1 The Lean and Green by DesignLink Alander, Mario Berry Delivering quality services at % availability at the enterprise level while focusing on cost reduction, innovation, and sustainability is proving challenging for many higher education institutions today. Hear representatives from Lone Star College detail how they are using virtualization and a new high-density green data center to address these challenges.
2 Presentation OverviewIntroduction to Lone Star Why Green? Customer Focus - Pilots It’s in the Design Virtualize Everything! Availability and Performance Datacenter Redesign Savings and Quality What’s Next Questions
3 Who is Lone star 16 Locations across 1,400 square miles Growth6 Colleges 2 University Centers 8 Instructional Centers Growth 78,000 Credit Students 25,000 non credit Our Quality Top 100 AA Degree Producers in the Nation 70% transfer rate Texas A&M, UT, Rice, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA Top 100 places to work - 3 years in a row (Chronicle of Higher Education)
4 LSCS Green IT InitiativesWhy green? Strategic Initiative defined in 2008 Our Green-IT definition As an institution of higher education, we have a social responsibility to address this issue and be a leader in our community. As stewards of tax payers’ dollars we have a fiscal responsibility to manage costs and improve efficiencies. LSCS Green IT Initiatives Advanced Power Management Computers eWaste Program Texas Educational Sustainable Technology Consortium Desktop Virtualization Datacenter Virtualization Datacenter Innovation
5 Customer Focus pilot Chancellor Technology Innovation GrantProject Goals Increase access to technology resources Increase Mobility Instant Access anywhere Improve Service delivery Reduce Power Consumption High Availability
6 Customer Focus - Pilot Citrix XenApp FEATURES:FEATURES: Dynamic App Delivery - Optimal method for delivering applications to users. Single Instance Management - Application are updated once and delivered on-demand. Any Device, Anywhere - Users can simply and securely access apps with a consistent experience regardless of location or device. Secure by Design - Centralized application management is the most secure architecture for delivering applications. Enterprise-class Infrastructure - Proven to support more than 50,000 users, scale beyond 1,000 servers.
7 VMware View, Thin App and VSSCustomer Focus – Pilot VMware View, Thin App and VSS FEATURES: Lower your IT operational expenses by up to 60% Increase security by moving data from devices to the datacenter Simplify, automate, manage, update and provision 1000’s of desktops from a single console in minutes Application Virtualization: Symantec - VSS Vmware – ThinApp AppSense – Profile Virtualization
8 Customer Focus - Pilot Keys To Success Define Customer(s)Engage End-User(s) Determine Measures Communicate, Communicate Know Thy Infrastructure!!!
9 Infrastructure is key to your successIt’s in the design Infrastructure is key to your success Converged VDI backend solutions Simplified Management Flexibility 70 to 80% reduction in space requirements 60 to 75% reduction in power Evaluating VCE – vBlock HP P4000 VDI
10 It’s in the design New Green Datacenter Virtualization First!Data Center Innovation New Green Datacenter
11 Virtualization First Virtualization First practice adopted Dec 2008Moved from 5% utility virtualization to 85% in year 1 Moved to 95% in year 2 Currently virtualizing our Voice and Video to close the gap Benefits High availability – 5-nines architecture 66% reduction in power consumption Enterprise Agility and Elasticity LSCS – Private Cloud 2.1 THz Processing Power 5.2 TB RAM 172 Physical CPUs 1,349 CPU Cores 19 Virtual Data Centers 218 Resource pools 700 TB of Virtualized Storage
12 ERP Availability - 5-nines
13 ERP Availability - 5-nines
14 ERP Availability - 5-nines
15 Example – Elasticity – Normal OperationsERP - Elasticity Example – Elasticity – Normal Operations
16 Example – Elasticity – Peak RegistrationERP - Elasticity Example – Elasticity – Peak Registration
17 Example – Elasticity – Peak Registration - extendedERP - Elasticity Example – Elasticity – Peak Registration - extended
18 Value & Cost Avoidance Dynamic reallocation of computing resourcesNo downtime or performance loss during peak system demands IT is addressing the business and customers needs COST AVOIDANCE Physical server ERP - Cost 250 Physical Servers $ 3.5 million Virtual ERP - Cost 246 vm servers 4 physical DB servers $ 722,000 Power Requirements Physical – 12.3 KW Virtual – 7.2 KW
19 DataCenter Redesign Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE) Example - PUESimple term – how much does it cost to distribute power and cooling to the data center Simple Calculation Total Power used by equipment to provide services Total Power used by the data center Example - PUE A room with a PUE of 2.6 means that for every kilowatt used to deliver a service 1.6 kilowatts are needed.
20 DataCenter Redesign LSCS – System DC 1 - Traditional Forced Air Data Center DEFFICENCY ASSESMENT – 10 years old – No efficiency reviews In-line UPS was 85% efficient Power line loss of 4.7% Loss of heat containment Inefficient CRAC units REDESIGN Upgraded power distribution Upgraded UPS Pending upgrade of CRAC units Load distribution – Hot isle containment PUE Initial 3.8 – Current Projected – 2.7
21 Design Green – New DatacenterEfficiency by Design – New LSCS DC 2 Tier IV data center European design standards Water cooled racks In-direct UPS 99.9% 480 volt power distribution In rack fire suppression Two commercial power feeds Two 500 KW generators Two backup CRAC units Hyper-Density ½ a megawatt power and cooling capacity packed into 950 square feet
22 Design Green – New DatacenterState of the Art Infrastructure Management Power Distribution Monitoring
23 Design Green – New DatacenterSide-by-Side Comparison Both of our main datacenters have identical equipment loads PUE – New Datacenter 1.37 PUE – Existing Datacenter 2009 – PUE 3.8 2010 – PUE 3.1 2011 – Est. 2.7
24 Savings and quality Wrap upServer Virtualization $600,000 in CAPX savings $428,978 per year savings in power and cooling Cost Avoidance - $2.7 million Datacenters New Datacenter requires half the power and cooling Thin Client Projects Projected ROI in 2.5 years Improved service delivery anytime, anywhere, and any device
25 What’s next Private Cloud Desktop ComputingAbility for students to access all IT resources from anywhere, anytime, any device! Application virtualization based on students class load available via our My LoneStar portal
26 Delivering quality services at 99Delivering quality services at % availability at the enterprise level while focusing on cost reduction, innovation, and sustainability is proving challenging for many higher education institutions today. Hear representatives from Lone Star College detail how they are using virtualization and a new high-density green data center to address these challenges. THANK YOU Link Alander, Associate Vice Chancellor, Technology Services Mario Berry, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor,