50 migrations in 24 hours

PlateSpin® Migrate50 Migrations in less than 24 hours

Jason Dea – Product Marketing Manager, Novell

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Session Overview

Barriers to Platform Adoption

PlateSpin Migrate

Accelerate ROI

PlateSpin in Action - Essent®


Who cares?


Server Migration in the Real World

• “The PlateSpin solution from Novell saved Essent about €2 million for the data centre consolidation project alone”

– Marco Spoel, Project Manager, IT Infrastructure, Essent

• "Using PlateSpin we were able to complete 61 migrations within the targeted migration windows, saving an average of 4 hours migration time per server.“

– Joris Haverkort, Product Manager at Atos Origin Netherlands

• "The ability to perform the migrations remotely and over the WAN with no need to be physically in contact with the source and target servers saved us weeks if not months of work.“

– Neil Brindley, Senior Windows Systems Engineer, Midrange Services, AXA Tech Asia Pacific


Barriers to Platform Adoption:


Manual Rip and Replace

How do I get this stuff Up and Running?


Tools: Bare Metal Restore

• Multiple Steps– Image Capture -> Image Deploy -> System Configuration -> Pray…

• Error Prone• NOT Cross Platform• Downtime throughout the process• Labor Intensive


Tools: Pre-Staging + Replication

• Multiple Steps– Configure Identical OS Target -> Data Replication – System State Copy ->

Pray -> Cutover

• Software licensing complexity and cost• Replication complexity and cost• Labor Intensive


Tools: “Free” Migration tool

• Extra Manual steps– SysPrep

• Lack of Network Optimization• Single Platform Support• Minimal Error Logging


Finally a Better Way PlateSpin Migrate


Decouple workloadfrom host

infrastructure

Live peer-to-peer workload migration

With PlateSpin Migrate, you can automatically migrate server workloads over the network.

Migration testing Sync-up prior to cut-over

PlateSpin® Migrate

PhysicalServers

VirtualHosts

BladeServers

ImageArchives

Workload Decoupledfrom Hardware


PlateSpin Migrate – Accelerate ROI


Automated Peer to Peer with PlateSpin Migrate

• Direct Peer to Peer• Hypervisor agnostic, migrate to ESX, Hyper-V, Xen• Hardware agnostic, migrate to bare metal• Multi-OS support• Migrate over LAN or WAN• Fully Automated Solution

etc...


Accelerating Adoption with PlateSpin Migrate

Challenges Manual rebuild process5-7 hrs per server (depending on application)Which workloads/applications go where?Single core onto Multi-core? CPU bottle necks, I/O contention, Memory?

Solution 100% automated Live migrations45 min. to 1 ½ hr migration timePeer to Peer across the networkUp to 20 migrations per Migrate server

Server Migration project are time consuming.


Migration Project Cost vs Novell ROI

200 Server RefreshMigration time:

7 hours per server avg.

200 x 7 = 1400 hours

175 days

8 man months!

x $80hr = $112,000

200 Server Refresh w/NovellMigration Time: 3 hours per server avg.200 x 3 = 600 hours3 Concurrent migrations = 200 hours

25 days 1 month!x $80hr = $16,000

License Cost approx. = $40,000 Total Project Cost = $40k + $16k

ROI/Delta = $56,000

Customer Success Case StudyEssent


The Customer

– The leader in the Dutch energy market

– Turnover of EUR 6.4 billion in 2006

– Annual IT budget of EUR 130 million

– 12,000 employees and 800+ IT staff

– 700 servers and growing 100 per year

– A mix of virtual and physical moves

– Moving from HP to IBM hardware

Case Study


Case Study

The Challenge

– Mandate to shrink 3 datacenters into one

– Wanted to standardize IT infrastructure

– Focus on minimizing risk


Case Study

The Solution

– Looked at VMware Converter initially – no P2P, V2P

– PlateSpin Recon to monitor the existing estate for new hardware planning and consolidation

– PlateSpin Migrate for 260 migrations (P2P and P2V) across sites

New Site


Case Study

• “If we hadn’t gone with PlateSpin, it would have taken a team of 25 half a year to build all the applications in the new data center, an estimated cost of over EUR 3 million.

• With PlateSpin, we were able to migrate all of our servers in one month with a team of less than eight people.

• The PlateSpin solution brings a high return of investment. In retrospect, after seeing the time and cost savings, we would have been willing to pay a lot more for the PlateSpin solution.”

Marco Spoel, Project Manager, IT Infrastructure, Essent

Helpful Hints and Best Practices


Solution OverviewLarge Scale Migration

Goals• Move the maximum number of workloads in the

minimum amount of time• Eliminate/Reduce testing and configuration of migrated

workloads• Ensure migrated workloads contain the most recent

data• Reduce Migration Impact on Users, Servers and

Networks


Solution OverviewDatacenter Move/Hardware Migration

Problems• Slow/Latent/Expensive/Busy Network connections• Small Outage Windows, weekends, 24 hours or less…• Data skew, between production workloads and migrated

workloads• Configuration and testing of migrated workloads adds

hours to each migration.• Moving To disimilar hardware archetectures, AMD to

Intel, Paxville to Dunnington XEON processors etc.• Many different operating systems within the datacenter,

that require many different migration tools


Solution OverviewDatacenter Move/Hardware Migration

Advantages• Optimization for WAN migrations (latent/slow/throttled)

and support for staged migrations• Live Transfer and Server Sync technology reduce

production downtime, and WAN bandwidth requirements.

• Data consistency is ensured between Source and target workloads with Server Sync.

• Automation of common post migration configuration and testing tasks

• Agnostic Operating System and Hardware Platform support


6 Keys to Speed

1. Install PlateSpin Migrate in Advance

2. Know your Network

3. Discover Source Workloads in Advance

4. Use Our Advanced Features (PS Analyzer)

5. Don’t Forget Domain Group Policies

6. Use Windows Services Control


In this diagram,

ArchitectureLocal Hardware Migration

PlateSpin MigrateServer

TargetBladeServers

SourcePhysicalServers

Building A(10.140.x.x)

PlateSpin MigrateServerTarget

RackServers Source

PhysicalServers

Building B(10.160.x.x)


Source PhysicalServers

TargetPhysicalServers

Satellite A(10.10.120.x)

CorporateHeadquarters(10.10.x.x)


TargetVirtualServers

TargetBladeServers


In this diagram,

ArchitectureRemote Datacenter Consolidation

PlateSpin MigrateServers


Building B(10.160.x.x)


CorporateHeadquarters(10.10.x.x)

TargetVirtualServers

TargetBladeServers



In this diagram,

ArchitectureStaged Datacenter Migrations

TargetRackServers


Satellite Site(10.160.x.x)


CorporateHeadquarters(10.10.x.x) Target

BladeServers

PlateSpinImage

Servers


In this diagram,

ArchitectureStaged Datacenter Migrations


Satellite Site(10.160.x.x)


CorporateHeadquarters(10.10.x.x) Target

BladeServers

PlateSpinImage

Servers



SecondaryDatacenter

Communication path

Primary Datacenter

Data Path

Comm

unication p

ath

Data Path

Direct Migrations


SecondaryDatacenter

Primary Datacenter

Image Repository Shipped to Secondary Datacenter

Incremental Replication

Data P

ath

Data Path

Staged Migrations

Thank you!

Jason Dea – [email protected]

Questions?

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