VMware provides server virtualization software that allows multiple virtual machines to run on the same physical server. This increases hardware utilization and consolidation ratios. Key benefits include reduced costs from lower hardware, power, cooling, and real estate needs as well as faster provisioning times. VMware's product line includes ESX Server, VirtualCenter, VMotion, DRS, HA, and other tools for managing and optimizing virtualized environments. Customers report benefits like supporting more workloads without increasing staff and reducing provisioning time from weeks to hours.

1. VMware Overview
VMware Server Virtualization
Sayyed Mehdi Poustchi Amin
SICSR – July 2010

2. Speaker
Mehdi Poustchi Amin poustchi@yahoo.com
CCNA,MCTS,MCITP,MCSE, MCSA,MCP
Network Administrator
Azad University of Mashhad.
Mashhad, Iran
Founder of Iran’s honeynet project www.Honeynet.ir
Research Assistant at SICSR

3. Agenda
Introduction to VMware and Server Virtualization
VMware Solutions Overview
VMware Product Line Overview

4. VMware By the Numbers
Founded 1998
2006 Revenue $709 M
Number of Employees 2,500+
Number of VMware Infrastructure Customers 20,000+
Number of Users 4+ million
Number of Channel Partners 3,000+
Number of VMware Certified Professionals 10,000+

5. Who Uses VMware?
100% of the Fortune 100

6. The Challenge
Virtualization Technology Overview
Old Model:
Traditional x86 Architecture
• Single OS image per machine
• Software and hardware tightly
coupled
• Multiple applications often
conflict
• Underutilized resources
 Old model is challenging!

7. State of Infrastructure Today – Physical
Server Sprawl Power & Cooling
38 m physical servers by
2010 - 700% increase in 50c for every $1 spent on
15 years servers
$140 bn in excess server $29 bn in power and
capacity - a 3-year cooling industry wide
supply
Space Crunch Operating Cost
$8 in maintenance for
$1,000 /sqft every $1 spent on new
$2,400 / server infrastructure
$40,000 / rack 20-30 : 1 server-to-admin
ratio
Source: IDC

8. What is Virtualization?
Without Virtualization With Virtualization
Application
Operating System
Hardware
VMware provides hardware virtualization that presents a complete x86
platform to the virtual machine
Allows multiple applications to run in isolation within virtual machines
on the same physical machine
Virtualization provides direct access to the hardware resources to give you
much greater performance than software emulation

9. The VMware Product Line
Bare-Metal
Virtualization
Hosted
Secure Server
Desktop Hosted Virtualization
Desktop Consolidated Backup
Environment
Virtualization
Dist Resource Scheduler
VMware High Availability
VMotion™
VirtualCenter
Converter

10. Virtualization Increases Hardware Utilization
Before VMware After VMware
Virtualization enables consolidation of workloads from
underutilized servers onto a single server
to safely achieve higher utilization

11. Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning
 Runmultiple operating systems on
one physical machine
 Divide system resources between
virtual machines

12. Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning
 Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine
 Divide system resources between virtual machines
•Isolation
 Fault and security isolation at the
hardware level
 Advanced resource controls preserve
performance

13. Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning
 Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine
 Divide system resources between virtual machines
•Isolation
 Fault and security isolation at the hardware level
 Advanced resource controls preserve performance
•Encapsulation
 Entire state of the virtual machine can
be saved to files
 Move and copy virtual machines as
easily as moving and copying files

14. Key Properties of Virtual Machines
•Partitioning
 Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine
 Divide system resources between virtual machines
•Isolation
 Fault and security isolation at the hardware level
 Advanced resource controls preserve performance
•Encapsulation
 Entire state of the virtual machine can be saved to files
 Move and copy virtual machines as easily as moving and copying
files
•Hardware-Independence
 Provisionor migrate any virtual machine
to any similar or different physical server

15. State of Infrastructure with Virtualization
BEFORE AFTER
SAVINGS
VMware VMware
Servers 1000 80 $5,816 (per
server removed)
HBAs 500 160 $290
SAN Switches 22 8 na
Network Switches 84 10 $296
Power (kWh) 407 52 $759
Cooling (kWh) 509 64 $949
Real Estate (Sq ft) 2053 257 $431(3yr)
Total Savings $8,541*
(Over 3 years) (per server)
* Note: Savings include estimated cost of VMware licenses, Support and Subscription

16. ESX Server
• Deploy multiple virtual
Virtual Machines
machines on a single
physical server
• Market leading:
ESX Server
• Performance
Physical Server • Stability
• Scalability
• Cross-platform
support

17. ESX Server Architecture
Service Console
Management
Agents and
VMX VMX VMX VMX
Interfaces VM VM VM VM
Peripheral POSIX API
Device Drivers VMM VMM VMM VMM
Storage Stack Network Stack
Resource
Management
VMkernel Device Drivers
Hardware

18. Instant Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment
Physical
Configure Install Configure Assign Configure Test Apps
hardware OS OS & IP Addr Network
Tools
20-40 hrs
<1 hr of of work
Deploy Power
work
from on VM
4-6 week
Template 1-2 days lead time
lead time
Virtual
• Provisioning time reduced to minutes, not
days to weeks!

19. From server boot to running VMs in Minutes
3i

1. Power on server and boot
into hypervisor
 2. Configure Admin Password
3. (optional) Modify network
 configuration
4. Connect VI Client to IP
Address
 Or manage with
VirtualCenter

20. VMware VMotion
73% of VMware customers have implemented VMotion in production
• Live migration of
virtual machines
• Zero downtime

21. VMware DRS
67% of VMware customers use DRS in production
Business Demand
• Dynamic and
intelligent allocation of
hardware resources
• Ensure optimal
alignment between
business and IT
Resource Pool

22. Ensure High availability with VMware HA
• VMware HA
automatically restarts
virtual machines when a
X Resource Pool
physical server fails

23. NEW! VMware Update Manager
Eliminates manual tracking
of patch levels of ESX
Server hosts and virtual
OFFLINE
machines
Automates enforcement of
patch standards
Reduces risk through
Update snapshots and offline
Manager
virtual machine patching
23 * Note: RHEL guests can only be scanned, not remediated

24. Protect data with VMware consolidated backup
Centralized file level backup enables
easy & reliable data protection
What is it?
Centralized agentless backup
for virtual machines
Move backup out of the virtual
machine
CENTRALIZED
DATA MOVER
Eliminate backup traffic on the local
area network
Pre-integrated with major
3rd-party backup products
BACKUP
PROXY
BACKUP DISK
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25. CONFIDENTIAL
NEW! ESXi Server
Next generation, thin hypervisor integrated in server systems
Integrated in server systems
Easiest way to deploy and manage
virtualization
Hardware is certified and ready-to-run
Intuitive start up experience that dramatically
reduces deployment time
Optimized for remote management
Thin architecture
Unparalleled security and reliability
Compact 32MB footprint
Only OS-independent design focused on
virtualization
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26. VirtualCenter Capabilities
1
Virtual Machine 2
7 and Server
Management
Programmatic Provisioning
Interfaces
Centralized
6 Management 3
Security and Migration
Access Control
5 4
System Resource
Monitoring Management

27. Host Configuration

28. Topology Maps

29. Custom Roles and Permissions

30. VirtualCenter Audit Trails

31. Performance Graphs

32. VirtualCenter 2 New Features Enterprise-Ready
 Custom roles and permissions
 VirtualCenter audit trails
 Increased scalability
Hundreds of VMware servers
Thousands of virtual machines
 Faster startup, more
responsive
 VirtualCenter session
management
 Enhanced performance graphs
 Enhanced SDK
Copyright © 2006 VMware, Inc. All rights

33. Customer Example:
Infrastructure Optimization
1200 Servers on 100
Production Physical Chassis
DEV/TEST Utilization up to 80%
12:1 consolidation ratio
SAN
Backup
Server 20:1 Space reduction
60% of x86 environment
Production VMs
virtualized
DR - Site
Storage Reserve Staffing not increased in
2.5 years
Backup
Server
Provisioning reduced to
hours from weeks

34. Thank you!
Download a free VMware product evaluation copy:
http://www.vmware.com/download
Sayyed Mehdi Poustchi Amin
Poustchi@Yahoo.com