PO1781

What's Green, 24/7 and Just Plain Cool

This session provides a real-life walk-through of a 100% virtualized high-availability infrastructure along with its benefits and challenges. Learn how it is possible to leverage VMware to enable even a small business to gain the benefits of a mid- to large-sized IT infrastructure while staying within a very reasonable budget. See how we have maintained over 99.998% availability for the past four years using a segmented virtualized network. Discover the tips and tricks that we have been using daily to run our virtualized infrastructure, how we kept a very tight budget, and how we turned it into an enterprise-level infrastructure. Also, learn how we stayed "Green" in our environment by making use of VMware to help cut the costs and environmental impact of energy consumption.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Daniel James( Raideil,Inc. ), Yves Accad( Raideil, Inc. ), Kraig Van Der Klomp( Raideil, Inc. )

Kraig van der Klomp is the CEO of Raideil Inc. and an avid software developer with a sharp sense for developing good software. He has15 years of experience in network design, systems architecture, and software development. Kraig started off his virtualization experience in 2003 when evaluating new technology for maximizing data center utilization. Since then, he has been a fanatic supporter of VMware, Inc. and its virtualization offerings, which he uses for his corporate servers, as well as his desktop.

Daniel James is a software developer with over 9 years of experience in several different environments. The last two years have been spent as a development team manager, leading a geographically-diverse team of developers in system architecture for service level management applications. Daniel's virtualization experience has spanned the last four years of his career, starting with open source projects and progressing into VMware's rich virtualization technology, including the VMware Server beta in early 2006.

Yves Accad, Vice President of Network Operations, has certified expertise in network operations, displayed through his Cisco certifications (CCNA and CCNP). He lends his expertise to Raideil Inc., enabling efficient management of the network and ensuring Raideil's phenomenal uptime. He has over 6 years of experience specializing in networking and security and has over 4 years of virtualization experience. Yves has specialized in using virtualization technology to segment and secure his networks.