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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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