Vizioncore Overview

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Vizioncore Overview
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Vizioncore Company Data

• Founded in 2002
• Fully-owned subsidiary of Quest Software
• Chicago-based HQ, global operations across North
  America, EMEA, Asia and Australia
• Proven Over 12,000 customers
• Worldwide Sales Channel 2,200 partners worldwide
  
• Strategic solutions extend functionality of
  virtualization platforms to solve key IT issues
• Strong VMware partner

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Enterprise Clients
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VMware Recognized
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Vizioncore What do we do?

• Add Value to Virtualized Environments
• Disaster Recovery/Virtual Machine Backups
• Virtual Machine Replication
• Virtual Environment Monitoring, Reporting
• Virtual Machine Optimization
• P2V Conversions and DR Imaging

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Server Virtualization Management Solutions
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Why should you promote Vizioncore?

• Vizioncore Go-To Market is Channel Only
• Very sticky solutions with any VMWare engagement
• Low cost of entry and average 30-60 day sales
  cycle
• Simple license model that fits virtual ROI/TCO/
• vRanger Pro- one license per physical CPU socket.
• vFoglight- same as Ranger
• vReplicator- one license per virtual machine,
  source only.
• vEssentials- one CPU license for Ranger, Charter,
  one replication license for vReplicator.
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Vizioncores Strategic Solutions

• Backup and Recovery vRanger Pro
• Performance Monitoring/Reporting vFoglight
• Replication vReplicator
• P2V/V2V vConverter

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Common Backup Needs
Vizioncores vRanger Pro and vReplicator provide
backup, replication and DR in the first 3 tiers
of the backup pyramid
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Business Continuity
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Back Up Methods

• File level
• Inside the guest agents
• CommVault, Tivoli, Legato, Veritas
• Difficult to completely restore VMs
• Image level
• Complete copy of VM config
• Copy of OS, application data
• Easy restores of whole VM or files
• File restore via vRanger FLR plug-in
• Quiesce VSS-enabled applications for consistent
  data.

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Risks to your Virtual Servers (Guests)

• Complete Systems and Application reduce to .VMDK
• One LUN 20 Virtual Servers?
• Block corruption
• Multiple drive loss in RAID
• Number of Users effected
• Loss of SAN possibility
• Time to restore effected Virtual Servers 100
• Never a problem when your servers were physical

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What is vRanger Pro?

• HOT, non disruptive Full, differential,
  incremental backups
• No Software Agents need to be deployed, easy
  setup and configuration
• Integrates with VCB to offload backups from the
  host
• New Support for VCB image compression and
  differentials
• Offers full VMware Virtual Center integration
• VMotion aware to follow virtual machines
• Includes VSS driver to provide transactionally
  consistent backup images
• Compresses files so they can be sent over
  LANs/WANs to remote locations
• P2V Disaster Recovery for image-level backups of
  physical machines
• Improved compression means faster backups

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Who Needs vRanger Pro?

• Customers who
• Need to complement existing file level backup
  software
• Require complete image-level backup solution for
  easier restores of entire virtual machines
• Want to reduce the number of agents in their
  environment
• Want to leverage virtualization to deploy
  affordable and simple offsite disaster recovery
  solutions
• Want to extend DR to physical servers in their
  environments

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Why Use vRanger Pro?

• Industry leading virtual platform backup and
  restore solution
• Easy to install and use by any level
  administrator with little training
• Integration with VMware features including VCB,
  VMotion and Virtual Center
• Out-of-the-box administration
• Affordable solution low cost to deploy reduces
  cost of backup and recovery process in the data
  center

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vRanger Pro GUI for Backup
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vRanger Pro GUI for Restore
Recovery in 3 easy steps
Differential backup and restores
Restore vmdks to separate datastores
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Power of Server Recovery

• Restore your Virtual Server back into any
  environment
• Automated Single-Point recovery
• Recovery Speed is unmatched

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Simple VCB integration

• VCB integration in a couple of mouse clicks!
• Provides resilience for VCB
• Support for Differential Backups
• Compression
• Scheduling
• Direct Restore

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vRanger Pro and VCB Fastest Backups
VCB enabled just check a box!
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P2V-DR Module for vRanger Pro

• Agent-less!
• Leverages vConverter technology
• Supports Windows 2000 and above

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Replication of Selected Virtual Machines

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What is vReplicator?

• Fully Featured Superior Replication Solution
  that provided secure virtual machine replication
  over network or WAN for HA and DR
• Software based solution provides choice and
  flexibility
• VSS support for transactional consistency
• Skipping VMDKs, which allows bypassing of
  non-essential disks for faster replication passes
• Replication of entire image of VM, including OS,
  configuration settings and data volumes for VI3
• Replication to Dissimilar Hardware
• Will replicate over the LAN or WAN without
  dependency on the SAN
• VMotion and DRS aware

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vReplicator GUI Driven Management

• Wizards
• Setup
• Job
• VC Integration
• Alerting
• Logging
• Performance Stats
• Failover Testing

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Storage Replication

• Challenges
• Expensive
• Requires similar/identical equipment on both
  sides
• May lack system state awareness when replications
  occur
• Requires re-registering the VMs upon recovering
  from a failure at the remote site
• All or nothing choice
• Manually intensive recovery process

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Image Level Replication (per VM)

• Advantages
• Software provides flexibility and choice
• Cost effective for SMB
• Simple for any level admin to use
• Replicate specific VMs, not entire LUNs
• Destination powered off until needed

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Enterprise-Capable VM Performance Monitoring
Reporting
vFoglight (formerly vCharter Pro)
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What is vFoglight?

• vFoglight monitors your entire VMware enterprise
• A single pane-of-glass approach
• Scalable solution for large environments
• Fully customizable
• Role Based Administration
• Top down dashboard views with specific rules and
  metrics for each level
• Automated metrics monitoring and storage
• High-level data aggregation for simplified
  analysis

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Who Needs vFoglight?

• Customers who
• Are running more than 100 VMs in their
  environment
• Have provisioning of VMs handled by multiple
  administrators
• Do not have clear trending or reporting on the
  impact of higher utilization of their hardware
• Are using Virtual Center but require more
  granular information on usage of CPU, Memory,
  Disk or NIC
• Are running critical applications on VMs which
  would have high impact on the company if
  performance falls short

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Why Use vFoglight?

• vFoglight works right out of the box!
• Turn it on and start monitoring
• Click on any displayed red alarms
• Alarms describe the problem and offer a solution
• Web based interface no client needs to be
  installed
• Get the data you need to support informed
  decisions

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What Are Advantages of vFoglight?

• vFoglight is entirely customizable
• Dashboards and Views
• Metrics, Rules, and Alarms
• Reports
• vFoglight offers additional layer of security
• Set up and control users, groups, and roles
• Control/read/write/no access per role
• Audit log to track product changes

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vFoglight Advanced Features

• VM Migration Modeling
• See the results and impact before moving VMs
• Bookmarks
• Quickly return to frequently-viewed screens
• Service Levels availability up or down?
• Online Help/Tutorials
• -- Complete training in best practices e.g.
  create a dashboard or report, add a view, use a
  grid, add a drilldown, and much more

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vFoglight Extends Virtual Center

• vFoglight VC agents collect raw metrics about the
  following levels
• VirtualCenter
• Datacenters
• Resource Pools
• Clusters
• ESX Servers
• Virtual Machines
• Datastores
• Metrics are stored in a database over time and
  provide a history! Benefits include trend
  analysis (when will I need to buy new storage?)

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Datacenter View

• Single view of all Alarms in Datacenter
• By Infrastructure level or severity
• Single view of key performance metrics
  aggregated at Datacenter level
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Datacenter objects
• Resource Pools
• Hosts
• VMs
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly isolate
  issues.

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Cluster View

• Single view of all Alarms in Cluster
• By Infrastructure level or
• severity
• Single view of key performance metrics
  aggregated at Cluster Level
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Cluster objects
• Resource Pools
• Hosts
• VMs
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly
• isolate issues.

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Resource Pool View

• Single view of key performance
• metrics
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Resource Pool
• Performance
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly
• isolate issues.

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ESX Server Host View

• Detailed view of performance metrics
• Status view of VMs and alarms
• Unique Datastore view with drill-down ability

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VM View

• VM status summary view
• Detailed display of key metrics
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Detailed Network and Storage
• I/O metrics
• Change Control log to track
• changes to VM

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Storage Capacity and Performance

• Performance Graph
• Disk throughput
• Disk reads
• Disk writes

• Datastore Summary
• Capacity
• Used space vs free space
• Growth rate
• Est time until full

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Migration Modeler
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Service Levels
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Custom Dashboards
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Intelligent Alarms
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vFoglight Summary

• Understand performance
• Historical trending of your virtual
  infrastructure
• Near real time metrics provide current
  performance views
• Consolidated / focused view of performance
  metrics
• Rules and alarms for each level of virtual
  infrastructure
• Reduce downtime
• Intelligent alarms identify problems before they
  become critical.
• Workload Migration Modeler shows the potential
  impact of moving a VM before moving it.
• Customizable/scalable for any environment
• Create custom dashboards and reports to show only
  desired data
• All rules and alarms can be fully customized to
  suit your needs

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Fast, Reliable P2V Conversions
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What is vConverter?

• vConverter is an enterprise-class P2V conversion
  solution that can significantly reduce the time
  and effort needed in a conversion project.
• Extremely fast conversion speeds
• Reliable block-level cloning
• Drag-n-drop, wizards and CLI interfaces
• Convert to multiple virtualization platforms
  including VMware, Microsoft, XenServer and
  Virtual Iron
• No 3rd party software required
• Scheduling to control conversions
• NTFS resize efficiency options

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Who Needs vConverter?

• Customers who
• Want to convert physical servers to virtualized
  platforms quickly and reliably in order to reduce
  conversion time thereby reducing costs and
  gaining efficiencies more quickly
• Plan to run multiple virtualization platforms in
  their environment
• Want to extend DR to physical servers in their
  environments

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Why Use vConverter?

• Three interface options, including GUI, Wizards
  and CLI for all level admins to use effectively
• No reboots, no downtime
• No software/agent install on source server
• Direct to ESX Server Architecture
• Lightweight with little impact on host server
• Options to choose among multiple VM platforms
• Single or simultaneous scheduled conversions for
  off-hours
• Fast, reliable conversions reduces total project
  cost

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Cases for vConverter

• One-time Server Consolidation
• Ongoing Disaster Recovery

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vConverter Intuitive Interface
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vEssentials Package

• Package pricing for vRanger Pro, vReplicator
  and vFoglight
• Around 30 cost savings
• Powerful toolset for your virtual
  environment
• Backups
• Disaster Recovery
• Replication
• Monitoring / troubleshooting
• Chargeback / cost accounting