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VMworld 2012 Recap. Introduction. Christopher Kusek – cxi@pkguild.com Blog: pkguild.com @cxi Twitter. Agenda. What was announced Some things you shoul d know… What was mentioned A LOT Q/A – Open Discussion. What was announced. vSphere 5.1 Over 100 new features And…. vSphere 5.1.
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Introduction • Christopher Kusek – cxi@pkguild.com • Blog: pkguild.com @cxi Twitter
Agenda • What was announced • Some things you should know… • What was mentioned A LOT • Q/A – Open Discussion
What was announced • vSphere 5.1 • Over 100 new features • And…
vSphere 5.1 • Support for 64 vCPUs with 1TB of Memory
vSphere 5.1 • Zero Downtime Upgrade for VMware Tools*
vSphere 5.1 • Enhanced vMotion without shared storage* • Transported over network using vMotion vmkernel • Hosts must be managed by same vCenter Server • Hosts must be part of same Datacenter • Hosts must be on the same layer-2 network (and same switch if VDS is used) • Hosts must have the same CPU or have the same EVC baseline (like for the vMotion across clusters) • Enhanced vMotion is a manual process • DRS and SDRS do not leverage enhanced vMotion
vSphere 5.1 • All new vSphere Web Client
vCloud Upgrade Promotion! • Available from September 10, 2012, through 11:59PM PT on December 15, 2012
What you should know • Top 10 Sessions at VMworld • VMware vSphere HA Recommendations to Maximize Virtual Machine Uptime • VMware vSphere Distributed Switch—Technical Deep Dive • vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices • Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure • vSphere Performance Best Practices • DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions • VMware vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices • Tracking Down Storage Performance Issues: A Customer’s Perspective • What's New and What's Next for VMware View • Avoiding the 19 Biggest HA & DRS Configuration Mistakes - 2012 Edition
VMUG Advantage now with… • VMUG Advantage includes access to all VMworld Session content and labs!* • *Until Dec 31 2012
Everything is all about the SDDC • The Software Defined Data Center
Running AWS workloads on vCD • Using jClouds.org and Cinderella.io S3 API EC2 API vBlob Cinderella vCloud API VM storage EC2 to vCloudCredentialMapping Table
What was mentioned a LOT • Nicira and SW-Defined Network Virtualization • VXLAN has gone GA!!!! • Dynamic Ops and the Cloud Automation Suite • vCenter Operations (vCOPS) • Storage Preview and Yellow Bricks • *Cloud was almost not mentioned at all!*
Questions?Contact:christopher.kusek@pkguild.com@cxi on TwitterLinkedIn, Facebook, etc