Presentation v cloud suite 5.1 – what’s newsolarisyourep
VMware's vCloud Suite 5.1 includes new features that simplify IT operations through software-defined datacenters, networking, and storage. Key updates include elastic virtual datacenters that span multiple clusters, improved distributed switching with health monitoring and backup/recovery, and VXLAN support for network segmentation across logical networks. A technical preview of distributed storage aims to pool storage resources and enforce storage policies across different storage tiers. Overall, the vCloud Suite aims to dramatically simplify IT operations through a software-defined approach to cloud infrastructure services.
VMware vCloud® SuiteTM is a private cloud infrastructure solution based on VMware vSphere®. vCloud Suite allows IT to achieve cloud service provider economics in the data center, provision applications in minutes instead of weeks, and deliver the right availability and security for each application with policy-based governance. vCloud Suite is the first step for IT organizations towards the software- defined data center architecture. VMware also offers additional software-defined data center products that can further extend the capabilities of a vSphere private cloud environment.
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The document provides an overview and summary of new features in VMware vSphere 5.1. Key enhancements include support for up to 64 vCPUs and 1TB of RAM per virtual machine, storage appliance improvements, distributed switch enhancements, vMotion without shared storage, vSphere Data Protection for backup and recovery, vSphere Replication for virtual machine replication, vShield Endpoint for security, improved Auto Deploy capabilities, a new vSphere Web Client, single sign-on, and enhancements to vCenter Orchestrator and vCenter Ops Manager Foundation.
VMware introduced several new features in vSphere 6 including increased scalability limits, usability improvements to the vSphere Web Client, enhanced vMotion capabilities such as cross-vCenter and long distance vMotion, expanded fault tolerance support, and the introduction of vSphere Virtual Volumes and its policy-based management framework. Key networking updates included Network I/O Control version 3 and multiple TCP/IP stacks. Storage features focused on Virtual SAN enhancements, Storage DRS integration, and support for VASA 2.0 storage capabilities.
VMware Infrastructure empowers businesses of all sizes and environments to move beyond traditional IT infrastructure boundaries and build a responsive data center that's dynamic, efficient and available. Learn to operate & maintain VMware vSphere 6.5 from a real-world perspective.
Learn more about:
- About the Netcom VMware vSphere Boot Camp
- Two different ways to integrate vSphere with Active Directory - Best Practices: Join Domain vs. AD LDAP
- Adding an AD Identity Source to vCenter 6.5
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VMworld 2013
James Bowling, General Datatech, LP
Savina Ilieva, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The document provides details of a VMware training event to take place on February 9th, 2017 at Cascina Medici del Vascello in Venaria, Italy. The training will include courses on VMware vSphere 6.5 and new Lenovo technologies. The agenda includes sessions on VMware administration interfaces, vCenter management, storage, and virtual machines. There will also be a presentation on new Lenovo products.
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This document provides an overview of vSphere 6.0 including key highlights, deployment options for vCenter Server and the Platform Services Controller, and certification updates. The main points are:
- vSphere 6.0 has seen faster adoption and fewer issues than previous versions. Key features include improved fault tolerance, larger cluster sizes, and simplified workload migration.
- vCenter Server now uses an embedded or external Platform Services Controller for single sign-on, licensing, and certificate management. There are multiple deployment configurations for high availability.
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VMware's vCloud Suite 5.1 includes new features that simplify IT operations through software-defined datacenters, networking, and storage. Key updates include elastic virtual datacenters that span multiple clusters, improved distributed switching with health monitoring and backup/recovery, and VXLAN support for network segmentation across logical networks. A technical preview of distributed storage aims to pool storage resources and enforce storage policies across different storage tiers. Overall, the vCloud Suite aims to dramatically simplify IT operations through a software-defined approach to cloud infrastructure services.
VMware vCloud® SuiteTM is a private cloud infrastructure solution based on VMware vSphere®. vCloud Suite allows IT to achieve cloud service provider economics in the data center, provision applications in minutes instead of weeks, and deliver the right availability and security for each application with policy-based governance. vCloud Suite is the first step for IT organizations towards the software- defined data center architecture. VMware also offers additional software-defined data center products that can further extend the capabilities of a vSphere private cloud environment.
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The document provides an overview and summary of new features in VMware vSphere 5.1. Key enhancements include support for up to 64 vCPUs and 1TB of RAM per virtual machine, storage appliance improvements, distributed switch enhancements, vMotion without shared storage, vSphere Data Protection for backup and recovery, vSphere Replication for virtual machine replication, vShield Endpoint for security, improved Auto Deploy capabilities, a new vSphere Web Client, single sign-on, and enhancements to vCenter Orchestrator and vCenter Ops Manager Foundation.
VMware introduced several new features in vSphere 6 including increased scalability limits, usability improvements to the vSphere Web Client, enhanced vMotion capabilities such as cross-vCenter and long distance vMotion, expanded fault tolerance support, and the introduction of vSphere Virtual Volumes and its policy-based management framework. Key networking updates included Network I/O Control version 3 and multiple TCP/IP stacks. Storage features focused on Virtual SAN enhancements, Storage DRS integration, and support for VASA 2.0 storage capabilities.
VMware Infrastructure empowers businesses of all sizes and environments to move beyond traditional IT infrastructure boundaries and build a responsive data center that's dynamic, efficient and available. Learn to operate & maintain VMware vSphere 6.5 from a real-world perspective.
Learn more about:
- About the Netcom VMware vSphere Boot Camp
- Two different ways to integrate vSphere with Active Directory - Best Practices: Join Domain vs. AD LDAP
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VMworld 2013: Part 1: Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator VMworld
VMworld 2013
James Bowling, General Datatech, LP
Savina Ilieva, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The document provides details of a VMware training event to take place on February 9th, 2017 at Cascina Medici del Vascello in Venaria, Italy. The training will include courses on VMware vSphere 6.5 and new Lenovo technologies. The agenda includes sessions on VMware administration interfaces, vCenter management, storage, and virtual machines. There will also be a presentation on new Lenovo products.
Nashville VMUG Keynote April 8 2015 - vSphere 6Adam Eckerle
This document provides an overview of vSphere 6.0 including key highlights, deployment options for vCenter Server and the Platform Services Controller, and certification updates. The main points are:
- vSphere 6.0 has seen faster adoption and fewer issues than previous versions. Key features include improved fault tolerance, larger cluster sizes, and simplified workload migration.
- vCenter Server now uses an embedded or external Platform Services Controller for single sign-on, licensing, and certificate management. There are multiple deployment configurations for high availability.
- New certification paths are available, including beta exams for VCP6-DCV and upcoming exams for VCIX6-DCV. Resources like hands-on labs and documentation
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
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This document provides an overview of the EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that is powered entirely by VMware technologies. It discusses that EVO:RAIL simplifies how customers buy, deploy, and operate their software-defined data centers. Key features highlighted include its simple deployment and ongoing management through the EVO:RAIL engine, which configures vCenter, ESXi, Virtual SAN, and Log Insight. The appliance allows customers to deploy their first virtual machine within 15 minutes of powering it on. The document also introduces EVO:RACK, a data center-scale hyper-converged cloud infrastructure solution that is targeted for larger use cases like IaaS, VDI, and big
Andy Kennedy - Scottish VMUG April 2016Andy Kennedy
NSX Keynote session from the Scottish VMUG event in Glasgow on the 22nd April, 2016.
Key theme is a discussion on how security "blind spots" can occur through the adoption of new compute models, further highlighting the necessity for the industry to have a platform which provides the virtues of micro-segmentation and a zero trust model, irrespective of the technology being used to host modern applications.
VMware Integrated OpenStack 2.0 includes several new features and support for OpenStack "Kilo" including:
1) Support for ephemeral disks, VSAN, OVA images, and storage policies in OpenStack "Kilo".
2) New features in VIO 2.0 like Ceilometer integration with Heat for auto-scaling, service management, and LBaaS.
3) The upgrade process allows users running older "Icehouse" deployments to non-disruptively upgrade to the newer "Kilo" version.
Updated lifecycle management, improved analytics and support, and the option of Kubernetes — VMware vSphere® 7 is the biggest re-platform of vSphere in years. Learn more about the most significant vSphere evolution in a decade.
Learn more: http://ms.spr.ly/6005TmX9B
VMware 2015: Next Horizon for Cloud Networking and SecurityVMworld
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and network virtualization has become an accepted part of modern data center architecture. The transformation of networking into a software industry has accelerated innovation and given rise to a number of new technologies and use cases that were previously impossible. Network virtualization is starting to have profound impact on services, security, the underlying physical networks and the organization of the IT organizations that use them. How will network virtualization impact the next horizon for cloud networking and security?
In this session Guido Appenzeller presents a tech-preview of NSX working with Docker Containers and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additional speakers include Scott Lowe, Mukesh Hira and Jacob Cherkas from VMware and Suneet Nandwani from eBay.
Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
- ESXi no longer includes a Service Console. Configuration is done through ESXi Shell, vCLI, and PowerCLI commands.
- ESXi uses a single text-based installer for fresh installations and upgrades.
- vSphere Auto Deploy and ESXi Image Builder CLI allow deploying ESXi directly to memory.
- Partitions use GPT format for new installations over 2TB instead of MSDOS. VMFS5 is used.
- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
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VMware vSphere 6.0 includes several new and enhanced platform and management features. Key updates include increased scalability limits, improved ESXi account management, enhanced Microsoft clustering support, and new certificate lifecycle management capabilities. The vCenter Server has been improved with a Platform Services Controller, linked mode enhancements, cross-vCenter vMotion, and a redesigned web client. Networking features in vSphere 6.0 focus on increased flexibility and guaranteed bandwidth controls.
This document provides an overview and agenda for discussing what's new in vSphere 5 and Heartbeat 6.4. It first recaps vSphere and introduces vSphere 5's new infrastructure and application services for compute, storage, network, availability, security and scalability. Specific enhancements discussed include ESXi convergence, auto deploy, storage DRS, I/O controls, larger VMs, and the vCenter appliance. It then summarizes vCenter Heartbeat 6.4's high availability capabilities for vCenter Server and integration with vSphere 5.
This document provides an overview of VMware's EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. It discusses how EVO:RAIL delivers unique capabilities and value by starting from vSphere and Virtual SAN. It also outlines EVO:RAIL's key features, use cases, pricing and packaging, and roadmap for future versions including preview information about EVO:RAIL 2.0.
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Horizon 6, la suite logicielle VDI de VMware, ajoute le support des postes de travail virtuels Linux, en plus de l’environnement Windows de Microsoft. L’éditeur de Palo Alto a lancé un programme d'accès précoce pour les clients désirant tester en avant-première Horizon 6 avec les distributions Linux de Red Hat et Ubuntu sur des ordinateurs distants et des terminaux mobiles.
VMworld 2013: VMware vSphere High Availability - What's New and Best PracticesVMworld
VMworld 2013
Keith Farkas, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
System Center 2012 for VMware InfrastructureBryan Dady
Slides from a group presentation I was privileged to participate in during the last Microsoft Management Summit (MMS, April 2013).
The original is hosted by Microsoft at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/IM-B309, and I've copied this edition here for sharing on my LinkedIn profile.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
The document discusses the benefits of using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 5 for VMware ESX Server. VCS 5 provides high availability and disaster recovery for virtual machines and applications. It protects against failures at all levels from physical servers to individual applications. VCS 5 also provides granular management of virtual environments similar to physical servers and allows configurations such as M+N clusters across multiple data centers for disaster recovery.
Track 1 Virtualizing Critical Applications with VMWARE VISPHERE by Roshan ShettyEMC Forum India
Virtualizing Critical Applications with Vsphere 5 provides concise summaries of the key enhancements in vSphere 5 that enable virtualizing even the most critical applications. These include support for larger virtual machines with up to 32 vCPUs, 1TB of RAM and 4x larger sizes. It also improves availability, storage, and network services with features like Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage, and Network I/O Control that provide performance guarantees and help prevent resource starvation issues. The document also highlights how vSphere 5 simplifies infrastructure deployment and management with capabilities such as Auto Deploy, vCenter Server Appliance, and the new Web Client.
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This document discusses virtualization and VMware solutions. It begins with an overview of common SMB business challenges like growing revenue and containing costs. It then discusses the IT challenges that result from trends like increased mobile devices and cloud adoption. The rest of the document discusses VMware and its virtualization platform vSphere. It provides information on getting started with vSphere Hypervisor and managing virtual infrastructure. Finally, it discusses additional resources for learning more about virtualization and VMware solutions.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
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VMGate.com
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Andy Kennedy - Scottish VMUG April 2016Andy Kennedy
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Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
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- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same physical server at the same time. This increases hardware utilization and flexibility while reducing IT costs. VMware virtualization solutions can reduce energy costs by 80% through server consolidation and powering down unused servers without affecting applications or users. Virtualization makes hardware resources independent of operating systems and applications, treating them as single unified units that can be more easily deployed, maintained, and supported.
VMware vSphere 6.0 includes several new and enhanced platform and management features. Key updates include increased scalability limits, improved ESXi account management, enhanced Microsoft clustering support, and new certificate lifecycle management capabilities. The vCenter Server has been improved with a Platform Services Controller, linked mode enhancements, cross-vCenter vMotion, and a redesigned web client. Networking features in vSphere 6.0 focus on increased flexibility and guaranteed bandwidth controls.
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This document provides an overview of VMware's EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. It discusses how EVO:RAIL delivers unique capabilities and value by starting from vSphere and Virtual SAN. It also outlines EVO:RAIL's key features, use cases, pricing and packaging, and roadmap for future versions including preview information about EVO:RAIL 2.0.
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Horizon 6, la suite logicielle VDI de VMware, ajoute le support des postes de travail virtuels Linux, en plus de l’environnement Windows de Microsoft. L’éditeur de Palo Alto a lancé un programme d'accès précoce pour les clients désirant tester en avant-première Horizon 6 avec les distributions Linux de Red Hat et Ubuntu sur des ordinateurs distants et des terminaux mobiles.
VMworld 2013: VMware vSphere High Availability - What's New and Best PracticesVMworld
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Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
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Slides from a group presentation I was privileged to participate in during the last Microsoft Management Summit (MMS, April 2013).
The original is hosted by Microsoft at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/IM-B309, and I've copied this edition here for sharing on my LinkedIn profile.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
The document discusses the benefits of using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 5 for VMware ESX Server. VCS 5 provides high availability and disaster recovery for virtual machines and applications. It protects against failures at all levels from physical servers to individual applications. VCS 5 also provides granular management of virtual environments similar to physical servers and allows configurations such as M+N clusters across multiple data centers for disaster recovery.
Track 1 Virtualizing Critical Applications with VMWARE VISPHERE by Roshan ShettyEMC Forum India
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Presentation step into virtualization and transform your itsolarisyourep
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Presentation v mware cloud infrastructure - success in virtualizationsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview of VMware's cloud infrastructure products and capabilities. It discusses VMware's journey to the cloud model, highlighting cost efficiency, quality of service, and business agility. It then covers the key components and features of vSphere 5, including enhanced compute, storage, network, and application services. Specific capabilities like larger virtual machines, storage I/O controls, and the vSphere storage appliance are summarized. The document concludes by emphasizing how vSphere 5 can accelerate virtualization and help customers achieve their cloud goals.
VMworld 2013: vSphere Web Client - Technical WalkthroughVMworld
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Ameet Jani, VMware
Justin King, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
CISCO presentation used during the SWITCHPOINT NV/SA Quarterly Experience Day...SWITCHPOINT NV/SA
1. Cisco HyperFlex is Cisco's next generation hyperconverged infrastructure solution that provides a complete solution of computing, storage, and networking.
2. It uses a next generation data platform designed for distributed storage with features like inline deduplication and compression for efficiency as well as snapshots and clones for data services.
3. Cisco HyperFlex allows independent scaling of compute and storage, includes a highly available distributed file system, and provides a single point of management through Cisco UCS Manager for simplicity.
Optimize Your VMware SDDC with IBM InfrastructurePaula Koziol
VMware vRealize Automation can optimize VMware SDDCs with IBM infrastructure by:
1) Providing a single point of control for managing VMs across multiple platforms and cloud infrastructures, both on-premises and off-premises.
2) Simplifying and improving the efficiency of VM management across heterogeneous hybrid cloud environments with a unified VMware skillset.
3) Optimizing workload deployment based on application characteristics through automated provisioning and lifecycle management from a single cloud management platform.
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Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems, complete hyperconvergence that unifies Cisco networking and computing technology with the next-generation Cisco HX Data Platform. Powered by the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform, Cisco HyperFlex solutions deliver new levels of operational efficiency and adaptability to more workloads and applications. Cisco HyperFlex technology answers the operations requirements for agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud—but with the benefits of on-premises infrastructure.
Agenda:
• New innovations to the Cisco data center portfolio
• Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems powered by the Cisco UCS platform
• Deep dive into the Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform
• Preview early deployments of Cisco HyperFlex Systems
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What is coming for VMware vSphere?
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A First Look at vSphere Integrated Containers and Photon PlatformDan Wendlandt
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VMworld 2013: IBM Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN VMworld
VMworld 2013
Eric Deadwyler, IBM
Joseph Russell, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
This document provides an edition comparison of VMware vSphere products, outlining key features included in vSphere Standard and vSphere Enterprise Plus editions. The editions offer capabilities around developer-ready infrastructure using Tanzu services, simplified operations through tools like host profiles and content library, intrinsic security features like encryption and identity federation, application performance optimizations from technologies like DRS and DPM, business continuity functions including vMotion and HA, and hybrid cloud capabilities for cross-cloud management and workload migration.
Hyperconvergence enables you to pair the elasticity benefits of the cloud with the control and security of on-premise data centers. All within a consolidated management infrastructure. Learn how Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 enables these capabilities and much more for any application, in any cloud at, any scale.
This presentation digs into the latest version of HyperFlex. Cisco experts discuss increased scale up to 64 nodes, logical availability zones, managing HyperFlex with Cisco Intersight, stretch clusters, Hyper-V on HyperFlex, and persistent volume integration with kubernetes.
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3. 3
The New IT Landscape: Promise & Challenge
Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps
Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services
A More Flexible, Efficient Infrastructure
• Exploiting modern, cost-effective hardware
• Creating & spanning both internal and external resource pools
New Generation of Enterprise Apps
• Combining the social, mobile experience
with enterprise requirements
Empowered, Secure, Mobile Workforce
• Any app on any device, anytime, anywhere – securely!
4. 4
The New IT Landscape: Promise & Challenge
Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps
Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services
The Challenge for IT:
Weave all this together
into a cohesive,
secure, compliant whole
5. 5
The Approach in the IT Management
Traditional IT Management
Services and
assets tied
together in
complex, brittle,
vertical stacks
that are hard
to change and
manage
Business agility
suffers
IT able to keep up with
speed of the business
Management in the new Era
Service
components are
abstracted and
sourced from
dynamic
resource pools
with horizontal
layers loosely
bound into
services
6. 6
Key Constituents for Infrastructure and Management
Desired
Outcome
Balance
operating
expense and
innovation
Seamless extension of
existing infrastructure
interoperable with
new technology
Maximize operational
efficiencies with more
dynamic lights-out
environment
Head of
Infrastructure
Head of
Operations
Head of
Architecture
Care
About
How do I build the right
infrastructure to deliver
business value yet still
keep the lights on?
What kind of
infrastructure should I
design for today and
tomorrow’s needs? Will
it work with our current
infrastructure?
How do I keep OpEx
down and still deliver
high quality of service?
7. 7
APPAPPAPP
VMware Infrastructure and Management Delivers the Infrastructure of the Future
Optimized for business critical workloads
Highly dynamic, scalable and adaptive
Built-in intelligence to shift to new IT
management paradigm
Flexible Computing Model
VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management
Physical ServersFailed Server
APP APP
Resource Pools
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure. Delivered Your Way
The Foundation for Your Cloud
Respond and Alert
vs.
Alert and Respond
Hybrid
Cloud
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
Bridge
9. 9
Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services
Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps
Three Core Focus Areas
Evolve the Infrastructure
Modernize Application Development
Re-think End-User Computing
10. 10
In 2010 VMware Unveiled a Complete Hybrid Cloud Stack…
vCloud Director
vShield Security
vCenter Management
vSphere vSphere vSphere
11. 11
Complete Hybrid Cloud Stack
Compute
Storage
Network
Leverage virtualization to transform physical silos into elastic, virtual capacity
Increase automation through built-in intelligent policy management
Move from static, physical security to dynamic, embedded security
Enable secure, self-service to pre-defined IT services, with pay-for-use
Organization: Marketing Organization: Finance
Virtual Datacenters CatalogsVirtual Datacenters CatalogsUsers & Policies Users & Policies
12. 12
vSphere vSphere vSphere
vCloud Director
vShield Security
vCenter Management
vCloud Director 1.5
vShield 5.0
vCenter Operations 1.0
vCenter SRM 5.0
vSphere 5.0
Cloud Infrastructure Launch
(vSphere, vCenter, vShield, vCloud Director)
In 2011 VMware is Introducing a Major Upgrade
of the Entire Cloud Infrastructure Stack
New
16. 16
ESXi is the Trusted Place to Run Business Critical Applications
• vSphere 5.0 exclusively utilizes the thin
ESXi hypervisor: 144MB footprint versus
2GB for VMware ESX with the service
console
vSphere ESXi
• Smaller security footprint
• Streamlined deployment and configuration
• Simplified patching and updating model
Overview
Benefits
vSphere ESX
17. 17
ESXi 5.0 Firewall Features
Capabilities
• ESXi 5.0 has a new firewall engine which is not based on iptables.
• The firewall is service oriented, and is a stateless firewall.
• Users have the ability to restrict access to specific services based on
IP address/Subnet Mask.
Management
• The GUI for configuring the firewall on ESXi 5.0 is similar to that used with the
classic ESX firewall — customers familiar with the classic ESX firewall should
not have any difficulty with using the ESXi 5.0 version.
• There is a new esxcli interface (esxcfg-firewall is deprecated in ESXi 5.0).
• There is Host Profile support for the ESXi 5.0 firewall.
• Customers who upgrade from Classic ESX to ESXi 5.0 will have their firewall
settings preserved.
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UI: Security Profile
The ESXi Firewall can be managed via the vSphere client.
Through the Configuration > Security Profile, one can observe the
Enabled Incoming/Outgoing Services, the Opened Port List for
each service & the Allowed IP List for each service.
19. 19
ESXi Image Deployment
Challenges
• Standard ESXi image from VMware download site is sometimes limited
• Doesn t have all drivers or CIM providers for specific hardware
• Doesn t contain vendor specific plug-in components
?
Standard
ESXi ISO
• Base providers
• Base drivers
Missing
CIM
provider
Missing
driver
20. 20
ESXi Image Deployment: Composition of an ESXi Image
Core
Hypervisor
CIM
Providers
Plug-in
Components
Drivers
21. 21
Capacity: vSphere 5 with Autodeploy
Time: 30 mins
Total time: 20 Hours!
...Repeat 37 more times…
Total time: 10 Minutes!
Before After
Time: 30 mins Time: 30 mins
vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere
22. 22
Auto Deploy: What is?
New host deployment method introduced in vSphere 5.0
• Based on PXE Boot
• Works with Image Builder, vCenter Server, and Host Profiles
• How it works:
• PXE boot the server
• ESXi image profile loaded into host memory via Auto Deploy Server
• Configuration applied using Answer File / Host Profile
• Host placed/connected in vCenter
• Benefits
• No boot disk
• Quickly and easily deploy large numbers of ESXi hosts
• Share a standard ESXi image across many hosts
• Host image decoupled from the physical server
• Recover host w/out recovering hardware or having to restore from backup
23. 23
No Boot Disk? Where does it go?
What Is Auto Deploy
Boot Disk
All information on the state
of the host is stored off the
host in vCenter
Platform Composition: ESXi base,
drivers, CIM providers, …
Configuration: networking, storage,
date/time, firewall, admin password, …
Running State: VM Inventory,
HA state, License, DPM configuration
Event Recording: log files, core dump
24. 24
No Boot Disk? Where does it go?
Boot Disk
Image Profile
Host Profile
vCenter Server
Add-on Components
What Is Auto Deploy
Platform Composition: ESXi base,
drivers, CIM providers, …
Configuration: networking, storage,
date/time, firewall, admin password, …
Running State: VM Inventory,
HA state, License, DPM configuration
Event Recording: log files, core dump
26. 26
Technical Barriers to 100% Virtualization Have Been Falling
Application’s Performance Requirements
%ofApplications
95% of Apps
Require
IOPS
Network
Memory
CPU
< 10,000
<2.4 Mb/s
< 4 GB at peak
1 to 2 CPUs
VMware
vSphere 4
300,000
30 Gb/s
256 GB per VM
8 VCPUs
VMware Inf.
100,000
9 Gb/s
16/64 GB per VM
4 VCPUs
VMware
vSphere 5
1,000,000
>36Gb/s
1,000 GB per VM
32 VCPUs
ESX 2
7,000
.9 Gb/s
3.6 GB per VM
2 VCPUs
ESX 1
<5,000
<.5Gb/s
2 GB per VM
1 VCPUs
3.0/3.5
27. 27
New Virtual Machine Features
vSphere 5.0 supports the industry s most capable virtual machines
Other new
features
• UI for multi-core virtual
CPUs
• Extended VMware
Tools compatibility
• Support for Mac OS X
servers
Broader Device
Coverage
• Client-connected USB
devices
• USB 3.0 devices
• Smart Card Readers for
VM Console Access
• VM BIOS boot order config API
and PowerCLI interface
• EFI BIOS
• 3D graphics
Richer Desktop
Experience
• 32 virtual CPUs per
VM
• 1TB RAM per VM
• 4x previous capabilities!
VM Scalability
Items which require HW version 8 in orange
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New Networking Features
Two broad categories of features
Network Discovery and Visibility/Monitoring features
• LLDP
• NetFlow
• Port Mirror
I/O Consolidation (10 Gig) related features
• New traffic types
• User Defined Network Resource Pool (VM traffic)
• Host Based Replication traffic
• 802.1p Tagging (QoS)
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What Is NetFlow?
NetFlow is a networking protocol that collects IP traffic information
as records and sends them to third party collectors such as CA
NetQoS, NetScout etc.
VDS
VM A VM B
trunk
Physical
switch
Collector
The Collector/Analyzer report on various information such as:
• Current top flows consuming the most bandwidth
• Which flows are behaving irregularly
• Number of bytes a particular flow has sent and received in the past 24 hours
NetFlow session
Host
VM traffic
Legend :
31. 31
NetFlow Usage
NetFlow helps customers monitor the application flows and
measure application performance overtime.
It also helps in capacity planning and ensuring that I/O Network
resources are utilized appropriately by different applications.
NetFlow capability in vSphere infrastructure provides complete
visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic.
• Inter-VM traffic on the same hosts
• Intra-VM traffic across hosts
• VM-to-Physical Infrastructure traffic
This visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic allows customer to
• Perform Security and Compliance analysis
• Do Profiling and Billing
• Perform Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Networking Forensics
32. 32
What Is Port Mirroring ?
Port Mirroring is the capability on a network switch to send a copy
of network packets seen on a switch port to a network monitoring
device connected on another switch port.
Port Mirroring is also referred to as SPAN (Switched Port Analyzer)
on Cisco Switches.
Port Mirroring overcomes the limitation of promiscuous mode.
• By providing granular control on which traffic can be monitored
• Ingress Source
• Egress Source
Helps in troubleshooting network issue by providing access to:
• Inter-VM traffic
• Intra-VM traffic
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Performance: vSphere 5 with Network and Storage I/O Controls
VIP “Noisy Neighbor”
Granular IO service level guarantees
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What Is Network I/O Control (NETIOC)?
Network I/O control is a traffic management feature of vSphere
Distributed Switch (vDS).
In consolidated I/O (10 gig) deployments, this feature allows
customers to:
• Allocate Shares and Limits to different traffic types.
• Provide Isolation
• One traffic type should not dominate others
• Guarantee Service Levels when different traffic types compete
Enhanced Network I/O Control — vSphere 5.0 builds on previous
versions of Network I/O Control feature by providing:
• User-defined network resource pools
• New Host Based Replication Traffic Type
• QoS tagging
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NETIOC VM Groups
Network I/O Control
Total BW = 20 Gig
10 GigE
VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
VMRG1
VMRG2
VMRG3
VM
vMotion
iSCSI
FT
NFS
HBR
Confidential
UserDefinedRP
VMRG1 VMRG2 VMRG3
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What is Storage DRS?
Without Storage DRS:
• Identify the datastore with the most disk space and lowest latency.
• Validate which virtual machines are placed on the datastore and ensure
there are no conflicts.
• Create Virtual Machine and hope for the best.
With Storage DRS:
• Automatic selection of the best placement for your VM.
• Advanced balancing mechanism to avoid storage performance bottlenecks
or “out of space” problems.
• VM or VMDK Affinity Rules.
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What Does Storage DRS Provide?
Storage DRS provides the following:
1. Initial Placement of VMs and VMDKS based on available space and
I/O capacity.
2. Load balancing between datastores in a datastore cluster via Storage
vMotion based on storage space utilization.
3. Load balancing via Storage vMotion based on I/O metrics, i.e. latency.
Storage DRS also includes Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules for VMs
and VMDKs;
• VMDK Affinity – Keep a VM’s VMDKs together on the same datastore.
This is the default affinity rule.
• VMDK Anti-Affinity – Keep a VM’s VMDKs separate on different datastores.
• Virtual Machine Anti-Affinity – Keep VMs separate on different datastores.
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Datastore Cluster
An integral part of SDRS is to create a group of datastores called
a datastore cluster.
• Datastore Cluster without Storage DRS – Simply a group of datastores.
• Datastore Cluster with Storage DRS – Load Balancing domain similar to
a DRS Cluster.
A datastore cluster, without SDRS is just a datastore folder.
It is the functionality provided by SDRS which makes it more
than just a folder.
datastore cluster
datastores
500GB
2TB
500GB 500GB 500GB
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2TB
Storage DRS Operations – Initial Placement
Initial Placement – VM/VMDK create/clone/relocate.
• When creating a VM you select a datastore cluster rather than an individual
datastore and let SDRS choose the appropriate datastore.
• SDRS will select a datastore based on space utilization and I/O load.
• By default, all the VMDKs of a VM will be placed on the same datastore within
a datastore cluster (VMDK Affinity Rule), but you can choose to have VMDKs
assigned to different datastore clusters.
300GB
available
260GB
available
265GB
available
275GB
available
datastore cluster
datastores
500GB 500GB 500GB 500GB
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Storage DRS Operations – Datastore Maintenance Mode
Datastore Maintenance Mode
• Evacuates all VMs & VMDKs from selected datastore.
• Note that this action will not move VM Templates.
• Currently, SDRS only handles registered VMs.
Place VOL1 in
maintenance
mode
datastore cluster
datastores
VOL1
2TB
VOL2 VOL3 VOL4
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Storage DRS Operations – Load Balancing
Load balancing – SDRS triggers on space usage & latency threshold.
Algorithm makes migration recommendations when I/O response
time and/or space utilization thresholds have been exceeded.
• Space utilization statistics are constantly gathered by vCenter, default
threshold 80%.
• I/O load trend is currently evaluated every 8 hours based on a past day
history, default threshold 15ms.
Load Balancing is based on I/O workload and space which ensures
that no datastore exceeds the configured thresholds.
Storage DRS will do a cost / benefit analysis!
For I/O load balancing Storage DRS leverages Storage I/O Control
functionality.
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Storage DRS Operations
Datastore Cluster
VMDK affinity
Keep a Virtual Machine’s
VMDKs together on the
same datastore
Maximize VM availability
when all disks needed in
order to run
On by default for all VMs
VMDK anti-affinity
Keep a VM’s VMDKs on
different datastores
Useful for separating
log and data disks of
database VMs
Can select all or a
subset of a VM’s disks
Datastore Cluster
VM anti-affinity
Keep VMs on different
datastores
Similar to DRS anti-
affinity rules
Maximize availability of
a set of redundant VMs
Datastore Cluster
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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
High IO
Throughputs
Set it and forget it storage configuration in as few as 3 clicks
Automated storage placement
Placement: vSphere 5 with Profile-Driven Storage & Storage DRS
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Why Profile Driven Storage? (1 of 2)
Problem Statement
1. Difficult to manage datastores at scale
• Including: capacity planning, differentiated data services for each datastore,
maintaining capacity headroom, etc.
2. Difficult to correctly match VM SLA requirements to available storage
• Because: Manually choosing between many datastores and >1 storage tiers
• Because: VM requirements not accurately known or may change over its lifecycle
Related trends
• Newly virtualized Tier-1 workloads need stricter VM storage SLA promises
• Because: Other VMs can impact performance SLA
• Scale-out storage mix VMs with different SLAs on the same storage
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Why Profile Driven Storage? (2 of 2)
Save OPEX by reducing repetitive planning and effort!
Minimize per-VM (or per VM request) “thinking” or planning for
storage placement.
• Admin needs to plan for optimal space and I/O balancing for each VM.
• Admin needs to identify VM storage requirements and match to physical
storage properties.
Increase probability of “correct” storage placement and use
(minimize need for troubleshooting, minimize time for
troubleshooting).
• Admin needs more insight into storage characteristics.
• Admin needs ability to custom-tag available storage.
• Admin needs easy means to identify incorrect VM storage placement
(e.g. on incorrect datastore).
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Storage Capabilities & VM Storage Profiles
Storage Capabilities
surfaced by VASA or
user-defined
VM Storage Profile
associated with VM
VM Storage Profile
referencing Storage
Capabilities
Not CompliantCompliant
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VM Storage Profile Compliance
Policy Compliance is visible from the Virtual Machine
Summary tab.
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Introduction
In vSphere 5.0, VMware releases a new storage appliance
called VSA.
• VSA is an acronym vSphere Storage Appliance.
• This appliance is aimed at our SMB (Small-Medium Business) customers
who may not be in a position to purchase a SAN or NAS array for their virtual
infrastructure, and therefore do not have shared storage.
• Without access to a SAN or NAS array, this excludes these SMB customers
from many of the top features which are available in a VMware Virtual
Infrastructure, such as vSphere HA & vMotion.
• Customers who decide to deploy a VSA can now benefit from many additional
vSphere features without having to purchase a SAN or NAS device to provide
them with shared storage.
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Introduction
Each ESXi server has a VSA deployed to it as a Virtual Machine.
The appliances use the available space on the local disk(s) of the
ESXi servers & present one replicated NFS volume per ESXi server.
This replication of storage makes the VSA very resilient to failures.
vSphere vSphere vSphere
NFS NFS NFS
vSphere Client
VSA ManagerVSA VSA VSA
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vSphere Web Client Architecture
The vSphere Web
Client runs within
a browser
vCenter in either
single or
Linked mode
operation vCenter
Fx
Application
Server that
provides a
scalable back end
Flex Client
Back End
The Query Service
obtains optimized
data live from the
core vCenter
Server process
Query
Service
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Features of the vSphere Web Client
Customize the GUI
• Create custom views to reflect the information you need to see, the way you
like to see it
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Introducing vCenter Server Appliance
The vCenter Server Appliance is the answer!
• Simplifies Deployment and Configuration
• Streamlines patching and upgrades
• Reduces the TCO for vCenter
Enables companies to respond to business faster!
Automation
Scalability
Visibility
Virtual Appliance
VMware
vCenter Server
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vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) consists of:
• A pre-packaged 64 bit application running on SLES 11
• Distributed with sparse disks
• Disk Footprint
• Memory Footprint
• A built in enterprise level database with optional support for a
remote Oracle databases.
• Limits are the same for VC and VCSA
• Embedded DB
• 5 hosts/50 VMs
• External DB
• <1000 hosts/<10,000 VMs (64 bit)
• A web-based configuration interface
Component Overview
Distribution Min Deployed Max Deployed
3.6GB ~5GB ~80GB
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Feature Overview
vCenter Server Appliance supports:
• The vSphere Web Client
• Authentication through AD and NIS
• Feature parity with vCenter Server on Windows
• Except –
• Linked Mode support
• Requires ADAM (AD LDS)
• IPv6 support
• External DB Support
• Oracle is the only supported external DB for the first release
• No vCenter Heartbeat support
• HA is provided through vSphere HA
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vSphere 5 licensing: Evolution Without Disruption
vSphere 4.x vSphere 5
Licensing Unit Processor = Processor
Core per proc Restricted < Unlimited
Physical RAM
per host
Restricted < Unlimited
Pooled vRAM
entitlement
NA ≠
Amt of vRAM pooled
across entire environment
!
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What is vRAM?
Virtual memory configured
to virtual machines
Physical RAM available in
the server
≠
√
X
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What is vRAM?
vRAM is the memory configured to a virtual machine
Assigning a certain amount of vRAM is a required step in the
creation of a virtual machine
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Key concepts - Example
Host A
1 1
vSphere Ent
1 1
vSphere Ent
CPU CPU CPU CPU
Host B
64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
vRAM Pool (256GB)
Consumed vRAM = 80 GB
4 licenses of vSphere
Enterprise Edition
provide a vRAM pool of
256GB (4 * 64 GB)
Customer creates
20 VMs with 4GB
vRAM each
Each vSphere Enterprise
Edition license entitles
to 64GB of vRAM.
Compliance =
12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement
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All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES (except Ess and Ess +)
` Essentials
Essentials
Plus
Standard Enterprise
Enterprise
Plus
vRAM Entitlement per proc 32 GB 32GB 32 GB 64 GB 96 GB
vCPU 8 way 8 way 8 way 8 way 32 way
Features
Hypervisor
High Availability
Data Recovery
vMotion
Virtual Serial Port Concentrator
Hot Add
vShield Zones
Fault Tolerance
Storage APIs for Array Integration
Storage vMotion
Distribute Resource Scheduler &
Distributed Power Management
Distributed Switch
I/O Controls (Network and Storage)
Host Profiles
Auto deploy t
Profile-Driven Storage t
Storage DRS t
Essentials
Essentials
Plus
Standard Advanced Enterprise
Enterprise
Plus
t New in vSphere 5.0
vSphere 5 Editions
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Business Continuity at Lower Cost and Complexity for All Apps
Local Availability
vSphere High Availability
vSphere Fault Tolerance
vMotion
Data Protection
vSphere Data Recovery
vSphere Storage APIs for Data
Protection
Local Site Failover Site
Disaster Recover
vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Includes vSphere Replication
New
in 2011
Improved
in 2011
Improved
in 2011
vSphere vSpherevSphere vSphere vSphere
Improved
in 2011
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager Ensures Simple, Reliable DR
Provide cost-efficient replication of
applications to failover site
• Built-in vSphere Replication
• Broad support for storage-based
replication
Simplify management of recovery and
migration plans
• Replace manual runbooks with
centralized recovery plans
• From weeks to minutes to set up new
plan
Automate failover and migration
processes for reliable recovery
• Enable frequent non-disruptive testing
• Ensure fast, automated failover
• Automate failback processes
Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere to provide the simplest
and most reliable disaster protection and site migration for all applications
VMware vSphere
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware vSphere
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Servers Servers
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Key Components Of SRM 5
Storage
vCenter Server
Site
Recovery
Manager
Choice of Replication Options
Required at Both Protected
and Recovery Sites
vSphere
Site Recovery Manager
• Manages recovery plans
• Automates failovers and failbacks
• Tightly integrated with vCenter and replication
vSphere Replication
• Bundled with SRM
• Replicates virtual machines between
vSphere clusters
Storage-Based Replication (3rd party)
• Provided by replication vendor
• Integrated via replication adapters created,
certified and supported by replication vendor
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What’s New In Site Recovery Manager 5.0?
vSphere Replication
• Bundled with SRM at no additional cost
• Provides simple, cost-efficient replication
between vSphere clusters
Automated failback
• Bi-directional recovery plans
• Automates failback to original site
Planned migration
• New workflow that can be applied to any
recovery plan
• Ensures no data-loss, application-consistent
migrations of virtual machines
Others
• More granular control over VM startup order
• Protection-side APIs
• IPv6 support
Expand DR coverage to
Tier 2 apps and smaller
sites
Streamline planned
migrations
(for disaster avoidance,
planned maintenance, …)
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Simplify Replication Management With vSphere Replication
Overview
Benefits
vSphere Replication provides simple management
of replication
Managed directly from vCenter
Managed at the individual VM-level
Eliminate complex interactions between
vSphere and storage teams to set up
replication
Eliminate need to shuffle VMs between
datastores to map applications to replicated
LUNs
Hub
LUN 1
LUN 2
VMFS A
Datastore Group
Web
SharePoint
SQL
App
vSphere Replication
Web
SharePoint
SQL
App
vSphere
Admin
Storage Admin
vSphere
Admin
Storage-based Replication
Datastore
VMFS B
Datastore
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vSphere Replication Complements Storage-Based Replication
Replication
Provider
Cost Management Performance
vSphere
Replication
VMware
• Low-end storage
supported
• No additional
replication
software
• VM’ granularity
• Managed directly
in vCenter
• 15 min RPOs
• Scales to 500 VMs
• File-level
consistency
• No automated
failback, FT, linked
clones, physical
RDM
Storage-based
Replication
• Higher-end
replicating
storage
• Additional
replication
software
• LUN – VM layout
• Storage team
coordination
• Synchronous
replication
• High data volumes
• Application
consistency
possible
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Planned Migrations For App Consistency & No Data Loss
Overview
Benefits
Two workflows can be applied to recovery plans:
DR failover
Planned migration
Planned migration ensures application
consistency and no data-loss during migration
Graceful shutdown of production VMs in
application consistent state
Data sync to complete replication of VMs
Recover fully replicated VMs
Better support for planned migrations
No loss of data during migration process
Recover ‘application-consistent’ VMs at
recovery site
Planned Migration
Site BSite A
Replication
1 Shut down
production VMs
2
Sync data, stop replication
and present LUNs to vSphere
3 Recover app-
consistent VMs
vSphere vSphere
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Simplify failback process
Automate replication management
Eliminate need to set up new recovery plan
Streamline frequent bi-directional migrations
Automated Failback To Streamline Bi-Directional Migrations
Re-protect VMs from Site B to Site A
Reverse replication
Apply reverse resource mapping
Automate failover from Site B to Site A
Reverse original recovery plan
Restrictions
Does not apply if Site A has undergone major
changes / been rebuilt
Not available with vSphere Replication
Overview
Benefits
Automated Failback
Site BSite A
Reverse
Replication
Reverse original recovery plan
vSphere vSphere
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vCloud API
Public CloudsProgrammatic Control
and Integrations
VMware vCloud Director
Builds on vSphere and scales up to
10,000 VMs and 25 vCenter Servers
Creates virtual datacenters, by pooling
resources into new units of consumption
Securely enables the cloud with
vShield, LDAP authentication, and RBAC
Provides self-service portals and
standardized infrastructure catalogs
Isolates users into organizations with
unique catalogs, policies, and LDAP
vCloud API and extensions enables cloud
portability, orchestration, and integrations
Users
Organization 1 Organization m
VMware
vShield
Secure Private Cloud
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware vSphere VMware vSphere
User Portals
Virtual Datacenter n (Silver)Virtual Datacenter 1 (Gold)
SecurityCatalogs
VMware vCloud Director Builds on vSphere to Transform IT.New in vCloud Director 1.5
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The Only Hybrid Cloud
Infrastructure
• vShield Edge VPN Integration
Secure Isolation and
Simple Management
• vCloud Messages
• Microsoft SQL Server Support
• Expanded vCloud API and
SDK
• vSphere 5 support
Most Agile Access to
Cloud Infrastructure
• Fast Provisioning (Linked
Clones)
• vApp Custom Guest Properties
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Integration
• Globalization
What s New in vCloud Director 1.5
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Fast Provisioning using Linked Clones
vmdk
Template
• Provisions new VMs from a template
without replicating the entire image
• Instead, links the images (clones) so that
common elements are stored only once
Overview
• Dramatically speeds up provisioning time
from >2 minutes to <5 seconds
• Reduces storage footprint (and cost) by
over 60%
Benefitsvmdk vmdk vmdk
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Linked clones – behind the scenes
Source VM disk serves as a
base disk
Provisioning a new VM creates
an empty delta disk (aka redo
log) and not a full clone of the
source. The delta disk is linked
to the parent disk
All writes go to the delta disk.
Reads walk up the chain until
the desired block is found
Subsequent clones of the new
VM can lead to more delta disks
in this chain
Writes
Reads
Link
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Cross Datastore Management – How it works
Datastore-1
vCloud Director 1.5
vCenter Server 1 vCenter Server 2
(S)(S)
VM-2
(L)
VM-3
(L)
VM-4
(L)
Datastore-2 Datastore -3
VM-5
(L)
VM-6
(L)
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vApp Custom Guest Properties
vApp
Deploy
OVF Package
OVF Package
1
3
Deployment
Configuration
2
vSphere
• Allows developers and other users to
easily pass user data into guest OSes
using OVF descriptors.
• Parameters available using VMware tools,
on an ISO, or in the XML for the vApp
Overview
• Easier post-deployment configuration &
provisioning of identity to VMs & vApps
• Provides functionality to bootstrap a wide
variety of guest customization solution
Benefits
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vCloud Messages
CMDB IPAM Ticketing
• Connect vCloud Director to enterprise
systems through messaging to rapidly
create end-to-end system integrations
Overview
• Integrate vCloud Director with existing IT
management tools
Benefits
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vShield Product Family
DMZ Application 1 Application 2
Securing the Private Cloud End to End: from the Edge to the Endpoint
Edge
vShield Edge
Secure the edge of
the virtual datacenter
Security Zone
vShield App
- Create segmentation
between workloads
- Sensitive data discovery
Endpoint = VM
vShield Endpoint
Anti-virus processing
Endpoint = VM
vShield Manager
Centralized Management
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vShield Edge Capabilities
Edge functionality
• Stateful inspection firewall
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP)
• Site to site VPN (IPSec)
• Web Load Balancer
• (NEW) Static Routing
• (NEW) Certificate mode support
for IPSEC VPN
Management features
• REST APIs for scripting
• Logging of functions
Tenant A Tenant C Tenant X
vShield
Edge
VPNLoad balancerFirewall
Secure
Virtual
Appliance
Secure
Virtual
Appliance
Secure
Virtual
Appliance
vShield
Edge
vShield
Edge
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Securing the Data Center Interior with vShield App
Key Benefits
• Complete visibility and
control to the Inter VM
traffic enabling multi trust
zones on same ESX
cluster.
• Intuitive business
language policy
leveraging vCenter
inventory.
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vShield App Architecture
Hypervisor-Level Firewall
• Inbound/outbound
connection control enforced
at the virtual NIC level
• Dynamic protection as virtual
machines migrate
• Protection against ARP
spoofing
vCenter
Server
vSphere
Client
ESXi Host
vShield
App
vSphere
ESXi Host
vSphere
vShield
Manager
vShield
App
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Network segmentation
Two approaches
• vCenter Server container objects:
• Datacenters
• Clusters
• Resource pools
• vApps
• Port groups
• Topology-independent
• Security groups are administrator-defined,
business-relevant groupings of any virtual
machines by their virtual NICs.
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Examples:
• Deny traffic from Contractors Desktops pool to the Business Apps pool.
• Allow DNS traffic from DC01 to the DNS server at 10.91.245.129.
• Allow VMs in Web-Tier to communicate with VMs in DB-Tier.
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vShield Data Security for Compliance Readiness
Discover Sensitive Data in the virtual
environment
Choose from built in templates for most common
types of sensitive data
• PII Personally Identifiable Information
• PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Standard
• PHI Patient Health information
Continuous sweep of datacenter scanning for
sensitive data in unstructured files
Generate actionable reports about the discovery
of sensitive data
1
3
2
800% increase in data volumes in Data Centers, 80% of which is unstructured, i.e. not in
databases UBS View from 2010 Gartner Data Center Conference
Continuous Data
Privacy Sweep
Continuous agentless discovery of data across all virtual machines
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VMware’s Vision: Intelligent Policy Management
Day N Problem – Ongoing Maintenance
Cloud Infrastructure
(vSphere, vCenter, vShield, vCloud Director)
Gold BronzeSilver
Availability = 99.99%
DR RTO = 1 hour
Back up = daily
Storage capacity = 10 TB
Performance = High I/O
Security = High
Availability = 99.9%
DR RTO = 3 hour
Back up = weekly
Storage capacity = 10 TB
Performance = Med I/O
Security = Mid
Availability = 99.%
DR RTO = none
Back up = none
Storage capacity = 10 TB
Performance = low I/O
Security = low
SLA Monitoring w/ vCOps
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Learn Normal Behavior and Identify Abnormalities
Doesn’t assume IT data has a normal bell-shaped distribution
Sophisticated Analytics – 8 different algorithms
Learns your dynamic ranges of “Normal” without templates
Learns patterns of behavior and identifies Abnormalities
BLUE
LINE
Metric’s
Current
Value
GRAY
BAR
Upper
and
Lower
band
of
Dynamic
Threshold
-‐
“Normal”
RED
BAR
Breached
Dynamic
Threshold
–
“Abnormal”
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Vc Ops vSphere UI – Unified Dashboard
Launching Pad
• Click to Drill down
Focused on problems
• Click to drill into details!
• Almost everything is clickable
Main Themes
• Health
• Risk
• Efficiency
New Concepts
• Faults
• Weekly Stress Profile
• Reclaimable Waste
• Density
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vC Ops vSphere UI – Two Different Users
• Immediate
problems
• What is
happening
right now?
• What do I
need to pay
attention to?
Operations Short and Long Term Capacity
• Forward
Looking
• Are there
areas that I
should be
concerned
about from a
capacity
perspective?
• Have I
deployed my
VI in the
most efficient
manner?
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vC Ops Default UI – Major and Minor Badges
• High level
Understanding
• Calculated
from scores of
Minor Badges
Major x 3
Minor x 8
• Specifics
• Guidance
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Operations: Major Badge – Health
“How is this object doing right now?"
• Identifies current problems in the system
• Issues that need to be resolved immediately to
avoid problems
High Health is good (100-0)
Heatmap
• Provides quick view of many objects at once
• Shows Health of all parent and child objects
• Go back in time (6 hours) and see the “weather”
of the Virt Infrastructure
Health Score is calculated from its Minor
Badges
• Workload
• Anomalies
• Faults
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Operations: Health Minor Badge – Workload
Measures how hard an object is
working?
High Workload is bad (0-100 or
more!)
• Percentage of Demand divided by
effective capacity
• As workload approaches (and
exceeds) 100%
Performance Problems!
Starving object for resources!
Focused attention
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk I/O
• Network I/O
95
Improved Network and Disk I/O
calculations
Eliminates idle networks and storage from
showing High Workload
Limit the erroneous 100% Workload
scores
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Operations: Health Minor Badge – Anomalies
Measures how normal is this object
behaving?
• Is what the vC Ops 1.x Health score was,
but now inversed
Derived from the number of metrics
that are outside of their “Normal”
trended ranges
• Learns dynamic ranges of “Normal” for
each metric
• Identifies metric abnormalities
Low Anomalies is good (0-100)
• Zero meaning the object is performing
exactly the way vC Ops expects it to for
that time of the day, that day of the week
• A high number of anomalies are usually
an indication of a problem
Anomalies Chart
• Current number of Abnormal
Metrics
• Problem/Noise Threshold
Crossing problem threshold will
increase the Anomalies Score
Does not generate an alert in
this vSphere UI
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Operations: Health Minor Badge – Faults
Measures the degree of faults or
problems the object is
experiencing
• Pulled from active vCenter events
VMware specific knowledge of
which vCenter Events affect
Availability and Performance
(examples):
• Loss of redundancy in NICs or HBAs
• Memory checksum errors
• HA failover problems
Low Faults is good (0-100)
• Each fault has a default score (e.g. 25,
50, 75, 100)
• Highest individual Fault Score drives the
Fault object Score
Best Practices:
• Do not change the Faults
Threshold
• Use Alerts View to manage
Faults
Faults shown in Widget
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Capacity Planning: Major Badge – Risk
Are there future risks to my
systems and VI?
Identifies potential problems that
could eventually hurt the
performance
Low Risk is good (0-100)
Risk Score is calculated from its
Minor Badges
• Time Remaining
• Capacity Remaining
• Stress
Risk Chart
• Shows Risk score over the last 7 days
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Capacity Planning: Risk Minor Badge – Time Remaining
Measures time remaining
before each resource type
reaches its capacity
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk
• Network I/O
Early warning of upcoming
provisioning needs
• Avoid future performance issues
High Time Remaining is good
(100-0)
Graph shows resource
utilization trends
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Capacity Planning: Risk Minor Badge – Capacity Remaining
Measures how many more
VMs can be placed on the
object
Percentage of Total VM
“Slots” Remaining
• Based on the average size of the
VM on the object (e.g. VM profile)
• Each object has its OWN VM
profile size: Host, Cluster,
Datacenter, Etc.
High Capacity Remaining is
good (100-0)
• Zero mean no room left for more
VMs
333 More VMs correlates to
77% Capacity Remaining for
this object
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Capacity Remaining Calculation
Determine Capacity Constraint
Resource
• Dashboard Chart does not show
which resource is the limiting one
• Must drill into the Details Chart
Deployed or Powered On VMs
• Deployed/Powered Off VMs only use
disk space resources
• Powered On VMs uses ALL of the 4
resources
Calculation Example Shown:
• Limiting Resource is Disk Space with
333 VMs available
• Use the Deployed VM number of 99
to do the calculation for percentage
space remaining
• Determine Capacity Remaining
• 333 / (333 + 99) = 77%
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Capacity Planning: Risk Minor Badge – Stress
Stress measures long-term or
chronic workload
• Workload shows an instantaneous
value
• Stress looks over a longer period of
time
Quickly find and resolve
• Undersized objects
• Population contention
Low Stress is good (0-100)
Stress score encompasses a six
(6) week period
• Workloads > 70% = “Stressed”
• Threshold Configurable
Chart shows weeks break
down of Stress for each
day/hour averaged over the
last six (6) Weeks
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Capacity Planning: Major Badge – Efficiency
Are there optimization opportunities
in my systems?
Shows you how to run a leaner
datacenter
Save $$$ by better utilizing resources
High Efficiency is good (100-0)
Efficiency Score is calculated from its
Minor Badges
• Reclaimable Waste
• Density
Graph Depicts VMs by Percent
• Optimal – Optimally Provisioned VMs
• Waste – Over Provisioned VMs
• Stress – Under Provisioned VMs
Three Resources Considered
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk Space
Note: VMs can appear in Stress
and Waste
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Capacity Planning: Efficiency Minor Badge – Reclaimable Waste
Measures the over-provisioning
for an object
It identifies the amount of
reclaimable resources
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk
Low Reclaimable Waste is good
(0-100)
Reclaimable Waste = Reclaimable
Capacity / Deployed Capacity
• Score depicts the MAX of the CPU,
Memory and Disk calculation
• Disk calculation can also include old
snapshots and templates
Graph shows breakdown of the
Waste section of the Efficiency
Badge pie chart
• % Idle VMs (based on configured
settings)
• % Powered Off VMs
• % Oversized VMs
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Capacity Planning: Efficiency Minor Badge – Density
Contrasts Actual vs. Ideal Density
Identify Optimal Resource
Deployment Before Contention
Occurs
Greater Consolidation à $$$
High Density is good (100-0)
Measures consolidation ratios:
• VMs/Host Ratios
• vCPU/Physical CPU Ratios
• vMem/Physical Memory Ratios