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Getting the Most Out of Your vSphere Virtualization Platform. August 2013. Agenda. Business and IT Challenges. How Can Virtualization Help?. The Value of Operations Automation. A Robust Virtualization Platform. Next Steps. What’s Top of Mind?. Business Priorities
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Getting the Most Out of Your vSphere Virtualization Platform August2013
Agenda Business and IT Challenges How Can Virtualization Help? The Value of Operations Automation A Robust Virtualization Platform Next Steps
What’s Top of Mind? Business Priorities Keeping their business up and running, securely Balance IT supply (resources and skills) with IT demand Increase agility to quickly respond to new business requirements BYOD 85% surveyed stating employees use personal devices for work. Virtualization 3 out of 4 planning virtualization projects Mobility 1.1 billion cell phones and 300 million tablets shipped by 2015. Disaster Recovery 43% never re-open after disasters and 29% close within 2 years Cloud ~60% have or plan to adopt cloud in the next year. Cyber Attacks 12 targeted attacks detected daily Source: Market Analysts and Industry Research
What Issues Can vSphere Help Solve? Extend CapEx and OpEx savings to non-virtualized servers SaaS DR toCloud CloudStorage Bring greater availability, performance and flexibility to BCA PaaS Provide the foundation for a BCDR solution Enable IT to leverage cloud services
Customers Are Benefiting from vSphere Financial Resources Human Resources Earth’s Resources 50% - 60% CapEx Reduction 25%+ OpEx Reduction Delayed datacenter expansion 33% Reduction in Admin Time Up to 80% reduction in datacenter energy costs Source: Gartner; 29 July 2010 Q&A: Six Misconceptions About Server Virtualization, Tom Bittman.
Grow Your Business with VMware Simplify and maximize your IT investment • Protect your business with a solid IT foundation Shift time and money from managing IT to innovation Meet demands of today and the future • Simplify IT. Grow Your Business with VMware.
Virtualize Smarter with Insight to Workload Capacity and Health • vSphere with Operations Management • World’s leading virtualization platform • Insight to workload capacity and health VMware vSphereThe proven compute virtualization platform • 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 vSphere vCenter Server • Proven virtualization platform – provide availability for your business applications
vSphere with Operations Management vs. vCenter Server • vSphere with Operations Management • Collects the metrics from vCenter Server and provides a holistic view and deep insights into the health, risk and efficiency of IT infrastructure • vCenter Server • vCenter Server collects real time performance data from virtualized hosts • vCenter Server stores the data in vCenter database and also keeps a historical roll up of data vSphere vCenter Server
Analyze Detect Gaining Visibility into Your Workload Capacity and Health Remediate Isolate Optimize Forecast Comprehensive visibility Ensure and RestoreService Levels Optimize forEfficiency and Cost Current Utilization Slow performance ! Problem Maintenance Corrective action Identify source Reclaim capacity Future needs
Comprehensive Visibility for Diagnosing and Preventing Future Problems Immediate Problems Future Problems Opportunities to Optimize • Overview • Comprehensive visibility for virtual infrastructure with health, risk and efficiency scores • Single pane of glass for capacity and performance management • Benefits • End-to-end visibility into virtual infrastructure health • Ensure service levels for IT services • Optimize for efficiency and cost
Analyze Detect Ensuring and Restoring Service Levels Remediate Isolate Optimize Forecast Comprehensive visibility Ensure and RestoreService Levels Optimize forEfficiency and Cost Current Utilization Slow performance ! Problem Maintenance Corrective action Identify source Reclaim capacity Future needs
DETECT Detect: Find the Bottlenecks ! REMEDIATE ISOLATE CPU Demand is the bottleneck
DETECT Remediate: Intelligent Tools to Resolve Problems ! REMEDIATE ISOLATE Recommendations on how to fix issues
Analyze Detect Optimizing Your Capacity Efficiency Remediate Isolate Optimize Forecast Comprehensive visibility Ensure and RestoreService Levels Optimize forEfficiency and Cost Current Utilization Slow performance ! Problem Maintenance Corrective action Identify source Reclaim capacity Future needs
ANALYZE Analyze: Monitor and Plan Capacity Utilization OPTIMIZE FORECAST Let’s look at capacity shortfalls Very low on capacity
ANALYZE Forecast: “What-If” Analysis OPTIMIZE FORECAST Capacity state today New capacity shortfall if I add 10 new VMs VM count capacity Actual VMs deployed Current capacity cross-over point
ANALYZE Optimize: View Opportunities to Optimize OPTIMIZE FORECAST Let’s look at powered off, idle and oversized VMs Reclaimable capacity
Virtualizing with Capacity Optimization Increases your ROI Benefits of running vSphere with Operations ManagementImpact beyond running vSphere alone Reduce diagnostics & problem resolution time Increase capacity utilization Increase consolidation ratios Increase hardware savings Source: Sept 2012 Management Insights Study
Recapping the Business Benefits vSphere with Operations Management delivers… Capacity Optimization OperationalEfficiency Increased Service Levels Increase capacity utilization by 40% and hardware savings by 30%* Reduce time spent on diagnosing and resolving problems by 26%* Detect performance issues before they impact your business Get More out of Your Hardware Investments Optimize Your Productivity Run Business Critical Apps with Confidence * Sept 2012 Management Insights Study
Introducing vCenter Log Insight • Extend Analytics to Log Data • Real-time actionable operational intelligence • Easy to Use and Accessible • Intuitive, easy-to-use interface • Predictable, unlimited data pricing model • Optimized for Your VMware Environment • Built-in knowledge and native support for vSphere • Integration with vC Ops provides complete operations management solution
Key vCenter Log Insight Use Cases • IT Operations • Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis • I observed a problem (e.g. slowness), try to troubleshoot the problem and identify the part of the stack that is responsible (e.g. network delay vs. storage) • Follow the trail from vC Ops to logs to get to root cause to an observed problem • Monitoring Using Logs • Monitormetrics and events (performance & change) that are visible only in logs • Collect all the data in one place without the need for custom parsing, transformation of data • Security and Compliance • Security Forensics • Comprehensive Audit (who, when) / Compliance Reporting • Business Transaction Monitoring • Collect and correlate transaction logs with infrastructure performance
Extending the Benefits of Virtualization Limited Virtualization Expanded Virtualization Test and Dev Application Application Application Application Application Application Operating System Operating System Operating System Operating System Operating System Operating System VMware vSphere VMware vSphere
Virtualization of Mission Critical Apps Increasing % of Workload Instances Running on VMware in Customer Base Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010, Jun 2011, Mar 2012Question:Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized .
A Robust Virtualization Platform Resource Pools High Availability SLAs Security Automation
Protect Against Failures • vSphere High Availability (HA) • Detect server failures and provide rapid recovery by automatically restarting VMs on available severs • Protect applications from operating system failures by automatically restarting VMs when an operating system failure is detected. No Reboot Seamless Cutover vSphere High Availability vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere • vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) • Single identical VMs running in lockstep on separate hosts • Guarantee application availability and zero data loss even when a server fails • No complex clustering or specialized hardware required vSphere Fault Tolerance
vSphere App HA Overview • Detect and recover from application or OS failure • Supports most common packaged applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, etc.) • vCloud Extensibility – APIs to Ecosystem APP APP VMware HA App Restart OS OS 3 2 1 Benefits • Simpler management from vCenter Server • Tier 1 application protection at scale • Lower TCO than traditional application specific cluster availability solutions vSphere
Eliminate Planned Downtime • vSphere vMotion • Migrate VMs between vSphere hosts without application downtime • Move VMs out of failing or underperforming servers without downtime • Perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime or disrupting business operations vSphere vSphere vMotion • vSphere Storage vMotion • Perform live migration of VM disk file across heterogeneous storage array with complete transaction integrity and application availability • Eliminate application downtime for storage maintenance • Simplify array refresh/retirement, improve array performance and capacity balancing vSphere vSphere vSphere Storage vMotion
vMotion without Shared Storage • Live Migration Without Shared Storage • Live migration of a virtual machine without the need for shared storage • Extends VMware’s revolutionary technology for automated virtual machine movement • Zero downtime migration • No dependency on shared storage • Lower operating cost • Helps meet service level and performance SLAs vSphere vMotion
vSphere Data Protection • Simplify Backup And Recovery With Integrated Data Protection • Backup and recovery tightly integrated with vSphere • Based on EMC Avamar technology • Simple setup and management through vCenter • Highly efficient global deduplication across all VMs • Speedy recovery of VMs VDP VMware vSphere Data deduplicated And stored on VDP appliance vSphere Data Protection Advanced adds enhanced scalability and application integration vSphere Data Protection
Virtual Machine Replication for Disaster Recovery Site A (Primary) • Simplify Disaster Recovery • Virtual machine level replication by the vSphere host • Included with vSphere Essentials+ and above • Low cost, efficient replication option • Simple setup from within vCenter Server • Integration with SRM enables automated DR process vSphere vSphere Replication Site B (Recovery) vSphere vSphere Replication
Simplify Anti-Virus Administration • Centralized and Simplified Protection • Secure your VMs with offloaded anti-virus and anti-malware (AV) solutions without the need of agents • Higher consolidation ratios by preventing the possibility of AV storms • Improved performance vShield Endpoint
Align Server Resources with Demand • Optimize DRS Clusters For The Lowest Possible Power Consumption • Power up/down a host based on demand for server resources • Up to an additional 20% reduction in power costs with DPM VMware vSphere VMware vSphere VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management
vSphere Flash Read Cache: Server-based Flash to Accelerate VM Performance Overview • Virtualized flash resource managed just like CPU and memory • Per-VM hypervisor-based read cachingusing server flash • Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA vSphere New CPU Pool Memory Pool Flash Pool Benefits • Accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 5-10x • Enables efficient use of server flash in virtual environments • Fully transparent read-caching – no host agents or application changes Accelerate performance SAN/NAS
Simplify Networking Provisioning and Administration • Simplified Provisioning And Administration Of Virtual Machine Networking • Enables the use of third party virtual switches such as Cisco Nexus 1000v in vSphere environments • Enhanced security and monitoring for VMs migrated via vMotion Distributed Switch
Simplify vSphere Host Management • Standardize And Simplify Configuration And Management Of vSphere Host • Capture the blueprint of a known, validated configuration including networking, storage and security settings and it to many hosts to simplify setup • Host profile policies can also monitor compliance vSphere Host Profiles Profiles
Simplify Deployment and Patching • Reduce Manual Deployment and Patching Processes • Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new “on the fly” model • Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles • 2 new operating modes – stateless caching and stateful install • Fast initial deployment and patching • Centralized host and image management • Continue deployment even when a failure occurs vCenter Server with Auto Deploy vSphere vSphere Image Profiles Host Profiles vSphere Auto Deploy vSphere
Scalable Storage Management Affinity • Reduce Time For VM Provisioning With Dynamic Storage • Scalable storage management • Reduce time for VM provisioning • Eliminate VM downtime for storage maintenance • Automated Out of space avoidance • Automated I/O bottleneck avoidance Storage vMotion overloaded DatastoreCluster Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
Optimize Storage Utilization • Tier Storage Based On Performance or SLAs • 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 High IO Throughput Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Profile Driven Storage
Ensure Resource for Top Tier Applications 3. w/ I/O controls, can give VIP VMs preferential access 2. Other VMs are starved for resources 1. VM requests more resources • Set Up SLAs For Use Of Storage And Network Resources • Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem • More granular SLA settings for network traffic • Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs Network and Storage I/O Control
vSphere Big Data Extensions Overview Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to support Big Data workloads • 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 Benefits • Elastic scalability • Higher cluster utilization • Easy to use interface • Lower TCO through hardware consolidation • Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphere Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute VM VM VM Compute T1 T2 Physical Host Current Hadoop: Combined Storage/ Compute VM VM Storage Storage
vSphere with Operations Management Editions vSphere with Operations Management Standard Enterprise Enterprise Plus Server consolidation & no planned downtime Efficient resource management Policy-based datacenter automation Capacity Optimization & Automated Health Monitoring Availability Resource Load Balancing Support for Next-Gen Workloads (Hadoop/Big Data) Policy-Based Automation Enhanced Application Availability and Performance Agility. Efficiency. Resiliency.
vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 Lineup Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard Existing feature vSphere with Operations Management New feature in vSOM 5.5 Standard Enterprise Enterprise+ Features • Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics • Capacity Management and Optimization • Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis • High Availability, and Fault Tolerance • vMotion, and Storage vMotion • Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication • vShield Endpoint • Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management • Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing • Big Data Extensions • Reliable Memory • Distributed Switch • Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage • I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV • Host Profiles and Auto Deploy • Flash Read Cache • App HA All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection,Image Profile, and SLES
vCloud Suite Editions vCloud Suite Provides Everything You Need for a vSphere-based Private Cloud • Built on the industry-standard vSphere Enterprise Plus virtualization platform • License per CPU vCloud Suite Standard vCloud Suite Advanced vCloud Suite Enterprise Solution for governed, enterprise private cloud. • Foundational solution for private cloud to increase business agility and reduce capex costs. Comprehensive solution for resilient, compliant and secure private cloud for all applications. • Rapid, self-service infrastructure provisioning • Visibility into VM health and capacity usage • Scalable networking and virtualization-aware security • Extensible to public clouds • Visibility into costs, application dependencies and hypervisor change and configuration management • Increased extensibility of cloud management and automation components • Protect Business Critical Applications with DR Automation • Visibility into application performance • Regulatory compliance and OS-level change and configuration management • Automated configuration and deployment of multi-tier cloud applications
vCloud Suite 5.5 Lineup Standard Advanced Enterprise Updated Q3 2013 • Cloud Automation • Application and data services – Application provisioning, changes and data • Governance – Approvals, reclamation, cost profile and transparency • Extensibility – Infrastructure integrations, workflows and customizations • Infrastructure provisioning and management vCAC Std vCAC Adv vCAC Ent • Operations Management • Application Monitoring – OS, middleware, databases • OS-level change, configuration and regulatory compliance management • Extensibility – Adapters for 3rd party OS and application monitoring tools • Extensibility – Adapters for 3rd party Infrastructure monitoring tools • vSphere hardening, change and configuration management • Application Awareness – Discovery dependency mapping • Chargeback – Cost metering and reporting • Operations Dashboard – Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics • Capacity Management – Planning and Optimization vCOPS Standard vCOPS Advanced vCOPS Enterprise Cloud Management • Disaster Recovery Automation • Automated disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution SRM Enterprise • Networking and Security • Scalable networking and virtualization-aware security vCloud Net & Sec vCloud Net & Sec vCloud Net & Sec Cloud Infrastructure • Virtualized Datacenters • Virtualized datacenters and public cloud extensibility vCD, vCC vCD, vCC vCD, vCC • vSphere Enterprise Plus • Virtualized infrastructure with policy-based automation vSphere Enterprise Plus vSphere Enterprise Plus vSphere Enterprise Plus
VMware Leads The Market • Minimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) • Better hardware utilization vs Microsoft Hyper-V • Spend less time on management tasks • Minimize the negative impact of downtime OpEx • Build for the Future • Secure, reliable, platform not built on top of a legacy operating system • Only virtualization platform proven across 500K+ customer deployments • Move seamlessly from private to public cloud environments 20% 91% Scalability • Virtualize Anything • Virtualize servers, desktops, network, storage at your pace • Simplify management, improve availability, increase flexibility, lower costs • Run your business on public, private or hybrid clouds • Maximize Uptime • Extensive application insight to meet SLAs for critical apps • Production tested reliability and performance for critical applications • VMotion performs 5 times faster than Microsoft Live Migration • VMware HA works when 50%+ cluster hosts go down – Microsoft HA doesn’t See notes for links to details
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