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CASE STUDY for Virtual Machine from vmware.com website

Toronto-based Ryerson University is known for its career-focused approach to education. That means giving students and faculty the tools they need to pursue their varied fields of interest—including an ever-growing number of computer applications. “To keep up, we kept buying dozens of servers a year,” explains Eran Frank, the manager of the university’s Technical Support Group. “Then in late 2006, we hit the wall at our two campus data centers. We just could not expand anymore.” The university began virtualizing its servers in data centers with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) in early 2007. “I’d been doing my homework on virtualization, and when VI3 came out, I decided it was time to make the move,” he recalls. “It was mature and thoroughly tested in real companies. I felt confident I could stake my reputation on that rollout.”In the past year, Ryerson has virtualized most of its x86 (Intel) environment, which is predominantly Windows-based, but also includes an increasing number of Linux applications.

As a result, the hardware footprint at the university’s two data centers has shrunk by 90 percent—they now house 13 instead of 130 physical hosts—and IT costs have plummeted. Frank estimates that the university will save half a million Canadian dollars over three years, “mostly because we won’t need to replace 200 Intel servers every three years,” he says. Best of all, in Frank’s view, is the fact his team can deliver those virtual platforms quickly. “What used to take 5 weeks now takes about 15 minutes,” he says. Some of the improvements from adding virtual machines may not be apparent to the university’s academics and students, but they make a huge difference behind the scenes—and to the IT staff. “When the motherboard failed on one of our blade servers, the virtual machines that were hosted there restarted automatically on other blades,” Frank says. “By the time I got the failure notice on my BlackBerry, the service was already restarted. It was beautiful: The downtime was around 40 seconds.”

Results of Virtual machine introduction

  • Ninety-percent reduction in physical servers •
  • Dramatically lowered hardware, systems administration and power costs— for an estimated CDN $570,000 savings over three years
  • Eighty-percent reduction in the amount of floor space devoted to servers and storage
  • Power and cooling costs slashed 80 percent• The cost of provisioning servers reduced 65 percent
  • Virtualization and mirrored SANs at the university’s two data centers offer full disaster recovery for the first time—with estimated recovery time cut from months to minutes
  • Address the university’s continually increasing server demand while taming server sprawl and systems-administration headaches at two maxed-out data centers SolUTIon With VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, 130 servers are consolidated onto 13 physical hosts—while providing faculty and students with an unprecedented level of service, including dramatically fast and inexpensive server provisioning, better backup and comprehensive disaster protection VMware atT work VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise,
  • Featuring:• ESX Server 3 • VirtualCenter 2• VMotion • VMware Consolidated Backup• High Availability (HA)DePloyMenT environment ESX Server 3 running on Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers

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  • Mitel and VMware Announce First Customers to Leverage Voice Virtualization

    Available now thru Introtel Networks , Mississauga , Ontario

    Mitel Virtual Solutions for VMware vSphere™ 4

    OTTAWA, Ontario and PALO ALTO, California – February 16, 2010

    Mitel®, the trusted provider of unified communications solutions, andVMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced Virtual Mitel Communications Director(Virtual MCD), part of the new Mitel Virtual Solutions software portfolio as well as the first customers to deploy Virtual MCD.

    • Virtual MCD is the first real-time voice application designed for the VMware vSphere™ 4 platform. As a virtual appliance,Virtual MCD is a software package download that runs on VMware vSphere 4, enabling customers to seamlessly access and install Mitel’s call control software.
    • The solution leverages VMware vSphere 4 to enable customers to consolidate Mitel’sleading voice applications alongside non-voice business applications in the datacenter. This results in the potential for: capital savings due to the significant reduction in server hardware and real estate; operational savings with the reduction in power and server provisioning costs; as well as productivity improvements and resource efficiencies in datacenter management and risk mitigation for business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
    • Mitel and VMware already have a number of joint customers that have deployed Virtual MCD including Gallagher, Flynn & Company LLP, an accounting firm based in the US; Ideal Integrations, a technology integrator based in the US; Spalding University, a university in Louisville, KY; and Ashford Borough Council in the UK. These customer sites consist of users ranging from 30 to more than 2,000.
    • Virtual MCD is the latest application Mitel has introduced in the Mitel Virtual Solutions software portfolio. The next phase will include Mitel Applications Suite (MAS) and Mitel Border Gateway (MBG) as virtual appliances built using VMware Studio to be released 60 days after Virtual MCD.
    • In addition to MCD, Mitel Unified Communicator® (UC) Advanced, Mitel Contact Center Solutions and Mitel Enterprise Manager are VMware Ready™ applications. The VMware Ready Program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products. VMware Ready products have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process and are ready for deployment in production environments. With the VMware Ready logo, customers can quickly identify VMware partner products and solutions that are optimized for the VMware platform.
    • Solution is available from Introtel in Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
  • April 12, 2010

    vmware canadaVMware free hypervisor

    VMware virtual machine made some headlines yesterday when its new CEO, Paul Maritz, announced during a financial analysts conference call that it would be giving its "embedded" (which, is to say, standalone) hypervisor away for free starting on July 28 2008

    This move is wholly consistent with VMware's past strategy, so I don't view this as a new-found aggressiveness under Paul Maritz. If Paul mentioned Microsoft more frequently during the call than VMware founder and ex-CEO Diane Greene was wont to do, that reflects a different public emphasis rather than a change in direction. As anyone who has spoken to Diane in private can attest, she was never one to step gingerly around that particular ostensible partner.

    And, in fact, we've seen essentially this same game plan previously. When Microsoft brought out Virtual Server at a price that undercut VMware's GSX server (its "hosted" hypervisor product), VMware then, too, cut the price of its competing product to free. I wrote at the time that:

    Releasing VMware virtual Server as a free product is a brilliant move. With Xen still pre-production and Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 just getting going, there is a window for VMware to insert itself as not only the best premium x86 virtualization product, but the best free/cheap one as well. By augmenting its hosted GSX Server product with SMP and x64 guests, renaming it VMware Server, and releasing it for free,just made life very difficult for Microsoft and likely even reduced the rate at which Xen will be deployed on Linux servers.

    And, indeed, this is pretty much how things played out. Virtual Server found some uptake in Microsoft shops but has had limited impact on the broader market.

    Today, the market for virtualization products is further along and Microsoft is assembling a broader virtualization strategy. That said, there are many similarities between then and now.

    Hyper-V, Microsoft's native hypervisor, is still in its early days and, therefore, can't compete with VMware on function or maturity. It can compete on level of integration with Windows and it can compete on the basis of its $28 price, which Microsoft has been aggressively highlighting.

    There's nothing that VMware can do directly about Hyper-V's integration with Windows--besides making the reasonable argument that this can be as much of a disadvantage as an advantage in an environment that blends Windows and other operating systems. But it can deal with the price point.

    And it has. VMware has taken entry-level price off the table as an issue. It's also put into play a counter to Microsoft's "just comes with Windows" virtualization pitch with an alternative which, if not quite as integrated, is even cheaper.

    The real price of a production virtualization deployment using either company's products is both higher and more complicated to figure, of course. There are management products, add-on software services to take advantage of virtualization, and hardware upgrades--to say nothing of possible training and services engagements. But, especially for midmarket customers focused on the up-front, kick-the-tires figure, FREE is a very attractive number for a virtual machine.
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