Presentation from Vision Solutions at WR IT Camps in May / June 2012.

1. Microsoft IT Camp
May/June, 2012

2. Agenda
Datacenter Management
Virtualization
Migrations
Migration Technology
Disaster Recovery / High Availability
System Center Integration
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3. Managing a Datacenter?
Multiple Data
Migration
Sites Retention
Dissimilar Multiple Disaster
Hardware SLAs Recovery Acquisition
You’ve Got Problems…
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4. Virtualization to the Rescue?
Virtualization helps with:
• Server Provisioning
• Resource Allocation
• Moving Servers between Hardware
• Reducing Hardware Complexity
• Datacenter Consolidation
• Lowers Costs
• Do More with Less
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5. Virtualization – Continued
Virtualization also:
• Is Not Always Easy to Convert
• Allows Server Sprawl
• Locks You to a Hypervisor
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6. How Are You Virtualizing?
Choose a Hypervisor
• Hyper-V
• VMware
• XenServer, KVM, others…
Migrate
• Convert Physical Servers to Virtual
• Convert from Hypervisor to Hypervisor
• Move to the Almighty Cloud?
Manage
• Microsoft System Center
Protect
• What are the DR Options for Virtualization?
• Local, Site-to-Site, Cloud
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7. Migration Headaches
Manually Intensive – Lost Weekends
Multiple Tools and Experts Needed
Downtime $$$
Prone to Human Error

8. Why are you Migrating?
Hardware Refresh
Virtualization
Consolidation
• Sites
• Technologies
• Hypervisors, Storage
The Cloud
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9. Migration Scenarios
Physical to Physical (probably not, but maybe)
Physical to Virtual
Virtual to Virtual – Cross Hypervisor
Virtual to Physical (probably not, but maybe)
Physical to Cloud
Virtual to Cloud
Storage Migration
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10. The Technology to Migrate?
Real-Time Replication
• Minimum Downtime
• Efficient Data Movement
• Migrate in Production
• Compression for Low Bandwidth
System State Technologies
• Migrate the Whole Server, Not Just Data
Automation
• End-to-End Automated Migration Cutover
• Automatically Redirect Users
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11. The Technology to Protect?
Real-Time Replication
• Minimum Data Loss
• Minimum Downtime
• Efficient Data Movement
System State Technologies
• Protect the Whole Server, Not Just Data
Automation
• Failover Automatically or With One Button
• Automatically Redirect Users
• Failback or Reverse Protection with One Button
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12. Double-Take Move
Real-Time Byte-Level Replication
• Minimum Downtime
• Over Any Distance
Simple One-Click or Automatic Cutover
Hardware Independent
Full Server, System State Migration
Data/Storage Migration
Virtual Machine Auto-Provisioning
WAN Optimized
• Compression
• Bandwidth Scheduling
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13. Double-Take Availability
Real-Time Byte-Level Replication
• Minimum Data Loss
• Minimum Downtime
• Over Any Distance
Simple One-Click or Automatic Failover
Full Server, System State Protection
Hardware Independent
Virtual Machine Auto-Provisioning
WAN Optimized
• Compression
• Bandwidth Scheduling
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14. System Center Integration
Designed to Migrate VMware to Hyper-V
Built within Orchestrator
• Run Books
• Integration Packs
Integrated with Virtual Machine Manager
• Automatically Discover VMware Servers
Integrated with Service Manager
• One-click Migration Approval/Initiation
• Status Updates Pushed to Service Manager
• One-Click Cutover Approval
Fully Customizable
Integrated with Operations Manager for Monitoring
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15. System Center Integration
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16. System Center Integration
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17. Questions and
Discussion
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