vmware lab manager 4

VM2717 – What’s New in

Lab Manager 4?Simplify Management of the Internal Cloud for Dev/Test

Eddie Dinel, Product Manager, VMware, Inc.

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IT Today

Overwhelming complexity

>70% of IT budgets just to keep the lights on

<30% of IT budgets goes to innovation and competitive advantage

Business Can Change Only as Fast

as IT Can

Where the IT Budget Goes

Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers

42%Infrastructure Maintenance

30%Application

Maintenance

23%Application Investment

5%Infrastructure Investment


Agenda

VMware vCenter Lab Manager Overview

What’s New in Lab Manager 4?

Q&A


Where Does IT Need To Get To?

IT

as a

Service

Just like…

Inexpensive, pay as you go,

pay for what you use

Ubiquitously available

Reliable

Choice of providers


Market Drivers for Internal Clouds for Dev/Test

There’s a new alternative

Use credit cards to buy resources online

IT is behind the curve

Overwhelmed by time-consuming, repetitive tasks

Can’t keep up with the end user demands

How can IT provide better service and remain in control?

Increasing application complexity

More complicated deployment platforms

Configuration issues leading cause of project delays


Customer Example: Preparing Test Environments

Maintenance Tasks: Imaging, Installing, Cleanup, or Locked for Triage

Testing Tasks: Test Execution

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

Maintenance Tasks Testing Tasks

Image Machine Install Software Run Tests Await Triage Release for new test

20 Minutes 5 Minutes 20-120 Minutes 1-12 Hours!!


vCenter Lab Manager 4

Benefits

Higher Service Levels

Reduce dependency on IT, enable greater

productivity and faster time to market

Lower Infrastructure Costs

Policy-based access control of shared resources

Automated Management

Eliminate repetitive provisioning and ad-hoc

management tasks for IT

Simplify management of the

internal cloud for dev/test

Key FeaturesSelf-service portal for non-IT users to provision VM configurations in seconds, while ensuring IT controlImage Library to reduce storage footprint, improve asset sharing and team collaborationAllocate resource containers to users groups and enforce policy-based access control


Lab Manager Delivers the Internal Cloud for Dev/Test

Self-Service Portal

Set up, tear down and capture multi-tier system configurations in seconds

Clone, transfer and deploy application environments

Easy to use for non-IT users

Shared Image Library

Central location for system configurations

Improve asset sharing and team collaboration

Automated Management and IT Control

Role-based access control and mapping of resources to multiple teams, projects and sites

Automated reclamation of unused resources


A Single Solution for All Your Dev/Test Needs


Agenda



vSphere Support

Support for VMware ESXi

Host-Spanning Private Networks

Lab Manager & Stage Manager: Unification

Q&A


vSphere 4 Support

vSphere 4 Support:

Pillar of Lab Manager 4

Standard, Advanced, Enterprise,

and Enterprise Plus

Enterprise Plus required

for some features

Lab Manager 4 supports ESX 3.5

Standard & Enterprise Editions

vCenter 4.0 required ESXi Support

As Well!


vSphere 4 Support: More Detail

vNetwork Distributed Switch (DVS)

Host-Spanning Private Networks (more later) require DVS

Cisco Nexus 1000v missing key capabilities—not supported

Expanded VM Capabilities

Hot-Add CPU/Memory; 8-way vCPU, 256GB VM memory

SAS, IDE, Disks, pvSCSI driver, etc.

IPMI-based DPM

Lab Manager 4 will “wake up” systems in order to do deployment

Take advantage of ebb-and-flow of cloud environments


vSphere 4 Support: Even More Detail

Lab Manager interoperates with…

Host Profiles

Storage Provisioning /

Datastore and Network

Management Enhancements

Volume Resignaturing

64-bit Service Console

64-bit vmkernel

Virtual Hardware Upgrade

Native SATA

VI Update Service (ESX 4 only)

Volume Grow

iSCSI Support Improvements

Storage Stack Performance

and Scalability

Distributed Power

Management

DRS Usability Enhancements

…and more!


vSphere Support: vCenter 4 & Upgrade

Lab Manager 4 Requires vCenter 4

Many key bugfixes & capabilities

Upgrade Experience

Administrator Stops Lab Manager (or Stage Manager) Server

(VMs continue to run)

Administrator Upgrades Virtual Center to vCenter Server 4.0

Administrator Upgrades Lab Manager Server to Lab Manager 4

Administrator Starts Lab Manager 4 Server

Host Upgrades done at admin convenience

Clusters must be homogeneous


Agenda



vSphere Support



Q&A


Before: Network Fencing

Problem

Deploying VMs directly on the network does not provide isolation and will also result in MAC and IP address conflicts with their clones deployed on the same network

Solution

In fenced mode LM creates an additional host-only private LAN segment and subnet—a “fence” which prevents MAC and IP conflicts

Deploying in fenced mode optionally creates a virtual NAT/router that connects the private network to an external network to gain external connectivity

Configuration 2

A B C

Deploy the cloned configuration

“fenced”

Power on Virtual Machines

Connect to newly created virtual net

NAT/route the configuration

to external net

X

Deploy original

configuration


Use MAC and IP network

resources

A B C

Configuration 1

A B CA B C

Deploy cloned configuration


Encounter MAC and IP

network conflict

Configuration 2

A B C


Lab Manager 3: Single-host Fencing

Limited configuration size

Resource capacity of a single ESX host limits the size of a configuration that may be fenced

Single-host fenced deployment may not be possible

All datastores may not be accessible from all hosts

CPU affinity due to memory state in a heterogeneous ESX cluster may prevent configurations from being fenced

Cannot leverage VC services that require vMotion

Can’t VMotion a group of VMs together

Minimizes effective use of DRS for better resource utilization

HA (and other services) weakened

HA, maintenance mode, DPM: no way to disperse or restart fenced VMs


Host Spanning Private Networks

Host-Spanning Private Networks (HSPN)

A HSPN spans hosts and is represented as a portgroup on a DVS

Both “fenced physical” and “virtual networks” may be deployed on HSPN

Individual HSPNs isolated from each other and from the LAN segment itself

Connectivity to external network via the virtual router remains unchanged

Enabled with a “Service VM” on each host participating in HSPN

Deploy original

configuration unfenced


Use MAC and IP network

resources

A B C

Configuration 1

A B CA B C

Deploy cloned configuration

cross-host fenced

VMs connect to cross-host

fenced network and may be

deployed on any host that the

fence spans. NAT/route the

configuration to external net.

Configuration 2

A B C

Fence Overlay F1

XVirtual

Router


Agenda

Why Lab Manager 4?


vSphere Support



Multiple Workspaces

Archive & Library

Configuration History

Questions?


Product Unification: What Are Workspaces?

Resource Abstraction

Workspaces can be backed by segregated resource pools

Move a configuration from “Dev” workspace to “Test” workspace → Change resources powering it

User Containers

Users in Orgs can be further sorted into Workspaces

For Example: “Lab Manager” Org can be broken down further into “Dev” and “QA” workspaces

Virtual Machine Containers

More on this in a bit…

Note: The “Admin” role can be assigned at Workspace or Organization level


IT Organization

Product Unification: Multiple Workspaces

The Power of Multiple

Workspaces

Workspaces are also containers

of virtual machines

Default Sharing Behavior

Private: Lab Manager-like

Shared: Stage Manager-like

Far more Flexible than Stage

Manager’s Service/Stage

linear model

One Production Workspace can

be in the same Org as many different

related “Dev” workspaces

With different users in each!

Production

Siebel-Dev Exchange-Dev

Training


Product Unification (Cont.)

Archive & Library Merged

Archive a special case of “Capture to Library”

More options for “Archive”

Linked or Full Clone

Archived configurations

specially tagged in Library

No Changes to

Sharing Model

To move between

organizations,

share then clone

Move or share

between Workspaces


Product Unification (Cont.)

Configuration History

Audit history of a configuration across its lifespan

Track what users did what and when

Users can add notes to reference, for example, change ticket approvals


Lab Manager & Stage Manager Unification (Cont.)

Archive & Library Merged

Archive a special case

of “Capture to Library”

More options for “Archive”

Linked or Full Clone

Archived configurations

specially tagged in Library

No Changes to

Sharing Model

To move between

organizations,

share then clone

Move or share between Workspaces

Summary and Next Steps

Lab Manager 4 delivers the internal cloud for Dev/Test

Single solution for all your non-production needs

Most advanced, most widely deployed product of its kind

Free upgrade for existing customers

Learn More at: www.vmware.com/labmanager

http://www.vmware.com/labmanager


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