VMware vCloud® Director™ (vCloud Director) orchestrates the provisioning of software-defned datacenter
services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defned datacenter
services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the
speed of business.
Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is
targeted toward users who are familiar with previous vCloud Director releases.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
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Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the DifferencesSolarWinds
For more information on Virtualization Manager visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx
Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/hyper-v-vs-vsphere-understanding-the-differences.html
Watch this webinar with Scott Lowe, Founder and Managing Consultant at The 1610 Group, and SolarWinds virtualization expert Jonathan Reeve where they discuss “Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the differences.”
The virtualization market is abuzz with talk of different hypervisors – most prominently VMware ESX® versus Microsoft Hyper-V®, who together own over 90% of the market. Small and medium businesses are already moving quickly toward Hyper-V, and a growing number of larger organizations are beginning to put plans in place to transition some portion of their environment from ESX to Hyper-V.
In this webcast we explore the reasons for these changes and the ecosystems for these two platforms both now and in the future. We also take a look ahead to what is known about Hyper-V 3.0 and why it warrants an even deeper look when evaluating hypervisors for your future virtualization deployments.
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
VMware vSphere vMotion: 5.4 times faster than Hyper-V Live MigrationVMware
Businesses using a virtualized infrastructure have many reasons to move active virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another. Whether the migrations are for routine maintenance, balancing performance needs, work distribution (consolidating VMs onto fewer servers during non-peak hours to conserve resources), or another reason, the best virtual infrastructure platform executes the move as quickly as possible and with minimal impact to end users.
We tested two competing features that move active VMs from one server to another, VMware vSphere 5 vMotion and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Live Migration. While both perform these moves with no VM downtime, in our testing the VMware solution did so faster, with greater application stability, and with less impact to application performance – clearly showing that not all live migration technologies are the same. VMware also holds an enormous advantage in concurrency: VMware vSphere 5 can move eight VMs at a time while a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster node can take part only as the source or destination in one live migration at a time. In our two test scenarios, the VMware vMotion solution was up to 5.4 times faster than the Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration solution.
E’ un’estensione di VMware vCenter che fornisce ai professionisti IT la possibilità di disaster recovery, migrazione di siti e funzionalità di test non distruttive.
vSphere 5 - Image Builder and Auto DeployEric Sloof
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.
Image profiles and VIBs are available in software depots from VMware or from VMware partners, and managed using the Image Builder PowerCLI. You can use software depots, image profiles, and software packages (VIBs) to specify the software you want to use during installation or upgrade of an ESXi host. Understanding how depots, profiles, and VIBs are structured and where you can use them is a prerequisite for in-memory installation of a custom ESXi ISO, for provisioning ESXi hosts using VMware Auto Deploy, and for some custom upgrade operations.
VIB A VIB is an ESXi software package. VMware and its partners package solutions, drivers, CIM providers, and applications that extend the ESXi platform as VIBs.
VIBs can be used to create and customize ISO images or installed asynchronously onto ESXi hosts. VIBs are available from software depots.
Image Profile An image profile defines an ESXi image and consists of VIBs (software packages). An image profile always includes a base VIB, and might include
additional VIBs. You examine and define an image profile using the Image Builder PowerCLI.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
VMGate.com
Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the DifferencesSolarWinds
For more information on Virtualization Manager visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx
Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/hyper-v-vs-vsphere-understanding-the-differences.html
Watch this webinar with Scott Lowe, Founder and Managing Consultant at The 1610 Group, and SolarWinds virtualization expert Jonathan Reeve where they discuss “Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the differences.”
The virtualization market is abuzz with talk of different hypervisors – most prominently VMware ESX® versus Microsoft Hyper-V®, who together own over 90% of the market. Small and medium businesses are already moving quickly toward Hyper-V, and a growing number of larger organizations are beginning to put plans in place to transition some portion of their environment from ESX to Hyper-V.
In this webcast we explore the reasons for these changes and the ecosystems for these two platforms both now and in the future. We also take a look ahead to what is known about Hyper-V 3.0 and why it warrants an even deeper look when evaluating hypervisors for your future virtualization deployments.
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
VMware vSphere vMotion: 5.4 times faster than Hyper-V Live MigrationVMware
Businesses using a virtualized infrastructure have many reasons to move active virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another. Whether the migrations are for routine maintenance, balancing performance needs, work distribution (consolidating VMs onto fewer servers during non-peak hours to conserve resources), or another reason, the best virtual infrastructure platform executes the move as quickly as possible and with minimal impact to end users.
We tested two competing features that move active VMs from one server to another, VMware vSphere 5 vMotion and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Live Migration. While both perform these moves with no VM downtime, in our testing the VMware solution did so faster, with greater application stability, and with less impact to application performance – clearly showing that not all live migration technologies are the same. VMware also holds an enormous advantage in concurrency: VMware vSphere 5 can move eight VMs at a time while a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster node can take part only as the source or destination in one live migration at a time. In our two test scenarios, the VMware vMotion solution was up to 5.4 times faster than the Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration solution.
E’ un’estensione di VMware vCenter che fornisce ai professionisti IT la possibilità di disaster recovery, migrazione di siti e funzionalità di test non distruttive.
vSphere 5 - Image Builder and Auto DeployEric Sloof
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.
Image profiles and VIBs are available in software depots from VMware or from VMware partners, and managed using the Image Builder PowerCLI. You can use software depots, image profiles, and software packages (VIBs) to specify the software you want to use during installation or upgrade of an ESXi host. Understanding how depots, profiles, and VIBs are structured and where you can use them is a prerequisite for in-memory installation of a custom ESXi ISO, for provisioning ESXi hosts using VMware Auto Deploy, and for some custom upgrade operations.
VIB A VIB is an ESXi software package. VMware and its partners package solutions, drivers, CIM providers, and applications that extend the ESXi platform as VIBs.
VIBs can be used to create and customize ISO images or installed asynchronously onto ESXi hosts. VIBs are available from software depots.
Image Profile An image profile defines an ESXi image and consists of VIBs (software packages). An image profile always includes a base VIB, and might include
additional VIBs. You examine and define an image profile using the Image Builder PowerCLI.
HA به این معنی است که وقتی یک سرور فیزیکی مشکلی پیدا کرد تمام ماشینهای مجازی آن به سرور دیگر منتقل می شوند. باید یادآور شد که بخش عمدهای از این قابلیتها هماکنون در PVM پیادهسازی شده است. در این مستند به بررسی HA و FT در VMware می پردازد.
Overview of my VMware vSphere 5.1 with ESXi and vCenter class. Get an overview of the most powerful, enterprise class private cloud platform available.
What is coming for VMware vSphere?
Delivered at VMUG DK/UK/BE in November 2014. Session is all about vSphere futures, what can be expected in the near future.
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Enterprises are asking their architects and integrators to find the most robust, cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-manage infrastructure for their vCloud environments. NetApp integrations with VMware vCloud Director make efficiency, data agility and integrated data protection a native part of vCloud environments. This session will show how integrations with vCloud Director make provisioning and cloning, session orchestration and automation, resource creation and management easier and smarter on NetApp storage.
Virtualization Manager 5.0 – Now with Hyper-V Support!SolarWinds
For more information on Virtualization Manager, visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx
Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/virtualization-manager-50-now-with-hyperv-support.html
Whether you have a Hyper-V virtual environment, VMware, or both – Virtualization Manager now has you covered. Watch SolarWinds virtualization experts Brian Radovich and Robbie Wright as we discuss the key areas for managing a Hyper-V virtual environment.
• How to manage performance on a shared virtual infrastructure
• Building out a proactive capacity plan
• Tracking and reporting on virtual configurations and drift
• Living in a multi-hypervisor world!
Also during this webcast we demonstrate key technologies from SolarWinds that help to conquer these challenges and ensure success in virtual environments.
VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator is an application awareness plug-in to vCenter Server, and provides continuous dependency mapping of applications. Infrastructure Navigator offers application context to the virtual infrastructure administrators to monitor and manage the virtual infrastructure inventory objects and actions. Administrators can use Infrastructure Navigator to understand the impact of change on the virtual environment in their application infrastructure. Infrastructure Navigator helps virtual infrastructure administrators perform the following tasks:
Make accurate first-level triage to help either eliminate the problem or associate the problem with the virtual infrastructure when business service users report problems.
Assess change impact. Manage and communicate virtual infrastructure issues for critical applications.
Understand the application and business impact of changes to the virtual infrastructure on applications.
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)
What’s an e1000?
The e1000 is the Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller . VMware offers an emulated version of this controller. Most operating systems are shipped with a 82545EM driver. The 82545EM driver sucks! That’s why Intel replaced it with e1000e aka 82574L
What’s an e1000e?
The e1000e is the Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller. In vSphere 5 (HW8), VMware offers an emulated version of the e1000e. Windows 7 and Windows 2008 are shipped with drivers for the 82574L. The 82574L is cool, but is it faster than an VMXNET3?
What’s VMXNET3?
The VMXNET3 adapter is the next generation of Para virtualized NIC designed for performance. The VMXNET3 network adapter is a 10Gb virtual NIC. Drivers are shipped with the VMware tools and most OS are supported. VMXNET3 is much faster than e1000 or e1000e. VMXNET3 has less CPU overhead compared to e1000 or e1000e. VMXNET3 is more stable than e1000 or e1000e
vSphere 5 What's New - Profile Driven StorageEric Sloof
So what does Profile-Driven Storage try to achieve? Very simply - minimize the amount of time required to provision virtual machines. Provisioning virtual machines isn’t only just selecting a random datastore. You will need to know what the requirements are of the virtual machine and then select the appropriate volume to the best of your knowledge. Profile-Driven Storage tries to help with that by providing better insight into storage characteristics and allowing for custom-tags and linking virtual machines to profiles. vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness is a new set of APIs which will enable vCenter to see the capabilities of the storage array LUNs/datastores, making it much easier to select the appropriate disk for virtual machine placement.
Introduction - vSphere 5 High Availability (HA)Eric Sloof
VMware HA clusters enable a collection of ESXi hosts to work together so that, as a group, they provide higher levels of availability for virtual machines than each ESXi host could provide individually. When you plan the creation and usage of a new VMware HA cluster, the options you select affect the way that cluster responds
to failures of hosts or virtual machines.
In vSphere 5.0, VMware has released a new storage appliance called VSA. VSA is an acronym for “vSphere Storage Appliance”.
This appliance is aimed at our SMB (Small-Medium Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and therefore do not have shared storage. Without access to a SAN or NAS array, SMB customers are unable to implement many of vSphere’s core technologies, such as vSphere HA & vMotion. Customers who decide to deploy a VSA can now benefit from many additional vSphere features without having to purchase a SAN or NAS device to provide them with shared storage.
Advanced Grouping capabilities in vShield App allow even more sophisticated policies to be managed with ease
Layer 2 protection coupled with APIs enable automatic quarantining of compromised VMs
vShield Data Security provides knowledge of protected data across cloud environments and lowers cost of compliance by helping define scope
Enterprise roles in vShield Manager provides the separation of duties required by security and compliance standards
What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager v5.0Eric Sloof
Summary of SRM v5.0 New Features
New user interface
Planned migration – with replication update
Failback
vSphere Replication
Faster IP customization
Shadow VM icons
In guest scripts
VM dependency
VMware’s Nathan Small who works as a Staff Engineer at Global Support Services has put together a great presentation about Advanced Root Cause Analysis. The presentation was designed to give you more insight into how a VMware Technical Support Engineer reviews logs, gathers data and performs in-depth analysis. Nathan is hoping to show you the skills they’re using every day to help determine the root cause for an issue in your environment. With this core knowledge, you will become more self-sufficient within your own environment and be able to diagnose an issue as it occurs rather than after the damage has been done.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages — integrated best-of-breed packages from VMwar...Eric Sloof
IT is undergoing a transformation. The current ‘accidental architecture’ of IT today increases procurement, management costs, and complexity while making it difficult to meet customer service level agreements. This makes IT less responsive to the business and creates the perception of IT being a cost center. IT is now moving towards a ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
While the need for a new IT model has never been more clear, navigating the path to that model has never been more complicated. The benefits of private clouds are capturing the collective imagination of IT architects and IT consumers in organizations of all sizes around the world. The realities of outdated technologies, rampant incremental approaches, and the absence of a compelling end-state architecture are impeding adoption by customers.
This new ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
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This morning I presented the “Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell” session for an audience of 200+ people at the Dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein. The total number of attendees is over 600!!! Here’s a copy of my slide deck.
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We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
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• Illustrate how customer journey maps capture activity-level and task-level goals
• Demonstrate the best approach to selection and prioritization of user-goals to address
• Highlight the crucial benchmarks, observable changes, in ensuring fulfillment of customer needs
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3. Snapshot Support in vCloud Director 5.1
Allows for the ability to: Does not support:
• Create • Multi-level snapshots
• Revert • Lab Manager-style snapshots
• Remove (deployed in fenced mode)
• Network reconfiguration while
snapshots are present
Works for:
• Revert doesn’t restore vApp
• Virtual Machines
topology and OVF properties,
Powered-on/off/suspended only the VMs
• vApps • Virtual Machines with
independent disks attached
Works with:
• UI and REST API
• Chargeback
4. Visual Differences
In vApp and Virtual Machine Context Menus
• These context menus have been updated with a
snapshot operation section containing “Create
Snapshot”, “Revert to Snapshot” and “Remove
Snapshot” operations.
• The “Remove Snapshot” and “Revert Snapshot”
operations are only enabled for vApps / VMs with
snapshots.
5. Visual Differences
On vApp and Virtual Machine Lists
• A new “Snapshot” column is added. Column is not shown by default.
6. Visual Differences
Read-only NIC settings for VMs with memory state
snapshots
• A warning message was added to “Hardware” tab for VMs
with memory state snapshots
8. Multiple Classes of Storage
Not all storage is the same…
Gold
High Speed/Low
Latency
Silver
Moderate
Speed/Latency
Bronze
Low Speed/ High
Latency
9. Multiple Classes of Storage
Not all storage is the same…
Gold
High Speed/Low In order to manage this in
Latency vDC 1 the past, Admins had to
create multiple vDCs…
Silver
Moderate
Speed/Latency vDC 2
Bronze
Low Speed/ High
Latency vDC 3
10. Multiple Classes of Storage
Not all storage is the same…
Gold
High Speed/Low In order to manage this in
Latency
the past, Admins had to
create multiple vDCs…
Silver
Moderate Now Admins can
Speed/Latency vDC 1 leverage Storage
Profiles instead…
Bronze
Low Speed/ High
Latency
11. Multiple Classes of Storage
• The Org Admin can now offer
Gold different classes of storage within
High Speed/Low a single vDC
Latency
• vDCs, vApp Templates, and
Media can define a default
Silver storage profile to be used
Moderate
Speed/Latency vDC 1
• Storage DRS functionality can
now be leveraged within vCD,
allowing for Storage vMotion
Bronze between datastores within a
Low Speed/ High
Latency
cluster based upon metrics
defined (available space, I/O
latency, ect)
12. Storage Profiles Feature Overview
Leverages existing constructs in vSphere 5.0
• Requires Enterprise Plus license as the Policy Based Management for storage
in vSphere 5 requires it.
• Datastores expose their capabilities as string labels in 5.0 and 5.1
• Supports datastore clusters
Storage Profiles are managed through vSphere, not through vCD.
This includes:
• Authoring Storage Profiles
• Adding new Storage Profiles
• Renaming or deleting Storage Profiles
13. Storage Profiles Feature Overview
Allows the association of Storage Profiles with Provider vDCs and
Organization vDCs
Can give a subset of storage to a particular Organization vDC
Applies to VMs, vApp Templates, and Media
• VMs placement based on assigned Storage Profile
• Can change Storage Profiles after a VM has already been placed
•Profile-Driven Storage Service remembers association between VM
(home and disks) and Storage Profile (So if it’s relocated to a
different datastore, we can say if it meets the requirements and it is
‘compliant’)
14. Special Storage Profile
Pseudo “Any” Storage Profile
• Denotes all datastores irrespective of whether the datastore provides any other
Storage Profile
• This can be used for a variety of reasons, for example:
A appropriate license that enabled Storage Profile functionality is not available
The host is a Pre-5.0 vSphere host where Storage Profiles were not available
A Storage Profile has not been defined
- The use of Storage Profiles is not mandatory and will default to the ‘Any’ profile if
not used
• Note that this is similar to the ‘None’ definition within vSphere
15. Provider vDC Creation
• When you
create a
Provider vDC,
you will select
the profile to be
used.
• Note the use of
the ‘Any’
Storage Profile
16. Provider vDC with Storage Profiles
• The Storage Profiles added to a Provider vDC is reported on by
going to the Storage Profiles Tab
• This provides a quick look at the consumption of the storage
18. Overview of the Three Resource Allocation Models
Reservation Pool Allocation Pool Pay As You Go (PAYG)
Summary:
Summary: Summary:
Allows SP to pre-allocate
Has full resource Tenant charged for
resources
management controls resources used
(reservations, limits,
Benefits:
shares) Benefits:
• Provides predictable
• Over-commitment
billing
Benefits: controlled by SP
• Does not have
• Cannot over-commit • % of resource
resource QOS
resources guaranteed can be
allowing you to
• Guarantees 100% of unlimited
overcommit
vDC Allocation
Use Case:
Use Case:
Use Case: • Test/Dev
• Elastic pool with
• Capacity based • Unmanaged workloads
minimum resource
chargeback in a public cloud –
guarantees and a cap
• Virtual Private Data charge tenants when
• Predictable tenant
Center resources are used
billing
19. Elastic Virtual Data Center – The Problem
• Three different clusters, each on separate subnets
Tenant
Organization VDC
pVDC A pVDC B pVDC C
20. Elastic Virtual Data Center – Networks
• VXLAN allows you to span subnets or L2 domains
Tenant
Organization VDC
pVDC A pVDC B pVDC C
VXLAN Fabric
21. Elastic Virtual Data Center – pVDC Expansion
• This allows your Provider vDC to grow to include all three clusters
Tenant
Organization VDC
Provider Virtual Data Center
VXLAN Fabric
22. Elastic Virtual Data Center – oVDC Expansion
• Which allows your Organization Virtual Data Center to expand
Tenant
Organization VDC
Provider Virtual Data Center
VXLAN Fabric
23. Elastic Virtual Data Center – Workload Management
• Can leverage Cross Cluster vMotion to distribute load
Tenant
Organization VDC
Provider Virtual Data Center
VXLAN Fabric
24. Elastic Virtual Data Center
Description Benefits
• Compute capacity for • Container by which a tenant consumes resources (e.g., an
VDC can come from Org VDC) can grow:
multiple clusters under • Automatically, without manual intervention on the part of the
a single vCenter cloud provider admin
• On-demand in response to tenant requests (PAYG)
• Enables Allocation Pool • Within a very large bound that tenants rarely, if ever, reach or
& Pay-As-You-Go VDCs see.
to grow dynamically. • Provider Admins no longer have to answer “Which cluster
should this VDC go into?”
• No support for
Reservation Pool
VDCs Coke Bronze VDC
Pepsi Bronze VDC Dr Pepper Bronze VDC
Provider VDC – Bronze A Provider VDC – Bronze B
Datastores Port Groups Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups Resource Pools
Physical Hardware Physical Hardware
25. Added Features to Support Elastic vDCs
1. Elasticity of Allocation Pool Organization vDCs
2. Placement Engine Enhancements
3. Merge Provider vDCs
4. Migrate VMs from a resource pool to other resource pools in a Provider vDC
5. Elasticity of System vDC Resource Pools