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Evolve to SimplicityVMware Leads the Way

1999

The Client

Hypervisor

2000

The Server

Hypervisor

2003

Virtual Infrastructure

2009+

The Cloud

OS

VMware vSphere™

Foundation for Internal and

External Clouds


Application Services

Infrastructure Services

VMware vSphere™ –The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System

Scalability

Dynamic Resource Sizing

Network Management

vSphere 4.0

Firewall

Anti-virus

Intrusion Prevention

Intrusion Detection

Security

Clustering

Data Protection

Availability

vNetwork

StorageManagement & Replication

Storage Virtual Appliances

vStorage

Hardware Assist

Enhanced Live Migration Compatibility

vCompute


vNetwork

Network Management

vStorage

Hardware assist

Extended Live Migration Compatibility

vCompute

Infrastructure Services DeliverCapEx and OpEx Savings

Highest consolidation ratios in the industryMost efficient use of hardware resources

Low operational overhead

Storage/network optimizationsPower ManagementVMDirectPath I/O

CPU/Memory optimizationDRS

vStorage Thin ProvisioningVolume Grow

vStorage VMFS

vNetwork Distributed SwitchThird party distributed virtual switches

vNetwork Standard Switch

CU

RR

EN

TN

EW

Storage Management& Replication

Storage Virtual Appliances


OS

APP

OS

APP

Storage

Networking

Virtual Machines

CPU

Memory

64 cores and 512 GB of physical RAMHardware Scale Up

Lowest CPU overhead Hardware Assist

Purpose Built Scheduler

Maximum memory efficiency Hardware Assist

Page Sharing

Ballooning

Wirespeed network access VMXNET3

VMDirectPath I/O

Greater than 200k iops per secondLower than 20 microsecond latencyStorage stack optimization

VMDirectPath I/O

Virtual hardware scale out 8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM per VM

VM Scale Up

Current NEW

ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

“Speeds and Feeds”Optimization for the Highest Consolidation Ratios

vCompute vStorage vNetwork


iSCSI Maximums

.9

9.1

ESX 3.5 ESX 4.01VM

23%

86%

Network Transmit Potential Gains

4VM 8VM 16VM

14%

59%

iSCSI Max GbpsPerformance increase in ESX 4.0 over ESX 3.5

I/O Throughput Optimizationsfor Business Critical Applications


Relative Scaling Ratio

51.08

1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU

45.22

94.04

79.88

147.24

133.12

VM

Native

ESX 4.0 Performance with SQL Server 2008

ESX achieves 90% of native performance on 4.0 vCPU VMWorkload transaction latency unchanged between ESX 4.0 and Native


OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers when the cluster needs fewer resources

Places unneeded servers in standby mode

Brings servers back online as workload needs increase

ESX supports Intel Speed Step/AMD Power now for individual host power optimization

Minimizes power consumption while guaranteeing service levels

No disruption or downtime to virtual machines

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

VMware vSphere™

Green IT withVMware vSphere™ Power Optimization Features

DPM powers off server when requirements are lower

DPM brings servers back online when load increases



Virtual machine disks consume only the amount of physical space in use

Virtual machine sees full logical disk size at all times

Full reporting and alerting on allocation and consumption

Significantly improve storage utilization

Eliminate need to over-provision virtual disks

Reduce storage costs by up to 50%

vStorage Thin ProvisioningvCompute vStorage vNetwork

ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Datastore

Virtual Disks

20GB

40GB

20GB

20GB

60GB

20GB

100GB

Thick Thin Thin40GB 100GB


Hot Virtual Disk ExtendExpand virtual disks online

Respond quickly to growing requirements without downtime

VMFS Volume GrowExpand VMFS Volume on the same LUN it was created

Facilitate adding more virtual machines to an existing volume

Facilitate data growth for the virtual machines

Increase flexibility to simplify capacity planning

Efficient Storage Abstraction with VMFS


ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Datastore

Virtual Disks 20GB

100GBLUN

Extend 10G of virtual disk

Add new virtual disk

VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore

Extend 8G of virtual disk

20GB

No change to datastore

VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore

40GB


Next generation evolution of VMware Consolidated Backup

Centralized off-host backup of virtual machines

No additional software on backup server

Enables incremental, differential, and full-image backup and restore of virtual machines

File-level backup support for Windows and Linux virtual machines

Delivers efficient backup without loading ESX servers

vStorage APIs for Data Protection

* Note: vSphere 4.0 includes and supports VCB 1.5 U1. New features are only available with products supporting vStorage APIs for Data Protection



vNetwork Distributed Switch


Aggregated datacenter level virtual networking

Simplified setup and change

Easy troubleshooting, monitoring and debugging

Enables transparent third party management of virtual environments

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

VMware vSphere™

vNetwork Distributed Switch

vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

Cisco Nexus 1000V

2009


VMware Fault Tolerance

Single identical VMs running in lockstep on separate hosts

Zero downtime, zero data loss failover for all virtual machines in case of hardware failures

Zero downtime, zero data loss

No complex clustering or specialized hardware required

Single common mechanism for all applications and OS-es

Availability Security Scalability

VMware vSphere™

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APPX


OS

APPX

Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

VMware Data Recovery

Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

Agent-less, disk-based backup and recovery of your VMs

VM or file level restore

Incremental backups and data de-dupe to save disk space

Quick, simple and complete data protection for your VMs

Centralized Management through VirtualCenter

Cost Effective Storage Management

De-duplicatedStorage


ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP


Protection Engine

VMware vSphere™

VMware VMsafe• API that enables protection of

VMs by inspection of virtual components in conjunction with hypervisor

• Isolation of protection engine from malware

• Broad ranging coverage of virtual machine CPU, memory, storage and network

Application

Operating System


Evolve to Simplicity Availability Security Scalability

VMware vShield Zones

Self-learning, self-configuring firewall Service

VMotion and network-configuration aware trust zones

Dynamic firewall policy using application protocol awareness

Dynamic security capacity using infrastructure vServices

Security policies auto-adapt to network reconfiguration or upgrades

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

VMware vSphere™


DRS Ensures Capacity on Demand


Shrink and grow of applications based on demand and priority

Dynamic and responsive load balancingVMware vSphere™

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP


Scale Up Applications for Assured QoSAvailability Security Scalability

Scalable virtual machines

Hot add of

CPU

Memory

Hot add and remove

Storage devices

Network devices

Hot Extend virtual disks

Zero downtime scale up of virtual machines

64 GB

4 CPUs

255 GB

8 CPUs

OS

APP

Evolve to SimplicityNext Generation Management Enhances Control

vCenterSuite

Application Services

Infrastructure Services

Scalability

vSphere 4.0

SecurityAvailability

vNetworkvStoragevCompute

Management


vApp

vApp – Self Describing ApplicationsEnable Automated SLA Management

Availability

Security

Scalability

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Scalability

Dynamic Resource Sizing

Security

ClusteringData Protection

Availability

FirewallAnti-virusIntrusion DetectionIntrusion Prevention


Hardware

vSphere

Extensible Management Suite

SLA Driven Management

Model

Availability

99.99%

Security

High

Performance

.2 Milliseconds

VMwarevCenterSuite

Infrastructure Management

Self Service Management

Self Service Portal Service Catalogue Billing/Chargeback

Provisioning Configuration Capacity Operations Performance Availability


What is VMware vCenter Server?

Evolve to SimplicityvCenter Server: A Key Infrastructure Component

A universal hub for virtualization management


Infrastructure Monitoring & Troubleshooting What’s New

• Hardware Monitoring (CIM)

• Storage Maps & Reports• Resource Usage Stats• vCenter Service Status

What’s Improved • Performance Charts• Events and Alarms

User Interface

What’s New• vCenter Home Menu• Inventory Search• Storage VMotion GUI• License Reporting

Deep Visibility into the Virtual Infrastructure


Redesigned User Interface: vCenter Home Menu

• Easier navigation

• Globally accessible search controls


“End-to-End” Visibility, Health Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

vCenter Server

VMware ESXi

VM

OS OS OS

VMVM

App App App

Manage

vCenter Server Heartbeat Service Status Monitoring

vCenter AppSpeed

PerfMon DLL from VMware

Performance Charts Events and Alarms Resource Usage Statistics

Storage Maps and Configuration Reports

Hardware Monitoring with CIM SMASH


Deeper Visibility With Expanded Alarm Support

Expanded support for managed entities: Virtual machines Hosts Clusters Datacenters Datastores Networks Distributed Switches Distributed Port Groups


Wide Variety of Pre-Defined Alarms Derived from Best Practices

• Examples of Pre-Defined Alarms:• Hardware failure• Host connectivity• Host resource utilization • VM resource over-utilization• Loss of availability protection• Licensing• Can define additional alarms for:• Change tracking• Security auditing• Additional physical and virtual

failure detection


Deeper Visibility With Expanded Alarm Support

New Alarm Actions Alarm

Acknowledgements Repeating alarm

actions


Using Alarms to Enable Automated RemediationNew alarm actions

… enable creation of new automated remediation workflows

Migrate VM Reboot Guest / Host Enter / Exit Maintenance Mode Shutdown Guest / Host Enter / Exit Standby

Monitor VMware ESX hardware

• Host Hardware Temperature

Trigger Alarm Action

• Enter Maintenance Mode


Storage Monitoring and Troubleshooting:Capacity Utilization How much snapshot space does a VM consume? How much space on a datastore is used for snapshots?

Storage Usage Reports


Storage Monitoring and Troubleshooting:Capacity Utilization

New VM Alarms:• VM Total size on disk (GB)• VM Snapshot size (GB)

New Datastore Alarms:• Datastore disk usage %• Datastore Disk Overallocation %• Datastore connection to all hosts


Storage Monitoring and Troubleshooting:Storage Connectivity and Configuration

Which datastores are from which LUN target in the SAN?Does the storage, used by VM, have redundant paths?

Storage Reports

Storage Maps


Enhanced Performance Charts Simplify Troubleshooting Side-by-side performance charts in a single view Correlation and drill-down capabilities Richer set of performance metrics

Aggregated Usage

Key Metrics Displayed


Analyzing Performance from Inside a VM

Perfmon DLLAccess key host statistics inside the guestView “accurate” CPU utilization along side observed CPU utilizationThird-parties can instrument their agents to access these counters using WMIIntegrated with VMware Tools

Host Counters


“End-to-End” Visibility, Health Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

vCenter Server

VMware ESXi

VM

OS OS OS

VMVM

App App App

Manage

vCenter Server Heartbeat Service Status Monitoring

vCenter AppSpeed

PerfMon DLL from VMware

Performance Charts Events and Alarms Resource Usage Statistics

Storage Maps and Configuration Reports

Hardware Monitoring with CIM SMASH


Scalable Architecture What’s New

• Enterprise Scalability• vCenter Linked Mode• .Net Extension Support

Scalable and Extensible Management Platform


vCenter Server: Scalable Management Platform

Feature vCenter Server 2.5

Enterprise Scalability

• 200 ESX/ESXi Hosts per vCenter Server

• 2000 VMs per vCenter Server

VMware HA Clusters

• Up to 32 hosts

VMware DRS Clusters

• Up to 32 hosts

vCenter 4.0• 300 ESX/ESXi Hosts per vCenter Server

• 3000 VMs per vCenter Server

• Integration between multiple vCenter Servers with Linked Mode

• Up to 32 hosts and 320 VMs

• Up to 32 hosts and 320 VMs


vCenter Linked Mode: Enhanced Scalability

Log in simultaneously to all vCenter Servers

Search the inventories of all vCenter Servers

View inventories of all vCenter Servers

Cannot migrate hosts or virtual machines between vCenter Server systems in Linked Mode


vCenter Linked Mode Architecture

VMware Infrastructure Client

vCenter Instance

vCenterServer

TomcatWeb

Service

ADAM Instance

vCenter Instance

vCenterServer

TomcatWeb

Service

ADAM Instance

vCenter Instance

vCenterServer

TomcatWeb

Service

ADAM Instance

Connection information

Certificates and thumbprints

Licensing information

User roles


Searching Across Multiple vCenter Servers

VMware Infrastructure Client

vCenter Server Instance

TomcatWeb Service

ADAM Instance

TomcatWeb Service

ADAM Instance

TomcatWeb Service

ADAM Instance

vCenterServer

vCenterServer

vCenterServer

vCenter Server InstancevCenter Server Instance

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4

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Better Management and Control with Automation

Automation What’s New

• Host Profiles• vCenter Server

Heartbeat• vCenter Orchestrator

What’s Improved • vCenter Update Manager• Guided Consolidation


VMware ESX Deployments Today

Maintaining configuration consistency and correctness requires increasing amounts of time and expertise


Using Host Profiles for Automated Provisioning & Compliance Management

Host ProfileMemory Reservation

Storage

Networking

Date and Time

Firewall

Security

Services

Users and User Groups

Security

ClusterReference Host1

2

3

4

5


vCenter Server Heartbeat

Hardware Failures

NetworkFailures

OSFailures

ApplicationFailures

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vCenter Server

vCenter Server Heartbeat

Evolve to SimplicityvCenter Server Heartbeat: Ensure Availability for the vCenter Server Platform

• Protects the mission critical functionality of your VMware Infrastructure

• Proactive identification and resolution of threats to vCenter Server availability

• Protects vCenter Server against hardware, OS, network, application failures and configuration errors


Automate Workflows with vCenter Orchestrator

• Capture and Automate Best Practices

• Leverage Out the Box Workflows for VI tasks

• Integrate with VMware and 3rd party products


vCenter Update Manager: What’s Coming

• Automated host, VM and VMware Tools upgrades

• Patch staging in distributed environments

• Patch compliance dashboard

• PowerShell integration


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what's new with vsphere 4

Technology

increase esx

fewer servers

image backup

datastorevmfs volume

vstorage apis

efficient storage abstraction

sql server

standby modebrings servers