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vSphere 4.1 - What’s New Tom  Mackay  –  Staff  Systems  Engineer  

July 20, 2010

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Are You Ready for vSphere 4.1?

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Agenda

 Market Overview   Introducing vSphere 4.1 • Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

•  Key New Features •  Key New Enhancements

 Q and A

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

x86 server shipments: all 6,461,840 6,958,570 7,530,788 7,743,746 6,116,132 6,519,995 7,034,014 7,579,685 8,138,988

x86 server shipments: virtualized 263,003 526,433 885,800 1,121,289 1,025,042 1,219,496 1,397,952 1,569,624 1,739,287

Penetration Rate 4% 8% 12% 14% 17% 19% 20% 21% 21%

New x86 Worldwide Server Shipments

Source: IDC Server Virtualization Forecast, Nov-09

Virtualized x86 Server Growth & Penetration

Momentum still Growing!

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Market Overview - The Rise of a New Era in IT

Mainframe

PC / Client-Server

Web Cloud

Cloud Computing will transform the delivery of IT services

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Cloud Computing Characteristics

Cloud Computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

Pooling From machines to on-demand, highly elastic resource pools

Zero-touch Infrastructure Policy-driven automation of provisioning, deployment and management

Self-Service Easy access with policy- based provisioning and deployment

Control Application-aware infrastructure with built-in availability, scalability, security and performance guarantees

Open & Interoperable Application mobility between clouds, based on open standards

Leverage Existing Investments Benefits of cloud computing to existing applications and datacenters

Efficiency thru Utilization and Automation Agility with Control Freedom of Choice

= Key vSphere Characteristic

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Enterprise

VMware vCenter : Policy-based Management & Automation

VMware Cloud Infrastructure & Services

VMware vSphere: Platform for Cloud

Infrastructure

VMware View : Desktop Computing

via Cloud

SpringSource: Programming Model for the Cloud

vCloud Service Director: Common Service Model for Infrastructure Clouds

vCloud Partners

Proprietary Clouds

Private Cloud VMware Virtualized Public Cloud Public Cloud

Core IT Services via Virtual Appliances Zimbra File/ Print Directory

IaaS

Pa

aS

SaaS

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Agenda

 Market Overview   Introducing vSphere 4.1 • Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

•  Key New Features •  Key New Enhancements

 Q and A

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VMware vSphere 4.0 - A New Baseline for VMware

Application Services

Infrastructure Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4

Security

•  Firewall •  Antivirus

•  Intrusion Prevention •  Intrusion Detection

Dynamic Resource Sizing

•  Clustering •  Data Protection •  Fault Tolerance

Availability

vNetwork vStorage

Network Management

•  Storage Management & Replication

•  Storage Virtual Appliances

•  Hardware Assist •  Enhanced Live

Migration Compatibility

vCompute

vCenter Server

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VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New?

Application Services

Infrastructure Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4.1

Security

•  AD Integration (host) •  vShield Zones

•  More VMs (per cluster, DC)

•  More Hosts (per VC, DC)

•  HA Diagnostics And Healthcheck •  vMotion Speed

and Scale

Availability

vNetwork vStorage

•  Network I/O Control •  Storage I/O Control

•  Storage Performance Reporting

•  Memory Compression

•  DRS Host Affinity

vCompute

vCenter Server (64-bit)

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vSphere 4.1 Delivers “Cloud Scale”

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Enhanced Scalability Defined

vSphere 4 vSphere 4.1 Ratio VMs per host 320 320 1x Hosts per cluster 32 32 1x VMs per cluster 1,280 3,000 >2x Hosts per VC 300 1,000 >3x Registered VMs per VC 4,500 15,000 >3x Powered-On VMs per VC 3,000 10,000 >3x Concurrent VI Clients 30 120 4x Hosts per DC 100 500 5x VMs per DC 2,500 5,000 2x Linked Mode 10,000 30,000 3x

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ESXi with vSphere 4.1

4.1 Enhancements for ESXi

  New Deployment Options

  Centralized updating of 3rd party code with Update Manager

  Improved Local Authentication including Built-in Active Directory Service

  Easier CLI options for Troubleshooting

  Better Control over Local Activity

What Does This All Mean for You?

  Vmware recommends that all vSphere 4.1 deployments use the ESXi hypervisor

  vSphere 4.1 is the last release with the ESX hypervisor (sometimes known as “ESX classic”)

  See ESX to ESXi Upgrade Center for more details

ESXi - Establishing the Gold Standard in Hypervisors

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Agenda

 Market Overview   Introducing vSphere 4.1 • Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

•  Key New Features •  Key New Enhancements

 Q and A

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage I/O Control

Description Benefits

•  Prioritized use of storage (similar to how compute is prioritized with vSphere)

•  Improved application performance

•  Business priorities now define low and high priority storage resource access

•  Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs

Set storage quality of

service priorities per virtual machine

Beta Feedback “I really feel that the Storage I/O

Control is a must have for our environment and we should move

forward without delay.”

Proof Point

Make Your Mission Critical VMs VIPs

All VMs created equal

Guarantee service levels for access to

storage resources

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage Performance Reporting

Description Benefits

•  Granular storage reporting for improved tuning and troubleshooting of performance

•  Independent of storage architectures and protocols

Delivery of key storage

performance statistics in vCenter

Beta Feedback “In the monitoring area,

the enhanced storage statistics are very useful”

Proof Point

Real-Time and Historical

Trending for Storage

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vSphere 4.1 – Network I/O Control

Description Benefits •  Prioritized use of network, especially in 10 GbE

environments (similar to how compute is prioritized with vSphere)

•  Improved application performance

•  Business priorities now define low and high priority network resource access as needed

•  Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs

Set network quality of

service priorities per flow type (iSCSI, NFS,

etc.)

Beta Feedback “The new Network I/O control feature is very interesting for

consolidating network links with 10GbE.”

Proof Point

Guarantee service levels for access to

network resources

FT vMotion NFS

vSwitch

TCP/IP

iSCSI

10 GigE

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vSphere 4.1 – Memory Compression

Description Benefits

•  Optimized use of memory (freeing up space as needed)

•  Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature with confidence

•  Reclaim Performance

A new hierarchy for

VMware’s memory overcommit technology

(a VMware key differentiator)

Beta Feedback “Great for memory over-subscription.”

Proof Point

1,000x faster than swap-in!

Virtual Memory (Virtual Machine)

Physical Memory (Physical Host)

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vSphere 4.1 – DRS Host Affinity

Description Set granular policies

that define only certain virtual machine

movements

Beta Feedback “Awesome, we can separate VMs

between data centers or blade enclosures with DRS host affinity

rules” Proof Point

Mandatory Compliance

Enforcement for Virtual Machines

Benefits •  Tune environment according to availability,

performance, and/or licensing requirements

•  A cloud enabler(multi-tenancy)

OS APP

“Server A” “Server B” “Server B” “Server A”

4-host DRS/HA cluster

OS APP

OS APP

OS APP

OS APP

“A” “B” “A” “A” “B”

VMs A Servers A Only VMs B Servers B Only

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Features

Feature Name Description Benefit

Virtual Serial Port Concentrator (VSPC)

Connect over the network via the serial port concentrator to the serial port console on any server. VMware will thus enable two different ways to provide this level of management with this feature.

• Management efficiencies • Lower costs for multi-host management • Enables 3rd party concentrator integration if required

vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

New protocol interfaces between VMware and storage arrays. These APIs mean leverage of array-based functionality for the first time.

• vSphere platform integration • Eliminate redundancy • Enhance Performance

• Storage vMotion • Provisioning VMs • Thin Provisioning • VMFS

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Agenda

 Market Overview   Introducing vSphere 4.1 • Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

•  Key New Features •  Key New Enhancements

 Q and A

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vSphere 4.1 – vMotion Performance and Scale Enhancements

Description Benefits

•  Performance and Scalability

•  More Live Migrations in Parallel (up to 8 per host pair)

•  Elapsed time reduced by 5x on 10GbE tests

Adding “Cloud Scale” to

online virtual machine

migration (a VMware key

differentiator)

Beta Feedback “This release product has some nice

benefits in particular increased vMotion capabilities.”

Proof Point

5x faster with the 4.1 platform

release

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vSphere 4.1 – HA Enhancements

Description Benefits

•  Event or alarms when configuration rules are broken

•  No click status (cluster status available at all times)

•  Move VMs to the best host available

•  Healthcheck status

•  Operational window

•  Optimized interaction with DRS

Beta Feedback “Major improvements in HA!”

Proof Point

Adding Another “9” to Availability

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area Description Benefit

Fault Tolerance (FT)

• DRS Interoperability for VMware HA and Fault Tolerance (FT)

• Core VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) Enhancements

• Enhanced Network Logging Performance

• Optimized VM placement in FT or HA Scenario

• Versioning-control to run on FT-compatible hosts at different but compatible patch levels.

• Improved throughput and reduced CPU usage

Host Profiles

• Cisco N1K support • PCI device ordering (support for selecting NICs) • iSCSI support • Admin password (setting root password) • PSA configuration

• Enhanced Configurations Choices

• Compliance

• Expanded deployment

Active Directory Integration (host)

Seamless user authentication at the ESX or ESXi host (rather than vCenter Server) for centralized user management.

Easily assign privileges to users or groups plus roll out permission rules across hosts

Expanded HCL

Support for more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform (including new support for 3rd party serial port concentrators, enhanced management, and the latest x86 processors on the market).

More choice for end users

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area Description Benefit

Nexus 1000V

• Easier software upgrade

• Weighted Fair Queuing (s/w scheduler)

• Increased Scalability

• Scale Port Profiles > 512

• Ease of use

• Cisco’s version of Network I/O Control

• See virtual switch scale #’s below

Network

• IPv6 – NIST Compliance

• Performance and Scale

• Compliance with Host profiles for government agencies

• Enable up to 350 hosts to attach to the virtual switch (up from 64)

Storage • iSCSI offload

• 8GB HBA

• Performance

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