what‟s new in vsphere 4.0: technical...

What‟s New in vSphere 4.0:Technical Overview

Tom MacKay VCP, CNE, Master ASE

Senior Systems EngineerStrategic/SLED Accounts

Ohio Valley [email protected]

Jeff Hunter VCP

Senior Systems EngineerEnterprise Accounts

Ohio Valley [email protected]

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Datacenter of the future

ScaleOutside the

Firewall

People &Info-centric

VMware‟s Initiatives

vSphere OS vCloud Initiative

vClient Initiative

Create Private Cloud

FederateBetween Clouds

SolveDesktopDilemma

3

Introducing VMware vSphere™

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

ESX

ESXi

DRS/DPM

VMFS

Thin Provisioning

VMFS Volume Grow

Distributed Switch

VMware

vSphere™ 4.0

Internal Cloud External Cloud

VMotion

Storage VMotion

HA

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

VMSafe

DRS

Hot Add

Availability Security Scalability

vCompute vStorage vNetwork

*Note vCenter Server and its components are a separate purchase

.Net SaaSGridJ2EELinuxWindows Web 2.0vApp

vCenter Suite

4

VMware vSphere™ 4.0

Infrastructure Services Deliver CapEx and OpEx Savings

Highest consolidation ratios in the industry

Most efficient use of hardware resources

Low operational overhead

Storage/network optimizations

Power Management

VMDirectPath I/O

CPU/Memory optimization

DRS

vStorage Thin Provisioning

VMFS Volume Grow

vStorage VMFS

vNetwork Distributed

Switch

Third party distributed

virtual switchesvNetwork

Standard Switch

CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Infrastructure

ServicesvCompute vStorage vNetwork

5

vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vCompute

Infrastructure

Services


CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

ESX Service Console updates

Enhanced cluster resource usage views

Expanded DRS information

Expanded support for Distributed Power Management

CPU/Memory optimization

DRS


These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,

purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

The Hypervisor is the Foundation

Plug-and-Play

Minimal configuration

Integrated in server hardware

OS-Independent, thin architecture

Coming in 2010

Scripted install for ESXi

PXE Network Boot

Integrated Active Directory authentication

Coming in 2011+

ESXi becomes the single architecture

ESXi is the next generation of the market-leading ESX hypervisor

VMware ESXi

Virtual Machines

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

vCompute

7

ESX 4 Service Console

64-bit, 2.6-based Linux kernel compatible with RHEL 5.2

and CentOS 5.2

Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit applications

Console root file system is a VMDK file

VMkernel runs and owns device drivers

Network interfaces fully support IPv6

Provides enhanced security via Address Space

Layout Randomization (ASLR)

Some features no longer supported

No longer a development environment

Service Console


8

vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Scalability

Application

Services


CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Increased host scalability

8-way SMP and 255 GB of virtual machine RAM

Hot add of virtual CPU and memory

Hot plug devices

Hot extend of virtual disks

DRS shares and reservations allow apps to shrink and grow based on priority


9

Host Scalability

Enhanced performance and

higher consolidation rates

64-bit VMkernel

512GB 1 TB host memory*

64 logical CPUs

256 virtual machines per host

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

32 Cores 256 GB

192 VMs

512GB64 Cores

256 VMs


*As of 5-18-09 - http://www.stockhouse.com/News/USReleasesDetail.aspx?n=7319264

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Virtual Machine Scalability

Dynamic scale-up supports

much larger workloads

8-Way Virtual SMP

256GB RAM

Virtual Machine Hardware

Version 7

New virtual devices

VMDirectPath I/O

Hot plug support

256 GB

8 CPUs

App

OS

App

OS


11

Hot Add for Memory and CPU

You must enable Memory

and CPU Hot Add so that the

options are available on the

Hardware tab.

Virtual Machine > Edit Settings >

Options Tab > Memory/CPU

Hotplug


12

Hot Adding and Removing PCI Devices

You can hot-add/remove:

Network cards

SCSI adapters

Sound cards

SCSI disks and CDROMs

USB EHCI controller

VMCI

PCI passthrough devices

Virtual Machine > Edit Settings

> Hardware Tab > Add


13

Hot Extending VMDKs

Virtual Machine > Edit Settings

> Hardware Tab




Volume Grow expands an extent so that it fills the available

adjacent capacity.

Single partition provides improved virtual machine availability

Can grow a volume any number of times up to size for a VMFS

volume

Must grow LUN backing VMFS datastore first

Extent immediately after must have free space in LUN

VMFS Volume Grow Option

Add Extent Volume Grow



2009 ESX/ESXi Enhancements

Networking

Virtual Machines

VMware ESX

CPU

Memory

CPU H/W AssistLeverage CPU virtualization assist,

multi-mode execution

HW assist &

memory efficiency

Nested paging (RVI/EPT), ballooning,

page sharing, large page support

ESX Scalability64 core hosts, 1TB RAM, 512 VMs per

host, efficient memory utilization

VM scalability

8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM,

multi-core vCPU, hot plug CPU and

memory

vCompute 2Q/3Q 2009

Storage



ESX Scalability

Virtualization

exploits multi-core

architectures

Cores per

4-socket server

Most applications

don‟t scale beyond

4/8 way

VMware ESX

scales with server

core counts

vCompute



0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

1 2 3 4 5 6

ESX Scalability During Consolidation

Number of Virtual Machines or CPUs

SP

EC

web

2005 A

gg

reg

ate

Metr

ic

Native Scaling

Virtual Scaling

vCompute



iSCSI Maximums

.9

9.1

ESX 3.5 ESX 4.01VM

23%

86%

Network Transmit

Potential Gains

4VM 8VM 16VM

14%

59%

iSCSI Max GbpsPerformance increase in ESX 4.0

over ESX 3.5

I/O Throughput Optimizations for Business Critical Applications



Relative Scaling Ratio

51.08

1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU

45.22

94.04

79.88

147.24

133.12

VM

Native

ESX 4.0 Performance with SQL Server 2008

ESX achieves 90%

of native performance

on 4.0 vCPU VM

Workload transaction

latency unchanged

between ESX 4.0

and Native



Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance

OS

APP

Operating System

Application

VMware

OS

APP

OS

APP



69,525

44,000

SPECweb2005 Scores

33,000

80,000

Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance

Tester Name System Name Cores Results

Fujitsu SiemensPRIMERGY RX600 SF,

Intel Xeon processor X735016 42783

Hewlett-PackardHP ProLiant

DL580 G516 30261


DL580 G516 26119


DL580 G516 40046


DL585 G516 43854

Sun Microsystems,

Inc.Sun Fire X4450 16 39793

VMware Inc., USAHP ProLiant DL585 G5

(with VMware ESX Server 3.5)16 44000

VMware Inc., USAHP ProLiant DL585 G5

(with VMware ESX Server 3.5)16 44,000

High score to date on 16 core system

16Gbits/sec web traffic (Support)

143,000 HTTP ops/sec (Banking)Would serve 3 billion page views per day

“On a typical day, there are 1 billion page views.”-Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder

techtarget.com (July 07)



Multi-Core + VMware = Record Performance

3xeBay‟s daily web traffic on a single

server

22



Comparison to VISA

5xGlobal payment

processing traffic

21



Sun Fire 15k (ca. 2002)

;) =VMware vSphere 4 can power up to:

-- 700,000 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes -- 273 4-way

Oracle databases -- 10x more storage throughput than

all of Wikipedia



vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vStorage

Infrastructure



CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Pluggable Storage Architecture

iSCSI enhancements

Thin Provisioning for virtual disks

VMFS Volume Grow

vStorage APIs for Data Protection

VMFS

Consolidated Backup



App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

vStorage APIs

Enhance integration of VMware

Infrastructure and storage partner

capabilities

Provide storage management

tools with visibility to virtual

machines’ use of storage

Leverage array capabilities at

per-VM level

Fully utilize investments in

advanced storage capabilities

Simplify storage management for

virtual environment

VWware Infrastructure

Partner Storage and Management

vStorage 2Q/3Q 2009 2010



Enhanced Multipathing with Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)

SATP PSP

HBA 1 HBA 2

NMP PSA

VMkernel

Storage Stack

Storage Array Type Plugins (SATPs)

handle path failover, monitors path

health, and reports changes to NMP.

Path Selection Plugins (PSPs)

choose the best path.




vStorage APIs for Multipathing

Third-Party MPP

Third-Party MPP

VMware NMP

VMware SATP VMware PSP

VMware PSP

VMware PSP

Third-Party PSP

VMware SATP

VMware SATP

Third-Party SATP

Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)

For unique

performance and fault-

tolerance behavior

To accommodate

specific storage

arrays

For more complex

I/O load balancing

algorithms




Updated iSCSI Stack

Significant performance improvements

No longer requires service console connection to communicate

with an iSCSI target

New iSCSI initiator features

Host Configuration > Storage Adapters

> Properties




New iSCSI Initiator Configuration Options

Improved

security

Performance fine-

tuning




Datastore

vStorage Thin Provisioning

60GB

20GB

100GB

Capacity80GB

Used

20GB

Thick

40GB

Thin

100GB

Thin

20GB

160GB

Allocate

d

Virtual Disks

40GB20GB




Thin Disk Provisioning Operations

Create New Virtual

Machine Wizard

Clone and Migrate

Virtual Machine

Wizards

A thin-disk option is

available when you:Create a virtual machine

Clone to a template

Clone a virtual machine

Migrate virtual machine

storage (Storage VMotion)





SAN Storage

Backup Proxy Server

Centralized

Data Mover

Snapshots

Backup Application


Physical Server or VM

(Windows or Linux)

Mo

un

t



Features in vStorage APIs for Data Protection

Includes All VCB features

Also supports:

All storage architectures for backup and restore, LAN and SAN

Full, incremental, and differential file-level backup options

File-level backup and restore

Windows and Linux guests

Snapshots and Volume Shadow-Copy Service Quiescing



vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vNetwork

Infrastructure



CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

IPv6 support

VMDirectPath I/O

vNetwork Distributed Switch

Third-party distributed virtual switches

vNetwork virtual switch



IPv6 Support

Successor to IPv4

128-bit addresses (vs. 32-bit in IPv4)

Link-local addresses that appear as the interface is initialized

Addresses set by router advertisements

Ability to have multiple IPv6 addresses on an interface

Supported Components

Virtual machines (as of ESX 3.5)

VMware Tools to display addresses in vCenter Server

Service console

VMkernel

vSphere Client connection to vCenter Server not supported



VMDirectPath I/O

I/O Device Driver Directly Accesses Physical Device

Full network support with:

Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Broadcom 57710 10 gigabit network adapter

Experimental storage I/O device support with:

QLogic QLA25xx 8Gb Fibre Channel

LSI 3442e-R and 3801e (1068 chip based) 3Gb SAS adapters

Each virtual machine can connect to up to two passthrough devices

Increases performance but trades off losing several virtualization features

VMotion, Hot add/remove of virtual devices, Suspend and Resume, Record and Replay, Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Memory Over-commitment and page sharing

I/O MMU

I/O Device

Virtualization

Layer



Aggregated view of virtual networking

Datacenter level networking

(versus host level)

Policies, logs and statistics follow the VM

A unified infrastructure for networking

services (monitoring, filtering, mgmt)

Simplified setup and change; seamless

addition of capacity

Easy troubleshooting, monitoring and

debugging

Enables new security services

Pluggable for 3rd party integration


vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS


vNetwork

Single logical virtual switch spanning

multiple ESX hosts

2Q/3Q 2009



An unified fabric to efficiently connect

users, compute and storage resources

Data, iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel all

concurrent on the same Converged

Network Adapters (CNA)

Simplify cable management in the data

center and reduce operational costs

Software FCoE Initiator (2010) to

preserve investments made on 10Gb

Ethernet NICs

Data Center Bridging native support

(2010+) to offer a lossless transport for

all traffic types.

vNetwork Unified Fabric

vNetwork Today 2Q/3Q 2009

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

Unified IP and Fibre Channel storage

fabrics

Unified

Fabric



Standard Switch Architecture

Service Console

Virtual

PhysicalPhysical NICs

Physical

Switches

vNICs

vSwitches

Port Groups VM Port GroupVMotion Port VM Port Group COS PortVMotion Port

ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2

Network configuration at

the host level



Virtual Machines Service ConsoleVMotion

Distributed Switch Architecture

Hidden

vSwitches

(IO plane)

Distributed

Switch

(Control Plane)

Distributed

Port Groups

Service Console

ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2

Virtual

Physical

vCenter

Server



vSphere Client

Plug-In

DB Control Plane

vCenter Server

IO Plane

ESX

IO Plane

Virtual Control Plane

Appliance

Agent Agent

Third-Party Distributed Switches

vNetwork Appliance APIs allow

third-party developers to

create distributed switch

solutions.

ESX

vCenter Server

Extension


purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.44

Benefits of Distributed Switches

vNetwork Distributed Switches…

Simplify datacenter administration

Enable networking statistics and policies to migrate with

virtual machines (Network VMotion)

Provide for customization and third-party development

VMware

Infrastructure 3

VMware

vSphere 4



2009 ESX/ESXi EnhancementsVirtual Machines

VMware ESX

CPU H/W AssistLeverage CPU virtualization assist,

multi-mode execution

HW assist &

memory efficiency

Nested paging (RVI/EPT), ballooning,

page sharing, large page support

Performance & efficiency

VMXNET Generation 3, VMDirectPath

(NIC), TCP/IP stack optimizations,

iSCSI improvements, 40Gb/s line rate

ESX Scalability64 core hosts, 1TB RAM, 512 VMs per

host, efficient memory utilization

VM scalability

vNetwork 2Q/3Q 2009

Networking

CPU

Memory

Storage

8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM,

multi-core vCPU, hot plug CPU and

memory



Power Off

Distributed Power Management (DPM)

Right-size Capacity

Use fewer servers when demand low

Use more servers when demand high

Minimize Power Consumption

Power off inactive hosts

Bring capacity back online as

workload needs increase

Power-on via WoL, IPMI, iLO

Integrated with DRS

Works in concert with load balancing

Respects QoS policies

No disruption or downtime to VMs

DRS Cluster

vCompute Today 2Q/3Q 2009



vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Availability

Application

Services


CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Enhanced VMotion compatibility

Storage VMotion enhancements

VMware HA enhancements

VMware Fault Tolerance

VMware Data Recovery

VMware HA

VMotion

Storage VMotion

NIC/HBA teaming




Enhanced VMotion Compatibility

vCompute

G1 G2G1 G3

Enable Enhanced VMotion Compatibility

Today 2Q/3Q 2009

Protects your server investment

No complex compatibility rules

EVC allows VMotion between different server generations

HW is automatically configured

Incompatible HW is not allowed

Flexible baselines provide user control



Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)

EVC Cluster

CPU Baseline Feature Set

EVC prevents migrations

with VMotion from failing

due to incompatible

CPUs.

CPUI

DCPUI

DCPUI

D

CPUI

D

X… X… X…

K…




EVC Cluster Requirements

Hosts

CPUs from a single vendor, either Intel or AMD

Running ESX Server 3.5 Update 2 or later

Connected to vCenter Server

Hardware virtualization support (AMD‐V or Intel VT) enabled

AMD No eXecute (NX) or Intel eXecute Disable (XD) technology

enabled

Support hardware live migration (AMD-V Extended Migration or

Intel FlexMigration) or have baseline processor of intended feature

set

Virtual Machines

Powered off or migrated out of cluster when EVC is enabled

Applications on virtual machines must use CPUID instructions




Storage VMotion in vSphere 4

Enhancements

Can administer via vSphere Client

Supports NFS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI

No longer requires 2 x memory

Supports moving VMDKs from thick to thin

formats

Can migrate RDMs to RDMs and RDMs to

VMDKs (non-passthrough)

Leverages new vSphere 4 features to speed

migration

Limitations

Virtual machine cannot include snapshots

VM must be powered off to simultaneously

migrate both host and datastore




Storage VMotion in vSphere 4

Source Destination

12 3

4

5

1. Copy virtual machine files except

disks to new datastore

2. Enable changed block tracking on

the virtual machine‟s disk

3. “Pre-copy” virtual machine‟s

disk and swap file from source

to destination

4. Invoke fast suspend/resume on

virtual machine

5. Remove source home and disks

of virtual machine




New HA Cluster Settings

Ability to

suspend host

monitoring

Choice of three

admission

control

strategies




VM Monitoring

Enable automatic

restart due to failure

of guest operating

system

Determine how

quickly failures are

detected

Set monitoring sensitivity

for individual virtual

machines




SecondaryPrimary

VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

vLockstep Technology

New

Secondary

vLockstep Technology

VMware FT provides zero-downtime, zero-data-

loss protection to virtual machines in an HA

cluster.

New

Primary




How VMware FT Works

VMkernel

Log Buffer

VMkernelVMM VMM

Primary

Virtual Machine

Secondary

Virtual Machine

Log Buffer

Heartbeat?

Record Logs

Read/Write Read

Single Copy of Disks on Shared Storage

Log Update? Log Read?




Enable Fault Tolerance with a Single Click

Primary Virtual Machine >

Summary Tab

After you turn on Fault

Tolerance, the Status tab on the

primary virtual machine shows

Fault Tolerance information.




Requirements for VMware FT

vSphere

Configuration

VMs on hosts in HA cluster

Host certificate checking enabled on all hosts

Storage VMs stored on shared storage

VMs provisioned with thick virtual disks

VMs not stored on physical RDMs

Networking Minimum of two VMkernel gigabit NICs for VMotion and

two for FT logging

Additional gigabit NICs for normal network traffic

Processor Uniprocessor VMs on uniprocessor or SMP systems

Hosts from same CPU model family

See KB/1008027 at http: //kb.vmware.com

Host BIOS Turn on Hardware Virtualization (HV)

Apply same instruction set extension configuration

Turn off hyperthreading

58



FT Interoperability

Fault-tolerant virtual machines do not support:

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SMP

Non-replayable devices such as

USB, physical floppy, and sound

Paravirtualized guests

Taking snapshots

Hot adding virtual devices, memory,

and CPU

Nested Page Tables/Extended Page

Tables (NPT/EPT)

Microsoft Cluster Services

(MSCS)

NPIV

Some network interfaces for

legacy network hardware

Automatic DRS recommendation

application

Storage VMotion

VMDirectPath I/O

For details, see the vSphere Availability Guide



VMware Data Recovery

VMware‟s Backup/Recovery

Solution based on APIs for

Data Protection

Agentless disk-based backup

and recovery

De-duplication and incremental

backups to save disk space




VMware Data Recovery Key Components

Storage

Servers

VMware ESX/ESXi

Virtual Machines

vCenter ServerData

Recovery

vCenter Plug-in

> With vSphere Client plug-in, allows

configuration and management of

backup/recovery appliance

> Wizard driven backup and restore job creation

> Storage of backup configuration in vCenter

Server database and awareness of

HA/VMotion/DRS

VMware ESX/ESXi

> Provides VSS support

> Change block tracking functionality allows backups to

be more efficient

Storage

> Any VMFS storage: DAS, iSCSI or Fibre

Channel storage plus NFS and CIFS shares as

target

> All backed up virtual machines are stored on

disk in a deduplicated datastore

Backup and Recovery Appliance

> OVF appliance

> Leverages vStorage APIs for Data Protection to

discover, manage backup and restore




vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Security

Application

Services


CU

RR

EN

TN

EW VMware VMsafe

VMware vShield Zones

Thin ESXi hypervisor with locked-down interfaces

No dependence on general-purpose OS




Protection Engine

VMware vSphere™

VMware VMsafe

API that enables protection of VMs

by inspection of virtual components

in conjunction with hypervisor

Isolation of protection engine from

malware

Broad ranging coverage of virtual

machine CPU, memory, storage and

network

Application

Operating System




Capabilities

Bridge, firewall, or isolate VM zones based

on familiar VI containers

Monitor allowed and disallowed activity by

application-based protocols

One-click flow-to-firewall blocks precise

network traffic

Benefits

Well-defined security posture within

virtual environment

Monitoring and assured policies, even

through Vmotion and VM lifecycle events

Simple zone-based rules reduces policy

errors

vShield Zones




VMware vShield Zones Architecture

vShield Host Gateway

Virtual Network Monitoring

Virtual Network Firewall

Transparently Managed

vShield Manager

Centralized Monitoring

Centralized Policy Assignment

Web-based interface

VMware ESX VMware ESX

vShieldvShield

VMware ESX

vShieldVMware

vCenter

VMware

vShield

Manager




vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Scalability

Application

Services


CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Increased host scalability

8-way SMP and 255 GB of virtual machine RAM

Hot add of virtual CPU and memory

Hot plug devices

Hot extend of virtual disks

DRS shares and reservations allow apps to shrink and grow based on priority




% o

f A

pplic

ations

Application’s Performance Requirements

IOPS

Network

Memory

CPU

95% of applications

< 100

< 300 KB/s

< 4 GB

1 to 2 CPUs

1. Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments

ESX 3.5 capabilities

100,000

9 Gb/s

64 GB per VM

4 VCPUs

vSphere (2009)

capabilities

364,000*

30 Gb/s

255 GB per VM

8 VCPUs

Very Large VMs, Powerful Performance

Scalability Today 2Q/3Q 2009

*As of 5/18/09 - http://www.stockhouse.com/News/USReleasesDetail.aspx?n=7319264



VMware vSphere: The Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware

vCloud

vCenter

Management

VServices

On-premise Infrastructure

SaaSLinux GridWindows J2EE.Net

VMware Infrastructure -> virtual datacenter OS

Application vServices

Scalability

Infrastructure vServices

SecurityAvailability

vNetworkvStoragevComputeCloud

vServices

…….

Web 2.0



VMware vSphere: The Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware

vCloud

vCenter

Management

VServices

On-premise Infrastructure

SaaSLinux GridWindows J2EE.Net

VMware Infrastructure -> virtual datacenter OS


Scalability

Infrastructure vServices

SecurityAvailability

vNetworkvStoragevComputeCloud

vServices

…….

Web 2.0

Need a Break

here???

Evolution of Virtualization Management

Element management of

hypervisors and VMs

Management of a distributed,

dynamic, shared infrastructure

Management of

private cloud

Transition physical to virtual

Convert to virtual, Inventory mgmt,

planning, provisioning, patching

Converter, CapacityPlanner,

vCenter, Update Manager

Manage large & complex virtual

datacenters w/ tier 1 workloads

Scalability, configuration automation

and compliance, operations mgmt

Linked VC, ConfigControl, Operations

mgmt, CapacityIQ, AppSpeed

Utility computing -policy driven lights-out

automation

Self service,policy driven automation, IT

service costing, SLA based mgmt

Lifecycle Manager, Access Point,

Chargeback Manager

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

Management benefits in a private cloud…

• reduced opex, dynamic & responsive IT

• high management efficiency

• Centralized mgmt via end user empowerment

• SLA based IT services subscription

• hidden complex configuration & operational

plumbing

• standardize & scale management tasks easily

& on demand



vCenter Server 4 Highlights

Increased Scalability vCenter Server Linked Mode

vCenter Orchestrator

Streamlined

Management

Host Profiles

vApps

Centralized licensing

vCenter Server plug-in updates

Resource Management Performance Charts Enhancements

Storage Awareness Enhancements

vCenter Server

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Hardware

vSphere

Extensible Management Suite

SLA Driven

Management

Model

Availability

99.99%

Security

High

Performance

.2 Milliseconds

VMwarevCenter

Suite

Infrastructure Management

Self-Service Management

Self-Service Portal Service CatalogBilling/Chargebac

k

Provisioning Configuration Capacity Operations Performance Availability

Datacenter Management

Physical-Only Environments/Non-

x86/Non-VMware

Non-virtual management Tools

Business and Service ManagementIT Governance, Service Management, Financial Management, Reporting & Compliance

Enterprise ManagementOperations, Configuration, Change, Release, Incident Management

Partner Solutions

AcceleratedDevelopment

ReliableDeployment

Predictable Performance

vCenter

Platform Automation Plug-n-Play Reporting

Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure Management

Provisioning Operations AvailabilityConfiguration Capacity

Architecture

ApplicationManagement

VDC OS



vCenter Server Linked Mode Overview

Standard vSphere

Client can access

inventory across

multiple vCenters

View and search

across combined

inventory of

a group of vCenter

Servers

Shared roles and

license configurations



vCenter Server Linked Mode Architecture

vSphere Client

vCenter Server Instance

Tomcat

Web

Service

ADAM Instance

Tomcat

Web

Service

ADAM Instance

Tomcat

Web

Service

ADAM Instance

Connection information

Certificates and thumbprints

Licensing information

User roles

vCenter

Server

vCenter

Server

vCenter

Server

vCenter Server InstancevCenter Server Instance



Scalable vCenter Platform

vCenter Linked Mode Role and license data available globally via

LDAP backbone

Standard VI Client can access inventory

across entire environment

Search and action based interface allows

VI Client to manage across multiple

vCenter Servers

Enables scale out of managed

infrastructure

High Availability solution for vCenter Server

Protect against hardware, operating system,

application, database failures

Lower complexity

Provides vCenter specific monitoring

capabilities (license server )

Flexible deployment scenarios

(physical/virtual/WAN combinations)

Uses host based replication to keep the

application state consistent

Plug- n -Play

PlatformArchitecture

ReportingAutomation

vCenter

Server

vCenter

ServervCenter

ServervCenter

Server

ESXi ESX ESX

vCenter

Server

ESXi ESXi

vCenter

Server

ESXi ESX

Replicated licenses & roles

vCenter

Server

vCenter

Server

Active Passive

vCenter Heartbeat



Ensure Availability for the vCenter Server Platform

vCenter Server Heartbeat

Protects the mission

critical functionality of

VMware vCenter

Proactive identification

and resolution of threats to

vCenter Server availability

Protects vCenter Server

against hardware, OS,

network, application

failures and configuration

errors* Licensed Separately



vCenter Orchestrator

Use Orchestrator to create and execute workflows that

automate virtual infrastructure management processes

Workflow Engine

vCenter

ServerXML SSH …

Third-Party

Plugin

Client Configuration

Workflow

Library

Web Service

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New Performance Charts

Performance overview charts help

to quickly identify bottlenecks and

isolate root causes of issues.

Thumbnail Views

vCenter Reporting

Integrated reporting framework built

into vCenter

Predefined and customizable Reports

Multiple Report Formats – PDF, XML,

HTML, etc.

Report types include:

Inventory Reports

Utilization Reports

Health and Availability Reports

Plug-n-Play ReportingPlatformArchitecture

Automation

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New Storage Views Tab Adds Insight into Storage Infrastructure

The new Storage Views tab provides

greater insight into capacity

utilization and storage connectivity.

82

Maps View

HBA

LUN

Target

83

Enhanced Views for Storage Devices

Unique LUN identifier is

persistent across

reboots.

Host Configuration

> Storage > DevicesRight-click to

rename

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Simplified License Management in vSphere 4

Simple license keys instead of flex

1 license per edition

1 key for many hosts

New centralized license key administration in vCenter

No separate license server to manage or monitor

Centralized host and license monitoring through vCenter enabling easy compliance

New license portal provides more accurate view of entitlement

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Managing Licenses in vSphere 4

85

Key is a string, not a text file Custom label

Manage licenses

Export report

Administration > Licensing



vCenter as a virtual appliance

Plug-n-play deployment, easy install

& configure

Simplified patch management

Minimized installation costs

Built to be secure – reduced surface

area

Linux-based virtual appliance

Automated patching via Update

Manager

Support for both Embedded

database and External database

vCenter on Windows will still be

supported and developed

Backup appliance would backup DB

and VC config and work with other

backup solutionsLinux-based

vCenter Server virtual appliance

vCenter Server

ReportingPlug-n-PlayPlatformArchitecture

Automation



Host Profiles Overview

Cluster

Reference Host

Host profiles reduce setup time

and allow you to manage

configuration consistency and

correctness.



Basic Workflow to Implement Host Profiles

Host Profile

Memory Reservation

Storage

Networking

Date and Time

Firewall

Security

Services

Users and User Groups

Security

ClusterReference Host1

2

3

4

5



Working with Host Profiles

After you create the profile, attach

it to hosts/clusters so that you

can check compliance and apply

it to hosts not in compliance.



Plug-n-Play ESXi deployment

Simplified, instant deployment in

large-scale or growing environment

Standardized, audit-ready

configuration for ESX/ESXi

Pain-free ESXi upgrades: just

reboot

ESXi remote boot (e.g. PxE, SAN

boot) and install (e.g. PxE, scripting)

Integrated, automated configuration

workflow in vCenter (using host

profiles)

VUM enhancements for patching

remote boot image repository

Image factory for custom image

authoring

Deploy Configure Maintain

Lifecycle

Existing PxE

Imaged Server

vCenter

Connect

to VC

Common + per-

host configuration

Get image

New Boot image

PatchUpdate

Manager

Author /download image


Automation

VMware ESXi 4.0 Experimental PXE BootDHCP

ServerTFTP

ServerHTTP

Server

ESXi

Host

5Birth Announced

Midwife

Host DB

7Set root PW

Enter lockdown mode

1

Power On

3

gPxelinux

Config File

4

Base Image +

Customizations*

2

IP Address: w.x.y.z

Next Server: TFTP

vCenter

8

-Add host

- Apply profiles

- Register VMs

- Other configuration

Core Dump

ServerSyslog

Concentrator

NFS

Server

Crash

Files

Logs

9

NAS Mount for

-VMware Tools

- VI Client

6Birth Certificate

-Host profile

-VC IP Addr

- VM Inventory*

- Etc.



vApp Overview

vApps are multi-tier application services that you can

manage as a single inventory item.

Provides for single-step

management

Eliminates complex setup

and configuration

…

App Server

VM

vApp

OVF Descriptor

App Server

VM

Database

VM

Resource Pool

Distributed Virtualization Layer



vCenter vApps

Allows management of multi-tier

applications as a single entity

Utilizes industry standard OVF to

provide instructions on how to

deploy

Templates, Clone and other

operations execute at the vService

level

Simpler, application centric view of

management

Easier portability of applications

Applications can now be written to

monitor and scale themselves

Availability = 99.99%

Security = High

Performance = 500 msec

SLA Definitions

vApp

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

VMware Infrastructure Virtual Datacenter OS


ScalabilitySecurityAvailability


Automation



Deploying vApps

vApps from ISVs may include

additional settings to

configure.

File > Deploy OVF Template

File > Browse VA Marketplace



vCenter Lifecycle Manager ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability

Catalog of service offerings ensures

vApp deployment based on admin

defined standards & configurations

Fully automated provisioning of

vApps& bulk VM requests

Service Level tiers define what

management vServices get associated

to vApps during deployment

(availability, security, monitoring, etc)

Provide up front metrics on costs for

service offerings and tiers

Dynamically monitor vCenter for

unknown VM’s to enforce ownership

and placement policies for all VM’s

regardless of origin

Out of the box integrations with

Service Management tools

Service Catalog

Service Levels – Compose and tier infrastructure vServices & virtual

resources

Configuration Offerings – types of VM/vAPP that can be provisioned

Provisioning Engine

Automatically deploy services with QoS attributes

Integrate with existing process tools for end-to-end deployment

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purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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vCenter CapacityIQ

Capacity management solution for VMware vCenter, enabling users to analyze, forecast, and plan capacity needs of their virtual datacenter

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

Perform “What-If” impact analysis to

model effect of capacity changes

Add VMs or hosts

Identify and reclaim unused capacity

Over-, under-allocated VMs

Idle or powered-off VMs

Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls

and needs

ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability



vCenter Chargeback

Drive accountability and costing into VM deployments

Metering Element Multiple Rate

CPU – GHz Used 1.5

Memory – GB Used 1.8

Disk – GB Used 2.0

Disk I/O – GB used 1.4

Network I/O – GB used 0

Fixed Cost per VM

Real Estate = $20

HA Enabled = $10

Software = $200

Power = $3

Custom Fixed Costs

Understand costs of VMs

Associate VM deployments to

appropriate business units

Report on usage costs

Targeted at VI Administrators with

tight integration to vCenter

Flexible costing model with built in

APIs

Supports costing based on allocation,

utilization or a mix of both

Add fixed costs & multiple rates at

any level, including VM level

Automatically propagate costs down

the organization structure

Build custom organization model or

use vCenter Inventory




vCenter ConfigControl

Richer configuration data and a better way to get it, policy based control

Auto documents, gives richer visibility

& custom views & reports

Helps uncover latent bad

configurations quickly, accurately,

remotely

Records current & past, helps analyze

impact of change & troubleshoot faster

Dependency mapping to plan for

changes

Provides search & rich reporting

Discover & Track,Search & Tag,

Analyze (Impact & Drift), Report

Applications, inside guests, virtual

entities, associated hw, custom tags

Create custom dashboards, view

consolidated compliance across

patching, best practices, host

profiles.




vCenter Update Manager

Automated patch management

solution.

Define, track, and enforce compliance

for ESX hosts/clusters, MS/RHEL*

VMs, offline VMs, templates

Central automated, actionable VI

patch compliance dashboard

leveraging baseline groups

Upgrades:

Host: DRS leveraged

VM: Tools & VM HW, appliances

Framework to support 3rd party

IHV/ISV updates, customizations

Performance and scalability

enhancements: shared patch

repository, patch staging,

performance optimization

Integration via Powershell CLI


*only scan supported



Operations Management -performance

Simplified monitoring of VI environments

Ease of troubleshooting

Enhanced Alarms

Additional Metric Alarms - IOPs, Datastore, %RDY, etc.

New Event Alarms

Alarm Sensitivity Control – reduce false and redundant alarms

Improved Performance Data Visualization

Side-by-side Performance Charts, Thumbnail Views

Charts for new Performance Metrics

Aggregate ESX Ready across all vCPUs on a Host, High-water I/O

Latency across all VMDKs for each VM, etc.

New CIM Service for ESX Host health monitoring

User-Friendly, Actionable ESX Error Messages, improved descriptions,

Links to KB Articles

New Perfmon DLL: Access ESX Host metrics from within Guest;

Access via Perfmon or WMI

ConfigurationProvisioning Operations AvailabilityCapacity



Operations Management -storage

“Assurance”: End-to-end visibility and performance when using

shared storage

“Cost reduction”: Efficient use of expensive storage resources,

thus alleviating the cost issue

“Process integration”: Easy management which fits in with

existing operational processes or enhances them

Assurance:

Topology/relationship insight for troubleshooting

Monitor/trend VM/datastore storage performance

metrics (e.g. latency, throughput)

Cost reduction:

Storage usage reports

Policy-based snapshot management

Process integration/simplification:

Manage VMware and array thin provisioning

vCenter Chargeback models include storage

Simplified iSCSI configuration




Monitor and Control QoS with vCenter AppSpeed

Monitor application performance from

end-user perspective

Collect and correlate across tiers and

in VI

Automated SLA management

Enables proactive detection of end

user performance issues

Integration with VI enables root

cause and remediation

UI extends VI Client


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App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

IT Service

55Users

2Servers

1Database

75Users

4Servers

Discover

Quality of ServiceQuality of Service

Monitor

Provision 2 more servers

Remediate

Automated Application Performance Management with vCenter AppSpeed



vCenter Solutions: Integrated Value

Provision DecommissionMonitorPlan

Lifecycle Manager

CapacityIQ

Chargeback

vCenter/AppSpeed

ConfigControl

Find Cluster with

available capacity for

vApp

Verify Cluster has

right type of SAN

storage connected

Provision vApp to

right Cluster

Monitor vApp health

Report on vApp’s

capacity use

Identify Idle VMs

based on capacity

usage

Monitor configuration

changes to vApp

components

Trigger

decommissioning

workflow for Idle VMs

Example: Managing lifecycle of new vApp



• vCenter enables IT to offer a unique private cloud architecture

to deliver IT as a utility

VMware is best & uniquely positioned to deliver these capabilities

VMware understands virtualization better than the competition

• VMware‟s new management capabilities will enable customers to

realize the full potential of virtualization

vCenter – the next-generation management platform

A family of virtual infrastructure management solutions built on vCenter

• VMware‟s new management capabilities will integrate with

existing enterprise IT management solutions

Management Summary

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Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

VMware vSphere™ Integrates with Solutions from Leading Partners

Scalability

Dynamic Resource

Sizing

Network

Management

vSphere 4.0

Firewall

Anti-virus

Intrusion Prevention

Intrusion Detection

Security

Clustering

Data Protection

Availability

vNetwork

Storage

Management

& Replication

Storage Virtual

Appliances

vStorage

Hardware

Assist

Enhanced Live

Migration

Compatibility

vCompute

107107

vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform

High Availability

STANDARD ENTERPRISE PLUS

License (1 CPU)SnS (Gold/Plat)

$795$273 / 323

$2,245$471 / 561

VMware ESXi OR

VMware ESX

4-way vSMP

VC Agent

6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory

VMotion™

High Availability

VMware ESXi OR

VMware ESX

4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ADVANCED

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

VMotion™

High Availability

VMware ESXi OR

VMware ESX

8-way vSMP

VC Agent

12 Physical Cores / CPUNo License Memory Limit

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

Distributed Switch

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Host Profiles

$3,495$734 / $874

High availability

products for

protecting critical

production

applications

Basic

consolidatio

n of a lab or

small

environment

Large scale management

of critical production

applicationsNew

$2,875$604 / 719

VMotion™

High Availability

VMware ESXi OR

VMware ESX

4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ENTERPRISE

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager

Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin ProvisioningThin Provisioning

VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs

Hot Add Hot AddHot Add

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vCenter Server

VI Management

$4,995

$1,495vCenter Server Foundation

vCenter ServerStandard

LicenseSnS (Gold/Plat)

$1,049/1,249

$545/645

Per Instance (USD)

vCenter Server Standard and

vCenter Server Foundation are

management servers

vCenter Server Foundation is

limited to 3 nodes of any size /

suite

One (1) instance is required for

most vSphere Standard,

Advanced, or Enterprise Plus

features

-No host limit

-Includes Linked Mode

-Includes Orchestrator

-3 ESX host limit

vCenter Server is required for most vSphere features

$9,995vCenter Heartbeat

$2,099/2,499

Note: US list pricing in USD – International pricing may vary

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Version Downgrade Rights

vSphere 4 licenses can always be downgraded to VI3

licenses to run ESX 3.x and VC 2.x

vSphere 4 License(ESX/ESXi 4.0 & vCenter 4.0)

VI3 License(ESX/ESXi 3.x & vCenter 2.x)

vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus VI3 Enterprise

vSphere 4 Enterprise VI3 Enterprise

vSphere 4 Advanced VI3 Standard

vSphere 4 Standard VI3 Standard

Downgrade is enabled by a simple „point and click‟ in

the vmware.com license portal

NOTE: Downgrades are not available for either Essentials package

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Pricing and Packaging: Summary of Changes

Name and version updates

“VMware Infrastructure” becomes “VMware vSphere”

VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 replaced by vCenter Server 4.0

VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 replaced by VMware ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.0

Switch to one-processor pricing

Introduce new editions and new price points

vSphere Essentials, Standard, Advanced, Enterprise Plus

End-of-availability for old editions:

Foundation immediate end-of-availability

Enterprise availability continues during a transition period

Eliminate most a-la-carte offerings

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Summary of VMware vSphere™

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

ESX

ESXi

DRS/DPM

VMFS

Thin Provisioning

VMFS Volume Grow

Distributed Switch

VMware

vSphere™ 4.0

Internal Cloud External Cloud

VMotion

Storage VMotion

HA

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

VMSafe

DRS

Hot Add



*Note vCenter Server and its components are a separate purchase

vApp

vCenter Suite


ScaleOutside the

Firewall


Summary

vSphere OS vCloud Initiative

vClient Initiative

Create Private Cloud

FederateBetween Clouds

SolveDesktopDilemma


ScaleOutside the

Firewall


VMware

Efficiency Control Choice

The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a

purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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