What’s New in vSphere 5 and Heartbeat 6.4?

1. What’s New in vSphere 5 and Heartbeat 6.4?

2. Agenda • vSphere Platform Recap • vSphere 5 Overview • Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network • Applications Services – Availability, Security, Scalability • Additional Features and Enhancements – “The Best of the Rest” • ESXi migration • vSphere 5 Kits and Editions • Upgrading • vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

3. What is vSphere? • Industry’s Most Complete and Robust Virtualization Platform • vSphere Provides: • Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Network) • Application Services (Availability, Security, Scale, Performance) • Management Services (Basic/Remote Management, Patching) • What Does vSphere Solve for Customers? • Streamlines IT Operations • Provides a Powerful Disaster Recovery Strategy • Supports Running Mission-Critical Applications • Delivers the Most Flexible Building Block for Leveraging the Cloud

4. Application Services VMware vSphere : The Industry’s Leading Virtualization Platform • Host Profiles • Linked Mode • Orchestrator • Update Mgr • Infrastructure Services • vCenter Server • HA • FT • vMotion/S vMotion • Data Recovery • VMsafe APIs • vShield Zones • Hot Add • # of Hosts, VMs Security Scalability Availability VMware vSphere 4.1 Network Compute Storage • ESX/ESXi • DRS/DPM • Memory Overcommit • VMFS • Thin Provisioning • Storage I/O Control • Storage APIs • Distributed Switch • Network I/O Control

5. Introducing… VMware vSphere™5.0 The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

6. Application Services VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New? • Virtual Appliance • Web Client • Infrastructure Services • vCenter Server • vCenter Server • New HA • Architecture • vMotion over • higher latency links • ESXi Firewall • 32 way SMP • 1 TB VMs Security Scalability Availability VMware vSphere 5 Network Compute Storage • ESXi Convergence • Auto Deploy • HW version 8 • Storage DRS • Profile-Driven Storage • VMFS 5 • Storage I/O Control (NFS) • Network I/O Control • (per VM controls) • Distributed Switch • (Netflow, SPAN, LLDP)

7. Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network

8. Most Trusted ESXi Convergence Overview • vSphere 5.0 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor exclusively • ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors vSphere ESXi Benefits • Thin architecture • Smaller security footprint • Streamlined deployment and configuration • Simplified patching and updating model

9. Auto Deploy Overview vCenter Server with Auto Deploy • Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new “on the fly” model • Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles vSphere vSphere Image Profiles Host Profiles Benefits • Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and patching of hosts • Centralized host and image management • Reduce manual deployment and patch processes vSphere vSphere

10. Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage Overview • Tier storage based on performance characteristics (i.e. datastore cluster) • Simplify initial storage placement • Load balance based on I/O • Resource alignment with SLAs High IO Throughput Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Benefits • Eliminate VM downtime for storage maintenance • Reduce time for storage planning/configuration • Reduce errors in the selection and management of VM storage • Increase storage utilization by optimizing placement

11. Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control Overview 3. w/ I/O controls, can give VIP VMs preferential access 2. Other VMs are starved for resources 1. VM requests more resources • Set up SLAs for use of storage and network resources • Added per virtual machine settings for Network I/O Control • Added NFS support for StorageI/O Control Benefits • Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem • More granular SLA settings for network traffic • Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs

12. New Virtual Machine Capabilities Richer DesktopExperience • 3D graphics Broader DeviceSupport • Client-connected USB devices • USB 3.0 • Smart Card Readers AdditionalEnhancements • Multi-core virtual CPUs (in GUI) • Extended VMware tools compatibility • Mac OS X server support

13. Application Services – Availability, Security, and Scalability

14. Scaling Virtual Machines Overview • Create virtual machines with up to: • 32 vCPU • 1 TB of RAM Benefits 4x • 4x size of previous vSphere versions • Run even the largest applications in vSphere, including very large databases • Virtualize even more applications than ever before (Tier 1 and 2)

15. VMFS VMFS New HA Architecture Overview • New architecture for High Availability feature of vSphere Storage vMotion VMware Fault Tolerance High AvailabilityDRS Maintenance Mode vMotion VMware Benefits NIC Teaming Multipathing Storage • Simplified clustering setup and configuration • Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring • Enhanced scalability Server Component

16. Additional Features and Enhancements

17. vCenter Server Appliance (Linux) Overview • Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based appliance Benefits • Simplified setup and configuration • Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements • Leverages vSphere availability features for protection of the management layer

18. Web Client Overview • Run and manage vSphere from any web browser anywhere in the world Benefits • Platform independence • Replaces Web Access GUI • Building block for cloud based administration

19. The Best of the Rest • Platform • Hardware Version 8 – EFI virtual BIOS • Network • Distributed Switch (Netflow, SPAN support, LLDP) • Network I/O Controls (per VM), ESXi firewall • Storage • VMFS 5 • iSCSI UI • Storage I/O Control (NFS) • Array Integration for Thin Provisioning • Swap to SSD, 2TB+ VMFS datastores • Storage vMotion Snapshot Support • Availability • vMotion with higher latency links • Data Recovery Enhancements • Management • Inventory Extensibility • Solution Installation and Management • iPad client

20. ESXi Migration

21. VMware ESXi: 3rd Generation Hypervisor Architecture VMware ESXi VMware ESX • VMware GSX • (VMware Server) • Installs as an application • Runs on a host OS • Depends on OS for resource management • VMware ESX • Architecture • Installs “bare metal” • Relies on a Linux OS (Service Console) for running partner agents and scripting • VMware ESXi Architecture • Installs “bare metal” • Management tasks are moved outside of the hypervisor VMware Server Service Console VMkernel VMkernel Windows or Linux OS 2001 2003 2007 The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS, simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.

22. Converging to ESXi with the Next vSphere Release • With the GA of vSphere 4.1 in July 2010 VMware officially announced that starting with the next vSphere our hypervisor architecture will converge to ESXi • From the release note: VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Future major releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture. • VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1. • VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according to the VMware vSphere support policy on the VMware Enterprise Infrastructure Support page. • To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi, go to the VMware ESXi and ESX InfoCenter.

23. How Does A User Plan an ESX to ESXi migration? • Visit the ESX and ESXi Info Center • Start testing ESXi • If you’ve not already deployed, there’s no better time than the present • Ensure 3rd party solutions used by your customers are ESXi Ready • Monitoring, backup, management, etc. Most already are. • Bid farewell to agents! • Familiarize with ESXi remote management options • Transition any scripts or automation that depended on the COS • Powerful off-host scripting and automation using vCLI, PowerCLI, … • Plan an ESXi migration as part of vSphere upgrade • Testing of ESXi architecture can be incorporated into overall vSphere testing

24. ESXi and ESX Info Center All Resources in One Centralized Location

25. vSphere 5 Kits and Editions

26. VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business Benefits

27. VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions Benefits

28. Interested in Upgrading?

29. Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center! All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

30. VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

31. vCenter Heartbeat • What is it? • High availability for vCenter Server • What does it help protect against? • Failures that occur with: • Hardware, Networks, OS, Applications • Loss of key vSphere features and functions if vCenter is unavailable

32. What’s New in vCenter Heartbeat 6.4? • Enhanced architecture allows the active and standby nodes to be reachable over the network at the same time, enabling both to be patched and managed • Better integration with VMware vCenter Server: • New Plug-in to the vSphere Client provides monitoring and management of vCenter Server Heartbeat from the vSphere Client • Heartbeat events and alerts will register in vCenter and display in the vSphere Client • Supports VMware vCenter Server v5.0 and VMware View Composer v5.0 • Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

33. Selling vCenter Heartbeat • Sold per instance • $9,995 List Price • One license protects both vCenter Server and its database (even if the database is installed on a different host). • Qualifying opportunities • Customers with vCenter Server Standard that are virtualizing mission critical workloads, running vCloud Director or running VMware View.

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