Virtualization at Work

Preserves Software Investment Across the Hardware Platform

Presented BY:-
Pramod Kapoor
Director
Corporate Designz Pvt. Ltd.
 Introduction
of
Corporate Designz Pvt Ltd

• Corporate Designz Pvt Ltd is Located in Heart of India,

New Delhi.
• The team at Corporate Designz has expertise in New
Product Development, Customization, and On-site as
well as Off-site Customer Support.
• Working on 3 Major Verticals
– Embedded System Design and Development
– Legacy System Migration
– IBM Product Training
 Why Virtualization

• Hardware is end-of-life
• Significant increase in downtime

• Service costs have increased significantly

• Higher maintenance costs
• Limited inventory of spares and refurbished hardware

• Operational costs (e.g. energy consumption, footprint) are excessive

• Application rewriting and re-certification may be expensive & risky
• Experts and/or application source code not always available
• Automatic binary conversion to OpenVMS/IPF does not always work
• Market expects modern platforms
• Higher performance needs

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 Migration Path for Legacy System

Existing Environment Traditional Approach

Legacy Redeveloped /
Applications Migrated Legacy
Disguised as typical multi-
phased, complex Applications
application “rewrite” or
Legacy Proprietary “conversion” Industry
Operating •Migration is expensive, Standard
System labor intensive and risky Operating
•Source code for current System
system may not be
Legacy & Proprietary
available or up to date Industry
H/W
System •Porting or rewriting Standard
applications is expensive
AND error-prone
H/W
System
 HW Virtualization, The Principle

Applications

Layered software No changes

VMS // Soloaris
VMS Soloaris / /
MPE
MPE

VAX, Alpha, Virtualization Layer

HP3000,
SPARC Hardware
hardware Windows / LINUX / VMWare
Replaced!
platform
AMD or Intel
x86 System

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 Benefits

• Replace old and expensive proprietary HW by modern generic HW

– Legacy Servers used custom built components whereas virtualization is done on
a standard Intel / AMD CPU based server
• Significantly reduce cost of ownership
– Legacy servers
• have reached End Of Service Life
• spares not available / delays in procurement
• Trained manpower required to maintain the hardware
– Generic system
• Most servers come with 3 year warranty and committed SLA
• spares easily available - no need to stock spares
• Upgrades (Memory, disk etc.) are easily available and are not expensive
• Significantly smaller in size, consumes less power- a green initiative

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 Benefits Cont…2
• Preserve current investments
– Keep current applications – No need to rewrite, port or re-compile the application
– Keep current business processes, no impact on day-to day operations
– No re-training, no re-staffing, no re-certification.
• Become HW independent
– Works on any brand of Intel server. Only basic configuration requirements to be
met while selecting the hardware
• Increase performance
– CPUs, Network, Disk speeds are increasing resulting in better performance of the
virtualized system
• Scalable size
– In case Virtual system needs additional disks etc, it is available without additional
investment
• Upgrade immediately, quickly, simply
– seamless migration without any significant loss of production time, done without
any significant efforts

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 Products Overview
• Alpha virtualizations
• Low- to mid-range VAX virtualizations
• High-end VAX virtualizations
• PDP-11 virtualization
• HP3000 virtualizations
• Sun SPARC virtualizations
• IBM AS400

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 Host Platform Requirements
• AMD or INTEL multi-core based system >3 GHz CPU
• 2*Number of Virtual CPU + 1
– Intel 5600 series (higher performance per core, but only 1 or 2
physical chips could operate together) is preferred for hosting
CHARON-AXP systems with up to 8 emulated CPUs
– Hyper Threading (HT) should be switched OFF
• Virtual system memory + 2 GB
– Non-ECC RAM is recommended (it’s faster), 1333 MHz
• Ethernet adapters - Minimum 2 100/1000Mb
• Disk Capacity
– Sum of all emulated disks + 50 GB for Windows
• USB Ports – Minimum 2 Nos.
• Operating System
– 64bit for Charon - AXP ; 32 bit / 64 bit for Charon - VAX
– Windows 7/ Windows 8
– Windows 2008 - R2 Server / Windows 2012
– Some products are available on LINUX and Barebone
Some Virtualized Legacy System Users

India
 Bokaro Steel
 Bosch
 Dinesh Mills
 FIAT
 HCL Systems
 Indian Telephones
 IUCAA
 KONKAN Railways
 Michellin Tyres
 Rourkela Steel
 Tata Steel

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 For More Information

Corporate Designz Private Limited

AG – 60,
SHALIMAR BAGH,
New Delhi – 110088

Email:- pramod@corporatedesignz.com

Web:- www.corporatedesignz.com

Contact :
Director – Pramod Kapoor +91 9958828885

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