Blue Chip is a leading UK provider of business IT solutions such as virtualization, cloud services, and technical training. It has over 160 staff across multiple locations serving over 1000 clients of varying sizes. Key services include VMware virtualization, Microsoft infrastructure, and security solutions from Cisco and Fortinet. Blue Chip works with major technology partners and launched new virtualization and cloud capabilities from VMware in 2011 to help clients adapt to changing technology demands.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
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.
Private Cloud Academy: Backup and DPM 2010Aidan Finn
The session I ran on how to design CSV for Hyper-V backups, and how to use DPM 2010, at the Microsoft/System Dynamics Private Cloud Academy in Dublin, Ireland.
White paper: IBM FlashSystems in VMware EnvironmentsthinkASG
Drive performance in VMware environments with IBM FlashSystem. IBM flash storage delivers extreme, scalable performance for virtualized infrastructure.
Efficiently protect virtual machines with our cloud backup service powered by...iSSAL
The document summarizes a cloud backup service that protects virtual machines across multiple platforms. It offers an agentless and integrated solution to backup physical and virtual servers from vendors like VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others. It leverages APIs from these platforms to perform efficient incremental backups and supports platforms that lack APIs. The solution offers benefits like improved performance, scalability, quick recovery and support for multiple platforms from a single provider.
The VSA provides shared storage for SMB customers without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. It deploys virtual storage appliances on each ESXi host that replicate data across hosts, providing resilience to failures. The VSA manager in vCenter automates deployment and management of the VSA cluster, mounting NFS datastores for use across all ESXi hosts. This allows features like vMotion and HA without a dedicated storage device.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
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.
Private Cloud Academy: Backup and DPM 2010Aidan Finn
The session I ran on how to design CSV for Hyper-V backups, and how to use DPM 2010, at the Microsoft/System Dynamics Private Cloud Academy in Dublin, Ireland.
White paper: IBM FlashSystems in VMware EnvironmentsthinkASG
Drive performance in VMware environments with IBM FlashSystem. IBM flash storage delivers extreme, scalable performance for virtualized infrastructure.
Efficiently protect virtual machines with our cloud backup service powered by...iSSAL
The document summarizes a cloud backup service that protects virtual machines across multiple platforms. It offers an agentless and integrated solution to backup physical and virtual servers from vendors like VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others. It leverages APIs from these platforms to perform efficient incremental backups and supports platforms that lack APIs. The solution offers benefits like improved performance, scalability, quick recovery and support for multiple platforms from a single provider.
The VSA provides shared storage for SMB customers without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. It deploys virtual storage appliances on each ESXi host that replicate data across hosts, providing resilience to failures. The VSA manager in vCenter automates deployment and management of the VSA cluster, mounting NFS datastores for use across all ESXi hosts. This allows features like vMotion and HA without a dedicated storage device.
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.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. It describes the basic concepts of virtualization and VMware ESXi, outlines the vSphere components, and how vSphere fits into software-defined data centers and clouds. It also introduces the vSphere Client user interface and provides learning objectives for lessons on the software-defined data center, the vSphere Client, and an overview of ESXi.
Managing a virtualized infrastructure that runs continuously inevitably requires some degree of maintenance from IT staff. Any time that can be saved when performing routine maintenance tasks through system automation and capable management features frees IT staff to concentrate on ways to help your business grow. In the scenarios we tested, using the VMware solution had the potential to reduce administrative labor costs by as much as 91 percent compared to using similar offerings from Microsoft.
When we added the expected operational efficiency cost savings to the hardware acquisition estimates provided by the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator, we found that the VMware solution could provide a lower total cost of ownership over two years compared to the Microsoft solution.
Citrix CloudPlatform is a turn-key cloud solution that provides fast time to value through a simple one-package installation. It is proven to scale beyond 40,000 hosts per region and multiple regions, providing users virtually unlimited computing resources on demand. It offers granular tracking and metering of resource usage for showback/chargeback. The solution is hypervisor and storage agnostic, and supports enterprise-grade networking and security for multi-tenant environments through logical and physical isolation.
VMware vCloud Director Technisch OverzichtArjan Hendriks
This document provides an overview of VMware vCloud Director and the components of a VMware cloud architecture. It discusses VMware vCloud Director, vSphere, vCenter Server, and other core components. It also covers setting up the management cluster, cloud resources like provider VDCs and networks, organizations, catalogs, and chargeback. The goal is to provide the information needed to deploy a complete VMware cloud.
As virtualization platforms and functionality become more robust, more and more of your data and applications will reside on virtual machines (VM). Organizations such as yours may also look to leverage the strengths of the different virtualization platforms such as VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Parallels, and Linux KVM.
The document discusses eG Innovations' performance management monitoring solution. It provides an overview of eG and how it can monitor virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. eG offers deep visibility into all layers of VDI, including the virtualization platform, connection broker, profile server, and individual user sessions. It monitors over 150 applications and infrastructure components to provide comprehensive performance monitoring of complex VDI environments.
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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
This document discusses VMware's Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution. It provides an overview of VMware's key products and offerings for building private and hybrid clouds, including VMware vCloud Director for managing virtual datacenters, vShield security products, vCenter Chargeback for cost visibility, and vCloud Connector for hybrid cloud management. It also discusses VMware's vCloud public cloud solutions like vCloud Express which offers rapid provisioning of development and test environments using a credit card.
This document discusses best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 5 on IBM SONAS scale-out network attached storage. It provides an overview of new features in vSphere 5 including Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and centralized logging. It then covers planning the creation of NFS shares on SONAS, installing and configuring vSphere, and adding NFS data stores. Recommendations are provided such as using large SONAS storage pools and fewer larger NFS data stores. The document is intended to help customers implement effective storage solutions for enterprise virtual environments requiring extreme scalability.
The battle to be your virtualization vendor is in full swing, and it
has important ramifications for the vendors involved, and for your
data center. The goal of this whitepaper is to analyze the
technical aspects of the two major choices: VMware vSphere 4
and Microsoft Hyper-V R2 (as part of Windows Server 2008 R2).
The two contenders are described in technical detail, and then
those details are compared head-to-head. Typical pricing in two
scenarios is included. Analysis of these tools, how they will
impact your datacenter virtualization, and what the future likely
holds is included. »
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
VMworld 2013
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The document discusses the challenges of storage requirements for server and desktop virtualization. It notes that virtualization increases storage demands by 5-15x by consolidating workloads onto shared storage. This makes SANs essential but also drives up costs significantly. It then presents a case study of a police station that was able to implement a virtual infrastructure solution within its $200k budget using DataCore software rather than an expensive SAN proposal. The document argues that DataCore's software-defined approach can provide high availability and disaster recovery at a fraction of the cost of traditional hardware-based SAN solutions.
VMworld 2013: Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Data CenterVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mark Achtemichuk, VMware
Michael Webster, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection for VMware - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
The document discusses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection capabilities for VMware environments, including an overview of virtual machine backup methods like in-guest, on-host, and off-host backup. It also covers how VMware Consolidated Backup works compared to using vStorage APIs for Data Protection, and provides a high-level overview of IBM's TSM solution for backing up and recovering VMware virtual machines. Potential future enhancements like integrating with VMware vSphere client and FlashCopy Manager are also outlined.
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Consolidation, cloud privé, cloud public, SQL As A Service etc. sont autant de scénarios de virtualisation possibles avec SQL Server. Cette session reposera les règles de bon usage de ce type de déploiement et les scénarios clés. Nous reviendrons sur quelques-unes des « Lessons learned from Azure ».
Cisco it collaboration for blue chip 03 2011bluechipper
The document discusses Cisco's large global collaboration infrastructure, which includes over 68,000 employees, 300 locations across 90 countries, 300,000 UC devices, over 1,000 telepresence units, 600,000 Webex meetings per month, and 2.4 million intranet pages. It also summarizes trends driving increased collaboration like employee mobility, real-time video, and social software adoption. Finally, it provides examples of Cisco's own collaboration usage and successes in large-scale video conferences and migrations to new unified communication platforms.
This document provides an overview of desktop virtualization and how it can help businesses. It discusses:
1) Different types of virtual desktops that can meet the needs of various user types, including hosted shared, VDI, streamed, and local virtual machines.
2) How desktop virtualization provides benefits like flexibility, lower costs, security, and management compared to traditional desktop computing.
3) Key drivers for desktop virtualization adoption, including agility, flexible working environments, compliance, and lower ongoing costs.
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.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. It describes the basic concepts of virtualization and VMware ESXi, outlines the vSphere components, and how vSphere fits into software-defined data centers and clouds. It also introduces the vSphere Client user interface and provides learning objectives for lessons on the software-defined data center, the vSphere Client, and an overview of ESXi.
Managing a virtualized infrastructure that runs continuously inevitably requires some degree of maintenance from IT staff. Any time that can be saved when performing routine maintenance tasks through system automation and capable management features frees IT staff to concentrate on ways to help your business grow. In the scenarios we tested, using the VMware solution had the potential to reduce administrative labor costs by as much as 91 percent compared to using similar offerings from Microsoft.
When we added the expected operational efficiency cost savings to the hardware acquisition estimates provided by the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator, we found that the VMware solution could provide a lower total cost of ownership over two years compared to the Microsoft solution.
Citrix CloudPlatform is a turn-key cloud solution that provides fast time to value through a simple one-package installation. It is proven to scale beyond 40,000 hosts per region and multiple regions, providing users virtually unlimited computing resources on demand. It offers granular tracking and metering of resource usage for showback/chargeback. The solution is hypervisor and storage agnostic, and supports enterprise-grade networking and security for multi-tenant environments through logical and physical isolation.
VMware vCloud Director Technisch OverzichtArjan Hendriks
This document provides an overview of VMware vCloud Director and the components of a VMware cloud architecture. It discusses VMware vCloud Director, vSphere, vCenter Server, and other core components. It also covers setting up the management cluster, cloud resources like provider VDCs and networks, organizations, catalogs, and chargeback. The goal is to provide the information needed to deploy a complete VMware cloud.
As virtualization platforms and functionality become more robust, more and more of your data and applications will reside on virtual machines (VM). Organizations such as yours may also look to leverage the strengths of the different virtualization platforms such as VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Parallels, and Linux KVM.
The document discusses eG Innovations' performance management monitoring solution. It provides an overview of eG and how it can monitor virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. eG offers deep visibility into all layers of VDI, including the virtualization platform, connection broker, profile server, and individual user sessions. It monitors over 150 applications and infrastructure components to provide comprehensive performance monitoring of complex VDI environments.
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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
This document discusses VMware's Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution. It provides an overview of VMware's key products and offerings for building private and hybrid clouds, including VMware vCloud Director for managing virtual datacenters, vShield security products, vCenter Chargeback for cost visibility, and vCloud Connector for hybrid cloud management. It also discusses VMware's vCloud public cloud solutions like vCloud Express which offers rapid provisioning of development and test environments using a credit card.
This document discusses best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 5 on IBM SONAS scale-out network attached storage. It provides an overview of new features in vSphere 5 including Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and centralized logging. It then covers planning the creation of NFS shares on SONAS, installing and configuring vSphere, and adding NFS data stores. Recommendations are provided such as using large SONAS storage pools and fewer larger NFS data stores. The document is intended to help customers implement effective storage solutions for enterprise virtual environments requiring extreme scalability.
The battle to be your virtualization vendor is in full swing, and it
has important ramifications for the vendors involved, and for your
data center. The goal of this whitepaper is to analyze the
technical aspects of the two major choices: VMware vSphere 4
and Microsoft Hyper-V R2 (as part of Windows Server 2008 R2).
The two contenders are described in technical detail, and then
those details are compared head-to-head. Typical pricing in two
scenarios is included. Analysis of these tools, how they will
impact your datacenter virtualization, and what the future likely
holds is included. »
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
VMworld 2013
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The document discusses the challenges of storage requirements for server and desktop virtualization. It notes that virtualization increases storage demands by 5-15x by consolidating workloads onto shared storage. This makes SANs essential but also drives up costs significantly. It then presents a case study of a police station that was able to implement a virtual infrastructure solution within its $200k budget using DataCore software rather than an expensive SAN proposal. The document argues that DataCore's software-defined approach can provide high availability and disaster recovery at a fraction of the cost of traditional hardware-based SAN solutions.
VMworld 2013: Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Data CenterVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mark Achtemichuk, VMware
Michael Webster, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection for VMware - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
The document discusses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection capabilities for VMware environments, including an overview of virtual machine backup methods like in-guest, on-host, and off-host backup. It also covers how VMware Consolidated Backup works compared to using vStorage APIs for Data Protection, and provides a high-level overview of IBM's TSM solution for backing up and recovering VMware virtual machines. Potential future enhancements like integrating with VMware vSphere client and FlashCopy Manager are also outlined.
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Consolidation, cloud privé, cloud public, SQL As A Service etc. sont autant de scénarios de virtualisation possibles avec SQL Server. Cette session reposera les règles de bon usage de ce type de déploiement et les scénarios clés. Nous reviendrons sur quelques-unes des « Lessons learned from Azure ».
Cisco it collaboration for blue chip 03 2011bluechipper
The document discusses Cisco's large global collaboration infrastructure, which includes over 68,000 employees, 300 locations across 90 countries, 300,000 UC devices, over 1,000 telepresence units, 600,000 Webex meetings per month, and 2.4 million intranet pages. It also summarizes trends driving increased collaboration like employee mobility, real-time video, and social software adoption. Finally, it provides examples of Cisco's own collaboration usage and successes in large-scale video conferences and migrations to new unified communication platforms.
This document provides an overview of desktop virtualization and how it can help businesses. It discusses:
1) Different types of virtual desktops that can meet the needs of various user types, including hosted shared, VDI, streamed, and local virtual machines.
2) How desktop virtualization provides benefits like flexibility, lower costs, security, and management compared to traditional desktop computing.
3) Key drivers for desktop virtualization adoption, including agility, flexible working environments, compliance, and lower ongoing costs.
Veeam Backup & Replication provides reliable virtual machine backups that allow for quick recovery. It offers several advantages over traditional VM backup methods like agent-based backups. Version 5.0 introduces instant VM recovery and recovery verification capabilities. Features like SureBackup, InstantRestore, and SmartCDP allow backups to be verified and VMs to be recovered quickly. Veeam offers centralized management and supports unlimited scalability. It provides good value with no extra fees for replication, deduplication, or other features.
Blue Chip is a leading UK provider of IT infrastructure solutions established in 1992. It provides systems design, implementation, support and training services across the UK from multiple locations. Quest's vRanger 5.0 backup and replication software includes new features like integrated backup and replication, cataloging for faster restores, and Linux file-level restore. The software also improves vReplicator integration and supports NFS repositories.
This document provides an overview of EMC's VNX storage solutions. It discusses the VNX and VNXe series which provide unified storage for file, block and object storage. It highlights key features like FAST cache and virtual provisioning which optimize performance and efficiency. Management is simplified through Unisphere which provides centralized management and wizard-based configuration. Software solutions are offered in packaged suites to provide protection, replication and efficiency.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
The document discusses Microsoft's private cloud solutions. It describes the benefits of moving to a private cloud model including reducing costs, increasing business agility, and improving resource flexibility. It outlines the key attributes of cloud computing including self-service, scalability, and consumption-based charging. It also explains Microsoft's approach to delivering a private cloud using Hyper-V virtualization, System Center management tools, and a Self-Service Portal for provisioning resources.
VMworld 2013: Virtualization Rookie or Pro: Why vSphere is Your Best ChoiceVMworld
VMworld 2013
Eric Horschman, VMware
Jeff Margolese, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2013: Software-Defined Storage: The VCDX Way VMworld
VMworld 2013
Wade Holmes VCDX, VMware
Rawlinson Rivera VCDX, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
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.
With around 11 years of Information Technology experience, I am looking to work in dynamic and challenging environments where I can provide efficient and cost-effective solutions to business.
VMworld 2013: vCloud Powered HPC is Better and Outperforming PhysicalVMworld
Virtualized HPC platforms on VMware's software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture can outperform physical HPC systems. Three customer cases show how virtual HPC platforms provided flexibility, scalability, and cost savings compared to physical hardware. Virtual HPC platforms allowed customers to dynamically scale resources, pay for computing as needed, and reduce hardware investments and management costs. Virtualization optimized for HPC workloads can deliver low-latency performance comparable or better than physical systems.
This document discusses how virtualizing datacenters with VMware and NetApp can accelerate businesses. It provides details on:
- The strong alliance between VMware and NetApp and their joint customers and support.
- Trends showing more business critical applications like databases being virtualized.
- Survey results that show NetApp storage preference growing for virtual server environments.
- How NetApp storage provides the best data protection, efficiency and flexibility for virtual environments.
Accelerate Your Sales with Application-Centric Storage-as-a-Service Using VMw...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 provides major enhancements including 4x higher performance, 2x greater scale, and new enterprise data services. It allows for up to 90,000 IOPS per host, scaling to 64 nodes with 200 VMs per host and 62TB maximum virtual disk sizes. Virtual SAN 6.0 also delivers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness, and hardware-based checksum and encryption. It provides broader hardware support including expanded support for blades. Virtual SAN 6.0 is ready to support business critical applications with an all-flash architecture providing data persistence on SSD and intelligent caching.
PeaSoup, a VMware vCloud Air Network partner, adopted Virtual SAN to address challenges with traditional storage including
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.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere Environments - now...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how to build out a robust private cloud infrastructure with the assurance that all the underlying server, storage, and network resources are in place and aligned to the appropriate service levels.
See how to achieve predictable reliability based on business needs in a robust, enterprise-class cloud platform – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere.
We’ll take you through the latest updates to this industry-leading solution that is deeply integrated with vSphere, including HDS servers and storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, your choice of Cisco or Brocade Ethernet networking. We’ll also talk about software updates that include bare-metal support, improved monitoring and performance tuning, federated management, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
- IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) provides data protection, backup and recovery for both physical and virtual environments.
- TSM 6.4 includes enhancements like incremental 'forever' VMware backups, application-aware Microsoft backups, and SAP HANA support.
- The presentation discusses IBM's strategy to optimize storage infrastructure through virtualization, data reduction, analytics and automation.
This document discusses software defined networking which allows logical segmentation of critical machines for security independent of hardware. It also discusses virtualizing and automating workloads across server resources to simplify management, virtualizing and pooling storage resources to optimize cost and agility, and using cloud automation to allow rapid deployment without losing control or hurting production. Automated disaster recovery is discussed which begins with replicating data to a secondary site so the automated run-book can execute in the event of a disaster. Finally, it discusses extending the vSphere platform to public cloud resources to seamlessly extend workloads across private and public clouds.
Build & Deploy Scalable Cloud Applications in Record TimeRightScale
The document summarizes a presentation about developing and deploying scalable cloud applications using WaveMaker and RightScale. WaveMaker is a platform for rapidly developing web and cloud applications while RightScale is a cloud management platform that allows deploying and managing applications across different cloud infrastructures. The presentation included demos of building an application with WaveMaker and deploying/managing it using RightScale's automation and scaling capabilities.
VMworld 2013: The Missing Link: Storage Visibility In Virtualized Environments VMworld
VMworld 2013
Matt Cowger, EMC
Mahesh Kumar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Sun: Solaris On-Demand Assists ISVs' Strategic Move To Software-As-A-ServiceCallidus Software
The document discusses Callidus On-Demand, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for Callidus Software's sales performance management applications. It is run on Solaris On-Demand infrastructure from Sun Microsystems, which provides the hardware, software, storage, networking and managed operations. Customers benefit from lower costs, reduced IT burden, and Callidus and Sun handle deployment, hosting, support and upgrades rather than managing it themselves on-premise. Sun's Solaris operating environment, SPARC and x86 servers, storage solutions and managed services provide a reliable and secure platform for Callidus On-Demand.
This document contains a curriculum vitae for Sivaiah Yakkanti. It summarizes his work experience of 11 years in server administration, virtualization, and storage concepts. He has technical expertise in areas like Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, Linux administration, Active Directory, Exchange administration, antivirus administration, and more. He also has professional certifications in areas like VMware VCP, Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, and ITIL. The CV highlights his most recent role as a Senior System Engineer with Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, where he is responsible for enterprise administration, Hyper-V infrastructure, and other tasks.
Discussing strategies for building the next gen data centreICT-Partners
Maak kennis met onze visie op de transformatie van het datacenter. BigTec helpt u met een eigen referentiearchitectuur: een 'solution stack’ met 'best-of-breed’ oplossingen, gebruikmakend van Software Defined Webscale technologieën. Door in deze referentiearchitectuur oplossingen van o.a. Nutanix, Rubrik, VMTurbo en AVI Networks toe te passen, ontstaat een fundamentele basis voor het Software Defined Data Centre.
Presentatie 9 juni 2016
Backing up data is key to any business strategy, to protect yourself from disaster and to meet incoming data compliance regulations such as GDPR. Veeam Cloud Connect combined with cloud services such as Microsoft Azure or AWS are one option to a viable secure and cost effective solution to your Backup needs.
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.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
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!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
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19. Business Management Applications – Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft CRM, SharePoint
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21. Our partners… Blue Chip recognises that to deliver the best, we must work with the best! Through carefully selected and managed alliances, Blue Chip holds strategic partnerships with the world's best of breed manufacturers.
23. vSphere vSphere vSphere Virtualisation is the Foundation for Cloud “Virtualization is a modernization catalyst and unlocks cloud computing.” ―Gartner, May 2010
32. New vSphere vSphere vSphere In 2011 VMware has Introduced a major upgrade of the entire Cloud Infrastructure Stack Cloud Infrastructure Launch vCloud Director 1.5 vCloud Director vShield 5.0 vShield Security vCenter SRM 5.0 vCenter Management vSphere 5.0
42. Demo New Hardware Hot Add CPU Memory Resources – guest memory lock VMware Hardware status monitor Web Client Linux client or MAC can now mange vCentre Resume tasks Advanced search - history of vm's Customise view IPAD Client
43. Storage vMotion – Introduction In vSphere 5.0, a number of new enhancements were made to Storage vMotion. Storage vMotion will now work with Virtual Machines that have snapshots, which means coexistence with other VMware products & features such as VCB, VDR & HBR. Storage vMotion will support the relocation of linked clones. Storage vMotion has a new use case – Storage DRS – which uses Storage vMotion for Storage Maintenance Mode & Storage Load Balancing (Space or Performance).
61. Storage Capabilities & VM Storage Profiles Compliant Not Compliant VM Storage Profile associated with VM VM Storage Profile referencing Storage Capabilities Storage Capabilities surfaced by VASA or user-defined
62. VM Storage Profile Compliance Policy Compliance is visible from the Virtual Machine Summary tab.
63. Demo Storage Driven Profiles Show Datastore storage profile Assign storage profile to a VM Profile compliance Create a new VM and place on storage cluster - will then place depending on load Storage DRS Storage Load balancing Storage Anti affinity Storage I/O
69. More Auto Deploy 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
70. Host Profiles Enhancements New feature enables greater flexibility and automation Using an Answer File, administrators can configure host-specific settings to be used in conjunction with the common settings in the Host Profile, avoiding the need to type in any host-specific parameters. This feature enables the use of Host Profiles to fully configure a host during an automated deployment. Host Profiles now has support for a greatly expanded set of configurations, including: iSCSI FCoE Native Multipathing Device Claiming and PSP Device Settings Kernel Module Settings And more
74. Enhanced scalabilityStorage vMotion VMware Fault Tolerance, High Availability,DRS Maintenance Mode, vMotion Benefits NIC Teaming, Multipathing Component Server Storage
75. What’s New in vSphere 5 High Availability? Complete re-write of vSphere HA: Provides a foundation for increased scale and functionality Eliminates common issues (DNS resolution) Multiple Communication Paths Can leverage storage as well as the management network for communications Enhances the ability to detect certain types of failures and provides redundancy IPv6 Support Enhanced Error Reporting One log file per host eases troubleshooting efforts Enhanced User Interface
76. vSphere HA Primary Components FDM FDM FDM FDM Every host runs an Agent Referred to as ‘FDM’ or Fault Domain Manager One of the agents within the cluster is chosen to assume the role of the Master There is only one Master per cluster during normal operations All other agents assume the role of Slaves There is no more Primary/Secondary concept with vSphere HA ESX 02 ESX 01 ESX 03 ESX 04 vCenter
77. Storage-Level Communications FDM FDM FDM FDM One of the most exciting new features of vSphere HA is its ability to use a storage subsystem for communication. The datastores used for this are referred to as ‘Heartbeat Datastores’. This provides for increased communication redundancy. Heartbeat datastores are used as a communication channel only when the management network is lost - such as in the case of isolation or network partitioning. ESX 02 ESX 01 ESX 03 ESX 04 vCenter
90. Remote office / branch officesTier 2 / 3 Apps – Not protected APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP Small sites – Not protected OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS Small Business Remote Office / Branch Office Corporate Datacenter
91. SRM Provides Broad Choice of Replication Options vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager vSphere Replication VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM vSphere vSphere Storage-based replication vSphere Replication: simple, cost-efficient replication for Tier 2 applications and smaller sites Storage-based replication: High-performance replication for business-critical applications in larger sites
105. Key Concepts - Example Each vSphere Enterprise Edition license entitles to 64GB of vRAM. 4 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Edition provide a vRAM pool of 256GB (4 * 64 GB) 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB vRAM Pool (256GB) Consumed vRAM = 80 GB Customer creates 20 VMs with 4GB vRAM each vSphere Ent vSphere Ent 1 1 1 1 CPU CPU CPU CPU Host A Host B Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement
112. EMC: The VMware Choice 2 out of 3 CIOs pick EMC for their VMware environments “Which vendor(s) supplied the networked (SAN or NAS) storage used for your virtual server environment?” Trusted storage platform for the most critical and demanding VMware environments Advanced integration and functionality that maximizes the value of a virtualized data center Flexibility to meet infrastructure to business and technical needs Knowledge, experience, and partnerships to make your virtual data center a reality “Which is your storage vendor of choice in a virtual server environment?” “EMC remains the clear storage leader in virtualized environments.”
113. 3x Better Performance More users, more transactions, better response time FAST Cache FAST VP 3X VNXPlatform Faster CX/NS Platforms
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116. FAST VP supporting both file and block optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring only active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower-cost disk tiers
117. Togetherthey deliver a fully automated FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal performance at the lowest cost attainableReal-time caching withFAST Cache FlashSSD High Perf. HDD High Cap. HDD Scheduled optimization with FAST VP
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119. If not, FAST Cache driver checks map to determine where page is located
123. Dirty pages are copied back to disk drives as background activityDRAM FAST Cache Policy Engine Driver Disk Drives
124. FAST VP for Block & File Access Optimise VNX for minimum TCO BEFORE AFTER LUN 1 Automatesmovement of hot or cold blocks Optimizesuse of high performance and high capacity drives Improves cost and performance Pool Tier 0 LUN 2 Tier 1 Most activity Neutral activity Least activity Tier 2
125. User B10 GB User A 10 GB User C10 GB Logical application and user view Physical allocation 4 GB Physical consumed storage 2 GB 2 GB VNX Thin Provisioning Only allocate the actual capacity required by the application Capacity oversubscription allows intelligent use of resources File systems FC and iSCSI LUNs Logical size greater than physical size VNX Thin Provisioning safeguards to avoid running out of space Monitoring and alerting Automatic and dynamic extension past logical size Automatic NAS file system extension FC and iSCSI dynamic LUN extension VNX THIN PROVISIONING Capacity on demand
126. VNX Virtual Provisioning Thick pool LUN: Full capacity allocation Near RAID-Group LUN performance Capacity reserved at LUN creation 1 GB chunks allocated as relative block address is written Thin pool LUN: Only allocates capacity as data is written by the host Capacity allocated in 1 GB chunks 8 KB blocks contiguously written within 1 GB 8 KB mapping incurs some performance overhead
127. VNX Series Software Software Solutions Made Simple Attractively Priced Packsand Suites Total Efficiency Pack FAST Suite Security and Compliance Suite TotalProtection Pack Local Protection Suite Remote Protection Suite Application Protection Suite
128. VNX: Faster than the Rest 12 Highest number of transactions and lowest response time 10 IBM 8 3X FASTER THAN IBM 6 HP 4 RESPONSE TIME IN MS—LOWER IS BETTER NetApp 2 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 450,000 500,000 TRANSACTIONS—HIGHER IS BETTER Note: SPECsfs2008 NFSv3
129. VNX Series for Virtual Desktop 4x the number of Virtual Desktop users with VNX Series, FAST VP & FAST Cache at Sustained Performance Up to 70% reduction in storage cost for same I/O performance Boot Storm: 3x Faster: Boot & settle 500 desktops in 8 min vs. 27 min FAST Cache absorbs the majority of the Boot work-load (i.e. I/O to spinning drives) Desktop Refresh: Refresh 500 desktops in 50min vs. 130min Fast Cache serviced the majority of the IO during refresh and prevents Linked clones from overloading Celerra NS 183x 300GB 15K FC Disks VNX series 5x 100GB SSD 21x 300GB 15H SAS 15x 2TB NL-SAS
130. VNX Demo UnisphereConsole: Dashboard Customised view System Disks System Properties Fast Cache Storage Pools LUNS Compression – compression on LUN Thin Provisioning Auto tiering Hosts/Storage Groups/Virtualisation Analyser – Monitor and Alerting USM
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134. Blue Chip Change is the only constant in business... ...evolution is the key to survival www.bluechip.uk.com
Editor's Notes
Every one of our customers has existing applications, running in existing datacenters, that represents significant investments and ongoing value. The first thing we are doing with these customers, is helping them stand-up a Private Cloud, to get the most efficiency and agility out of their existing assets. And this can be done in a pragmatic, evolutionary way. We have over 250,000 customers worldwide that are already on this path, because they are leveraging vSphere to virtualize the entire fabric of the datacenter, including CPU & memory, storage, and networking. And because they are using vSphere, they get built-in high-availability, and automated, dynamic resource scheduling to give them the cloud attributes of elastic, pooled capacity. <click>With virtualization in place, the independent silos are broken down, enabling us to automate many of the mundane, repetitive administration tasks with our vCenter management suite, further decreasing opex in the datacenter.
With vSphere 5.0, multiple enhancements have been introduced to increase efficiency of the Storage vMotion process, to improve overall performance, and for enhanced supportability. Storage vMotion in vSphere 5.0 now also supports the migration of virtual machines with a vSphere Snapshot and the migration of linked clones.
The Storage vMotion control logic is in the VMXThe Storage VMotion thread first creates the destination disk.After that, a stun/unstun of the VM allows the SVM Mirror Driver to be installed. I/Os to source will be mirrored to destination. The new driver will leverage the Data Mover to implement a single-pass block copy of the source to the destination disk. In additional to this it will mirror I/O between the two disks. This is a synchronous write meaning that the mirror driver will acknowledge the write to the Guest OS when it has received the acknowledgement from both the source and destination
Accelerate VM storage placement decision to a storage pod by:Capturing VM storage SLA requirementsMapping to the storage with the right characteristics and spare space
Storage DRS provides initial placement recommendations to datastores in a Storage DRS-enabled datastore cluster based on I/O and space capacity. During the provisioning of a virtual machine, a datastore cluster can be selected as the target destination for this virtual machine or virtual machine disk after which a recommendation for initial placement is done based on I/O and space capacity. As just mentioned Initial placement in a manual provisioning process has proven to be very complex in most environments and as such important provisioning factors like current I/O load or space utilization are often ignored. Storage DRS ensures initial placement recommendations are made in accordance with space constraints and with respect to the goals of space and I/O load balancing. Although people are really excited about automated load balancing… It is Initial Placement where most people will start off with and where most people will benefit from the most as it will reduce operational overhead associated with the provisioning of virtual machines.
Ongoing balancing recommendations are made when one or more datastores in a datastore cluster exceeds the user-configurable space utilization or I/O latency thresholds. These thresholds are typically defined during the configuration of the datastore cluster. Storage DRS utilizes vCenter Server’s datastore utilization reporting mechanism to make recommendations whenever the configured utilized space threshold is exceeded. I/O load is evaluated by default every 8 hours currently with a default latency threshold of 15ms. Only when this I/O latency threshold is exceeded Storage DRS will calculate all possible moves to balance the load accordingly while considering the cost and the benefit of the migration. If the benefit doesn’t at least last for 24 hours Storage DRS will not make the recommendation.
Ongoing balancing recommendations are made when one or more datastores in a datastore cluster exceeds the user-configurable space utilization or I/O latency thresholds. These thresholds are typically defined during the configuration of the datastore cluster. Storage DRS utilizes vCenter Server’s datastore utilization reporting mechanism to make recommendations whenever the configured utilized space threshold is exceeded. I/O load is evaluated by default every 8 hours currently with a default latency threshold of 15ms. Only when this I/O latency threshold is exceeded Storage DRS will calculate all possible moves to balance the load accordingly while considering the cost and the benefit of the migration. If the benefit doesn’t at least last for 24 hours Storage DRS will not make the recommendation.
Today:Currently we identify the requirements of the virtual machine, try to find the optimal datastore based on the requirements and create the virtual machine or disk. In some cases customers even periodically check if VMs are compliant but in many cases this is neglected.Storage DRS:Storage DRS only solves that problem partly. As still manually we will need to identify the correct datastore cluster and even when grouping datastores in to a cluster we need to manually verify if all LUNs are “alike”…. And again there is that manual periodically checkStorage DRS and Profile Driven Storage:When using Profile Driven Storage and Storage DRS in conjunction these problems are solved. Datastore cluster can be created based on the characteristics provided through vasa or the custom tags. When deploying virtual machines a storage profile can be selected ensuring that the virtual will be compliant!
Step 1The diagram we just showed gave a total overview, but most customers are concerned about just one thing: compliancy so how does this work? As mentioned Capabilities are surfaced through VASAStep2:And these capabilties are linked to a specific VM Storage ProfileStep 3:When a new is created or a excisting virtual machine is tagged the resultStep 4:Will be either complaint or not compliant it is as simple as that.
Auto Deploy is a new method for provisioning ESXi hosts in vSphere 5.1. At a high level the ESXi host boots over the network (using PXE/gPXE), contacts the Auto Deploy Server which loads ESXi into the hosts memory. After loading the ESXi image the Auto Deploy Server coordinates with vCenter Server to configure the host (using Host Profiles and Answer Files (answer files are new in 5.0). Auto Deploy eliminates the need for a dedicated boot device, enables rapid deployment for many hosts, and also simplifies ESXi host management by eliminating the need to maintain a separate “boot image” for each host.
Agent is ~50Kb in size. FDM Agent is not tied to vpxd at all
Customers are getting hit by core and physical memory restrictions“How will I license vSphere when my CPUs are over 6 or 12 cores?”CPU cores and physical entitlements are tied to a single server and cannot be shared among multiple ones reducing flexibility and utilizationRapid introduction of new hardware technologies require constant amendments to the licensing mode creating uncertainty over planning“What happens if I use SSD or hyperthreading or etc.?”Hardware based entitlements make it difficult for customers to transition to the usage based cost and chargeback models that characterize cloud computing and IT as a Service
Customers are getting hit by core and physical memory restrictions“How will I license vSphere when my CPUs are over 6 or 12 cores?”CPU cores and physical entitlements are tied to a single server and cannot be shared among multiple ones reducing flexibility and utilizationRapid introduction of new hardware technologies require constant amendments to the licensing mode creating uncertainty over planning“What happens if I use SSD or hyperthreading or etc.?”Hardware based entitlements make it difficult for customers to transition to the usage based cost and chargeback models that characterize cloud computing and IT as a Service
The FAST Suite improves performance and maximizes storage efficiency by deploying this FLASH 1st strategy. FAST Cache, an extendable cache of up to 2 TB, gives a real-time performance boost by ensuring the hottest data is served from the highest performing Flash drives for as long as needed. FAST VP then complements FAST Cache by optimizing storage pools on a regular, scheduled basis. You define how and when data is tiered using policies that dynamically move the most active data to high-performance drives (e.g., Flash), and less active data to high-capacity drives, all in one-gigabyte increments for both block and file data.Together, they automatically optimize for the highest system performance and the lowest storage cost simultaneously.
The slide above shows how FAST cache works. FAST Cache is based on the locality of reference of the dataset requested by a host. Systems with high locality of reference confine the majority of IOs to a relatively small capacity, where systems with low locality of reference spread IOs more evenly across the total capacity – this is also sometimes referred to as skew. The dataset with high locality of reference/skew (blocks close to one another tending to be accessed together) is a good candidate to be copied to FAST Cache. By promoting this dataset to FAST Cache, any subsequent access to this data for read-write is serviced faster from Flash drives. This reduces workload on back-end disk drives.A write operation works in similar fashion. Writes with high locality of reference are directed to Flash drives. When the time comes to flush this data to disk, the flushing operation is significantly faster as writes are now at Flash drive speeds. This can have a big impact in heavy-write workloads that require a large system cache to be flushed to the underlying disks more frequentlyThe FAST Cache map is maintained in the DRAM cache and consumes DRAM space so care should be taken to choose which pools and RAID-group LUNs it should be enabled for. EMC TS resources have tools which are available to our direct and channel champions community, to analyze existing environments for the best candidates.FAST Cache operates at a 64KB granularity for increased efficiency. If a 64KB block is referenced 3 times in a given period of time (the time will depend on the IO activity of the system), the block will be promoted into FAST Cache. As the data ages and becomes less active, it will fall out of FAST Cache to be replaced by a more active chunk of data.
The slide above shows how FAST cache works. FAST Cache is based on the locality of reference of the dataset requested by a host. Systems with high locality of reference confine the majority of IOs to a relatively small capacity, where systems with low locality of reference spread IOs more evenly across the total capacity – this is also sometimes referred to as skew. The dataset with high locality of reference/skew (blocks close to one another tending to be accessed together) is a good candidate to be copied to FAST Cache. By promoting this dataset to FAST Cache, any subsequent access to this data for read-write is serviced faster from Flash drives. This reduces workload on back-end disk drives.A write operation works in similar fashion. Writes with high locality of reference are directed to Flash drives. When the time comes to flush this data to disk, the flushing operation is significantly faster as writes are now at Flash drive speeds. This can have a big impact in heavy-write workloads that require a large system cache to be flushed to the underlying disks more frequentlyThe FAST Cache map is maintained in the DRAM cache and consumes DRAM space so care should be taken to choose which pools and RAID-group LUNs it should be enabled for. EMC TS resources have tools which are available to our direct and channel champions community, to analyze existing environments for the best candidates.FAST Cache operates at a 64KB granularity for increased efficiency. If a 64KB block is referenced 3 times in a given period of time (the time will depend on the IO activity of the system), the block will be promoted into FAST Cache. As the data ages and becomes less active, it will fall out of FAST Cache to be replaced by a more active chunk of data.The second feature provided in the FAST Suite, which is highly complementary to FAST Cache is FAST for Virtual Pools. The combination of FAST Cache and FAST VP addresses the perennial storage management problem: the cost of optimizing the storage system. In many cases prior to FAST and FAST Cache, it was simply too resource intensive to perform manual optimization and many customers simply overprovisioned storage to ensure the performance requirements of a data set were met. With the arrival of Flash drives and the FAST Suite, we have a better way to achieve this fine cost/performance balance:The classic approach to storage provisioning can be repetitive and time-consuming and often produces uncertain results. It is not always obvious how to match capacity to the performance requirements of a workload’s data. Even when a match is achieved, requirements change, and a storage system’s provisioning may require constant adjustment. Storage tiering is one solution. Storage tiering puts several different types of storage devices into an automatically managed storage pool. LUNs use the storage capacity they need from the pool, on the devices with the performance they need. Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) is the EMC® VNX® feature that allows a single LUN to leverage the advantages of Flash, SAS, and Near-line SAS drives through the use of pools. FAST solves theses issues by providing automated sub-LUN-level tiering. FAST collects I/O activity statistics at the 1 GB granularity level (known as a slice). The relative activity level of each slice is used to determine which slices should be promoted to higher tiers of storage. Relocation is initiated at the user’s discretion through either manual initiation or an automated scheduler. Through the frequent relocation of 1 GB slices, FAST continuously adjusts to the dynamic nature of modern storage environments. This removes the need for manual, resource-intensive LUN Migrations while still providing the performance levels required by the most active dataset, thereby optimizing for cost and performance simultaneously.
The slide above shows how FAST cache works. FAST Cache is based on the locality of reference of the dataset requested by a host. Systems with high locality of reference confine the majority of IOs to a relatively small capacity, where systems with low locality of reference spread IOs more evenly across the total capacity – this is also sometimes referred to as skew. The dataset with high locality of reference/skew (blocks close to one another tending to be accessed together) is a good candidate to be copied to FAST Cache. By promoting this dataset to FAST Cache, any subsequent access to this data for read-write is serviced faster from Flash drives. This reduces workload on back-end disk drives.A write operation works in similar fashion. Writes with high locality of reference are directed to Flash drives. When the time comes to flush this data to disk, the flushing operation is significantly faster as writes are now at Flash drive speeds. This can have a big impact in heavy-write workloads that require a large system cache to be flushed to the underlying disks more frequentlyThe FAST Cache map is maintained in the DRAM cache and consumes DRAM space so care should be taken to choose which pools and RAID-group LUNs it should be enabled for. EMC TS resources have tools which are available to our direct and channel champions community, to analyze existing environments for the best candidates.FAST Cache operates at a 64KB granularity for increased efficiency. If a 64KB block is referenced 3 times in a given period of time (the time will depend on the IO activity of the system), the block will be promoted into FAST Cache. As the data ages and becomes less active, it will fall out of FAST Cache to be replaced by a more active chunk of data.The second feature provided in the FAST Suite, which is highly complementary to FAST Cache is FAST for Virtual Pools. The combination of FAST Cache and FAST VP addresses the perennial storage management problem: the cost of optimizing the storage system. In many cases prior to FAST and FAST Cache, it was simply too resource intensive to perform manual optimization and many customers simply overprovisioned storage to ensure the performance requirements of a data set were met. With the arrival of Flash drives and the FAST Suite, we have a better way to achieve this fine cost/performance balance:The classic approach to storage provisioning can be repetitive and time-consuming and often produces uncertain results. It is not always obvious how to match capacity to the performance requirements of a workload’s data. Even when a match is achieved, requirements change, and a storage system’s provisioning may require constant adjustment. Storage tiering is one solution. Storage tiering puts several different types of storage devices into an automatically managed storage pool. LUNs use the storage capacity they need from the pool, on the devices with the performance they need. Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) is the EMC® VNX® feature that allows a single LUN to leverage the advantages of Flash, SAS, and Near-line SAS drives through the use of pools. FAST solves theses issues by providing automated sub-LUN-level tiering. FAST collects I/O activity statistics at the 1 GB granularity level (known as a slice). The relative activity level of each slice is used to determine which slices should be promoted to higher tiers of storage. Relocation is initiated at the user’s discretion through either manual initiation or an automated scheduler. Through the frequent relocation of 1 GB slices, FAST continuously adjusts to the dynamic nature of modern storage environments. This removes the need for manual, resource-intensive LUN Migrations while still providing the performance levels required by the most active dataset, thereby optimizing for cost and performance simultaneously.
The slide above shows how FAST cache works. FAST Cache is based on the locality of reference of the dataset requested by a host. Systems with high locality of reference confine the majority of IOs to a relatively small capacity, where systems with low locality of reference spread IOs more evenly across the total capacity – this is also sometimes referred to as skew. The dataset with high locality of reference/skew (blocks close to one another tending to be accessed together) is a good candidate to be copied to FAST Cache. By promoting this dataset to FAST Cache, any subsequent access to this data for read-write is serviced faster from Flash drives. This reduces workload on back-end disk drives.A write operation works in similar fashion. Writes with high locality of reference are directed to Flash drives. When the time comes to flush this data to disk, the flushing operation is significantly faster as writes are now at Flash drive speeds. This can have a big impact in heavy-write workloads that require a large system cache to be flushed to the underlying disks more frequentlyThe FAST Cache map is maintained in the DRAM cache and consumes DRAM space so care should be taken to choose which pools and RAID-group LUNs it should be enabled for. EMC TS resources have tools which are available to our direct and channel champions community, to analyze existing environments for the best candidates.FAST Cache operates at a 64KB granularity for increased efficiency. If a 64KB block is referenced 3 times in a given period of time (the time will depend on the IO activity of the system), the block will be promoted into FAST Cache. As the data ages and becomes less active, it will fall out of FAST Cache to be replaced by a more active chunk of data.The second feature provided in the FAST Suite, which is highly complementary to FAST Cache is FAST for Virtual Pools. The combination of FAST Cache and FAST VP addresses the perennial storage management problem: the cost of optimizing the storage system. In many cases prior to FAST and FAST Cache, it was simply too resource intensive to perform manual optimization and many customers simply overprovisioned storage to ensure the performance requirements of a data set were met. With the arrival of Flash drives and the FAST Suite, we have a better way to achieve this fine cost/performance balance:The classic approach to storage provisioning can be repetitive and time-consuming and often produces uncertain results. It is not always obvious how to match capacity to the performance requirements of a workload’s data. Even when a match is achieved, requirements change, and a storage system’s provisioning may require constant adjustment. Storage tiering is one solution. Storage tiering puts several different types of storage devices into an automatically managed storage pool. LUNs use the storage capacity they need from the pool, on the devices with the performance they need. Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) is the EMC® VNX® feature that allows a single LUN to leverage the advantages of Flash, SAS, and Near-line SAS drives through the use of pools. FAST solves theses issues by providing automated sub-LUN-level tiering. FAST collects I/O activity statistics at the 1 GB granularity level (known as a slice). The relative activity level of each slice is used to determine which slices should be promoted to higher tiers of storage. Relocation is initiated at the user’s discretion through either manual initiation or an automated scheduler. Through the frequent relocation of 1 GB slices, FAST continuously adjusts to the dynamic nature of modern storage environments. This removes the need for manual, resource-intensive LUN Migrations while still providing the performance levels required by the most active dataset, thereby optimizing for cost and performance simultaneously.
The Culham is managed by Unisphere, and the base software includes file deduplication & compression, block compression, virtual provisioning and SAN copy.Rather than ordering a number of “a la carte” products, we’ve simplified the optional software into five attractively priced suites: The FAST Suite improves performance and maximizes storage efficiency. It includes FAST VP, FAST Cache, Unisphere Analyzer, and Unisphere Quality of Service manager.The Security and Compliance Suite helps ensure that data is protected from unwanted changes, deletions, and malicious activity. It includes the event enabler for anti-virus, quota management & auditing, file-level retention and Host Encryption. The Local Protection Suite delivers any point-in-time recovery with DVR-like roll-back capabilities. Copies of production data can also be used for development, testing, decision support and backup. This suite includes: SnapView, SnapSure and RecoverPoint/SE CDP.The Remote Protection Suite delivers Unified block and file replication, giving customers one way to protect everything better. It includes Replicator, MirrorView and RecoverPoint/SE CRR.The Application Protection Suite automates application-consistent copies and proves customers can recover to defined service levels. This suite includes Replication Manager and Data Protection Advisor for Replication.Finally, the total efficiency pack and protection packs bundle the suites to further simplify ordering and lower costs.
The EMC VNX Series also had the lowest overall response time (ORT) of systems tested, taking the top spot with a response time of .96 milliseconds. EMC’s response time is 3 times faster than the IBM offering in second place. Faster response times enable end-users to access information quicker and more efficiently. Chris Mellor in The Register blog entry EMC kills SPEC benchmark with all-flash VNX (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/23/enc_vnx_secsfs2008_benchmark/) writes about IBM, HP and NetApp: “For all three companies, any ideas they previously had of having top-level SPECsfs2008 results using disk drives have been blown out of the water by this EMC result. It is a watershed benchmark moment. ®”