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1. What's New in VMware vSphere?
Michael Adams, Vmware
madams@vmware.com
VSVC4605
#VSVC4605

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Agenda
 Launch Context and Product Set
 vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap
 vSphere 5.5 New Features
 Announcements and Reminders
 Q and A

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VMware’s SDDC Architecture
Software-Defined Data Center
Abstract. Pool. Automate.
Management and Automation
Network and
Security
Compute Storage and
Availability

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VMware Top Level Cloud Infrastructure and Management Offerings
vSphere Std
vCOps Std
vSphere Ent
vCOps Std
vSphere Ent+
vCOps Std
vSOM Std
$1,745
vSOM Ent
$3,625
vSOM Ent+
$4,245
Virtualization;
Insight on capacity and health
• Enterprise (Emerging)
• Commercial & SMB
Customers
Capability Private Cloud:
Pooled, Automated, Self-service
• Enterprise & Commercial
• Premier SMB
vSphere Ent+
vCD
vC OPS Adv
vCNS
vSphere Ent +
vCD
vC OPS Ent
vC SRM Ent
vCNS
vCAC Ent
vCloud Suite
ADV
$7,495
vCloud Suite
ENT
$11,495
vCloud Suite
STD
$4,995
vSphere Ent+
vCD
vCNS
vC OPS Std
vCAC AdvvCAC Std
vSphere with Operations Management
per CPU
vCloud Suite
per CPU

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vSphere with Operations Management
vSphere vCenter Server
• Capacity planning – know how many
days before capacity runs out so IT can
continue to be responsive
• Optimize efficiency – know on which
virtual machines might be overprovisioned
• Improve performance - faster root cause
identification of emerging issues
• Proven virtualization platform – for fully
virtualized environments (including
business critical applications)
VMware vSphere
The proven compute virtualization platform
vSphere with Operations Management
• World’s leading virtualization platform
• Insight to workload capacity and health

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vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap

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vSphere Recap – What’s New in vSphere 5.1?
Automation
Core Services
Security
• vShield Endpoint*
• Storage DRS and
Profile-Driven Storage
integration with VCD
• Enhanced Auto
Deploy
• Data Protection
• Replication*
• vMotion w/o shared
storage
• 0 Downtime upgrades
of VMware Tools
Availability
NetworkStorage
• Enhanced Distributed
Switch
• SR-IOV support
• Storage Appliance
• Storage Space
Reclamation for VDI
• HW version 9
• 64 way SMP
1 TB VMs
Compute
• Single Sign On
• vSphere Web Client
• Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator
• Capacity Optimization
• Health and Performance Montioring
*Now included at no charge with vSphere platform
Management
Services

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vSphere 5.5 New Features

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 Performance and Scale
 App HA
 Flash Read Cache
 Replication
 Backup and Recovery
 Big Data Extensions
vSphere 5.5: What’s New in 2013
New Features New Customer Benefits

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vSphere in 2013 – New Applications and Architectures
vSphere Big Data Extensions – Optimize Hadoop
Workloads and Extend Project Serengeti
Pivotal and VMware vSphere –
Building PaaS On-Premise
OpenStack – Delivering Architecture Choices
Latest Chip Set Support –
Next Generation Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v2
Intel® Atom™ Processor C2000

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vSphere Performance and Scale
Benefits
Overview
• Low latency application configuration
• 2x Increase in Configuration Maximums
• Up to 64 TB VMDKs
• Low latency application optimization –
tune vSphere
• Support for even the largest business
critical applications

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vSphere Configuration Maximums Increases
 320 pCPU
 4TB memory
 16 NUMA Nodes
 4096 vCPUs
 … per ESXi host
vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5
160 pCPU 320 pCPU
2TB Memory 4TB Memory
8 NUMA Nodes 16 NUMA Nodes
2048 vCPUs 4096 vCPUs

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Low Latency Sensitivity – Testing Proof

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vSphere App HA
• Detect and recover from application or
OS failure
• Supports most common packaged
applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle,
SharePoint, etc.)
• vCloud Extensibility – APIs to Ecosystem
• Simpler management from vCenter Server
• Tier 1 application protection at scale
• Lower TCO than traditional application
specific cluster availability solutions
vSphere
OS
APP
OS
APP
VMware HA
App
Restart
1
2
3
Overview
Benefits

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vSphere Flash Read Cache
• Virtualized flash resource managed just
like CPU and memory
• Per-VM hypervisor-based read caching
using server flash
• Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA
• Accelerates performance for mission
critical applications by up to 2x
• Enables efficient use of server flash in
virtual environments
• Fully transparent read-caching – no host
agents or application changes
vSphere
SAN/NAS
CPU Pool Memory PoolFlash Pool
New
Accelerate
performance
Overview
Benefits

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vSphere Big Data Extensions
• vSphere extends support for Big Data workloads,
including all major Hadoop distributions
• Virtualize Hadoop on common vSphere
infrastructure for unmatched flexibility
• Separation of storage and compute enables
elastic scaling and true multi-tenancy
• Elastic scalability
• Higher cluster utilization
• Easy to use interface
• Lower TCO through hardware consolidation
• Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphereStorage
Compute
Current
Hadoop:
Combined
Storage/
Compute
Storage
T1 T2
VM VM
VMVM
VM
Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute
Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to
support Big Data workloads
Physical Host
Overview
Benefits

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vSphere Replication
• VM-level replication by the vSphere host
• New Support for:
• Multiple Point-In-Time Copies
• Multiple Replication Appliances per vCenter
Server
• Storage vMotion
• Low cost/efficient replication
• More granular recovery options
• DR scalability and flexibility across BCAs
• Integration with SRM enables automated DR
process
vSphere
vSphere
Replication
Site A (Primary)
vSphere
Site B (Recovery)
Overview
Benefits

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vSphere Data Protection is VMware’s Backup & Recovery Tool
VMware vSphere
Data deduplicated
VDP
From
Powered by
Architecture
VDP provides proven, efficient and simple backup and
recovery for small and midsize vSphere environments
vSphere Data Protection (included with vSphere at no cost)
 Deployed as a virtual appliance
 Agent-less, image-level backup to disk
 Integrated with the vSphere platform
vSphere Data Protection Advanced (additional purchase)
 All VDP capabilities plus:
 4x greater scalability
 Agent-based, application-awareness for Exchange and SQL
 Easy upgrade from VDP
Overview
Benefits
 Built for vSphere, based on EMC Avamar technology
 4x more storage-efficient
 6x faster recovery
 Fast and easy deployment
 Managed directly from the vSphere Web Client
 Designed for the vSphere admin
What’s new with VDP 5.5
• Direct to host recovery (no dependency on
vCenter Server)
• Individual .vmdk backup and restore
• Detachable/re-mountable backup storage

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vCenter Server 5.5
 vCenter Single Sign-On
• Improved user experience in multi domain environments
• Secure Database connectivity with Windows
Authentication
 vCenter Server Appliance
• Scalability of embedded database (vPostgres)
• Now supports up to 500 vSphere hosts / 5000 virtual
machines
 vCenter Databases
• Official support for database clustering technologies

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vCenter Server 5.5
 vSphere Web Client
• Increased Platform Support
• Added support for OS X
• VM Console access
• Deploy OVF Templates
• Attach Client Devices
• Enhanced Usability Experience
• Drag and Drop
• Filters
• Recent Items

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The Best of the Rest
 Platform
• Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10)
• Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support
• Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices
• Support for Reliable Memory
• Enhancements for CPU C-States
 Storage
• Support for 62TB VMDK
• 16GB E2E support
• MSCS supportability enhancements
• Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility
• VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements
 Network
• Enhancement to LACP feature
• Enhanced SR-IOV
• Traffic Filtering
• QoS Tagging
• Packet Capture
• 40 Gig Support

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Announcements and Reminders

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What’s Cookin’?
 Where is all this great stuff?
 Full support lifecycle
 Convergence and Transition Plan – How does
this impact vSphere?
GOT SuSe?

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vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Lineup
Price (per CPU, license only)
Features
• Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics
• High Availability, and Fault Tolerance
• vMotion, and Storage vMotion
• Host Profiles and Auto Deploy
• Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage
All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES
Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard
• Capacity Management and Optimization
• Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis
• I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV
$1,745 $3,625 $4,245
vSphere with Operations Management
Standard Enterprise Enterprise+
• Reliable Memory
• Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication
• vShield Endpoint
• Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing
• Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management
• Big Data Extensions
• Flash Read Cache
• Distributed Switch
Existing feature
• App HA
New feature

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vSphere 5.5 Support Lifecycle
 Normal 5 year support would end 2016
(based on vSphere 5 starting in 2011)
 Support will be extended to 2018
(full 5 year cycle)
 Only applies to 5.5
(ESXi and vCenter Server)
 Final date to be posted by the end of Q3
and will be based on GA date

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VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify the Cloud
vCloud Director (vCD)
vCloud Automation Center
(vCAC)
Virtualization Platform
Well governed
Self-Service Delivery
Cloud Administration
Cloud Automation
provides personalized,
self-service delivery of
application,
infrastructure, and
desktop services by
fully automating the
end-to-end service
lifecycle across
heterogeneous and
hybrid clouds.
VMware’s Cloud
Infrastructure Platform
produces an entire
virtual datacenter
(VDC) that harnesses
the software-defined
infrastructure to
deliver the most agile,
cost-efficient cloud
The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in
making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify The Cloud
vCloud Director (vCD)
vCloud Automation Center
(vCAC)
Virtualization Platform
• Content Catalog
• Virtual Data Center
• Intelligent Placement
• Network Virtualization
• High Governance Consumption
• Self Service Portal
• VM Lifecycle Management
• Multi-Tenancy
• Memory Clone
The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in
making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware
vSphere customers w/ valid SnS contracts get SUSE Linux at NO COST
28
Lower TCO
Proven and
Reliable OS
Increased
Agility
Broad ISV &
Streamlined
Support

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Additional Nuggets

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Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center!
All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

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Q and A

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vSphere Platform Features Summary
 vSphere Configuration Maximum Increases
• 2x increase from vSphere 5.1
 Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10)
• LSI SAS for Solaris 11, New CPU Enablement, AHCI Controller Support
 Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support
• Support for both Intel & AMD GPU
• vMotion supported across different GPU vendors
 Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices
• Hot Add/Remove SSD Devices without any downtime
 Support for Reliable Memory
• Provider greater uptime and reliability for ESXi by protecting VMkernel &
critical User Worlds
 Enhancements for CPU C-States
• Reducing power consumption

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vSphere Networking Features Summary
 Enhancement to LACP feature
• Number of Link Aggregation Group support on VDS increased to 64
• Number of hashing algorithms supported increased to 22
 Enhanced SR-IOV
• Communicate Port group specific properties to the virtual functions
 Traffic Filtering
• Helps drop or allow selected traffic
 QoS Tagging
• Provides Service level agreements to important traffic types by marking the
packets
 Packet Capture
• Host level packet capture tool helps troubleshoot network related issues
 40 Gig Support
• Large bandwidth pipe to server

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vSphere Storage Features Summary
 Support for 62TB VMDK
• Virtual Machine’s VMDK can now be created or grown up to 62TB
 16GB E2E support
• Full end-to-end support for 16GB FC is now supported
 vSphere Flash Read Cache
• A more efficient way to utilized flash based devices in vSphere
 MSCS supportability enhancements
 vSphere Replication multiple points-in-time
• Virtual Machines can now be easily recovered using the latest point-in-time snapshot
 Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility
• Replicated Virtual Machines can now take advantage of both Storage vMotion and SDRS
 VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements
• Improvements made to benefit Virtual Machine space reclamations and avoiding stranded/dead
disk space

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
 HOL:
HOL-SDC-1310
vSOM 101

36. THANK YOU

38. What's New in VMware vSphere?
Michael Adams, VMware
VSVC4605
#VSVC4605