IBM consolidation and relocation webinar

© 2012 IBM Corporation

Data Center Consolidation and Relocation Migrates applications, data, and IT equipment between data centers while reducing risk and providing a seamless transition for end users

November 28, 2012

© 2012 IBM Corporation2

IBM Global Technology Services

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Today’s Agenda

TIME TOPIC PRESENTER

11:00-11:05am ET(5 min)

Welcome and Introduction Bryan DiVita Data Center Services Sales Leader IBM, Global Technology Services

11:05 - 11:25am ET (20 min)

Executive Summary

Consolidation and relocation

Analytics for logical dependency mapping

How to help reduce operating costs via data center design insight

Benefits of data center assessment and planning

Larry ThompsonGlobal Offering ExecutiveData Center Consolidation and RelocationIBM, Global Technology Services

11:25 - 11:30am ET (5 - 10 min depending

on questions)

Next Steps Q & A

Bryan DiVitaData Center Services Sales LeaderIBM, Global Technology Services



Two business imperatives are driving a fast growing need for data center consolidation and relocation services

Reduce IT costs Data center replacements are typically a board level investment decision Bringing current data centers up to modern standards of energy efficiency and reliability is expensive Capex / opex investment reduces investment in new business systems Many organization are moving to co-location facilities in an effort to avoid costs

Improving the resiliency of the IT infrastructure Distributed data centers are difficult to manage and require expensive system management tools IT sprawl is not always visible.. and never manageable. Geographies, brands and operating

departments build their own IT environments... usually outside of corporate IT standards New resiliency standards make integrating IT systems from acquisitions increasingly difficult Some regulatory standards require improved resiliency, especially in the financial services sector

An MEA country is consolidating all IT systems and operations into 2 hardened data centers to improve data security and create a critical

mass of technology expertise

A Department of Defense in AP is consolidating 280 data center / closets to 4 to reduce cost and improve resiliency

A financial services firm in Latin America is consolidating all country level data centers and systems into 2 highly efficient data centers



Executive summary

Ensuring applications move within pre-defined outage windows for flawless execution is more complex than you might expect

Structured IT discovery is always a pre-requisite for obtaining complete and accurate data required to plan a relocation

Building an experienced team leveraging best practices with the right platform, architecture and relocation skills will reduce your risk and expense

We have helped many clients successfully relocate their data centers and can help you determine how to get started.



Data Center Consolidation and Relocation migrates applications, data, and IT equipment between data centers while reducing risk and providing a seamless transition for end users

Server Dependency MapDeliver seamless transition to end users

Identify ~100% of the assets which need to move Applies advanced analytics from IBM Research

to identify application and server dependencies for relocation

Ensure dependent applications and equipment move and come on-line together

Reduces risk Remediate unsupported environments for the move Rehearse move and fall back plans to identify and solve

potential issues Leverage experienced relocation practitioners to reduce

project uncertainties

Leverage the relocation to reduce infrastructure costs

Standardize the IT environment before the move Replace up to 30% of end-of-life assets Reduce storage management costs by 10- 25%



Document steps for a flawless execution

Identify critical application availability requirements

Document inventory of data, applications and IT equipment

Identify physical and logical dependencies

Determine migration approaches to meet availability requirements

Assess skill and resource requirements

Determine how to execute to reduce risk

Select migration approach optimizing for risk, cost and schedule to meet availability objectives

Develop risk mitigation strategies and plans

Develop plans to fix unsupported environments

Develop detailed migration and fall back plans

IBM employs a structured, IP based three phase methodology with standardized work products, tools and delivery assets

Rehearse and implement the move plans

Remediate unsupported environments for the move

Rehearse move day and fall back plans

Migrate data on-line almost instantaneously to meet application availability requirements

Implement a move day command center

Execute migration plans

Document Lessons Learned

Assessment discovery Transition plan Implementation



What is your biggest challenge when considering a data center consolidation or relocation?

1. Understanding our IT infrastructure and dependencies

2. Unknown risks in the infrastructure

3. Experience and skills

4. Lack of a planning methodology

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Client inventories are generally 70%-90% accurate but a more accurate inventory with logical server to server dependencies is required to plan for a relocation

Analytics for Logical Dependency Mapping (ALDM) is a simple shell/VBE script executed by the client system admins on their servers without requiring IBM skills or IBM access to their systems.

ALDM requires no agents, probes or .exe’s The script creates a data file for each server

which is then combined with other data files and parsed by IBM to produce the outputs

Outputs includes: Collected and parsed data in csv format Visualizations of the server to server

connections and installed middleware Multi level server dependency mapping

Analytics for Logical Dependency Mapping (ALDM)

The most important success factor in relocations is obtaining complete and accurate IT infrastructure information early in the project

ALDM results in a faster and more comprehensive discovery effort and yields insights into infrastructure configurations and risks



Installed software per server

Top level server view

HOST_NAME MW_CLASS MW_SUBCLASS MW_DISTRIBUTION_NAME MW_VENDOR MW_VERSION FYI_MW_INSTALL_PATHServer_101 DBMS ORA Oracle Database Oracle 9.2 C:\oracle\ora92Server_101 MAIL ALNMD Alt-N MDaemon Email Server Alt-N c:\mdaemonServer_101 FAX ALNRF Alt-N RelayFax Alt-N c:\relayfaxServer_101 MON AVSYM Symantec Antivirus Symantec c:\program files\symantec antivirusServer_101 DBMS ORA Oracle Database Oracle 10.2.0 c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1Server_101 DBMS MSQ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Microsoft 9.00.4035.00 c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQLServer_101 DBMS MYS MySQL Database Oracle 5.1 c:\program files\mysql\mysql server 5.1Server_101 WEB IIS Internet Information Services Microsoft c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\Server_101 MON HPSMH HP System Management Homepage HP c:\hp\hpsmhServer_101 MON AVSYM Symantec Antivirus Symantec c:\program files\symantec antivirus

HOST_NAME IP_ADDRESS OS_NAME OS_VERSIONOS_DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM VENDOR SERIALServer_100 255.255.255.1 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition PowerEdge 2900 Dell Inc. BVGServer_101 255.255.255.2 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant ML350 G5 HP QDKR12G Server_102 255.255.255.3 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL260c G5 HP DNYUS4Server_103 255.255.255.4 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant DL380 G5 HP SG6TJRRServer_104 255.255.255.5 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL460c G1 HP CN8746FJXSJServer_105 255.255.255.6 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL460c G1 HP CN8746FJXSHServer_106 255.255.255.7 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL460c G1 HP CN8746FJXSRServer_107 255.255.255.8 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL460c G1 HP CN8746FJXBBServer_108 255.255.255.9 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant DL380 G5 HP CN8746FJXSAServer_109 255.255.255.10 Windows 5.0.2195 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server PowerEdge 1600SC Dell Inc. NSDO4ASAServer_110 255.255.255.11 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition PowerEdge SC1420 Dell Inc. 9HDKSJH5Server_111 255.255.255.12 Linux 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmpRed Hat Enterprise Linux release 3 IBM eServer x226-[87563AA]- IBM 99KM061Server_112 255.255.255.13 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant DL380 G5 HP SKYLK234 Server_113 255.255.255.14 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant BL480c G1 HP CN784700BP Server_114 255.255.255.15 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant ML370 G4 HP SGH857JDSServer_115 255.255.255.16 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition PowerEdge 2950 Dell Inc. GFDF44U7SDServer_116 255.255.255.17 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition PowerEdge 2950 Dell Inc. SJYDG23SALKServer_117 255.255.255.18 Windows 5.2.3790 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition ProLiant DL380 G3 HP SHGS4765

Host name and IP address data sanitized

The ALDM output file contains the data collected and parsed and is useful in understanding the basic environment and identifying potential risks



Server to server dependency diagrams describe how the infrastructure is actually configured

Server to server dependency diagrams Identifies dependency relationships of each server and it’s nearest neighbor Identifies unidirectional and bidirectional dependencies Identifies selected installed middleware Identifies “orphan” servers Multiple levels of data support many needs

Understand how the environment is configured and operates in practice Helps identify servers that need to move in unison to maintain application

availability Identifies middleware installs and legacy software which can be removed

resulting in cost savings and improved resiliency Quick identification of “orphan” servers which may affect the integrity of the

applications



Solution components:

IBM IT Facilities Consolidation and Relocation Services

“By working with IBM, we were able to effectively prepare for the potential risks associated with this critical move. By the end of the project, we had a new data center in place without any service interruptions to our customers.”

— IBM Client

Business challenge: With the lease for the building that hosted its current data center drawing to a close, a telecommunications solution provider, needed to migrate infrastructure and operations to a new facility. Unfortunately, rapid growth had left the business with an aging IT architecture and discrepant system dependencies. The firm could not risk any outages to its business operations during the migration.

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services – Integrated Technology Services coordinated with the firm to outline its business requirements for the migration to a new data center and to determine any challenges that would impact service delivery to its customers. The IBM staff then successfully migrated the systems to a new a new data center while taking steps to account for business restrictions and migration limitations.

A mid sized telecommunications firm moves to a larger, easier-to-manage data center without interrupting critical operations thanks to IBM

Benefits: Relocated client operations seamlessly, avoiding any outages or interruptions

while migrating to a new IT architecture

Established common IT standards that streamline management operations and enable automation of routine tasks

Simplified the rollout of new server hardware, reducing the process from two weeks to less than one day



All data center relocation projects have common success elements

1. IT discovery can be a lengthy process but it is critical to plan the relocation using accurate, complete and timely data

2. Fixing unsupported environments in advance makes the relocation simpler, less expensive and less risky

3. Map equipment refresh cycles to the relocation schedule to maximize investment in current platforms

4. 90% of unplanned events are network related

5. Establish strong project leadership and build consensus within the IT and end user organizations; especially for critical applications



What are your future data center plans?

1. Migrate to a new company owned data center

2. Migrate to a collocation facility

3. Better understand our IT infrastructure

4. No migrations plans at this time

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Next steps

Contact us to set up a meeting to discuss your business and IT requirements data center planning.

[email protected]

1-888-426-4343 and mention code 609CG83W

You will quickly be directed to your IBM Data Center Services representative.

More information:– Website: IT Facilities Consolidation and

Relocation Services

– Website: IT Site and Facilities Services

– White paper: Extending the life of your existing data center assets

– Case Studies: See how we have worked with others

– Refer a colleague: Webinar replay will be posted HERE

– IBM Data Center Operational Efficiency Study

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Thank you for your time today!

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Global Offering Executive

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