Capitalize On The Power Of An

IBM Solution
Dynamic Infrastructure - Virtualization

Service Oriented Finance Needs To Become

More Efficient
Our lab is becoming a minefield of
servers. The operational costs are
consuming my budget.

Virtualization and consolidation

on POWER7 will cut your costs
and reduce complexity!

Service Oriented
Finance
CIO

IBM

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Why Virtualize And Consolidate?

Increase
Reduce

utilization of hardware

software licenses needed

Reduce
Complexity
&
Green initiatives
Cut
Costs!
Control rising system administration costs

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Example: How Virtualization Reduces Complexity

And Costs

Workload 2

Workload 4

Servers needed

Workload 5

Servers needed Servers needed

Workload 3

Servers needed Servers needed

Workload 1

Peak: 3 servers
WL 2

Peak: 3 servers
WL 1

WL 3

Peak: 3 servers

Peak: 3 servers

Peak: 3 servers

WL 4

WL 5

What is required: Virtualization and Intelligent Workload

Management to accommodate shifting workloads.
This is built into Power Systems!
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PowerVM Virtualization
The Virtual I/O server
(VIOS) provides virtual
storage and a bridge
from the virtual networks
to physical networks.

The Integrated Virtual Ethernet

enables high speed memory to
memory networking between
partitions.

Logical Partitions (LPARs) are

virtual machines that provide
operating system and application
isolation.

WPAR

AIX 6 allocates
resources to Workload
Partitions (WPARs).

PowerVM
Lx86

PowerVM
Lx86

WPAR

VIOS

AIX 5.3

Run 32-bit Linux x86

applications with no
changes using PowerVM
Lx86.

Shared access to
disk storage and to
external networks.

SUSE
Linux

AIX 6.1

Red Hat
Linux

IBM i

POWER Hypervisor TM
Power Systems SMP Server

Shared Storage

The Power Hypervisor shares

processing resources among LPARs
with up to 1024 dispatchable threads
on 256 processors.

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Manage Heterogeneous Environments Using IBM

Systems Director With VMControl

Reduce TCO
X Lower

management costs
X Increase asset utilization
X Align

infrastructure resources with business goals

Choose the version on VMControl that best suits your

needs
X VMControl

Express Edition

Basic virtual machine lifecycle management

X VMControl

Standard Edition

Manage complete farms of virtual machines

X VMControl

Enterprise Edition

Create and manage system pools by way of dynamic collections

of computing resources
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Create And Manage Virtualized Environments

With IBM Systems Director VMControl
1. Capture virtual server, sofhost1

sofhost1
Software

2. Deploy virtual server, sofhost2

Virtual Appliances
AIX 6.1 Gold
DB2Software
9.7.1
sofhost2

VMControl

Software
OS
Software
OS
2vCPU
OS 4 GB RAM
2vCPU
20 BG vdisk
4 GB RAM
2vCPU
20 RAM
BG vdisk
4 GB
20 BG vdisk

OS
2vCPU
4 GB RAM
20 BG vdisk

Power Systems

Network Install Manager

(Repository)

Power Systems
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Demo: IBM Systems Director With VMControl

Deploy virtual machine from image repository

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Power Processors And I/O Devices Are

Virtualized And Shared

Physical processors are either

Dedicated to a specific LPAR, or
X Assigned to a pool for sharing by LPARs
X

The Power Hypervisor allocates shared processors to

LPARs as needed
Ensures each LPAR receives its processor entitlement
X Restricts physical processor utilization to the number of virtual
processors assigned to the LPAR
X

Dedicated processors can lend available processing units

to the shared pool

The Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is a special purpose LPAR

that virtualizes and shares I/O resources among the LPARs
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DEMO: PowerVM Allocates Processor

Resources As Needed
1.0
Entitled
VIOS

Shared Pool
Entitlement

Utilized

SUSE
Linux

AIX 6.1

Red Hat
Linux

AIX 5.3

POWER Hypervisor and Virtualized Infrastructure

Total CPU

0.0

2.0

Processing Units (Cores)

System p SMP Server

60 %

# of physical processor cores

Workload

Workload

Total CPU

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Power Memory Is Also Virtualized And Shared

Partitions with
Dedicated Memory

Partitions with
Shared Memory

The Power Hypervisor allocates shared memory to LPARs as needed

Run more LPAR workloads for the same amount of physical memory
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Power Active Memory Expansion

Increase the effective memory

of overall system by shrinking
in-memory data

Active Memory Expansion is

configurable on a per-logical
partition (LPAR) basis

Utilizing Active Memory

Expansion can improve
system utilization and increase
a systems throughput

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Power Active Memory Expansion

Increase Consolidation

Physical memory limitations can be overcome with Active Memory

Expansion

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Live Partition Mobility

Move a running LPAR (Power System based

Virtual Server) to a different physical server
X Eliminate

X Simplify

the impact of planned downtime

migration to new hardware

X Rebalance

server utilization

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Service Oriented Finance Needs To Simplify Yet

Maintain Accessibility
We need to minimize our downtime in this high stakes
environment. Our clients need uninterrupted access to their
accounts. How can I possibly manage that without a room
full of servers?

Service Oriented Finance

Data Center Manager
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DEMO: Live Partition Mobility Moves

Running LPARs Between Machines

Move WebSphere LPARs to a different physical server

without downtime

VIOS

AIX 6.1

Red Hat
Linux

VIOS

IBM i

AIX 6.1

POWER Hypervisor TM

POWER Hypervisor TM

Power Systems SMP Server

Power Systems SMP Server

Server 1

Server 2

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IBM i

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Metlifes Hardware Refresh On Power

System Reduces Billable Hours

Metlife efforts fundamentally change the environment

X

Relative to 2008, only 10% of the workforce (estimated) will be

required to achieve the future 4-year savings of 69,900,000 USD

Dramatic reduction of billable hours needed to migrate one

application to a new midrange server:

98 hours
1384 hours

VS.

769
hours

VS.
2011 Onward*
Partition Mobility

2009-2010
Manual Mobility
Pre-2009
Traditional Migration
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Labor Reductions Represent Tremendous

Financial Savings
Cost For Hardware Refresh Per 1000 Partitions in $MM's
$30,000

$27,680

$27,680

$27,680

Total 4 Year Labor Save: 2011-2014:

$98.1MM

$25,000

20011: $19MM, 2012-14: $24.7MM / YR

$20,000
$15,380

$15,380

Total Cost

$15,000
$8,670

$10,000
$5,000

$1,960

$1,960

$1,960

2012

2013

2014

$2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011*

Based on new infrastructure capabilities and changes being implemented in migration methodology
during 2009-2011, labor cost per 1000 migrations will decrease by $25.7 MM relative to 2006-08.
Thus, 90% of the resource dollars required to perform hardware refresh (relative to 2008) can be
redeployed from value-sustaining initiatives to value-adding initiatives
*During 2011, Metlife expects to perform a mixture of Manual Mobility and Partition Mobility migrations.
That mixture is reflected in the cost.
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Consolidate Old Sun And HP Workloads On a

Virtualized Power Systems

Sun Workloads

Power Systems
Server

Simplify Environment
Reduce Complexity
Reduce Costs
Save Energy

HP Workloads
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Consolidation Makes Sense

Any data center growth would have required multimillion

dollar build out

Consolidated 65 HP servers on 2 IBM Power Systems

p5-595 servers (one primary and one backup)
X

Leveraged LPAR technology to manage capacity and

plan for growth while lowering existing data center costs
and eliminating build out requirement.

30 to 1
Production, development and test requirements
meant significant underutilized capacity in the
data center
Using LPAR technology, consolidated 30
preexisting servers into 1 IBM Power 570 running
AIX
Additional capacity now available as well

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Power Virtualization Leads VMware In

Management Flexibility

PowerVM

VMware ESX 3.5

(in VMware
Infrastructure 3)

VMware ESX 4.0

(in VMware vSphere 4)

Can change virtual CPU without

rebooting?

Yes

No

Add (but not Remove)

Can adjust memory without

rebooting?

Yes

No

Add (but not Remove)

Can add or remove I/O device

without rebooting?

Yes

No

No

Direct access to I/O devices from

within virtual machine?

Yes

No

Some (with Nehalem)

How many virtual machines can

be simultaneously migrated?

Flexibility Factors

Source: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/key_features_vsphere.pdf
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Power Virtualization Is Also Secure

Virtualized workloads are isolated from each other

X

Memory protection keys to guarantee isolation of data in a

system

The Power Hypervisor is designed to thwart hacking

EAL 4+ Certified

Breeches of VMware have been demonstrated on YouTube

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Power Systems Virtualization Leads

VMware And Intel In Scalability
Scalability Factors

VMware ESX 3.5

(in VMware
Infrastructure 3)

How many Virtual CPUs per

Virtual Machine?

VMware ESX 4.0

(in VMware
vSphere 4)

PowerVM

64
(256 on
POWER7)

How much memory per

Virtual Machine?

64G

255G

4096G
(more on
POWER7)

How many physical

cores/threads?

8/16

8/16

256/1024

10

256

How many virtual NICs per

Virtual Machine?

Large Scale Virtualization Platforms Drive Down Cost

Source: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/key_features_vsphere.pdf

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Workload Deployment Exercise

Friendly Bank
Friendly Bank is the name of a fictitious online bank
application that supports the typical banking
operations of a Teller and a Customer. The bank
operations include:

Login
Deposit
Withdraw
View Customer Profile
Logout

XWhat

kinds of deployment choices must be made for

a given 12% Friendly Bank Workload?

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Variability In Workloads

These benchmarks were run at a constant demand for

workload, driving the machines to 100% utilization

Real world workloads have variability in workload demand

Variability in workload demand has an effect on what mean

CPU utilization can be tolerated on the consolidation
platform

We would like to run utilization high enough to achieve the

highest consolidation ratio, but still keep it less than 100%
to allow for peaks caused by variance in the workload.

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Huge Scale Reduces Network Complexity

And Cost
45 HP Nehalem Servers

1 64-core Power 770

10
Cables

98
Cables

Backbone
Backbone

45 Servers
5 Switches
90 Adapters
1Gbps Connections

1 Server In Total
2 Switches In Total
4 Adapters In Total
10Gbps Connections
Internal Networking Reduces
External Network Requirements
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Quiz:

Which server size will deliver the lowest

cost for a virtualized environment?
1.
2.
3.

Small
Medium
Large

Which server offers the largest scale?

1.
2.

Intel Nehalem
Power Systems
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