vmware vsphere
DESCRIPTION
Presentation present to System group Introducing vSphereTRANSCRIPT
VMware vSphere
Naming Convention
• VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 4.0• VMware ESXi3.5 VMware ESXi4.0• vCenterServer 2.5 vCenterServer 4.0
vSphere Editions...
Pricing
New Features
• Licensing • Fault Tolerance• vNetwork Distributed Switch• Host Profiles• Hot Add• Data Recovery• vShield Zones• Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Licensing
• Per CPU (not per 2)• No more License Files – Serial-Keys Only• No FLEX• No Single Point of Failure
Fault Tolerance
• Continuous Availability for any Virtual Machine
• Low Performance hit on the VM• Additional Resources per VM• Does not support all CPU’s
Distributed vSwitch
• Simplified provisioning and administration of virtual networking across many hosts and clusters through a centralized interface.
• Simplified end-to-end physical and virtual network management through third-party virtual switch extensions for the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch.
• Enhanced provisioning and traffic management capabilities through private VLAN support and bi-directional virtual machine rate-limiting.
• Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual machines migrated via VMware VMotion through maintenance and migration of port runtime state.
Host Profiles & Hot Add
• Simplified provisioning and administration of ESX Servers.
• Compliance to Defined Policy
• Add of Memory and CPU on the fly (if supported by the OS)
Data Recovery
• Disk-based backup and recovery to enable speedy restoration of your VMs
• Easy to deploy, since VMware Data Recovery is a virtual machine that runs on VMware ESX and ESXi hosts
• Restore individual files or entire images as needed
vShield Zones
• Central Management of Logical Zone Boundaries and Segmentation
• Network Enforcement and Flow Monitoring• Management and Reporting