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vSphere 4.1 What’s New

vSphere 4.1 What’s New. Tim McCormley – Sr. Systems Engineer July 22, 2010. Application Services. VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New?. Infrastructure Services. vCenter Server (64-bit). HA Diagnostics And Healthcheck vMotion Speed and Scale. AD Integration (host) vShield Zones.

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vSphere 4.1 What’s New

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  1. vSphere 4.1 What’s New Tim McCormley – Sr. Systems Engineer July 22, 2010

  2. Application Services VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New? • Infrastructure Services • vCenter Server (64-bit) • HA Diagnostics • And Healthcheck • vMotion Speed • and Scale • AD Integration (host) • vShield Zones • More VMs • (per cluster, DC) • More Hosts • (per VC, DC) Security Scalability Availability VMware vSphere 4.1 vNetwork vCompute vStorage • Memory Compression • DRS • Host Affinity • Network I/O Control • Storage I/O Control • Storage Performance • Reporting

  3. vSphere 4.1 Delivers “Cloud Scale” • 32 hosts / cluster • 320 VMs / host • 3,000 VMs / cluster (2x) • 1000 hosts / vCenter (>3x) • 10,000 VMs / vCenter (>3x) 99% of VMware’s 170K Customers Can Run Their Entire Datacenter in a Single VMware Cluster* * See notes section

  4. Enhanced Scalability Defined 4

  5. vSphere 4.1 – Storage I/O Control Description Set storage quality of service priorities per virtual machine Beta Feedback “I really feel that the Storage I/O Control is a must have for our environment and we should move forward without delay.” Proof Point • Prioritized use of storage (similar to how compute is prioritized with vSphere) • Improved application performance • Business priorities now define low and high priority storage resource access • Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs Benefits All VMs created equal Make Your Mission Critical VMs VIPs Guarantee service levels for access to storageresources

  6. vSphere 4.1 – Storage Performance Reporting Description Benefits Delivery of key storage performance statistics in vCenter Beta Feedback “In the monitoring area, the enhanced storage statistics are very useful” Proof Point • Granular storage reporting for improved tuning and troubleshooting of performance • Independent of storage architectures and protocols Real-Time and Historical Trending for Storage

  7. vSphere 4.1 – Network I/O Control Description • Prioritized use of network, especially in 10 GbE environments (similar to how compute is prioritized with vSphere) • Improved application performance • Business priorities now define low and high priority network resource access as needed • Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs Set network quality of service priorities per flow type (iSCSI, NFS, etc.) Beta Feedback “The new Network I/O control feature is very interesting for consolidating network links with 10GbE.” Proof Point Benefits iSCSI FT vMotion NFS TCP/IP vSwitch Guarantee service levels for access to network resources 10 GigE

  8. vSphere 4.1 – Memory Compression Description A new hierarchy for VMware’s memory overcommit technology (a VMware key differentiator) Beta Feedback “Great for memory over-subscription.” Proof Point • Optimized use of memory (freeing up space as needed) • Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature with confidence • Reclaim Performance Benefits Physical Memory (Physical Host) 1,000x faster than swap-in! Virtual Memory (Virtual Machine)

  9. “A” “B” “A” “A” “B” “Server A” “Server A” “Server B” “Server B” VMs A  Servers A Only VMs B  Servers B Only vSphere 4.1 – DRS Host Affinity Description Benefits • Tune environment according to availability, performance, and/or licensing requirements • A cloud enabler(multi-tenancy) Set granular policies that define only certain virtual machine movements Beta Feedback “Awesome, we can separate VMs between data centers or blade enclosures with DRS host affinity rules” Proof Point APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS Mandatory Compliance Enforcement for Virtual Machines 4-host DRS/HA cluster

  10. vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Features

  11. vSphere vSphere vSphere 4.1 – vMotion Performance and Scale Enhancements Description Adding “Cloud Scale” to online virtual machine migration (a VMware key differentiator) Beta Feedback “This release product has some nice benefits in particular increased vMotion capabilities.” Proof Point • Performance and Scalability • More Live Migrations in Parallel (up to 8 per host pair) • Elapsed time reduced by 5x on 10GbE tests Benefits 5x faster with the 4.1 platform release

  12. vSphere 4.1 – HA Enhancements Description • Healthcheck status • Operational window • Optimized interaction with DRS • Beta Feedback • “Major improvements in HA!” • Proof Point • Event or alarms when configuration rules are broken • No click status (cluster status available at all times) • Move VMs to the best host available Benefits Adding Another “9” to Availability

  13. vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

  14. vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

  15. Questions?

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