Virtual Infrastructure Management
VMware Analyst Day 2007
Patrick Lin
Sr. Director, Product Management
[email protected]
Erik Wrobel
Director, Product Management
Key Takeaways
Virtual infrastructure enables a fundamentally better way of managing
the datacenter
VMware is delivering a range of new management capabilities in
concert with its partners, and sees a large new market opportunity for
itself in virtual infrastructure management
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Partner Ecosystem
Why Management?
0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% Rich in functionality Runs multiple OSs well Proven in production High performance Easy to manage VMs
B.4 Which five of these attributes are most important in forming your preference for a specific brand of x86 server virtualization software? (Select 5 at most) N=2265
* Source: VMware Customer Survey, Oct 2006
Virtualization Vendor Selection Criteria
Hypervisor platform is critical
and will remain so
Performance
Stability
Heterogeneous OS support
But management is the #1
criteria for vendor selection
New Enablers
Encapsulation
Mobility
State-full snapshots
Dynamic configuration
Add and remove virtual hardware Rewire logical configurations Change resource allocations
Discovery and Introspection
Resource utilization Dependency discovery
Virtual infrastructure has properties that enable a different degree of automation around IT processes than has been possible in the past…
Customer Benefits
Near zero downtime hardware upgrades with VMotion™ Requires 1 - 3 hour maintenance
window
Requires days/weeks of change management preparation
Hardware maintenance
2 - 5 minutes for live migration using VMotion™ (no service interruption)
10 - 30 minutes for cold migration
4 - 6 hours for migration
Service interrupted for duration of maintenance window
Requires days/weeks of change management preparation
Moving an application to a new server;
Repurposing a server
5 - 10 minutes
provisioning new VM 3 - 14 days hardware procurement
1 - 4 hours provisioning new server Provision a new server
Virtual Infrastructure Approach Traditional Approach
Key Task
Customer Benefits
Near zero downtime hardware upgrades with VMotion™ Requires 1 - 3 hour maintenance
window
Requires days/weeks of change management preparation
Hardware maintenance
2 - 5 minutes for live migration using VMotion™ (no service interruption)
10 - 30 minutes for cold migration
4 - 6 hours for migration
Service interrupted for duration of maintenance window
Requires days/weeks of change management preparation
Moving an application to a new server;
Repurposing a server
5 - 10 minutes
provisioning new VM 3 - 14 days hardware procurement
1 - 4 hours provisioning new server Provision a new server
Virtual Infrastructure Approach Traditional Approach
Key Task
…that are multiplied when customers standardize on top of virtual infrastructure
Benefits of the Architectural Approach
Data Center-wide Capacity Management Standardization (Common Expertise, Processes & Tools)
Decreasing Marginal Cost of New Projects
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Storage and Network Management
Capacity and Resource Management
Change and Configuration Management
Market Assumptions
Multi-hypervisor management relevant starting in 2009
VMware willing to support alternative hypervisors based on maturity and market demand
VMware co-chairing standards bodies to facilitate multi-platform automation
Large market opportunity for at least next 3 years focusing on
virtual infrastructure management
Physical assets managed primarily as they relate to virtual machines No short-term plans to become a broad framework for managing and automating across physical and virtual environments
Partners are critical to ensuring full solutions can be delivered
Ensure better fit into customers’ existing management regimes
Focus on IT processes that are not radically transformed by underlying VI capabilities, but nonetheless leverage virtualization
Management Landscape – Process View
Power Service Level Mgmt Workload Application Operating SystemProvisioning Mgmt Resource MgmtCapacity /
Network Storage Server Physical Infrastructure Virtual Networking Virtual Storage Virtual Machine Resource Pool Virtual Infrastructure
Single VM / Image Multi-VM Application
Virtual Appliance
Change / Config Mgmt D at a C en te r R es ou rc es IT Processes
Virtual Infrastructure
Management Opportunity
Guiding Product Vision
Complete the full
infrastructure virtualization
abstraction and offer or
enable relevant services
Move towards a more
self-optimized and self-managed
data center
Provide open interfaces to
VirtualCenter and engage
partners to deliver a
complete management
solution
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Storage and Network Management
Capacity and Resource Management
Change and Configuration Management
A Broader Sphere of Influence
VMware’s virtual infrastructure extends software controls from servers to storage, network and applications…
ESX B
ESX Storage – Management Impact
ESX A
LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 Storage Switch
VM1 VM2 VM3 VM4 VM5
VD2
VD1 VD3 VD4 VD5
ESX Storage Stack
Provides services such as snapshots (like LUN based snaps and replication)
Aggregates physical volumes (like making a RAID set)
Provisions logical containers (like provisioning LUNs)
Selectively presents logical containers to VMs
(like LUN masking and zoning)
LVM VMFS VSCSI
Disklib ESX Storage Stack LVM
VMFS VSCSI Disklib
VMware SW SAN
Physical SAN
ESX virtual storage layered on
top of physical SAN
Questions raised in storage admin function re: separation of duties Major opportunity for VMware and its storage partners
ESX Networking – Management Impact
Before VMware
Simple ~1:1 host:port ratio Tiered architecture
Managed primarily at access layer
With VI 3 and going forward
~100:1 actual host (VM):port ratio (10GbE and multicore)
~1000:1 effective host (VM):port ratio (DRS)
ESX virtual switch layer has now
become the access layer
Major opportunity for VMware and its networking partners
access
physical hosts distribution
core
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Storage and Network Management
Capacity and Resource Management
Change and Configuration Management
Capacity Management Transformed
Virtual Infrastructure Management
Impact on Capacity Management
Capacity management in a virtual world:
Efficient utilization
Aggregation / pooling Over-commitment
Improved manageability
Dynamic allocation / re-allocation
Allows for SLA based resource policies
Better demand management
Trending and analysis enables just-in-time provisioning
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Storage and Network Management
Capacity and Resource Management
Change and Configuration Management
Impact on Change and Configuration Management
Change and configuration management (CCM) in a virtual
world:
A key goal of CCM is to take control of changes to the IT environment
Rapidly change environment to support / be aligned with business needs In a consistent, controlled and well-audited manner
Virtual infrastructure changes CCM
Increases the span of control - virtual machines, switches, storage, appliances now more easily automatable (safer, faster, controlled)
Introduces new CCM enablers that leverage encapsulation – VMotion, VM templates, snapshots, etc.
Sample use cases
Disaster recovery – rapid reconfiguration
Agenda
Impact of Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Management Focus
Storage and Network Management
Capacity and Resource Management
Change and Configuration Management
Engaging with IT Management Partners
Suite vendors - BMC, CA, HP, IBM
Actively working with all four on their virtualization strategies Driving targeted integrations in key areas
Developing joint documentation, best practices, and soft bundles
Microsoft
Small management footprint but MOM and SMS are used broadly VMware providing easy integration either directly (e.g. for AD) or through partners (e.g with nWorks for MOM)
Specialty solutions
Encourage and promote partners that complement VMware in key management areas, e.g. performance management, chargeback, etc.
Provide integration facilities and certification/validation programs
By now, most IT management vendors have changed their products so that they are compatible with and can manage VMware environments
Leading partners are leveraging the properties of virtualization to create differentiation and drive more demand for their products
Customers benefit by being able to manage their environments more effectively VMware benefits by having the most manageable virtualization platform
Phase 0 Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
No awareness Co-existence Compatibility Differentiation
Time Partner product virtualization readiness
IT Management Vendors
Summary
Virtual infrastructure enables a fundamentally better way of managing
the datacenter
Virtual infrastructure dramatically broadens the scope of what can be managed and automated
Traditional IT management problems can be solved more effectively in virtualized environments
The more quickly users have grasped this fact, the faster they have – and will continue to – migrate towards virtual infrastructure
VMware is delivering a range of new management capabilities in
concert with its partners, and sees a large new market opportunity for
itself in:
Capacity and resource management Change and configuration management
