colorado vmug whats new @ vmware? november 2, 2009

Colorado VMUGWhat’s New @ VMware?

November 2, 2009

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What’s New

vSphere4

Management AppSpeed CapacityIQ Chargeback Config Control (start beta in January)

Fusion 3.0

WorkStation 7

Lab Manager 4

SRM 4.0


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vSphere4 key new features

Larger hosts (64 Cores, 1 TB RAM)

Larger VMs (8 vCPUs, 255 GB RAM)

Intel 5500 / HW Assist / Large Memory Pages

Thin Provisioning

Data Recovery / vBackup APIs

Hot Add

Fault Tolerance

Host Profiles

Distributed Virtual Switch

vStorage APIs

vNetwork APIs (and Cisco N1KV)

vShield Zones

VMsafe APIs


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The Universal Hub for Virtualization Management


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vCenter AppSpeed Overview

Benefits Real-time view of end-user application performance,

monitoring against SLAs Dramatically reduces trouble shooting time and

finger pointing 100% non-intrusive Integrated into vCenter Server and vSphere Client Reduces barriers to virtualizing business-critical

applications

Manage performance of virtualized multi-tier applications

Manage performance of virtualized multi-tier applications

Key Features Dynamically discovers and maps virtual and

physical infrastructure elements

Breaks down application latency into component parts (infrastructure, network, and application)

Application


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VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Overview

Benefits

Deliver the right capacity at the right time

Make informed planning, purchasing, and provisioning decisions

Enable capacity to be utilized most efficiently and cost-effectively

Analyze, forecast, and plan virtualized datacenter or desktop capacity

Analyze, forecast, and plan virtualized datacenter or desktop capacity

Key Features Perform “What-If” impact analysis to model effect

of capacity changes Identify and reclaim unused capacity Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls and needs


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vCenter Chargeback Overview

Benefits Improve Resource Utilization: By associating costs

to VM’s many of the “free” VM’s will go away, freeing up resources for higher priorities

Optimization of Budgets: Business units can understand how much they are paying for resources and how much goes to unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption & costs

Account, monitor, and report on costs associated with virtual resources

Account, monitor, and report on costs associated with virtual resources

Key Features Fixed, allocation, and utilization based costing Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure Schedule reports & email results


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vCenter ConfigControl Overview

Discover, track, model, search, analyze (impact and drift), report

Standards based, extensible, comprehensive, continuous, multi-source capture of CIs

Applications, inside guests, virtual entities, associated hw, custom tags

Rollup impact reporting by business unit, organization unit, etc

Tracking of configuration items that are part of a virtual infrastructure

Automated discovery of accurate config, dependency and historical data

Application/IT visibility via rich modeling capabilities, dynamic search and reports

Ensure Visibility and Control of Dynamic Virtual EnvironmentsEnsure Visibility and Control of Dynamic Virtual Environments

Coming Soon


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vCenter Lab Manager Overview

Benefits Higher Service Levels

Reduce dependency on IT, enable greater productivity and faster time to market

Lower Infrastructure CostsPolicy-based access control of shared resources

Automated ManagementEliminate repetitive provisioning and ad-hoc management tasks for IT

Simplify management of the internal cloud for dev/test

Simplify management of the internal cloud for dev/test

Key Features Self-service portal for non-IT users to provision

VM configurations in seconds, while ensuring IT control

Image Library to reduce storage footprint, improve asset sharing and team collaboration

Allocate resource containers to users groups and enforce policy-based access control


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What’s New in Lab Manager 4.0?

Unification of Lab Manager & Stage Manager Functionality

One solution for Dev/Test, Pre-Production, Support, Demo & Training

Multiple Workspaces within an Organization provide resource and access containers

Move VMs between workspaces and apply new access policies without changing configuration settings

Support for vSphere 4 & ESXi

Leverage the most advanced virtualization platform

Next-Generation Network Fencing

Isolated network configurations now can span multiple hosts

Useful for deploying large VM configuration clones

Requires vNetwork Distributed Switch (DVS)


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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Overview

Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows: Setup, testing, failover

Turns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans

Provides central management of recovery plans from the vSphere Client

Works with vSphere to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable,

manageable, affordable

Site Recovery Manager leverages vSphere to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation


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What’s New @ VMware?

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