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VMware vSphere™

Overview

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00 vSphere Upgrade SET Document Map http://ouo.io/5qCAh

01 vSphere Services Consultant Overview http://ouo.io/qlNxm

02 vSphere Services Consultant FAQ http://ouo.io/3dW74I

03 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Service Definition Methodology (SDM) http://ouo.io/HkI8PU

04 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Delivery Reference Guide (DRG) http://ouo.io/pJ6fbj

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A4 vSphere Getting Started http://ouo.io/1ICzv

A5 vSphere Using vSphere http://ouo.io/cBMro

A6 vSphere Administration http://ouo.io/ZSNQCC

A7 vSphere PoC Installation Guide http://ouo.io/Vzvv2

A8 vSphere Jumpstart PoC Checklist http://ouo.io/pjyYAw

A9 VMware Network Port Compendium http://ouo.io/85GSiL

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B1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter-P2V Jumpstart Overview http://ouo.io/c1CBmS

B2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Overview http://ouo.io/KSrrm9

B3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Architecture http://ouo.io/V1JMp

B4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Usage http://ouo.io/Rn8MEP

C1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Project Kickoff http://ouo.io/4Z3S3Y

C2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Overview http://ouo.io/fjVSL

C3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Planning http://ouo.io/g4NaH

C4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Prerequisites Checklist http://ouo.io/8tsU5Q

C5 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Plan http://ouo.io/JhwTW

C6 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Operational Verification http://ouo.io/VSfxiv

D1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Project Kickoff http://ouo.io/Yk61R

D2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Overview http://ouo.io/xpo7m

D3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Planning http://ouo.io/aK56c

D4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Prerequisites Checklist http://ouo.io/gONL2I

D5 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Plan http://ouo.io/9B5oT7

E1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Overview http://ouo.io/ZI3Ye

E2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Architecture http://ouo.io/h0eQ2

E3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Admin and Usage http://ouo.io/JSL9WO

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Virtualization Overview

Virtualization

• Hypervisor abstracts traditional physical machine resources and runs

workloads as virtual machines (VMs)

• Each VM runs guest OS and applications

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Virtualization Overview

Hypervisor

• Partitions computing resources of a server

for multiple VMs

• Hypervisors alone lack coordination for

higher availability and efficiency

VMware vSphere

• VMware vSphere goes beyond basic host

partitioning by aggregating infrastructure

resources into a giant virtual computer

• Serves as a dynamic OS for a private

internal cloud in your datacenter

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Cloud Computing

IT as a Service

• Abstract complexity in the enterprise datacenter

• Achieve economies of scale

• Renew focus on application services

Availability

Security

Scalability

Enterprise Cloud

Cloud OS

Management

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VMware’s Vision for Cloud Computing

Pay As You Go

• Leverage external clouds as needed

Ubiquity

• Choice in external cloud providers

External Cloud

Internal Cloud

Private Cloud

App

Loads

Federation and Choice

Standards

Cloud OS

Management

Cloud OS

Management

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Key Benefits of VMware vSphere

Efficiency

• Highest utilization of resources

Control

• Automated quality of service

Choice

• Hardware independence

• Wide selection of guest OS support

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VMware vSphere

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere

Security

• Firewall

• Antivirus

• Intrusion Prevention

• Intrusion Detection

Dynamic Resource

Sizing

• Clustering

• Data Protection

• Fault Tolerance

Availability

vNetworkvStorage

Network

Management

• Storage

Management

& Replication

• Storage Virtual

Appliances

• Hardware Assist

• Enhanced Live

Migration

Compatibility

vCompute

vCenter Server

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VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New?

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4.1

Security

• AD Integration (host)

• vShield Zones

• More VMs

(per cluster, DC)

• More Hosts

(per VC, DC)

• HA Diagnostics

And Healthcheck

• vMotion Speed

and Scale

Availability

vNetworkvStorage

• Network I/O Control

• Storage I/O Control

• Storage Performance

Reporting

• Memory

Compression

• DRS

Host Affinity

vCompute

VMware vCenter™ Server (64-bit)

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vSphere 4.1 Enhanced Scalability

vSphere 4 vSphere 4.1 Ratio

VMs per host 320 320 1x

Hosts per cluster 32 32 1x

VMs per cluster 1,280 3,000 >2x

Hosts per VC 300 1,000 >3x

Registered VMs per VC 4,500 15,000 >3x

Powered-On VMs per VC 3,000 10,000 >3x

Concurrent VI Clients 30 120 4x

Hosts per DC 100 500 5x

VMs per DC 2,500 5,000 2x

Linked Mode 10,000 30,000 3x

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VMware vSphere Editions – Medium to Large Organizations

• vCenter Agent

• VCB/vStorage API

• Update Manager

• High Availability

• vMotion

• Thin Provisioning

Standard Advanced Enterprise Enterprise Plus

• Hot Add Virtual

Devices

• Fault Tolerance

• Data Recovery

• vShield Zones

• Storage vMotion

• DRS and DPM

• 4-way vSMP

• 6 cores per CPU

• 256GB RAM/Host

• vCenter Agent


• Update Manager


• vMotion


• Hot Add Virtual

Devices

• Fault Tolerance

• Data Recovery

• vShield Zones

• 4-way vSMP

• Storage vMotion

• DRS and DPM

• 8-way vSMP

• Distributed Switch

• Host Profiles

• Multipath Storage

Plug-in Support

Basic consolidation

Mission-critical Production

Large-scale management*vCenter Server licensed separately

• 256GB RAM/Host

• 12 cores per CPU

• 4-way vSMP

• 6 cores per CPU

• 256GB RAM/Host• 12 cores per CPU

• No RAM/Host Limit

*Unlicensed 60-day evaluation mode equivalent to Enterprise Plus

• vCenter Agent


• Update Manager


• vMotion


• vCenter Agent


• Update Manager


• vMotion


• Hot Add Virtual

Devices

• Fault Tolerance

• Data Recovery

• vShield Zones

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VMware vSphere Editions – Small Organizations

Essentials Essentials Plus

• 4-way vSMP

• 6 cores per CPU

• 256GB RAM/Host


• Update Manager

• vCenter Agent

• vCenter Server for

Essentials to manage

3 ESX/ESXi Hosts


• Data Recovery

• 4-way vSMP

• 6 cores per CPU

• 256GB RAM/Host


• Update Manager

• vCenter Agent

• vCenter Server for

Essentials to manage

3 ESX/ESXI Hosts

Small business

ESXi Single

• 4-way vSMP

• 6 cores per CPU

• 256GB RAM/Host


• Free License

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VMware vCenter Server Editions

Foundation Standard

• 3 ESX/ESXi host limit

• Linked Mode

• Orchestrator

For Essentials

vCenter Server is required for most vSphere features

At least 1 instance required for vSphere Editions

Included in Essentials and Essentials Plus

• 3 ESX/ESXi host limit • No ESX/ESXi host limit

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60-Day Evaluation Period Expiration Implications

Component Attempted Action After Evaluation Period

VM

Power On Not Permitted

Reset Not Permitted

Create/Delete Permitted

Suspend/Resume Permitted

Configure VM with vSphere Client Permitted

Continue Operations on Existing Hosts Permitted

VMware

ESX™/ESXi

Host

Power On/Off Permitted

Configure ESX/ESXi Host with vSphere

ClientPermitted

Restart VMs automatically per VMware HA Not Permitted

Add or Remove License Keys Permitted

vCenter Add ESX/ESXi Host Not Permitted

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Key VMware vSphere Features

VMware vMotion™

• Live migration of VMs from one host to another with zero downtime

• Used by other vSphere Features

Fault Tolerance

Storage vMotion

DRS and DPM

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Storage vMotion

• Relocate running VM from one datastore

to another datastore with zero downtime

• Relocate across different storage types

• Change VM disk format (thick or thin)OS

APP

VMware ESX/ESXi

OS

APP

OS

APP

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DRS

• Automated load balancing

DPM

• Optionally consolidate VMs

onto fewer hosts and power

off/on hosts as needed

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High Availability (HA)

• Protects VMs and automatically restarts VMs in the event of:

Host failure

VM failure (loss of heartbeat)

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Fault Tolerance (FT)

• A protected VM has a shadow VM in lockstep on another host

• Zero downtime in the event of primary host failure

• Automatic secondary protection after initial failover

VMware vSphere

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

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Distributed Switch

• Aggregated datacenter-level virtual networking (versus per-host)

• Simplified management

• Network statistics follow VMs

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

VMware vSphere

vNetwork Distributed SwitchvSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

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Host Profiles

• Simplified ESX/ESXi host configuration management

• Create “gold” reference configurations

• Compliance checks

• Remediation

Cluster

Reference

Host

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Thin Provisioning

• Virtual machine disks consume only actual

physical space in use

• Virtual machine sees full logical disk

at all times

• More efficient disk storage than

pre-allocated thick disks

VMware ESX/ESXi

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Datastore

Virtual Disks

20GB

40GB

20GB

20GB

60GB

20GB

100GB

Thick Thin Thin

40GB 100GB

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Hot Add Virtual Devices

• Hot add

CPU

Memory

• Hot add or remove

Storage devices

Network devices

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VCB/vStorage API

• Centralized, off-host VM backups

• Third-party backup vendors to leverage

Full, incremental, and differential backups

File-level backup and restore

Windows and Linux VMs

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Data Recovery

• Agentless, disk-based backups and

recovery of VMs

• VM or file-level* restore

• Incremental backups and data de-

duplication

• Built on VCB/vStorage API

• Integrated with vCenter Server interface

• Ideal for backing up small environments

(up to 100 VMs)

*experimental

OS

APP

De-duplicatedStorage

VMware ESX/ESXi

OS

APP

OS

APP

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Update Manager

• Patch and version management

Hosts

VMs

• Baseline and remediation

• Upgrade

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vShield Zones

• Monitor and enforce network traffic within and between hosts

• Maintain trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data

• Integrated with vCenter inventory

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vCenter Server Features

Linked Mode

• “Single pane of glass”

• Links multiple vCenter Server instances

• View and search combined

inventory of vCenter Server instances

• Shared licenses and roles

Replicated licenses and roles

ESXi ESX ESX ESXi ESXi ESXi ESX

vCenterServer

vCenterServer

vCenterServervCenter

ServervCenterServer

vCenterServer

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vCenter Server Features

VMware vCenter Orchestrator™

• Workflow engine

• Automate and coordinate virtualization tasks

vCenter Orchestrator

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage I/O Control

Description Benefits

• 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

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

Make Your Mission

Critical VMs VIPs

All VMs Created

Equal

Guarantee

service levels

for access to

storage

resources

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage Performance Reporting


• Granular storage reporting for improved tuning and

troubleshooting of performance

• Independent of storage architectures and protocols

Delivery of key storage

performance statistics

in vCenter

Beta Feedback“In the monitoring area,

the enhanced storage

statistics are very useful.”

Proof Point

Real-Time and

Historical

Trending for

Storage

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vSphere 4.1 – Network I/O Control


• 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 (such as iSCSI

and NFS)

Beta Feedback“The new Network I/O control

feature is very interesting for

consolidating network links with

10GbE.”

Proof Point

Guarantee

service levels

for access to

network

resources

FT vMotion NFS

vSwitch

TCP/IP

iSCSI

10 GigE

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vSphere 4.1 – Memory Compression


• Optimized use of memory (freeing up space as

needed)

• Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature

with confidence

• Reclaim performance

A new hierarchy for

VMware’s memory

overcommit technology

(a VMware key

differentiator)

Beta Feedback“Great for memory over-subscription.”

Proof Point

1,000x faster

than swap-in!

Virtual Memory (Virtual Machine)

Physical Memory (Physical Host)

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vSphere 4.1 – DRS Host Affinity

Description

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

Mandatory

Compliance

Enforcement for

Virtual

Machines

Benefits

• Tune environment according to availability,

performance, or licensing requirements

• A cloud enabler(multitenancy)

OS

APP

“Server A” “Server B”“Server B”“Server A”

4-host DRS/HA cluster

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

“A” “B” “A” “A” “B”

VMs A Servers A Only VMs B Servers B Only

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vSphere 4.1 – vMotion Performance and Scale Enhancements


• Performance and scalability

• More Live Migrations in parallel (up to 8 per host

pair)

• Elapsed time reduced by 5x on 10GbE tests

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

5x faster with

the 4.1 platform

release

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vSphere 4.1 – HA Enhancements


• Event or alarms when configuration rules are

broken

• No click status (cluster status available at all times)

• Move VMs to the best host available

• Healthcheck status

• Operational window

• Optimized interaction

with DRS

Beta Feedback“Major improvements in HA!”

Proof Point

Improving

Availability

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Features

Feature Name Description Benefit

Virtual Serial Port

Concentrator (VSPC)

Connect over the network via the

serial port concentrator to the

serial port console on any

server. This feature provides

two different ways to attain this

level of management.

• Management efficiencies

• Lower costs for multihost

management

• Enables third party

concentrator integration if

required

vStorage API for Array

Integration (VAAI)

New protocol interfaces between

VMware and storage arrays,

offering the ability to leverage

array-based functionality for the

first time

• vSphere platform integration

• Eliminate redundancy

• Enhance performance

Storage vMotion

Provisioning VMs

Thin Provisioning

VMFS

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area Description Benefit

Fault Tolerance (FT)

• DRS Interoperability for VMware HA

and Fault Tolerance (FT)

• Core VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

Enhancements

• Enhanced Network Logging

Performance

• Optimized VM placement in FT or HA Scenario

• Versioning-control to run on FT-compatible hosts

at different but compatible patch levels.

• Improved throughput and reduced CPU usage

Host Profiles

• Cisco Nexus 1000v support

• PCI device ordering (support for

selecting NICs)

• iSCSI support

• Admin password (setting root

password)

• PSA configuration

• Enhanced Configurations Choices

• Compliance

• Expanded deployment

Active Directory

Integration (host)

Seamless user authentication at the ESX

or ESXi host (rather than vCenter Server)

for centralized user management.

Easily assign privileges to users or groups, and roll out

permission rules across hosts

Expanded HCL

Support for more operating systems,

devices, applications, and service

providers than any other virtualization

platform (including new support for third

party serial port concentrators, enhanced

management, and the latest x86

processors on the market).

More choice for end users

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area Description Benefit

Cisco

Nexus 1000V

• Easier software upgrade

• Weighted Fair Queuing (s/w

scheduler)

• Increased scalability

• Scale port profiles > 512

• Ease of use

• Cisco’s version of Network I/O Control

• See virtual switch scale numbers below

Network• IPv6 – NIST compliance

• Performance and scale

• Compliance with Host Profiles for government

agencies

• Enable up to 350 hosts to attach to the virtual

switch (up from 64)

Storage• iSCSI offload

• 8GB HBAPerformance

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