2. Adaptive infrastructure
Driving the next generation of IT
High- Low-
Current state Future state
cost cost
IT pooled Automated 24x7
lights-out
islands IT computing
assets
IT Systems Power &
Management Security Virtualization Automation
& Services Cooling
• Scalability • Energy- • Unified • Proactive • Pooling and • Dynamic IT
based on efficient Infrastructure best sharing of IT re-deployment
standards computing Management practices resources to to meet
• IT services and built-in optimize changing
and solutions protection utilization business
demand
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3. IT infrastructure
Does it get in your way towards better business outcomes?
Sprawl is expensive Implementation
Virtual servers are 73% of
growing much Too Too time consolidations took
faster than physical $ costly? consuming?
a year or more*
servers
Infrastructure
Data Center Complaints
Too energy Too
electricity hungry? unpredictable? Few servers have
Energy use more traditional High
than doubled since Availability
2000 clustering
* IT executive and managers survey: Forrester Research, Inc: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation – December 2007
4. HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
• Bring the flexibility of
virtualization to
physical servers
• Real-time capacity planning
for servers and power
• Control physical and virtual Building on the value of
HP Systems Insight Manager,
resources in the same way Insight Control and
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy
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5. New HP Insight Dynamics - VSE: In action
Logical server: A server profile that is easily created and
freely moved across physical and virtual machines
Logical servers can be realized as physical
blades – and may be easily moved.
Logical servers can be
realized as VMs.
Logical servers can
be instantiated
Offline logical servers
from templates.
can be stored.
http://www.hp.com/go/InsightDynamics
6. What exactly is a Logical Server?
• A configuration file LogicalServerName: my ls
LogicalServerName: mylittlels
Type: Virtual Connect Blade
Description: explanation
• Describes the unique
Description: explanation
Number CPUs: 1
Number CPUs: 2
CPU Frequency: 2.0
attributes of a server
CPU Frequency: 3.2
Memory: 1024
Memory: 2048
WWN: 01:23:45:…
WWN: 01:23:45:…
• Contains resource
MAC: xx:xx:xx:…
MAC: xx:xx:xx:…
SN: VCX1234567890
SN: VCX1234567890
requirements (i.e. UUID: 12345-…
UUID: 12345-…
Network: Production
entitlements)
Network: Production
Network: Management
Network: Backup
Disk Size: 40
Network: Management
• Points to storage on the
Disk: /vm/mylittlels.vmdk
Disk Size: 40
RAID: 5
SAN Redundant Paths: Yes
Controller WWN: ab:cd:ef:…
• Does not contain boot
Lun ID: 1
image or data
VCVM Logical Server
Blade Logical Server
7. New HP Insight Dynamics - VSE: In action
5-star rating Logical Server makes it easy to identify best-fit placement
No Stars: poor fit
Five Stars: excellent fit
8. New HP Insight Dynamics - VSE: In action
Capacity planning for larger consolidations in hours
with Smart Solver technology
9. Bring flexibility of virtualization to
physical servers
Logical server
HP Logical Server technology
• A server profile that is
Image easily created and freely
Configuration
moved across physical and
requirements virtual machines
Unique IDs Logical servers can be:
• Active physical blade servers
• Active virtual machines
• Offline templates
Server Server
Virtual Fabric
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10. HP Capacity Advisor
Easy-to-use 5-star-ratings
Servers are provisioned and redeployed based on best fit algorithms
Physical machine hosts
Virtual machine hosts
11. Energy-aware planning
manage power proactively, before it gets out of hand…
1 2 3 4
Capture Smart Solver Consolidate Resources
historical recommends scenarios using logical optimized, energy
data on power based on power servers savings realized
usage
analyze optimize
Time elapsed: hours or days rather than weeks or months
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13. Utilization Limits
• Quality of Service
can be specified for
resource utilization
• Limits are used
pervasively through
the tool
− Solver uses limits to
know when a
system is full
− Limits are used in 5-
star calculations
− Going over the
limits are reported
when doing manual
planning
• Limits can be soft
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14. Forecasting utilization is easy
• Enter a growth rate for
a workload we will
synthesize a trace for it
• Trending analysis will
help find the growth
rate when there is no
business plan
15. Control physical and virtual
resources in the same way
Network Groups
• Visualize and manage and Domains
logical servers whether
they are built on physical
or virtual machines Blade Enclosures
• Works across multiple OSs
and virtual machine
technologies
Integrity and
• Integrated by design,
ProLiant Servers
easily move from high-
level environment views to
specific management
tasks
Virtual Servers
Builds on HP Systems Insight Manager
16. Load Balance Logical Servers
See report for where
Performance problems detected. Run Capacity Advisor’s solver to find to optimally place
Identify set of servers to load balance optimal logical server placement logical server
logical server across
If moving VMs…
•Migrate the VM to another hypervisor
VM VM
online
VM VM
–or-
VM VM
•Migrate the VM to another physical server
(via V2P)
If moving blades within a domain group… Enter Vman & begin
migrations
•Migrate the blade to another blade
in the VC Domain Group
Else migrate blade to another physical server (DL/BL) or VM …
•Migrate the blade to another blade outside
the VC Domain Group or another server (via
P2P)
Server
or
–or-
VM •Migrate the blade into a VM (via P2V)
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17. When to implement HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
Desire flexibility of virtual
1 machines for physical
LS LS LS LS LS LS
blade servers LS LS LS LS LS LS
Desire to manage physical and • HP
virtual in the same way AND BladeSystem
2
wants common management HP Integrity
App App App
•
across their HP server
OS OS OS
• HP ProLiant
environment
Hypervisor
Desire ongoing capacity
3 planning to optimize power
usage, re-balance workloads
and maximize performance
