HP Virtual Server Environment(VSE)

Steve Shipman Technical Client Consultant Hewlett Packard

2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

What is HPs Virtual Server Environment?

Server Lifecycle in AT&T

(Weeks) Size server (Weeks) Deploy (Years) Manage Lather Rinse and repeat

Ongoing for the life of the application/service Requires several touch points and cross-organizational collaboration Largest human resource bucket Largest opportunity for optimization

HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers

HP Virtual Server Environment
Intelligent control HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager HP-UX Workload Manager

Virtual servers
Partitioning
nPars vPars HP Integrity Virtual Machines HP Secure Resource Partitions PRM/pSets

Availability
HP Serviceguard HP Serviceguard Storage Mgmt Suite HP Metrocluster HP Continentalclusters SGeRAC SGeSAP

Utility Pricing
HP Instant Capacity HP Temporary Instant Capacity Global iCAP HP Pay Per Use

HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architectures HP Virtual Server Environment Suite for HP-UX 11i

In use by AT&T To be tested by AT&T

HP Virtual Server Environment Components

Virtualization

Manager

Allows real-time view and management of frames and components contained within
Capacity

Advisor

Allows for simple and quick what-if scenarios to see what performance would be in a shared resource environment Works great for predicting what performance would be if you combine 2 or more current workloads(vpars, npars) and how much resources would be needed when you combine those workloads and share resources
Global

Workload Manager(gWLM)

Allows separate workloads to share resources and move resources automatically based on utilization

Server Lifecycle in AT&T

Virtualization Manager
CONFIGURE & VISUALIZE
Deploy

PLAN
Size server

AUTOMATE
Manage Lather Rinse and repeat

Capacity Advisor gWLM(reduce capital cost) Application Discovery

IgniteUX Integrity VM

Capacity Advisor gWLM

Through the use of VSE technologies, this resource is much smaller

HP VSE Virtualization Manager

HP Virtualization Manager
Providing control for HPs Virtual Server Environment

Workload Management tools such as Global Workload Manager (gWLM) Partitioning Continuum: hard partitions, soft partitions including virtual partitions and HP Integrity Virtual Machines, and secure resource partitions High Availability through HP Serviceguard family of business continuity products Utility Pricing: Instant Capacity, Temporary Instant Capacity, Pay per use solutions (in subsequent release) HP Virtualization Manager reduces time, effort and complexity of virtualization management by:
Graphically representing, in real-time, the relationship between virtualized resources and physical infrastructure Unifying management of the VSE by seamlessly integrating multiple management tools in a single, consistent framework Providing contextually-appropriate views when managing complex, virtualized environments

HP Virtualization Manager
Reduce time, effort and complexity of virtualization by
Reduces

management complexity by providing information on a single page that would otherwise require the execution of 360 commands representing, in real-time, the relationship between virtualized resources and physical infrastructure management of the VSE by seamlessly integrating multiple management tools in a single, consistent framework contextually-appropriate views when managing complex, virtualized environments

Graphically

Unifying

Providing

HP Virtualization Manager
Providing a Graphical System Topology

Seamlessly Integrated Management

Immediate access to Visualization and Configuration

Seamlessly Integrated Management

Immediate access to Visualization and Configuration
Capacity Advisor Historical Data Manage nPartitions

Workload Management Link to HP SIM System Page

Hardware Status via HP SIM

Operating System via HP SIM

View Virtual Partitions

Manage Virtual Machines

Manage Serviceguard Clusters

HP VSE Capacity Advisor

HP Capacity Advisor The new math: 8+8 = 12

8 CPU Peak

Peaks for different workloads do not all happen at the same time.

12 CPU Peak

+
8 CPU Peak

Two workloads each have an 8 CPU peak demand but the peak of their sum is 12 CPUs.

HP Capacity Advisor
Providing workload planning for HP Virtual Server Environment
Easy-to-use,

software Provides simulation of application workload placement to help IT managers make optimal decisions in order to best configure server resources in a Virtual Server Environment Allows organizations to build flexible Virtual Server Environments, optimize server resource utilization, and reduce costs and complexity Facilitates running multiple workload placement scenarios so the best decision based on the outcome of those scenarios can be made

virtual infrastructure capacity planning

HP Capacity Advisor
Reduce time, effort and complexity of virtualization by
Automatically

tracking and importing historical workload utilization data, saving multiple steps and ensuring data accuracy Handling all the background data manipulation to provide expert results, freeing administrators from complex calculations Integrated with Virtualization Manager which is automatically aware of all the actual virtualization elements under consideration for scenario analysis Easy-to-use interface, designed for the general IT administrator and also benefiting the specialized capacity planner

Capacity Advisor AT&T Example

Partition phd008d phd008g phd008h Usage - CPU 1.34 1 1.17 Usage - Memory 1.9 1.62 12.8 Allocated CPU 4 4 4 Allocated Memory 16 16 16 Combine d, g and h Reduce from 12 to 4 8 Comments Reclaimed cpus

HP VSE Global Workload Manager(gWLM)

HP Global Workload Manager

Centralized policy-based workload management
Allows

many applications to run on a virtualized environment consisting of 100s of systems with multiple partitions resource allocation and utilization information

Consolidates Provides Offers

utilization data for various types of reports

a real-time monitoring facility that shows actual resources, requested resources, and many more variables

HP Global Workload Manager

Providing higher utilization and reliable service levels
Manage

resource allocation through the central management servers of many vPars spread over multiple systems. Instant Capacity license between nPars on servers based on policies and demand servers based on demand by activating or deactivating Temporary Instant Capacity. HP Integrity Virtual Machines based on business policies and demand resource management policies for a workload throughout a HP Serviceguard cluster.

Shift

Resize

Resize

Synchronize

Global Workload Manager(gWLM)

vPar1 nParA vPar2

vPar1 20% utilized vPar2 20% utilized

Global Workload Manager(gWLM)

vPar1 nParA vPar2

vPar1 40% utilized vPar2 80% utilized

Global Workload Manager(gWLM)

vPar1 nParA vPar2

vPar1 85% utilized vPar2 10% utilized

What does this mean?

- Instead of allocating 2 vpars with 12 cpus each for a total of 24 cpus, you are deploying 16 cpus and still satisfying the computing requirements

gWLM in AT&T Estimated Savings To Date

Original

required number of cpus = 321 Number of cpus using gWLM = 219 Elimination of 102 cpus $2.8M savings Estimated savings with list price of $48k/core(Oracle/Websphere) ISV costs $7.7M savings *Utilization is increased without performance sacrifices/tradeoffs *Management is automatic no increased burden on operations

Financials Around CPU Savings

Savings

per core(List prices)

HP costs - $22,525 ISV costs Oracle/Websphere - $48k

Total = $70,525

gWLM costs
$2500/core When deploying vpar software AND gWLM software on the same quote, you would purchase VSE Suite
$4000/core

Increased Utilization With gWLM

From

a high level, the fact that AT&T is deploying less cpus(33%) using gWLM means that utilization will be better than before you would normally deploy two 5-cpu vpars and they are utilized at an average of 25%, with gWLM, you would only deploy 7 cpus. With the reduced number of cpus being deployed, the same workload on 7 cpus would be utilized at 36% - an increase of 70% utilization.

If

HP gWLM Implementation As Easy As 1, 2, 3