Scale-on-Scale : Part 1 of 3 - Production Environment
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Scale Computing, founded in 2007, specializes in unified, scale-out enterprise storage solutions for small and medium enterprises, leveraging its advanced ICOS technology for easy management and performance. Virtualization is emphasized for its benefits in resource optimization, availability, service levels, operational cost reduction, and legacy application support. The document outlines Scale's production environment, which includes multiple virtual servers and storage nodes, all operating within a fully virtualized and redundant infrastructure.
Scale-on-Scale : Part 1 of 3 - Production Environment
- 1. How Scale Computing uses Scale's ICOS Storage Webcast 1 of 3 – Scale Production Bill Waller Director of IT
- 2. Agenda Who We Are ICOS Virtualization Monitoring Scale Production
- 3. Who We Are Founded in 2007, Scale Computing has led the way in unified, scale-out, enterprise class storage for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company is rapidly growing with offices in California, Indianapolis and London with global distribution partners.
- 4. Scale ICOS Every Scale storage cluster is powered by ICOS™ Technology: an advanced storage operating system combining powerful features with intelligence that makes storage easy-to-manage, even for novices. Generation 3.0 Storage Scale-Out Architecture Capacity Performance Density Agnostic Unified SAN/NAS No Controllers Thin Provisioning Global Namespace Replication Auto-load balancing Snapshots
- 5. Virtualization Virtualization is transforming the IT landscape, and with good reason. With virtualization, traditionally static resources such as networking, desktops, and servers are dynamically allocated and centrally managed. This flexibility has far-reaching business benefits: Get more out of existing resources. Non-virtualized servers rarely exceed 30% resource utilization. Consolidation into a virtualized environment can exceed 80% utilization of the hardware. Increase the availability of workloads. Virtualization provides methods to migrate workloads to different hardware in the event of planned maintenance or unplanned downtime. Improve IT service levels. Provision and deploy servers and desktops faster with reduced management overhead. Shrink operational costs. By reducing the physical footprint of the datacenter, costly data center build out are avoided and power and cooling costs shrink. Leverage legacy applications. Lengthen the life of legacy applications by operating them on virtual machines.
- 7. Distributed Production Environment 2 - Virtual Servers 3 - S4 Storage Nodes 2 - Virtual Servers 3 – S1 Storage Nodes 4 – Virtual Servers 3 - R4 Storage Nodes
- 8. Scale Production Environment 4-Node ESXi 4.1 HA Cluster 3-Node R4 Scale Storage Cluster (12TB) 100% Virtualized Environment Exchange 2010 (DAG) Windows 2008 R2 (Domain Controllers/Active Directory) Linux/CentOS (Web Site/MySQL/Atlassian Tools) 45 Virtual Machines Highly Available/Fully Redundant environment Scalable
- 9. Scale Production Monitoring Monitor the percentage full (<80%)
- 10. Scale Production Monitoring Perfmon Current Disk Queue Disk Writes/Sec Disk Reads/Sec
- 11. Scale Production Monitoring VMware vSphere monitoring Avg. Read/Writes per second