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What’s New in vSphere 5

Bob Goldsmith

VMware - Territory Account Executive

bgoldsmith@vmware.com and 978-764-3996

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Agenda

Your Cloud Whiteboard Product Portfolio vSphere 5 Overview • Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network• Applications Services – Availability, Security, Scalability• Additional Features and Enhancements – “The Best of the Rest”• ESXi migration• vSphere 5 Kits and Editions• Upgrading

vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

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TTMModernization

Approach/Data

Public Cloud

ControlSecurityComplianceCostAgility

Infra

Hybrid CloudPrivate Cloud

Leverage Existing

Investments& Skills

New

Users

Apps

Pooling

Elasticity

Automation

Self Service

Existing Data

Center

Optimized

Portable

Scalable

Existing Data

Center

Existing

New

Maintenance

Existing

SaaS

Build – Run - Scale

PartnersVMware

60% Cap Ex

Online TravelRevenue$100M/yr

Device Proliferation & Refresh

Apps

Data

MANAGED

Secure & Compliant

People

/ P

roce

ss

Healthcare“Follow Me”

Data Security

YOUR CLOUD Accelerate IT Accelerate your Business

Next Steps?1.2.3.

Capability

80% Energy

30% Op Ex

Apps & Data

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Introducing…

VMware vSphere™ 5.0

The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

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What is vSphere?

Industry’s Most Complete and Robust Virtualization Platform

vSphere Provides: Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Network)

Application Services (Availability, Security, Scale, Performance)

Management Services (Basic/Remote Management, Patching)

What Does vSphere Solve for Customers? Streamlines IT Operations

Provides a Powerful Disaster Recovery Strategy

Supports Running Mission-Critical Applications

Delivers the Most Flexible Building Block for Leveraging the Cloud

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VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New?

Application Services

Infrastructure Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere 5

Security

• ESXi Firewall• 32 way SMP

• 1 TB VMs

• New HA

Architecture

• vMotion over

higher latency links

Availability

NetworkStorage

• Network I/O Control

(per VM controls)

• Distributed Switch

(Netflow, SPAN, LLDP)

• Storage DRS

• Profile-Driven Storage

• VMFS 5

• Storage I/O Control (NFS)

• ESXi Convergence

• Auto Deploy

• HW version 8

Compute

vCenter Server• Virtual Appliance

• Web ClientvCenter Server

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Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network

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ESXi Convergence Most Trusted

vSphere ESXi

vSphere 5.0 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor exclusively

ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors

Overview

Benefits

Thin architecture

Smaller security footprint

Streamlined deployment and configuration

Simplified patching and updating model

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vSphere vSpherevSphere

Auto Deploy

vCenter Server with Auto Deploy

Host ProfilesImage Profiles

Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new “on the fly” model

Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles

Overview

Benefits

Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and patching of hosts

Centralized host and image management

Reduce manual deployment and patch processes

vSphere

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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage

Tier storage based on performance characteristics (i.e. datastore cluster)

Simplify initial storage placement Load balance based on I/O Resource alignment with SLAs

Overview

Benefits

Eliminate VM downtime for storage maintenance

Reduce time for storage planning/configuration

Reduce errors in the selection and management of VM storage

Increase storage utilization by optimizing placement

High IO Throughput

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Set up SLAs for use of storage and network resources

Added per virtual machine settings for Network I/O Control

Added NFS support for Storage I/O Control

Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem

More granular SLA settings for network traffic

Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs

Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control

Overview

Benefits

1. VM requests more resources

2. Other VMs are starved

for resources

3. w/ I/O controls, can give VIP VMs

preferential access

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Application Services – Availability, Security, and Scalability

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Create virtual machines with up to: 32 vCPU 1 TB of RAM

4x size of previous vSphere versions

Run even the largest applications in vSphere, including very large databases

Virtualize even more applications than ever before (Tier 1 and 2)

Scaling Virtual Machines

4x

Overview

Benefits

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New HA Architecture

NIC Teaming Multipathing

VMware Fault Tolerance High Availability

DRS Maintenance Mode vMotion

Storage vMotion

Component

Server

Storage

VMFS

VMFS

New architecture for High Availability feature of vSphere

Simplified clustering setup and configuration

Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring

Enhanced scalability

Overview

BenefitsVMware

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Additional Features and Enhancements

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vCenter Server Appliance (Linux)

Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based appliance

Simplified setup and configuration

Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements

Leverages vSphere availability features for protection of the management layer

Overview

Benefits

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Web Client

Run and manage vSphere from any web browser anywhere in the world

Platform independence

Replaces Web Access GUI

Building block for cloud based administration

Overview

Benefits

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The Best of the Rest

Platform • Hardware Version 8 – EFI

virtual BIOS

Network • Distributed Switch (Netflow,

SPAN support, LLDP)

• Network I/O Controls (per VM), ESXi firewall

Storage • VMFS 5

• iSCSI UI

• Storage I/O Control (NFS)

• Array Integration for Thin Provisioning

• Swap to SSD, 2TB+ VMFS datastores

• Storage vMotion Snapshot Support

Availability• vMotion with higher latency links• Data Recovery Enhancements

Management• Inventory Extensibility

• Solution Installation and Management

• iPad client

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ESXi Migration

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VMware ESXi: 3rd Generation Hypervisor Architecture

VMware GSX(VMware Server)

• Installs as an application

• Runs on a host OS

• Depends on OS for resource management

VMware ESXArchitecture

• Installs “bare metal”

• Relies on a Linux OS (Service Console) for running partner agents and scripting

VMware ESXi Architecture

• Installs “bare metal”

• Management tasks are moved outside of the hypervisor

VMware ESX

Service ConsoleVMware ESXi

2001 2003 2007

The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS, simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.

VMkernelVMkernel

Windows or Linux OS

VMware Server

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Converging to ESXi with the Next vSphere Release

With the GA of vSphere 4.1 in July 2010 VMware officially announced that starting with the next vSphere our hypervisor architecture will converge to ESXi

From the release note:

VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last

releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Future major

releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture.

• VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1.

• VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according to the VMware vSphere support policy on the VMware Enterprise Infrastructure Support page.

• To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi, go to the VMware ESXi and ESX InfoCenter.

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How Does A User Plan an ESX to ESXi migration?

1. Visit the ESX and ESXi Info Center

2. Start testing ESXi

• If you’ve not already deployed, there’s no better time than the present

3. Ensure 3rd party solutions used by your customers are ESXi Ready

• Monitoring, backup, management, etc. Most already are.

• Bid farewell to agents!

4. Familiarize with ESXi remote management options

• Transition any scripts or automation that depended on the COS

• Powerful off-host scripting and automation using vCLI, PowerCLI, …

5. Plan an ESXi migration as part of vSphere upgrade

• Testing of ESXi architecture can be incorporated into overall vSphere testing

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ESXi and ESX Info Center

All Resources in One Centralized Location

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vSphere 5 Kits and Editions

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VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business

vSphere 5 EssentialsFor smaller environments

Essentials Essentials +

1 Make better use of existing infrastructure

2 Save time in managing infrastructure with vCenter central management

3Improve application availability with• vMotion (no planned downtime) • High Availability (business continuity)

4 Protect business data with VMware Data Recovery

Benefits

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VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions

vSphere 5 EditionsFor larger environments

Standard Enterprise Enterprise +

1Consolidation and AvailabilityConvert Physical System to Virtual Machines, Leverage Live Migration (vMotion), and Enable High Availability (HA)

2 Continuous AvailabilityFault Tolerance (FT) for Applications

3Automated Resource ManagementDeliver Load Balancing (DRS), Power Management (DPM), and Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) without Manual Intervention

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Simplified Operations Advanced Networking (Distributed Network Switch, I/0 Control), Advanced Storage (Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage) and Host Deployment/Configuration (Auto Deploy, Host Profiles) for More OPEX Savings

Benefits

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Interested in Upgrading?

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Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center!

All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

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Thank You!