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vSphere 4.1 – What’s New Overview

Q3 2010

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Introducing…

The Best Platform for Cloud

Infrastructures

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Are You Ready for the Key Messages for vSphere 4.1?

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Agenda

Cloud Computing

Introducing vSphere 4.1

• Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

• Key New Features

• Key New Enhancements

Upgrading to vSphere 4.1

Resource

Q and A

Appendix

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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 AutomationAgility with Control Freedom of Choice

= Key vSphere Characteristic

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Enterprise

VMware vCenter :

Policy-based Management & Automation

VMware Cloud Infrastructure & Services

VMware View :

Desktop Computing

via Cloud

SpringSource: Programming Model for the Cloud

Project Redwood: Common Service Model for Infrastructure Clouds

vCloud

Partners

Proprietary

Clouds

Private CloudVMware Virtualized

Public CloudPublic Cloud

Core IT Services via Virtual Appliances Zimbra File/

PrintDirectory

Iaa

SP

aaS

SaaS

VMware vSphere:

Platform for Cloud

Infrastructure

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vSphere 4.1 – Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

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vSphere 4.1 Messaging Pillars

Core

Messages

Efficiency Thru Utilization and Automation - vSphere is

the most efficient virtualization platform for cloud computing

infrastructures. vSphere 4.1 transforms a traditional static, siloed

IT infrastructure into a dynamic, highly elastic, on-demand cloud

computing infrastructure.

Agility with Control – vSphere 4.1 provides the optimum

combination of agility with enterprise-class control.

vSphere delivers zero-touch infrastructure, with built-in

availability, scalability, security, and performance guarantees.

Freedom of Choice - vSphere 4.1 is based on standards that

enable choice and flexibility when it comes to the delivery of application and infrastructure services.

vSphere 4.1 supports of over 500 ISV solutions and 80 operating systems plus the latest x86 processors on the market.

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What is the vSphere 4.1 Release All About?

The vSphere 4.1 delivers:

Dramatic expansion and scale for the platform

New capabilities for the most efficient aggregation of all datacenter

resources into an elastic pool of computing power that applications

utilize on an as needed basis, to ensure SLAs are met.

Additional Key Focus Areas:

The Cloud (Private and Public)

ESXi Hypervisor Architecture

VMware vSphere

Market Leading Virtualization Platform

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VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New?

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4.1

Security

• AD Integration (host)

• More VMs

(per cluster, DC)

• More Hosts

(per VC, DC)

• HA Diagnostics

And Healthcheck

• vMotion Speed

and Scale

Availability

vNetworkvStorage

• Network I/O

Control

• Storage I/O

Control

• vStorage APIs for

Array Integration

(VAAI)

• Memory

Compression

• DRS

Host Affinity

vCompute

vCenter Server (64-bit) Management

Services• Update Manager Enhancements

• Virtual Serial Port Concentrator

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vSphere 4.1 Delivers “Cloud Scale”

10,000 VMs / vCenter (3x)

500 hosts / vCenter (5x)

3,000 VMs / cluster (2x)

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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 1280 3000 >2x

Hosts per VC 300 1000 >3x

Registered VMs per VC 4500 15000 >3x

Powered-On VMs per VC 3000 10000 >3x

Concurrent VI Clients 30 120 4x

Hosts per DC 100 500 5x

VMs per DC 2500 5000 2x

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Driving Customers to 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

for Active Directory

Easier CLI options for

Troubleshooting

Better Control over Local

Activity

What Does This All Mean?

Recommend 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”)

Visit ESXi and ESX Info Center for more details

ESXi - Establishing the Gold Standard in Hypervisors

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ESXi to ESX Info Center

All Resources in One Centralized Location

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vSphere 4.1 – Key New Features

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage I/O Control

Description Benefits

• Basic - Make storage access rights equal between

VMs

• Advanced - Prioritize use of storage (similar to how

compute is prioritized with vSphere) per VM

• 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

2. Make Your Mission

Critical VMs VIPs

1. 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 performance

• Independent of storage architectures and protocols

Deliver 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

• Basic - Make network access rights equal between

flow types

• Advanced - Prioritized use of network, especially in

10 Gbit environments

• 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

10Gbit.”

Proof Point

Guarantee

service levels

for access to

network

resources

FT vMotion NFS

Distributed Switch

TCP/IP

iSCSI

10 GigE

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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 in areas

such as LUN provisioning

or snapshots.

•vSphere platform

integration

•Eliminate redundancy

•Enhance Performance

•Storage vMotion

•Provisioning VMs

•Thin Provisioning

•VMFS

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vSphere 4.1 – Key New Enhancements

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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 >4.5x 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 – Memory Compression

Description Benefits

• Optimized use of memory

• Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature

with confidence

• 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!Hypervisor

OS

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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

• Cloud enablement

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 – 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

• Application awareness (with supported solution)

• Healthcheck status

• Operational window

• Optimized interaction

with DRS

• Application-Aware API

Beta Feedback

“Major improvements in DRS!”

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

•Extended 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 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

AreaDescription 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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Upgrading to vSphere 4.1

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Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center!

All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

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Resources

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Where Can I Find More Information About vSphere 4.1?

VMware vSphere web pages on vmware.com

• Main page

• SMB Focus

• Midsize and Enterprise Focus

vSphere Upgrade Center (version to version upgrades)

ESXi and ESX Info Center (general information, transition to vSphere hosts running

ESXi hypervisor)

vSphere Support Center

vSphere Purchase Advisor

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Questions?

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APPENDIX

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vSphere Messaging – Cloud Infrastructure

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re M

essag

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Tagline -The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

Key Message - vSphere 4.1 is the ideal IT infrastructure

to support scalable, reliable cloud computing

environments

Targets - Existing VMware customers who have

virtualized a large percentage of their applications, and

are evolving quickly to cloud computing – creating either a

private cloud in their internal data centers or leveraging

cloud services provided by an external service provider.

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vSphere Messaging – Virtualization Platform

Co

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essag

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Tagline - The Industry’s Most Complete and Robust

Virtualization Platform

Key Message - vSphere 4.1 is the only virtualization platform

for running mission critical applications that also provides the

lowest cost per application for businesses of any size

Targets –

• SMBs users and other who have not yet adopted

virtualization and who are selecting an initial

virtualization provider.

• Existing VMware customers in stage 1 of the

virtualization journey (IT production) who are trying to

move to stage 2 (business production)

• Existing VMware customers who are still running VI3.x,

and have not yet upgraded to vSphere 4.x .

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Terminology Changes That Are Important

Changed with the

vSphere

4.1 release (as of 7/13)

1. VMotion to vMotion

• VMotion is now vMotion

• Storage VMotion is now

Storage vMotion

2. ESXi naming

• ESXi free or single server

changes to vSphere

Hypervisor

• References to ESXi and

ESX for the vSphere

platform (paid product) will

now be discussed as

Hypervisor architectures

Why?

1. VMware is the leader• VMware was first to market with

live migration

• vMotion is a key vSphere feature

run in over 80% of VMware

customer environments today

• Not all live migration technologies

are created equal

2. Market confusion• ESXi is and always has been an

architecture

• ESXi is a full function hypervisor

and is VMware’s best practice or

recommendation when deploying

vSphere (see ESXi specific slide

later in this deck)

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