welcome to educause southeast regional conference 2007 navigating the rapids of campus technology...
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Welcome to EDUCAUSESoutheast Regional
Conference 2007
Navigating the Rapidsof Campus Technology
Monday, June 11, 20072:15 PM
Managing Infrastructure with Virtual ServersJohn Robbins – [email protected]
David Link – [email protected]
VMware
Who wants it?Why do we have it?
Success Stories
• Exchange 2007 Edge deployment in an afternoon
• Test Environment is much improved
Davidson College’s environment
• 19 – Dell PowerEdge 2950’s• 8 – Dell PowerEdge 2850’s• 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2650’s• 15 – Dell PowerEdge 2550’s• 5 – HP-UX servers for Oracle• 55 – Virtual Guest OS systems• 1 – EVA 5000
Your environment
• Who is running ESX now?• Microsoft anyone?
Davidson’s VM environment
• 8 VMware ESX 3.0.1 servers• Three production, three DMZ, and two test /
development servers• 60 virtual servers• Dell PE 2950, 16 GB RAM, disk
(mirror/hotspare/15K)• Virtual servers have 18 GB OS drives on SAN
shared storage – 400 GB chunks
Demo
How to deploy a virtual server?How long does it take?Can you drink that cup of coffee?
VMotion Demo
• Can you just move a server from one hardware platform to another?
• My hardware failed what do I do? I have 30 virtual servers on that one piece of hardware?
• What happens when I go home for the day?
64-bit Support
Can you VMotion between Servers?
Can’t VMotion now what?
• You can always Migrate to a new host.• Migrate can move from old hardware to new
hardware• It can also move from an old disk drive to a
new disk drive.• When VMotion can’t do what you want, try to
Migrate.
Thank you for coming
• Before you go we should clean up.• How do I remove a virtual machine?
How to get the best performance
• Give the guest OS enough memory• Make sure you have the latest version of VMware Tools• Disable screen savers• Disable unused devices– CD-ROM Driver– Floppy Drives– LPT Ports– COM Ports– USB Devices
• Schedule backups, Anti-virus, and defragmenters to run in off hours