Module 0-0 - Vsphere 5.1 - Whats New - Rev d

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vSphere 5.1 – DeltaModule 0 – What’s New

Support Readiness Training

John Browne

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vSphere 5.1 – What’s New Slide 2

Audience for This Course

This course is designed for GSS Technical Support Engineers and Partners located globally

This training will introduce students to the new features of vSphere 5.1.

Give participants hands-on experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting these new features.


Prerequisites for This Course

Students need to have taken the GSS Support Readiness Training on vSphere 5.0, or VMware Education Services training on vSphere 5.0.

Technical Support representatives responsible for supporting and troubleshooting vSphere and its components.

Basic understanding of Networking, Storage and Virtualization Concepts.


At the end of the course, you should be able to:

Understand the new features on vSphere 5.1.

Explain the usefulness of these new features.

Know how to install & configure these new features.

Be able to guide customers through the installation and configuration of these features & assist with the troubleshooting of these feature should issues arise.

Course Objectives


Course Outline

Agenda

Module 2 – Storage Technologies

Module 1 – Flagship Products / Guest Enhancements

Module 3 – Networking Technologies

Module 4 – Availability Technologies

Module 0 – What’s New in vSphere 5.1


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Installation

vSphere 5.1 introduces two Installation paths.

vSphere Simple install.

• Provides one-pass vCenter Server installation, enabling you to install all required vCenter Server components in a single installation run.

• Simple Install installs Single Sign On, Inventory Service and vCenter Server

vSphere Custom install.

• Lets you customize your vCenter Server installation, allowing you to place vCenter Server components such as the Inventory Service and the Single Sign-On (SSO) service on different machines to improve scalability.

vSphere 5.1 components must be installed in the following order

• Single Sign On

• Inventory Service

• vCenter Service


Single Server Solution or Distributed components as necessary

Virtual Machine

Single Sign On Server

Inventory Service

Database Server

VMware vCenter Server

vSphere Web Client

vSphere Update Manager

Virtual Machine

Database Server

Virtual Machine

Inventory Service

Virtual Machine


Virtual Machine


Virtual Machine

vSphere Web Client

Virtual Machine

Vmware vCenter Server

Single vCenter Server 5.1 SolutionDistributed vCenter Server solution

Virtual Machine

Database Server


Virtual Machine

vCenter Server

vSphere Web Client

Virtual Machine


Inventory Service


Authentication - The Situation Today

Directory

Server

(AD)

vCD

Authentication at multiple points – for the same administrator

Integrates only with Active Directory

Lack of true Single Sign On

Identity limited in scope

No way for a solution to trust another

vCenter

Mgmt

App

Mgmt

App



SSO introduces the notion of a solution user

• User ID associated with a software component

• User ID resides in SSO repository

vSphere

Platform

Services

Customer

Identity Sources

vSphere Solutions

Authentication(Single Sign On)

vCOInventory Service

vCenter

ActiveDirectory

Authorization Auditing

vSphereWeb Client

OpenLDAP

NISLocal OS

Users


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – vSphere Web Client

vSphere Web Client

• New, full featured browser-based web client.

• Based on Adobe Flex framework

• Built for improved scalability, performance, and extensibility, the vSphere Web Client exposes common administrative actions in a more intuitive way.

• This new client increases the number of managed objects you can work with as well as the number of concurrent active sessions without sacrificing speed.

• The vSphere Web Client also stores your workflow and state on the server, allowing you to start a complex task sequence at work and continue it later from your home without losing your place.


vSphere Web Client Architecture

The vSphere Web Client runs within a browser

vCenter in either single or

Linked mode operation vCenter

Fx

Application Server that provides a scalable back end

Flex ClientBack End

The Inventory Service obtains optimized data live from the core vCenter Server process

InventoryService


Inventory Object – Tagging

Ability to create custom tags on inventory objects

Associate an arbitrary set of objects of the same type using a tag

• Search for objects by that tag

• Enables the business case where customers want to create arbitrary groups of VM’s, Clusters, Datastores for ease of management

• Storage Policy Based Management uses tagging to make placement decisions

Ability to assign permissions based on tags not in initial release


Log Browser

Proven framework to provide rich troubleshooting tools

vSphere Web Client plugin

Takes snapshot of specified ESXi Host / vCenter logs

Provides rich user interface to view log data

• search

• filter by name/event/keyword

• compare multiple logs

• highlight key words

Simplifies Troubleshooting


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Networking

More efficient management and greater scalability of the vSphere Distribute Switch:

• Enhanced Network monitoring and reporting

• Network Health Check

• Assures proper physical and virtual operation by providing health monitoring for physical network setups including VLAN, MTU or Teaming.

• Configuration Backup and Restore

• Provides you with a way to create backups for network settings at the Distributed Switch or at the Distributed Port Group level.

• Configuration Rollback and Recovery

• Monitors the state of management network connectivity from vCenter Server to Distributed Switch and rolls back to the previous state if connectivity is lost during a configuration change.

• Port Mirroring

• Introduces ERSPAN and RSPAN to Distributed Switch.

- ERSPAN and RSPAN allow Distributed Switch to mirror traffic across the datacenter to perform remote traffic collection for central monitoring.


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – Auto Deploy

New options for automated ESXi deployment via vSphere Auto Deploy

Stateless Caching

• In memory with persistent caching of ESXi state on local disk

• Lets you continue operation if the Auto Deploy server becomes unreachable.

Stateful Install

• Traditional full installation on local disk

• Lets you obtain the master image from the Auto Deploy Server to quickly and easily install a new host.


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 – Virtual Machines

Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA).

• Expands upon existing non-hardware accelerated graphics capabilities for basic 3D workloads, by supporting accelerating VDI workloads using physical GPU resources.

• With this new capability, it is now possible to virtualize physical GPU resources, sharing them across virtual desktops.

Support up to 64 virtual CPUs allowing even larger applications to run within a given virtual machine.

Upgrading VMware Tools to releases after ESXi 5.1 will not require virtual machine reboots for common configurations of Windows Vista and later virtual machines.


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage

Flexible Space Efficient Storage

• A new disk format that lets you achieve the right balance of space efficiency and I/O throughput.

• You can manage this balance throughout the life cycle of a virtual machine

• Storage allocation (controlling the allocation block size)

• How the blocks are managed after they are allocated (deleted blocks can be reclaimed).

• You can use SE Sparse to optimize storage efficiency for VDI.

Linked Clones Scalability Enhancements:

• Ability to share a linked clone by up to 32 hosts, removing the current 8 host restriction.

• The increase in number of hosts simplifies deployment of VMware View and vCloud Director environments and makes them more scalable.


Storage Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks & VMware View

VMWARE VIEW COMPOSER

Linked

Clone

Parent

Image

VMWARE

VIEW

COMPOSER

Replica

Image

(Thin)

Snapshot

Snapshot

Snapshot

These items will be SE Sparse Disks in future releases of

VMware View.


What’s New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage

Increasing the number of concurrent host locks on a file residing on a VMFS filesystem to 32 (the maximum number of hosts in a cluster).

Support up to 5 Node Microsoft Cluster using the Node Majority Model

Support for boot from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet ( FCoE )

All Paths Down ( APD ) enhancements

• Handle the next set of APD use cases involving more complex transient APD conditions ( Userworld I/O, hostd, etc )

Storage IO Control ( SIOC ) enhancements

• Automatic latency threshold computations

Storage vMotion enhancements

• Can now perform a Storage vMotion up to 4 parallel disk migrations per operation.


Questions?

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