What’s New in vSphere 4.0: Technical Overview

1. What’s New in vSphere 4.0:Technical Overview

2. There are Three Building Blocks for the Private Cloud Mobility SLA-Driven Management Private Cloud Management Management Federation & Standards App Loads App Loads App Loads App Loads App Loads Cloud OS Cloud OS ‘Software Mainframe’ Internal Clouds ExternalClouds 1 2 3

3. VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers

4. Application Services Infrastructure Services VMware vSphere™ – The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System • Dynamic Resource Sizing • Firewall • Anti-virus • Intrusion Prevention • Intrusion Detection • Clustering • Data Protection Security Scalability Availability vSphere 4.0 vCompute vStorage vNetwork • Network Management • Hardware Assist • Enhanced Live Migration Compatibility • StorageManagement & Replication • Storage Virtual Appliances

5. Infrastructure Services Deliver CapEx and OpEx Savings Highest consolidation ratios in the industry Most efficient use of hardware resources Low operational overhead

6. 8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM per VM • 64 cores and 1 TB physical RAM • Hardware Scale Up • Lowest CPU overhead • Hardware Assist • Purpose Built Scheduler • Hardware Assist • Page Sharing • Ballooning • Maximum memory efficiency • Wirespeed network access • VMXNET3 • VMDirectPath I/O • Greater than 200k iops per secondLower than 200 microsecond latency • Storage stack optimization • VMDirectPath I/O “Speeds & Feeds” Optimization for Highest Consolidation Ratios Virtual Machines • VM Scale Up • Virtual hardware scale out APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS ESX vCompute vStorage vNetwork CPU Memory Networking Storage Current NEW

7. Scheduled Task to Change Resource Settings Home > Management > Scheduled Tasks > Add vCompute vStorage vNetwork To accommodate business priorities that change over time, schedule tasks to change resource settings.

8. Green IT with VMware vSphere™ Power Optimization features • 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 APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS vCompute vStorage vNetwork VMware vSphere™ DPM brings servers back online when load increases DPM powers off server when requirements are lower

9. New Resource Distribution Charts vCompute vStorage vNetwork

10. New DRS Management Pages Recommendations page Refresh recommendations Edit cluster properties vCompute vStorage vNetwork Faults page Apply a subset of recommendations Apply all selected recommendations Faults view displays issues that prevented DRS from providing or applying recommendations. Customize the display History tab Actions taken based on recommendations 10

11. vStorage Thin Provisioning • 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% ESX APP APP APP OS OS OS vCompute vStorage vNetwork Thin Thin Thick 40GB 20GB 100GB Virtual Disks 20GB 20GB 40GB 100GB Datastore 60GB 20GB

12. Thin Disk Provisioning Operations • A thin-disk option is available when you: • Create a virtual machine • Clone to a template • Clone a virtual machine • Migrate virtual machine storage (Storage VMotion) Create New Virtual Machine Wizard vCompute vStorage vNetwork Clone and Migrate Virtual Machine Wizards

13. Efficient Storage Abstraction with VMFS • Hot Virtual Disk Extend • Expand virtual disks online • Respond quickly to growing requirements without downtime • VMFS Volume Grow • Expand 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 ESX APP APP APP OS OS OS Extend 8G of virtual disk vCompute vStorage vNetwork Add new virtual disk Extend 10G of virtual disk Virtual Disks 20GB 20GB No change to datastore VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore Datastore 40GB VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore 100GB LUN

14. 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 APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch vNetwork Distributed Switch VMware vSphere™ vCompute vStorage vNetwork

15. Moving from Standard vSwitch to DVSwitch • DVS Upgrade Steps • Create DVS • Break existing NIC team • Associate half of NICs with new DVS • Move VMs from LS to DVS • Associate remaining NICs with DVS • Repeat steps (2)..(4) for remaining hosts vCompute vStorage vNetwork DVS vswitch vswitch ESX Host 1 ESX Host 2 Existing standard virtual switch vswitch During steps 3 and 4, network bandwidth available to VMs (and redundancy) limited by 50% Physical NICs cannot be shared by Standard vSwitch and DVS DVS Distributed Virtual Switch Physical NICs

16. Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) Cisco Nexus 1000v Architecture Overview Cisco Nexus 1000V Enables • Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) SERVER 1 SERVER 2 SERVER 3 VM #1 VM #2 VM #3 VM #4 VM #5 VM #6 VM #7 VM #8 VM #9 VM #10 VM #11 VM #12 VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware vSwitch VMware vSwitch VMware vSwitch Nexus 1000V vDS VEM VEM VEM • Virtual or Physical appliance running Cisco OS (supports HA) • Performs management, monitoring, and configuration • Tight integration w/ VMware Virtual Center • Policy-based VM Connectivity • Mobility of Network & Security Properties • Non-Disruptive Operational Model • Enables advanced networking capability on the hypervisor • Provides each VM with dedicated “switch port” • Collection of VEMs = 1 DVS vStorage vNetwork vCompute Nexus 1000V VSM vCenter Server

17. VMW vSwitch & the Cisco Nexus 1000V vCompute vStorage vNetwork

18. VMW vSwitch & the Cisco Nexus 1000V vCompute vStorage vNetwork

19. VMW vSwitch & the Cisco Nexus 1000V vCompute vStorage vNetwork * Experimental Support ** Network Syslog information is compiled and exported with other, non-network related, vCenter events.

20. VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers

21. Application Services Provide Built in Service Level Controls

22. VMware Solutions Maximize Uptime Site Recovery Manager Planned Downtime Unplanned Downtime Virtual Machines VM Failure Monitoring APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS Availability Security Scalability ESX Server VMotion HA Storage Storage vMotion VCB Interconnect Network Redundancy NIC & HBA Teaming

23. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) CPU Baseline Feature Set Availability Security Scalability CPUID CPUID CPUID CPUID X… X… X… EVC Cluster EVC prevents migrations with VMotion from failing due to incompatible CPUs. K…

24. Storage VMotion in vSphere 4 • Enhancements • Can administer via vSphere Client • Supports NFS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI • No longer requires 2 x memory • Supports moving VMDKs from thick to thin formats • Can migrate RDMs to RDMs and RDMs to VMDKs (non-passthrough) • Leverages new vSphere 4 features to speed migration • Limitations • Virtual machine cannot include snapshots • VM must be powered off to simultaneously migrate both host and datastore Availability Security Scalability

25. New HA Cluster Settings Ability to suspend host monitoring Availability Security Scalability Choice of three admission control strategies

26. VM Monitoring Enable automatic restart due to failure of guest operating system Availability Security Scalability Determine how quickly failures are detected Set monitoring sensitivity for individual virtual machines

27. 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 APP APP APP OS OS OS Availability Security Scalability VMware vSphere™ X

28. Enable Fault Tolerance with a Single Click Primary Virtual Machine > Summary Tab Availability Security Scalability After you turn on Fault Tolerance, the Status tab on the primary virtual machine shows Fault Tolerance information.

29. VMware Data Recovery • VMware’s Backup/Recovery Solution based on APIs for Data Protection • Agentless disk-based backup and recovery • De-duplication and incremental backups to save disk space Availability Security Scalability

30. 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 Availability Security Scalability Application Operating System Protection Engine VMware vSphere™

31. 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 APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS Availability Security Scalability VMware vSphere™

32. VMware vShield Zones Architecture VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX • vShield Host Gateway • Virtual Network Monitoring • Virtual Network Firewall • Transparently Managed • vShield Manager • Centralized Monitoring • Centralized Policy Assignment • Web-based interface Availability Security Scalability VMwarevCenter vShield vShield VMwarevShieldManager vShield

33. Scale Up Applications for Assured QoS • Scalable virtual machines • Hot add of • CPU • Memory • Hot add and remove • Storage devices • Network devices • Hot Extend virtual disks • Zero downtime scale out of virtual machines APP OS Availability Security Scalability 255 GB 8 CPUs

34. Hot Add for Memory and CPU Virtual Machine > Edit Settings > Options Tab > Memory/CPU Hotplug Availability Security Scalability You must enable Memory and CPU Hot Add so that the options are available on the Hardware tab.

35. Hot Adding and Removing PCI Devices Virtual Machine > Edit Settings > Hardware Tab > Add • You can hot-add/remove: • Network cards • SCSI adapters • Sound cards • SCSI disks and CDROMs • USB EHCI controller • VMCI • PCI passthrough devices Availability Security Scalability

36. Hot Extending VMDKs Virtual Machine > Edit Settings > Hardware Tab Availability Security Scalability

37. Lab Manager AppSpeed Simplified Application Management Infrastructure Management Responsive Resilient Chargeback CapacityIQ Site Recovery Manager ConfigControl Orchestrator Automation vCenter Lifecycle Manager

38. vCenter Server Linked Mode Overview • Standard vSphere Client can access inventory across multiple vCenters • View and search across combined inventory of a group of vCenter Servers • Shared roles and license configurations

39. Basic Workflow to Implement Host Profiles 2 • Host Profile • Memory Reservation • Storage • Networking • Date and Time • Firewall • Security • Services • Users and User Groups • Security 4 3 5 Cluster ReferenceHost 1

40. Working with Host Profiles After you create the profile, attach it to hosts/clusters so that you can check compliance and apply it to hosts not in compliance.

41. vApp Overview • vApps are multi-tier application services that you can manage as a single inventory item. • Provides for single-step management • Eliminates complex setupand configuration vApp App Server App Server Database Resource Pool VM VM VM Distributed Virtualization Layer OVF Descriptor …

42. New Storage Views Tab Adds Insight into Storage Infrastructure The new Storage Views tab provides greater insight into capacity utilization and storage connectivity.

43. Enhanced Views for Storage Devices Host Configuration > Storage > Devices Right-click to rename Unique LUN identifier is persistent across reboots.

44. VMware vSphere™ 4.0 delivers

45. Hardware Platforms Aberdeen LLC Ace Computers Acer ACMA Computers Action AMAX Information Technologies Anders & Rodewyk Aquarius ASEM SPA ASUSTeK Computer BGM bluechip Computer AG Bull CIARA - VXTECH Cisco Coastline Micro Inc Colfax International Columbus Micro Systems Inc. COM 1 EDV-System GmbH Compusys COMPUTER HAUG GmbH Cyclone Dam SistemiS.r.I Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. DELL Delphin Data EDV Dienstleisungs GmbH Radi Sys Real.Com-94 Bt. Rombus International GmbH SaiInfoSystem (India) Ltd. Samsung Seneca Data SGI Silicon Mechanics Silicon Systems SNC Sonex Technologies Stratus Sun Microsystems Inc Supermicro Computer Inc SVET Computers TAROX Systems & Services GmbH Thomas-Krenn.AG Transtec Unisys USA Computers Vahal Verari Viglen Limited VIST SPB WinFirst Wipro Wortmann AG XENON Systems Pty LTD Yang Ming International Corp. ZT Group 1284 Servers Kraftwav Leadman Lenovo Leo Computer Linear Systems Maxdata GmbH MDS Micro MITSUBISHI MPC Nanobay NEC SAS Neogenesvs S.A. de C.V. Netinlink NETWEB TECHNOLOGIES Nor-Tech NTT Ockam Open Storage Solutions OPTIMUS SA PC Factory SA Plat’Home Pogo Linux PROconsultData A/S Quanta Computer R-Style Rackable Systems Digital Henge E4 Computer Engineering S.p.A. Electro Sales Corporation Equus Computer Systems Evesham Technologies ExuS-Data GmbH FORMAT Sp. Fujitsu Fujitsu Siemens Computers GEMM InformaticaSrI Giga-byte Technology Gigabyte SRL HCL HELiOS BUSINESS COMPITER Hitachi HP IBM ICO Inbox INFORMATICA EL CORTE INGLES Insite Technology Ltd Inspur Intel INVESTRONICA Ipex ITG Itautec J&N Computer Services Kontron These features are representative of feature areas under development.  Feature commitments must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.  Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

46. Operating Systems – 481 Windows 7 Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0, 2.1 Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows 3.1x MS DOS 6.22 Asianux Server 3.0 CentOS Debian IBM OS/2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Open Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux SCO UnixWare 7 SCO OpenServer 5.0 SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Ubuntu UnixWare FreeBSD Novell NetWare Novell SELS Solaris Operating System for x86 These features are representative of feature areas under development.  Feature commitments must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.  Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

47. vSphere 4 Editions: Essentials Packaging • All inclusive packages: • Licenses for 3 physical servers (up to 2 processors each) • License for central management server x 6 CPUS Data Recovery x 6 CPUS High Availability 6 CPUS x Update Manager x 6 CPUS Update Manager 6 CPUS x x 6 CPUS VC Agent VC Agent 6 CPUS x 4-way vSMP 4-way vSMP x 6 CPUS VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX 6 CPUS x x 6 CPUS vCenter Server for Essentials (up to 3 servers) vCenter Server for Essentials (up to 3 servers) 1 x x 1 ESSENTIALS ESSENTIALS PLUS vCenter Server for Essentials

48. vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform Host Profiles Distributed Switch DRS / DPM DRS / DPM Storage VMotion Storage VMotion vShield Zones vShield Zones vShield Zones Data Recovery Data Recovery Data Recovery Fault Tolerance Fault Tolerance Fault Tolerance Hot Add Hot Add Hot Add VMotion™ VMotion™ VMotion™ Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning High Availability High Availability High Availability High Availability Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VC Agent VC Agent VC Agent VC Agent 4-way vSMP 8-way vSMP 4-way vSMP 4-way vSMP VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX 6 Physical Cores / CPU 256 GB Physical Memory 12 Physical Cores / CPU No License Memory Limit 12 Physical Cores / CPU 256 GB Physical Memory 6 Physical Cores / CPU 256 GB Physical Memory ENTERPRISE PLUS STANDARD ADVANCED ENTERPRISE

49. Resources and Next Steps : • VMware vSphere landing page • http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere • New editions overview • http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere/buy • Upgrade to vSphere • www.vmware.com/go/vsphere-upgrade-center • Deep Dive Webcasts • Technical : http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/index/program/179622 • Overview : http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/index/program/179617