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SSMG Support for Virtual Server Environments

Explore how Symantec provides consistent management across physical and virtual environments, ensuring application and data availability in server virtualization. Learn about virtualization solutions, challenges, and how Symantec offers support for server provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, and centralized storage management for virtual machines.

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SSMG Support for Virtual Server Environments

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  1. SSMG Support for Virtual Server Environments James Gentes January 2006

  2. Server Virtualization Agenda • The Opportunity for SSMG Solutions • Virtualization Market View & Support Plan • What works? • What doesn’t? • Demo of upcoming VCS for VMware ESX • Q&A

  3. Virtual Machines offer compelling value Consolidation  Hardware cost reduction, improved utilization Flexibility  Rapid provisioning However, putting all your eggs in one basket: Increases the need for application availability Storage management becomes more complex Hypervisor The Opportunity for SSMG Solutions:Ensuring Application and Data Availability

  4. How do you seamlessly migrate servers and storage? Hardware (2 CPU) Hardware (2 CPU) Hardware (2 CPU) Hardware (2 CPU) Hardware (2 CPU) Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Application Application Application Application Application The Opportunity for SSMG Solutions:Enabling efficient Physical-to-Virtual server migrations Hardware (4 CPU) VMware ESX Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2003 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 Windows 2003 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 SF 4.3 Hardware (1 CPU) Windows 2000 VCS for VMware ESX Application

  5. The Challenge of Virtualization:No Virtualization Solution Covers All Platforms • vPars • nPars • Virtual Machines • Secure Resource Partitions • Zones • Containers • LPARs • Micro-Partitions Application Availability, Disaster Recovery, Server Provisioning Storage Management

  6. Symantec Solutions for Server Virtualization:Consistent Management Across Virtualization Solutions • vPars • nPars • Virtual Machines • Secure Resource Partitions • Zones • Containers • LPARs • Micro-Partitions VERITAS Server Foundation VERITAS Storage Foundation Application Availability, Disaster Recovery, Server Provisioning Storage Management

  7. Symantec Solutions for Server Virtualization Virtual server technology increases the need for server and storage management: • Physical-to-Virtual migration tools are required • Server consolidation increases the need for High Availability • Storage management becomes even more virtualized and complex • Configuration change increases with more OS instances For any virtualization technology in the datacenter: • VMware, Xen, Microsoft, Sun, HP, IBM • Symantec provides consistent management across the physical and virtual environment for: • Storage Management • High Availability • Disaster Recovery • Server Provisioning

  8. Data Center Automation Centralized Storage Management for VMs Provisioning of VMs Product Support for Server Virtualization Disaster Recovery for VMs 2005 • Workload management via policy definitions • Move apps between physical and virtual servers Simplified Storage Management for VMs 2007 • Shared volume access across hosts • Simplified management of Virtual Machine storage • Centralized control via cross-platform volume server High Availability for VMs Storage Management for VMs • Provision images in-to and out-of Virtual Machines • Create & remove Virtual Machines, provision VMware ESX hypervisor (Opforce 5.0) • Array-based replication support (SRDF, Hitachi Truecopy, etc) • VCS Firedrill with Last-Known-Good recovery 2006 • Storage Foundation runs at the physical host, presents volumes to Virtual Machines • DMP support, centralized mirroring and replication • VCS runs within a Virtual Machine • VCS runs at the host and monitors Virtual Machines & Application state • Storage Foundation runs within a Virtual Machine • P2V migrations, mirroring / replication, snapshots

  9. Virtualization Market View & Support Plan • Intel & AMD • VMware • Microsoft • Sun • Novell & RedHat (Xen / XenSource) • HP • IBM

  10. Intel Virtualization Technology (V.T.) & AMD Pacifica • What are they? • New chips that reduce complexity and improve performance of server virtualization • What’s the net impact? • VMware’s life gets easier, performance unchanged • Xen can run *unmodified* Linux and Windows, but slowly • Microsoft will run non-Windows virtual machines faster • Our products must be qualified.. customers will adopt quickly • When are they due? • Intel is shipping V.T. in Itanium and Pentium chips already • V.T. in Xeon chips is due Q2 ’06 • AMD Pacifica chips will ship in Q2 ‘06

  11. VMware: How is our partnership going? Partnership is Strong • Symantec / VMware / IBM Webcast held in December ’05 • Symantec will have a booth at VMworld 2006 • Working with VMware Community Source program • Storage Foundation qualified based on VMware-provided test cases for clustering • Building “VCS for VMware ESX” with new branding and feature enhancements • All SSMG products will be qualified for ESX 3.0 • VMware File System 3.0 (VMFS) • Hot-add virtual disks to virtual machines • Consolidated backup • Distributed Availability Service (DAS) • Failover for virtual machines between ESX servers • Priority-based recovery • Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) • “Enables VirtualCenter to automatically place and migrate virtual machines to attain best use of cluster resources” Product Support is Growing Fast We are ready for VMware ESX 3.0

  12. VMware: VCS for VMware ESX Preview Today: ESX 2.5.1 with complex app monitoring • VMware is sold as a platform in VCS 2.2 for Linux • Supports VMware ESX 2.1, 2.5, 2.5.1 (not 2.5.2) • Runs on the ESX Console OS, not within the virtual machine • Single-node VCS required to monitor apps running within the virtual machine • Issues with VCS for VMware today: • Problems with Vmotion integration • No Campus or DR support • App monitoring is complex • A new SKU called “VCS 4.2 for VMware ESX” in Q2 ’06: • Adds support for ESX 2.5.2 / 2.5.3 • Fixes Vmotion integration issues, adds ‘migrate’ to Java GUI • Campus Cluster support (SRDF, Mirrorview, SF in the virtual machine) • Monitors virtual switches, virtual disks, plus virtual machines • Removes requirement for single-node VCS in the virtual machine for app monitoring • Update in 2H ’06 (after ESX 3.0 ships): • Adds support for ESX 3.0 • Add wide area DR support (SRDF, Mirrorview) • VCS Firedrill to test virtual machine recovery • Recover to “last known good” virtual machine image! Tomorrow: ESX 2.5.3 and 3.0 – No more single-node VCS for app monitoring!

  13. Competitive Brief: VMware ESX 3.0 DAS & VmotionHow does VCS compare?

  14. Microsoft Virtual Server • Virtual Server R2 (2005) added Linux support • Not much adoption in production environments • Supported by most SSMG products today • Virtual Server ‘vNext’ due 2H 2006 • V.T. and Pacifica support, faster non-Windows guests • Windows Hypervisor (Viridian) due 90 days post-Longhorn (2007) • ‘Parent’ OS will be based on Longhorn Server ‘core’ • Our software (Storage Mgmt, Security, HA) can run on the Parent OS • Model is very similar to Xen • We plan to work with Microsoft to support SFW HA here..

  15. Solaris 10 Zones • Zones / Containers are OS instances with shared kernel components • What works? • Products / applications without kernel components • VxFS runs well in a Zone • What doesn’t? • Kernel components cannot run within a Zone • VxVM, VCS, Database Edition Oracle RAC must run in the global domain • What’s coming? • Sun is planning a ‘virtual machine’ technology, but we have few details

  16. Xen and XenSource • Xen is an open-source hypervisor that uses para-virtualization • Xen 3.0 will ship as part of Enterprise Linux distributions: • SLES 10.0 (Q2 ’06) • RHEL 5.0 (Q4 ’06) • Windows will not be supported until 2007  • Working on Storage Foundation for Xen.. (post 5.0) • XenSource is the commercial front-end for Xen technology • Xen Optimizer is basically VMware VirtualCenter for Xen • Discovery / Inventory / Provisioning • Performance monitoring • Workload management • Watch for integration with Storage Foundation here…

  17. HP-UX: Many types of virtualization.. • nPars, vPars, Virtual Machines, and Secure Resource Partitions • What’s new? • Integrity (Itanium-based) servers now have ‘Virtual Machines’ • Allows for HP-UX, Windows, and Linux all on the same server • Based on HP-UX “Parent” OS • Guests run HP-UX today, Windows & Linux in near future • What works? • HP nPars fully supported today, vPars supported with SF HA stack • What doesn’t? • Integrity Virtual Machines and Secure Resource Partitions have not been tested

  18. IBM: Micro-Partitions • What works? • LPars are fully supported • Most SSMG products already qualified (Opforce next year) • What doesn’t? • HBA devices can only be shared through a dedicated I/O Server (Micro-Partition) • VxVM with DMP in the I/O Server is still undergoing testing

  19. Virtualization Support Roadmap • Notes: • HP nPars and IBM LPars are not listed in the chart but fully supported today • HP Virtual Machines are for Integrity (Itanium-based) servers only

  20. Virtualization Support Roadmap

  21. DEMO

  22. Server Virtualization Breakout (#3) • What problems do we face for the next 2 years? • Virtualization management • Build our own or integrate with vendor solutions? • Product architecture • Client in each virtual machine or only at the host? • Licensing • Solaris x86, Windows, HP-UX, Linux.. all on the same box?

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