Whats New in vSphere 4'0: Technical Overview and Demo

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Whats New in vSphere 4.0Technical Overview and
Demo

• Michael Monberg
• mmonberg_at_vmware.com
• Nicolai Sandager
• nsa_at_businessmann.dk

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Speeds and Feeds Optimization for the Highest
Consolidation Ratios
Virtual Machines

• Virtual hardware scale out

Added to script
ESX
CPU
Memory
Networking
Storage
Current
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ESX 4.0 Performance with SQL Server 2008
Relative Scaling Ratio

• ESX achieves 90 of native performance on 4.0
  vCPU VM
• Workload transaction latency unchanged between
  ESX 4.0 and Native

VM
147.24
Native
133.12
94.04
79.88
51.08
45.22
1 vCPU
2 vCPU
4 vCPU
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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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Upgrade Paths
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Implementing Host Profiles

• Host Profile
• Memory Reservation
• Storage
• Networking
• Date and Time
• Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Users and User Groups
• Security

Cluster
Reference Host
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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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VMware DPM Expanded Support

• DPM consolidates workloads to reduce power
  consumption
• Cuts power and cooling costs
• Automates management of energy efficiency
• Supports three wake protocols
• Intelligent platform management interface (IPMI)
• Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
• Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
• Configure and test wake on every host in cluster

Resource Pool
Power Optimized
Standby Host Server
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New HA Cluster Settings
Ability to suspend host monitoring
Choice of three admission control strategies
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VM Monitoring
Enable automatic restart due to failure of guest
operating system
Determine how quickly failures are detected
Set monitoring sensitivity for individual virtual
machines
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New DRS Management Pages
Recommendations page
Faults page
History tab
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New Resource Distribution Charts
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Enhanced Performance Charts

• Quickly identify bottlenecks and isolate root
  causes
• Side-by-side performance charts in a single view
• Correlation and drill-down capabilities
• Richer set of performance metrics

Key Metrics Displayed
Aggregated Usage
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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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Virtual Machine Scalability

• Dynamic scale-up supports much larger workloads
• 8-Way Virtual SMP
• 255GB RAM
• Virtual Machine Hardware Version 7
• New virtual devices
• VMDirectPath I/O
• Hot plug PCI support
• Hot Add CPU/Memory

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Hot-Add Capacity to Guarantee QoS
TPS
TPS
Latency
Latency
2 GB
1 vCPU
4 vCPU
8 GB

• Hot-add capacity with zero application downtime
• Minutes to stabilize VM and recover from SLA
  violation
• Other options include VMotion to more powerful
  host add instance for fast scale-out

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Customizable Hypervisor
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Hot Adding and Removing PCI Devices
Virtual Machine gt Edit Settings gt Hardware Tab gt
Add

• You can hot-add/remove
• Network cards
• SCSI adapters
• Sound cards
• SCSI disks and CDROMs
• USB EHCI controller
• VMCI
• PCI passthrough devices

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VMDirectPath I/O

• I/O Device Driver Directly Accesses Physical
  Device
• Full network support with
• Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
• Broadcom 57710 10 gigabit network adapter
• Experimental storage I/O device support with
• QLogic QLA25xx 8Gb Fibre Channel
• LSI 3442e-R and 3801e (1068 chip based) 3Gb SAS
  adapters
• Each virtual machine can connect to up to two
  passthrough devices
• Increases performance but trades off losing
  several virtualization features
• VMotion, Hot add/remove of virtual devices,
  Suspend and Resume, Record and Replay, Fault
  Tolerance, High Availability, Memory
  Over-commitment and page sharing

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VMware Fault Tolerance

• Single identical VMs running in lockstep on
  separate hosts
• Zero downtime, zero data loss failover for all
  virtual machines in case of hardware failures
• Zero downtime, zero data loss
• No complex clustering or specialized hardware
  required
• Single common mechanism for all applications and
  OS-es

VMware vSphere
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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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vStorage Thin Provisioning
Virtual Disks
120GB Allocated
20GBThick
40GB Thin
60GB Thin
Datastore
100GB Capacity
80GB Used
60GB
20GB
Modify with Storage VMotion
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VMFS Volume Grow Option
Add Extent
Volume Grow

• Volume Grow expands an extent so that it fills
  the available adjacent capacity.
• Single partition provides improved virtual
  machine availability
• Can grow a volume any number of times up to size
  for a VMFS volume
• Must grow LUN backing VMFS datastore first
• Extent immediately after must have free space in
  LUN

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New Storage Views and Maps Adds Insight into
Storage Infrastructure
The new Storage Views tab provides greater
insight into capacity utilization and storage
connectivity.
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VMware vCenter Data Recovery

• VMwares Backup/Recovery Solution based on APIs
  for Data Protection
• Agentless disk-based backup and recovery
• De-duplication and incremental backups to save
  disk space

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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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Benefits of Distributed Switches
VMware Infrastructure 3
VMwarevSphere 4

• vNetwork Distributed Switches
• Simplify datacenter administration
• Enable networking statistics and policies to
  migrate with virtual machines (Network VMotion)
• Provide for customization and third-party
  development

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vShield Zones

• Capabilities
• Bridge, firewall, or isolate VM zones based on
  familiar VI containers
• Monitor allowed and disallowed activity by
  application-based protocols
• One-click flow-to-firewall blocks precise network
  traffic

• Benefits
• Well-defined security posture within virtual
  environment
• Monitoring and assured policies, even through
  Vmotion and VM lifecycle events
• Simple zone-based rules reduces policy errors

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Introducing VMsafe
Security VM
Security API
ESX Server

• Creates a new, stronger layer of defense
  fundamentally changes protection profile for VMs
  running on VMware Infrastructure
• Protect the VM by inspection of virtual
  components (CPU, Memory, Network and Storage)
• Complete integration and awareness of VMotion,
  Storage VMotion, HA, etc.
• Provides an unprecedented level of security for
  the application and the data inside the VM

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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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vCenter Server Linked Mode

• Make the giant computer easy to manage

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vCenter Server Plug-in Enhancements

• Lower overhead and better scalability
• Modular plugin
• Analyzes up to 500 physical machines at a time

• More platforms supported
• Ability to convert to new platforms supported in
  ESX/ESXi 4.0
• Support for Windows Server 2008 as source and
  platform
• Convert Microsoft Hyper-V VMs to VMware VMs

• Enhanced management and administration
• Automated ESX/ESXi host, VM, and VMware Tools
  upgrades
• Baseline groups
• Compliance dashboard
• Patch staging

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Improved Activation Process

• VI3 License Activation Is Failure-prone
• Too many steps and context changes Customers
  have many opportunities to get confused or take
  wrong turns
• License files are the result of a long,
  multi-step portal transaction
• Complexity illustrated 40 pages in VI3
  admin/install guide devoted to licensing

Go to license portal
Choose server or host-based file
Download or email license file
Configure licensing in VC/ESX UI
Upload license file
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Receive activation code in email
Generate new license file
Select license qualities to activate
Install license server if needed
Re-read license file to server
Product activated

• A Dramatically Simpler Process In VI4
• A short and easy activation process was the
  single most important design requirement
• License keys are sent in email and can be copied
  directly into the product no portal activation
  step required
• No separate license server means no additional
  installation, configuration or monitoring is
  required

Receive license keys in email
Enter license key into VC UI
Assign license key to ESX hosts
Product activated
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vSphere 4 Whats new

• Getting Started
• Cluster Host
• Virtual Machine
• Storage
• Network/Security
• vCenter
• Applications

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vApp Overview

• vApps are multi-tier application services that
  you can manage as a single inventory item.
• Provides for single-step management
• Eliminates complex setupand configuration

Resource Pool
Distributed Virtualization Layer

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vApp Self Describing Applications Enable
Automated SLA Management

• Dynamic Resource Sizing

• Clustering
• Data Protection

• Firewall
• Anti-virus
• Intrusion Detection
• Intrusion Prevention

Scalability
Security
Availability
Availability
vApp
Security
Scalability
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VMware vCenter
ManagementvServices
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vCenter AppSpeed
Discover
Monitor
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VMware vSphere 4.0 Delivers Lowest Cost Per
Application
480,848(with 2 yrs SA)
434,882 (with 2 yrs support)
33,446Management SW
13,089Management SW
116,961Windows ServerDataCenter Ed.
86,982vSphere Ent Plus Lic. SnS
43,341Network, Power, Space
80,973Windows ServerDataCenter Ed.
27,338Network, Power, Space
144,500Storage
134,500Storage
Use the VMware Cost-per-Application Calculator to
figure out your cost-per-application
142,600Server HW
92,000Server HW
121 averageconsolidation ratio
81 average consolidation ratio
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Whats New in vSphere 4.0Technical Overview and
Demo

• Michael Monberg
• mmonberg_at_vmware.com
• Nicolai Sandager
• nsa_at_businessmann.dk