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Server Virtualization and Beyond Insights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to
help improve operational efficiency
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Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Platforms
IDC
Shaown Nandi
Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services
IBM Global Technology Services
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Matthew Eastwood, IDC Enterprise Platforms Group Vice President and General Manager
Shaown Nandi, Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services, IBM Global Technology Services
Server Virtualization and Beyond Insights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to help improve operational efficiency
SSP03161-USEN-01
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We commissioned a data center study of 308 clients to determine the current operational efficiency of data centers around the world.
IBM Global Data Center Study
Broad survey covering server, storage, network data center facility and data center operations
Detailed execution questions going deep into availability, cost efficiencies and governance
Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)
One-in-five, or 21%, of clients have highly efficient data centers; allocating 50% more of
their IT budget to new projects.
How much of your IT budget is spent on:
35%
65%
Basic
data
centers
Strategic
data
centers
New projects Maintaining
existing
infrastructure
47%
53%
Optimize the IT and facilities assets to maximize
capacity and availability
Design for flexibility to support changing business
needs
Use automation tools to improve service levels
and availability
Have a plan that aligns with the business goals
and keep it current
Most efficient data centers
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The data center study highlights three critical server implications for highly efficient data centers.
Virtualization and
Standardization
Leaders have accelerated virtualization and
standardization to improve operational efficiency.
Automation Leaders use automation and self-service portal to
manage availability and speed of providing services.
Have a plan and
keep it current Leaders are faster to adopt the latest technology and
have a backup plan in the event of disaster.
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Poll Question #1
What percent of virtualization have you achieved for your servers
A. > 60%
B. 40% - 60%
C. 20% - 40%
D. 10% - 20%
E. < 10%
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Leaders have accelerated virtualization and standardization to improve operational efficiency.
Virtualization and
standardization
Virtualization and standardization
Leaders have 2.5 times more servers managed per administrator (27 to 10)
Leaders have higher virtual machine (VM) densities of 8.2 versus 4.5 VMs per server
48%
27% 31%
21%
65%
85%
46%
82%
Percent of servers virtualized
Planned growth rate in server virtualization in the next year (mean
response)
Standardized on hardware platform
Standardized on operating system and middleware
Basic
Strategic
Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)
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We offer a three-phased approach to virtualize your servers, leveraging repeatable processes and time-tested methodologies.
Virtualization and
standardization
Solution framing
Discover, model
and assess to meet
current and future
business and IT
requirements
Plan and design
Design a more
flexible
infrastructure that
can respond to fast-
changing demands
Implementation
Pilot, test, deploy
and migrate the
new server
infrastructure with
reduced disruption
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We modeled simple to complex workloads with advanced analytics to increase average utilization by four times.2
Virtualization and
standardization
Challenge
5-10% increase in annual operating expenses
Limited skills to manage heterogeneous
servers
Simple virtualization done—little experience to
virtualize more complex workloads
Benefits
Increased server utilization by 4 times2 by
modeling workload with CiRBA1 analytics
Reduced server count by 5 times2 by
accelerating virtualization adoption across
simple to complex workloads
Projected savings of US$4 million for new
projects in the first year3
After (average utilization rate: 40%)
Before (average utilization rate: 10%)
Central processing unit (CPU) utilization
Comparison of before and after consolidation
(Illustrative) (%)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Time of day
Su
sta
ine
d C
PU
Uti
liza
tio
n
(Vir
tualiza
tio
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Before consolidation After consolidation
1CiRBA Data Center Intelligence (DCI) is an analytics software by CiRBA Inc. This software determines the optimal workload placements and resource and capacity allocations required
to safely maximize the efficiency of physical, cloud and virtual infrastructure; 2547 UNIX servers consolidated to 97 IBM System p® servers; 3 Based on IBM analysis and calculations;
individual client results may vary.
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Poll Question #2
How many different platforms (Hardware, Hypervisor, Vendor) do you use in your Data Center today?
A) 1-2
B) 3-5
C) 5-10
D) Over 10
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Our fit-for-purpose analytics helped a leading financial company simplify and standardize its heterogeneous server infrastructure.
Virtualization and
standardization
Challenge
Lack of standardization, with over 200
operating system variations
Greater effort to manage over 130 types
of servers and 12 platforms
Increasing operational costs
Benefits
66% fewer platforms (from 12 to 4)
90% fewer servers (from 813 to 81)
45% reduction in operating
expenses (US$10M to US$5M)
Fit-for-purpose analytics* Workload placement – Oracle
Platform
1
Platform
2
Platform
12
Workload
attributes IBM AIX®
on Power®
VMware
Windows
on x86 …
Microsoft
Windows
on x86
ISV1 support 31 18 20
Performance 40 17 21
Scalability 38 15 18
SW2 licenses 39 20 13
Energy consumption
31 19 9
Overall score 247 170 … 138
Five-year TCO3 US$13M US$31M US$38M
Five-year savings
US$25M US$7 US$0
Recommend Invest Divest … Divest
…
…
…
…
*Fit-for-purpose analytics is IBM’s patent-pending objective analysis tool designed
to identify the best-fit platform (hardware and operating system) for selected
workloads by modeling business and technical requirements.
1Independent software vendor (ISV); 2Software (SW); 3Total cost of ownership (TCO)
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Leaders use automation and self-service portal to manage availability and speed of providing services.
Automation
Automation
Over 30% of leaders have implemented self-service portals to provision virtual machines, with 80% of leaders planning them by 2013 to support cloud computing.
1%
Move virtual machines (VMs) across servers
Move VMs based on service level agreements
Self-service provisioning portal
Basic
Strategic
81%
26%
58%
32%
4%
Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)
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IBM provides knowledge and best practices to better manage virtual infrastructure using advanced analytics.
Automation
Challenge
Struggle to manage complex virtualized
infrastructure and meet service level
agreements (SLA) targets
High operational cost
Define standards-based policies to model IT
and user requirements
Benefits
Provides immediate and actionable
recommendations for optimizing
virtual infrastructure
Reduces virtual machine sprawl significantly
Reduces under- and over-provisioning
of virtualized servers
Define workload policies and best practices
Advanced workload analysis
Real-time monitoring console
Visualize workload
performance
Get control with
prescription actions
Automate
Discover
Assess
Model
1Based on previous select IBM client engagements; individual client results vary.
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IBM can create a self-service portal that helps enable greater flexibility and responsiveness to your business needs.
Automation
Challenge
Complexity of managing a dynamic
virtualized infrastructure resulting in
increased operational cost
Slow response to fast-changing
business needs
Benefits
Enabled a self-service delivery model that
streamlined IT systems management
Reduced provisioning time from days to
hours1 with automated provisioning and
configuration
Improved human and technology
resource productivity
Helped reduce IT operational cost
Provisioning Automate provisioning
of resources
Metering and rating Track usage of resources
Workflow Manage the process
for approval of usage
1 Based on a select IBM client engagement; Individual results will vary
View an IBM Video about automating processes with IBM virtualization.
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Leaders are faster to adopt the latest technology and have a backup plan in the event of disaster.
Have a plan
Backup plan Fast to adopt new technology
Leaders value faster migration of workloads to new technology and integration into existing service management processes.
86%
First and fast technology adoption
Plan to implement
converged
infrastructure
Refresh technology within 12-23 months
DC have a backup or
secondary site for
disaster
Basic
Strategic
43%
62%
27%
75%
9%
100%
57%
Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)
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We can help you enable virtualization and cloud leveraging the latest technology with integrated systems for faster ROI1.
Have a plan
Expert integrated systems:
Systems with integrated expertise
that combine the flexibility of a general
purpose system, the elasticity of cloud
and the simplicity of an appliance
Potential benefits
Optimize new technology features and
performance with expert implementation
Accelerate time to value and reduce
downtime during the transition with
repeatable methodology
Reduce transition cost by knowledge
transfer for tools
Implementation System configuration of server, storage,
networking Configure system management software,
Flexible System Manager (FSM) Knowledge transfer
Virtualization enablement Provision of virtual servers Configure vCenter Populate virtual appliances Deploy virtual workloads Knowledge transfer
IBM SmartCloud Entry enablement Configure self-service portal for workload
provisioning Deploy virtualized image management Set up metering tools for resource usage
monitoring Knowledge transfer
1Return on investment (ROI)
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IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery helps ensure more reliable and efficient recovery of your virtualized application.
Have a plan
This service can help you:
Reduce the risk of failure to
recover and avoid the need for
travel through remote access
self-management tools
IBM SmartCloud
Archive
Enable more predictable
costs through a fully
managed subscription
service model
Achieve shorter
recovery time and
point objectives
Dedicated Shared Virtualized
Potential benefits:
Easier to recover to unlike hardware with reliability
Shortens recovery time objective (RTO) and
recovery point objective (RPO)
Avoids need to travel to recovery site
Provides virtual machines for server failover
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IBM can help you in these three critical areas:
Virtualization and
Standardization
We can help you virtualize and manage your complex
workloads with improved cost savings by leveraging our
advanced analytics and automation capabilities.
Our server virtualization and cloud computing solutions help
you free-up under-utilized capacity.
Automation
We create self-service portals through automated provisioning for faster access to server resources.
We can integrate capacity management tools to help maintain higher levels of optimization and reduce virtual machine sprawl.
We can help create a business-oriented, storage infrastructure with standardized processes and automated data movement to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk.
Have a plan and
keep it current
We can help you to accelerate adopting new technology and
provide you a cloud-based recovery solution.
Avoid the need for travel with remote access, self-
management tools
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…or we can work with you to build a detailed business case to show potential cost savings to justify your investment
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Current Proposed
Cost (US M$)
One Time Cost System Management Hardware Maintenance Facility Power & Cooling
ANCHOR financial analysis (sample)
Cumulative estimated cost savings over five years
43 percent reduction
US$37M
US$21M
IBM’s ANCHOR financial analysis tool is used to model investment scenarios to find the optimum approach to help meet your financial, business and technical requirements.
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… and determine the next steps to transform your infrastructure.
Tell us about your business and IT objectives and
together we can determine the best approach to
transform your infrastructure
Have us perform a quick return-on-investment analysis for a segment of
your infrastructure to present to you potential cost savings
Assemble information from your experts to help define the
scope of the project
Document the inventory of assets for consolidation and virtualization
Define the critical application availability requirements and
dependencies
Perform a short-term virtualization efficiency
study to determine the health and performance
of your current virtualized infrastructure
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IT executives realize they need to use outside tools, technologies and assistance.
77%
of IT managers planning
transformational projects will turn to
outside help
Register for the data center study paper
ibm.com/data-center/study
Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)
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IBM solutions can help you achieve your IT infrastructure and business goals.
Expertise gained from managing more than 200,000 servers for companies worldwide
More than 8,000 infrastructure professionals from all aspects of IT management
IBM’s server leadership - Multiple platforms and operating systems
IBM’s extensive experience in IT project management in heterogeneous environments
We can help you consolidate from mixed platforms to IBM hardware
Ability to provide remotely delivered services and related cost savings
Many infrastructure service activities can be provided remotely through IBM’s global resources,
helping reduce costs and speed deployment
More than 50 years of business continuity and disaster recovery experience, with over 9,000 disaster
recovery clients
IBM’s cloud leadership
– 19 million public cloud users
– More than US $1 billion in planned cloud data center investments
Thank you
Questions? Please submit your questions now
Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Platforms
IDC
Shaown Nandi
Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services
IBM Global Technology Services
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