vSphere 5.

1 Delta
Module 0 Whats New
Support Readiness Training John Browne Rev D

Confidential
2012 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

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.

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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.

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Course Objectives

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.

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Course Outline

Agenda

Module 0 Whats New in vSphere 5.1 Module 1 Flagship Products / Guest Enhancements Module 2 Storage Technologies Module 3 Networking Technologies Module 4 Availability Technologies

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Whats 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 SignOn (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

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Single Server Solution or Distributed components as necessary

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Single Sign On Server Single Sign On Server Virtual Machine Vmware vCenter Server Inventory Service Single Sign On Server Inventory Service Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Database Server Inventory Service vCenter Server VMware vCenter Server vSphere Web Client vSphere Web Client Virtual Machine vSphere Web Client

vSphere Update Manager Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Database Server Database Server vSphere Update Manager vSphere Update Manager Distributed vCenter ServerSolution Single vCenter Server 5.1 solution
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Authentication - The Situation Today

Authentication at multiple points for the same administrator Integrates only with Active Directory
Mgmt App

Lack of true Single Sign On

vCD

Mgmt App

Identity limited in scope No way for a solution to trust another

Directory Server

vCenter

(AD)

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Single Sign On Server

SSO introduces the notion of a solution user

User ID associated with a software component User ID resides in SSO repository

vCenter

vCO

Inventory Service

vSphere Web Client

vSphere Solutions

Authorization

Authentication (Single Sign On)

vSphere
Auditing

Platform Services

Active Directory

Open LDAP

NIS

Local OS Users

Customer
Identity Sources

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Whats 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.

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vSphere Web Client Architecture

The vSphere Web Client runs within a browser

Fx
Flex Client Back End
The Inventory Service obtains optimized data live from the core vCenter Server process

Application Server that provides a scalable back end

vCenter in either single or Linked mode operation

Inventory Service

vCenter
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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
VMs, 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

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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

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Whats 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.
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Whats 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.

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Whats 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.

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Whats 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.

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Storage Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks & VMware View

VMWARE VIEW COMPOSER

Linked Clone Replica Image (Thin) Snapshot Snapshot

Parent Image

Snapshot

VMWARE
VIEW COMPOSER
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These items will be SE Sparse Disks in future releases of VMware View.

Whats 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.

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Questions?

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