Introduction to Virtualization

The Long Island Chapter of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society

Morty Eisen
Marcum Technology
April 28th, 2011
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Presentation Outline
Introduction to Virtualization

What is Virtualization
The Traditional Server Concept
The Virtual Server Concept
Virtual Machines
Benefits of Virtualization
Server Consolidation
Virtualization Key Solutions / Use Cases
Top 3 Economic Reasons For Virtualization
Server, Storage and Network Consolidation
Virtualization Delivers Tangible Business Outcomes
Experienced App Owners Trust Virtualization for Toughest Workloads
What is Available Today
VMware Recognized as the Virtualization & Cloud Leader (2010)
What is Available From VMware
VMware vSphere: Ready to Virtualize All Applications
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Virtual Distributed Network Switch
The Disadvantages of Virtualization
System Virtualization - Present State
Modernizing the Desktop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Cloud Computing Takes Virtualization to the Next Step
Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds

What is Virtualization
Virtualization abstracts the underlying physical structure of various
technologies. Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual
(rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware
platform, operating system, a storage device or network
resources[1]
Server virtualization[2]
Creates multiple isolated environments
Allows multiple OSs and workloads to run on the same physical
hardware
Solves the problem of tight coupling between OSs and hardware

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
(2) Anil Desai IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter April 18th, 2007

You Know Virtualization Is Real

When It Makes It To Dilbert

The Traditional Server Concept

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VMware Inc., Virtualization Overview, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/virtualization.pdf

The Virtual Server Concept

Virtual Machines
Virtual machines provide:
Hardware independence
Guest VM sees the same
hardware regardless of the host
hardware
Isolation VMs operating
system is isolated from the host
operating system
Encapsulation Entire VM
encapsulated into a single file
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Benefits of Virtualization
Simplified administration
Hardware
independence/portability
Increased hardware utilization
Server consolidation
Decreased provisioning times
Improved security

Software Development
Testing / Quality Assurance
Product evaluations /
demonstrations
Training
Disaster Recovery

Virtualization Features

Virtualization Scenarios
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Anil Desai IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter April 18th, 2007

Server Consolidation

Anil Desai IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter April 18th, 2007

Virtualization Key Solutions / Use Cases

Server Consolidation and Containment Eliminate server
sprawl by deploying systems into virtual machines
Infrastructure Provisioning Reduce the time for provisioning
new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation
capabilities.
Business Continuity Reduce the cost and complexity of
business continuity by encapsulating entire systems files that can
be replicated and restored onto any target server
Test and Development Rapidly provision and re-provision test
and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured test
machines
Enterprise Desktop Secure unmanaged PCs. Alternatively,
provide standardized enterprise desktop environments hosted on
servers.
Legacy Application Re-hosting Migrate legacy operating
systems and software applications to virtual machines running on
new hardware for better reliability
VMware Virtual Infrastructure NERCOMP Server Virtualization Event September 25th, 2006

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Top 3 Economic Reasons For

Virtualization
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Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost

Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost

(e.g. Power & Cooling)

Minimize Lost Revenue Due to

Downtime

VMware Virtualization: The Right Investment For a Tough Economy Juine 2009

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Server, Storage and Network Consolidation

Before
1,000 servers with DASD
200 racks
3000 network cables
400 power whips

After
50 servers with SAN and NAS
10 racks
300 network cables
20 power whips

VMware Virtual Infrastructure NERCOMP Server Virtualization Event September 25th, 2006

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Virtualization Delivers Tangible Business

Outcomes
Reduction in Datacenter
Capital Expense
$14,235

Reduction in Datacenter
Operating Expense
2.0-3.0

Reduction in Risk

$30 MM

$5,694
0.3 1.0
$4 MM

Before

After

Infrastructure Cost per App

Before

After

Sys Admin per 100 Apps*

Before

After

Business Loss Due to

Datacenter Outage**

* Source: IDC and VMware TAM program

** Source: VMware customer a $2bn insurance company. Estimates based on 40 hrs needed to recover before virtualizing and 4.5
hrs needed for the same recovery after virtualization.

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Virtualization Reduce Energy Consumption

Highest consolidation rates on most secure and
reliable virtualization platform
Safely improve utilization rates
80% energy reduction
Dynamic server and storage migration
Power off unneeded servers in real-time
Migrate storage dynamically
25% energy reduction

Host desktop PCs in the datacenter

Use thin clients, double refresh cycle
Reduce storage for similar desktop images
70% energy reduction

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Experienced App Owners Trust Virtualization for Toughest Workloads

% of Application Instances running on VMware in
Customer Base
53%

43%

38%

MS
Exchange

MS
MS SQL
SharePoint

42%
25%

25%

Oracle
Middleware

Oracle
DB

18%
XenApp

SAP

Source: VMware customer survey, January 2010, sample size 1038

Data: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are
virtualized

In a recent Gartner poll, 73% of customers claimed to use x86

virtualization for mission critical applications in production
Source: Gartner IOM Conference (June 2008)
Linux and Windows Server Virtualization Is Picking Up Steam (ID Number: G00161702)

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What is Available Today

VMware
VMware released ESX and GSX 1.0 in 2001. Virtual Center released in 2003.
Has the most experience
Is the farthest along
Very mature product suite
Focus is on integrating IT process automation around virtualization
Citrix
Citrix Xenserver acquired Xensource on August 15th, 2007
Has working low cost server virtualization solution
Focus is on client virtualization
Microsoft
Microsoft Hyper-V (formerly Windows Server Virtualization)
Standalone version released in October 2008
Real solution (one with HA) has been out since August 2009.

Paul Schaapman CDW Solutions Architect Servers, Storage & Virtualization Solutions Practice

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VMware Recognized as the Virtualization & Cloud Leader (2010)

VMware is only vendor in
Leaders Quadrant!

5 of 5 cloud providers in Leaders

Quadrant are VMware-based!

leaders

challengers

leaders

challengers

VMware
VMware

Savvis

AT&T

Rackspace
AT&T

Savvis

Microsoft

Oracle VM

Citrix

Oracle Solaris
Containers

ability to execute

ability to execute

VerizonRackspace
Business
Verizon Business

NaviSite
SunGard

Datapipe

Terremark
Worldwide
Terremark Worldwide

OpSource

Hosting.com
Carpathia Hosting
SoftLayer
Layered Tech

Parallels

GoGrid
IBM

CSC
Joyent

Amazon

Media Temple

Red Hat
NTT Communications
Novell

niche players

visionaries

Completeness of vision

Gartner x86 Virtualization Magic Quadrant

E2_CloudWhiteboardView_2011-03-15 Eric Elgar Vmware

niche players

Completeness of vision

Gartner IaaS Cloud Magic Quadrant

(Infrastructure as a Service)
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What is Available From VMware

VMwares vSphere
Key Features
Market Leader
Virtualizes 54 Guest OSs
Server virtualization solution
with HA and load balancing
Enhanced vMotion
Memory Over commit
Transparent Page Sharing

Patch Management
Fault Tolerance built in
Certified on over 450
servers
FC, iSCSI, NFS Supported
Power Management
Distributed switch
Supports storage
management
Storage vmotion

Paul Schaapman CDW Solutions Architect Servers, Storage & Virtualization Solutions Practice

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% of Applications

VMware vSphere : Ready to Virtualize All

Applications
95% of
Applications

VMware
Infrastructure 3

CPU

1 to 2 CPUs

4 VCPUs

8 VCPUs

Memory

< 4 GB per VM

64 GB per VM

256 GB per VM

Network

< 300 Kb/s

9 Gb/s

30 Gb/s

100,000

300,000

IOPS

< 10,000

VMware
vSphere 4

Now 350,000

Applications Performance Requirements

E2_CloudWhiteboardView_2011-03-15 Eric Elgar Vmware

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Modernizing the Desktop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Persona
Applications
Operating System

E2_CloudWhiteboardView_2011-03-15 Eric Elgar Vmware

Modern
Desktop

Centralized
Management
Desktop
Delivery

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Virtual Distributed Network Switch

Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture
Server 1
VM
#1

VM
#2

VM
#3

Server 3

Server 2
VM
#4

VM
#5

VM
#6

VM
#7

VM
#8

VEM
VMware
vSwitch

Nexus
1000V
VEM
VMware
vSwitch

VMW ESX

VMW ESX

VM
#9

VM
#10

VM
#11

VM
#12

VMware
vSwitch
VEM
VMW ESX

Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)

Virtual
or Physical
appliance
Virtual
Ethernet
Module
(VEM)

running Cisco OS (supports HA)

Enables advanced networking
Nexus
Enables:
Cisco
Performs
management,
monitoring,
capability
on1000V
the hypervisor
&
configuration
Policy Based VM Connectivity
Provides each VM with dedicated
switch
Tight
integration
with
Mobility
of Network
& VMware
Security
port
Virtual
Center
Properties
Collection of VEMs = 1 Distributed
Switch
Non-Disruptive Operational Model

Virtual Center
Nexus 1000V

VSM
Cisco Nexus 1000V Ralf Eberhardt

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The Disadvantages of Virtualization

Virtualization may not work well for:
Resource-intensive applications
VMs may have RAM/CPU/SMP limitations
Performance testing
Hardware compatibility testing
Specific hardware requirements
Custom hardware devices
Some hardware architectures or features are impossible to virtualize
Certain registers or state not exposed
Unusual devices and device control
Clocks, time, and real-time behavior

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System Virtualization - Present State

Data center and desktop computing successfully use virtualization to
Better utilize computing capacity
Balance computing load
Manage complexity and parallelism
Improve security by isolation
Mobile and embedded computing currently lag behind since
Most hypervisors only support the x86 platform
Most hypervisors require large memories
Most hypervisors have poor real-time support
Most hypervisors are inefficient with microkernel OSs
Full-virtualization is not available. Operating system source code
needs to be available and must be modified
Suitable open source-code hypervisors are not available

2009 Nokia V1-stm06468.ppt / 2009-09-28 / STConsequence

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Cloud Computing Takes Virtualization to the Next

Step

You dont have to own the hardware & the

staff
You rent VMs & services as needed from a
ITaaS provider (IT as a Service)
There are multiple public cloud providers
e.g. Amazon EC2 and many others
(Verizon, iland, Rackspace, Savvis , HP, IBM)
The Cloud will provide IT similar to public utilities
providing electricity, gas, and water
20090909_Virtualization And Cloud Computing Norman Wilde & Thomas Huber UWF

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Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds

Netapp Future of Cloud Computing - IVA ; Imagine Virtually Anything & FlexPod

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Pre-sized, Validated Data Center Cloud

Ready Infrastructure
3 Industry Leaders1 Architecture

Introducing FlexPod For VMware

Netapp Future of Cloud Computing - IVA ; Imagine Virtually Anything & FlexPod

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You Know The Cloud Is Real When It

Makes It To Dilbert

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Questions?

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