PO2650

Walking the Walk . How BAAQMD Used VMware to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions&Saved Taxpayers Money

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is committed to achieving clean air to protect the public's health and the environment in the San Francisco Bay region. BAAQMD is an innovative organization that awards millions of dollars to fund local projects designed to reduce the Bay Area's carbon footprint.
BAAQMD practices what it preaches and virtualized the 25 existing production servers in its data center onto 7 ESX hosts, saving approximately 60 tons of CO2 emissions annually. And rather than purchasing many more power hungry servers to accommodate the Windows migration of its existing UNIX environment, BAAQMD will be migrating from UNIX onto virtual machines — thereby saving many more tons of annual CO2 emissions.
The organization is also implementing VMware's Site Recovery Manager to automate a virtual DR environment — thereby slashing the number of DR servers required while enabling much faster and more reliable recovery. BAAQMD implemented a combination of highly optimized fibre channel SAN technology, Left Hand Networks Virtual SAN Appliances and Quantum data de-duplication to further reduce the cost and power consumption of its storage and backup environments.

Technical Overview Session

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

1 Hour

Steven Kaplan( INX ), John Chiladakis( Bay Area Air Quality Management District )

Steve Kaplan is President of AccessFlow, a consulting firm focused exclusively on Enterprise Virtualization. Kaplan has written scores of published books, articles and white papers on data center and client virtualization as well as on various IT subjects ranging from security to disaster recovery. His most recent book, Deploying the VMware Infrastructure, was coauthored with three VMware consultants. He is also author of the popular VirtualMan comic book series. Kaplan holds a BS in business administration from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Northwestern's Graduate School of Management.

John Chiladakis (Kil-a-dike-is) has dedicated his career to the intersection of computer science and public health. He funded his formal graduate education at Berkeley in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology through consulting in the development of scientific software for various life science and public health based projects. John has led the effort at Bay Area Air Quality Management District to re-design and automate government business processes in order to link those processes tightly to public health metrics as has never been done before.