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vSphere 5.1 – DeltaModule 0 – What’s New
Support Readiness Training
John Browne
Rev D
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 2
Audience for This Course
This course is designed for GSS Technical Support Engineers and Partners located globally
This training will introduce students to the new features of vSphere 5.1.
Give participants hands-on experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting these new features.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 3
Prerequisites for This Course
Students need to have taken the GSS Support Readiness Training on vSphere 5.0, or VMware Education Services training on vSphere 5.0.
Technical Support representatives responsible for supporting and troubleshooting vSphere and its components.
Basic understanding of Networking, Storage and Virtualization Concepts.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 4
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
Understand the new features on vSphere 5.1.
Explain the usefulness of these new features.
Know how to install & configure these new features.
Be able to guide customers through the installation and configuration of these features & assist with the troubleshooting of these feature should issues arise.
Course Objectives
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 5
Course Outline
Agenda
Module 2 – Storage Technologies
Module 1 – Flagship Products / Guest Enhancements
Module 3 – Networking Technologies
Module 4 – Availability Technologies
Module 0 – What’s New in vSphere 5.1
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 6
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Installation
vSphere 5.1 introduces two Installation paths.
vSphere Simple install.
• Provides one-pass vCenter Server installation, enabling you to install all required vCenter Server components in a single installation run.
• Simple Install installs Single Sign On, Inventory Service and vCenter Server
vSphere Custom install.
• Lets you customize your vCenter Server installation, allowing you to place vCenter Server components such as the Inventory Service and the Single Sign-On (SSO) service on different machines to improve scalability.
vSphere 5.1 components must be installed in the following order
• Single Sign On
• Inventory Service
• vCenter Service
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 7
Single Server Solution or Distributed components as necessary
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Inventory Service
Database Server
VMware vCenter Server
vSphere Web Client
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
Database Server
Virtual Machine
Inventory Service
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Virtual Machine
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
vSphere Web Client
Virtual Machine
Vmware vCenter Server
Single vCenter Server 5.1 SolutionDistributed vCenter Server solution
Virtual Machine
Database Server
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
vCenter Server
vSphere Web Client
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Inventory Service
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 8
Authentication - The Situation Today
Directory
Server
(AD)
vCD
Authentication at multiple points – for the same administrator
Integrates only with Active Directory
Lack of true Single Sign On
Identity limited in scope
No way for a solution to trust another
vCenter
Mgmt
App
Mgmt
App
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 9
Single Sign On Server
SSO introduces the notion of a solution user
• User ID associated with a software component
• User ID resides in SSO repository
vSphere
Platform
Services
Customer
Identity Sources
vSphere Solutions
Authentication(Single Sign On)
vCOInventory Service
vCenter
ActiveDirectory
Authorization Auditing
vSphereWeb Client
OpenLDAP
NISLocal OS
Users
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 10
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – vSphere Web Client
vSphere Web Client
• New, full featured browser-based web client.
• Based on Adobe Flex framework
• Built for improved scalability, performance, and extensibility, the vSphere Web Client exposes common administrative actions in a more intuitive way.
• This new client increases the number of managed objects you can work with as well as the number of concurrent active sessions without sacrificing speed.
• The vSphere Web Client also stores your workflow and state on the server, allowing you to start a complex task sequence at work and continue it later from your home without losing your place.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 11
vSphere Web Client Architecture
The vSphere Web Client runs within a browser
vCenter in either single or
Linked mode operation vCenter
Fx
Application Server that provides a scalable back end
Flex ClientBack End
The Inventory Service obtains optimized data live from the core vCenter Server process
InventoryService
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 12
Inventory Object – Tagging
Ability to create custom tags on inventory objects
Associate an arbitrary set of objects of the same type using a tag
• Search for objects by that tag
• Enables the business case where customers want to create arbitrary groups of VM’s, Clusters, Datastores for ease of management
• Storage Policy Based Management uses tagging to make placement decisions
Ability to assign permissions based on tags not in initial release
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 13
Log Browser
Proven framework to provide rich troubleshooting tools
vSphere Web Client plugin
Takes snapshot of specified ESXi Host / vCenter logs
Provides rich user interface to view log data
• search
• filter by name/event/keyword
• compare multiple logs
• highlight key words
Simplifies Troubleshooting
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 14
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Networking
More efficient management and greater scalability of the vSphere Distribute Switch:
• Enhanced Network monitoring and reporting
• Network Health Check
• Assures proper physical and virtual operation by providing health monitoring for physical network setups including VLAN, MTU or Teaming.
• Configuration Backup and Restore
• Provides you with a way to create backups for network settings at the Distributed Switch or at the Distributed Port Group level.
• Configuration Rollback and Recovery
• Monitors the state of management network connectivity from vCenter Server to Distributed Switch and rolls back to the previous state if connectivity is lost during a configuration change.
• Port Mirroring
• Introduces ERSPAN and RSPAN to Distributed Switch.
- ERSPAN and RSPAN allow Distributed Switch to mirror traffic across the datacenter to perform remote traffic collection for central monitoring.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 15
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – Auto Deploy
New options for automated ESXi deployment via vSphere Auto Deploy
Stateless Caching
• In memory with persistent caching of ESXi state on local disk
• Lets you continue operation if the Auto Deploy server becomes unreachable.
Stateful Install
• Traditional full installation on local disk
• Lets you obtain the master image from the Auto Deploy Server to quickly and easily install a new host.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 16
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – Virtual Machines
Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA).
• Expands upon existing non-hardware accelerated graphics capabilities for basic 3D workloads, by supporting accelerating VDI workloads using physical GPU resources.
• With this new capability, it is now possible to virtualize physical GPU resources, sharing them across virtual desktops.
Support up to 64 virtual CPUs allowing even larger applications to run within a given virtual machine.
Upgrading VMware Tools to releases after ESXi 5.1 will not require virtual machine reboots for common configurations of Windows Vista and later virtual machines.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 17
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage
Flexible Space Efficient Storage
• A new disk format that lets you achieve the right balance of space efficiency and I/O throughput.
• You can manage this balance throughout the life cycle of a virtual machine
• Storage allocation (controlling the allocation block size)
• How the blocks are managed after they are allocated (deleted blocks can be reclaimed).
• You can use SE Sparse to optimize storage efficiency for VDI.
Linked Clones Scalability Enhancements:
• Ability to share a linked clone by up to 32 hosts, removing the current 8 host restriction.
• The increase in number of hosts simplifies deployment of VMware View and vCloud Director environments and makes them more scalable.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 18
Storage Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks & VMware View
VMWARE VIEW COMPOSER
Linked
Clone
Parent
Image
VMWARE
VIEW
COMPOSER
Replica
Image
(Thin)
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
These items will be SE Sparse Disks in future releases of
VMware View.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 19
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage
Increasing the number of concurrent host locks on a file residing on a VMFS filesystem to 32 (the maximum number of hosts in a cluster).
Support up to 5 Node Microsoft Cluster using the Node Majority Model
Support for boot from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet ( FCoE )
All Paths Down ( APD ) enhancements
• Handle the next set of APD use cases involving more complex transient APD conditions ( Userworld I/O, hostd, etc )
Storage IO Control ( SIOC ) enhancements
• Automatic latency threshold computations
Storage vMotion enhancements
• Can now perform a Storage vMotion up to 4 parallel disk migrations per operation.
vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 20
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