Future ESX Features

1. Future ESX Features Vlockstep Fault Tolerance Host Profiles Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) Cloud Virtual DataCenter OS vServices vStorage vCenter AppSpeed Administrative Portal Linked-Clones vCenter Data Recovery VMsafe OVF vApp vStudio VMware View Composer Offline Desktop Client Virtualization Thin provisioning vCompute vNetwork QoS Orchistrator CapacityIQ Image Library Management vCenter Linked Mode Jay Rogers – VMware System Engineer jrrogers@novanthealth.org http://virtual-jay.blogspot.com/

2. VMworld Review • VMware has their “Mojo” back…as one blogger put it! • Theme this year “Virtually Anything is possible” • Growing partnerships --integration of storage and networking vendor support via api • Clear confident vision/strategy and roadmap with lots of WOW! • The LABS were awesome this year (attendees got a free Chip PC thin client) • My Labs: ESX 4 Tech preview, Desktop Tech Preview, Site Recovery Manager, LifeCycle • Manager, Powershell scripting, and Thinapp self-paced lab. • 16,000 – 18,000 attendees, 200 vendors, 285 breakout session, 160 instructor labs, • 30 hours of self-paced labs, and a party you won’t forget! • Wonderful facility and location for the event, plenty of room, big rooms to accommodate • the crowd, better food, excitement of Vegas, beauty and luxury of the Venetian • Technical detail level of the higher level presentations I attended was much better than • past events. • 1 suitcase full of “swag” • Vmworld party at Las Vega Motor Speedway was the best party! • I went 115mph on the big track and a thrill ride on road course in a • Shelby GT with the top down! • Better access to the big sponsors • less days of keynotes, and the keynotes were much better too!

3. VMworld Review • Plan for next years event NOW • Get registration packets on Sunday afternoon (avoid Monday crowd) • Monday is LAB day, take advantage of this! • Lock in your labs/sessions as soon as schedule builder opens • You can get into other labs as overflow, especially Wednesday/Thursday • ESX 4 is going to be a revolutionary release much like VI 3 was to ESX 2.x

4. AGENDA • Few PowerPoint slides on ESX Features coming (ESX 4) • Majority of time experiencing and seeing the features! • New certification VCFTP given today to all attendees! Higher Salaries! (I’m teasing here) • (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)-not official but really sounds cool! • Featured Demonstrations • Fault Tolerance (FT) – True HA for any workload running in virtual • vStorage API – SAN integration- offloads work normally done by networking • PowerPath (mulitpathing improvements) • write offload (using less SAN bandwidth, making ESX faster) • Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) • Host Profiles (vCenter interface changes) • vCenter Linked-mode • VMware View (VDI) – 25 desktops in 20 seconds with linked-clones • technology

5. Intel / AMD • AMD: http://snipurl.com/5eyn5 • Processors to jump from six to 12 cores by 2010 • In the first half of 2010, though, the game changes. AMD plans to leap from six cores directly to 12 with a processor code-named Magny-Cours, skipping the eight-core processor altogether. • INTEL: http://snipurl.com/5gemv • Intel to ship six-core microprocessors this year, Dunninton, later this year • Supports “FlexMigration” • As for Nehalem, future versions will have from two to eight cores, with Simultaneous Multi-threading, resulting in 4 to 16 thread capability. Nehalem also supports four times the memory bandwidth than Intel’s highest-performance Xeon processor-based systems of today, with up to 8 MB level-3 cache, 731 million transistors, and QuickPath interconnects up to 25.6GB per second, Intel reported. POWER for our virtual worlds…

6. VM specs

7. ESX 4 Hot Features • vCenter Linked-mode: Single console view of multiple synchronize vCenter instances • Host Profiles: Plug-n-play ESX server expansion: host compliance and baselines • Paravirtualized storage devices: enables over 200,000 i/o operations per second • Distributed Virtual Switch: single point of administration of virtual switches across datacenter, network team can be given rights to manage, third parties can create these now (see the Cisco Nexus 1000)..net stats/history travel with vm now • Thin Provisioning – with reporting and alerting to not exceed capacity • Fault Tolerance: easy, groundbreaking technology to protect any virtual workload • vStorage Thin provisioning: reduce storage required by 50%. • New reporting, tracking, and alerting improvements that are impressive • vStorage Linked-clones: share common OS image while maintaining user specific profile and application data • Hot-add of CPU, Memory, network devices – scale without downtime! • vCenter Data Recovery – new backup tool, agentless, dedupe to save space, vCenter integrated, vm level or file level restores! • Scalability: 64 nodes, 4096 processor cores, 64TB RAM, 6 million IOPS, 40gb/s network throughput, power management improvements • Vmsafe, appspeed • Much, much, more……

8. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) FAULT TOLERANCE • Allows a virtual machine to survive a server failure without any interruption in service—zero • downtime and zero data loss! • Based on vLockstep technology that runs a primary and secondary machine in virtual • lockstep using no special hardware (no this is not a new missile radar system) • Allows users to protect more applications, with lower cost and complexity • Single VM running on two hosts for redundancy • Redundancy automatically restored after failover • Simple to deploy (don’t tell your boss though)- remember you want that raise • All ESX supported Guest Operating Systems • Single vCPU workloads only in first release • Integrated with VMware HA, Multiple FT VMs per host • Dynamically enabled or disabled per VM

9. FAULT TOLERANCE

10. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) FAULT TOLERANCE HOST REQUIREMENTS **CPU must have new HV support**

11. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) FAULT TOLERANCE Virtual Machine Requirements

12. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) FAULT TOLERANCE Best Practice (11/14/2008) • Bandwidth of logging NIC could become a bottleneck • Logging NIC requires roughly [50 KB/sec + incoming network traffic] per FT VM • Don’t put too many FT VMs on the same host (do a mix FT and non-FT VM’s) • Consider 10 gigabit NIC for logging NIC if available • Lower round-trip latency on logging NIC improves guest network performance • Keep updated here: http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/recorded/ • http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/index/ • Recent Presentation to download: http://snipurl.com/5gfkq • (see the Questions and answers section at end for some good stuff too) DEMO

13. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) vStorage

14. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) vStorage Demo

15. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) sVmotion

16. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) sVmotion

17. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) DVS

18. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) DVS demo

19. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) vCenter

20. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) vCenter

21. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) Reporting

22. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) Quick Prep DEMO

23. (VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional) Demo time ESX 4 will be a major release…we have only shown you a little in our time today. Come to your local VMUG events, check the Vmware links page (next slide) for more info and learning opportunities.

24. VMworld Links: http://vmware-land.com/VMworld2008.html http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/categories/12-VMworld-2008 http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1312743,00.html – AMD processor plans http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/19/intel-to-ship-six-core-microprocessors-this-year - Intel Processor plans http://snipurl.com/5eyl5 http://snipurl.com/5eyn7 http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/FT_Demo_800x600.html http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/DVS_Demo_800x600.html http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/Hostprofiles_Linked_VC_800x600.html http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/ http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/simplified_management.html http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/application.html http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/infrastructure.html http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/cloud-vservices/ http://www.vmware.com/technology/universal-client/view.html http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vclient_vmworld08.html http://www.vmware.com/partners/alliances/programs/vmware-ready/partnerships.html http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcadminportal http://www.holy-vm.com/2008/09/22/best-blog-post-of-vmworld-2008/ http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/recorded/ http://viops.vmware.com/home/index.jspa http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-1623 (VMworld 2008 screen saver) http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-1622 (VMworld 2008 Program guide (pdf)) http://vimeo.com/1748227?pg=embed&sec=1748227 http://vimeo.com/esloof http://www.govirtual.org/home.jspa http://vimeo.com/1757390?pg=embed&sec=1757390 http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-ken/collections/72157607345419513/ great collection of pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-ken/sets/72157607351296445/ - vendor expo collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybtmj5jmXw – vendor prize award goes wrong! http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=231 – nice video-distributed power management-a day in IT

25. Vizioncore At Novant we will be implementing Vizioncore’s vFoglight Enterprise monitoring for our ESX enviroment. Vizioncore, a sponsor many local VMUG events had several exciting announcements at Vmworld that I strongly suggestion you look into! Jay Rogers Novant Health