This document summarizes a technical deep dive presentation on vSphere Distributed Switches. It discusses the requirements, construction, alternatives, tips and real world use cases of vSphere Distributed Switches. The presenters were Jason Nash from Varrow and Chris Wahl from AHEAD, and they covered topics such as migration from standard to distributed switches, mixing 1Gb and 10Gb networking, and techniques for bandwidth management.
VMworld - vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0 Technical Deep DiveChris Wahl
This document discusses several new features in vSphere Distributed Switch version 6.0, including improved support for routed vMotion traffic using multiple TCP/IP stacks, enhanced vMotion capabilities between vCenters, and new capabilities for Network I/O Control version 3.0 to provide bandwidth reservations and guarantees for virtual machines and distributed port groups.
VMworld 2015: vSphere Distributed Switch 6 –Technical Deep DiveVMworld
This document provides an overview and technical deep dive of new features in vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0. Key highlights include expanded use of Network I/O Control version 3.0 to set network guarantees on virtual machines and distributed port groups. It also details using multiple TCP/IP stacks to support routed vMotion traffic between vCenters. The presentation explores fully leveraging the vSphere Distributed Switch for all workloads, including vCenter server and other management dependencies.
VMworld 2013: vSphere Networking and vCloud Networking Suite Best Practices a...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Richard Cockett, VMware
Umesh Goyal, VMware Software India Pvt ltd
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VMworld 2013: vSphere Distributed Switch – Design and Best Practices VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vyenkatesh (Venky) Deshpande, VMware
Marcos Hernandez, VMware
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A look at the new enhancements to core storage in vSphere 6.5, including VMFS6, Automated UNMAP, I/O Filters, and much more, as delivered by Cormac Hogan and Cody Hosterman
This document provides an overview of the MRSCAPS design framework and how it can be applied to analyze VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses VSAN considerations for each element of MRSCAPS: manageability using the vSphere console and health check plugin; recoverability through backups and replication; security with additional encryption options; cost based on licensing models; availability leveraged through storage policies and HA; performance through hardware optimizations and flash configurations; and scalability to large clusters and additional hosts. The presentation includes screenshots and concludes with a Q&A session.
This presentation discusses networking design and configuration considerations for VMware vSAN. It provides an overview of vSAN networking components and traffic, requirements for ports and firewalls, and considerations for multicast, unicast, NIC teaming and load balancing. It also reviews supported network topologies like single site, stretched and 2-node clusters and discusses performance considerations.
This document summarizes a technical deep dive presentation on vSphere Distributed Switches. It discusses the requirements, construction, alternatives, tips and real world use cases of vSphere Distributed Switches. The presenters were Jason Nash from Varrow and Chris Wahl from AHEAD, and they covered topics such as migration from standard to distributed switches, mixing 1Gb and 10Gb networking, and techniques for bandwidth management.
VMworld - vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0 Technical Deep DiveChris Wahl
This document discusses several new features in vSphere Distributed Switch version 6.0, including improved support for routed vMotion traffic using multiple TCP/IP stacks, enhanced vMotion capabilities between vCenters, and new capabilities for Network I/O Control version 3.0 to provide bandwidth reservations and guarantees for virtual machines and distributed port groups.
VMworld 2015: vSphere Distributed Switch 6 –Technical Deep DiveVMworld
This document provides an overview and technical deep dive of new features in vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0. Key highlights include expanded use of Network I/O Control version 3.0 to set network guarantees on virtual machines and distributed port groups. It also details using multiple TCP/IP stacks to support routed vMotion traffic between vCenters. The presentation explores fully leveraging the vSphere Distributed Switch for all workloads, including vCenter server and other management dependencies.
VMworld 2013: vSphere Networking and vCloud Networking Suite Best Practices a...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Richard Cockett, VMware
Umesh Goyal, VMware Software India Pvt ltd
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VMworld 2013: vSphere Distributed Switch – Design and Best Practices VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vyenkatesh (Venky) Deshpande, VMware
Marcos Hernandez, VMware
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A look at the new enhancements to core storage in vSphere 6.5, including VMFS6, Automated UNMAP, I/O Filters, and much more, as delivered by Cormac Hogan and Cody Hosterman
This document provides an overview of the MRSCAPS design framework and how it can be applied to analyze VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses VSAN considerations for each element of MRSCAPS: manageability using the vSphere console and health check plugin; recoverability through backups and replication; security with additional encryption options; cost based on licensing models; availability leveraged through storage policies and HA; performance through hardware optimizations and flash configurations; and scalability to large clusters and additional hosts. The presentation includes screenshots and concludes with a Q&A session.
This presentation discusses networking design and configuration considerations for VMware vSAN. It provides an overview of vSAN networking components and traffic, requirements for ports and firewalls, and considerations for multicast, unicast, NIC teaming and load balancing. It also reviews supported network topologies like single site, stretched and 2-node clusters and discusses performance considerations.
VMware VSAN Technical Deep Dive - March 2014David Davis
Virtual SAN 5.5 provides a software-defined storage solution that is integrated with VMware vSphere. It allows storage resources on standard servers to be pooled into a shared datastore. Virtual SAN uses SSDs to provide flash-accelerated performance and HDDs for capacity. It delivers high performance scaling linearly with the addition of servers. Storage policies can be set on a per-VM basis to control capacity, performance and availability without using LUNs or volumes. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management and provides resilience, flexibility and savings over external storage arrays.
This document provides an overview of Virtual SAN design and architecture. It discusses Virtual SAN components such as disk groups, datastores, and objects. It describes how data is distributed across disks groups and hosts using techniques like striping and mirroring. It also covers storage policies and how they determine the layout and number of components for distributed objects. Use cases like all-flash configurations, ROBO solutions, and stretched clusters are explained at a high level.
vSAN provides software-defined storage that pools server storage resources and delivers them as a shared datastore for VMs. It integrates deeply with VMware stacks for simplified management and supports a variety of use cases. vSAN leverages new hardware technologies to provide high performance at low cost through space efficiency techniques and storage policies that control availability, capacity reservation, and QoS.
STO7534 VSAN Day 2 Operations (VMworld 2016)Cormac Hogan
This document discusses day-to-day Virtual SAN operations and troubleshooting. It begins with an introduction and agenda for the presentation. The presentation then covers monitoring Virtual SAN with tools like logging, trace files, and core dumps. It discusses alerting options like vSphere alarms, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight. A section covers Virtual SAN upgrades, including prerequisites, the multi-phase process, and potential issues. It ends with a demo of how to handle a Virtual SAN failure using the various monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
This document provides an overview and introduction to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses the VSAN architecture which uses SSDs for caching and HDDs for storage. It also covers how VSAN can be configured through storage policies assigned at the VM level. The document outlines how VSAN provides a software-defined storage solution that is hardware agnostic and can elastically scale storage performance and capacity by adding servers and disks.
VMworld 2017 - Top 10 things to know about vSANDuncan Epping
In this session Cormac Hogan and I go over the top 10 things to know about vSAN. This is based on two years of questions/answers from our field and customers. Useful for any VMware vSAN customer!
#STO1264BU #STO1264BE
This document discusses VMware NSX architecture and design. It provides an overview of NSX components like the NSX manager, controllers, distributed logical routing, and NSX edge services gateway. It also covers NSX design considerations such as transport zones, VTEPs, logical networks, and VDS configuration. The document emphasizes that NSX is agnostic to underlying network topology and flexible in its deployment.
Get a technical understanding of the components of NSX, including how switching, routing, firewalling, load-balancing and other services work within NSX.
VMworld 2015: Just Because You COULD, Doesn’t Mean You SHOULD – vSphere 6.0 A...VMworld
This session discusses the lessons learned from VMware Professional Services Engineering during development of collateral for customers. It brings real world experiences to light, so that common issues can be addressed prior to deployment of the solution, rather than after the fact.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution from VMware that radically simplifies storage. It pools server-attached flash, SSD, and HDD storage and manages it through storage policies from the vSphere client. VSAN is integrated with vSphere and provides high performance, resilience against hardware failures, and linear scalability. It can reduce both capital and operating expenses compared to traditional external storage arrays.
VXLAN with NSX -MH describes VXLAN and how it is implemented with NSX Micro Segmentation. It discusses VXLAN basics like encapsulation and VTEPs. It then covers the NSX control plane and data plane views including logical network view with logical switches/ports and physical transport node view. It provides examples of VXLAN L2 and L3 gateways for inter and intra-subnet communication deployed on NSX managed switches or physical gateways.
SaltStack can be used to automate and orchestrate the provisioning of virtual machines on VMware ESXi 6.0. It implements the VMware APIs to allow defining VM profiles and templates that specify VM configurations, and then uses Salt commands to rapidly deploy new VMs from templates with customized configurations. Open-VM tools must be installed on templates to enable customizing VMs, such as setting the network configuration. Salt files define VM profiles and provider credentials, separating configuration from deployment logic for flexibility and reusability.
A day in the life of a VSAN I/O - STO7875Duncan Epping
This document provides an overview and summary of a VMworld session about Virtual SAN I/O. The session covers Virtual SAN concepts, the I/O flow of reads and writes in Virtual SAN, failure scenarios and how Virtual SAN handles them, and new features like deduplication and compression. The document includes diagrams demonstrating how data is distributed and replicated across hosts in a Virtual SAN cluster. It also provides details on how reads, writes, and failures are handled at a technical level in Virtual SAN. In the conclusion, it recommends three ways for attendees to get started with Virtual SAN: a hands-on lab, 60-day free evaluation, or working with a VMware partner on an assessment.
VMware - Virtual SAN - IT Changes EverythingVMUG IT
Virtual SAN is a hyper-converged storage platform that is built into the ESXi hypervisor. It aggregates locally attached flash and disk drives from each ESXi host in a cluster to provide a shared datastore. Virtual SAN provides dynamic capacity and performance scaling. It utilizes storage policies to provide per-VM storage service levels from the single shared datastore. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management by automating control of storage capacity, performance, and availability based on application needs.
What is coming for VMware vSphere?
Delivered at VMUG DK/UK/BE in November 2014. Session is all about vSphere futures, what can be expected in the near future.
OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud Platform Network use cases with VMware NSXOVHcloud
In this workshop VMware will provide a quick reminder of the main contributions of the NSX network virtualization platform: consistent network and security management, increased application resiliency, rapid migration of workloads to and from the cloud.
VMware and OVH will then move on to practical cases with implementation of micro-segmentation, dynamic routing, automatic deployment of an application, load balancing in the OVH Hosted Private Cloud. This workshop is aimed at a technical audience.
A stretched cluster connects data centers across different sites with shared storage and live migration capabilities. It provides both disaster avoidance and recovery benefits. Key requirements include low latency storage replication, sufficient network bandwidth for vMotion, and considerations for split-brain scenarios. While it improves availability during localized failures, a stretched cluster has limitations compared to independent disaster recovery sites. Additional sites or a traditional DR configuration provide multiple levels of protection.
VMware's NSX product provides network virtualization capabilities through logical switching, routing and security services implemented in software. NSX removes dependencies on physical network infrastructure by using VXLAN encapsulation to transport layer 2 traffic over IP. Key NSX components include the NSX manager, controllers, edge services gateway and distributed virtual switch. The distributed virtual switch implements logical switching using VXLAN tunnels between virtual tunnel end points on ESXi hosts.
VMware VSAN Technical Deep Dive - March 2014David Davis
Virtual SAN 5.5 provides a software-defined storage solution that is integrated with VMware vSphere. It allows storage resources on standard servers to be pooled into a shared datastore. Virtual SAN uses SSDs to provide flash-accelerated performance and HDDs for capacity. It delivers high performance scaling linearly with the addition of servers. Storage policies can be set on a per-VM basis to control capacity, performance and availability without using LUNs or volumes. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management and provides resilience, flexibility and savings over external storage arrays.
This document provides an overview of Virtual SAN design and architecture. It discusses Virtual SAN components such as disk groups, datastores, and objects. It describes how data is distributed across disks groups and hosts using techniques like striping and mirroring. It also covers storage policies and how they determine the layout and number of components for distributed objects. Use cases like all-flash configurations, ROBO solutions, and stretched clusters are explained at a high level.
vSAN provides software-defined storage that pools server storage resources and delivers them as a shared datastore for VMs. It integrates deeply with VMware stacks for simplified management and supports a variety of use cases. vSAN leverages new hardware technologies to provide high performance at low cost through space efficiency techniques and storage policies that control availability, capacity reservation, and QoS.
STO7534 VSAN Day 2 Operations (VMworld 2016)Cormac Hogan
This document discusses day-to-day Virtual SAN operations and troubleshooting. It begins with an introduction and agenda for the presentation. The presentation then covers monitoring Virtual SAN with tools like logging, trace files, and core dumps. It discusses alerting options like vSphere alarms, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight. A section covers Virtual SAN upgrades, including prerequisites, the multi-phase process, and potential issues. It ends with a demo of how to handle a Virtual SAN failure using the various monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
This document provides an overview and introduction to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses the VSAN architecture which uses SSDs for caching and HDDs for storage. It also covers how VSAN can be configured through storage policies assigned at the VM level. The document outlines how VSAN provides a software-defined storage solution that is hardware agnostic and can elastically scale storage performance and capacity by adding servers and disks.
VMworld 2017 - Top 10 things to know about vSANDuncan Epping
In this session Cormac Hogan and I go over the top 10 things to know about vSAN. This is based on two years of questions/answers from our field and customers. Useful for any VMware vSAN customer!
#STO1264BU #STO1264BE
This document discusses VMware NSX architecture and design. It provides an overview of NSX components like the NSX manager, controllers, distributed logical routing, and NSX edge services gateway. It also covers NSX design considerations such as transport zones, VTEPs, logical networks, and VDS configuration. The document emphasizes that NSX is agnostic to underlying network topology and flexible in its deployment.
Get a technical understanding of the components of NSX, including how switching, routing, firewalling, load-balancing and other services work within NSX.
VMworld 2015: Just Because You COULD, Doesn’t Mean You SHOULD – vSphere 6.0 A...VMworld
This session discusses the lessons learned from VMware Professional Services Engineering during development of collateral for customers. It brings real world experiences to light, so that common issues can be addressed prior to deployment of the solution, rather than after the fact.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution from VMware that radically simplifies storage. It pools server-attached flash, SSD, and HDD storage and manages it through storage policies from the vSphere client. VSAN is integrated with vSphere and provides high performance, resilience against hardware failures, and linear scalability. It can reduce both capital and operating expenses compared to traditional external storage arrays.
VXLAN with NSX -MH describes VXLAN and how it is implemented with NSX Micro Segmentation. It discusses VXLAN basics like encapsulation and VTEPs. It then covers the NSX control plane and data plane views including logical network view with logical switches/ports and physical transport node view. It provides examples of VXLAN L2 and L3 gateways for inter and intra-subnet communication deployed on NSX managed switches or physical gateways.
SaltStack can be used to automate and orchestrate the provisioning of virtual machines on VMware ESXi 6.0. It implements the VMware APIs to allow defining VM profiles and templates that specify VM configurations, and then uses Salt commands to rapidly deploy new VMs from templates with customized configurations. Open-VM tools must be installed on templates to enable customizing VMs, such as setting the network configuration. Salt files define VM profiles and provider credentials, separating configuration from deployment logic for flexibility and reusability.
A day in the life of a VSAN I/O - STO7875Duncan Epping
This document provides an overview and summary of a VMworld session about Virtual SAN I/O. The session covers Virtual SAN concepts, the I/O flow of reads and writes in Virtual SAN, failure scenarios and how Virtual SAN handles them, and new features like deduplication and compression. The document includes diagrams demonstrating how data is distributed and replicated across hosts in a Virtual SAN cluster. It also provides details on how reads, writes, and failures are handled at a technical level in Virtual SAN. In the conclusion, it recommends three ways for attendees to get started with Virtual SAN: a hands-on lab, 60-day free evaluation, or working with a VMware partner on an assessment.
VMware - Virtual SAN - IT Changes EverythingVMUG IT
Virtual SAN is a hyper-converged storage platform that is built into the ESXi hypervisor. It aggregates locally attached flash and disk drives from each ESXi host in a cluster to provide a shared datastore. Virtual SAN provides dynamic capacity and performance scaling. It utilizes storage policies to provide per-VM storage service levels from the single shared datastore. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management by automating control of storage capacity, performance, and availability based on application needs.
What is coming for VMware vSphere?
Delivered at VMUG DK/UK/BE in November 2014. Session is all about vSphere futures, what can be expected in the near future.
OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud Platform Network use cases with VMware NSXOVHcloud
In this workshop VMware will provide a quick reminder of the main contributions of the NSX network virtualization platform: consistent network and security management, increased application resiliency, rapid migration of workloads to and from the cloud.
VMware and OVH will then move on to practical cases with implementation of micro-segmentation, dynamic routing, automatic deployment of an application, load balancing in the OVH Hosted Private Cloud. This workshop is aimed at a technical audience.
A stretched cluster connects data centers across different sites with shared storage and live migration capabilities. It provides both disaster avoidance and recovery benefits. Key requirements include low latency storage replication, sufficient network bandwidth for vMotion, and considerations for split-brain scenarios. While it improves availability during localized failures, a stretched cluster has limitations compared to independent disaster recovery sites. Additional sites or a traditional DR configuration provide multiple levels of protection.
VMware's NSX product provides network virtualization capabilities through logical switching, routing and security services implemented in software. NSX removes dependencies on physical network infrastructure by using VXLAN encapsulation to transport layer 2 traffic over IP. Key NSX components include the NSX manager, controllers, edge services gateway and distributed virtual switch. The distributed virtual switch implements logical switching using VXLAN tunnels between virtual tunnel end points on ESXi hosts.
VMware vSphere 6.0 - Troubleshooting Training - Day 3 Sanjeev Kumar
The document discusses vSphere networking and distributed switches. It describes the benefits of distributed switches over standard switches, such as simplifying administration and enabling features like private VLANs and port mirroring. It explains how to create and manage distributed switches and port groups, assign physical NICs and virtual machines, and configure properties and advanced features. Troubleshooting tips are provided for issues with virtual machine communication across distributed switch ports.
The document provides an introduction to VMware vSphere distributed switches. It lists the benefits of distributed switches over standard switches, describes the distributed switch architecture, and discusses how to create, manage, and configure distributed switches and their properties. It also covers topics like distributed port groups, VMkernel networking, NetFlow, private VLANs, and troubleshooting distributed switch issues.
This document provides an overview and update on the latest NSX network virtualization capabilities from VMware. It discusses both current NSX features such as physical network integration, encapsulations, service chaining, and multi-site network virtualization as well as potential future directions. Key points covered include using Geneve as a tunneling protocol, handling elephant flows, and challenges around multi-site network virtualization across geographically dispersed data centers.
This document provides an overview and design guide for implementing VXLAN and vCNS networks. It begins with an introduction to VXLAN including competing solutions, why it was created, and current adoption status. It then discusses the key components needed for a VXLAN deployment including vCNS Edge, vSphere Distributed Switch, and VTEPs. The document reviews multicast configuration options and considerations, as well as high-level logical and physical deployment diagrams. It concludes with a discussion of VXLAN performance overhead and using VXLAN with HP Virtual Connect.
VMworld 2016: How to Deploy VMware NSX with Cisco InfrastructureVMworld
This document provides an overview of how to deploy VMware NSX with Cisco infrastructure, including:
- NSX has minimal requirements of 1600 MTU and IP connectivity and is agnostic to the underlying network topology.
- When using Cisco Nexus switches, VLANs must be configured for various traffic types and SVIs created with consistent IP subnets. Jumbo MTU is required across all links.
- NSX is also compatible with Cisco ACI fabrics using Fabric Path or DFA topologies, with the VXLAN VLAN spanning multiple pods/clusters across the fabric.
The document outlines topics to be discussed at an NFV BOF meeting at APRICOT 2015, including advanced NFV topics like data plane connectivity models for VNFs, overlay encapsulation for MPLS operators, NFV service assurance, service chaining, and the applicability of Linux containers. It also includes basics like an NFV introduction. The organizer seeks active participation from attendees on these and other topics.
This document provides an overview and update on VMware's NSX network virtualization platform and previews future directions. It discusses expanding NSX capabilities like physical network integration, new encapsulation formats, and multi-site network virtualization. The presentation also explores advanced topics such as distributed logical routing, handling elephant flows, and enabling service chaining through network virtualization. Overall, the document outlines how NSX provides network virtualization and previews exciting new capabilities and use cases for virtualized networking.
VMworld 2013: Designing Network Virtualization for Data-Centers: Greenfield D...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Ben Basler, VMware
Roberto Mari, VMware
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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF, by Santanu Dasgupta.
A presentation given at the APNIC 40 APNIC Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF session on Tue, 8 Sep 2015.
The document discusses NSX design and deployment considerations including:
1. Physical and logical infrastructure requirements for NSX including IP connectivity and MTU size.
2. Edge cluster design with options for collapsed or separated edge and infrastructure racks.
3. NSX manager and controller placement and sizing within management clusters.
4. Transport zone, VTEP, and VXLAN switching concepts which are fundamental to the NSX overlay architecture.
This document provides an overview of Cisco's NX-OS operating system and Nexus platforms. It discusses the case for 10GbE connectivity to servers, how NX-OS is purpose-built for the data center, and how it provides increased efficiency and simpler operations through a unified fabric. It then reviews the Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000 and hardware and software versions. Key NX-OS features like Layer 2/3, routing protocols, VRFs, FabricPath, VDCs, FCoE, vPCs and OTV are summarized.
This document introduces Cumulus Linux 2.5, which aims to make modern data center networking easier to adopt. Key features of Cumulus Linux 2.5 include validated design guides for virtualization, cloud orchestration, and big data use cases; support for both layer 2 and layer 3 network architectures; enhancements to MLAG, VRR, VLAN scaling, LACP bypass, and routing; and an expanded ecosystem of partners. Cumulus Linux 2.5 provides tools to simplify and accelerate the transition to modern data center networks through validated designs, flexibility in architecture choice, and an open approach.
VMware is a market leader in virtualization software with over $3.7 billion in revenues and over 13,000 employees worldwide. The document discusses how VMware's technologies enable a new era of IT by providing a more flexible, scalable and efficient infrastructure that supports applications across existing datacenters and public cloud services. This allows for an empowered and secure mobile workforce with faster time-to-market for modern applications.
Presentation a vision for user centric computingsolarisyourep
This document summarizes a presentation about transitioning from a PC-centric to a user-centric computing model using VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure. It discusses how VMware View provides benefits to both IT and end users by enabling flexible access to desktops and applications from any device while giving IT control and reducing costs. It also provides an overview of VMware View components and capabilities for cloud infrastructure, IT control, and end user freedom.
Presentation advanced management – the road aheadsolarisyourep
The document discusses VMware's approach to management and automation for IT organizations. It introduces several new management suites from VMware that aim to help IT operate more like a business and deliver value to the business. The suites discussed are the vCenter Operations Management Suite, vFabric Application Management Suite, and IT Business Management Suite. The suites are designed to simplify management, increase automation, provide visibility across infrastructure and applications, and help IT articulate its value using business metrics and language.
Presentation architecting a cloud infrastructuresolarisyourep
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on architecting a cloud infrastructure. The agenda includes introductions, gathering requirements, sizing and scaling, host design, vCenter design, cluster design, networking and storage considerations. It emphasizes the importance of gathering requirements from customers and conceptualizing the design based on those requirements. It also discusses various design considerations and best practices for each component of a cloud infrastructure.
Presentation architecting virtualized infrastructure for big datasolarisyourep
The document discusses how virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure and analytics. Key points include:
1) Virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure by providing a unified analytics cloud platform that allows different data frameworks and workloads to easily share resources.
2) Hadoop performance on virtualization has been proven with studies showing little performance overhead from virtualization.
3) A unified analytics cloud platform using virtualization can provide benefits like better utilization, faster provisioning of elastic resources, and multi-tenancy for secure isolation of analytics workloads.
Presentation avoiding the 19 biggest ha & drs configuration mistakessolarisyourep
The document provides 19 mistakes to avoid when configuring HA and DRS in a vSphere environment. Some key mistakes include: not planning for hardware evolution which can prevent vMotion between newer and older hosts; neglecting host isolation response settings which determines what happens to VMs on an isolated host; overdoing reservations, limits, and affinities which can constrain HA and DRS calculations; and being too liberal with the DRS migration threshold which can result in unnecessary migrations. The document emphasizes understanding how DRS evaluates resource utilization and models migrations to balance cluster load.
Presentation blade center foundation for cloudsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview and summary of IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud. It discusses the current environment and need for IT to help address business challenges through virtualization and cloud computing. It then introduces IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud as an integrated virtualized platform that can be deployed quickly to provide a foundation for cloud computing. Key features highlighted include built-in server virtualization, startup services, hardware configurations ranging from small to extra large, and major hardware components.
Presentation building and running your private cloudsolarisyourep
This document discusses how IT can become an internal cloud service provider by using VMware's vCloud solutions. It describes how IT can standardize services, organize users into organizations, and provide self-service provisioning of virtual resources through catalogs. Users are given automated and rapid access to resources through a pay-as-you-go model while IT maintains control through chargeback, user limits, approvals, and access controls. The document also recommends VMware consulting services to help guide the transformation to a private cloud environment.
Presentation building your cloud with v mwaresolarisyourep
This document discusses networking models in VMware vCloud. It explains that there are three layers of networking: external, organization, and vApp networks. External networks are outside of vCloud and provide connectivity to organization networks. Organization networks allow communication within an organization and can be connected to external networks. vApp networks are contained within a vApp. The document provides details on how each network type is configured and managed.
Presentation business critical applications in a virtual envsolarisyourep
This document discusses virtualizing business critical applications. It begins by explaining why IT operations and application owners sometimes differ on virtualization, with the former wanting infrastructure efficiency and the latter concerned about performance and support. The document then shows trends of increasing virtualization for various workloads. It outlines operational benefits and new features in vSphere 5 that further reduce barriers to 100% virtualization. The rest of the document focuses on how virtualization can improve quality of service, availability, and time-to-market for applications through features like dynamic resource allocation, high availability, disaster recovery, and faster test/development cycles. It also addresses specific application information and licensing models. In the end it provides recommendations for getting started with virtualizing critical applications.
Presentation cim1309 v cat 3.0 operating a v-mware cloudsolarisyourep
This document discusses the VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) 3.0 and focuses on the "Operating a VMware Cloud" section. It provides an overview of cloud operations and frameworks for process maturity. It also covers organizing cloud operations, including roles and teams. Finally, it describes key areas for cloud business and consumer control, service control, operations control, and infrastructure control. The goal is to help organizations understand how to operate a cloud based on VMware technologies and best practices.
Presentation cisco intelligent automation complementing and extending v mwa...solarisyourep
This document discusses how Cisco Intelligent Automation can complement and extend VMware vCloud Director. It notes that vCloud Director provides standardization, increased agility and application portability through compute models. Cisco Intelligent Automation adds value-added services, simplified configuration and intelligent automation. It can orchestrate all datacenter resources required to support vCloud, provide a unified portal for virtual, cloud, physical and professional services, and deliver additional services like monitoring, backup and disaster recovery for vApps.
Presentation cisco vxi–optimized infrastructure for scaling v mware view wi...solarisyourep
This document provides an overview and summary of a Cisco presentation on optimizing infrastructure for scaling VMware View desktop virtualization. The key points discussed include:
- Rising desktop management costs and the drivers for desktop virtualization like mobility, security, and flexibility.
- Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) which provides validated designs, security, management, and an ecosystem of partners to deliver a superior virtual desktop experience.
- How the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) provides an ideal architecture for desktop virtualization through scalability, density, visibility and integrated networking.
Presentation cloud infrastructure and management – from v sphere to vcloud ...solarisyourep
- VMware is a market leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure software, with over $3.77 billion in revenues in 2011. It has over 300,000 customers including all of the Fortune 100 companies.
- The document discusses VMware's product portfolio including vSphere, vCloud Director, vShield, and vCenter which provide capabilities for virtualization, private clouds, security and management. It also discusses how these products work together to enable hybrid cloud environments.
- Case studies are presented showing how NYSE Euronext and SAP use VMware's virtualization and cloud solutions to improve the flexibility, availability and cost-efficiency of their IT infrastructure and applications.
VMware announced new versions of its cloud infrastructure software including vSphere 5, vCenter 5, vCloud Director 1.5, and vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5. The updates focus on accelerating the path to 100% virtualization, providing granular control of network and storage resources, and delivering an intelligent virtual infrastructure across private and public clouds.
The document discusses how cloud computing and big data are impacting virtualized environments. It summarizes that cloud architecture is well-suited for hosting mission critical applications, while big data requires new scalable infrastructure like scale-out storage. VMware provides a platform that can seamlessly support both cloud and big data workloads, allowing for mobility and control across applications. EMC offers solutions powered by Intel technologies that leverage these trends, including virtual storage, data replication, and scale-out storage for big data.
The document discusses consuming cloud resources from the perspective of a consumer. It introduces vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) as a vendor-agnostic set of design guidelines and best practices for architects. It then outlines different ways consumers can access cloud resources, including through vFabric Application Director, a custom portal using vCloud Director SDK or PowerCLI, or vCenter Orchestrator. The document is presented as part of a discussion on consuming cloud resources.
Presentation desktops for the cloud the view rolloutsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview of VMware View and its implementation at a company. View allows desktop operating systems to run virtualized in a data center rather than locally on devices. It discusses the benefits of View like easier maintenance, automatic backups, and faster logins. It also outlines the company's rollout methodology, including determining user profiles, finalizing app lists, and agreeing on a timeline. The typical virtual machine configuration is also specified.
Presentation disaster recovery in virtualization and cloudsolarisyourep
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
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- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
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- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
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- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
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How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
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The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
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2. • The purpose of this session is to give you a good
understanding of the vSphere Distributed Switch
(VDS)
– That includes complexity, features, cost, deployment
considerations, and management
• My goal is for you to see how this could fit your
environment and decide if you want to migrate
• This is a very open presentation so feel free to
ask questions – Will be around after
What We’ll Cover
3. • Standard vSwitches are not all bad
– Easy to understand
– Very easy to troubleshoot
– Great deal of flexibility
• But they are also not all good
– Not many advancement of features
– Can become very cumbersome
Quickly Discuss vSwitches
4. • VDS is the second vSwitch included with vSphere
• Easier administration for medium and larger environments
– Add a Port-Group once and all servers can use it
• Provides features that standard vSwitches don’t
– Network I/O Control (NIOC)
– Port mirroring
– NetFlow
– Private VLANs
– Ingress and egress traffic shaping
• Not JUST for large environments
– Many can take advantage of the advanced features
Why Bother With the VDS?
5. • Right now you have three distributed options
– VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch)
– Cisco Nexus 1000v
– IBM 5000V (very little out there)
• VDS competes very well in all areas
– Significant advancements in 5.0 and 5.1
• Many other requirements filled by vShield suite
Compared to Others?
6. VDS Enhancements in 5.1
Performance &
Scale
Visibility &
Troubleshooting
Security
• BPDU Filter
• ACL’s via vCloud Networking and
Security App
Manageability
• LACP
• SR-IOV
• VDS Scale enhancements
• Data plane performance
improvements
vSphere vSphere
vSphere Distributed Switch
• Network Health Check
• RSPAN, ERSPAN
• IPFIX ( NetFlow v10)
• SNMP – MIBs
• Netdump
• Roll back and Recovery
• Config. Backup and Restore
• MAC Address Management
• Elastic Port Groups
7. • VDS is a platform for the future of the virtual datacenter
• Network virtualization and extensibility through protocols
like VXLAN and other 3rd parties
VDS as a Platform
Cloud Infrastructure
vSwitch
Host 1 Host 2
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch
Host Y Host Z
vDS vDS
VXLAN
vCloud
8. More on New 5.1 Features
Attend following sessions to get
more details on new VDS capabilities
INF-NET 1590 – What’s New in vSphere – Networking
On Monday at 2:30 PM
And on Wednesday at 4:00 PM
9. • Just a note…all new features require use of the
vSphere 5.1 web interface
– Won’t see them in the VI Client
• Can do all legacy actions in the full client
Using the New Features
10. • The Good
– Innovative features such
• Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Load-based Teaming
– Very low complexity
• No external components to deploy or manage
– Included in Enterprise Plus licensing
– No special hardware (NICs or switches) required
• The Bad
– Bit of a learning curve, but not much
– Increases reliance on a robust vCenter deployment
– Requires Enterprise Plus licensing
Let’s Look at the VDS
11. • The vDS architecture has two main components
– Management or Control Plane – Integrated in to vCenter
– I/O or Data Plane – Made up of hidden vSwitches on each vSphere host that is part
of the VDS
• The Control plane is responsible for all
configuration and management
• The I/O plane handles data flow in and out of
each vSphere host
• No extra modules or components to install,
manage, or upgrade
Architecture
12. • Controlled and managed by vCenter, so making VC
resilient becomes important
– Backup that database!
– vCenter outage won’t affect general VM operation
• Virtual vCenter or Physical vCenter?
– Both fully supported just a few things to think about
• Couple of ways to physically separate traffic
– DMZ or other SSLF (Specialized Security Limited Functionality)
environments
– NAS or iSCSI traffic
• Confirm standard physical switch port config
– Make them all the same!
VDS Deployment Considerations
13. • Designing the deployment of your VDS can be
simple or a bit more involved
– Depends on depth of features you plan to use
• Can get a bit more complex if you want to
physically separate traffic
– Storage on its own set of NICs
– DMZ or other network with different security requirements
• Suggested to start with basic deployment and
then start adding in other features such as NIOC
Design Considerations
14. • A single VDS can only have one uplink
configuration
– This means all pNICs added to the VDS must trunk the same VLANs
• What if you want to physically separate traffic?
• Two options:
– Active/Standby/Unused – In each Port-Group configure
Active/Standby/Unused configurations for NICs
– Multiple VDS Switches – Yes, you can have more than one VDS in a cluster,
each with their own uplinks
• Usually prefer a single VDS
– Except in cases such where risk of configuration
mistakes are a concern
Traffic Separation with VDS
16. VDS Uplink Table – Single VDS with 1Gb
Traffic Port-Group Teaming Active Standby Unused
Mgmt PG-1 Explicit dvuplink1 dvuplink2 3,4,5,6,7,8
vMotion PG-2 None dvuplink3 dvuplink4 1,2,5,6,7,8
vMotion PG-3 None dvuplink4 dvuplink3 1,2,5,6,7,8
FT PG-4 Explicit dvuplink2 dvuplink1 3,4,5,6,7,8
iSCSI PG-5 None dvuplink5 None 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
iSCSI PG-6 None dvuplink6 None 1,2,3,4,5,7,8
VM PG-7 LBT dvuplink7/8 None 1,2,3,4,5,6
This is a suggested configuration for a server with 8 NICs showing multi-link vMotion and
iSCSI
Good blog post on this subject: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/vmware-vsphere-5-host-
nic-network-design-layout-and-vswitch-configuration-major-update.html
17. VDS Uplink Table – Single VDS with 10Gb
Traffic Port-Group Teaming Active Standby Unused
Mgmt PG-1 Explicit dvuplink1 dvuplink2 None
vMotion PG-2 Explicit dvuplink2 dvuplink1 None
FT PG-4 Explicit dvuplink2 dvuplink1 None
iSCSI PG-5 Explicit dvuplink1 dvuplink2 None
VM PG-7 LBT Dvuplink1/2 None None
This is a suggested configuration for a server with 2 10Gb NICs. The idea is to balance
traffic types across the two NICs.
Good blog post on this subject: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-
Blog/vmware-vsphere-5-host-nic-network-design-layout-and-vswitch-configuration-
major-update.html
18. • Let’s get away from slides and in to the lab
• In this lab we’ll try and show a full VDS
deployment
– Create new switch
– Configure uplink and main VDS
– Create port-groups
– Migrate hosts and VMs
– Show advanced options
Lab Time!
19. • Use static port binding unless absolutely
necessary
– Especially if you have a virtual vCenter
• Try and let physical switches do tagging and
trunk all VLANs
– Not a fan of using native VLAN
• Recommended to use Load Based Teaming as it
is simple and works about anywhere
Best Practice Recommendations
20. • The VDS gives you a lot more than just single
point of management
• Many features and functions that are almost
required for 10Gb, Tier 1, & dense consolidation
• Environment consistency & testing make for a
very easy migration to the VDS
• Very little day-to-day management required
• The future
Let’s Recap
21. • My Blog: http://www.jasonnash.com
• Twitter is @TheJasonNash
• My Email: jason@varrow.com
Questions?
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