This document summarizes a presentation about business continuity solutions hosted by i//:squared. i//:squared provides end-to-end ICT managed services, business continuity services, and business strategic advice. The presentation also covered Veeam software, which develops products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Veeam solutions include backup and replication software, as well as monitoring and reporting tools. Finally, the presentation provided an overview of EMC's VNX and VNXe unified storage systems, which include various models with different maximum drive capacities and configurations.
vSphere 5.x introduced several storage enhancements including VMFS-5, VAAI primitives, Storage I/O Control, and Storage DRS. It also previewed new storage technologies like vFlash, Virtual Volumes, and Distributed Storage. vSphere 5.1 built on these features with improvements to VMFS scalability, VOMA, VAAI NAS support, SIOC automatic thresholds, Storage vMotion parallelization, and IO device management. It also added support for space efficient sparse virtual disks. Future releases may integrate these new storage technologies for benefits like flash-accelerated storage and scale-out capabilities.
VMware ESXi is a free bare-metal hypervisor that can be used to virtualize laptops. It has low resource usage which allows laptops to run virtual machines all day without overheating. The document provides instructions for installing ESXi on laptops and ensuring the network drivers are correctly configured by replacing the OEM file. Examples are given of running ESXi on different laptops and using it to virtualize an OpenSolaris environment.
Kemari is a virtual machine synchronization technique that allows fault tolerance by keeping a primary and secondary VM identical. It uses DomT, a para-virtualized domain, to efficiently synchronize state between VMs by tapping event channels and only transferring updated memory pages. Evaluation shows the secondary VM can continue transparently and with acceptable performance during network, storage and file I/O workloads when the primary hardware fails.
The document summarizes a 5-day VMware vSphere Boot Camp that covers all key aspects of VMware vSphere including installation, configuration, management, monitoring and troubleshooting. By the end of the course, attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere 4. Topics include virtualization infrastructure, ESX installation, virtual networking, shared storage, virtual machines, vCenter, resource management, high availability, backup and recovery.
The document discusses Xen, an open source hypervisor project. It provides a brief history of Xen starting in 2002. It describes Xen's key features including support for hardware virtualization, high performance, and security. The mission of the Xen Project is to establish the hypervisor as the industry standard and maintain performance and stability while supporting a wide range of systems. An advisory board oversees the project and community.
This document discusses VM snapshots, which allow capturing a consistent view of a virtual machine without pausing it. Snapshots are created using copy-on-write frames, where only frames that are dirtied after the snapshot are copied. This provides a lightweight mechanism for various purposes like VM introspection, checkpointing, rollback, and forking VMs. The implementation marks memory read-only and catches write faults to log dirty frames. Additional details are provided on the architecture using a library, FUSE driver, and kernel driver to take snapshots and access snapshot memory. Challenges around write-after-read, catching all writes, and buffer space are also covered.
- vSphere 5.0 introduces new features for platforms, networking, availability, vMotion, DRS/DPM, vCenter Server, storage, and Site Recovery Manager.
- Key enhancements include support for larger VMs, 3D graphics, more devices, an ESXi firewall, image builder tool, and auto deploy for faster host provisioning using host profiles.
- Auto deploy allows rapid initial deployment and patching of ESXi hosts using a "on the fly" model coordinated with vSphere Host Profiles.
Mythbusting goes virtual What's new in vSphere 5.1Eric Sloof
The document summarizes new features in vSphere 5.1 that address common myths about virtualization limitations. It discusses that vMotion can now occur without shared storage using enhanced vMotion, vSphere management no longer requires Windows with the new web client, vSphere Replication provides site disaster recovery without SRM, the VMFS host limit for linked clones increased from 8 to 32, and distributed switch configurations can now be backed up and restored.
vSphere 5.x introduced several storage enhancements including VMFS-5, VAAI primitives, Storage I/O Control, and Storage DRS. It also previewed new storage technologies like vFlash, Virtual Volumes, and Distributed Storage. vSphere 5.1 built on these features with improvements to VMFS scalability, VOMA, VAAI NAS support, SIOC automatic thresholds, Storage vMotion parallelization, and IO device management. It also added support for space efficient sparse virtual disks. Future releases may integrate these new storage technologies for benefits like flash-accelerated storage and scale-out capabilities.
VMware ESXi is a free bare-metal hypervisor that can be used to virtualize laptops. It has low resource usage which allows laptops to run virtual machines all day without overheating. The document provides instructions for installing ESXi on laptops and ensuring the network drivers are correctly configured by replacing the OEM file. Examples are given of running ESXi on different laptops and using it to virtualize an OpenSolaris environment.
Kemari is a virtual machine synchronization technique that allows fault tolerance by keeping a primary and secondary VM identical. It uses DomT, a para-virtualized domain, to efficiently synchronize state between VMs by tapping event channels and only transferring updated memory pages. Evaluation shows the secondary VM can continue transparently and with acceptable performance during network, storage and file I/O workloads when the primary hardware fails.
The document summarizes a 5-day VMware vSphere Boot Camp that covers all key aspects of VMware vSphere including installation, configuration, management, monitoring and troubleshooting. By the end of the course, attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere 4. Topics include virtualization infrastructure, ESX installation, virtual networking, shared storage, virtual machines, vCenter, resource management, high availability, backup and recovery.
The document discusses Xen, an open source hypervisor project. It provides a brief history of Xen starting in 2002. It describes Xen's key features including support for hardware virtualization, high performance, and security. The mission of the Xen Project is to establish the hypervisor as the industry standard and maintain performance and stability while supporting a wide range of systems. An advisory board oversees the project and community.
This document discusses VM snapshots, which allow capturing a consistent view of a virtual machine without pausing it. Snapshots are created using copy-on-write frames, where only frames that are dirtied after the snapshot are copied. This provides a lightweight mechanism for various purposes like VM introspection, checkpointing, rollback, and forking VMs. The implementation marks memory read-only and catches write faults to log dirty frames. Additional details are provided on the architecture using a library, FUSE driver, and kernel driver to take snapshots and access snapshot memory. Challenges around write-after-read, catching all writes, and buffer space are also covered.
- vSphere 5.0 introduces new features for platforms, networking, availability, vMotion, DRS/DPM, vCenter Server, storage, and Site Recovery Manager.
- Key enhancements include support for larger VMs, 3D graphics, more devices, an ESXi firewall, image builder tool, and auto deploy for faster host provisioning using host profiles.
- Auto deploy allows rapid initial deployment and patching of ESXi hosts using a "on the fly" model coordinated with vSphere Host Profiles.
Mythbusting goes virtual What's new in vSphere 5.1Eric Sloof
The document summarizes new features in vSphere 5.1 that address common myths about virtualization limitations. It discusses that vMotion can now occur without shared storage using enhanced vMotion, vSphere management no longer requires Windows with the new web client, vSphere Replication provides site disaster recovery without SRM, the VMFS host limit for linked clones increased from 8 to 32, and distributed switch configurations can now be backed up and restored.
Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the DifferencesSolarWinds
For more information on Virtualization Manager visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx
Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/hyper-v-vs-vsphere-understanding-the-differences.html
Watch this webinar with Scott Lowe, Founder and Managing Consultant at The 1610 Group, and SolarWinds virtualization expert Jonathan Reeve where they discuss “Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the differences.”
The virtualization market is abuzz with talk of different hypervisors – most prominently VMware ESX® versus Microsoft Hyper-V®, who together own over 90% of the market. Small and medium businesses are already moving quickly toward Hyper-V, and a growing number of larger organizations are beginning to put plans in place to transition some portion of their environment from ESX to Hyper-V.
In this webcast we explore the reasons for these changes and the ecosystems for these two platforms both now and in the future. We also take a look ahead to what is known about Hyper-V 3.0 and why it warrants an even deeper look when evaluating hypervisors for your future virtualization deployments.
This document provides information about the Xen Summit event at Oracle from February 24-25, 2009. It summarizes that there were over 100 attendees from 8+ countries and 36+ companies. The event included presentations on topics like Xen roadmaps and releases, memory management techniques in Xen, network performance, security features, and power management. It also provides the agenda for the two day event listing the presentation topics.
Hyper-V Best Practices & Tips and TricksAmit Gatenyo
This document discusses best practices for configuring Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines. It recommends:
- Using Server Core installation and dedicating hosts to the Hyper-V role for improved security and reliability.
- Properly sizing host CPUs, memory, and storage and separating networks for management, storage, and VMs.
- Configuring virtual machines with fixed VHDs, proper RAM and network settings, and latest integration components.
- Implementing security practices like regular patching of VMs and limiting processor usage to prevent overcommitment.
- Using VSS-aware backups and excluding unnecessary files/folders from antivirus scans to optimize performance.
This document discusses best practices for deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It provides an overview of Hyper-V functionality and deployment strategies. It also covers Virtual Machine Manager architecture, requirements, installation, host and cluster configuration, delegation, and Performance and Resource Optimization capabilities.
VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
This document summarizes research into detecting and correcting transient hardware errors. The researchers created lockstep virtual machines that execute identical workloads and compare outputs to detect errors. If outputs mismatch, the VMs replay from the last checkpoint. Checkpoints are taken periodically and compared; if unequal, one VM replays from the previous checkpoint. Initial tests showed small performance overhead from the lockstep execution and input/output checking. Future work involves implementing checkpoint/replay and improving performance and scalability.
The document summarizes the status of upstreaming Xen into the Linux kernel. Xen domain (domU) support has been stable for over a year in several distributions like Fedora and Debian. Work is ongoing to upstream dom0 support, which involves integrating features like APIC, ACPI, device mappings, and DMA/SWIOTLB handling. Performance optimizations have reduced paravirtualization overhead to 1-2%. Most core patches have been posted for review and the goal is to have core dom0 support merged for 2.6.30. Remaining work items include host suspend/resume and wider hardware testing.
This document summarizes a Xen Summit that took place in Boston in 2008. It provides details on:
- The 160+ attendees from 12 countries and 14 universities
- The agenda which included talks on applications of Xen, virtualization techniques, and performance optimizations
- Social events like a lunch and evening party for attendees
- Logistical information for attendees on the wireless network, breakout rooms, and getting event t-shirts and USB drives
- The Xen project status and roadmap with details on recent and upcoming releases
This document discusses using System Center to manage VMware environments. It describes how Operations Manager can monitor VMware vSphere using the Veeam nWorks management pack. This provides monitoring of VMware virtual machines, hosts, clusters and data stores with over 490 predefined monitors and 175 metrics. It also allows integration with other System Center components like distributed applications and service level monitoring. The management pack provides agentless, scalable monitoring of VMware environments from System Center.
This document describes SIOEMU, a self-IO emulation technique that allows non-x86 operating systems like OpenVMS to run on Xen/ia64 virtual machines. It does so by having a firmware within the domain handle all IO emulation instead of relying on Qemu in the control domain. This makes the domains more flexible and improves performance by avoiding domain scheduling for IO operations. The firmware emulates devices like IDE and network interfaces to provide full system emulation. Initial results show it can run Linux and OpenVMS domains, but ongoing work is needed to support SMP, save/restore, and add support for devices like VGA.
How to Optimize Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster and Double PerformanceStarWind Software
High availability in a virtualized workload may require to sacrifice failover cluster performance. Using an optimized for virtualization approach on data storage and virtual machines placement and protection will give you desired boost of performance.
The presentation shows how to:
- Achieve true Hyper-V cluster high availability with just 2 Hyper-V hosts and zero storage hardware
- Boost Hyper-V cluster performance by configuring automatic dynamic optimization
- Effectively track VMs resources usage
- Save an extra 30% of Hyper-V cluster resources by utilizing agentless antivirus
This document discusses the history and development of the Xen hypervisor project. It provides an overview of how paravirtualization and hardware-assisted virtualization have improved performance. It also examines how virtualization benefits security through policy enforcement and workload isolation. Network and memory management virtualization techniques are described that improve performance for virtual machines.
This 4-day VMware Advanced Administration course focuses on using vSphere tools to improve deployment, performance, monitoring, backup, recovery and best practices. Attendees will learn how to automate tasks using command line and scripting, and cover high availability clusters, fault tolerance, backup and recovery. The course also addresses patching, host profiles, security, and monitoring and tuning ESX and VM performance.
This document summarizes the key announcements and new features being unveiled at VMworld 2011. It highlights how VMware's vSphere 5 and vCloud Suite help drive business transformation by enabling a flexible hybrid cloud model. The updates provide improved infrastructure scalability, availability, security and management capabilities to reduce IT complexity and costs. Specifically, vSphere 5 features like ESXi convergence, auto deploy, storage DRS, and increased VM sizing allow for more efficient provisioning and resource optimization.
- Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview introduces new capabilities for rolling cluster upgrades without downtime, upgrading VM configurations, and servicing VM drivers. It also includes features like secure boot support for Linux guests, distributed storage QoS, production checkpoints, and dynamic memory resizing. The preview refines the Hyper-V architecture for improved backup reliability and adds capabilities like hot add of VHDx and network adapters.
1) The document discusses several services that have been developed in the virtualization plane, including Remus for transparent high availability, Parallax for virtual storage, and Tralfamadore for enhancing and understanding systems.
2) Tralfamadore continuously logs system execution over long periods, re-executes slices to generate indexes, and allows querying the history to search for specific events or states.
3) These services demonstrate how the virtualization plane provides opportunities to build low-level extensions that can improve areas like availability, storage, and debugging of software.
This document provides a history and overview of Xen virtualization technology. It discusses how Xen originated from university research in 1999 and was released as open source in 2004. It gained widespread adoption by 2005. The document outlines Xen's goals of being the standard open source hypervisor and maintaining performance, stability, and security. It discusses the benefits of virtualization for server consolidation, manageability, deployment, and high availability. Finally, it covers topics like paravirtualization, hardware virtualization, network and device virtualization, security, and future directions like client and mobile virtualization and cloud computing.
VMware vSphere is a virtualization platform that includes the ESXi hypervisor and vCenter Server management software. The document outlines the agenda for a VMware vSphere presentation, which includes topics such as virtualization, ESXi, vCenter, virtual machine management, networking, storage, vMotion, high availability, and other advanced features. It also provides overviews of ESXi hardware requirements, new features in vSphere 5.0, and how to upgrade from a previous version to vSphere 5.0.
The document provides an overview of VMware vSphere Replication 5.5. It describes vSphere Replication as a feature of VMware vSphere that continuously replicates running virtual machines to another location for disaster recovery purposes. It replicates only changed blocks in near real-time and ensures application consistency. Administrators can configure replication for individual VMs and retain multiple historical copies for recovery to previous points in time if needed.
Veeam vPower provides virtualization-powered data protection through innovations across multiple versions:
- Version 1 introduced 2-in-1 backup and replication with instant file-level recovery and inline deduplication. Version 3 added direct-to-target backups and synthetic full backups.
- Version 4 added support for vStorage APIs, changed block tracking, and thin-provisioned disks. Version 5 introduced instant VM recovery, recovery verification, and on-demand sandbox capabilities.
- Key vPower technologies include SureBackup recovery verification, instant VM recovery directly from backup files, SmartCDP near-CDP replication, and launching backup files in an on-demand sandbox virtual lab.
- Veeam vPower
Veeam Backup & Replication provides reliable virtual machine backups that allow for quick recovery. It offers several advantages over traditional VM backup methods like agent-based backups. Version 5.0 introduces instant VM recovery and recovery verification capabilities. Features like SureBackup, InstantRestore, and SmartCDP allow backups to be verified and VMs to be recovered quickly. Veeam offers centralized management and supports unlimited scalability. It provides good value with no extra fees for replication, deduplication, or other features.
Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the DifferencesSolarWinds
For more information on Virtualization Manager visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx
Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/hyper-v-vs-vsphere-understanding-the-differences.html
Watch this webinar with Scott Lowe, Founder and Managing Consultant at The 1610 Group, and SolarWinds virtualization expert Jonathan Reeve where they discuss “Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the differences.”
The virtualization market is abuzz with talk of different hypervisors – most prominently VMware ESX® versus Microsoft Hyper-V®, who together own over 90% of the market. Small and medium businesses are already moving quickly toward Hyper-V, and a growing number of larger organizations are beginning to put plans in place to transition some portion of their environment from ESX to Hyper-V.
In this webcast we explore the reasons for these changes and the ecosystems for these two platforms both now and in the future. We also take a look ahead to what is known about Hyper-V 3.0 and why it warrants an even deeper look when evaluating hypervisors for your future virtualization deployments.
This document provides information about the Xen Summit event at Oracle from February 24-25, 2009. It summarizes that there were over 100 attendees from 8+ countries and 36+ companies. The event included presentations on topics like Xen roadmaps and releases, memory management techniques in Xen, network performance, security features, and power management. It also provides the agenda for the two day event listing the presentation topics.
Hyper-V Best Practices & Tips and TricksAmit Gatenyo
This document discusses best practices for configuring Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines. It recommends:
- Using Server Core installation and dedicating hosts to the Hyper-V role for improved security and reliability.
- Properly sizing host CPUs, memory, and storage and separating networks for management, storage, and VMs.
- Configuring virtual machines with fixed VHDs, proper RAM and network settings, and latest integration components.
- Implementing security practices like regular patching of VMs and limiting processor usage to prevent overcommitment.
- Using VSS-aware backups and excluding unnecessary files/folders from antivirus scans to optimize performance.
This document discusses best practices for deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. It provides an overview of Hyper-V functionality and deployment strategies. It also covers Virtual Machine Manager architecture, requirements, installation, host and cluster configuration, delegation, and Performance and Resource Optimization capabilities.
VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
This document summarizes research into detecting and correcting transient hardware errors. The researchers created lockstep virtual machines that execute identical workloads and compare outputs to detect errors. If outputs mismatch, the VMs replay from the last checkpoint. Checkpoints are taken periodically and compared; if unequal, one VM replays from the previous checkpoint. Initial tests showed small performance overhead from the lockstep execution and input/output checking. Future work involves implementing checkpoint/replay and improving performance and scalability.
The document summarizes the status of upstreaming Xen into the Linux kernel. Xen domain (domU) support has been stable for over a year in several distributions like Fedora and Debian. Work is ongoing to upstream dom0 support, which involves integrating features like APIC, ACPI, device mappings, and DMA/SWIOTLB handling. Performance optimizations have reduced paravirtualization overhead to 1-2%. Most core patches have been posted for review and the goal is to have core dom0 support merged for 2.6.30. Remaining work items include host suspend/resume and wider hardware testing.
This document summarizes a Xen Summit that took place in Boston in 2008. It provides details on:
- The 160+ attendees from 12 countries and 14 universities
- The agenda which included talks on applications of Xen, virtualization techniques, and performance optimizations
- Social events like a lunch and evening party for attendees
- Logistical information for attendees on the wireless network, breakout rooms, and getting event t-shirts and USB drives
- The Xen project status and roadmap with details on recent and upcoming releases
This document discusses using System Center to manage VMware environments. It describes how Operations Manager can monitor VMware vSphere using the Veeam nWorks management pack. This provides monitoring of VMware virtual machines, hosts, clusters and data stores with over 490 predefined monitors and 175 metrics. It also allows integration with other System Center components like distributed applications and service level monitoring. The management pack provides agentless, scalable monitoring of VMware environments from System Center.
This document describes SIOEMU, a self-IO emulation technique that allows non-x86 operating systems like OpenVMS to run on Xen/ia64 virtual machines. It does so by having a firmware within the domain handle all IO emulation instead of relying on Qemu in the control domain. This makes the domains more flexible and improves performance by avoiding domain scheduling for IO operations. The firmware emulates devices like IDE and network interfaces to provide full system emulation. Initial results show it can run Linux and OpenVMS domains, but ongoing work is needed to support SMP, save/restore, and add support for devices like VGA.
How to Optimize Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster and Double PerformanceStarWind Software
High availability in a virtualized workload may require to sacrifice failover cluster performance. Using an optimized for virtualization approach on data storage and virtual machines placement and protection will give you desired boost of performance.
The presentation shows how to:
- Achieve true Hyper-V cluster high availability with just 2 Hyper-V hosts and zero storage hardware
- Boost Hyper-V cluster performance by configuring automatic dynamic optimization
- Effectively track VMs resources usage
- Save an extra 30% of Hyper-V cluster resources by utilizing agentless antivirus
This document discusses the history and development of the Xen hypervisor project. It provides an overview of how paravirtualization and hardware-assisted virtualization have improved performance. It also examines how virtualization benefits security through policy enforcement and workload isolation. Network and memory management virtualization techniques are described that improve performance for virtual machines.
This 4-day VMware Advanced Administration course focuses on using vSphere tools to improve deployment, performance, monitoring, backup, recovery and best practices. Attendees will learn how to automate tasks using command line and scripting, and cover high availability clusters, fault tolerance, backup and recovery. The course also addresses patching, host profiles, security, and monitoring and tuning ESX and VM performance.
This document summarizes the key announcements and new features being unveiled at VMworld 2011. It highlights how VMware's vSphere 5 and vCloud Suite help drive business transformation by enabling a flexible hybrid cloud model. The updates provide improved infrastructure scalability, availability, security and management capabilities to reduce IT complexity and costs. Specifically, vSphere 5 features like ESXi convergence, auto deploy, storage DRS, and increased VM sizing allow for more efficient provisioning and resource optimization.
- Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview introduces new capabilities for rolling cluster upgrades without downtime, upgrading VM configurations, and servicing VM drivers. It also includes features like secure boot support for Linux guests, distributed storage QoS, production checkpoints, and dynamic memory resizing. The preview refines the Hyper-V architecture for improved backup reliability and adds capabilities like hot add of VHDx and network adapters.
1) The document discusses several services that have been developed in the virtualization plane, including Remus for transparent high availability, Parallax for virtual storage, and Tralfamadore for enhancing and understanding systems.
2) Tralfamadore continuously logs system execution over long periods, re-executes slices to generate indexes, and allows querying the history to search for specific events or states.
3) These services demonstrate how the virtualization plane provides opportunities to build low-level extensions that can improve areas like availability, storage, and debugging of software.
This document provides a history and overview of Xen virtualization technology. It discusses how Xen originated from university research in 1999 and was released as open source in 2004. It gained widespread adoption by 2005. The document outlines Xen's goals of being the standard open source hypervisor and maintaining performance, stability, and security. It discusses the benefits of virtualization for server consolidation, manageability, deployment, and high availability. Finally, it covers topics like paravirtualization, hardware virtualization, network and device virtualization, security, and future directions like client and mobile virtualization and cloud computing.
VMware vSphere is a virtualization platform that includes the ESXi hypervisor and vCenter Server management software. The document outlines the agenda for a VMware vSphere presentation, which includes topics such as virtualization, ESXi, vCenter, virtual machine management, networking, storage, vMotion, high availability, and other advanced features. It also provides overviews of ESXi hardware requirements, new features in vSphere 5.0, and how to upgrade from a previous version to vSphere 5.0.
The document provides an overview of VMware vSphere Replication 5.5. It describes vSphere Replication as a feature of VMware vSphere that continuously replicates running virtual machines to another location for disaster recovery purposes. It replicates only changed blocks in near real-time and ensures application consistency. Administrators can configure replication for individual VMs and retain multiple historical copies for recovery to previous points in time if needed.
Veeam vPower provides virtualization-powered data protection through innovations across multiple versions:
- Version 1 introduced 2-in-1 backup and replication with instant file-level recovery and inline deduplication. Version 3 added direct-to-target backups and synthetic full backups.
- Version 4 added support for vStorage APIs, changed block tracking, and thin-provisioned disks. Version 5 introduced instant VM recovery, recovery verification, and on-demand sandbox capabilities.
- Key vPower technologies include SureBackup recovery verification, instant VM recovery directly from backup files, SmartCDP near-CDP replication, and launching backup files in an on-demand sandbox virtual lab.
- Veeam vPower
Veeam Backup & Replication provides reliable virtual machine backups that allow for quick recovery. It offers several advantages over traditional VM backup methods like agent-based backups. Version 5.0 introduces instant VM recovery and recovery verification capabilities. Features like SureBackup, InstantRestore, and SmartCDP allow backups to be verified and VMs to be recovered quickly. Veeam offers centralized management and supports unlimited scalability. It provides good value with no extra fees for replication, deduplication, or other features.
Veeam back up and replication presentation BlueChipICT
The document discusses Veeam Backup & Replication software. It highlights issues with traditional backup methods for virtual machines, and outlines how Veeam provides a better solution through image-based backups, changed block tracking, deduplication, and features like instant recovery and recovery verification. The document shares customer testimonials and details of Veeam's product roadmap to showcase its reliability and value for backing up virtual environments.
What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager v5.0Eric Sloof
Summary of SRM v5.0 New Features
New user interface
Planned migration – with replication update
Failback
vSphere Replication
Faster IP customization
Shadow VM icons
In guest scripts
VM dependency
Veeam Backup & Replication is the #1 backup solution for virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V. It provides fast, reliable backup and recovery of virtual machines and applications. Some key features include instant virtual machine recovery in under 2 minutes, file-level recovery without agents, backup from storage snapshots, and ensuring recoverability of backups through capabilities like SureBackup and SureReplica. The software also allows using backup data for testing, training, and sandbox environments through features like Virtual Lab and On-Demand Sandbox. Monitoring and reporting of backup infrastructure performance is provided by Veeam ONE to help avoid issues.
This document summarizes a new product called vPower that provides faster and more efficient backups compared to traditional solutions. vPower uses direct-SAN-access with Changed Block Tracking to backup virtual machines, compressing and deduplicating backups within 3 minutes. It also enables features like storage migration and verification of backups. The document contrasts vPower's simpler, more automated approach to backing up virtual environments versus the expensive agents and multiple complex steps required by traditional backup solutions.
Genau an dem Tag, an dem die neue Veeam Availability Suite V9 erschienen ist, konnten wir unser «What's new» Referat durchführen. Somit erhielten die Teilnehmer am 12. Januar brandheisse News zu den neusten Features.
Unser Veeam Certified Trainer Rinon Belegu zeigte an diesem Abend, warum er der Ansicht ist, dass die «Veeam Availability Suite» das beste Produkt für Hochverfügbarkeit in virtuellen Umgebungen ist und den Erfolgskurs mit der Version 9 fortführt.
Diese Features stellte Rinon Belegu vor:
- Veeam integration with EMC Storage Snapshots
- Veeam Cloud Connect Replication
- Primary Storage Integration
- Veeam Explorer™for Oracle and other Explorer enhancements
- Enterprise Enhancements
- Backup Storage Integration
- Scale-out Backup Repository™
This document summarizes the key features and benefits of Veeam Backup & Replication v5 software. It provides faster and more reliable VM backups than traditional solutions through technologies like vPower, which publishes backups as regular VMDK files that can run directly from backup storage. It guarantees recoverability through features like SureBackup recovery verification. It also enables instant recovery of VMs and application items through technologies like InstantRestore and U-AIR.
In a single product, only NAKIVO offers VMware backup, replication, backup to cloud, global deduplication, instant VM and object recovery, backup copy, and screenshot verification.
What's new in Veeam 7 - Was ist neu in Veeam 7Osys AG
The document compares features available in Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions of Veeam v7. Key features included in higher editions but not Standard are: backup from storage snapshots, virtual lab replicas, enhanced vCloud Director support, WAN acceleration, native tape support, and additional exploration and recovery tools. The document also provides overviews of Veeam's backup methods including reverse incremental backups and recommendations for optimizing backup jobs.
The Next Generation of Microsoft Virtualization With Windows Server 2012Lai Yoong Seng
The document discusses new features in Windows Server 2012 that improve virtualization capabilities. Key features highlighted include increased scalability for Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines, live migration enhancements, storage migration capabilities, high availability options like Hyper-V Replica for disaster recovery, and flexibility in infrastructure deployment. The presentation aims to demonstrate how these features enable private cloud deployments with optimized performance, scalability, and availability.
Material de la Charla del Evento de Virtualizacion del 10 de setiembre del 2009 en FUNDATEC.
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http://comunidadwindows.org
ecastro@grupoasesor.net
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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Visão geral sobre Citrix XenServer 6 - Ferramentas e LicenciamentoLorscheider Santiago
This document provides an overview of Citrix XenServer, including:
- Why use XenServer over VMware, with XenServer having leadership in the market share and lower costs.
- An overview of XenServer's key features like virtual memory licensing, clusters and pools, live migration, snapshots, and high availability.
- A comparison of XenServer and VMware features around licensing, importing VMs, backup solutions, and more.
- Details on newer versions of XenServer that include integrated disaster recovery, provisioning services, and monitoring solutions.
The document summarizes new features of Veeam Backup & Replication version 7. It highlights that the software removes hurdles to offsite backup by automatically copying VMs to local or offsite storage locations and ensuring copies are available and reliable with validation and remediation. It is 50 times faster than previous versions with WAN acceleration. Key features include automatically verifying VM backup recoverability, enabling on-demand sandboxes for testing, and allowing recovery of exactly what is needed in minutes. It provides flexibility through product editions that can meet different needs and budgets.
XenServer 6.0 includes enhancements to simplify management, improve performance and scale, and integrate additional high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Key features include integrated StorageLink for storage management, workload balancing via a virtual appliance, vApps for controlling VM startup order in HA and DR scenarios, and support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM. GPU pass-through and IntelliCache are optimized for XenDesktop deployments.
VMworld 2014: Site Recovery Manager and vSphere ReplicationVMworld
Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication: What’s New Technical Deep Dive provides an overview of the new features in VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 and vSphere Replication 5.8. The document recaps SRM and VR, discusses new capabilities in SRM like vCAC integration and VSAN support, and new features in VR like reporting and MPIT recovery. It also reviews use cases, architecture, limitations and recommendations for both solutions.
Symantec Delivers 30x Faster Failover For Microsoft EnvironmentsSymantec
Symantec’s storage management and high availability offerings for Microsoft environments, adds to the ability for organizations to enhance availability and storage utilization in Windows Server physical, virtual, and private cloud environments. Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows (comprising Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for Windows) is designed to help organizations rapidly failover Windows Server applications, recover Windows Server Hyper-V virtual machines from site-wide failures, and leverage their existing infrastructure to improve storage efficiency and application resilience in private cloud environments.
VMware Backups That Work—Lessons Learned From VADP Performance Benchmark TestingSymantec
We’ve pushed the backup performance envelope so that you don’t have to! Industry leaders Cisco, NetApp, VMware and Symantec teamed up to develop a best practice framework and performance benchmark based on the vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP). The test configuration uses the popular NetApp FlexPod environment. The result that proves that you can easily protect over 4 TB of virtual machine data an hour. Most think that to provide this sort of performance, a mountain of hardware is required. This is not the case. We show you how these performance numbers can be easily obtained with minimal hardware and a small budget. Improving backup performance also creates more reliable backups, shorter backup windows and less impact on the vSphere infrastructure. Whether or not you are using NetBackup, we invite you to attend this hangout where we'll dig deep into VMware VADP and its performance characteristics. We'll share lessons learned from extensive lab benchmarks simulating real production workloads. This will help you design and deploy a backup solution for your VMware vSphere environment that meets your business SLAs.
Bonus exclusively at this hangout: In this hangout, we will provide a sneak preview some of NetBackup for VMware features coming in NetBackup 7.6. We have exciting results to share on how NetBackup is pushing the performance envelope further!
Panel Members:
• Abdul Rasheed, Product Marketing Manager, vExpert
• George Winter, Technical Product Manager, vExpert
• Alex Sakaguchi, Product Marketing Manager
View Hangout: http://bit.ly/1efz3zB
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5. What are iSquared all about?
• Our Core Principles
– Adding value to our partners in a mutually beneficial relationship founded in
ethics and transparency
– Aligning business requirement to “right sized” technical solutions
• Our Core Offerings
– Providing End to End ICT managed services
– Providing business continuity services advice and turn-key projects
– Providing business orientated ICT strategic advice
8. What does Veeam do?
Veeam Software develops innovative products
for virtual infrastructure management,
documentation
and data protection.
9. What does Veeam do for you?
Reduce costs
Mitigate risk
Fully realize the promise of virtualization
Act as VCP Specialist Admin on site
10. What sets Veeam apart?
Strong R&D
Solid financial foundation
Impressive customer growth (1,500+ new customers per month)
Voted by you (19 Awards in 2011)
Strategic partnerships
15. Existing tools aren’t doing the job
Traditional backup
● Agent in each VM “A major reason that
● Full VM recovery is complex organizations still hit these
● Expensive bumps on the backup and
recovery road: They use the
● Does not guarantee recoverability
same products for both physical
Typical VMware backup and virtual server backup, when
we all know that virtualization
● Backup code runs on ESX(i) hosts requires a fundamentally
● Significant storage requirements different approach.”
● Limited recovery options – SearchServerVirtualization.com
● Does not guarantee recoverability
16. Ongoing innovation: Veeam “firsts”
Version 1
• 2-in-1: backup and replication
• Instant file-level recovery Version 5 with vPower
(IFLR) • Instant VM recovery
• Inline deduplication • U-AIR
Version 3
• Direct-to-target backups • Recovery verification
• IFLR for Linux
• Synthetic full backups • On-demand sandbox
• ESXi support without VCB
• Replica rollback • Instant indexing
Q1 08 Q3 08 Q1 09 Q4 09 Q4 10 Q4 11
Version 2 Version 4 Version 6
• ESXi support with VCB • vStorage APIs • Enterprise scalability
• Fastest VCB performance • Changed Block Tracking • Advanced replication
• Advanced VSS support • Thin-provisioned disks • Multi-hypervisor support
• Direct SAN access • 1-Click File Restore
• Near-CDP replication
• Replication to ESXi
• CBT with vRDM disks
20. InstantRestore
Feature Benefit
Instant VM recovery Patent-pending Best RTO and highest SLA for every VM
U-AIR Patent-pending
(universal application-item recovery) Fast and simple file and application-item
recovery, lower IT costs, no additional
Instant file-level recovery backups
for any file system Patent-pending
Comply with requirements to document
Instant indexing backup of Windows guest files without
increasing backup time
Guest file search Find and recover Windows guest files
faster to enhance service delivery
Eliminate the cost of a dedicated test lab
On-demand sandbox Patent-pending
and the overhead of extra VM snapshots
lcaller: 1 week of trying to recover crucial data from a failed LUN we're almost there.
#VMware & @veeam support = fantastic. Symantec = < useless!
21. How it works
1 Publish 2 Start 3 Verify
VM
OS
App
Report
Read-only
Backup Repository Virtual Lab Verification Job
Veeam Backup Server
42. Environment Overview
Production Disaster Recovery
IBM x3650 IBM x3650 with Local Storage
EMC VNXe 3100
vShpere Enterprise Plus
Veeam Management Suite Plus
~100mbps Microwave link between racks
43. Technical Demonstration
• Local backup with file level restore
• One Click File Restore
• Instant Restore vPower
• Offsite Replication
Note to Presenter: Present to customers and prospects to provide them with a high-level overview of the EMC VNX family—the VNX series and the VNXe series.
Two system models—one management environment. The VNXe series provides a choice of hardware platforms and capabilities to meet you specific needs.Common capabilities include:6 Gb/s SAS disk interface delivers the highest bandwidth for high performance and full redundancy for high availabilitySupport for15k rpm high-performance and high-capacity 7,200 rpm near-line disks.1 Gigabit Ethernet ports for shared iSCSI and NAS connectivityI/O expansion slotsManagement and protocols: Unisphere, CIFS, NFS, iSCSIAdvanced functionality: Thin provisioning, and File Deduplication with CompressionChoose:VNXe3100 for compact, highly integrated solutions with class-leading features and the option of single or dual controllers to achieve the right combination of price, performance, and availability.VNXe3300 for greater storage scalability and performance, and optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
The VNX series platform is optimized for virtualization with over 75 points of tight integration.Until today, one of the major challenges facing users in virtual environments was a management complexity gap. Storage administrators have access to detailed information on the array, but lack visibility into how the virtual server is configured and which virtual machines are consuming what for storage resources. VMware administrators, on the other hand, can see the details of the virtual server environment and virtual machines, but lack visibility into the storage system. On VNX series, Unisphere together with vCenter Server and VASA (VMware vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness) integration makes storage management in a virtualized environment a seamless experience. Each administrator can use their familiar interface to gain full visibility into virtual and physical resources, transparently provision storage, integrate replication, and access and offload all storage functions to the storage system. To further drive efficiency in the VMware space, EMC has delivered on the VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for both SAN and NAS connections, allowing the VNX series is be fully optimized for virtualized environments. This technology offloads VMware storage-related functions from the server to the storage system, enabling more efficient use of server and network resources for increased performance and consolidation.Letting the VNX series perform common data management tasks, like vMotion, results in more network I/O, more virtual machines, and faster response time.The VNX series delivers unmatched VMware management integration and optimization and is ideal if you are running VMware.
EMC VNX with over 75 points of tight integration with VMware is the number one choice of customers for information infrastructure in VMware virtual and cloud environments according to a recent Wikibon survey.Note to Presenter: The Wikibon survey is available at: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint
The VNX series has been expressly designed to take advantage of the latest innovation in Flash drive technology, maximizing the storage system’s performance and efficiency while minimizing cost per GB. When even a few Flash drives are combined with the EMC FAST Suite, an unrivaled set of software that tiers data across heterogeneous drives and boosts the most active data to cache, customers receive the optimal benefits of a FLASH 1st strategy. FLASH 1st, available only through EMC, ensures customers never have to make concessions for cost or performance. Highly active data is served from up to 2TB of Flash drives with FAST Cache, which dynamically absorbs unpredicted spikes in system workloads. As that data ages and becomes less active over time, FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools) tiers the data from high performance to high capacity drives in 1 GB increments, resulting in overall lower costs –regardless of application type or data age. Best of all, this all happens automatically based on customer-defined policies, saving application and storage administrators time and money by intelligently doing the work associated with pre- and post-provisioning tasks.
Note to Presenter: View in Slide Show mode for animation. In order to have enough processing power to run all the advanced data management functions and protocols simultaneously, the VNX series is based on an industry-leading modular architecture. This architecture allows you to scale purpose-built controllers that are designed specifically for the different workloads to processed.The VNX series modular architecture deliversmaximum flexibility and performance— without compromise. Storage processor modules manages the storage pool and provides SAN block-level access (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or Fibre Channel over Ethernet). X-Blades add scale-out shared networked file system support (CIFS, NFS with pNFS, or Multi-Path File System) and can be added independently without impacting the overall system or require planned down time. In addition, VNX seamlessly supports EMC Atmos for cloud connectivity and object protocols (REST or SOAP).Storage resources are managed in virtual self-optimizing storage pools, ensuring no stranded unused resources. Frequently accessed data is automatically moved to high-performance Flash drives and infrequently accessed data is moved to high-capacity/low-cost disk drives. This way, active data is served as quickly as possible while keeping storage cost under control.The VNX modular architecture is open. EMC has packaged the X-Blades into a VNX NAS gateway with full support for EMC block storage (Symmetrix, VNX SPs, and CLARiiON) and enables scaling up to four storage arrays. So when more storage pool processing, or investment protection, is needed, the VNX modular architecture does not leave you behind.Note to Presenter:The slide graphic depicts the VNX series architecture. Pre-integrated VNX series systems scale to two storage processors and eight X-Blades. In order to scale the VNX architecture further, a separate configuration with VNX gateways front-ending four VNX series storage arrays is needed.
The VNX5500-F is a flash configuration for the VNX5500 unified storage system. The VNX5500-F has a starter configuration with 2 or 4 TB of Flash (based on 100GB or 200GB 2.5" SSDs) in a single drive base. By adding additional flash drives, the VNX5500-F can scale to 49TB of flash capacity. It delivers:High performance - Testing with Oracle and SQL OLTP workloads show the VNX5500-F can deliver 10 times the performance at 1/8th the TPM (transactions per minute) cost when compared to a VNX with all HDD.Unrivaled availability and Data Integrity - VNX5500-F is designed to deliver proven 5 x 9’s availability with EMC-quality enterprise flash drives, end-to-end data integrity, multiple RAID options, and proactive global sparing and diagnostics. Unified Storage with Advanced Data Efficiency Services - The VNX5500-F is a unified storage system with complete block and file protocol. Block and file compression, thin provisioning and file deduplication can reduce capacity requirements by up to 50%.Expandable to FAST for Mixed Workloads - As workloads are added and/or data ages, customers can transform the VNX5500-F into a tiered storage system by simply adding SAS and Near-line SAS drives – up to 679TB. With the FAST Suite customers can implement mixed-workload service levels automatically based on their defined policies. Use Cases - The VNX5500-F is designed for single workloads that demand the highest levels of transaction performance and mission critical availability. The targeted use cases are Oracle and Microsoft SQL On-line Transaction Processing (OLTP) where the database is typically 1 to 3 TB in size and the customer requires sub-millisecond response timeNote to presenter – Here are internal testing results to back up the performance claimsVNX5500 with 45 SAS Drives, Oracle TPM = 12K, $/TPM = $8.04 VNX5500-F with 20 SSD Drives, Oracle TPM = 127K, $/TPM = $1.03VNX5500 with 45 SAS Drives, MS SQL TPM = 37K, $/TPM = $2.61 VNX5500-F with 20 SSD Drives, MS SQL TPM = 410K, $/TPM = $0.31
With VFCache read acceleration, reads are dramatically improved, bringing the read latency down to less than 100 microseconds.Note to Presenter: Click now in Slide Show mode for animation.In addition, because it is a write-through cache, VFCache passes the writes down to the storage array, leveraging the protection of the back-end networked storage.Note to Presenter: Click now in Slide Show mode for animation.As a result, VFCache gives you the best of both worlds—accelerated performance with data protection.
VFCache puts Flash in the server as a cache to dramatically improve application performance. It is a hardware and software solution that leverages PCIe Flash technology and intelligent caching software to reduce latency and increase throughput. VFCache works in conjunction with the back-end storage array to provide two significant benefits. First, as an extension of EMC FAST array-based technology, it facilitates an intelligent end-to-end data tiering strategy from the storage to the server. Second, it provides this performance and intelligence with protection. EMC has been the leader in Flash since it introduced solid state drives in 2008. Now, with VFCache, that lead has been extended yet again.
VFCache delivers dramatic benefits to your applications in the form of performance, intelligence, and protection. With throughput improvements of more than 300 percent and reductions in latency by as much as 50 percent, VFCache allows you to achieve the highest IOPS in the industry at the lowest latency. It automatically and intelligently caches your application’s most frequently accessed data in the server, thereby providing greater efficiency and reducing cost. This is all while continuing to deliver the data services required for your most mission-critical data.
Note to Presenter: View in Slide Show mode for animation. VFCache dramatically accelerates the performance of read-intensive applications. VFCache software caches the most frequently referenced data on the server-based PCIe card, thereby putting the data closer to the application. By sitting in the server on the PCIe bus, VFCache eliminates access through the network to the storage array, decreasing response time and increasing throughput. As stated previously, VFCache provides an order of magnitude better performance for the applications that require the highest throughput and/or minimal response time. VFCache takes applications to an entirely new level, giving them the performance boost they need. Furthermore, since the processing power required for an application’s most frequently referenced data is offloaded from the back-end storage to the PCIe card, the storage array can allocate greater processing power to other applications. While one application is accelerated, the performance of other applications is maintained or even slightly accelerated.
So how does VFCache fit into the larger EMC portfolio? As previously mentioned, think of it as extending EMC FAST technology into the server. Now you can leverage VFCache for the data requiring the best performance, unsurpassed by any other technology. The hottest of the hot data resides on Flash sitting in the server closer to the application, delivering the most IOPS and the shortest response time. Hot data resides on Flash drives in the array to enable you to reduce storage costs per I/O. As the data ages, it sits on Fibre Channel or SAS drives. Lastly, the coldest data lives on high-capacity SATA or nearline SAS drives to drive costs down. This is a story that no one else in the industry can tell. It’s about putting the right data on the right storage at the right time—all through automation. It helps your applications reach the performance they need, at the cost youdesire, and the protection level your business demands.