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Business Values of Virtualization

Mounir Ferjani,Senior Product Manager,

Huawei Technologiesmounir.ferjani@huawei.com

2nd SG 13 Regional Workshop for Africa on“Future Networks: Cloud Computing, Energy

Saving, Security & Virtualization”

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Over the past 200 years ……

• Steam engine• Cotton

• Steel• Railway • Electricity

• Chemicals • Oil• Automobile

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Over the past 20 years ……

• 6.5B mobile users • 2.7B Internet users

• 2.4ZB(1021) Data •502EB(1018) traffic

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Digital world and smart world ……

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Virtualization

Virtualization, refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something.

Virtualization is the simulation of the software and/or hardware upon which other software runs.

NIST SP 800-125

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Virtualization Stack

NetworkStorageOSApplicationsDesktop virtualizationVirtualization helps implement Cloud Computing

Network virtualization

Virtualize one hardware network equipment into many virtual network equipments Virtualize many hardware into one virtual network equipment (consolidate)

Layer 2&3 technologies

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External/internal network virtualization

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Network virtualization benefits

Improve network resource usageInternal : traffic between VMs through vNICs External : many networks without the need to build many physical

Improve security : isolate traffic based on groups : e.g. isolate depts

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What is storage virtualization

Making abstraction separating : Host implementation (application, OS)Network implementation (switch, router, gateway)Storage implementation (array, library, device)

Make invisible to host : physical pathing, device characteristics, physical data locationLocation and implementation transparency

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Storage virtualization stack

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SNIA storage stack

Storage virtualization benefits

Increase storage asset utilizationReduce power / cooling costsReduce management complexity

Openness to server, network and storage technologyReduce down timeDynamic provisioning (elastic cloud, on demand) Increase scalability

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OS virtualization

NIST definition : Full virtualizationVirtualization is the simulation of the software and/or hardware upon which other software runs.

NIST SP 800-125

Each OS appears to have : CPU, memory, storage (hard disk, USB, CD-ROM,…storage controller, Ethernet controller, display and sound, keyboard and mouse, parallel ports, …

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Types of OS virtualization

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NIST SP 800-125

Benefits of OS virtualization

Consolidation : reduce CAPEXEfficiency : Rise hardware usageFlexibility : reduce management and OPEX costs Security : Isolation prevent :

Avoid crash DDOS attacksSide channel AttacksWeakness : hypervisor is SPOF if compromised all is down.

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Hardware

Dispersed deployment and maintenance,local storage

Traditional desktop infrastructure: hard to maintain, can not guarantee security and lacks mobility.

Complex O&M

Security risk

Difficult to service

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Huawei desktop cloud platform

Hardware

Creates a reliable and scalable shared resource pool to perform unified management.

Decouples hardware from the OS to perform central delivery. Decouples applications from the OS to perform central delive

ry. Decouples data from the OS to perform central storage. Creates multi-level security systems to perform distributed

security control.

User interface (UI) is transmitted to terminal devices by using remote protocols, such as ICA, RDP, or PCoIP.

User equipment only includes a keyboard, a mouse and a monitor

Desktop Cloud solutionData storage center

Application delivery

center

Desktop deliverycenter

Security management

center

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Application virtualization

Application virtualization layer to run specific software (layer replaces the run time environment)

Separate applications from OSThe container will ensure OS securityallows applications to run in environments that do not suit the native application: e.g. Wine allows some Microsoft Windows applications to run on Linux.

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Cloud computing

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Characteristics

On-demand self-serviceBroad network accessResource poolingRapid elasticityMeasured service

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Cloud Ecosystem/actors

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Cloud Cost model

Traditional licensing associated with ownership, number of users, support, and maintenance costs and services are being challenged by the pay-as-you-go model found in on-demand Cloud Computing

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Capacity management

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ROI/Cost saving

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Opengroup

Rapid provisioning : TTM impact on ROI

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Opengroup

Increase Margin

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Opengroup

Thanks

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