VMware vSphere 6 & Horizon View 6.1 – What's New ?

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Digicomp Event
29 septembre 2015
Jean ULRICH

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VMware vSphere: What’s New
Digicomp Event, le 29 septembre 2015
What’s New
vSphere 6
vRealize Operations Manager
Horizon View

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vSphere 6 (U1)

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New Features of the vSphere 6 Platform
vSphere
6
New
Feature
or
Enhancement

VMware ESXi™
Scalability improvements

Security

Virtual Machines
Compatibility with ESXi 6

Extended Guest operating system support

Virtual NUMA

vCenter Server
VMware Platform Services Controller™

Enhanced Link Mode

Certificate Management

VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™

VMware vSphere® vMotion®

VMware vSphere® High Availability

VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

vSphere Storage
Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere® Data Protection™

VMware vSphere® Replication™

vSphere Networking
VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control

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You use the vSphere Web Client to connect to vCenter Server
systems and to manage vSphere inventory objects.
About the vSphere Web Client

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The vCenter Server Appliance ISO image contains an index.html
file. Open this file in a supported browser to begin the installation.
Accessing vCenter Server Appliance

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vCenter Server Appliance can now scale to support the same
numbers that vCenter Server installed on a Windows server can
support:
§  1,000 hosts per vCenter Server system
§  10,000 powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server system
§  64 ESXi hosts per cluster
§  8,000 virtual machines per cluster
vCenter Server Appliance Enhancements

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vSphere vMotion has the
following enhancements:
§  Migrate across virtual switches.
§  Migrate across vCenter Server
systems.
•  MAC addresses are preserved in
migrations across vCenter
Server instances.
§  Migrate long distance:
•  At least 100 ms RTT.
•  Intracontinental distances can be
supported.
§  Separate TCP stack for vSphere
vMotion
vSphere vMotion Enhancements

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Storage in vSphere 6 has several changes and enhancements:
§  Virtual Volumes
§  Storage policy-based management
§  NFS v4.1 with Kerberos
§  Multisite content libraries
vSphere Storage Enhancements

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Virtual SAN 6 introduces the following new features and
enhancements:
§  Scalability improvements
Virtual SAN 6 Scalability Enhancements
Virtual SAN 5.5
Virtual SAN 5.5
Hybrid
Virtual SAN 6
All Flash
Hosts per Cluster 32 64 64 2x
Virtual Machines per Host 100 200 200 2x
IOPS per Host 20K 40K 90K 4.5x
Snapshot Depth per Virtual
Machine
2 32 32 16x
Virtual Disk Size 2 TB 62 TB 62 TB 31x
Virtual Machines per Cluster 3200 6400 6400 2x

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Performance improvements:
§  New on-disk format
§  Snapshots and clones enhancements
§  Use flash devices for the capacity layer
Virtual SAN 6 Performance Enhancements

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Availability improvements:
§  Fault domains: The grouping of hosts in a Virtual SAN cluster that have
different logical failure zones.
Operational improvements:
§  Default virtual machine storage policy
§  Lighting LED on disks through UI for ease of identity
§  Mark disks as local or as flash through UI
§  Disk evacuation granularity
Virtual SAN 6 Availability and Operational Enhancements
Rack A Rack B
Virtual SAN Cluster
Fault Domain A
Fault Domain B
Fault Domain C

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vSphere Fault Tolerance provides instantaneous failover and continuous
operation:
§  Zero downtime
§  Zero data loss
§  No loss of TCP connections
§  No dependency
§  No application-specific management
vSphere Fault Tolerance
ESXi
Primary Virtual Machine Secondary Virtual Machine
Instantaneous
Failover
Fast Checkpointing

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The content library is a repository of virtual machine templates,
vApps, ISO images, and scripts for vSphere administrators. The
content library can be easily shared and synchronized across
vCenter Server instances.
About the Content Library

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The content library has three types: local, published, and subscribed.
Content Library Subscription Types
Local
Library of content that you
control
Published
Local library that makes
content available for
subscription
Subscribed
Library that syncs with a
published library
On-Demand >>>>
Library Content •  Immediately download all library content
Download library content only when needed
Saves storage backing space. Only metadata is retrieved. Content is downloaded as needed when
creating virtual machines or synchronizing content
Automatic >>>>
Metadata

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§  Bandwidth admission control validates that the virtual machine
reservation can be met.
§  If the reservation cannot be met on the current host, vSphere DRS
places the virtual machine on a host that has the capacity to guarantee
the bandwidth reserved for the virtual machine.
Bandwidth Admission Control in vSphere DRS
Distributed Switch
ESX host1
VM2 VM1 Reservation:
600Mbps
Uplink 1 Gpbs
VM reservation:
600 Mpbs per
Uplink
ESX host2
Uplink 1 Gpbs
VM reservation:
600 Mpbs per
Uplink
Reservation: 600
Mbps
VM3
Reservation: 600
Mbps
VM Network Traffic
Reservation: 600 Mbps
Reservation
cannot be met.

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vRealize Operations Manager

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VMware vRealize™ Operations™ provides heterogeneous
management capabilities that support:
§  Virtual and physical infrastructures.
§  Public, private, and hybrid clouds.
Overview of vRealize Operations
Cloud Operations Console
Extensibility
Integrated Management Disciplines
Performance ComplianceConfigurationCapacityAvailability
Platform
Application
Visibility
LogsAnalytics
Reporting/
Alerting
Automation SDK
Management
Packs
APIs
vRealize Operations

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The vRealize Operations Manager console is the central point of
management for your environment.
vRealize Operations Manager Console
Home
Alerts
Environment
Content
Administration

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vRealize Operations Manager provides visibility across all layers of
the infrastructure.
Operations Visibility
Immediate
Issues
Emerging
Issues
Opportunities
to Optimize
Host memory contention is
contributing to degraded health.
You can click this alert to
investigate the issue.Coverage Across the
Entire Environment

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Alerts reduce the mean time to investigate issues.
Recommendations reduce the mean time to resolve issues in the
environment.
Reduced Time to Investigate and Resolve Issues
Which symptoms
across the stack are
causing this problem?
What are the
recommendations to
resolve this issue?

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Using Capacity Projects, you can rapidly experiment with, visualize,
and schedule prospective changes to your environment.
Predictive Capacity Modeling

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Compliance is about ensuring that objects in your environment meet
industrial, governmental, regulatory, or internal standards.
vRealize Operations Manager provides
vSphere hardening content with the
vSphere solution:
§  Alerts
§  Symptoms
§  Views
§  Dashboards
Compliance can be enforced against
metrics derived from symptoms.
Integrated Compliance

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VMware provides several solutions for vRealize Operations Manager.
The following is a partial list of solutions:
§  Management Pack for vRealize Configuration Manager
§  Management Pack for vRealize Hyperic
§  Management Pack for Storage Devices
§  Management Pack for vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
§  Management Pack for NSX-vSphere
§  Management Pack for vCloud Air
§  To download a solution for vRealize Operations Manager, go to the
VMware Solution Exchange at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com
VMware Solutions

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Horizon View 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1 et 6.2

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Horizon 6 and Horizon View Architecture

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Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
Overview:
§  Enable View deployments across
multiple data centers
§  New data layer replicated across all
View Connection Servers
§  Support single namespace for end
users with a global URL
§  Global entitlement layer to assign
and manage desktops and users
Benefits:
§  Scale View deployments to multiple
data centers and > 10,000 sessions
§  Supports active-active and disaster
recovery use cases for View deployments
§  Support for geo-roaming users
Federated View Pods
Pod 1
VCS 1 VCS 2
LDAP Replication
Pod 2
VCS 3 VCS 4
LDAP Replication
Global LDAP Replication
Interpod
communication

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Overview:
§  VMware Horizon™ Mobile™ client
§  Mobile and tablet clients:
•  iOS
•  Android
Hosted Applications for Mobile Client Support with View

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Overview:
§  Remote applications with a local
experience
§  Seamless look, feel, and interaction for
the user
§  Desktops and laptops:
•  Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8,
and Windows 8.1
•  Mac OS X
§  Integration with native local client
device OS:
•  Copy, paste, shortcuts, and application
launcher
Hosted Applications for Windows and Mac with View

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Hosted Applications and Desktops with View
View Virtual
Desktops
RDS
Desktops
RDS
Applications

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Linux Virtual
Desktops
Linux Virtual Desktop Support
Linux virtual desktops in the Enterprise
§  New functionality to enable the Blast
Protocol from the Horizon Client
§  Linux virtual desktops only
§  Supports Windows, Mac and Linux clients
§  Secure WebSocket protocol (HTTPS)
§  Supports vDGA for direct pass-through of
NIVIDIA GRID
Benefits
§  Introduce even more use cases for Linux
desktops
§  3D CAD/CAM
§  Scientific modelling
§  Lower cost alternative than Windows VDI
Overview

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