partner presentation vsphere6-vsan-vcloud-vrealize

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VMware What’s NewvSphere 6 & vCloud Suite 6

Erik BussinkSolution Architect

Agenda

1 vSphere Platform

2 vCenter Server

3 vSphere Networking

4 vSphere High Availability & FT

5 vSphere Storage

6 VSAN

7 vCloud Suite

8 SRM

9 vRealize Operations (vR Ops)

10 vRealize Log Insight (vRLI)

11 vRealize Automation (vRA)

12 VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)2

vSphere 6.0 Platform Features

2x

2x

1.5x

3x

2x

2x

4x

Platform Features - Increased vSphere Maximums

4

Up to 4X Scale Improvement with vSphere 6

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6

Hosts per Cluster 32 64

VMs per Cluster 4,000 8,000

Logical CPUs per Host 320 480

RAM per Host 4 TB 12 TB

VMs per Host 512 1,024

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 128

Virtual RAM per VM 1 TB 4 TB

vCenter Server 6.0 Features

vCenter Server Features - Enhanced Capabilities

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Metric Windows

(VCS)

Appliance

(VCSA)

Hosts per VC 1,000 1,000

Powered-On VMs per VC 10,000 10,000

Hosts per Cluster 64 64

VMs per Cluster 8,000 8,000

Linked Mode ✔ ✔

• Scalability supported by both

Windows Install and vCenter Server

appliance.

• Windows install supports Postgres

and External SQL and Oracle DBs.

• VCSA supports embedded Postgres

and external Oracle DBs.

vCenter Server 6.0 – Linked Mode Comparison

12

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0

Windows Yes Yes

Appliance No Yes

Single Inventory View Yes Yes

Single Inventory Search Yes Yes

Replication Technology Microsoft ADAM Native

• Roles & Permissions Yes Yes

• Licenses Yes Yes

• Policies No Yes

• Tags No Yes

vCenter Server 6.0 - Cross vSwitch vMotion

• Transparent operation to the guest OS

• Works across different types of virtual switches

– vSS to vSS

– vSS to vDS

– vDS to vDS

• Requires L2 network connectivity

– Does not change the IP of the VM

• Transfers vDS port metadata

vCenter Server

VM Network(L2 Connectivity)

vDS A vDS B

vMotionNetwork

vMotion

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• Simultaneously changes

– Compute

– Storage

– Network

– vCenter

• vMotion without shared storage

• Increased scale

– Pool resources across vCenter servers

• Targeted topologies

– Local

– Metro

– Intra-Continental

vCenter Server 6.0 - Cross vCenter vMotion

vCenter Server

VM Network(L2 Connectivity)

vDS A vDS B

vMotionNetwork

vMotion

vCenter Server

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PSC

vCenter Server 6.0 - Long Distance vMotion

• Intra-continental distances – up to 150ms RTTs

• Maintain standard vMotion guarantees

• Does not require VVOLs, but supported

• Replication Support

– Active/Active only

• Synchronous

• Asynchronous (VVOL Required)

• Use Cases:

– Permanent migrations

– Disaster avoidance

– Multi-site load balancing

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vCenter Server 6.0 – vMotion Requirements

• ESX & vCenter 6.0+ at both source and destination

• SSO Domain

– Same SSO domain to use the UI

– Different SSO domain possible if using API

• 250 Mbps network bandwidth per vMotion operation

– Unchanged from previous versions

• L2 network connectivity on VM network portgroups

– IP addresses are retained

• VM UUID maintained across vCenter server instances

– Not the same as MoRef or BIOS UUID

• Data Preservation

– Events, Alarms, and Tasks History

• HA/DRS Settings

• Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules

• Automation level

• Start-up priority

• Host isolation response

– VM Resource Settings

• Shares

• Reservations

• Limits

– MAC Address of virtual NIC

• MAC Addresses preserved across vCenters

– Always unique within a vCenter

– Not reused when VM leaves vCenter

FeaturesRequirements

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vCenter Server 6.0 - Clients

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Client Comparison

Use case Web Client vSphere Client

vSphere management ✔ ✔

ESXi/VM patching (VUM) ✖ ✔

Hardware version 8-11 ✔ ✔*

New features ✔ ✖

* v10-11 Read only access

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Client

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• It’s still here

– Direct Access to hosts

– VUM remediation

– New features in vSphere 5.1 and newer are only available in the web client

• Added support for virtual hardware versions 10 and 11 *read only*

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client

2323

• Improved login time

• Faster right click menu load

• Faster performance charts

Performance

• Recent Tasks moved to bottom

• Flattened right click menus

• Deep lateral linking

Usability

Reference: vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client

• Usability Improvements

– Can get anywhere in one click

– Right click menu has been flattened

– Recent tasks are back at the bottom

– Dockable UI

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vSphere 6.0 Networking

vSphere 6.0 - Network I/O Control Version 3

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• Reserve bandwidth to guarantee service levels

• Applied at vNIC level

– Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed at the virtual network interface on a virtual machine

• Reservation set on the vNIC in the virtual machine properties

• Applied at a Distributed Port Group

– Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed to a specific VMware Distributed Switch port group

• Reservation set on the VDS port group

• Enables multi-tenancy on one VDS by guaranteeing bandwidth usage from one tenant won’t impact another

vCenter Server 6.0 – Multiple TCP/IP Stacks vMotion network will cross L3 boundaries

vMotion & Networtk File Copy (NFC) network can now use it’s own TCP/IP stack

vCenter vCenterManagement Network

VMNetwork

vMotionNetwork

NFC Network

ESXi ESXi

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vSphere 6.0 High Availability

vSphere HA – VM Component Protection

• Problem:

– Host has a loss of storage connectivity

• APD: All Paths Down

• PDL: Permanent Device Loss

• Difficult to manage VMs running on APD/PDL affected hosts

• Approach:

– VMs are restarted on healthy hosts

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All Paths Down

e.g. Path down

or port disabled

Permanent Device Losse.g. Array misconfiguration,

Host removed from

LUN’s Storage Group

Enable and configure VMCP

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vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

vSphere 6.0 VMware Fault Tolerance

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Protect mission critical, high performance applications regardless of OS; No application-specific management and learning

Continuous availability – zero downtime and zero data loss for infrastructure failures; no loss of TCP connections

Fully automated response

Benefits

Enhanced virtual disk format support

Ability to hot configure FT

Greatly increased FT host compatibility

Additional new features

ESXi ESXi

Fast Checkpointing Sync

Primary Secondary

4 vCPU 4 vCPUPrimary

Instantaneous Failover

VADP

vSphere 6.0 - Backing up FT VMs

• Support for vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

– API for non-disruptive snapshots

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API

Backup Target

• Many VADP solutions on the market

vSphere 6.0 - Fault Tolerant Storage

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.vmx file

VMDK VMDKVMDK

Datastore 1

Primary

.vmx file

VMDK VMDK VMDK

Datastore 2

Secondary

• vmx config file

• vmdk files (new)

• Allowed to be on different datastores (new)

Each VM has it’s own:

FT ConfigFT Tie Breaker

vSphere 6.0 - FT Capabilities by vSphere Version

FeatureFT

(vSphere 5.5)

FT

(vSphere 6.0)

vCPUs 1 4

Virtual Disks EZT Any

Hot Configure FT

H/W Virtualization

Backup (Snapshot)

Paravirtual Devices

Storage Redundancy

VSAN/VVols

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FeatureFT

(vSphere 5.5)

FT

(vSphere 6.0)

HA

DRS Partial Partial

DPM

SRM

VDS

Storage DRS

VCD

vSphere Replication

vSphere 6.0 Storage

Storage IO Control & Storage DRS enhancements

• Storage DRS is now aware of storage capabilities through VASA 2.0

– Array-based thin-provisioning

– Array-based deduplication

– Array-based auto-tiering

– Array-based snapshot

• Storage DRS Integration with Site Recovery Manager

– Aware of consistency groups!

• vSphere Replication full support (replica awareness)

• Set IOps reservation on a per disk basis using the API

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Datastore Cluster

Capabilities

Thin Provisioned

Deduplication

Auto-Tiering

Vendor Provider

VASA

VMware Virtual Volumes

vSphere Virtual Volumes

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Management & Integration Framework for External Storage

VirtualVolumes

Overview

• Virtualizes SAN and NAS devices

• Virtual disks are natively represented on arrays

• Enables finer control with VM level storage

operations using array-based data services

• Storage Policy-Based Management enables

automated consumption at scale

• Supports existing storage I/O protocols (FC, iSCSI,

NFS)

• Industry-wide initiative supported by major storage

vendors

• Included with vSphere

Without Virtual Volumes

Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-duplication

vSphere

vSphere 6.0 – Virtual Volumes

Policy based Management

Offloaded Data Services

Eliminates LUN Management

Provides Per-VM Granularity

datastore a

vSphere

Array-a Array-b

LUN

LUNLUN

LUN

LUN

AND

External Storage Architectures

With Virtual Volumes

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vSphere 6.0 - High Level Storage Architecture

Published Capabilities

Snapshot

Replication

Deduplication

Encryption

Overview

• No File System

• ESX manages array through VASA

(vSphere APIs for storage

awareness) APIs

• Arrays are logically partitioned into

containers, called Storage

Containers

• VM disks, called Virtual Volumes,

stored natively on the Storage

Containers.

• IO from ESX to array is addressed

through an access point called

Protocol Endpoint (PE)

• Data services are offloaded to the

array

• Managed through storage policy-

based management framework

vSphereVirtual Volumes

Storage Policy

Capacity

Availability

Performance

Data Protection

Security

PEVASA Provider

PE

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt.

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vSphere Virtual Volumes Extends the Control Plane of Software-Defined Storage to the Ecosystem

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VMware Software-Defined Storage

vSphere

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt

vSphere vSphere

Virtual SAN


VVOL-enabled arrays



VMware Virtual SAN

The Storage Partner Ecosystem has Rallied behind Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes

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vSphere

Virtual SAN


VVOL-enabled arrays



Virtual SAN Hardware Requirements

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Any Server on the VMware Compatibility Guide

All flash-based devices, and storage controllers MUST be listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide for VSAN

10Gb/1Gb NIC

SAS/SATA Controllers (RAID Controllers must work

in “pass-through” or RAID0” mode)

SAS/SATA//PCIe SSD

SAS/NL-SAS/SATA HDD

At least 1 of each

(Except All-Flash)

4GB to 8GB USB, SD Cards

Virtual SAN Implementation Requirements

• Virtual SAN requires:

– Minimum of 3 hosts in a cluster configuration

– All 3 host MUST!!! contribute storage

– Maximum of 64 hosts

– Locally and HDDAS attached devices

• Magnetic devices

• Flash-based devices

– Network connectivity

• 1GB Ethernet

• 10GB Ethernet

– (preferred for hybrid, required for all-flash)

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esxi-01

local storage local storage local storage

vSphere Cluster

esxi-02 esxi-03

HDDHDD HDD

disk group disk group disk group

Virtual SAN Datastore

• Virtual SAN is an object store solution that is presented to vSphere as a file system.

• The object store mounts the volumes from all hosts in a cluster and presents them as a single shared datastore.

– Only members of the cluster can access the Virtual SAN datastore

– Not all hosts need to contribute storage, but its recommended.

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vsanDatastore

caching devices

Each host: 5 disk groups max. Each disk group: 1 SSD + 1 to 7 HDDs

VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN networkVSAN network

caching devices caching devices caching devices caching devices

capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices

Virtual SAN Components

• Virtual SAN components are chunks of objects distributes across multiple hosts in a cluster in order to tolerate simultaneous failures and meet performance requirements.

• Virtual SAN utilizes a Distributed RAID architecture to distribute data across the cluster.

• Components are distributed with the use of two main techniques:

– Striping (RAID0)

– Mirroring (RAID1)

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disk group disk group disk group disk group disk group

VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN networkVSAN network

vsanDatastore

replica-1 replica-2RAID1

HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD

• The number of component replicas and copies created is based on the object policy definition.

VMware Virtual SAN : Hybrid Architecture

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

…

• Software-defined storage built into

vSphere

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore

• Managed through per-VM storage policies

• High performance through flash

acceleration

• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event

of hardware failures

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

Virtual SAN

Hard disksSSDHard disks

SSDHard disks

SSD


Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage Software

Virtual SAN Can Be Deployed With A Tiered Hybrid Or All-Flash Architecture

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Hybrid All-Flash

40K IOPS per Host 90K IOPS per Host+

sub-millisecond latency

New!

Caching

Read and Write Cache Writes cached first, Reads go direct to capacity tier

Capacity TierSAS/NL SAS/SATA/Direct-attached JBOD

Capacity TierFlash Devices

Reads go directly to capacity tier

DataPersistenceVirtual SAN

SSD PCIe Ultra DIMMSSD PCIe Ultra DIMM

VMware Virtual SAN: All-Flash Architecture

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…

• Flash devices used for caching as well as data

persistence

• Cost-effective all-flash 2-tier model:

o Cache is 100% write: using write-intensive, higher

grade flash devices (SSDs, PCIe, Ultra DIMM)

o Persistence tier: can leverage lower cost read-

intensive SSDs

• Up to 90K IOPS/Host

• Consistent performance with sub-millisecond

latencies

Virtual SAN All-Flash

Virtual SAN All-Flash Datastore

SSDs SSDs SSDs

Performance with Predictable Latency

Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance and Scale Improvements

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4x Performance

2x Scale

90K IOPS/host (4.5x more)

Scale to 64 nodes (2x more)

200 VMs/host (2x more)

62 TB max. virtual disk size

Enterprise Data

Services

New high performance

snapshots & clones

Rack awareness to tolerate

rack failures

HW-based checksum &

encryption

Broader Hardware

Support

Expand scalability for

blades with direct-attached

JBODs

Expanded HCL and more

ready nodes

All Flash

Architecture

Data persistence on SSD

Intelligent caching and two-

tier architecture

What’s New in Virtual SAN 6.1

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Advanced Management

& TroubleshootingEnterprise Availability

and Data Protection

Stretched Cluster with RPO=0,

metro-distance

5 min RPO vSphere Replication

Support for SMP-FT

Support for Oracle RAC and

Microsoft Failover Clustering

Health Check plug-in for HW

monitoring, compliance

Disk & Disk Group Claiming

Virtual SAN On-Disk Format

Upgrade

vRealize Operations integration

for capacity planning and root-

cause analysis

New Hardware Options

2-node clusters for ROBO

New Flash HW options:

• Intel NVMe

• Diablo ULLtraDIMM™

2x

16x

31x

2x

2x

4.5x

Virtual SAN 6.0/6.1 – Ready for Enterprise-Class Applications

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Virtual SAN 5.5Virtual SAN 6.0

Hybrid

Virtual SAN 6.0

All-Flash

Hosts per Cluster 32 64 64

VMs per Host 100 200 200

IOPS per Host 20K 40K 90K

Snapshot depth

per VM2 32 32

Virtual Disk size 2TB 62TB 62TB

Virtual Machine per

Cluster3200 6400 6400

Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack

Ideal for VMware environments bringing the benefit of VMware’s products to make storage easy

vMotion

vSphere HA

DRS

Storage vMotion

vSphere

Snapshots

Linked Clones

VDP Advanced

vSphere Replication

Data Protection

VMware View

Virtual Desktop

vRealize Operations

vRealize Automation

IaaS

Cloud Ops and Automation

Site Recovery Manager

Disaster Recovery

Site A Site B

Storage Policy-Based Management

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Virtual SAN Is Built Into vSphere

Drivers embedded in the VM kernel contain the Virtual SAN smarts

No need to install virtual appliances

CPU utilization <10%

Being embedded in vSphere:

Provides the shortest path for I/O

Removes appliance management overheads

Does not consume resources unnecessarily

Seamlessly handles VM migrations

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vSphere

Virtual Storage Appliance

needed on each host

vSphere + VSAN

Virtual SAN is

Embedded into vSphere

VirtualStorage

Appliance

vSphere

VirtualStorage

Appliance

... ...

Virtual SAN Stretch Cluster

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Enterprise Availability

and Data Protection

Stretched Cluster with

RPO=0, metro-distance

5 min RPO vSphere

Replication

Support for SMP-FT

Support for Oracle RAC

Support for Microsoft

Failover Clustering

– Increases Enterprise availability and data protection

– Deploy Virtual SAN between geographically dispersed locations

– Based on an Active–Active architecture

– Supported on both Hybrid and All-Flash architectures

– Enables synchronous replication of data between sites

– Site failure tolerated, with no data loss and near zero downtime

Site A

Active

Site B

Active


Stretched ClusterHDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD

Virtual SAN Stretch Cluster

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– Witness appliance can be deployed onto a 3rd site or it can be hosted on vCloud Air

– Stretched cluster introduces fault domain/site Read Locality

– vSphere enterprise features are seamlessly integrated and supported

– vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

– vSphere High Availability (HA)

Site A Site B


Stretched ClusterHDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD

< 5 ms latency over >10/20/40 gbpsActive Active

witness appliance

L2 with Multicast

Fault Domain A Fault Domain C

Fault Domain B


and Data Protection



5 min RPO vSphere

Replication

Support for SMP-FT



Failover Clustering

Any distance >5 min RPO

Enhanced Replication with vSphere Replication and SRM

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– Replication between Virtual SAN datastores enables RPOs as low as 5 minute

– 5 minutes RPO is exclusively available to Virtual SAN 6.x

site a


Stretched Cluster

< 5 ms latency over >10/20/40 gbps

Active Active

site b

L2 with Multicast

site x


VR

DR

vCenter

vCenter

witnessappliance

SRM

SRM


and Data Protection



5 min RPO vSphere

Replication

Support for SMP-FT



Failover Clustering

Support SMP-Fault Tolerance

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– Continuous availability – protect latency sensitive applications from failures

– RPO/RTO=0 – no loss of TCP connections

– FT creates a second copy of VMDKs

– Enhanced virtual disk format

– Thin

– Lazy Thick


Primary Secondary

HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD


FT logging channel FT logging channel


and Data Protection



5 min RPO vSphere

Replication

Support for SMP-FT



Failover Clustering

Virtual SAN for Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Solution

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Centralized Data Center

Centr

ally

managed b

y o

ne v

Cente

r S

erv

er ROBO1

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

witness

witness

witness

vESXiapplianc

e

vESXiapplianc

e

vESXiapplianc

e

ROBO2

ROBO3

vCenter Server

2-Node ROBO Solution Overview

• Each of the node will be in a Fault Domain (FD)

• One witness per Virtual SAN cluster

• Witness node is an ESXi appliance (VM)

• All sites managed centrally by one vCenter

• Patching and software upgrades performed centrally through vCenter

• If there are N ROBOs then there will be N witness VMs




• Intel NVMe


Hardware Deployment options

Certified Hardware

Integrated Systems

2-Node Remote Office Branch Office Solution – More details

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Centralized Data Center

Centr

ally

managed b

y o

ne v

Cente

r S

erv

er ROBO1

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

HDDSS

DHDDSS

D

vSphere +

Virtual SAN

witness

witness

witness

vESXiapplianc

e

vESXiapplianc

e

vESXiapplianc

e

ROBO2

ROBO3

vCenter Server

2-Node ROBO Solution Overview

• 2-Node in ROBO share a single L2

domain. It requires multi-cast setup and

<5ms latency.

• Communication between the ROBO and

witness is unicast only. No need for

multi-cast and Witness is only reachable

via L3. Requires <500ms latency over

100Mbps

• Resource requirements for the witness

assuming 5-10 VMs in each ROBO:

• CPU: 2vCPU

• Memory: 8 GB

• Storage: 15 GB for capacity & 10GB for

catching tier (Use thin provisioning to

save costs)




• Intel NVMe


Hardware Deployment options

Certified Hardware

Integrated Systems

Storage Policy-Based Management:

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vSphere


Virtual SAN

Capacity

Performance

Availability

2 Failures to tolerate

Object Space Reservation 10 GB

Flash Read Cache10 %

• Intelligent storage placement at

scale

• Dynamic adjustments in real

time

• Automated policy enforcement

App-centric Control Plane That Across Storage Tiers

Virtual SAN Capabilities

• Virtual SAN currently surfaces five unique storage capabilities to vCenter.

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Number of Failures to Tolerate

• Number of failures to tolerate

– Defines the number of hosts, disk or network failures a storage object can tolerate. For “n” failures tolerated, “n+1” copies of the object are created and “2n+1” host contributing storage are required.

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vsan network

vmdkvmdk witness

esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03 esxi-04

~50% of I/O ~50% of I/O

Virtual SAN Policy: “Number of failures to tolerate = 1”

raid-1

Health Check plug-in now part of vCenter

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– Central health reporting via VC alarms across large environments:

– Updated HCL Information

– Periodic health checks – configurable (defaults to 60 minutes)

– Health check failures triggers corresponding health and alarms

– SNMP support, custom scripts, emails via vCenter Alarms

Advanced Management

& Troubleshooting





Upgrade

vRealize Operations

integration for capacity

planning and root cause

analysis

Health Check Support for Stretched Clusters

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– Health Check includes additional checks for stretched cluster:

– Witness host configuration

– Network configuration

– Host compatibility

– Fault domain configuration

Advanced Management

& Troubleshooting





Upgrade

vRealize Operations



analysis

vRealize Operations Management Pack for Virtual SAN

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– Virtual SAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations – Virtual SAN 6.1 new integration with vRealize operations delivers a comprehensive set of features to help manage Virtual SAN:

– Global View

– Health Monitoring and Availability

– Performance Monitoring

– Capacity Monitoring and planning

Advanced Management

& Troubleshooting





Upgrade

vRealize Operations



analysis

Health Monitoring and Availability with vRealize Operations

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– Health Monitoring and Availability – provides proactively notifications on failures, performance or policy compliance issues on an ongoing basis, with root-cause analysis and remediation strategy

Advanced Management

& Troubleshooting





Upgrade

vRealize Operations



analysis

vSphere Replication

vSphere 6.0 – VMware vSphere Replication

• End-to-end network compression

– Further reduces bandwidth requirements

• Network traffic isolation

– Controls bandwidth, improves performance

and security

• Linux file system quiescing

– Increased reliability when recovering Linux VMs

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VMware Tools

Host Mgmtvmknic0

VR Trafficvmknic1

LAN

WAN

Storage vMotion

vSphere 6.0 – VMware vSphere Replication

• Faster full sync

– Improves performance, reduces bandwidth consumption

• Move replicas without full sync

– Balance storage utilization while avoiding RPO violation

• Virtual appliances run SLES 11 SP3, supports IPv6

– Improved security and compatibility

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Replica Replica

Y YCompare

Skip

Allocated? Allocated?

N N

vCloud Suite Overview:What’s New in vCloud Suite 6.0

VMware SDDC: One Cloud, Any Application

Rapid development, automated

deployment and secure consumption

of enterprise apps

Choice in datacenter

automation

and management

Best-in-class VMware

technologies across

the hybrid cloud

Unified Platform Any Application Flexible Control

• Compute Virtualization

• Disaster Recovery Automation

• Software-Defined Storage

• Network Virtualization

VSAN

NSX

VMware vCloud Suite

vSphere

SRM

vRealize Operations

vRealize Automation

vRealize Business

Notes: • “Add-on” means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vCloud Suite• List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions • Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed

for use with vSphere environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air

• Operations

• Automation

• Business

InfrastructurePlatform

Cloud Management Platform

Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud

On-Premises Off-Premises

SDDC Components

Add-on to vCloud Suite

Components of vCloud Suite 6.0: Build and Manage a vSphere-based Private Cloud

vCloud Suite 6.0 Edition Comparison

Advanced

Compliant IT and

Business Insight

Enterprise

Resilient private

cloud

Standard

Intelligent Operations

and IaaS

vSphere Ent+

vR Operations STD

vR Automation STD

vSphere Ent+

vR Operations ADV

vR Automation ADV

vSphere Ent+

vR Operations ENT

vR Automation ENT

vR Business for vSphere

vCenter Site Recovery

Manager Ent

vCloud Suite

vR Business for vSphere

• Compute VirtualizationInfrastructurePlatform


• Automation

• Operations

• BusinessCloud Management Platform


On-Premises Off-PremisesSDDC Components

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vCloud Suite Edition

Notes: • Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vSphere

environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air• vRealize Business for vSphere includes automated costing, metering, and integrated pricing. Public cloud comparison functionality is not included

New in vCloud Suite 6.0

What’s New in vCloud Suite 6.0

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Scale and performance

• Server virtualization for scale-out (Hadoop/Big Data) and scale-up (SAP HANA) applications

• Superior graphics and performance for virtual desktops (NVIDIA vGPU)

Industry-first availability

• Planned migration across geographically dispersed data centers (long-distance vMotion)

• Availability for mission-critical applications with up to four vCPUs (SMP-Fault Tolerance)

Platform for Any Application Cloud Business ManagementEfficient, Agile, and Extensible

vSphere-based Private Cloud


• New scale-out and resilient architecture (vRealize Operations)

• Developers/Tenants have visibility into VM health via self-service portal (vRealize Automation)

Extensibility

• Extend vCloud Suite to OpenStack and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery

vCloud Suite scales applications, availability, and the business

CONFIDENTIAL

Business Insight for vSphere Environments

• Automated infrastructure costing and usage metering for vSphere environments (vRealize Business)

• Integrated pricing with self-service provisioning portal for vSphere environments (vRealize Business)





VSAN

NSX

VMware vCloud Suite

vSphere

SRM

vRealize Business



• Operations

• Automation

• Business




On-Premises

SDDC Components


Site Recovery Manager Continues to Deliver Industry-Leading Disaster Recovery Automation for vSphere Environments

vRealize Operations

vRealize Automation

Disaster Recovery Automation Minimizes Planned and Unplanned Downtime

vSphere

vCenter ServerSite Recovery

ManagervCenter Server

Site Recovery

Manager

vSphere

Production Site Recovery Site

Servers ServersArray-based

replication

vSphere

Replication

Solution Description

• SRM is the industry-leading disaster recovery

automation solution for vSphere environments

Key Features

• Centralized recovery plans for thousands of VMs

• Non-disruptive recovery testing

• Automated DR workflows

• Integrated with the VMware product stack

Key Benefits

• Lowers the cost of DR management by 50% or more

• Eliminates complexity and risk of manual processes

• Enables fast and highly predictable RTOs

• Provides policy-driven DR control for any virtualized app

* Disaster Avoidance

vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) provides simplified business continuity and disaster recovery

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Improved Storage vMotion and SDRS Integration

SRM 5.5 and SRM 5.8

• SRM + SDRS only supported with homogenous storage cluster

SRM 6.0

• SRM + SDRS supported with heterogeneous datastoreclusters

SD

RS

Datastore

Cluster

CG

1C

G 2

SDRS

SDRS

Site C Datacenter

Site C

VC

Cluster(s)

SRMSRM

Site B Datacenter

Site B

VC

Cluster(s)

SRM

Enhanced Topology Support

SRM

Site A Datacenter

Site A

VC

Cluster(s)

SRMSRM

• Previous support was only for:

– Unidirectional production to DR site

– Bidirectional site to site protection

– Shared recovery site

• Now supporting those and:

– Shared protection site

– A-B-C

– And more

Note: Still Point-to-Point Replication only

Self-Service, Policy-Based DR Protection for Apps

(1) Agents for SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint

Architecture

Production Site

vSphere


Recovery Site

vSphere


Array-based

Replication

External

Storage

External

Storage

vCloud Automation Center

• SRM using array-based replication

• vRA management across two sites

• Integration via vRO plugin for SRM

• New APIs exposed for PowerCLI

integration

Capabilities• Self-service DR provisioning using vRA

blueprints

• Automated protection mapping according

to pre-defined tiers

Benefits• DR control delivered as a service to

app tenants

• Quicker time to market for apps

• Reduced complexity for infrastructure admins

Not just for vRA though…

The vRO plugin for SRM offers many other workflows as well:

• Create protection groups and add VMs

• Find protection groups by datastore

• Add protection to unprotected VMs in a replicated datastore

• … and almost anything else the SRM API exposes can now be accessed through the vROplugin.





VSAN

NSX

VMware vCloud Suite

vSphere

SRM

vRealize Business



• Operations

• Automation

• Business




On-Premises

SDDC Components


Cloud Management Platform is the Key Control Layer of the SDDC

vRealize Operations

vRealize Automation

• Automated costing and metering

• Integrated pricing with vRealize Automation

• Out-of-box integration with cloud operations provides VM health visibility

• Improved API

Streamlined and Automated Operations, Faster Application Delivery

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• vRealize Business capabilities for

vSphere environments are now

included in vCloud Suite

• vRealize Automation includes

increased product integration that

optimizes cloud lifecycle

management

• vRealize Operations features a new

scale-out, resilient architecture

• #1 Cloud Systems Management1

1IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2013 Vendor Shares, June 2014, Mary Johnston Turner, #249131

Cloud Business

Cloud Automation

Cloud Operations

• Up to 8x greater scalability

• Unified experience across hybrid clouds when vCloud Suite is extended with vRealize Suite

VMware Cloud Operations ManagementSimplify and automate IT Management with Intelligent Operations

• Intelligent operations through predictive analytics across all machine data

Structured Data

Metrics Alerts Events

vRealize Operations

Capacity, Performance and

Configuration ManagementEvents

Launch in Context

Unstructured Data

Logs Messages

vRealizeLog Insight

Log analytics, aggregation, and

search

• Intelligent operations through predictive analytics across all machine data

• Policy-based automation enables proactive management and automated remediation

• Unified management for comprehensive visibility in one place, from vSphere to Hyper-V, AWS and physical infrastructure

Public

Cloud

New vRealize Operations Platform

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Designed to meet the automation demands of the hybrid cloud

New architecture that scales out horizontally

to support dramatically larger environments.

Highly available, resilient and self-

monitoring

Full functionality installed on virtual or

physical, Linux or Windows

vCenter-independent license management

for heterogeneous 3rd-party objects

ScaleoutRe-architected platform with

industry-leading scalability and

resilience to support the most

complex environments

New!

What We Improved in vRealize Operations 6.0

Scalability

• Scale-up architecture• Separate instances required

• Scale-out architecture• Greatly increased scale of a single deployment

• Cluster - shared data and UI

• Resiliency - think Application RAID!

UI

• Single, integrated UI• Unified management

• Access to all object types

• Two User Interfaces • No shared data or UI between

vSphere and non-vSphere

domains

Alerting

• Smart Alerts• No actions associated with alerts

• Actionable Smart Alerts• Combine multiple symptoms

• In band recommendations/remediation

actions

Visualization

• Fixed or custom-only dashboards• Inability to integrate vSphere and

non-vSphere objects

• Limited reporting

• Fully customizable dashboards & reports• Bring in any object, metric or relationship

• Create custom persona-based visualization

vCenter Operations 5.X

vRealize Operations 6.0

Capacity

Management

• “What if” scenarios for vSphere• Supports only ESX hosts and VM

containers

• One scenario per model

• Advanced capacity modeling• Save capacity project & what-if analysis

• Commit projects to influence capacity

calculations

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Support for New SDDC and Hybrid Cloud Platforms in vRealize Operations 6.0

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StorageVSANISCSINFS

NetworkingNSXAristaKEMP

vCloud AirCloud, Region

VDC, vApp, VM

Cloud Type

OpenStackHosts, NSX,

Controllers

CONFIDENTIAL & INTERNAL USE ONLY

vRealize Operations Suite 6.0 Capability Map

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vR Ops

Standard

vR Ops

Advanced

vR Ops

Enterprise

Operations Management Platform

• Predictive Analytics and Smart Alerts

• Policy Management

• Automation and Guided Remediation

• Customizable Dashboards and Reports

Performance Monitoring and Analytics

• vSphere Performance and Health Monitoring

• SAN Storage Analytics

• Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping

• OS Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, … for Physical & Virtual)

• Application, Middleware and Database Monitoring (MS, Oracle, …)

Capacity Management

• vSphere Resource Monitoring, Planning and Optimization

• Capacity Modeling

• Save Capacity Models and model-driven Analytics

Configuration and Compliance Management

• vSphere Hardening

• vSphere change, configuration, and regulatory compliance

• OS-level configuration & regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX…)

Get more from vRealize Operations with 3rd party Management Packs. For a complete list of available Management Packs, please visit

http://solutionexchange.vmware.com

http://solutionexchange.vmware.com

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Performance alert contributing to

degraded health. Let’s click to

see details …

Integrated OS and Application Monitoring

Extends monitoring to what the business cares about

• OS and Application monitoring built into vR Ops!

• In-Guest Awareness of OS and Application Infrastructure

• Native In Guest Visibility thru Agent-based data collection

• Application and Infrastructure Awareness tied together

• Auto Discovery of In-Guest assets, Applications, Disks, etc

• OS monitoring

• Windows, Linux and Unix support

• Process, Windows Services and file system monitoring

• Support for virtual and physical, on-prem and hybrid cloud

Technical Overview

Previously delivered with Hyperic…now

delivered natively in vR Ops!

Integrated OS and Application Monitoring

Value of built in OS and App monitoring

• Centralized Management

• All in product UI

• Single UI

• All data consumed through vR Ops UI

• Single instance of UI for the whole deployment

• Single solution encapsulates all

• OS/Remote Service Adapter installed OOTB

• Cleaner Agent

• Install only the plugins needed

Technical Overview

Centralized Management

Installed with

vR Ops

Centralized

Plugin

Management

vRealize Operations and Log Insight

Leverage all your IT data for comprehensive visibility in one place

Structured Data

Metrics Alerts Events

VMware vRealize Operations

Capacity, Performance and

Configuration ManagementInventory

Integration

Launch in Context

Unstructured Data

Logs Messages

VMware vRealize Log Insight

Log analytics, aggregation, and

search

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Cloud

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Log Insight Dashboard

126

Content Pack

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Extended Solutions

New vRealize Operation Management Packs

• Management Pack for Storage Devices

• OpenStack

• vCloud Director

• EMC Storage Analytics

• Blue Medora• Cisco UCS

• Citrix Xen Desktop

• NetApp

• Oracle OEM

• SAP

• SQL Server

New Log Insight Content Packs

• OpenStack

• EVO:Rail

Technical OverviewSolution Exchange

vRealize Operations

Management Packs

Log Insight

Content Packs

partner presentation vsphere6-vsan-vcloud-vrealize

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