VMware虚拟架构产品和解决方案 new.ppt

* * We mentioned that one of the major benefits of virtualization is the new service levels that IT can provide to the business. In the before picture, provisioning new server used to take 20-40 man hrs, or up to an entire week. And here we are talking about the simple case where they were just trying to put an existing server image – existing application on a new server box. That required no less than 8 steps – from configuring hardware, to loading the operating system, to loading standard tools such as backup utilities, monitoring utilities etc, configuring the networking, then “throwing it over the wall” to the applications team to load and configure the software applications, then test the applications, and then coordinate the production switchover. After virtualization, that entire week long process was collapsed to half an hour. Essentially one step – right clink on an existing virtual machine, and make a clone of it. The new virtual machine will have the OS, networking, utilities, configured software applications ready just like the original one. The operational and financial impact of this streamlined servers provisioning was 10K man hrs hours labor saved per year. * A key issue in a large server consolidation project is automating the migration of physical servers into virtual machines. If each physical server must be manually replicated in a VM with installation and configuration of the OS and applications, the labor required would be prohibitive. Even worse, for older legacy applications, you may no longer have installation media and administrator skills necessary for a migration. P2V Assistant is a VMware tool that works across our family of virtualization platforms to let you quickly convert physical systems into virtual machines to dramatically speed up server consolidation projects. P2V Assistant uses a type of disk imaging to copy the disks of a source physical server can convert them into virtual disk files that can be used by target virtual ma