IT Present & Future

Power used by Servers

1.5 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption ($4.5 billion)

IT sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2006.

The power and cooling infrastructure that supports IT equipment in data accounts for 50 percent of the total consumption of data centers 68% of electricity is consumed by volume servers

Volume servers less than 25K and average ~225 Watts

Server Reduction
95% Fewer Connections

114.8
Million

5
Million

Over 35% Reduction in Servers

Offload: OneConnect; SSL Offload; Compression

Servers 100 Before Offload Technologies 65 After Offload Technologies

Yearly Watts 198,000 kWh 128,700 kWh

Yearly Cost $26,000 $16,700

Rack Units 200 130

Managing Growth and IT Utilization

MSN 17% to 20% over next 3 years means $2 billion in savings Consolidating applications from many servers to one server could reduce current data center energy usage by around 20 percent.

Time to deploy new apps from 2 months to days.

Virtual Thing
Physical Thing 3 Physical Thing 2 Physical Thing 1

Physical Thing N

Definition of Virtual

Physical Thing

Virtual Thing N Virtual Thing 3

Two General techniques

Virtual Thing 2
Virtual Thing 1

Virtualization Means Many Things

Multiple operating systems instances OS Load balancing Full proxy Traffic Mgt

Service

Always available

App Server

Storage

Global namespace

VIRTUALIZATION
Hardware
Hardware resource slicing Dynamic allocation

Thin clients Secure Remote access

Application

Admin domains VLANs SNATs

Management

Network

8 Types of Virtualization

Operating System

Hypervisor VMWare, XenSource Microsofts Virtual Server or Virtual PC, SWSofts Virtuozzo

OS

OS

OS

OS

Guest OS 1

Guest OS 2

Guest OS 3

Guest OS n

Hypervisor

OS

Host OS

Hardware

8 Types of Virtualization

Application Server

Application Delivery Controller, Reverse Proxies BIG-IP LTM, RADWare, Netscaler, etc.

Server 1

Server 2

Virtual Server

Server 3

Server 3

8 Types of Virtualization

Application

Citrix (sort of) Microsofts SoftGrid (really)

App 1 App 2 App 3 App n

Hypervisor-Like Interface

OS

Host OS

8 Types of Virtualization

Management

Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) Centralized Provisioning AD, EM/CP

Operations Console

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3 Admin Console

Server 1

Admin

Admin

Admin

Server 2 Ops Server 3 Ops Ops

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3 User User User

8 Types of Virtualization

Network

802.1q VLAN 802.3ad Link Aggregation Hybrid VPN, MPLS, Rate Shaping, Link Controller?

Server 1 VLAN1 VLAN1 Interface 1 VLAN2

VLAN2 VLAN1 Interface 2

VLAN2

Trunk Interface

Hardware Virtualization

Resource Allocation CMP Hybrid

Disk

Disk

CPU

CPU

8 Types of Virtualization

Memory

1 1 Instance Instance

2 2 Instance Instance

Instance 4

Instance 3

Memory

Instance 1 Instance 1 Instance 2 Instance 2

Instance 3

Instance 3

8 Types of Virtualization

Storage

Disk Partitioning Block Level File Level RAID, SAN, Unix/MS, Acopia

GlobalDisk Name Space Controller

Filer/NAS Filer/NAS

Disk 1 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk N

Disk 2 Disk 1

Disk N Disk 2 Disk N

8 Types of Virtualization
Virtual Server

Service

Operations Console

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

Brings all the other pieces together. Flexibility, Scale, OpEx,100% Availability Dynamic Provisioning DataCenter 2012

Server 1 Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest Guest OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 OS 1 Server 2 Admin
Console

Server 3

HyperVisor Host OS Hardware

HyperVisor Host OS Hardware

HyperVisor Host OS Hardware

Server Server

Server

Global Name Space

Filer/NAS Filer/NAS

Disk 1

Disk 2

Disk N

Disk 1

Disk 2

Disk N

Business Benefits of Virtualization

Higher Availability of Infrastructure Better User Experience
through Optimal Traffic Mgmt

through higher performing applications

Improved Business Continuity

More Secure Information Better Budget & Cost Control

through improved DR capabilities

through virtualized access and protection methods

through better resource management and utilization

7 Side Effects of Sloppy Virtualization

Magnified Failures Degraded Performance Obsolete Skills Complex Root-Cause Analysis No Standardization Virtual Machine Sprawl May Be Habit Forming

By Denise Dubie , Network World , 06/24/2008

David Coyle, research vice president at Gartner, detailed the seven side effects at the research firm's Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit. Here are the reasons Gartner says virtualization is no IT cure-all:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/ 2008/062408-sloppyvirtualization.html?page=1

BIG-IP Load Balances VM Guest Apps

Clients
Benefits

BIG-IP load balances traffic to VM guest apps on one or more ESX hosts Monitors performance of each VM Detects failure and redirects traffic based on VM performance
BIG-IP can use an advanced health check to ensure the VM is ready to receive traffic before directing to it. Even with VMotion and VC, failed VMs can take several minutes to restart elsewhere. BIG-IP can mitigate the impact through intelligent redirection of traffic.

BIG-IP LTM

VM1

VM2

VM3

VM4 VM5 VM6

VM7 VM8 VM9

ESX1

ESX2

ESX3

F5 Acopia

( )

F5 Acopia

BIG-IP Offloads CPU and Memory-intensive functions from VMs

Clients

Clients
Benefits
BIG-IP can offload the following:

SSL connection termination Caching Compression TCP Optimization

BIG-IP LTM/WA
VM01 VM04 VM07 VM02 VM05 VM08 VM03 VM06 VM09

vs.

ESX1

VM01 VM04 VM07 VM10 VM13

VM02 VM05 VM08 VM11 VM14

VM03 VM06 VM09 VM12 VM15

Example: Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server. BIG-IP offloading enables 25-50% more VM capacity per blade

ESX1

FirePass Provides Secure Access to Corporate Applications

Any User Any Device Granular Access Policies Authorized Applications
Portal Access Secured by SSL
Laptop
Microsoft

Exchange Server
FirePass
Internet

Kiosk

Specific Application Access

Mobile Device

Application

SSL-VPN BENEFITS Browser based ubiquitous Access Lower support & mgmt costs Granular access control Endpoint security

Intranet

Network Access

F5 Data Center Virtualization Today

Data Center & Link Virtualization

Application Server Virtualization

Cell

PC - Home

Remote - WAN

PC - LAN

WLAN

GTM & LC

LTM

Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server LTM Web Server Web Server Web Server

File Storage Virtualization

Web Server Virtualization

App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server

NetApp

EMC

Windows file storage

App. Server App. Server App. Server App. Server ARX App. Server

Windows file storage

F5 Case study

(HTTP, HTTPS) HTTP Compression RAM Caching One-Connect

(Hash -> Round Robin) IDC

Main page object 83.2% (2)

http://www.00000.com/main/default.aspx text/html; : 127811 bytes, deflate compressed to 21478 bytes ( 83.2 % saving )


Serving 735,000 Page Hits Per Second
95% Fewer Connections

1/3 Reduction in Servers

114.8
Million

5
Million

1/3 Reduction in Licenses 1/3 Reduction in Mgmt. Time

1.87
Terabyte

621
Gigabytes

66%
Reduction in Bandwidth

3
Seconds

End-to-End Page Load Time

300% Faster

1
Seconds

Application servers load reduction using with F5s RAM Cache

IIS 6.0
Standard Web Content

98%

Siebel
eBusiness Suite Call Center 7.7

72% 78%

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Portal 8.1