vsphere 4.1 overview & whats new
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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
Co
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
re M
essag
e
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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