virtualize business critical applications with vmware
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In our experience, extending the adoption of virtualization to business critical applications, such as Oracle, SQL, Exchange, SAP or Enterprise Java, often requires executive sponsorship—sometimes from multiple organizations. Unfortunately, breaking down siloes, misperceptions and other barriers to virtualization and getting consensus about how to deliver critical business resources requires both time and validation. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.TRANSCRIPT
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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
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IT agility Business agility
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70%
IT is Forced to Focus on Non Value-Add Activity
30%
Infrastructureand applicationmaintenance
New innovation andbusiness requirements
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Competing Demands of IT
Business Needs
Resources
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Cloud computing delivers IT as a Service
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All Clouds Are Built on Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure
Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure
Public Private Hybrid
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What is Virtualization?
VirtualizationOperating System
Application
Operating SystemOperating System
Application Application
˃ Hardware
˃ Software license utilization
˃ Operational efficiency
Improves
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The Proven Platform for Virtualization
VMware vSphere
Operating System
Application
Operating SystemOperating System
Application Application
>85% on installed virtual machines are VMware-based
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The Proven Platform for Virtualization
VMware vSphere
Operating System
Application
Operating SystemOperating System
Application Application
Achieve better availability and greater agility
80% savings in datacenter energy costs
50 – 60% reduction in capital expenditures
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Virtualizing Business Critical Apps is Crucial
CloudComputing
Your Cloud
Self-service provisioning for faster application lifecycle
Business Production
Virtualizing business critical applications for higher availability and better service levels
IT Production
Basic consolidation for infrastructure workloads (file, print…)
Oracle Exchange SQL SAP Custom Java
96% of CIOs view the virtualization of business critical applicationsas a foundation for enabling cloud computing*
*VMware customer study. Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization, IDG Research, March 2011
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53%
29%
28%
2009
Companies Are Already Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
43% of organizations have virtualized Tier 1 applications*
*VMware customer study. Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization, IDG Research, March 2011
Ref: Forrester Research, Inc. Storage Choices for Virtual Server EnvironmentsQ1 2011; March 15, 2011, Survey respondents = 104
What applications do you run in your virtual server environment?
2010
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle DB
68%
51%
33%
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Virtualizing Apps Delivers Significant Improvements
Companies who have virtualized their apps have seen significant improvements, specifically over 60% in BCDR, security/compliance, and test/dev cycles
The Hidden Truth of Virtualizing Business Critical Apps, IDG Research, March 2011
For each of the benefits your company has achieved by virtualizing business critical applications, please approximate the amount of
improvement compared to before virtualization.
Reduced infrastructure cost
Better quality of service
Reduced software licensing cost
Increased efficiency
Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
Accelerated test and development cycles
Better compliance management
Improved security
52% 54% 56% 58% 60% 62% 64% 66%
57%
58%
58%
59%
60%
60%
63%
64%
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All the Top ISVs Support Their Apps on VMware
>95% of Tier 1 apps matched or even exceeded native performance on VMware
98% saw positive or no impact to app performance andISV support across all applications* (Oracle, MS, SAP, Java)
*The Hidden Truth of Virtualizing Business Critical Apps, IDG Research, March 2011
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“We have been able to virtualize our most demanding Oracle Databases on x86 servers. We now have the confidence that vSphere can handle our largest transaction-processing databases with ease.”
— Rob Lowden Director of IT
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Increase Efficiency
ERP
OS
OS
Database
OS
File
OS
Web
OS
Java
OS
Database
OS
OS
Production Test/Development Training
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Increase Efficiency
ERP
OS
OS
Database
OS
File
OS
Web
OS
Java
OS
Database
OS
OS
Production Test/Development Training
VMware
Run legacy apps on the latest hardwarewithout migrating or re-writing
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Production Test/Development TrainingProduction Test/Development Training
Increase Efficiency
Automate resource optimization
Eliminate the need to provision dedicated testing,staging, training and data recovery servers
ERP
OS
OS
Database
OS
File
OS
Web
OS
Java
OS
Database
OS
OS
VMware
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Production Test/Development Training
Increase Efficiency
ERP
OS
OS
Database
OS
File
OS
Web
OS
Java
OS
Database
OS
OS
VMware
Achieve 5x – 10x server consolidation
Increase utilization of software licenses
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Improve Quality of Service
VMware
Ensure application availability, performance and security
At the lowest cost
App
OS
App
OS
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Improve Quality of Service
VMware
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
Scale up on-the-fly
Scale out in minutes
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Improve Quality of Service
VMware
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
Built-in high availability
Automated disaster recovery
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Accelerate Time-to-Market
VMware
App
OS
App
OS
On-demand self-service provisioning
Automated release cycles
Streamlined testing and troubleshooting
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Accelerate Time-to-Market
VMware
App
OS
App
OS
Deliver legacy applications as dynamic, cost-efficient, and reliable IT services
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
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“When you add it all up, it just makes sense to run applications like Exchange on VMware VMs instead of physical boxes.”
— Harvey Warren Infrastructure Analyst
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˃ Improve business agility
˃ Virtualize business-critical applications
˃ Enable an intelligent virtual infrastructure
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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications