Arkan Al Mustaqbal

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Virtualization Plan & Design Service

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 The Challenge
Virtualization Technology Overview

Old Model:
Traditional x86 Architecture
• Single OS image per machine
• Software and hardware tightly
coupled
• Multiple applications often
conflict
• Underutilized resources

Old model is challenging!

 State of Infrastructure Today – Physical
Server Sprawl Power & Cooling
38 m physical servers by
2010 - 700% increase in 50c for every $1 spent on
15 years servers
$140 bn in excess server $29 bn in power and
capacity - a 3-year cooling industry wide
supply

Space Crunch Operating Cost

$8 in maintenance for
$1,000 /sqft every $1 spent on new
$2,400 / server infrastructure
$40,000 / rack 20-30 : 1 server-to-admin
ratio

Source: IDC
What is Virtualization?
Without Virtualization With Virtualization

Application

Operating System

Hardware

VMware provides hardware virtualization that presents a complete x86

platform to the virtual machine
Allows multiple applications to run in isolation within virtual machines
on the same physical machine
Virtualization provides direct access to the hardware resources to give you
much greater performance than software emulation
Virtualization Increases Hardware Utilization

Before VMware After VMware

Virtualization enables consolidation of workloads from

underutilized servers onto a single server
to safely achieve higher utilization
Key Properties of Virtual Machines

•Partitioning

Run multiple operating systems on

one physical machine
Divide system resources between
virtual machines
Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning

Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine

Divide system resources between virtual machines

•Isolation

Fault and security isolation at the

hardware level
Advanced resource controls preserve
performance
Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning

Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine

Divide system resources between virtual machines

•Isolation

Fault and security isolation at the hardware level

Advanced resource controls preserve performance

•Encapsulation

Entire state of the virtual machine can

be saved to files
Move and copy virtual machines as
easily as moving and copying files
Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning
Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine
Divide system resources between virtual machines

•Isolation
Fault and security isolation at the hardware level
Advanced resource controls preserve performance

•Encapsulation
Entire state of the virtual machine can be saved to files
Move and copy virtual machines as easily as moving and copying
files

•Hardware-Independence

Provision or migrate any virtual machine

to any similar or different physical server
 Arkamtel Virtualization planning & Design Service

Service Overview
Planning a Successful Virtualized Environment
Virtualization can yield significant operational
advantages, but it can also introduce network
complexity and new management challenges. To
attain the full benefits of virtualization, planning and
implementation must be coordinated among server,
storage, network, security, and application stakeholders. This
coordination may require changing customized processes. Coworkers
across your data center must bridge organizational boundaries to
facilitate a productive planning and design phase for your virtualization
implementation.
 Arkamtel Virtualization planning & Design Service
Coordinating Resource
The Arkamtel Virtualization Planning and Design Service
helps you develop and deploy a data center–wide
virtualization strategy that is customized to your IT and
business needs. Our enterprise and solution architects,
virtualization experts, and project managers work
collaboratively with you to provide consulting services
that span your technical, business, and financial
requirements. We also offer detailed total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on
investment (ROI) analyses for network and server consolidation to help you
quantify potential cost savings. By combining our Virtualization Experience and
Updated Knowledge of latest trends in market, we can recommend the right
technology solutions for your particular challenges and provide end-to-end
service delivery and task coordination to help you achieve a successful
implementation.
 Virtualization Services
Our Virtualization service includes the following components:

Virtualization Planning:

Virtualization planning helps you understand the gaps in your data center environment that an
affect your virtualization solution. The service includes recommendations to help you get
better return from your existing resources and from your investment in virtualization.

Infrastructural Planning:
 Network Infrastructure and management requirements spanning Layer 4 to Layer
7services, storage area networking (SAN), and security.

 Future requirements for consolidated I/O and unified I/O.

 Network Infrastructure and management requirements spanning Layer 4 to Layer

7services, storage area networking (SAN), and security

 High level design document covering the Layer 2/Layer 3 infrastructure and integrated
design
 Virtualization Services
 Application Optimization
 Server load balancing.
 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL ) offload.
 Smart Domain Name System (DNS) for disaster recovery .
 VMware network integration.
 Wide area optimization component for the data center.
 XML offload.

 Security
 Firewalls
 Intrusion prevention and detection.
 Distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection .
 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and SSL virtual private network (VPN).
 Email security.
 Web application firewall
 XML security
 Certificate and key management
 Virtualization Services

 Wide area network(WAN) and multi-pro tocol label switching ( MPLS) at the edge.

 Storage area networking (SAN)

 Management
 Simple network management protocol (SNMP) and syslog best practices.
 Management zones with in the data center.
 In-band and out-of-band management recommendations
 Event correlation
 Virtualization Services
Virtualization Planning:
 Requirements gathering, including a financial and capacity analysis, for VMware .

 Infrastructure 3 deployment.

 Server inventory, performance, and utilization assessment of x86 servers running

Windows and Linux.

Server virtualization design enablement requirements gathering.

 Optimization of the virtual infrastructure across the data center.

 VMware Infrastructure architectural design

 Architecture and design consideration s based on interviews, capacity and financial

analysis.

 Assumptions and risk mitigation considerations.

Virtualization Design & Implementation
Arkamtel engineers and consultants help you create a complete roadmap to guide you
through a successful virtualization solution implementation. Each company focuses on our
Respective areas of core competence as well as working together to integrate the
components of virtualization solution.
Infrastructural Recommendations:

 Low-level design for the Layer 2/Layer 3 infrastructure and integrated de sign,
including logical designs and device configurations.

 Application optimization

 Security

 Wide area network (WAN) and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) at the edge.

 SAN
 Virtualization Design & Implementation

Virtualization Recommendations:

 VMware server infrastructure design

 VMware Infrastructure configuration and installation procedures

 VMware Infrastructure test and validation plan

 VMware Infrastructure rollout and migration plan

 Virtualization Project Management
Throughout the planning, design and implementation phase s, Arkamtel can help you keep
your virtualization project running smoothly.

We do this by creating a detailed:

 work breakdown structure

 managing change control

providing weekly status reports

facilitating communications.
Who Uses VMware?
100% of the Fortune 100
 Contact Details

Arkan Al Mustaqbal (Arkamtel)is dedicated to serve its client on doorstep basis, we are
dedicated to help you targeting your issues through our experience and skilled staff. Find
our contact information below:

Address

Arkan Al-Mustaqbal (Arkamtel), 3rd Floor Al Majdouie Tower, Airport Road, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Landline Fax

+9663 811 6910 - 13 +9663 811 6773

Email URL

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