Managing your physical and virtual Infrastructure

Transcription

1 Managing your physical and virtual Infrastructure Grant Drummond Strategic & Corporate Account Manager

2 IT Administration Challenges Spending (US$B) $300 $250 $200 $150 $100 $50 Power and cooling costs Server mgmt. and admin. costs New server spending Millions Logical server installed base: Physical server installed base: Management Gap $ *Source: IDC, CIO Strategies to Build the Next Gen Data Center, DOC#DR2007_5VT, Feb

3 Avocent Management Infrastructure Avocent delivers on demand access to your IT assets from anywhere at anytime as secure as possible as complete as possible as easy as possible AVOCENT AVOCENT CORPORATION

4 Out-of-Band NOC Avocent provides secure alternate paths into the production infrastructure so that disconnected assets can be reconnected and subsequently returned to normal operation. Reduce operational costs Reduce business risks Improve IT personnel & asset productivity Assets connected to the network: servers, switches, PABX, network elements, etc.

5 MTTR Optimization Look for ways to minimize each! Report Notify Isolate Resolve Dispatch Time is Money

6 Avocent IT-Management Solution

7 Why Virtualization? Consolidation: Virtualization reduces the need for separate physical servers as well as the number of servers. Protection: Virtualization lowers the cost/complexity of disaster recovery. Deployment: Virtualization speeds up the deployment of new server-based applications / servers. Freedom of choice: Virtualization lessens concerns about being tied to a specific server vendor. Agility: Virtualization helps organizations rapidly address changes in workload demands.

8 VMware Infrastructure VMware Infrastructure allows users to create a virtual data center that is centrally managed by management servers and can be controlled through a wide selection of interfaces. A typical VMware Infrastructure data center consists of basic physical building blocks such as x86 computing servers (ESX Servers), storage networks and arrays, IP networks, a management server (VirtualCenter) and desktop clients (VI Client). VirtualCenter Management Server Virtual Machines Manage Virtual Machines Virtual Machines VI Client or Web Browser ESX Server ESX Server ESX Server Physical Servers 2007 AVOCENT CORPORATION

9 IT Today Mixed Environment Virtual Environment Physical Environment

10 IT Today Need for Consolidation 2007 AVOCENT CORPORATION

11 New Requirements integrated view to the whole IT infrastructure with both physical and virtual systems consolidated view of all managed servers from one, single point of view common and consistent functionalities and user experience across the whole IT infrastructure reduced complexity of the mixed infrastructure allowing to focus on getting the jobs done as quickly as possible AVOCENT CORPORATION

12 DSView 3 SW and Virtualization Seamless integration of VMware Virtualization Infrastructure and DSView 3 SW Autodiscovery and access to VirtualCenters, ESX servers and Virtual Machines from DSView 3 SW Access to virtual and physical serves from a single interface VirtualCenter Management Server Virtual Machines ESX Server Virtual Machines ESX Server Physical Box Physical Box

13 VMware Virtual Infrastructure

14 Access to VirtualCenter / ESX Server Virtual Center Web client

15 Execute Power Operations From the units list via a Multi-Unit Operation VM s can be: Powered On Powered Off Reset Suspended changes or status updates of VMs are synchronized with DSView 3 SW 2007 AVOCENT CORPORATION

16 Q & A

17