VSP2360 VMware vCenter 5.0: What’s New, What’s Cool

1. VSP2360VMware vCenter 5.0: What’s New, What’s Cool Name, Title, Company

2. 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.

3. Who Are We? Deep Bhattacharjee is a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team responsible for vCenter. He works on large scale vCenterdeployments among other things. Ameet Jani is a Senior Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team and is responsible for all user interfaces.

4. When We Last Talked… • 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 vCenter 4.1

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Datacenter’s New Requirements Resiliency SLA Tiers Reduce CAPEX Massive Operational Savings New Workloads

10. Introducing vCenter 5.0! vCenter 5.0 vCenter 4.1

11. Lifecycle of Building a Cloud So you want to build your own cloud environment. How can vCenter 5.0 help? • Setup • Storage Configure Availability • Deploy • Application Setup Network Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts

12. Setup Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Setup Network Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts

13. 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 

14. 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

15. 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

16. Setup Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Setup Network Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts

17. Rapid Deployment of ESXi Hosts Quick deployment of a new hosts Uniformity of host “profile” Allows for fast patching Auto Deploy allows rapid deployment and configuration of a large number of ESXihosts Benefits

18. vCenter Server with Auto Deploy Host Profiles Image Profiles vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere

19. Setup • Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Setup Network Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts

20. Storage Features in 5.0 • Allows creation of storage profile for VMs • Allow for intelligent storage resource management Benefits Gold Silver Bronze

21. Profile Driven Storage • Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data • Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy • Replication = True • Cap > 2TB • Disktype = fast MS Exchange Gold Silver Bronze

22. Profile Driven Storage • Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data • Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy • Replication = False • Cap < 500 MB • Disktype= slow Test/Dev Workload Gold Silver Bronze

23. Key Capabilities—Overview • Ease of Storage Management • Initial Placement • Out of Space Avoidance • I/O Load Balancing • Virtual Disk Affinity (Anti-Affinity) • Datastore Maintenance Mode • Add Datastore Affinity Storage vMotion overloaded DatastoreCluster •••

24. Storage I/O Control – Supports NFS in vSphere 5.0 What you see What you want to see MicrosoftExchange MicrosoftExchange online store online store data mining data mining NFS / VMFS Datastore NFS / VMFS Datastore

25. Setup Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts Setup Network

26. 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

27. Integrated QoS: Set priorities on network traffic to VMs Without Network IO Control Features • Multi-tenant QoS allowing user defined classes and shaping at pNIC • vNIC rate limiting • 802.1p tagging Data Mining Print Server Online Store Microsoft Exchange NFS vMotion FT With NetworkI/O Control Data Mining Print Server Online Store Microsoft Exchange NFS vMotion FT

28. NetFlow in the Virtual Environment • NetFlow is a networking protocol that collects IP traffic information as records and sends them to third party collectors VM A VM B Legend : VM traffic NetFlow session Physical switch Collector VDS Host trunk • 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

29. Setup Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts Setup Network

30. Deploy Any Type of Workload Run Tier 1 workloads Move workloads further away Run very large workloads Migrate VMs across longer distances Benefits

31. “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.

32. vMotion 5.0 Before 5.0 Maximum vMotion Latency was 5 ms (roundtrip) New York to mid-Jersey ~60 miles

33. vMotion 5.0 With 5.0 Maximum vMotion Latency was 10 ms (roundtrip) New York to Richmond 250 miles

34. Setup Storage Configure Availability Deploy Application Deploy vCenter Deploy Hosts Setup Network

35. 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

36. vSphere High Availability App App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS OS VMware ESX VMware ESX X vSphere HA drives higher availability Protects workloads against total node failure or individual workload failure ESX host health monitoring to identify failing nodes Workload is automatically restarted (OS Reboot) upon failure VM Restart Priority to prioritize critical workloads Sophisticated admission control and failover policies to ensure sufficient capacity Individual VM/App health monitoring X X HA HA

37. 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)

38. 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

40. 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

42. Monitor Information

43. Display Cloud-Scale Information cleanly

44. Datacenter’s New Requirements Resiliency SLA Tiers Reduce CAPEX Massive Operational Savings New Workloads

45. Relevant Sessions in VMworld 2012 Storage DRS : VSP 1823 vCenter Performance : VSP 2384