GE Digital HMI/SCADA Virtualization Deployment Guide May 2016 GE Digital Contents 1. Brief History of Virtualization ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 What is Virtualization? ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 1.2 Hypervisor ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Reasons to Use Virtualization.............................................................................................................................................. 8 1.4 A Short History of VMware and Product Overview ................................................................................................. 10 1.5 Overview of VMware’s Offerings ...................................................................................................................................... 10 1.6 Storage Virtualization ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 1.7 vCloud and Operations Management ........................................................................................................................... 10 1.8 Network Virtualization .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 1.9 Storage, Virtual Desktops and Data Center Management ................................................................................. 11 2. Virtualization Infrastructure ......................................................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 VMware Virtualization Software ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2.2 VMware vSphere Components ......................................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 VMware Infrastructure Diagram ...................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4 VMware vSphere Application Services .......................................................................................................................... 15 2.5 VMware VMotion...................................................................................................................................................................... 16 2.6 VMware DRS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 2.7 VMware HA ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 2.8 Automation Software Virtualization Architecture.................................................................................................... 18 3. Implementing a Virtualized GE Automation Architecture .............................................................................................. 19 3.1 Number of Servers .................................................................................................................................................................. 19 3.2 CPU Calculations ..................................................................................................................................................................... 19 3.3 ESXi & Automation Application Hardware Requirements for Small Size Architecture .......................... 20 3.4 ESXi & Automation Application Hardware Requirements for Medium Size Architecture ..................... 22 3.5 ESXi & Automation Application Hardware Requirements for Large Size Architecture .......................... 24 3.6 ESXi 5.5 Installation Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 26 3.7 Storage Systems ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27 3.8 ESXi Booting Requirements ................................................................................................................................................ 27 3.9 Storage Requirements for ESXi 5.5 Installation ........................................................................................................ 28 3.10 Solid State Storage ................................................................................................................................................................. 28 3.11 Installing ESXi ............................................................................................................................................................................ 28 GE Digital 3.12 Interactive ESXi Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 29 3.13 Install ESXi Interactively ....................................................................................................................................................... 30 3.14 Procedure .................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 3.15 ESXi Autoconfiguration ......................................................................................................................................................... 31 3.16 Configuring Network Settings ........................................................................................................................................... 31 3.17 ESXi Networking Security Recommendations ........................................................................................................... 32 3.18 After You Install and Set Up ESXi...................................................................................................................................... 32 4. Implementing High Availability (HA) with vSphere ............................................................................................................ 33 4.1 Datacenter(s) ............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 4.2 VMware DRS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 4.3 Creating a Datacenter .......................................................................................................................................................... 34 4.4 Adding a Host to a Datacenter ......................................................................................................................................... 34 4.5 Creating a vSphere HA Cluster ......................................................................................................................................... 35 4.6 Create a Failover Cluster ..................................................................................................................................................... 35 4.7 DataStores .................................................................................................................................................................................. 36 4.8 Solid State Storage ................................................................................................................................................................. 36 4.9 Creating a Datastore ............................................................................................................................................................. 37 4.10 Configuring Networks ........................................................................................................................................................... 39 4.11 Creating a Virtual Machine in the vSphere Client .................................................................................................... 40 4.12 Creating a Virtual Machine in vSphere Client ............................................................................................................ 41 4.13 To configure virtual machine properties ................................................................................................................... 42 4.14 Enabling vMotion for Migration ........................................................................................................................................ 42 4.15 To enable vMotion for migration ..................................................................................................................................... 43 5. VMware Best Practices ..................................................................................................................................................................