St. Louis VMUG Meeting - 09292015

Welcome to the St. Louis VMware User Group

Agenda
•VMUG news
•VMware VMworld Recap
•Nimble
•Roundtable Q&A
•Giveaways
•Powershell/Automation discussion (if time permits)

VMUG News
•VMUG Virtual Event 3.0 – Monday, Nov. 9th (Check
vmug.com)
• VMware CTO Paul Strong to Keynote
•vBeers – Look for announcement in the coming weeks
•Next VMUG – Thursday, Nov. 19th (Chris Wahl
speaking)
•VMUG Advantage
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Day 1 Product Announcements
VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services:
Disaster Recovery OnDemand™: VMware will add a pay-for-what-you-consume pricing option to VMware
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. Customers will pay a flat fee for each VM protected and the amount of storage
consumed by the VMs. When a DR test is run or a DR event occurs, customers will only pay for the compute
consumed when VMs are running.
Site Recovery Manager Air™: Site Recovery Manager Air is a software as a service offering that will provide
VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery customers with a comprehensive management solution for designing,
testing, executing and orchestrating centralized business continuity and disaster recovery plans. VMware
Site Recovery Manager Air will enable fast, reliable and orchestrated recovery of multi-VM applications and
data centers protected in VMware vCloud Air.
VMware vCloud Air Object Storage: VMware vCloud Air Object Storage is a portfolio of highly scalable, reliable and
cost effective storage services for unstructured data. VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by Google Cloud
Platform is based on Google Cloud Storage and integrated into vCloud Air OnDemand. VMware vCloud Air Object
Storage powered by EMC is based on EMC ViPR, offered by EMC Cloud Services and integrated into vCloud Air
OnDemand. VMware vCloud Air Object Storage will be easy to setup and exceptionally durable and available, and
will reduce the need for data protection with built-in redundancy. It will support global access use cases with easy
access from any device, anywhere, anytime.
VMware vCloud Air SQL - VMware vCloud Air SQL is a new database as a service offering that will provide easy
access to scalable, cloud-hosted relational databases. Delivered in a cost-efficient pay-as-you-go model, and built on
the trusted foundation of vSphere, vCloud Air SQL will support hybrid data solutions that seamlessly and securely
extend on-premises databases to the cloud. VMware vCloud Air SQL will support Microsoft SQL Server, with a variety
of memory, compute and storage options, and plans to support other relational databases in the future.
VMware NSX™ 6.2 - VMware NSX 6.2 enables organizations to achieve application continuity through disaster
recovery and metro-pooling for more efficient use of resources throughout a single data center and across data
centers. With VMware NSX, customers can reduce recovery time objectives by as much as 80 percent1. VMware NSX
6.2 also adds better integration with physical infrastructure, enabling simplified and consistent operations for the
entire data center network and the extension of micro-segmentation to physical servers. Finally, new capabilities
such as Traceflow and Central CLI further simplify operations and visibility. Read this blog to learn more about
VMware NSX6.2.
VMware vRealize™ Operations™ 6.1 - VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 will deliver a consistent management
framework as organizations evolve from the private cloud and adopt technologies for the hybrid cloud. With the new
Intelligent Workload Placement capability, VMware vRealize Operations will match the workload to a customer's
specific IT and business needs, and recommend the best placement location. Proactive Rebalancing enables
customers to continually meet those needs. Operating system and application monitoring will be available natively in
VMware vRealize Operations and predictive analytics help IT proactively identify and avoid potential issues across
infrastructure and application stacks from a unified self-learning management solution. For more information, read
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vRealize Log Insight™ 3 - New features in vRealize Log Insight 3 will include double the scale and performance to
15,000 messages per second, improvements in fault tolerance around clustering, analytics improvements with new
charting options and query snapshots, improved integration with vRealize Operations, and improvements in Big Data
style queryexecution.
VMware Integrated OpenStack 2 - VMware Integrated OpenStack 2 will be based on OpenStack Kilo, making it
current with upstream OpenStack code, and will include an industry-first seamless upgrade capability that will
address one of the largest deployment and operational challenges for OpenStack clouds. VMware Integrated
OpenStack will also include enhancements such as load-balancing as a service, Ceilometer and Heat Auto Scaling to
make VMware-based OpenStack clouds more scalable, performant and resilient. VMware also announced VMware
Integrated OpenStack will be available to service providers through the VMware vCloud Air Network program. Read
this blog to learn more about VMware Integrated OpenStack 2.
VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 - VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 will integrate with VMware NSX 6.2,
enabling IT to use network virtualization to simplify disaster recovery management and accelerate recovery in the
software-defined data center. VMware Site Recovery Manager will orchestrate the live migration of VMs at scale
between sites by automating cross-vCenter vMotion operations, enabling zero downtime disaster avoidance and
data center migrations. VMware Site Recovery Manager will interoperate with VMware vSphere Storage Policy-
Based Management to enable automatic, policy-based disaster protection for VMs. VMware Site Recovery Manager
will now add support for stretched cluster solutions including EMC VPLEX, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and IBM
San Volume Controller. Read this blog to learn more about Site Recovery Manager 6.1.
VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering - VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering will enable ecosystem partners
including Asigra, EMC, Infinio, PrimaryIO, Samsung, SanDisk and StorageCraft to offer third party software-based
data services such as replication and caching. These data services will be fully integrated in vSphere and managed
through vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management, which is the same framework used to manage all the software-
defined storage services in vSphere. Hear what our partners are saying about vSphere APIs for IO Filtering.
Technology Preview - Project Skyscraper - Today at VMworld 2015, VMware revealed a technology preview of
Project Skyscraper, a new set of innovative hybrid cloud capabilities for vSphere. These new capabilities will enable
customers to extend their data center to the public cloud and seamlessly operate across boundaries while providing
enterprise-level security and business continuity. At VMworld, the company will demonstrate live workload
migration through Cross-Cloud vMotion and Content Sync across a private cloud and vCloud Air. Read more about
Project Skyscraper in this blog

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VMware vSphere Integrated Containers: Unveiled today as a technology preview, VMware vSphere Integrated
Containers will enable IT teams to support any application, including containerized applications, on a common
infrastructure.
The technology can accelerate container initiatives by enabling IT teams to take advantage of their existing
investments in VMware infrastructure, people, processes and management tools. The solution will also empower
developers with the flexibility, portability and speed containers deliver. VMware vSphere Integrated Containers will
easily integrate with other container ecosystem solutions including CoreOS Tectonic, Docker, Kubernetes,
Mesosphere's Data Center Operating System and Cloud Foundry.
VMware vSphere Integrated Containers represents a complementary set of cloud-native technologies featuring
Project Bonneville, Project Photon OS (formerly Project Photon), and VMware's Instant Clone technology (a feature
of VMware vSphere 6) that will bring together the best of VMware vSphere with containers.
With VMware vSphere at its foundation, the new offering will help IT operations team meet the following enterprise
requirements for containers:
Security and Isolation - Assuring the integrity and authenticity of containers and their underlying
infrastructure, Project Bonneville, a technology preview, isolates and starts up each container in a virtual
machine with minimal overhead using the Instant Clone feature of VMware vSphere 6.
Storage and Data Persistence - While many container services are stateless today, customers have the
desire to enable stateful services to support cloud-native databases. VMware vSphere Integrated Containers
will enable provisioning of persistent data volumes for containers in VMware vSphere environments. This
will enable IT operations and development teams to take advantage of the speed and portability of
containerized applications in conjunction with highly resilient VMware vSphere storage, including VMware
Virtual SAN™ and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes™-enabled external storage.
Networking - VMware NSX™ supports production container deployments today. With VMware NSX, IT can
apply fine-grained network micro-segmentation and policy-based security to cloud-native applications.
Additionally, VMware NSX provides IT with greater visibility into the behavior of containers. Finally, with
VMware NSX, containers can be integrated with the rest of the data center, and can be connected to
quarantine, forensics and/or monitoring networks for additional monitoring and troubleshooting.
Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) – IT teams will be able to assure service-level agreements for container
workloads with Vmware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler as well as reduce planned and unplanned
downtime with Vmware vSphere High Availability and Vmware vSphere vMotion®.
Management - Administrators will be able to use VMware vCenter Server™ to view and manage their
containers without the need for new tools or additional training through Project Bonneville, which will
enable the seamless integration of containers into VMware vSphere. Customers can further achieve
consistent management and configuration compliance across private and public clouds using the VMware
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By bringing together all the necessary capabilities into a single solution to run enterprise-class containers in
production, VMware will help IT organizations to accelerate time to value, reduce risk and enable long-term viability
for their container initiatives. Additionally, IT teams will have tremendous choice and flexibility over the hardware,
operating systems and third-party software certified for VMware vSphere.
VMware EVO SDDC - Previously code named VMware EVO: RACK™, VMware EVO SDDC will be a fully automated
software suite for delivering the software-defined data center as an integrated system. Enterprises and service
providers will be able to use VMware EVO SDDC to deploy a software-defined data center at scale. With VMware
EVO SDDC, IT organizations can meet key data center scale initiatives, ranging from application and infrastructure
delivery automation to business mobility to high availability and resilient infrastructure, without compromising
security, control or choice.
"Organizations have adopted the software-defined data center architecture to become more agile, responsive and
profitable," said John Gilmartin, vice president and general manager, Integrated Systems Business Unit, VMware.
"VMware EVO SDDC will bring to bear the entirety of our innovations across our software-defined data center
portfolio in a comprehensive and integrated system that will be easy to deploy, operate and scale."
VMware EVO SDDC will include VMware EVO SDDC Manager™, a new intelligent automation engine that will simplify
and significantly reduce the time required for power-up, provisioning and monitoring of virtual and physical
resources, including software, servers, top-of-rack and spine switches. The EVO SDDC Manager will pool resources
across multiple racks as a single "virtual rack" and can dynamically carve out workload domain capacity based on
availability and performance requirements. VMware EVO SDDC Manager will provide automated lifecycle
management of the entire hardware and VMware integrated software stack, including:
Compute - VMware vSphere, the industry-defining virtualization solution, delivers a highly available,
resilient, on-demand cloud infrastructure to run, protect and manage any application from business-critical
to cloud-native applications.
Storage - VMware Virtual SAN is the ideal storage platform for virtual machines, including business-critical
applications. A 64-node VMware Virtual SAN cluster exceeds eight petabytes of storage capacity while
delivering up to seven million input/output operations per second (IOPS) with nearly perfect linear
scalability.
Networking - VMware NSX is helping hundreds of customers realize the full potential of a software-defined
data center. Integrated within VMware EVO SDDC, VMware NSX reduces the time to provision multi-tier
networking and security services from weeks to seconds, abstracting virtual networks from the underlying
physical network. VMware NSX also brings security inside the data center through micro-segmentation and
automated fine-grained policies tied to the virtual machines.

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Cloud Management - VMware vRealize™ Operations™ provides intelligent operations management across
physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures using predictive analytics and policy-based automation. The
combination of VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Log Insight™ enables IT teams to
combine and analyze structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management to help
them improve overall performance and avert disruptions.
VMware EVO SDDC will also include Hardware Management Services to abstract the characteristics of
heterogeneous switching, server and power distribution unit (PDU) hardware. Hardware Management Services will
be responsible for executing hardware management tasks. VMware intends to offer this solution as open source
code, enabling the company to work with a broad ecosystem of partners to drive ongoing development leading to
broad hardware compatibility and improved technology.
VMware EVO SDDC customers will be able to easily add VMware Horizon® virtual desktops and VMware vRealize
Automation™ to enable infrastructure as a service. In addition, VMware is exploring future integration between
VMware EVO SDDC and VMware vCloud Director® and VMware Integrated OpenStack to support service provider
environments.
Rack-scale offerings built and managed with VMware EVO SDDC will scale in capacity starting from one-third rack to
multiple racks and thousands of nodes at single server increments. Each fully populated rack will support more than
1,000 infrastructure as a service virtual machines or more than 2,000 desktop virtual machines, delivering a highly
efficient and scalable infrastructure for cloud and virtual desktop deployments.
Initially, the solution will be available via branded, integrated system offerings direct from partners Dell, QCT
(Quanta Cloud Technology) and VCE. Over time, customers will also have the option to purchase the software direct
from VMware, and then work with a pre-qualified partner to integrate the software onto hardware.
VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 - VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 will increase data protection options for business-critical
environments with the new Stretched Cluster Feature and enhanced VMware vSphere Replication™ providing five-
minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Additionally, the latest release enables new advanced management and
monitoring through deep integration with VMware vRealize Operations and a new Health Check Plug-In for
performance monitoring, root cause analysis and capacity planning.
VMware Virtual SAN is designed to be the optimal storage solution for VMware vSphere virtual machines. The
software will enable core storage services for virtualized production environments, with greater performance,
scalability, flexibility, and lower latency and cost. VMware Virtual SAN is ideal for a range of use cases including
business-critical applications, virtual desktop infrastructure, remote IT, and test / development.
In 15 months since its initial release, more than 2,000 customers have adopted VMware's industry-leading hyper-
converged infrastructure stack globally. Featuring storage policy-based management, VMware Virtual SAN shifts the
management model for storage from the device to the application, enabling administrators to provision storage for
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"Customers have adopted VMware Virtual SAN because of the simple, high-performance storage it offers for
VMware vSphere virtual machines," said Charles Fan, senior vice president and general manager, Storage and
Availability Business Unit, VMware. "The enhanced enterprise availability and data protection, new flash hardware
device support, and advanced management and troubleshooting capabilities of VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 are
examples of the rapid evolution of the storage software to meet the needs of enterprise customers."
Photon Platform - Introducing the Photon Platform: Purpose-Built for Running Cloud-Native Applications
For DevOps and software as a service (SaaS) organizations, running cloud-native applications at scale requires a
container-optimized platform developed for high churn workloads and an API-first model. VMware will today
demonstrate the VMware Photon Platform, which is purpose-built to meet this emerging need and features "just the
right level of functionality" to run cloud-native applications at scale. Showcased as a technology preview, the
VMware Photon Platform is designed for DevOps teams planning to build out large pools of commodity computing
capacity that solely run cloud-native applications. DevOps teams will have a choice of open container orchestration
frameworks including Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos and Cloud Foundry to run on the platform. The
technology
-- components of which will be open sourced -- will also support dynamic continuous integration environments,
platform as a service (PaaS) or SaaS deployments, and sizable data analytics clusters running Hadoop or Spark.
The VMware Photon Platform, which will include future integrations with VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN and
VMware vRealize Suite, features the following technologies:
VMware Photon Controller - A multi-tenant, API-driven control plane optimized for scale, churn and high-
availability. Automation-savvy DevOps teams will be able to speed the creation of thousands of new
containers per minute and support hundreds of thousands of total simultaneous workloads. The controller
will be released as an open source project to help encourage broad input, testing and adoption from
customers, partners and the community at large. The technology will also incorporate Project Lightwave,
which provides enterprise-grade trust and security for containers.
VMware Photon Machine - This technology will include a new ESX Microvisor based on the proven core of
VMware ESXi. It also includes Project Photon OS, a lightweight Linux operating system for containerized
applications and optimized for VMware environments.

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Technology Preview: “Project A2” - Today at VMworld 2015, VMware introduced Project A2, a technology preview
showcasing the ability to re-define Windows management and pioneer an approach that is unique in the industry,
shifting from a focus on endpoint management to a focus on application management.
Windows 10 will drive a major industry shift due to its mobile-cloud focus. Businesses upgrading to the new
operating system will need to embrace a new mobile-centric approach to delivering and managing applications, as
pioneered by AirWatch by VMware. Project A2 can accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 by eliminating the costly
and complex process of managing and upgrading Windows PCs and applications by using AirWatch enterprise mobile
management (EMM) coupled with new VMware App Volumes application delivery technology.
Project A2 will make applications lightweight and easy to deliver, enabling IT organizations to seamlessly move
existing physical Windows applications into the new Windows 10 mobile-cloud platform and apply an EMM
approach across all applications (universal and classic Windows applications). This new technology will offer IT teams
a uniform management experience for their entire fleet of Windows 10 desktop devices along with employee and
business owned mobile devices. Moreover, it will deliver a consistent end-user mobile workspace that provides
access to all of users applicationsincluding Windows, SaaS and mobile, to any device.
For more information on Project A2 and VMware’s Windows 10 strategy, visit the VMware End-User Computing
product blog.
VMware Identity Manager Advanced Edition - VMware Identity Manager is the industry's first identity as a service
(IDaaS) offering integrated with a leading, enterprise mobility management and security solution. Initially available
as part of the AirWatch Blue and Yellow Management Suites, VMware Identity Manager™ Advanced Edition will be
available as a standalone IDaaS solution through the browser on any Chrome, Mac or Windows device. For more
information, click here.
VMware Horizon® 6.2 and VMware Horizon 6.2 for Linux - Continued innovation in application and desktop delivery
will introduce several key advancements in VMware Horizon, including:
 Expanded support for applications at-scale that will deliver a rich user experience to global, multi-site
deployment of virtualenvironments;
 An enriched user experience with support for Skype for Business and NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ (virtual
graphics processing unit);
 New VMware Virtual SAN storage optimizations that will include all-flash options delivering much lower
costs and incredibleperformance;
 Enhanced security capabilities including support for biometric fingerprint authentication;
 Federal government readiness including FIPS 140-2 compliance.
In addition, VMware announced VMware Horizon 6.2 for Linux. Designed for customers that require specialized
security or high-end workstations, the solution will offer expanded support for NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ and shared
graphics acceleration (vSGA). Along with existing virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA) support, VMware
Horizon 6.2 for Linux will offer a complete spectrum of 3D graphics delivery for any worker or any use case.
For more information on VMware Horizon enhancements and updates to VMware Project Enzo, Project Fargo and
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“Applications play a critical role in how we do business so we focus on working with organizations and technologies
that help our end-users work smarter and more effectively," said Craig Fletcher, chief technology officer, CH2M.
“VMware End-User Computing solutions enable us to seamlessly deliver any application our end users need on any
device, whether it’s a graphic intensive application for a high-end design engineer at a workstation or a mobile
application for a knowledge worker to access information on the go. With that agility and flexibility, we’re able to
better serve our customers.”
VMware Validated Designs - VMware Validated Designs are architectures created and validated by VMware experts,
encompassing the entire product stack used in VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center. These designs provide
standardized and streamlined architectures for each deployment scenario and broad use-case, for example:
Datacenter Foundation, Single-region & Dual-region IT Automation, QE / Demo Cloud and more. These designs are
being made available to you via customer facing documentation, VMware Professional Services (PSO) delivery kits
and certified partner architectures.
So why spend the time and investment in this type of initiative when we already have reference architectures and
whitepapers for each product release? While these assets are a great resource; they typically take into account only
that product and that version. The VMware Validated Design process takes into account the entire SDDC stack
ensuring product version compatibility, continued testing with product releases, upgrade testing and validation to
ensure what you deploy today can be upgraded to the next version. In other words the VMware Validated Design:
Is Designed by Experts, Used byYou
Each design for a specific deployment scenario has been created by a team of VMware experts. The design
has been improved based on live feedback from customers like you.
Is Continuously Validated
Each design is continuously validated by VMware through automated testing. To ensure that once a design
has been validated, it stays valid, every new build of any component of the design drops into an automated
deployment of thedesign.
Is a ComprehensiveDesign
Each Design includes everything needed for a fully functional SDDC covering a set of use cases – yet remains
hardware-agnostic. VMware Validated Designs create reference architectures, deployment walkthroughs,
deployment guides, operations guides…and more.
Results in Quicker Time to Value
With a quicker deployment of your SDDC you will ensure faster fulfillment of your business needs.
Instills Confidence in your SDDC
Build your SDDC using a design validated by experts—including recommended Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 /
ongoing operations. This helps reduce the errors in deploying and operating your SDDC.
Today we are announcing a number of resources being made available to you, our customer. These include two
reference architectures and two sets of deployment walkthroughs. The first reference architecture, Data Center
Foundation, serves as the foundation for the SDDC, all SDDC architectures build off of the foundation
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The second reference architecture, the Single-Region IT Automation Cloud, focuses on enabling IT to rapidly respond
to business requirements through automating the SDDC. In addition to the reference architecture there is an
accompanying deployment walkthrough for foundation and single-region IT automation detailing how to build out
the reference architecture.
We have also launched an early access community under My VMware where you can get access to new documents,
provide direct feedback and help influence future designs.
Get started by downloading the Data Center Foundation and Single-Region IT Automation Cloud reference
architecture white papers and taking time to step through the deployment walkthroughs. We think you’re
really going to like the simplified approach to the SDDC the VMware Validated Designs bring.
Enjoy! Join the early access community here!

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Other News
Project Capstone Shows Monster VM Performance - Project Capstone was put together a few weeks before
VMworld 2015 with the goal of being able to show what is possible with Monster VMs today. VMware worked with
HP and IBM to put together an impressive setup using vSphere 6.0, HP Superdome X and an IBM FlashSystem array
that was able to support running four 120 vCPU VMs simultaneously. Putting these massive Virtual Machines under
load we found that performance was excellent with great scalability and a high amount of throughput achieved.
vSphere 6 was launched earlier this year and includes support for virtual machines with up to 128 virtual CPUs which
is a big increase from the 64 vCPUs supported in vSphere 5.5. “Monster” virtual machines have a new upper limit
and it allows for customers to virtualize even the largest of systems with very hungry CPU needs.
The HP Superdome X used for the testing is an impressive system. It has 16 Intel Xeon E7-2890v2 2.8 GHz
processors. Each processor has 15 cores and 30 logical threads when Hyper Threading is enabled. In total this is 240
cores / 480 threads.
An IBM FlashSystem array with 20TB of superfast low latency storage was used for the project Capstone
configuration. It provided extremely low latency throughout all testing and provided such great performance that
storage was never a concern or issue. The FlashSystem was extremely easy to setup and use. Within 24 hours of it
arriving in the lab, we were actively running four 120 vCPU VMs with sub millisecond latency.
Large Oracle 12c database virtual machines running on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.5 were created and configured
with 256GB of RAM, pvSCSI virtual disk adapters, and vmxnet3 virtual NICs. The number of VMs and the number of
vCPUs for each VM was varied across the tests.
The workload used for the testing was DVD Store 3 (github.com/dvdstore/ds3). DVD Store simulates a real online
store with customers logging onto the site, browsing products and product reviews, rating products, and ultimately
purchasing those products. The benchmark is measured in Orders Per Minute, with each order representing a
complete login, browsing, and purchasing process that includes many individual SQL operations against the
database.
This large system with 240 cores / 480 threads, an extremely fast and large storage system, and vSphere 6 showed
that even with many monster VMs excellent performance and scalability is possible. Each configuration was first
stressed by increasing the DVD Store workload until maximum throughput was achieved for a single virtual machine.
In all cases this was found to be at near CPU saturation. The number of VM was then increased so that the entire
system was fully committed. A whitepaper to be published soon will have the full set of test results, but here we
show the results for four 120 vCPU VMs and sixteen 30 vCPU VMs:

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In both cases the performance of the system when fully loaded with either 4 or 16 virtual machines achieves about
90% of perfect linear scalability when compared to the performance of a single virtual machine.
In order to be able to drive the CPU usage to such high levels all disk IO must be very fast so that the system is not
waiting for a response. The IBM FlashSystem provided .3 ms average disk latency across all tests. Total disk IO was
minimized for these tests to maximize CPU usage and throughput by configuring the database cache size to be equal
to the database size. Total disk IO per second (IOPS) peaked at about 50k and averaged 20k while maintaining the
extremely low latency during tests.
These test results show that it is possible to use vSphere 6 to successfully virtualize even the largest systems with
excellentperformance.
New VMware NSX SDN OEM, Nvidia Virtual Graphics Partnership - Hewlett-Packard took another step to deepen its
15-year relationship with VMware today at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco.
HP announced a plan to extend its software-defined networking capabilities through a new OEM and reseller
agreement with VMware. Since HP now has the ability to sell VMware, this move could allow customers to deploy
applications faster, simplify their data center network fabric and improve security.
HP plans to federate VMware’s NSX software-defined networking, or SDN, technology with HP’s FlexFabric
networking technology to assist customers as they gradually migrate toward software-defined data centers.
The HP FlexFabric 5930 direct certification with VMware NSX and SDN federated certification will be available in the
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HP also shared details about its partnership with Nvidia to combine the VMware Horizon (v6.1) virtual desktop
solution, the Nvidia Grid technology for graphics-accelerated virtual desktop and HP’s OneView management
software to give customers the ability to virtualize graphics processing in virtual desktop environments. This will also
be available in the fourth quarter of 2015. Nvidia had earlier announced the launch of Grid 2.0, its latest offering
in virtual desktop technology.
These end-user computing services can support up to 3,500 users and are tested to run desktop-virtualization
applications at optimal performance, helping customers reduce provisioning time, cost, setup and installation errors,
according toHP.
During this week’s VMworld conference, HP also introduced the Converged Architecture 700, which is a new
program that provides reference architecture for enterprise-class workloads, including Microsoft Exchange, Lync,
SharePoint and SQL, along with HP’s Helion cloud and both Citrix and VMware virtual desktop infrastructure
offerings.
These new products and services are the latest in a series of recent innovations optimized for VMware vSphere,
including new hyper-converged and all-flash storage systems, which were announced earlier this month.
VMware Selects Nexenta Open Software-Defined Storage Platform for VMware Virtual SAN File Services –
Nexenta, in partnership with VMware, today announced that any validated VMware Virtual SAN customer could
receive an exclusive promotion of NexentaConnect to achieve file services. NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN
provides file services for VMware Virtual SAN environments by adding NFS and SMB access on top of an existing
Virtual SAN to complete the software hyper-convergence model.
Additionally during VMworld 2015 (link is external), Nexenta will showcase this combined solution within VMware’s
Hands-on Lab (HOL). This much-anticipated participation in VMware’s Virtual SAN A-to-Z HOL session will provide
event attendees with the opportunity to discover NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN ™. This is the only file
services offering for VMware Virtual SAN in the HOL. In 45 minutes, HOL guests will experience everything from
initial installation and configuration to storage policy management and data recovery via snapshots. This training will
also be available after VMworld here (link is external).
“Of all the solutions we evaluated, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN was the most mature, the easiest to
implement and use, and delivered the best performance. If you’ve got a VMware Virtual SAN set up already,
implementing NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN takes about ten minutes,” said Phil Bedard, Principal
Network Design Engineer for Cox Communications. “Full integration into our infrastructure was easy, too. My team
and the network designers we serve, don’t want to become storage experts. Our real job is testing. While I have
experience with storage, I was looking for a product that would be easy for my network experts to manage.”
“We are thrilled to select Nexenta as our file services component of VMware Virtual SAN,” said Gaetan Castelein, Sr.
Director Product Management at VMware. “Nexenta’s disruptive OpenSDS solutions, combined with VMware’s
SDDC vision is empowering users with agile, scalable and sustainable architectures, and the booth demos, joint
promotion and HOL will provide attendees with first-hand experience of what our partnership is all about.”

VMworld US 2015
Other News
“Now, more than ever, as storage requirements grow, end-users demand their data centers are built on a simplified
infrastructure, reducing costs and achieving automated scalability,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at
Nexenta. "Nexenta and VMware are changing the industry with our full featured Software-Defined Storage solutions
that can deliver flexibility, simplicity and lower total cost of ownership for the SDDC.”
SanDisk® Introduces New All-Flash Reference Architectures – SanDisk unveiled three new reference architectures
for VMWare Virtual SAN™ 6 utilizing solid state drives (SSD) and Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe application accelerators.
When coupled with VMware Virtual SAN 6, SanDisk’s PCIe and SSD-based solutions allow customers to deploy
business critical applications, databases, virtual desktops and other IT workloads with less effort, while gaining
exceptional performance on VMware’s hyper-converged and cost-effective VMware Virtual SAN software-defined
storage infrastructure.
The new reference architectures utilizing SanDisk SATA, SAS and PCIe application accelerator solutions with VMware
Virtual SAN to be demonstrated at VMworld® 2015 include:
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Solution with All-Flash Virtual SAN
This new 4-node reference architecture utilizes SanDisk’s 4TB Optimus MAX™ - the industry’s highest
capacity SSD that is certified for Virtual SAN 67 - on a Lenovo System x3650 M5 server platform. In a
performance test conducted by SanDisk, Lenovo, VMware, and Avago, all-flash 4-node configuration
delivered 3.08 million New Orders per Minute (NOPMs) and 14.1 million transactions per minute (TPMs)
using eight virtual machines executing Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition. The HammerDB performance
tuning and benchmarking tool was used to run a 5000 Warehouse TPC-C like workload.
VMware Horizon® Virtual Desktop and Applications Solution with All-Flash Virtual SAN
SanDisk co-led the development of this virtual desktop infrastructure reference architecture utilizing
SanDisk’s Lightning® Gen. II SSDs and Dell R730 G13 servers. This solution was tested to run 800 Horizon 6
Desktops on a starter 4-node cluster with VMware, Avago and Brocade. The solution fuels VMware Horizon®
6 virtual desktops and applications at a significantly lower TCO when compared to traditional HDD-based
storage solutions. Similarly, when tested, a starter 4-node configuration deployed 24 desktops per minute in
a boot storm situation, bringing up 850 desktops in 35 minutes. This is the industry’s first 800 virtual desktop
solution running on an end-to-end 12G all-flash VSAN Cluster.
Horizon Virtual Desktop Solution with Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN
This is a reference architecture tested in conjunction with HP and VMware, utilizing HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9
servers and SanDisk’s high performance Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators for caching in a
hybrid VMware Virtual SAN cluster. In a performance test conducted using VMware Horizon 6.1, the View
Planner benchmarking and workload generator with a 3-node cluster, the solution delivered fast application
performance and response times to support the maximum number of virtual desktops with all responses
under the recommended performance thresholds.
A video by SanDisk and VMware executives on these new solutions is available here.

VMworld US 2015
Other News
Atlantis USXTM 3.0 - the only SDS or hyper-converged solution that is certified for VVOL - Atlantis Computing
today announced its third generation SDS platform and factory-integration of its Atlantis HyperScale appliances
available on Cisco, HP, Lenovo and SuperMicro server platforms. The new Atlantis solutions deliver data mobility to
make the entire data center more agile, provide all-flash performance to all users and applications and create
efficiency that cuts data center costs in half.
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOL) certified – Atlantis USX is the only SDS or hyper-converged solution that is
certified for VVOL, enabling VVOL to manage all existing storage in the data center. The VVOL integration
with Atlantis USX improves performance and increases the storage efficiency of provisioning, snapshots,
clones, and storagevMotion.
EMC VVOL support schedule released

PowerShell
• How many of you use it?
• How many of you have multiple vCenters?
• How many of you use Get-VICredentialStoreItem?
• Let’s walk through using it.
Format: Get-VICredentialStoreItem –File abc.xml

More Info
• Check out my website:
http://virtuallyanadmin.com/powershell/2015/05/13/powershell-
credentials/
• Check out @Zsoldier’s site: http://tech.zsoldier.com/2011/09/save-
powercli-login-credentials-to-xml.html
• VMware Publication: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-
55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.powercli.cmdletref.doc%2FGet-
VICredentialStoreItem.html

Thanks
Thanks for joining us this evening.
Slide deck available at
http://virtuallyanadmin.com/slides/

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