation HP Chassis: 16 Servers Deploy 15 + 1 Hot Spare Production server dies => Hot Spare started
- 24. Virtualised Storage Why Virtualise Storage? Quick to deploy Quick to modify Traditional Disk Virtual Disk RAID Array -> LUN -> Partition Disk Group -> Virtual Disk (RAID) -> Partition
- 25. You’ve Got To Manage This! Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 (in testing) Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (in testing) Service Desk 2009, 2010 or 2011? Cradle-to-Grave management Integration Customer visibility Reduced administration – really!
- 26. A Total Solution
- 27. Summary What does the hosting industry do? What solutions are they deploying now. Virtualisation of machines. Virtualisation of storage and hardware. Managing the infrastructure. A complete solution.
- 28. Thanks To ... ... Alex Yuschenko for presenting at the Windows Server 2008 User Group (Ireland) http://ws-ugi.spaces.live.com
- 29. Next User Group Event “ Windows Server 2008” by Mark Minasi May 30 th in Microsoft, Sandyford. In cooperation with Microsoft Ireland Introduction to Server 2008 IPv6 – Why should you care and how does it work? Server Core – Introduction and How to manage it. This is a very rare opportunity to see Mark Minasi on this side of the pond – don’t miss it! http://tinyurl.com/5h8du7
- 30. The End Aidan Finn [email_address] My Blog: http://joeelway.spaces.live.com User Group: http://ws-ugi-spaces.live.com