Rosstat migrates with VMware on the open source software

Rosstat decided to refuse use of products of VMware and to pass to open source software for virtualization of servers in central office. At the expense of it department intends to cut down expenses and to increase utilization properties of functioning of a computing node of central office, said in terms of reference^[1].

The corresponding tender was won by Croc company which should perform work till December 20, 2015. As the free solution on replacement of VMware Croc offered the system of virtualization oVirt under control of CentOS server operating system (the technical support of the products oVirt and CentOS is performed by RedHat company).

The starting price of tender was 25 million rubles, Croc reduced it to 22 million. The second participant of tender became Lanit, suggested to migrate with VMware on the free solution for 25 million.

It is interesting that delivered to Lanit products of VMware in Rosstat. It was in 2011^[2]. Then department paid integrator 22.4 million rubles for one license vCenter Server 4 Standard for vSphere, 160 licenses vSphere 4 Enterprise and 48 licenses vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus and also their annual technical support.

In 2011 Rosstat enclosed 22 million in licenses of VMware, and in 2015 will pay the same 22 million for replacement of VMware by a free product

According to Igor Nikulin, the director of the department of information technologies Croc, service of migration on the free software among customers from a public sector certainly it is demanded.

"Actively transfer to the Open source software infrastructure solutions, i.e. office software, operating systems for servers or workstations, the mail systems, management tools infrastructure, the database management system (DMS), virtualization software. Opensors to virtualization it is applied so often that products on the free software can already quite compete with commercial both in the field of just server virtualization, and in the field of cloud infrastructure", - he adds.

Requirements to the free system of virtualization

The environment of virtualization should be calculated for work in it not less than 50 servers of virtualization and not less than 500 virtual machines, said in terms of reference.

The virtualization platform should conform to the following requirements:

• provide centralized operation by functions of the platform via the web portal;
• provide integration with Active Directory MS with a possibility of setup of a role model;
• give an opportunity of remote control the main opportunities of the virtualization platform via the web portal;
• have a possibility of obtaining operational data on use of computing resources in the form of the structured reports;
• The web portal should have upgradeability of the software of servers of virtualization (hosts);
• provide creation of Snapshots of the working virtual machines;
• provide deployment of virtual machines on the basis of templates;
• have compatible tools for converting of physical machines in virtual;
• have ability to integrate with the user portals (Self Service Portal) for management of the selected virtualized resources;
• give an opportunity to process automation of creation and control of virtual machines;
• have the mechanism of migration of virtual machines (without their switching off) between servers of virtualization (hosts);
• have the mechanism of automatic migration of virtual machines (without their switching off) between servers of virtualization (hosts) for balancing of load of computing resources of physical servers;
• have the mechanism of migration of virtual machines (without their switching off) between data warehouses;
• have the Maintenance Mode mode for servers of virtualization (hosts) for ensuring carrying out scheduled works;
• have the built-in mechanism of power management for balancing of computing loading, economy of energy consumption and needs of backup;
• provide recovery of virtual machines in case of failure on the virtualization server through automatic restart on other server of virtualization;
• provide adding/change of network interface cards, virtual disks and adding of virtual processors on virtual machines in real time (without their switching off);
• provide load control on storage systems within a cluster (Storage QoS);
• provide deployment of virtual machines with the virtual disks growing in process of filling at data;
• provide the expanded centralized configuring of virtual networks (virtual switchboard);
• provide cloning and copying of virtual machines and creation of templates from them.

As means of backup of the virtualization platform the means existing in Rosstat based on the software of CommVault Simpana should be used.

The environment of virtualization should be unrolled on the existing server hardware used for operation of the current IBM HP virtualization platform (i).

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