VirtualclientTechnology 2011 July

WHAT’S NEW IN VSPHERE WHAT’S NEW IN VSPHERE

Virtualclient Technology

2011 July

Agenda

vSphere Platform Recap

vSphere 5 Overview

– Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network – Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network – Applications Services – Availability, Security, Scalability

– Additional Features and Enhancements – “The Best of the Rest”

– vSphere 5 Kits and Editions

vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

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?

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

VMware vSphere :

The Industry’s Leading Virtualization Platform

Application Services

Scalability Security

• VMsafe APIs

• vShield Zones

• Hot Add

• # of Hosts, VMs

• HA

• FT

• vMotion/S vMotion

• Data Recovery

Availability

vCenter Server • Host Profiles

• Linked Mode

• Orchestrator

• Update Mgr

Infrastructure Services

VMware vSphere 4.1

Network Storage

• Distributed Switch

• Network I/O Control

• VMFS

• Thin Provisioning

• Storage I/O Control

• Storage APIs

• ESX/ESXi

• DRS/DPM

• Memory Overcommit

Compute

Introducing…

The Best Platform for

Cloud Infrastructures

VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New?

Application Services

Scalability Security

• ESXi Firewall • 32 way SMP

• 1 TB VMs

• New HA Architecture

• vMotion over higher latency links

Availability

vCenter Server • Virtual Appliance

• Web Client

vCenter Server

Infrastructure Services

VMware vSphere 5

Network Storage

• 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

Infrastructure Services –

Compute, Storage, Network

ESXi Convergence

Most Trusted

vSphere ESXi

vSphere 5.0 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor exclusively

ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors

Overview

Benefits Benefits

Thin architecture

Smaller security footprint

Streamlined deployment and configuration

Simplified patching and updating model

Auto Deploy

vCenter Server with Auto Deploy

Host Profiles Image Profiles

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

Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles

Overview

vSphere vSphere vSphere

Benefits

Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and patching of hosts

Centralized host and image management

Reduce manual deployment and patch processes

vSphere

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

High IO Throughput

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

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

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

Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control

Overview

1. VM requests more resources 2. Other VMs

are starved for resources

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

Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem

More granular SLA settings for network traffic

Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs

Benefits

New Virtual Machine Capabilities

Client-connected USB devices

USB 3.0

3D graphics Richer Desktop

Experience

Broader Device

USB 3.0

Smart Card Readers

Multi-core virtual CPUs (in GUI)

Extended VMware tools compatibility

Mac OS X server support Additional

Enhancements Broader Device Support

Application Services –

Availability, Security, and Scalability

Create virtual machines with up to:

^{32 vCPU}

1 TB of RAM

Scaling Virtual Machines

Overview

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)

4x

Benefits

New HA Architecture

VMware Fault Tolerance High Availability

DRS Maintenance Mode vMotion

Storage vMotion

New architecture for High Availability feature of vSphere

Overview

NIC Teaming Multipathing

Component

Server

Storage

Simplified clustering setup and configuration

Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring

Enhanced scalability

Benefits

VMware

Additional Features and Enhancements

vCenter Server Appliance (Linux)

Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based appliance

Overview

Simplified setup and configuration

Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements

Leverages vSphere availability features for protection of the management layer

Benefits

Web Client

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

Overview

Platform independence

Replaces Web Access GUI

Building block for cloud based administration

Benefits

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

• Availability

– vMotion with higher latency links

– Data Recovery Enhancements

• 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

Enhancements

• Management

– Inventory Extensibility – Solution Installation and

Management

– iPad client

VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business

vSphere 5 Essentials

For smaller environments

Essentials Essentials +

1 Make better use of existing infrastructure Benefits

2 Save time in managing infrastructure with vCenter central management

3

Improve application availability with

• vMotion (no planned downtime)

• High Availability (business continuity)

4 Protect business data with VMware Data Recovery

VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions

vSphere 5 Editions

For larger environments

Standard Enterprise Enterprise +

1

Consolidation and Availability

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

2 Continuous Availability Benefits

2 Continuous Availability

Fault Tolerance (FT) for Applications

3

Automated Resource Management Deliver Load Balancing (DRS), Power

Management (DPM), and Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) without Manual Intervention

4

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

VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

vCenter Heartbeat

What is it?

• High availability for vCenter Server

What does it help protect against?

What does it help protect against?

• Failures that occur with:

• Hardware, Networks, OS, Applications

• Loss of key vSphere features

and functions if vCenter is

unavailable

What’s New in vCenter Heartbeat 6.4?

Enhanced architecture allows the active and standby nodes to be reachable over the network at the same time, enabling both to be patched and managed

Better integration with VMware vCenter Server:

• New Plug-in to the vSphere Client provides monitoring and management

of vCenter Server Heartbeat from the vSphere Client

• Heartbeat events and alerts will register in vCenter and display in the

• Heartbeat events and alerts will register in vCenter and display in the vSphere Client

Supports VMware vCenter Server v5.0 and VMware View Composer v5.0

Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Selling vCenter Heartbeat

Sold per instance

• $9,995 List Price

• One license protects both vCenter Server and its

database (even if the database is installed on a different host).

is installed on a different host).

Qualifying opportunities

• Customers with vCenter Server

Standard that are virtualizing

mission critical workloads,

running vCloud Director or

running VMware View.

Thank You!