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IT Present & Future

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Power used by Servers 1.5 percent of total U.S. electricity

consumption ($4.5 billion)

IT sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006.

The power and cooling infrastructure thatsupports IT equipment in data accounts for

50 percent of the total consumption of datacenters

68% of electricity is consumed by volumeservers

Volume servers less than 25K and average~225 Watts

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Manag ing Grow th and IT Uti l izat ion

MSN 17% to 20% over next3 years means $2 billion insavings

Consolidating applications

from many servers to oneserver could reduce currentdata center energy usage byaround 20 percent.

Time to deploy new appsfrom 2 months to days.

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Two General techniques

Physical Thing

Definition of Virtual

VirtualThin

g1

VirtualThin

g2

VirtualThin

g3

VirtualThing

N

Virtual Thing

PhysicalThin

g1

PhysicalThin

gN

PhysicalThin

g2

PhysicalThin

g3

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Virtualization Means Many Things

VIRTUALIZATION

Multipleoperatingsystems

instances

Load balancing

Full proxy

Traffic Mgt

Thin clients

SecureRemoteaccess

Admin

domains

VLANs

SNATs

Hardwareresourceslicing

Dynamicallocation

Globalnamespace

Alwaysavailable

OS

AppServer

Application

Management

Network

Hardware

Storage

Service

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8 Types of Virtualization

Operating System

Hypervisor

VMWare, XenSource

Microsofts Virtual Serveror Virtual PC, SWSoftsVirtuozzo

Hardware

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 2

OS

Guest

OS 3

OS

Guest

OS n

OS

Host OSOS

Hypervisor

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8 Types of Virtualization

Application Server

Application DeliveryController, Reverse

Proxies BIG-IP LTM,

RADWare, Netscaler,etc.

Server 3

Server 3

Server 2

Server 1

Virtual

Server

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8 Types of Virtualization

Application

Citrix (sort of)

Microsofts SoftGrid (really)App 1 App 2 App 3 App n

Host OSOS

Hypervisor-Like

Interface

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Server 1

User

Server 2

User

Server 3

User

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3

Operations

Console

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3

Admin

Console

8 Types of Virtualization

Management

Role-BasedAccess Controls

(RBAC) Centralized

Provisioning

AD, EM/CP

Admin

Ops

Admin

Ops

Admin

Ops

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Interface 1

Server 1

Interface 2

8 Types of Virtualization

Network

802.1q VLAN

802.3ad Link

Aggregation Hybrid

VPN, MPLS, RateShaping, Link

Controller?

VLAN1

VLAN2

VLAN1

VLAN2

TrunkInte

rface

VLAN1

VLAN2

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8 Types of Virtualization

Hardware Virtualization

Resource Allocation

CMP

HybridMemory

CPU

Disk

Instance1

Instance2

Instance3

Instance1

Instance2

Instance3

Memory

CPU

Disk

Instance2

Instance3

Instance1

Instance1

Instance2

Instance3

Instance4

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8 Types of Virtualization

Storage

Disk Partitioning

Block Level

File Level RAID, SAN,

Unix/MS, Acopia

Global Name Space

Disk 1 Disk 2

Filer/NAS

Disk N Disk 1 Disk 2

Filer/NAS

Disk N

Disk 1 Disk 2

Disk Controller

Disk N

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8 Types of Virtualization

Service

Brings all the otherpieces together.

Flexibility, Scale,OpEx,100%Availability

DynamicProvisioning

DataCenter 2012

Virtual

Server

Hardware

Guest

OS 1

OS

Host OS

HyperVisor

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Hardware

Guest

OS 1

OS

Host OS

HyperVisor

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Hardware

Guest

OS 1

OS

Host OS

HyperVisor

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Guest

OS 1

OS

Global Name Space

Disk 1 Disk 2

Filer/NAS

Disk N Disk 1 Disk 2

Filer/NAS

Disk N

Server

Server

Server

Admin

Console

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3

Operations

Console

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Business Benefits of Virtualization

Higher Availability of

Infrastructure

through Optimal TrafficMgmt

Better UserExperience

through higherperforming applications

Improved BusinessContinuitythrough improved DRcapabilities

More SecureInformation

through virtualizedaccess and protectionmethods

Better Budget &Cost Control

through better resourcemanagement andutilization

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7 Side Effects of Sloppy Virtualization

Magnified Failures Degraded Performance

Obsolete Skills

Complex Root-Cause Analysis

No Standardization

Virtual Machine Sprawl

May Be Habit Forming

By Denise Dubie , Network World ,06/24/2008

David Coyle, research vice presidentat Gartner, detailed the seven sideeffects at the research firm'sInfrastructure, Operations andManagement Summit. Here are thereasons Gartner says virtualization isno IT cure-all:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062408-sloppy-virtualization.html?page=1

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F5 Acopia

F5 Acopia

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BIG-IP LTM/WA

Clients

Benefits

BIG-IP can offload the following:

SSL connectiontermination

Caching Compression

TCP Optimization

Example: Dell PowerEdge1955 Blade Server. BIG-IPoffloading enables 25-50%more VM capacity per blade

VM01 VM02 VM03

VM04 VM05 VM06

VM07 VM08 VM09

ESX1

VM01 VM02 VM03VM04 VM05 VM06

VM07 VM08 VM09

VM10 VM11 VM12

VM13 VM14 VM15

ESX1

vs.

Clients

BIG-IP Offloads CPU and Memory-intensivefunctions from VMs

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FirePass Provides Secure Access to Corporate Applications

Internet

Laptop

Mobile Device

Application

Specific

ApplicationAccess

Portal

Access

Network

Access

Granular AccessPolicies

AuthorizedApplications

Any UserAny Device

Kiosk

Secured by

SSL

Intranet

FirePass

SSL-VPN BENEFITS

Browser based ubiquitousAccess

Lower support & mgmt costs

Granular access control

Endpoint security

MicrosoftExchange Server

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F5 Data Center Virtualization Today

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F5 Data Center Virtualization Today

EMC

PC - Home

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

PC - LAN

WLAN

Windows filestorage

Windows filestorage

NetApp

Cell

Remote - WAN

FileStorage

Virtualization

ARX

ApplicationServerVirtualization

LTM

WebServer

Virtualization

LTM

DataCenter&LinkVirtualization

GTM

& LC

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

App. Server

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F5 Case study

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(HTTP, HTTPS)

HTTP Compression

RAM Caching One-Connect

(Hash -> Round Robin)

IDC

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Main page object 83.2% (2)

http://www.00000.com/main/default.aspxtext/html; : 127811 bytes, deflate compressed to 21478 bytes ( 83.2 % saving )

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1/3 Reduction in Servers

1/3 Reduction in Licenses

1/3 Reduction in Mgmt. Time

114.8Million

5Million

95% Fewer Connections

1.87Terabyte

621Gigabytes

66%Reduction in

Bandwidth

3Seconds

1Seconds

300% FasterEnd-to-End

Page Load

Time

Serving 735,000 Page Hits Per Second

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

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Application servers load reduction usingwith F5s RAM Cache

SiebeleBusiness Suite Call

Center 7.7

WebLogicPortal 8.1

IIS 6.0Standard Web Content

98%

72%

78%

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