server virtualization and beyond

Server Virtualization and Beyond Insights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to

help improve operational efficiency

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Matthew Eastwood, IDC Enterprise Platforms Group Vice President and General Manager

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Server Virtualization and BeyondInsights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to help improve operational efficiency

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© 2012 IBM Corporation55

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%

Basicdata centers

Strategicdata centers

New projectsMaintaining 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


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.


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%


Leaders have accelerated virtualization and standardization to improve operational efficiency.

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



We offer a three-phased approach to virtualize your servers, leveraging repeatable processes and time-tested methodologies.


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


We modeled simple to complex workloads with advanced analytics to increase average utilization by four times.2


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

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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.


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


Our fit-for-purpose analytics helped a leading financial company simplify and standardize its heterogeneous server infrastructure.


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)


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%



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.


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

ProvisioningAutomate provisioning of resources

Metering and ratingTrack usage of resources

WorkflowManage the process for approval of usage

1 Based on a select IBM client engagement; Individual results will varyView an IBM Video about automating processes with IBM virtualization.


Leaders are faster to adopt the latest technology and have a backup plan in the event of disaster.

Have a plan

Backup planFast 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%



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 transfer1Return on investment (ROI)


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


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


…or we can work with you to build a detailed business case to show potential cost savings to justify your investment

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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.


… 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


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



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

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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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