Captain Roger MacDonald, IT security programme director at the Joint Information Services Agency, says the NZDF started to look at server virtualisation in 2005, as part of a wider IT simplification and consolidation programme known as Project Genesis.How can you argue with that!
MacDonald says that the NZDF’s complex IT environment, which includes 790 servers in New Zealand and more than 100 servers located overseas, presented “a clear case for convergence and consolidation”.
With a main datacentre located in Wellington and a secondary datacentre in Devonport, the NZDF’s IT infrastructure includes more than 14 network layers, and 10 voice and three video networks, which have been supplied by a wide proliferation of vendors.
MacDonald told IT professionals at Computerworld’s virtualisation briefing last week that preliminary tests on one of the NZDF’s largest networks, running on 390 servers, showed that the average server CPU usage was only 2.85%, with occasional peaks at 35.3%.
“The bottom line was that there was scope for virtualisation,” he says.
Using VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and VMware Server as the server virtualisation platform, MacDonald says that when the network is fully virtualised it will free up the equivalent of 25 fully-populated server racks, save 143 kilowatts in power consumption annually and allow over 300 servers to be recovered.
We all know Vyatta, don't we?
Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.
Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…
Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.
Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…
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