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© 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

Nick Marshall

Integration Architect

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Who is this guy?

Nick Marshall

– Author: Mastering vSphere

– Blog: NickMarshall.com.au

– Twitter: @NickMarshall9

– Community: AutoLab, vBrownBag

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Agenda

• vCenter 6 Enhancements

• Platform Services Controller

• vCenter Server Install

• vCenter Server Upgrade

• vSphere Web Client 6.0

• vCenter Performance and Scalability

• vCenter Availability

• Reference Architectures

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vCenter Server 6.0 Platforms

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Metric Windows Appliance

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

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Linked Mode

CONFIDENTIAL 6

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

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VMware Platform Services

IS SSO Web 1 VM/Host 2 VMs/Hosts IS Web SSO IS SSO Web 4 VMs/Hosts

Single Sign-On (SSO)

5.1 – 1st release of platform services (SSO 1.0)

5.5 – 2nd release of platform services (SSO 2.0)

5.1 and 5.5

5.0

No Platform Services

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VMware Platform Services Controller (PSC)

No longer just Single Sign-On We’re adding additional services

Platform Services Controller includes a set of common infrastructure services that are used by the vCloud Suite (vCenter, vCAC, vCOPS, etc)

• Single Sign-On (SSO)

• Licensing

• Certificate Authority

• Certificate Store

• Service (Product) Registration

• Other Services will be added in future releases

Platform Services Controller supports data

replication 9 Platform Services Controller Platform Services Controller Platform Services Controller CONFIDENTIAL

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Recommended vSphere 6.0 Deployment Models

CONFIDENTIAL 10

Platform Services Controller

vCenter Server Host or VM

vCenter Server vCenter Server 6.0 SSO Server Web Client Platform Services Controller vCenter Server 6.0 vCenter Server 6.0

vCenter Server with Embedded PSC

• Sufficient for most environments. Easiest to deploy and maintain

• Multiple standalone instances supported

• Replication between embedded instances not supported

• Supports Windows & Appliance

vCenter Server with External PSC

• Recommend this if deploying/growing to multiple vCenter instances that need to be linked

• Reduces footprint by sharing Platform Services Controller across several vCenter Servers

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vCenter Server Install

CONFIDENTIAL

vCenter Server Installer

Appliance

vCenter Server Installer

Windows

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vCenter Server Install For Windows

One installer

Choose deployment

type

All input up front &

validated

Custom Paths/Ports

Pre-Check functionality

Scripted Install for

Advanced

Administrators

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vCenter Server Appliance Install

New Guided Install

Choose deployment

type

All input up front &

validated

Pre-Check

functionality

Scripted Install for

Advanced

Administrators

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vCenter Server Upgrade Supported Paths

CONFIDENTIAL

Platform vCenter 4.x vCenter 5.0 vCenter 5.1 vCenter 5.5

Windows vCenter Yes (Multi-step upgrade: 4.x-to-5.x-to-6.0)

Yes Yes Yes

vCSA No No Yes

(5.1 U3 onwards only)

Yes

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vCenter Server Upgrade: vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 6.0

5.0

6.0

6.0

5.0

vCenter PSC

To External PSC

(pre-requisite: PSC must exist)

Step 1: Install PSC

vCenter PSC

To Embedded PSC

Step 2: Upgrade 5.0 to RC

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© 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

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vSphere Web Client – The Solution

 Single Platform Support (Windows)

vSphere Web Client is Platform Agnostic (sort of)

 Scalability Limits

Built to handle thousands of objects

 White Screen of Death

Performance

 Inconsistent look and feel across VMware solutions

Extensibility

 Workflow Lock

Pause current task and continue later right where you left off Browser Behavior

 Upgrades

Upgrade a Single server side component

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Putting tasks back in their place

Problem: Hard to troubleshoot using Recent Tasks due to limited screen

real estate.

Fix: Display more information by moving Recent Tasks to the bottom of

the screen.

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Dockable UI (customizable UI)

Problem: Workspace (or another pane) needs to be wider to display

more information, or panes need to be

Fix: Customizable UI. Every pane but the central work space can be

dragged like a window to different locations

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Default 6.0 Customized for more workspace

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Making right-click work like it did before

Problem: Too slow to navigate to frequent actions.

Fix: Flatten the right-click menus, make them closer to Windows Client

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Improving Lateral Navigation – Home menu

Problem: Lots of up and down navigation via Home.

Fix: Add menu for navigation across functions.

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Performance and Scalability in vSphere 6.0

Significant Performance Improvements in vCenter 6.0

– Increase in supported cluster size: 64 hosts and 8000 VMs

– Improvements in operational latencies (up to 10x)

– Improvements in concurrency (up to 2x throughput improvements)

– Feature/Performance Parity between Windows and Embedded vCenter Appliance

– Upto 2 X improvements in average page response times through the Web client for typical user actions such as Navigation, Settings, and Action-Menu

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Performance Improvements (vSphere Client)

Problem: Everything is slow.

Fix: Performance improvements made in as many common actions as

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Mill

ise

cond

s

500 1,000 1,500 2,000 vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0

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Options for protecting vCenter

Backup (VDP / Third Party VADP)

Database Clustering (RAC / WSFC)

VMware HA

• Hardware failure

• Guest OS failure

VMware SMP-FT

• Hardware Failure

• Relevant to vCenter sizes of 4 vCPU and below

Windows Server Failover clustering for protecting

vCenter server services

Multiple PSC instances with a load balancer

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Configuration #1 – Embedded Deployment

Model

Sufficient for most environments. Easiest to deploy and maintain

Multiple standalone instances supported

Replication between embedded instances not supported

Supports Windows & Appliance

Host OS Embedded Platform Services Controller vCenter Server 30

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Configuration #2 – External Deployment Model

Local PSC High Availability

Multiple PSC nodes locally

vCenter interacts with the PSCs through a load balancer

vCenter instances are clustered with WSFC

PSCs replicate state information between them

vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server PSC Host OS External Platform Services Controller PSC Host OS External Platform Services Controller Load Balancer

vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server

Replicating

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CONFIDENTIAL

32 Common SSO Domain

Los Angeles New York Miami

Configuration #3 – External Deployment Model

Multiple Site PSC and vCenter Server

By Default

 Each site is independent

 PSC automated replication

 Site awareness

Enhanced Linked Mode

 Facilitated via Platform Services Controller

 Maintains single management point

 Works in Windows and VCVA

 Replicates Licenses, permissions, tags and roles

PSC Host OS

External Platform Services Controller

PSC Host OS

External Platform Services Controller

PSC Host OS

External Platform Services Controller

vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server

vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server

vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server

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CONFIDENTIAL

33 Common SSO Domain

Los Angeles New York Miami

Configuration #4 – External Deployment Model

Multiple Site PSC and vCenter Server with High Availability

Setup

 Each site configured then populated with at least two PSCs

 vCenters are clustered with WSFC for availability

 Load balancer is required at each site to provide PSC high availability

PSC Host OS

External Platform Services Controller

PSC Host OS

External Platform

Services Controller PSC Host OS External Platform Services Controller

PSC Host OS

External Platform

Services Controller PSC Host OS External Platform Services Controller

PSC Host OS

External Platform Services Controller

Load Balancer Load Balancer Load Balancer

vCenter Server Host OS

Clustered vCenter Server

vCenter Server Host OS

Clustered vCenter

Server vCenter Server Host OS

vCenter Server

vCenter Server Host OS

Clustered vCenter Server

vCenter Server Host OS

Clustered vCenter

Server vCenter Server Host OS Clustered vCenter

Server

vCenter Server Host OS

Clustered vCenter Server

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Configuration #5 – External Deployment Model

Local Windows vCenter Server High Availability

 Leverages Windows Server Failover Cluster (previously MSCS)

 Protects vCenter Services and Databases separately

 Requires two physical RDM disks that are shared between the primary and standby nodes

 RDM uses separate SCSI controller with bus sharing enabled

 Multiple Platform Services Controllers for resilience

Windows Server Failover Cluster (VCDB) SQL Server (VM1) Node 1 SQL Server (VM1) Node2 Windows Server Failover Cluster (VPXD) vCenter Server (VM1) Node 1 vCenter Server (VM1) Node 2 External Platform Services Controller (VM) Node 1 External Platform Services Controller (VM) Node 2 Replicating 34

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