Microsoft Server Consolidation:
Services, Solutions… Experience!
Microsoft Technology Center
Thomas Hsu
What is Server Consolidation?
Centralized management of
business-critical systems and
applications
Consolidation of applications onto
fewer, highly-available servers
Standardization of
platforms and processes
Optimization of human and physical
resources
Consolidation of servers into one
geographical location
Business/IT Shared “Pain”
Risk
Security
Cost
Resources
Consolidation
Management
Increasing Headcount Reqs
Underutilized Servers
Poor Management & Processes
Server Sprawl
Business Drivers for Server Consolidation
Reduce Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO)
Reduce server real
estate
Replace older servers
Corporate restructure
Operating system
upgrades or migration
Application upgrades
or standardization
High-availability
applications
New central e-mail
standard
Use of servers for
enterprise
applications
Network redesign
Combine excess
capacity across
disparate servers
Mergers &
acquisitions
Increasing scalability
demands
DB Consolidation - Results
Types of Server Consolidation
Logical
Centralize management of business-critical systems and
applications
Homogeneous
Combining a single application which resides on multiple
servers onto one server
Heterogeneous
Combining multiple applications from different servers onto
ones server
Geographic
Moving servers into one geographical location
Server Consolidation Opportunities
Domain
Domain
Domain
File & Print
Domain
Email
Email
Email
Email
Database
Database
File & Print
File & Print
Database
Database
File & Print
LOB
LOB
LOB
LOB
TCO Reduction Range ~ 25%-35%
Real World Results
25% reduction in F/P
Reduced TCO 33%
Increased trading capacity 3X
Saved $1.4M
Reduces servers 30%
Apps 30% faster
Reduces staffing 33%
Consolidated 23 sites to
7 sites
63% Consolidation in
Domain Servers
Reduces server
staff 11%
Reduces TCO 26%
Reduces servers 50%
Database Consolidation
Case Studies
Old Mutual http://www.unisys.com/products/es7000__servers/business__solutions/consolidation__server__/components.htm
Lazboy http://www.unisys.com/products/es7000__servers/clients/featured__case__studies/la_d_z_d_boy.htm
JetBlue http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=13932
Mike’s Hard Lemonade http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/datacenter/evaluation/casestudies/mag.asp
Minneapolis – City of Lakes
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/advancedserver/evaluation/casestudies/cityofminn.asp
Nationwide Building Society
Customers: Insurance, Finance, Manufacturing
Reduce number of Servers (cost)
Platform for future application deployment:
containment
Proxy for standardization
Mandate for / from CIO - facilitated user involvement
Customer Stories
Moving
Forward
Madrid Stock Exchange
Consolidation onto Windows 2000 Servers reduced annual
TCO by 33%
No downtime in seven months of use, with 99.999%
availability
Increased exchange trading capacity by 3X
Project payback in 2 years with 31% IRR
“The scalability, performance, and data management improvements in
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server enabled us to operate the first seven
months of SIBE-Gate with zero downtime and provided the capacity to host
three times more trade order transactions."
- Agustin Ramos, Systems Technology Manager, Bolsa de Madrid
Customer Stories
Moving
Forward
City of Hamburg, Germany
Reduced systems management staffing needs by 80%
Centralized IT operations of 13 different government
agencies using Windows Server, Exchange, and SQL
Increased productivity by enabling cross-departmental
collaboration
“The standardisation of our IT and communications infrastructure makes
it easy to integrate old systems and implement new ones. We now are
building up e-government solution after e-government solution."
- Matthias Hammer, head of Administration and Central Services, City of Hamburg
What is Server Virtualization?
Addresses four business needs:
The need to support older applications.
The need to consolidate older applications.
Test environment
Training environment
What Microsoft provides in Virtualization
Virtual Server
Virtual PC
Virtualization is not a silver bullet for consolidating servers.
Benefits of Virtualization Technology
Production Server Consolidation
Reduce TCO by maximizing hardware utilization and consolidating
workloads
Business Continuity Management
Help reduce scheduled and unscheduled downtime
Dynamic Datacenter
Leverage the benefits of virtualization to create a more agile
infrastructure
Test and Development
Maximize test hardware, reducing costs, improving lifecycle
management and improving test coverage
Self-Managing Dynamic Systems
Applications/
Dynamic
Services
Dynamic
Servers
Platform
 Traditional systems live
within boundaries
 Applications have fixed
dedicated resources
 Results in need for more
responsive infrastructure
 Wasted capacity
 Virtual systems break
down some of these
boundaries
 Virtualization allows for
better resource utilization
 Dynamic systems go
further
Dynamic
Storage
Storage
 Resources are intelligently
(policy) & flexibly assigned
as needs change
Microsoft tools/templates
Comprehensive TCO analysis tool (CIOView)
Assessment guides/Solution accelerators
Project planning, functional specification,
risk analysis and design guide templates
Data Collection form
VMware, HP ProLiant, Microsoft File Server
Migration Toolkit, Migration checking…
Microsoft “Do It Yourself” Solutions
Solution Accelerator for Consolidation and
Migrating LOB Applications
Mixed Workload Consolidation Guide
Solution Accelerator for Domain Server
Consolidation and Migration: Windows NT
4.0 to Windows Server 2003
Server Consolidation Home:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/overview/benefits/co
nsolidation/techres.mspx
Why consolidate on Windows
2003 Server?
Virtual Server to partition server and give
fine grained control of hardware
WSRM to track process accounting
WSRM to divide resources across Virtual
Server partitions
Virtual Server scales to 2 processors
Virtual Server to handle 64 bit OS - early 06
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