Virtualization and IT Infrastructure Projects

Presented by:
Dhanesh More
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Company Overview Internship Overview
Business Domain: IT Infra Services. Project: IT infrastructure and
Scale: Small (< 100 emp.) Virtualization solution
based projects.
Headquarters: Pune
CEO and M. D.: Mr. Sanjay Kulkarni Profile offered: Presales specialist.

Business partners: HP, CISCO, Microsoft, Location: Mumbai

VMware, Emerson
Mentor: Mr. Umesh Mali. (Director)
Strategic Business Units:
o TSG (Technical Solution Group)
o SERVICES Duration: 22nd April – 21st July
o PSG: Personal System Group.
o Imaging & Printing Group [IPG]

Clients: Barclays Corporation , ICICI bank,

Kotak Bank, Bajaj Allianz Life
Insurance, Shoppers Stop.
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Objectives
 
• To learn and understand the role and responsibilities of
presales executive.

• Learn solution design considerations and apply them for

new projects.

• Understand Project costing.

• Apply learnt Project management practices.

• Practical application of technology

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Contribution overview
Presales Functions:
• Performed POCs.
• Conducted Feature testing.
• Prepared SoW document

Post-sales Functions:
• Played an active part in implementation and support functions of IT
infrastructure and Virtualization based projects
• Client trainings.
 
Management Functions:
• Performed Project management by creating and tracking project plans
and documentation.
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Technology overview: Vmware VDI
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Technology overview: VMware VSphere
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Client: ICICI Bank

Business Objective: Optimize IT infrastructure investment and maintenance cost by

introducing cost effective virtual desktop

Prime Objective behind PoC:

• Test financial applications.
• Test hardware I/O device compatibility
• Test performance.

Hardware: Intel X 86 server with 2 quad core processors and 16 GB RAM., multi vendor
thin clients for client connectivity.

Operating system: VMware ESX 4.0 evaluation version, Windows 2003 Server, Win-XP.

Application Suites: vCenter 4.0, View connection manager 4.5, vComposer 4.5

No. of virtual desktops hosted: 30 Nos.

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Client: International Banking and financial corporation

Project overview:
• Introduce virtualized environment in India operations.
• consolidate servers to improve resource utilization and optimize running cost.
• Role of Sunfire was to work as a Virtualization consultant and technology expert.
• Physical to virtual conversion of all existing servers
• More than 150 servers were identified by the client for virtualization.

Role: VMware ESX specialist.

ITSM Framework followed by client: ITIL V3

Key post sales Responsibilities:

• Virtualization solution design
• ESX installation, Storage configuration, networking configuration,
• P2V conversion
• VMware centralized management server implementation and configuration.
• Cluster configuration,
• performance monitoring.
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Problem analysis phase

Feasibility analysis phase

Infrastructure design phase

Implementation phase
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Feasibility analysis results
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Solution summary
Details - Target System(s) Production DR Total

Server Make HP Blade HP Blade HP Blade

Server Model BL 460c BL 680c BL 460c
Server Quantity 16 2 12
CPU Core 8 16 8
CPU Speed (MHz) 2,667 2,400 2,667
Memory Size 32GB 64GB 32GB
NIC Ports 4 4 4
NIC Speed(MB/sec) 1000 1000 1000
HBA Ports 2 2 2  
Total Server Consolidation Targeted 91 38 129
Total Scoped Server 18 12 30
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Migration process overview
VMware vCenter Server Installation

Creation of Datacenter and Cluster entity in

vCenter Hierarchy.

VMware ESX Server Installation

Network and Storage Configuration.

Addition of the ESX servers to the VMware DRS

cluster

Use VMware Converter to convert VMs as

physical server downtime available.
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Project 3: Core network architecture redesign.

Client: Construction and real estate giant in Mumbai.

Concerns Proposed solutions

Performance Fiber connectivity
Introduction of VLANs.
Limit broadcast domain.
Server and user farm separation
/16 to /24 IP address range transition.

Security Firewall based ACL

Port based Filters
Availability Stacking
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Summary of configuration upgrade:
• Configured VLANs for respective floors on L3 switch.
• L3 switches configured in stacking mode to connect all the floors on Fiber conn.
• DHCP scope reconfigured for supporting /24 based network.

• Server subnet mask changed to /24.

• Separated User farm and server farm using firewall as an intermediate station.
• VLAN configuration was reconfigured to accommodate architectural changes.
• New DHCP server was introduced in the user farm to avoid broadcast in Server
farm and reduce broadcast traffic on firewall.
• Changed router IP address to support /24 network.
• Filter was activated to restrict communication between floors to enhance
security and performance.
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Learnings:
 
• Technology exposure

• Decent understanding of Presales responsibilities

• Detailed understanding of IT infrastructure solution design

considerations

• Various Project management practices and their importance

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Conclusion
• Business Findings
• Success of any organization directly depends on the performance
of it’s IT functions.
• It is vital to invest in the “Right” technology and infrastructure to
accomplish business objectives efficiently.
• Following Process based approach in IT infra management helps
any organization to efficiently manage vast infrastructure with
ease and transparency

• Technology Findings
• Virtualization Solutions Have a Single Point of Failure
• Virtualization Might Lead to Lower Performance

• Merits and Demerits of working for a small IT company.