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VMware Virtual Infrastructure
NERCOMP Server Virtualization Event
Monday, September 25th, 2006
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VMware Infrastructure – Key Solutions / Use Cases
Server Consolidation and Containment – Eliminate server sprawl by deploying systems into virtual machines
Test and Development – Rapidly provision and re-provision test and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured test machines
Enterprise Desktop – Secure unmanaged PCs. Alternatively, provide standardized enterprise desktop environments hosted on servers.
Business Continuity – Reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity by encapsulating entire systems files that can be replicated and restored onto any target server
Infrastructure Provisioning – Reduce the time for provisioning new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation capabilities.
Legacy Application Re-hosting – Migrate legacy operating systems and software applications to virtual machines running on new hardware for better reliability
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Bottom Line: VMware Unassailable on the Most Important Customer Criteria
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Security
Price
Heterogeneous OS Support
Scalability
Management and automation
Performance
Maturity
Percentage of Users
What do you consider the most important attribute in selecting virtual machine technologies for x86 servers?
N=151
Gartner Conference : Dec 05
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VMware Product Lines
Enterprise Desktop
VMware ACE
Developers/Technical Professionals
Workstation VMTN Subscription
Free Virtualization Products
VMware Player VMware Server
Virtual Infrastructure for the Enterprise
VirtualCenter ESX Server P2V Assistant
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MANAGEMENT
DEPLOYMENT
AGGREGATION
VIRTUALIZATION
AvailabilityResource
ManagementData
Protection
Server, storage and networking
Unified resource pools
All enterprise workloads
Central management of large environments
Better service levels to applications
SOLUTIONS
VMware Infrastructure – How Does It Work?
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MANAGEMENT
DEPLOYMENT
AGGREGATION
VIRTUALIZATION
AvailabilityResource
ManagementData
Protection
SOLUTIONS
VirtualCenter
•HA•DRS•Consolidated Backup
•ESX Server•VMFS•Virtual SMP
VMware Infrastructure – Component Products
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The Customer Expectation
From Server Partitioning Five Years Ago…
...to Transforming Infrastructure through Virtualization
HypervisorHypervisor
MANAGEMENT
DEPLOYMENT
AGGREGATION
VIRTUALIZATION
AvailabilityResource
ManagementData Protection
SOLUTIONS•75%+ of customers buy VMware Infrastructure
•63% implemented disaster recovery solutions
•50% implemented availability and optimization with VMotion
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VMware Virtualization Basics
System without VMware Software System with VMware Software
• Separates BIOS, operating system, and applications from physical hardware• Allows many virtual systems to share same physical hardware• Standardizes multiple generations of multi-vendor hardware
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Key Features of Virtualization
Hardware Independence
Run a virtual machine on any server without modification
Partitioning
Run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a single physical
server
Isolation
Each virtual machine is isolated from other virtual machines on the
same server
Encapsulation
Entire virtual machine is saved in files and can be moved and copied
by moving and copying files
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ESX Server 3 New Features Virtualization Everywhere!
• NAS and iSCSI storage
• Expanded hardware compatibility list
• 4-way Virtual SMP
• 16GB guest memory
• Hot-add virtual disks
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 guests
• Multiple snapshots
• Enhanced performance
• Updated Service Console (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3)
• More flexible networking
Branch Office
Branch Office NAS/iSCSI
Storage
Dev & Test
Dev & Test Local
Storage
Fibre Channel
SAN
Data Center
Data Center
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Interoperability
I/O Subsystem
CPU
Operating System
Networking
Applications
Management
Storage
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New - Resource Pools
• Abstraction of resources from hardware• Failed server means less resources
not a failed application
• Flexible hierarchical organization• Each business unit with its own (virtual)
hardware
• Management of an entire SOA application stack as a single entity
Aggregate collections of disparate hardware resources into unified logical resource pools
Servers, Storage, Networking
Business UnitDepartment A Department B
ResourcePool
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Resource optimization with VMware DRS
What is it?• Dynamic balancing of computing
resources across resource pools• Intelligent resource allocation
based on pre-defined rules
Customer Impact• Align IT resources with business
priorities • Operational simplicity; dramatically
increase system administrator productivity
• Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load
• Automate hardware maintenance
Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources to ensure optimal alignment between business and IT
Resource Pool
Business Demand
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Ensure high availability with VMware HA
What is it?• Automatic restart of virtual
machines in case of server failure
Customer Impact• Cost effective high availability
for all applications• No need for dedicated
stand-by hardware• None of the cost and
complexity of clustering
VMware HA enables cost-effective high availability for all applications
Resource Pool
X
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New - VMware Consolidated Backup
• Move backup out of the virtual machine• a single agent running on the proxy
server rather than an agent on every virtual machine.
• Eliminate backup traffic on the local area network • Utilize Fibre Channel tape devices
for virtual machine backups
• Pre-integrated with major 3rd-party backup products
Centralized file level backup
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New – Faster, Bigger Virtual Machines
• Expanded memory, storage, network limits; up to 4 virtual CPUs per virtual machines
• Performance improvements across the board
• Up to 50% better for targeted workloads
Run the most resource intensive enterprise applications such as databases, CRM and ERP applications in a virtual machines
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Virtual Machines
ESX Server
• What does it do?• Allows single virtual machine to use
up to four physical processors simultaneously
• Benefits• Run resource intensive applications
in virtual machines
• Scale computing environments without adding new hardware
• Create realistic development and testing environments
Virtual SMP
New – 4-Way Virtual SMP
Virtualize the most processor intensive applications
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New – Expanded OS Support
• Experimental 64-bit support
• Solaris 10 support
Expanded operating system support
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C/S
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Explosion in # of Physical& Logical components
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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Mainframe Unix x86
Source: IBM Scorpion, VMware Internal
Relative CPU Utilization
Low x86 Utilization…Becoming Even Lower (i.e. Multicore)
• Dramatic increases in dedicated, under-utilized IT assets• Management of servers is costly and complex• Inflexibility makes it hard to meet business needs
Evolution of Server Computing
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Vmware VMotion™
Migrate running virtual machine from one server to another
• Zero downtime
• Continuous service availability
• Complete transaction integrity.
• New – VMotion support on NAS and iSCSI storage
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Server and Virtual Machine Management
• New - Manage hundreds of servers and thousands of virtual machines• Faster start up, more responsive
• New - Significant usability improvements• Virtual Infrastructure Client
• Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
• Inventory model
• Virtual machine shortcuts
• Topology maps
Manage large environments
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Virtual Machine Provisioning and Migration
• Deployment Wizard
• New – Redesigned virtual machine templates• Support easy virtual machine patching and
updating by converting to VMs, powering-on, and then re-instating as templates
• Templates are always stored in a VMFS or NAS (no longer on VC)
• Virtual machine cloning
• Cold migration• Drag and drop
• Live migration with VMotion
Provision infrastructure instantly
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Centralized Management with VirtualCenter
• Provision and boot virtual machines
• Monitor system availability and performance
• Automated notifications and email alerting
• Integrate SDK with existing management tools
• Secure the environment with robust access control
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• 1,000 servers with DASD
• 200 racks
• 3000 network cables
• 400 power whips
• 50 servers with SAN and NAS
• 10 racks
• 300 network cables
• 20 power whips
Before After
Server, Storage and Network Consolidation
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HP Servers
Dell Servers
Production Environment: 400+ VMs on
68 Physical ESX Servers
Back-Up/DR Environment: 400+ VMs on
50 Physical ESX Servers
Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site
Customer Example: Rapid Disaster Recovery
Reduced recovery time from >20 hours to <20 minutes
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Virtualization Appliances
What is a Virtualization Appliance?
• A pre-packaged operating system and application in a VM
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/
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VMware Community Source
• Community source program provides industry partners with an opportunity to collaborate with VMware on the ESX Server source code, under royalty-free license.
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Virtualization Open Interfaces and Formats
• Hypervisors are the primary component of virtualization
• Enables basic computer partitioning
• Partitioning of CPU, Memory, Disk and NIC I/O
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Transparent Virtualization
• Full Virtualization: requires no modification to a gust operating systems on a Hypervisor
• Para-virtualization: allows guest operating system to indicate its intent to the Hypervisor getting better performance
• Allows a single binary version of the operating system to run ether on native hardware on a Hypervisor in Para-virtualized mode
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Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK)
• Virtual Machines encapsulate an entire server or desktop environment in a file
• Virtual Machine disk format specification describes and documents the virtual machine environment and how its stored.
• Disk format specification is critical to how virtual environments are provisioned, manipulated, patched, updated, scanned and backed up
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Management Interface
These interfaces enable management software• HP, IBM, VMware, CA, BMC, etc.
• Deploy, control and monitor virtual machines
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Higher Education Case Studies
• Broward Community College (Server Consolidation)
• Consolidated 70 Servers onto 3 ESX Servers
• Raised CPU utilization from 1-2 % to 40-50%
• 80,000 users access applications on Virtual Machines
• New Server Deployment Process = 15 Minutes or <
• Purdue University (Virtual Lab Environments)
• Application Training Centers converted into Virtualized Labs
• Image Library of Virtual Machine Templates and Applications
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Higher Education Case Studies
San Jose University (Server Provisioning & Deployment)
• Drove down average server cost from 5-6K to 1K
• Reduced server deployment from 4 months to 1 week
• Repurposed existing hardware for Disaster Recovery initiatives
Quinnipiac University• Virtualized Blackboard – Using Clustering across multiple ESX Host
• Setup Synchronous DR Replication of VM across campus
Collier County• 20,000 users running Virtual Desktop Environment (VDI)
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VMware VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables server-hosted enterprise
desktops. Unlike other solutions it delivers full desktop environments that are
always on, accessible from anywhere, and centrally managed.
The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):
• Consolidates and centralizes complete desktop environments within the data center
• Virtualizes, optimizes, and manages server resources to host and deliver secure, isolated desktops that are always-on and accessible from anywhere
• Is built on VMware’s market-leading Virtual Infrastructure technology and leverages the significant benefits of desktop virtualization
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Benefits of a Virtual Desktop Strategy
• Remote access to complete desktop environments
• Access virtual desktops via remote client connection from anywhere, and from any device
• Instantly access virtual desktops at anytime - since they are always on and available
• Enable remote connection to a desktop via a browser
• Standardize desktops on common virtual machine images
• Virtual machines are always connected and powered on enabling easy & timely software updates
• Complete hardware independence –Host any desktop OS/ app on any shared x86 h/w resources
• Improved resource management eliminates underutilized PC CPU cycles
Manageability Accessibility
• Easily provision entire desktops by simply creating or copying a new virtual machine
• Quickly recover desktops from disasters or crashes by deploying a new virtual desktop to a user
• Troubleshoot desktops through virtual machine snapshots and quickly resolve or reprovision new desktops
Responsiveness
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Desktops Without Limits
Virtual Desktops
Centrally Managed & Secured
Management without limits
Secure Access without limits
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Deploy & support any client device
Provide full desktop access (incl. multiple environments)
(Complete Access)
Flexible resource provisioning
(CPU, Memory, NICs, Storage)
Provide access to users at any
location
(Anywhere Access)
Provide access at all times -“Always On”
(Anytime Access)
Deploy any app (desktop & enterprise)
Support any OS (incl. legacy OS)
Access using any device over any network
(Anyhow Access)
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VDI - Business Use Cases
Outsourcing/ Offshoring
Desktop Consolidation
Secure corporate assets within your own data centers while providing controlled access to external transaction workers
Consolidate, standardize and centrally manage desktops distributed across the enterprise (incl. branches) within corporate data centers
Disaster Recovery
Alternative Workspaces In the event of a pandemic outbreak, ensure alternative, remote
access to complete desktop environments and resources for users safely located away from infected areas
Ensure desktop continuity by redirecting user access to alternate desktop infrastructure while helping quickly and reliably recover desktops and data in the main data center
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VDI- How Does it work?
ESX Server
VirtualCenter
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• Connection using remote display software (e.g. RDP, VNC, etc.)
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1 • Virtual desktops hosted on VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Virtual Infrastructure optimizes and manages servers to deploy desktops
Virtual Desktops
Secure Data Center
3 • Clients can be a desktop, a laptop or a specialized thin client
• Displays desktop of remote virtual machine
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VDI - The Building Blocks
Enterprise Server Infrastructure
The VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VMware ESX Server
VMware Virtual Center
User Management(Connection Brokering / Session Management)
Remote Access Protocol(RDP)
VMware
VIM
SDK
Systems Integration Services
Devices Operating Systems
Desktops Laptops Thin Clients
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Benefits of a VDI Solution•Fewer PCs to manage•Shared infrastructure•Secure offshore development
VDI enables organizations to provide local or offshore developers access to multiple environments.
Traditional Challenges•Need multiple desktops•Duplicate infrastructure
Local Develope
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Pool of Desktop Virtual Machines
TestingDevelopment
Remote Developer
Key VDI Use Case: Developer Desktops
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Firewall
Key VDI Use Case: Call CenterVDI is a secure way to provide desktop environments for transaction
workers such as call centers and order processing, particularly for outsourced and off-shored environments
• Traditional Challenges• Cost of building infrastructure
• Complexity of ensuring security
• Limited ability to manage systems
• Benefits of a VDI Solution• Limited infrastructure requirements
• Fully-standardized desktops
• Seamless access to key data
• Data remains inside datacenter
• Leverages datacenter tools and processes for security and management
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