Introduction to VMware vSphere 5

Mike Adams, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware

Agenda

What is vSphere? Cloud Infrastructure Launch and Product Set vSphere Platform Recap vSphere 5 Sales Overview

Infrastructure Services Compute, Storage, Network Applications Services Availability, Security, Scalability Additional Features and Enhancements The Best of the Rest

ESXi Migration Packaging Resources

What is vSphere?
Industrys Most Complete and Robust
Virtualization Platform

vSphere Provides:
Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Network) Application Services (Availability, Security, Scale,
Performance)

Management Services (Basic/Remote Management,

Patching)

What Does vSphere Solve for Customers?

Streamlines IT Operations Provides a Powerful Disaster Recovery Strategy

Supports Running Mission-Critical Applications

Delivers the Most Flexible Building Block for Leveraging
the Cloud

vSphere The Total Platform Picture

Major Upgrade of the Cloud Infrastructure Suite

Cloud Infrastructure Suite e vCloud Director 1.5 vShield 5 vCenter Operations 1.0 vCenter SRM 5 vSphere vSphere 5 S
vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0

New New

New

New

VMware vSphere: The Industrys Leading Virtualization Platform

vCenter Server
Linked Mode Host Profiles Orchestrator Update Mgr

Application Services
Availability Security

HA FT vMotion/S vMotion Data Recovery VMsafe APIs vShield Zones

Hot Add # of Hosts, VMs

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4.1

Compute Storage Network

Infrastructure Services
ESX/ESXi DRS/DPM Memory Overcommit VMFS Thin Provisioning Storage I/O Control Storage APIs Distributed Switch Network I/O Control

VMware vSphere 5: Whats New?

vCenter Server
Web Client
New HA Architecture

Virtual Appliance

vMotion over
higher latency links

ESXi Firewall

32 way SMP 1 TB VMs

Application Services
Availability Security Scalability

VMware vSphere 5
Compute Storage Network

Infrastructure Services
ESXi Convergence Auto Deploy HW version 8 Storage DRS Profile-Driven Storage VMFS 5 Storage I/O Control (NFS) Network I/O Control (per VM controls) Distributed Switch (Netflow, SPAN, LLDP)

Infrastructure Services Compute, Storage, Network

ESXi Convergence
Most Trusted

Overview

vSphere 5 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor

exclusively

ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors

vSphere ESXi

Benefits

Thin architecture Smaller security footprint Streamlined deployment and

configuration

Simplified patching and updating model

Auto Deploy
Overview

Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in

minutes using a new on the fly model

vCenter Server with Auto Deploy

Host Profiles

Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles

Image Profiles

Benefits

Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and

patching of hosts
vSphere vSphere

vSphere vSphere vSphere pher

Centralized host and image management

Reduce manual deployment and patch

processes

Storage DRS
Overview

Group like datastores in a datastore

Storage vMotion

cluster. Initial placement of VMs/VMDKs Datastore maintenance mode Space and I/O load balancing Affinity and anti-affinity rules

Benefits

Datastore Cluster

Scalable storage management Reduce time for VM provisioning Eliminate VM downtime for storage
maintenance Automated Out of space avoidance Automated I/O bottleneck avoidance

Profile-Driven Storage
Overview

High IO Throughput

Tier storage based on performance or

SLA characteristics View a list of all compliant storage resources

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Benefits

Utilize the correct storage resources

every time (no mistakes) Help IT personnel that may not be as familiar with storage characteristics align with business and application goals Improve storage utilization and efficiencies

Performance Guarantees Network and Storage I/O Control

3. w/ Other VMs can 2. I/O controls, give VIP VMs are starved preferential access for resources 1. VM requests more resources

Overview
Set up SLAs for use of storage and
network resources Added per virtual machine settings for Network I/O Control Added NFS support for Storage I/O Control

Benefits
Eliminate the noisy neighbor problem More granular SLA settings for network
traffic

Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs

New Virtual Machine Capabilities

Richer Desktop Experience

3D graphics

Client-connected USB devices USB 3.0 Smart Card Readers

Broader Device Support

Multi-core virtual CPUs (in GUI) Extended VMware tools compatibility Mac OS X server support

Additional Enhancements

Application Services Availability, Security, and Scalability

Scaling Virtual Machines

Overview

Create virtual machines with up to: 32 vCPU 1 TB of vRAM

Benefits

4x size of previous vSphere versions Run even the largest applications in

vSphere, including very large databases

4x

Virtualize even more applications than

ever before (Tier 1 and 2)

New HA Architecture
Overview

New architecture for High Availability

Storage vMotion

feature of vSphere

VMware Fault Tolerance High Availability DRS Maintenance Mode vMotion

NIC Teaming Multipathing

VMware

Benefits
Storage

Simplified clustering setup and

configuration

Server

Enhanced reliability through better

resource guarantees and monitoring

Component

Enhanced scalability

Additional Features and Enhancements

vCenter Server Appliance (Linux)

Overview

Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based

appliance

Benefits

Simplified setup and configuration Enables deployment choices according to

business needs or requirements

Leverages vSphere availability features

for protection of the management layer

Web Client
Overview

Run and manage vSphere from any web

browser anywhere in the world

Benefits

Platform independence Replaces Web Access GUI Building block for cloud based
administration

The Best of the Rest

Platform

Availability
vMotion with higher latency links Data Recovery Enhancements

Hardware Version 8 EFI virtual BIOS Memory Fault Isolation

Network
iPad client

Management
Inventory Extensibility

Distributed Switch (Netflow,

SPAN support, LLDP)

Network I/O Controls (per VM), ESXi firewall

Nexus 1000V Release

Storage

VMFS 5

iSCSI UI

Storage I/O Control (NFS)

Array Integration for Thin Provisioning,

Swap to SSD, 2TB+ VMFS datastores

Storage vMotion Snapshot Support

ESXi Migration

Converging to ESXi with the Next vSphere Release

With the GA of vSphere 4.1 in July 2010 VMware officially

announced that starting with the next vSphere our hypervisor architecture will converge to ESXi

From the release note:

VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last

releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Future major

releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture.

VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture

when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1.

VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according

to the VMware vSphere support policy on the VMware Enterprise Infrastructure Support page.

To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi,

go to the VMware ESXi and ESX Info Center.

VMware ESXi: 3rd Generation Hypervisor Architecture

VMware ESX Architecture VMware ESXi Architecture Installs bare metal Management tasks are moved outside of the hypervisor Installs bare metal Relies on a Linux OS (Service Console) for running partner agents and scripting

VMware GSX (VMware Server)

Installs as an application

Runs on a host OS

Depends on OS for resource management

VMware Server
Service Console VMkernel

VMware ESXi VMware ESX

VMkernel

Windows or Linux OS

2001

2003

2007

The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS, simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.

How Does A User Plan an ESX to ESXi migration?

1. Visit the ESX and ESXi Info Center

2. Start testing ESXi

If youve not already deployed, theres no better time than the present

3. Ensure 3rd party solutions used by your customers are ESXi Ready

Monitoring, backup, management, etc. Most already are.

Bid farewell to agents!

4. Familiarize with ESXi remote management options

Transition any scripts or automation that depended on the COS

Powerful off-host scripting and automation using vCLI, PowerCLI,

5. Plan an ESXi migration as part of vSphere upgrade

Testing of ESXi architecture can be incorporated into overall vSphere testing

ESXi and ESX Info Center

All Resources in One Centralized Location

vSphere 5 Packaging

VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business

vSphere 5 Essentials
For smaller environments Benefits Essentials Essentials +

Make better use of existing infrastructure

Save time in managing infrastructure with vCenter central management

Improve application availability with vMotion (no planned downtime) High Availability (business continuity)

Protect business data with VMware Data Recovery

VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions

vSphere 5 Editions
For larger environments Benefits Standard Enterprise Enterprise +

Consolidation and Availability Convert Physical System to Virtual Machines, Leverage Live Migration (vMotion), and Enable High Availability (HA)

Continuous Availability Fault Tolerance (FT) for Applications

Automated Resource Management Deliver Load Balancing (DRS), Power Management (DPM), and Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) without Manual Intervention

Simplified Operations Advanced Networking (Distributed Network Switch, I/0 Control), Advanced Storage (Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage) and Host Deployment/Configuration (Auto Deploy, Host Profiles) for More OPEX Savings

Resources

Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center!
All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

Call to Action

Get prepared for the pending Q3 GA code release

vmware.com is already updated with a lot of information on the release

Once GA hits grab the product release notes and the configuration

maximum doc to get the total vSphere 5 picture

Attend VMworld 2011 if you can to hear more about vSphere 5

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