This document discusses x86 virtualization using VMware. It covers what virtualization is, why it is used, where it is being implemented, and when. It also includes a demonstration and discussion of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to virtualization and guest servers. Key topics covered are hypervisors, ESX, VMotion, HA, DRS, and terminology around consolidating infrastructure using virtualization.

1. VMware
x86 virtualisation
April 2007
Marino Bolssens & Mike Reed

2. x86 Virtualisation
• What
• Why
• Where
• When
• DEMO
• S.W.O.T.

3. Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

4. Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

5. HYPERVISOR
Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

6. ESX
CONSOLE
VM
HYPERVISOR
Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

7. ESX
VM VM CONSOLE
VM
HYPERVISOR
Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

8. ESX
VM VM CONSOLE
VM
HYPERVISOR
Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

9. ESX
VM HYPERVISOR
VM CONSOLE
VM
Guest.
What Hypervisor.
Host (Bare metal or OS).

10. What Virtualisation.

11. What SAN I/O

12. What SAN I/O

13. SAN I/O
What High Availability (HA).

14. VM
What Vmotion.

15. VM VM
What Vmotion.

16. VM
Vmotion.
What Distributed Resource Scheduler.
(DRS)

17. Guest
Host
Hypervisor
HA
DRS
Vmotion
What Terminology.

18. Why Consolidation.
Efficiency.

19. Where Datacentres initially.

20. When “Now.”
IBM hardware risk management.

21. DEMO
Virtual Infrastructure Centre (VIC)

22. Agility.
Strengths Power utilisation.
“Appliance” computing.

23. Weaknesses Many eggs in one basket.

24. Deploy qualified “appliances”.
Opportunities Guest server provisioning.
Portable Business Continuity.

25. Threats Guest server sprawl.

26. Gartner:
“Virtualization a megatrend.”