Stellar Stars – Reflections of a Center CIO
Mike Bolger (KSC) and Kelly Carter (HQ) August 16, 2011
• Trend to Data Center consolidation is industry-wide (Gartner)
• Data Center modernizations and consolidation are key initiatives for IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers (Gartner)
• Data Center Consolidation is the process of physically and logically co-locating computer systems
• Consolidation aims to reduce overall business costs by optimizing expenditures associated with:
Energy Consumption Operational Support
Facility Utilization Physical System Security
Hardware Utilization System Maintenance
Consolidation Basics
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It’s More Than Just a Good Idea!
Presidential Memorandum – June 2010“…in order to address the growth of data centers across the Federal Government, agencies shall immediately adopt a policy against expanding data centers beyond current levels, and shall develop plans to consolidate and significantly reduce data centers within 5 years.”
OMB Agency Consolidation Plan – Feb 2010“…Data Center Consolidation and the Cloud Computing Issue Areas will be government-wide priorities for all agencies (including the Intelligence Community) beginning in FY2010.”
NASA Lori Garver Memo – Aug 2010“…The objective of this initiative is to reduce the overall cost of data center services by leveraging newer and more efficient technologies, reducing power consumption and consolidating locations to increase space usage densities, and decreasing the real estate footprint of Federal data centers….Mission Directorate Associate Administrators and Center Directors shall direct their staff to cooperate fully and openly with these discussion initiatives.”
NASA OCIO Priorities Consolidation of Data Centers
– “NASA will be required to submit a plan to OMB outlining the approach to reduce IT energy consumption by a minimum 30% over a 3-year period (FY 2010-2012)”
Security & Efficiency of Data Centers– “By April 30, 2010, the Agency will provide OMB with the list of all data center construction, expansion
and/or consolidations activities currently planned or underway and by June 30, 2010, the Agency will integrate the approved data center consolidation plan into the FY 2012 budget.” 3
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NASA’s Data Center Strategy
Promote at least one healthy Data Center for each NASA Center
Focus on increasing IT efficiency: »Fully utilize existing Data Centers for initial
consolidation efforts» Implement strategic improvements to strengthen health
and availability of objective Data Centers»Employ best practices»Eliminate underutilized facilities, systems and
applications Aggressively work to eliminate “server rooms”
Data Center Consolidation Management
• Established an Program Executive position within OCIO to lead Agency Data Center consolidation efforts
• Established the Agency Data Center Consolidation (ADCC) Project Office at KSC to:– Coordinate Data Center consolidation activities with local
Center reps– Deploy and manage an Agency-wide automated IT
discovery and application mapping capability– Implement a dashboard to monitor and track Agency Data
Center consolidation progress
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OCIO Initiatives to Address Current Deficiencies
• Conducted a manual inventory of server class assets Agency-wide using NPROP and mapped data onto Center GIS floor plans to identify rooms that could be potential Data Centers
• Deployment of an enterprise discovery tool to automate the collection of IT Inventory data and conduct application mapping
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• Implement real-time power monitoring of Data Centers with the assistance of Power Assure
• Application Rationalization Analysis to identify candidates for consolidation, virtualization and cloud potential, with focus on current inventory of applications
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188658%511
15%
77524%
953%
Consolidation PotentialCandidates for Consolidation that would require minimal work
Candidates for Consolidation that would require significant work
Probably cannot be consolidate
No Need to Consolidate
OCIO Initiatives to Address Deficiencies (cont.)
Consolidation Results
• Initial consolidation activities – Eliminated 13 Data Centers and 19
rooms (Returned 22,289 sq ft of space)
– Estimated energy savings $337,210 per/year
• Established goals for the next 6 month period
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Consolidation Timeline
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
10,000
54 Data Centers 22 Data Centers
21,500
2010
79 Data Centers
Physical Servers Reduce
10%
50%
Virtualized Servers Increase
Estimated Savings
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Continue to work across the Agency to reduce Data Center facility space and IT power consumption
Today
Today
Per Year
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Virtualization Ratio
Current - 2011 Desired - 2015
Physical Servers
Virtual OS
Physical Servers
VirtualServers
• Physical Servers Decrease• Virtual OS Increase 10% per year
10 %
50 %
IaaS
SaaS
Cloud Services
Cloud ServicesPhysical Servers
VirtualServers
• Continue to aggressively pursue Data Center Consolidation– Local Center participation and support of MDs is key to success
• Work with Centers to develop an Agency long-term consolidation plan (through FY2015), to outline how Data Center consolidation will be achieved and to identify any significant budget augmentation or construction of facilities efforts necessary
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Next Steps
Kennedy Data Center (KDC)
• 250 Servers• 10 TB distributed storage• No centralized power distribution / UPS• No centralized keyboard-video- mouse (KVM) capability
2006 2011
• 500 Servers (42% virtual)• 180 TB centralized storage• 40% of equipment receives
centralized power / UPS• Centralized KVM capability
Discovery
Inventory & Coordination
Schedule Development
Execution
- What are the systems/applications?- What are their consolidation requirements and constraints? Business Case justification? - Housing vs. HostingAnalysis
- Where are the systems/applications?- What is their impact on their current facility?
- What order should the systems move?- When?
KDC Consolidation Roadmap
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Strategic Schedule
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
500
1957
90012001500150018001800
900 500 5001200
Servers
New FacilityShuttle T&R
4 Data Centers 3 Data Centers 1 Data CenterData
Centers
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HQs Work:
Progress
78%
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Early Returns
Make the IT power consumption fall at KSC
Realize Real Savings (Per Year to Date)
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Start Count 1957
*Remaining 1426
Number of Servers
Still a Long Road Ahead
*A realistic number for servers remaining at KSC after consolidation would be 500. Thus our goal of remaining work is 1426.
NASA Headquarters Data Center Consolidation
Headquarters Data Center
Originally built housed an IBM mainframe• Under a consolidation initiative the
mainframe was relocated to MSFC
Common services were consolidated into HQ “Infrastructure” based services
• Former Office & “Code” specific servers/services were decommissioned
HQ server room (~25) consolidation initiative• All server room assets were moved to
the HQ Data Center
Established the HQ Server Operations Team
• Standardized configuration and security controls
• Standardized and Centralized O&M• Life Cycle management
Next Step• Consolidation into an Agency
Data Center(s)
Headquarters Data Center
• 134 Hosting servers (0% virtual)• 12 Housed servers (Agency services)• 380 TB centralized storage• Enterprise backup and recovery• Automated monitoring and alerting• Centralized Operations &
Management
• 2700 Square feet• Raised floor• Dedicated cooling• Facility UPS• Backup electrical generators• Automated power and
environmental conditions monitoring
Current State
Headquarters Data Center
• ~17 Housed/Hosting servers (90% reduction)• Services limited to infrastructure and Agency
devices to support HQ workstations • Centralized storage re-scaled • Enterprise backup and recovery• Automated monitoring and alerting• Centralized Operations & Management
• 1200 Square feet (60% reduction)• Raised floor• Dedicated cooling• Facility UPS• Backup electrical generators• Automated power and environmental
conditions monitoring• Estimated power savings $127K
Target State
InitialConsolidation
Analysis
Plan & Schedule Development
Execution
Application utilization & portfolio analysis Identification of opportunities for consolidation,
modernization, or elimination Service assessment to determine appropriate
hosting facility
Identified under-utilized assets Decommissioned/consolidated 24 servers Archived 21 applications and web sites
Agency Data Center(s) Architecture Migration plan
HQ Consolidation Roadmap
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Strategic Schedule
PhysicalServers
2011 2012 2013 2014
146
15-175075100146
15-1715-17
Virtualization and migration to Agency Data Center(s) Future State
25
Analysis & plan development
Let’s GO!
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