What's New in VMware vSphere?

Michael Adams, Vmware

madams@vmware.com

VSVC4605

#VSVC4605

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Agenda

Launch Context and Product Set

vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap

vSphere 5.5 New Features

Announcements and Reminders

Q and A

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VMware’s SDDC Architecture

Software-Defined Data Center

Abstract. Pool. Automate.

Management and Automation

Network and

Security

Compute

Storage and

Availability

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VMware Top Level Cloud Infrastructure and Management Offerings

vSphere Std

vCOps Std

vSphere Ent

vCOps Std

vSphere Ent+

vCOps Std

vSOM Std

$1,745

vSOM Ent

$3,625

vSOM Ent+

$4,245

Virtualization;

Insight on capacity and health

• Enterprise (Emerging)

• Commercial & SMB Customers

Capability Private Cloud:

Pooled, Automated, Self-service

• Enterprise & Commercial

• Premier SMB

vSphere Ent+

vCD

vC OPS Adv

vCNS

vSphere Ent +

vCD

vC OPS Ent

vC SRM Ent

vCNS

vCAC Ent

vCloud Suite

ADV

$7,495

vCloud Suite

ENT

$11,495

vCloud Suite

STD

$4,995

vSphere Ent+

vCD

vCNS

vC OPS Std

vCAC Adv vCAC Std

vSphere with Operations Management

per CPU

vCloud Suite

per CPU

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vSphere with Operations Management

vSphere vCenter Server

• Capacity planning – know how many

days before capacity runs out so IT can

continue to be responsive

• Optimize efficiency – know on which

virtual machines might be overprovisioned

• Improve performance - faster root cause

identification of emerging issues

• Proven virtualization platform – for fully

virtualized environments (including

business critical applications)

VMware vSphere

The proven compute virtualization platform

vSphere with Operations Management

• World’s leading virtualization platform

• Insight to workload capacity and health

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vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap

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vSphere Recap – What’s New in vSphere 5.1?

Automation

Core Services

Security

• vShield Endpoint*

• Storage DRS and

Profile-Driven Storage

integration with VCD

• Enhanced Auto

Deploy

• Data Protection

• Replication*

• vMotion w/o shared storage

• 0 Downtime upgrades of VMware Tools

Availability

Network Storage

• Enhanced Distributed Switch

• SR-IOV support

• Storage Appliance

• Storage Space Reclamation for VDI

• HW version 9

• 64 way SMP

1 TB VMs

Compute

• Single Sign On

• vSphere Web Client

• Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator

• Capacity Optimization

• Health and Performance Montioring

*Now included at no charge with vSphere platform

Management

Services

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vSphere 5.5 New Features

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Performance and Scale

App HA

Flash Read Cache

Replication

Backup and Recovery

Big Data Extensions

vSphere 5.5: What’s New in 2013

New Features New Customer Benefits

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vSphere in 2013 – New Applications and Architectures

vSphere Big Data Extensions – Optimize Hadoop

Workloads and Extend Project Serengeti

Pivotal and VMware vSphere –

Building PaaS On-Premise

OpenStack – Delivering Architecture Choices

Latest Chip Set Support –

Next Generation Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v2

Intel® Atom™ Processor C2000

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vSphere Performance and Scale

Benefits

Overview

• Low latency application configuration

• 2x Increase in Configuration Maximums

• Up to 64 TB VMDKs

• Low latency application optimization –

tune vSphere

• Support for even the largest business

critical applications

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vSphere Configuration Maximums Increases

320 pCPU

4TB memory

16 NUMA Nodes

4096 vCPUs

… per ESXi host

vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5

160 pCPU 320 pCPU

2TB Memory 4TB Memory

8 NUMA Nodes 16 NUMA Nodes

2048 vCPUs 4096 vCPUs

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Low Latency Sensitivity – Testing Proof

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vSphere App HA

• Detect and recover from application or

OS failure

• Supports most common packaged

applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle,

SharePoint, etc.)

• vCloud Extensibility – APIs to Ecosystem

• Simpler management from vCenter Server

• Tier 1 application protection at scale

• Lower TCO than traditional application

specific cluster availability solutions

vSphere

OS

APP

OS

APP

VMware HA App

Restart

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Overview

Benefits

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vSphere Flash Read Cache

• Virtualized flash resource managed just

like CPU and memory

• Per-VM hypervisor-based read caching

using server flash

• Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA

• Accelerates performance for mission

critical applications by up to 2x

• Enables efficient use of server flash in

virtual environments

• Fully transparent read-caching – no host

agents or application changes

vSphere

SAN/NAS

CPU Pool Memory Pool Flash Pool

New

Accelerate

performance

Overview

Benefits

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vSphere Big Data Extensions

• vSphere extends support for Big Data workloads,

including all major Hadoop distributions

• Virtualize Hadoop on common vSphere

infrastructure for unmatched flexibility

• Separation of storage and compute enables

elastic scaling and true multi-tenancy

• Elastic scalability

• Higher cluster utilization

• Easy to use interface

• Lower TCO through hardware consolidation

• Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphere Storage

Compute

Current

Hadoop:

Combined

Storage/

Compute

Storage

T1 T2

VM VM

VM VM

VM

Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute

Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to

support Big Data workloads

Physical Host

Overview

Benefits

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vSphere Replication

• VM-level replication by the vSphere host

• New Support for:

• Multiple Point-In-Time Copies

• Multiple Replication Appliances per vCenter

Server

• Storage vMotion

• Low cost/efficient replication

• More granular recovery options

• DR scalability and flexibility across BCAs

• Integration with SRM enables automated DR

process

vSphere

vSphere Replication

Site A (Primary)

vSphere

Site B (Recovery)

Overview

Benefits

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vSphere Data Protection is VMware’s Backup & Recovery Tool

VMware vSphere

Data deduplicated

VDP

From

Powered by

Architecture

VDP provides proven, efficient and simple backup and recovery for small and midsize vSphere environments

vSphere Data Protection (included with vSphere at no cost)

Deployed as a virtual appliance

Agent-less, image-level backup to disk

Integrated with the vSphere platform

vSphere Data Protection Advanced (additional purchase)

All VDP capabilities plus:

4x greater scalability

Agent-based, application-awareness for Exchange and SQL

Easy upgrade from VDP

Overview

Benefits

Built for vSphere, based on EMC Avamar technology

4x more storage-efficient

6x faster recovery

Fast and easy deployment

Managed directly from the vSphere Web Client

Designed for the vSphere admin

What’s new with VDP 5.5

• Direct to host recovery (no dependency on vCenter Server)

• Individual .vmdk backup and restore

• Detachable/re-mountable backup storage

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vCenter Server 5.5

vCenter Single Sign-On

• Improved user experience in multi domain environments

• Secure Database connectivity with Windows

Authentication

vCenter Server Appliance

• Scalability of embedded database (vPostgres)

• Now supports up to 500 vSphere hosts / 5000 virtual

machines

vCenter Databases

• Official support for database clustering technologies

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vCenter Server 5.5

vSphere Web Client

• Increased Platform Support

• Added support for OS X

• VM Console access

• Deploy OVF Templates

• Attach Client Devices

• Enhanced Usability Experience

• Drag and Drop

• Filters

• Recent Items

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The Best of the Rest

Platform

• Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10)

• Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support

• Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices

• Support for Reliable Memory

• Enhancements for CPU C-States

Storage

• Support for 62TB VMDK

• 16GB E2E support

• MSCS supportability enhancements

• Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility

• VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements

Network

• Enhancement to LACP feature

• Enhanced SR-IOV

• Traffic Filtering

• QoS Tagging

• Packet Capture

• 40 Gig Support

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Announcements and Reminders

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What’s Cookin’?

Where is all this great stuff?

Full support lifecycle

Convergence and Transition Plan – How does

this impact vSphere?

GOT SuSe?

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vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Lineup

Price (per CPU, license only)

Features

• Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics

• High Availability, and Fault Tolerance

• vMotion, and Storage vMotion

• Host Profiles and Auto Deploy

• Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage

All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES

Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard

• Capacity Management and Optimization

• Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis

• I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV

$1,745 $3,625 $4,245

vSphere with Operations Management

Standard Enterprise Enterprise+

• Reliable Memory

• Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication

• vShield Endpoint

• Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing

• Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management

• Big Data Extensions

• Flash Read Cache

• Distributed Switch

Existing feature

• App HA

New feature

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vSphere 5.5 Support Lifecycle

Normal 5 year support would end 2016

(based on vSphere 5 starting in 2011)

Support will be extended to 2018

(full 5 year cycle)

Only applies to 5.5

(ESXi and vCenter Server)

Final date to be posted by the end of Q3

and will be based on GA date

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VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify the Cloud

vCloud Director (vCD)

vCloud Automation Center

(vCAC)

Virtualization Platform

Well governed

Self-Service Delivery

Cloud Administration

Cloud Automation

provides personalized,

self-service delivery of

application,

infrastructure, and

desktop services by

fully automating the

end-to-end service

lifecycle across

heterogeneous and

hybrid clouds.

VMware’s Cloud

Infrastructure Platform

produces an entire

virtual datacenter

(VDC) that harnesses

the software-defined

infrastructure to

deliver the most agile,

cost-efficient cloud

The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in

making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify The Cloud

vCloud Director (vCD)

vCloud Automation Center

(vCAC)

Virtualization Platform

• Content Catalog

• Virtual Data Center

• Intelligent Placement

• Network Virtualization

• High Governance Consumption

• Self Service Portal

• VM Lifecycle Management

• Multi-Tenancy

• Memory Clone

The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in

making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

vSphere customers w/ valid SnS contracts get SUSE Linux at NO COST

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Lower TCO Proven and Reliable OS

Increased Agility

Broad ISV & Streamlined

Support

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Additional Nuggets

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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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Q and A

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vSphere Platform Features Summary

vSphere Configuration Maximum Increases

• 2x increase from vSphere 5.1

Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10)

• LSI SAS for Solaris 11, New CPU Enablement, AHCI Controller Support

Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support

• Support for both Intel & AMD GPU

• vMotion supported across different GPU vendors

Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices

• Hot Add/Remove SSD Devices without any downtime

Support for Reliable Memory

• Provider greater uptime and reliability for ESXi by protecting VMkernel &

critical User Worlds

Enhancements for CPU C-States

• Reducing power consumption

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vSphere Networking Features Summary

Enhancement to LACP feature

• Number of Link Aggregation Group support on VDS increased to 64

• Number of hashing algorithms supported increased to 22

Enhanced SR-IOV

• Communicate Port group specific properties to the virtual functions

Traffic Filtering

• Helps drop or allow selected traffic

QoS Tagging

• Provides Service level agreements to important traffic types by marking the

packets

Packet Capture

• Host level packet capture tool helps troubleshoot network related issues

40 Gig Support

• Large bandwidth pipe to server

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vSphere Storage Features Summary

Support for 62TB VMDK

• Virtual Machine’s VMDK can now be created or grown up to 62TB

16GB E2E support

• Full end-to-end support for 16GB FC is now supported

vSphere Flash Read Cache

• A more efficient way to utilized flash based devices in vSphere

MSCS supportability enhancements

vSphere Replication multiple points-in-time

• Virtual Machines can now be easily recovered using the latest point-in-time snapshot

Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility

• Replicated Virtual Machines can now take advantage of both Storage vMotion and SDRS

VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements

• Improvements made to benefit Virtual Machine space reclamations and avoiding stranded/dead

disk space

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What's New in VMware vSphere?

Michael Adams, VMware

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#VSVC4605