financial energy flows

through your business

infrastructure.
optimize it.
the earth’s energy flows
through your business
infrastructure.
save it.
 human energy flows
through your business
infrastructure.
maximize it.
 VMworld datacenter
hello
business infrastructure
number of ESX servers

776
number of CPUs per ESX server

2
number of cores per ESX server

8
memory per ESX server

48 GB
total amount of memory in the
datacenter
37 TB
total amount of storage in the datacenter

348 TB
 goodbye
physical datacenter
hello
virtual datacenter
 number of VMs per core

6
Assuming a conservative ratio of 6 VMs per core without DRS. Based on the workloads, consolidation ratios could be even
higher –
for example 8 to 10 VMs per core.
number of VMs per ESX server

48
 number of VMs
in the VMworld datacenter

37,248
37,248 37,248
physical servers
VMs
on

776
2,483 28
server rack server rack
enclosures enclosures

assuming 15 X 2U servers per server rack enclosure.

154,000 1,700
square feet of square feet of
datacenter space datacenter space

(3 football fields: 3 x 48000 SF) (fraction of the end zone)

 $92,375,0 $1,041,60
00 0
cost to build
cost to build
physical virtualized tier II
Datacenter
tier II datacenter
Tier II datacenter ($600 per SF) Tier II: composed of a single path for power and cooling distribution, with redundant
components,
providing 99.741% availability
 $138,562, $1,562,40
560 0
cost to build cost to build
physical virtualized tier III
tier III datacenter datacenter
Tier III datacenter ($900 per SF) Tier III: composed of multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, but only one
path active, has redundant components, and is concurrently maintainable, providing 99.982% availability
25,329 KW 528 KW
physical virtualized
datacenter datacenter
IT = bottleneck IT = strategic business
to the business partner and enabler

Long extended service Efficient and optimized

provisioning cycles – service provisioning
4 to 6 to 8 plus weeks cycles – 4 to 6 to 8 hours

Stagnation and Innovation and

tactical projects strategic projects
VMware vSphere with DRS drives
consolidation ratios even higher
Press Release: July 8th, 2009.
VMware vSphere Provides Nearly 50 Percent Application
Performance Improvement With VMware Distributed
http://www.vmwarecom/company/news/releases/drs-09.html
 DRS disabled DRS enabled
number of physical servers 776 776
number of VMs per core 6 9
number of VMs per ESX server 48 72
number of potential VMs in vmworld 37,248 55,872
datacenter
VMware vSphere with DRS enabled clusters will
Drive your earth energy savings further
Maximize your human energy flows further
Optimize your financial energy flows further
energize and save
with VMware
the virtualization
leader