VIRTUALIZATION

-SHALINI JAISWAL

Virtualization ?
A technique of masking or abstracting physical resources simplifies the infrastructure accommodates increasing pace of business and technological changes simplifies resource management
- pooling and sharing resources with enhanced capabilities. Reduce downtime and improve performance

Forms of Virtualization
Memory Virtualization

Network Virtualization

Forms of Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Storage Virtualization

Memory Virtualization

Each application has its own contiguous logical memory independent of physical memory. memory address space is divided into contiguous blocks of fixed-size pages. -paging -swap files

Benefits of memory virtualization

Higher memory utilization -sharing contents -consolidating more virtual machines on a physical host. Ensuring some memory space exists before halting services until memory frees up. Access to more memory than the chassis can physically allow. Advanced server virtualization functions, like live migrations.

Network Virtualization

Virtual networks where each application sees its own logical network independent of physical network. VLANs make large networks more manageable by enabling centralized configuration of devices

Benefits of network virtualization

Service

orientation Better Change control Cost savings Security Flexible Improving network performance

Virtual SAN

A virtual SAN or virtual fabric is a recent evolution of SAN and functions as VLAN. VSAN technology enables users to build one or more Virtual SANs on a single physical topology containing switches and ISLs. Improves scalability, availability, and security of SAN.

Features of VSAN

Fibre Channel ID (FC ID) of a host in a VSAN can be assigned to a host in another VSAN, thus improving scalability of SAN. Every instance of a VSAN runs all required protocols such as FSPF, domain manager, and zoning. Fabric-related configurations in one VSAN do not affect the traffic in another VSAN. Events causing traffic disruptions in one VSAN are contained within that VSAN and are not propagated to other VSANs.

Server Virtualization

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical servers. Multiple operating systems and applications run simultaneously on different virtual machines on same physical server . Server virtualization addresses the issues that exist in a physical server environment.

Server Virtualization

Benefits of server virtualization

Reduce number of servers

Reduce total cost of ownership

Improve availability and business continuity

Increase efficiency for development and test environments

Storage Virtualization

Process of presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to a host. This logical storage appears and behaves as physical storage directly connected to the host. Examples of storage virtualization are: Host-based volume management LUN creation Tape virtualization

Benefits of Storage Virtualization

Increased storage utilization Adding or deleting storage without affecting applications availability

Non-disruptive data migration

SNIA Storage Virtualization Taxonomy

Storage Virtualization a MultiLevel Approach

Storage Virtualization Configuration

Out-of-band implementation

Virtualized environment configuration is stored external to the data path Virtualization appliance is hardware-based and optimized for fiber channel Enables data to be processed at network speed More scalable

Storage Virtualization Configuration

In-band implementation

Virtualization function is placed in the data path Virtualization appliance is softwarebased and runs on general-purpose servers During processing, data storing and forwarding through the appliance results in additional latency Less scalable only suitable for static environment with predictable workloads

Storage Virtualization Challenges

1. Scalability

Without virtualization, each storage array is managed independently to meet application requirements in terms of capacity and IOPS With virtualization, the environment as a whole must be analyzed

2. Functionality

Virtualized environment must provide same or better functionality Must continue to leverage existing functionality on arrays

3. Manageability

Virtualization device breaks end-to-end view of storage infrastructure Must integrate with existing management tools

4. Support

Interoperability in multivendor environment

Block-Level Storage Virtualization

Ties together multiple independent storage arrays Presented to host as a single storage device Hosts are directed to virtualized volumes on the virtualization device Mapping is done to redirect I/O on this virtual storage device to underlying physical arrays

Deployed in a SAN environment Non-disruptive data mobility and data migration Enable significant cost and resource optimization

File-Level Virtualization
Before File-Level Virtualization Clients IP Network Clients After File-Level Virtualization Clients IP Network Virtualization Appliance Clients

File Server

Storage Array

File Server

File Server

Storage Array

File Server

NAS Devices/Platforms

NAS Devices/Platforms

Every NAS device is an independent entity, physically and logically Underutilized storage resources Downtime caused by data migrations

Break dependencies between end-user access and data location Storage utilization is optimized Non-disruptive migrations