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1. High Availability and Disaster
Recovery
DJ Gillit

2. Problem
South Plains Electric Coop
– Lack of either HA or DR
• Servers could go down at any time
• Time intensive to repair
• Servers must be life cycled
– Aging SQL Server
• CPU overloaded, memory constraints
• Limited local disk space
– “ One off ” Servers
• “Server Sprawl”
• Machines are not fully utilized

3. VMware ® History
• Virtualization implemented in 1960s by IBM
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– Used to logically partition mainframes
– Cut costs and allowed for multitasking
Distributed Computing
– 1980s and 1990s, relatively inexpensive hardware
– Highly underutilized
– Increased infrastructure costs
– Increased management costs

4. VMware ® Virtualization Benefits
• Lower TCO
• Server Consolidation
– Cut down servers at 10:1 ratio
– Get away from “One offs”
• High Availability
– Lose minutes instead of days
• Disaster Recovery
– Restore to specific moments in time

5. VMware ® Virtualization Benefits Continued
• Lower Power Consumption
– Save up to $2300 a year per server
• Easier Hardware Life Cycle
– No downtime
• Supports Mainstream Software
– Milsoft is virtualization ready
• Support for I/O Intensive Applications (Exchange, SQL,
Oracle, etc.)
– Move mission critical applications with no performance impact

6. Traditional vs. Virtual Architecture
Traditional Architecture
Virtual Architecture

7. Disaster Recovery vs. High Availability
• High Availability – hardware and software
implementations that allows for a certain degree
of operational continuity during a given period.
• Disaster Recovery – policies and procedures in
preparation for recovery in case of a natural or
human-induced disaster.

8. High Availability

9. Disaster Recovery

10. Solution
Server Consolidation
– Move production machines to pre-existing
equipment
– Use VMware vSphere 4
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Install ESX 4.0 on hosts
Install vCenter Server for consolidated management
Configure full image backups
Configure site replication to machines in the Disaster
Recovery site

11. Proposed Infrastructure
Replication

12. localLINUX ®
• Founded in 2002
• Specializing application and hardware
virtualization
• Managed services & solutions provider
•Certified on the Virtual Infrastructure 3 and
vSphere 4 platforms from VMware ®.

13. VMware ® Virtualization

14. Questions & Comments
What training would my employees need?
How much does it cost?
What changes will need to be made to my
existing infrastructure?

15. localLINUX ® & South Plains Electric Coop
Contact Information:
Michael Strong – mstrong@localLINUX.com
DJ Gillit – dgillit@localLINUX.com
Steven Latham – slatham@spec.coop
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