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

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

“Reaction Guys” Meme

No more “vRAM tax”!

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

VMware vSphere Licensing changes

• Now included with Standard Edition and above– Fault Tolerance (FT)– vSphere Replication – vShield Zones– 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

Distributed Switches

Larger VM hardware for Mission- Critical Applications

vMotion without Shared Storage

vSphere Data Protection

vSphere Replication

vShield Endpoint

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 to in 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.

VMware vCloud Director Suite Information

• 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

Challenges of traditional Recovery methods

How SRM complements vSphere

Required Components of SRM

Broad Replication Choices

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) statehttp://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)

Persona Management

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

Technology Overview

Impact of Anti-Virus products on VMware View deployments

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%

~35%

<15% to 25% (Needs more testing according to VRC)

Lessons Learned from deploying any AV with virtual desktops

• Disable Schedule Scans of State– But Pre-Scan Image before deploying image for a huge improvement

• Disable “Scan on Read” or force “Scan on Modify”• “Disable Heuristics” and “Disable Buffer overflow”

– May need to be reviewed with your security group• Perform exclusions when possible• Review AV Vendors best practices for deployment with virtual desktops• Trend Micro’s Smart Scan (cloud) has high impact on desktops• If using a hypervisor scanner, offload to another host from the virtual

desktops

Final White Paper will be published by Project VRC @ http://www.projectvrc.com/

Time Permitting….

VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Intelligent Remedition

VMware vCenter Operations Manager

http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/compare-editions.html

Expo Hall• VMware Operations Manager

– VMware product specific management software

– Oversized VMs, underperforming VMs, poor performing storage volumes

• NetApp OnCommand Balance– Optimize performance and capacity of

physical and virtual infrastructure– Storage vendor independent (not just for

NetApp storage

Exhibit Hall• Splunk

– Event log/Syslog data mining – Troubleshoot application problems and investigate security incidents

• Login VSI– Small to large scale Virtual Desktop or Server Based Computing performance testing

tool– Simulate users to identify bottlnecks in your configuration or application before users

start using the system

• EG Innovations– Application and infrastructure monitoring – Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, and right-size your infrastructure

Exhibit Hall• NetApp

– Edge – Virtual Appliance with NetApp ONTAP• 10TB Limit, Source for replication, not target, includes iSCSI, NFS and CIFS protocols

– OnCommand Balance• Storage agnostic • Storage optimization/performance monitoring /troubleshooting• End to end virtual infrastructure and physical servers to the storage disks

• Nutanix– Purpose built servers and storage for virtualization– 4 Nodes (2 CPU/6 cores/up to 192GB of RAM) in a 2U Chassis with FusionIO

SSD and 10TB usable SATA

Thanks• Thanks for attending

• Please contact your account representative if you have any questions or would like to have a more detailed conversation about any of these topic