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So You Missed VMWorld 2012? Agile360, a division of Entisys Solutions Inc. Agenda. VMware vSphere Licensing changes VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates Software defined datacenters – What are they and how will they help you? VMware vCloud Director Suite Information
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So You Missed VMWorld 2012? Agile360, a division of Entisys Solutions Inc.
Agenda • VMware vSphere Licensing changes • VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates • Software defined datacenters – What are they and how will they help you? • VMware vCloud Director Suite Information • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - What's New and Technical Overview • VMware View Updates (including Wanova acquisition update) • Impact of Anti-Virus products on VMware View deployments
VMware vSphere Licensing changes • vRAM Tax is gone!!! • 4.0 had the “Core Tax” (mostly AMD chipsets back then) • 5.0 had the “vRAM Tax” • Requires upgrade to vSphere 5.0 No more “vRAM tax”! “Reaction Guys” Meme http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
VMware vSphere Licensing changes • Now included with Standard Edition and above • Fault Tolerance (FT) • vSphereReplication • vShieldZones • vShield Endpoints • Storage vMotion http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates Available for download as of 9/11/2012
Other Enhancements • vMotion Enhancements • One action for vMotion and Storage vMotion without Shared Storage • Enhanced Web Client • Expect this to be last Virtual Infrastructure Client for Windows (everything is going to Web Client) • Single Sign-On for multiple vCenters • vOrchestator updates • Enhanced workflows for VM automation processes • Launch workflows from with Web Client http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Other Enhancements • Virtual Machine Updates • Windows 8 Server and Desktop Support • Enhanced CPU Virtualization (Example: Microsoft XP Mode on Windows 7/8) • 64 vCPUs and 1TB of RAM • Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics • 3D graphics card support for Windows 7/8 based VMware View desktops on VMware vSphere • NVIDIA only http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Other Enhancements • Enhanced Auto Deploy • Stateless (AKA Diskless) • Stateless Caching Mode • Stateful Install Mode • VM Tools Compatibility • Notification in client letting you know what level of ESX host compatibility the VM Tools will allow http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Software defined datacenters – What are they and how will they help you?
What is it? • Term Coined by VMware for the basis of cloud computing (private and public). • Four Key Elements: Computing, Network, Storage and Security • It allows its tenants to have their own virtual datacenter with an isolated collection of all the compute, storage, networking, and security resources that they are used toin a traditional Datacenter. • Hardware independent platform that is served up by the hypervisor.
How will it help you. • The “Datacenter” can grow and shrink to efficiently use physical resources. • No upfront hardware cost to you. • Resources on demand • Time to deploy these resources can be orders of magnitude faster than in most of today’s IT environments.
Licensing • VMware vCloud Director requires VMware vSphere Enterprise edition or higher licenses and at least one instance of vCenter Server Standard • Enables “Virtual Datacenters” • vCloud Networking and Security Technologies • Isolated Multi-tenant Organizations • Self-service Web Portal • VMware vCenter Single Sign-On • Integrated vSphere Profile-Driven Storage and vSphere Storage DRS
Support for 64 Virtual CPU’s and 1 TB of memory • Simplified software defined networking. • Compute, storage and networking now can be created in a single workflow, enabling administrators to deploy a complete infrastructure in minutes • Now able to take a snapshot of a single virtual machine or an entire vApp. After a snapshot has been taken, a user easily can revert to that point in time when it was taken.
VCNS Gateways provide the following services: • Load Balancing • DNS • Firewall • NAT • DHCP • Additional Documentation • For more information about VMware vCloud Director, visit the product pages at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html. • You can access the documentation for vCloud Director by going to: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) What's New and Technical Overview
Other SRM 5.1 Updates • Updates for known issues • SRM 5.1 supports reprotect and failback with array based and vSphere Replication • SRM 5.1 is now fully 64-bit • Improved disk resignaturing for VFMS disks • Improved handling of datastores in the all paths down (APD) state http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-0.html#whatsnew
So do I buy SRM or just use vSphere Replication by itself? • vSphere Replication • No DR orchestration, purely replication (No automated failover or failback procedures) • Expect increase in RAM and CPU utilization needed to manage the replication (less VM density per host) • Can migrate VM Protection configurations to SRM • Can be great for Branch Office to Datacenter Replication or for keeping copies of local VMDK VMs replicated to another host with local disk • No Orchestration of DR Events • Less VM Density per host • Can be migrated to SRM
VMware View Updates (including Wanova acquisition update)
Wanova Mirage • Now called VMware Mirage • Still appears to be licensed seperaly then View • Did show VMware View integration at keynote
Key Features • Centralized single image management with local execution • Total image recovery • Fill bi-directional network optimization and integrated deduplication • Integrated PC break-fix and troubleshooting • User initiated backup and restore • Automated OS and Hardware migration
Project Virtual Reality Checkhttp://www.projectvrc.com/ • Independent Consultants from Europe • Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO - Login Consultants • Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer - PQR • Sven Huisman, Consultant - PQR • Standardized testing using Login VSI and standard applications (Office, IE, Acrobat, Flash, etc.) to simulate load • Same tests leverage by HP, Dell, IBM, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco, VCE, etc.
Tested Anti-Virus Solutions (Work in progress) • Traditional AV Scanners • McAfee Enterprise 8 • Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 • Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.6 • Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 • Hypervisor based scanners • McAfee MOVE AV 2.0 • Trend Micro Deep Security Scan Symantec 12.1.2 with vShield Endpoint integration was not released yet
Maximum number of desktops: Stateless desktops <5% <10% when optimized ~5% offloaded to 15% on host ~13% to 25% <15% to 25% ~35%
Maximum number of desktops: Stateful desktops <5% <10% when optimized ~5% offloaded to 15% on host ~13% to 25% <15% to 25% (Needs more testing according to VRC) <15% to 25% ~35%