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VMware Infrastructure 3 Overview

Agenda

• Introductions

• VMware Infrastructure 3 Overview

• Solutions, Use Cases

• Demonstration

Introductions

• Aaron Porzondek from Analysts International

• Service Area Manager and Principal Consultant for the Infrastructure Solutions Practice

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

• Steering Committee Member of the Great Lakes Business Recovery Group (GLBRG)

• Great Lakes Business Recovery Group is a non-profit mutual benefit association of Midwestern area individuals responsible for contingency and disaster recovery planning.

Agenda

• Introductions



• Demonstration

VMware at a Glance

• Founded

• Total Employees

• Number of Users

• Key Partnerships

• # Channel Partners

• Customer Profile

• Operating Structure

• Publicly Traded

1998

3,000+

Independent EMC Subsidiary

IPO in August 2007 (NYSE:VMW)

20,000+

5,000+

AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel

100% of the Fortune 100

The Virtualization Market Has Matured…

1999-2001 1999-2001

2003-20052003-2005

2006 + ...2006 + ...

AutomationAggregationAvailability Optimization

CentralManagement

Enterprise-Class Virtualization

System Partitioning

CentralManagement

Enterprise-Class Virtualization

System Partitioning

System Partitioning

1st GenerationSingle System

Hypervisor-basedStack

1st GenerationSingle System

Hypervisor-basedStack

3rd Gen…Infrastructure-wide

Virtualization

3rd Gen…Infrastructure-wide

Virtualization

2nd GenerationVirtual Infrastructure2nd Generation

Virtual Infrastructure

Traditional Intel Architecture

Intel Architecture with VMware

Virtual machines are the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine

Virtualized Hardware

Virtualization as a Resource Multiplier

4-way Server

6GB Memory

Run up to 32 Virtual

Machines !

Allocate up to 12 GB Virtual

Machine Memory !

Physical Virtualized

All physical resources are shared by virtual machines resulting in a resource multiplier effect

2 HBAs (paired)

2 NICs (paired)

Create and allocate up to 32 Virtual Disks !

Create and allocate up to 16 Virtual NICs !

Physical Virtualized

• Runs directly on hardware

• Manages resource allocations

• Strong fault and security isolation

• High performance device drivers

“Hostless” Architecture - ESX Server

Products like Windows Virtual Server and VMware Server (Free) are hosted virtualization architectures. Rely on a host OS like Windows or Linux

Resource Pools

Aggregate collections of disparate hardware resources into unified logical resource pools

• Customer Impact

• Failed server mean less resources

not a failed application

• Dedicated (virtual) infrastructure for

each business unit; central IT

retains control over hardware

• Delegation of resource and virtual

machine management down to the

business unit

• Management of an entire SOA

application stack as a single entityServers, Storage, Networking

Business Unit

Department A Department B

Aggregate Resources

Resource Pool 2CPU 36GHz, Mem 58GB

Priority HIGH

Resource Pool 3CPU 12GHz, Mem 22GB

Priority LOW

CPU 48 GHz, Mem 80GB

Live Migration Of Virtual Machines with VMotion

•What is it?• Live migration of virtual machines with VMware VMotion

•Customer Impact• Zero downtime

• Continuous service availability

• Complete transaction integrity

• Supported on Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN and NAS

VMotion - How Does it Work?

• VMware’s clustered Virtual

Machine File System (VMFS)

allows multiple installations of

ESX Server to access the same

virtual machine files concurrently.

• Second, the active memory and

precise execution state of the

virtual machine is rapidly

transferred over a high speed

network, allowing the virtual

machine to instantaneously

switch from running on the

source ESX Server to the

destination ESX Server.

Resource Optimization with VMware DRS

• What is it?

• Dynamic balancing of computing resources across resource pools

• Intelligent resource allocation based on pre-defined rules

• Customer Impact

• Align IT resources with business priorities

• Operational simplicity; dramatically increase system administrator productivity

• Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load

• Automate hardware maintenance

Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources to ensure optimal alignment between business and IT

Resource Pool

Business Demand

Capacity on Demand with VMware DRS

•Provisioning is “fire and forget”

•Easily add more capacity

•Avoid over-provisioning to peak load

Add hardware dynamically

Resource PoolCPU 36GHz, Mem 58GB

Priority HIGH

Resource PoolCPU 50 GHz, Mem 70GB

Priority HIGH

Ensure High availability with VMware HA

• What is it?• Automatic restart of virtual

machines in case of server failure

• Customer Impact• Cost effective high availability for

all applications

• No need for dedicated stand-by hardware

• None of the cost and complexity of clustering

VMware HA enables cost-effective high availability for all applications

Resource Pool

X

Unparalleled Memory Management

Transparent Page Sharing

Memory ballooning

• RAM Over-Commitment• VMware memory management technology

allows an average of 2:1 memory over

commit (and oftentimes greater)

• 8GB physical memory can be 16GB of

virtual memory.

• Transparent Page Sharing• Utilize available memory more efficiently

by storing memory pages identical across

multiple virtual machines only once.

Host System Memory is usually the bottleneck

Agenda

• Introductions



• Demonstration

VMware Infrastructure – Key Solutions / Use Cases

Server Consolidation and Containment – Eliminate server sprawl by deploying systems into virtual machines

Test and Development – Rapidly provision and re-provision test and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured test machines

Enterprise Desktop – Secure unmanaged PCs. Alternatively, provide standardized enterprise desktop environments hosted on servers.

Business Continuity – Reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity by encapsulating entire systems files that can be replicated and restored onto any target server

Infrastructure Provisioning – Reduce the time for provisioning new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation capabilities.

Legacy Application Re-hosting – Migrate legacy operating systems and software applications to virtual machines running on new hardware for better reliability

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Explosion in # of Physical& Logical components

+

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Mainframe Unix x86

Source: IBM Scorpion, VMware Internal

Relative CPU Utilization

Low x86 Utilization…Becoming Even Lower (i.e. Multicore)

• Dramatic increases in dedicated, under-utilized IT assets• Management of servers is costly and complex• Inflexibility makes it hard to meet business needs

Evolution of Server Computing

Enterprise Workloads

• 16 GB RAM

• Up to 4 virtual CPUs

• Support for powerful physical servers with up to 32 logical CPU and 64 GB RAM

Run the most resource intensive enterprise applications such as databases, CRM and ERP applications in virtual machines

Proven in Production

85% of VMware customers use server virtualization in production1

43% set virtualization as a default policy for most new production servers1

49% of VMware customers have deployed VMotion live migration in

production1

VMware: Fully proven in real-world production deployments

1 Source: Management Insights Dec 2006 (commissioned by VMware, Inc.); N = 2228 VMware customers

1 Source: Management Insights Dec 2006 (commissioned by VMware, Inc.); N = 2228 VMware customers

• 1,000 servers with DASD

• 200 racks

• 3000 network cables

• 400 power whips

• 50 servers with SAN and NAS

• 10 racks

• 300 network cables

• 20 power whips

Before After

Server, Storage and Network Consolidation Customer Example - TXU

VirtualCenter - Key Functionality

7

Programmatic Interfaces

Virtual Machine and Server

Management

1

Provisioning

2

Migration

3

Resource Management

4

System Monitoring

5

Security and Access Control

6

Centralized Management

333 servers replaced per yearappr. 10,000 man/hrs saved

From 20-40 hrs to build a server and re-load application…

1. Build and configure hardware

2. Load operating system

3. Load configuration tools (Backup, Resource Kit, Monitoring, etc…)

4. Assign 2 IP addresses

5. Build 3 network connections, copper or fiber

6. Turn over to applications team to re-load and re-configure software

7. Test applications

8. Coordinate outage / data migration

…To 15-30 min to copy a virtual machine and restart

1. Redirect virtual disk to new VMware virtual machine instance[Tools already loaded][Application already loaded, configured]

2. Done

Before After

Instant ProvisioningCustomer Example - TXU

HP Servers

Dell Servers

Production Environment: 400+ VMs on

68 Physical ESX Servers

Back-Up/DR Environment: 400+ VMs on

50 Physical ESX Servers

Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site

Customer Example: Rapid Disaster Recovery

Reduced recovery time from >20 hours to <20 minutes

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Users:• Outsourced call centers• Offshore developers• Branch office consolidation• Desktop disaster recovery

• Value: Central management, increased security, strong user isolation

• Products: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables enterprises to host desktop virtual

machines in their data center on VMware software and provide users access

from a PC or thin client using a remote display protocol.

Agenda

• Introductions



• Demonstration

Aaron PorzondekService Area ManagerAnalysts International

(248) 232-5105 (Office)[email protected]

Email me to request a copy of the presentation.

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