VSP2360

VMware vCenter 5.0: What’s New, What’s Cool

Name, Title, Company

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Disclaimer

This session may contain product features that are currently under development.

This session/overview of the new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product.

Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.

Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.

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Who Are We?

Deep Bhattacharjee is a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team responsible for vCenter. He works on large scale vCenter deployments among other things.

Ameet Jani is a Senior Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team and is responsible for all user interfaces.

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When We Last Talked…

vCenter 4.1

• Quality of Service

• I/O Control Storage/networks

• Cost savings using better power management

• Reduce Downtime

• Boot from SAN, HA

• Failover clustering

• Concurrent data recovery

• Scalability Improvements

• 10,000 VMs/Host

• vMotion increased speed

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What’s Happened In the Last 2 years

Everybody is talking about “cloud” and “cloud scale”

Public clouds have changed the perception of VM provisioning

• From days to provision a VM to minutes

• IT is no longer the solution to the problem, it’s the problem

Your business has grown, your infrastructure needs to scale – FAST!

SLAs matter - some workloads are more important than others

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If you are the CIO!

You want to build a private cloud that is fits your business needs and org structure

You want more accountability, agility, etc.

Want to get more out of the data datacenter administrators

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If you are the datacenter architect!

You need the right set of interfaces to design your infrastructure quickly

You need to architect for the future• Increase in demand• Availability, Scalability

You need to architect for different SLAs

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If you are the datacenter administrator!

You have to guarantee SLAs now!

You are expected to do more with each passing day

Yesterday = 1000 VMs

Tomorrow = 10000 VMs

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Datacenter’s New Requirements

ResiliencyNew

WorkloadsSLA Tiers

Massive

Operational

Savings

Reduce

CAPEX

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Introducing vCenter 5.0!

vCenter 4.1

vCenter 5.0

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Lifecycle of Building a Cloud

So you want to build your own cloud environment.

How can vCenter 5.0 help?

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

Setup Network

DeployApplication

ConfigureAvailability

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DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

Setup Network

DeployApplication

ConfigureAvailability

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The New vCenter Server Appliance!

The appliance reduces the TCO for vCenter significantly

Simplifies deployment and configuration

Streamlines patching and upgrades

Obviates need for Windows license

vCenter Server Appliance - Run vCenter as a Linux Virtual appliance

Benefits

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Introducing vCenter Server Appliance

The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) consists of:

• A pre-packaged 64 bit application running on SLES 11

• A built in enterprise level database and support for a remote Oracle database (SQL Server is not support at this point)

• Limits are the same as vCenter on Windows

• Embedded DB - 5 hosts/50 VMs

• External DB - 1000 hosts/10000 VMs (64 bit)

• A web-based configuration interface

• Authentication through Active Directory

• VMware HA can be used to make VCSA highly available

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To Appliance, or not to Appliance… that is the question

The goal is parity between the appliance and conventional vCenter Server

• Scalability

• Manageability

• Performance

Advantages of the Appliance

• Upgrade

• Embedded Database

Roadmap

• Support for SQL Server on roadmap

• Linked Mode Support

• IPv6 support

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Setup Storage

Setup Network

ConfigureAvailability

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

DeployApplication

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Rapid Deployment of ESXi Hosts

Quick deployment of a new hosts

Uniformity of host “profile”

Allows for fast patching

Benefits

Auto Deploy allows rapid deployment and configuration of a large number of ESXi hosts

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vSpherevSphere

vCenter Server with Auto Deploy

Host ProfilesImage Profiles

vSpherevSphere vSphere

vSphere vSphere vSphere

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vSpherevSpherevSphere

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Setup Network

ConfigureAvailability

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

DeployApplication

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Storage Features in 5.0

Benefits

Gold Silver Bronze

Allows creation of storage profile for VMs Allow for intelligent storage resource management

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Profile Driven Storage

Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data

• Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy

Gold Silver Bronze

Replication = True

Cap > 2TB

Disktype = fast

MS Exchange

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Profile Driven Storage

Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data

• Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy

Gold Silver Bronze

Replication = False

Cap < 500 MB

Disktype = slowTest/Dev Workload

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Key Capabilities—Overview

DatastoreCluster

Storage vMotion

Ease of Storage Management

Initial Placement

Out of Space Avoidance

I/O Load Balancing

Virtual Disk Affinity (Anti-Affinity)

Datastore Maintenance Mode

Add Datastore

•••Affin

ity

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Storage I/O Control – Supports NFS in vSphere 5.0

What you see

NFS / VMFS Datastore

online store

data mining

MicrosoftExchange

What you want to see

NFS / VMFS Datastore

online store

data mining

MicrosoftExchange

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Setup Network

ConfigureAvailability

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

DeployApplication

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Networking

VDS provides:

• Homogenous abstraction of the physical network

• Reduces Management overhead and improves mobility

5.0 Focused on SLAs and monitoring

• Full visibility into network traffic using Netflow

• Network IO control

Simplified network configuration using SLA creation and enforcement in network traffic

Benefits

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Multi-tenant QoS allowing user defined classes and shaping at pNIC

vNIC rate limiting

802.1p tagging

Integrated QoS: Set priorities on network traffic to VMs

Data

Mining

Print

Server

Online

Store

Microsoft

Exchange

Data

Mining

Print

Server

Online

Store

Microsoft

Exchange

Without Network IO Control

With NetworkI/O Control

NFS vMotion FT

NFS vMotion FT

Features

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NetFlow in the Virtual Environment

NetFlow is a networking protocol that collects IP traffic information as records and sends them to third party collectors

VDS

VM A VM B

trunk

Physical switch

Collector

NetFlow capability in vSphere infrastructure provides complete visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic.

• Inter-Host VM traffic (same host)

• Intra-Host VM traffic (across hosts)

• VM-to-Physical Infrastructure traffic

NetFlow session

Host

VM traffic

Legend :

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Setup Network

DeployApplication

ConfigureAvailability

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

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Deploy Any Type of Workload

Run very large workloads

Migrate VMs across longer distances

Run Tier 1 workloadsMove workloads further away

Benefits

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“Monster VMs”

Virtual Machines are now 4x bigger

• 32 vCPUs

• 1 TB of RAM

• 64 TB disk

If your ISV told you that their software needs more horsepower and, hence, needs to stay on physical, that excuse goes away now.

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vMotion 5.0

Before 5.0

Maximum vMotion Latency was 5 ms (roundtrip)

New York to mid-Jersey

~60 miles

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vMotion 5.0

With 5.0

Maximum vMotion Latency was 10 ms (roundtrip)

New York to Richmond

250 miles

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Setup Network

ConfigureAvailability

DeployvCenter

DeployHosts

Setup Storage

DeployApplication

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vCenter Availability

Never lose business critical workloads

RPO and RTO times of < 5 minutes

vCenter 5.0 provides various ways to maintain availability Workload High Availability vCenter’s own High Availability

Benefits

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vSphere HA drives higher availability

Protects workloads against total node failure or individual workload failureESX host health monitoring to identify failing nodesWorkload is automatically restarted (OS Reboot) upon failureVM Restart Priority to prioritize critical workloadsSophisticated admission control and failover policies to ensure sufficient capacityIndividual VM/App health monitoring

App

OS

App

OSXXApp

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

X

VMware ESX VMware ESX

vSphere High Availability

HAHAHAHA

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HA Improvements

New VMware HA infrastructure

• More reliable

• Deploys and configures within seconds, regardless of cluster size

• multiple channels for agent-to-agent communication: network and storage

• Removes dependencies on DNS

• Provides better error reporting for easier serviceability

• Higher Scalability

New and Improved features

• Management network partition (new)

• Single HA log file per host and syslog integration (new)

• Host isolation response (improved)

• Admission control (improved)

• Agent error reporting (improved)

• More Alarms and Events (improved)

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Better vCenter Availability through Heartbeat

Enhanced architecture – consistent way to manage

• Both primary and secondary nodes are visible and reachable simultaneously

• Enables patching and managing of the primary and secondary nodes

Unified Management Console• New plug-in enables Heartbeat to be managed

from the vCenter console• Heartbeat events and alarms seen in the

vCenter Client

Added support for• VMware vCenter Server v5.0• VMware View Composer v5.0• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

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Why a new client?

Scalability

• Number of Objects

• Number of concurrent sessions

Common UI

• Many solutions/ One UI

Extensibility

• Allow VMW solutions, partners and customers to build plug-ins

Platform independence

Upgrade

Web Client wrapped in Thick client clothing

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Monitor Information

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Display Cloud-Scale Information cleanly

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Datacenter’s New Requirements

ResiliencyNew

WorkloadsSLA Tiers

Massive

Operational

Savings

Reduce

CAPEX

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