The Intelligent Infrastructure John Pollard 29 th April 2008 Slide 3 Enterprises and Governments Want a World Where Things Get Done Real-Time Enterprise The right things get done At the right times At the right cost Secure Compliant The business mandate Real-Time Infrastructure Business linkage Agility in real time Sense and respond capability Reduced carbon footprint High availability High return on assets Lower total cost Right sourcing Right shoring The implications for IT Slide 4 IT Reality Falls Short of Business Expectations IDC, "Virtualization and Multicore Innovations Disrupt the Worldwide Server Market," Doc # , March 2007 Slide 5 Cost of Management Ramps Dramatically Slide 6 Real-Time Infrastructure Vision And realize the vision of the Real-time Enterprise Virtualized Resource sharing for effective infrastructure utilization Autonomic Self-management of infrastructure resources These capabilities Decentralized Complex Resource-intensive Costly allow you to transition from this Centralized Simplified Maximum utilization Efficient Cost-effective to this Future-state model to increase business agility, cost-effectiveness, resource efficiency, and consistent delivery of service levels Slide 7 Business to IT Linkage Business Requirements (metrics) Service-Level Requirements Application Requirements Business Performance Management Tracks the performance of business processes Provides actionable information to infrastructure management Infrastructure Management Framework Manages the supply and demand of IT resources in real time based on rules determined by business managers Identifies and automatically fixes problems Manages physical and virtual resources Application Services Tools to assemble and build services Virtualization Services Increases asset utilization Physical Services Physical pool of resources Real-Time Infrastructure Slide 8 Delivering on the RTI Vision 19Feb08Slide 9 Delivering on the Vision Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite Software *Coming * * Server Repurposing Unshackle Resources, Gain Agility Rack Once, Cable Once; Reconfigure Repeatedly, Effortlessly, As Needed LUN 3 LUN 4 LUN 2 Step 1 BOOT Any server boots any software stack Store images in Persona Library (iSCSI, NAS, SAN) Place on suitable virtual or physical machines Step 2- NETWORK Logical Connectivity Virtual NICs free OS from NICs Virtual LANs free NICs from LANs IP address portability Step 3 STORAGE NAS, SAN, iSCSI Virtual WWN: Frees access from HBAs uAdapt Server Re-Purposing Citrix FarmDB Environment Production App Test and Dev Dynamically allocate resources from shared resource pool Add capacity only when required Release idle or under- utilized resources for alternate use Provide automatic server failover X Automatically turn off idle servers Orchestration Typical Process Improvement Cabling/ Network Cabling/ Network Service DeskProvisioning TasksAsset Management Build Server Build Server Post Build Checks Post Build Checks Storage CMDB Update CMDB Update Request Representative Server Provisioning Workflow 90% 10% Task Time Lag Time Request Cabling/ Network Cabling/ Network Build Server Build Server Post Build Checks Post Build Checks Storage CMDB Update CMDB Update Task Time After Automation Pre Build Checks Pre Build Checks Pre Build Checks Pre Build Checks Reduced Lag Time Page 13 Streamline operations and increase efficiency Run book automation Allocate resources to applications and users in real time Automated service level provisioning Integrate with existing infrastructure Extensible automation platform with adapters to major third-party servers, software, and devices uOrchestrate - Run Book Automation uOrchestrate uOrchestrate Virtual Orchestration uOrchestrate High Availability Automation Build your own More to come Page 14 uOrchestrate Virtual Orchestration uOrchestrate High Availability Automation Design Studio Operations Portal uOrchestrate Run Book Automation Your Run Book SANServers Virtual Machines Infrastructure Software Network Metering - Cost / Benefit monitoring Operational Processes Aligning cost to business usage Servers Applications Basis of Utility charging Storage Servers Unique application view of utilisation Collects CPU, Memory, I/O and Storage Utilisation (future) uChargeback Windows Managed Servers Linux Managed Servers VM Managed Servers MS SQL Database (Service) Export Utility (Command Line) Billing Module uChargeback Server-centric Resources uAdapt demo Server Re-purposing Thank you