Post on 23-Dec-2015
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VMware vCenter 5.0: What’s New, What’s Cool
Name, Title, Company
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Disclaimer
This session may contain product features that are currently under development.
This session/overview of the new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product.
Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.
Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.
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Who Are We?
Deep Bhattacharjee is a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team responsible for vCenter. He works on large scale vCenter deployments among other things.
Ameet Jani is a Senior Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure platform team and is responsible for all user interfaces.
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When We Last Talked…
vCenter 4.1
• Quality of Service
• I/O Control Storage/networks
• Cost savings using better power management
• Reduce Downtime
• Boot from SAN, HA
• Failover clustering
• Concurrent data recovery
• Scalability Improvements
• 10,000 VMs/Host
• vMotion increased speed
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What’s Happened In the Last 2 years
Everybody is talking about “cloud” and “cloud scale”
Public clouds have changed the perception of VM provisioning
• From days to provision a VM to minutes
• IT is no longer the solution to the problem, it’s the problem
Your business has grown, your infrastructure needs to scale – FAST!
SLAs matter - some workloads are more important than others
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If you are the CIO!
You want to build a private cloud that is fits your business needs and org structure
You want more accountability, agility, etc.
Want to get more out of the data datacenter administrators
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If you are the datacenter architect!
You need the right set of interfaces to design your infrastructure quickly
You need to architect for the future• Increase in demand• Availability, Scalability
You need to architect for different SLAs
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If you are the datacenter administrator!
You have to guarantee SLAs now!
You are expected to do more with each passing day
Yesterday = 1000 VMs
Tomorrow = 10000 VMs
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Datacenter’s New Requirements
ResiliencyNew
WorkloadsSLA Tiers
Massive
Operational
Savings
Reduce
CAPEX
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Introducing vCenter 5.0!
vCenter 4.1
vCenter 5.0
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Lifecycle of Building a Cloud
So you want to build your own cloud environment.
How can vCenter 5.0 help?
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
Setup Network
DeployApplication
ConfigureAvailability
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DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
Setup Network
DeployApplication
ConfigureAvailability
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The New vCenter Server Appliance!
The appliance reduces the TCO for vCenter significantly
Simplifies deployment and configuration
Streamlines patching and upgrades
Obviates need for Windows license
vCenter Server Appliance - Run vCenter as a Linux Virtual appliance
Benefits
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Introducing vCenter Server Appliance
The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) consists of:
• A pre-packaged 64 bit application running on SLES 11
• A built in enterprise level database and support for a remote Oracle database (SQL Server is not support at this point)
• Limits are the same as vCenter on Windows
• Embedded DB - 5 hosts/50 VMs
• External DB - 1000 hosts/10000 VMs (64 bit)
• A web-based configuration interface
• Authentication through Active Directory
• VMware HA can be used to make VCSA highly available
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To Appliance, or not to Appliance… that is the question
The goal is parity between the appliance and conventional vCenter Server
• Scalability
• Manageability
• Performance
Advantages of the Appliance
• Upgrade
• Embedded Database
Roadmap
• Support for SQL Server on roadmap
• Linked Mode Support
• IPv6 support
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Setup Storage
Setup Network
ConfigureAvailability
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
DeployApplication
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Rapid Deployment of ESXi Hosts
Quick deployment of a new hosts
Uniformity of host “profile”
Allows for fast patching
Benefits
Auto Deploy allows rapid deployment and configuration of a large number of ESXi hosts
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vSpherevSphere
vCenter Server with Auto Deploy
Host ProfilesImage Profiles
vSpherevSphere vSphere
vSphere vSphere vSphere
vSphere vSphere vSphere
vSpherevSpherevSphere
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Setup Network
ConfigureAvailability
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
DeployApplication
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Storage Features in 5.0
Benefits
Gold Silver Bronze
Allows creation of storage profile for VMs Allow for intelligent storage resource management
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Profile Driven Storage
Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data
• Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy
Gold Silver Bronze
Replication = True
Cap > 2TB
Disktype = fast
MS Exchange
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Profile Driven Storage
Reduce storage costs by creating tiers of storage for your data
• Guarantee level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy
Gold Silver Bronze
Replication = False
Cap < 500 MB
Disktype = slowTest/Dev Workload
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Key Capabilities—Overview
DatastoreCluster
Storage vMotion
Ease of Storage Management
Initial Placement
Out of Space Avoidance
I/O Load Balancing
Virtual Disk Affinity (Anti-Affinity)
Datastore Maintenance Mode
Add Datastore
•••Affin
ity
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Storage I/O Control – Supports NFS in vSphere 5.0
What you see
NFS / VMFS Datastore
online store
data mining
MicrosoftExchange
What you want to see
NFS / VMFS Datastore
online store
data mining
MicrosoftExchange
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Setup Network
ConfigureAvailability
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
DeployApplication
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Networking
VDS provides:
• Homogenous abstraction of the physical network
• Reduces Management overhead and improves mobility
5.0 Focused on SLAs and monitoring
• Full visibility into network traffic using Netflow
• Network IO control
Simplified network configuration using SLA creation and enforcement in network traffic
Benefits
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Multi-tenant QoS allowing user defined classes and shaping at pNIC
vNIC rate limiting
802.1p tagging
Integrated QoS: Set priorities on network traffic to VMs
Data
Mining
Server
Online
Store
Microsoft
Exchange
Data
Mining
Server
Online
Store
Microsoft
Exchange
Without Network IO Control
With NetworkI/O Control
NFS vMotion FT
NFS vMotion FT
Features
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NetFlow in the Virtual Environment
NetFlow is a networking protocol that collects IP traffic information as records and sends them to third party collectors
VDS
VM A VM B
trunk
Physical switch
Collector
NetFlow capability in vSphere infrastructure provides complete visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic.
• Inter-Host VM traffic (same host)
• Intra-Host VM traffic (across hosts)
• VM-to-Physical Infrastructure traffic
NetFlow session
Host
VM traffic
Legend :
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Setup Network
DeployApplication
ConfigureAvailability
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
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Deploy Any Type of Workload
Run very large workloads
Migrate VMs across longer distances
Run Tier 1 workloadsMove workloads further away
Benefits
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“Monster VMs”
Virtual Machines are now 4x bigger
• 32 vCPUs
• 1 TB of RAM
• 64 TB disk
If your ISV told you that their software needs more horsepower and, hence, needs to stay on physical, that excuse goes away now.
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vMotion 5.0
Before 5.0
Maximum vMotion Latency was 5 ms (roundtrip)
New York to mid-Jersey
~60 miles
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vMotion 5.0
With 5.0
Maximum vMotion Latency was 10 ms (roundtrip)
New York to Richmond
250 miles
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Setup Network
ConfigureAvailability
DeployvCenter
DeployHosts
Setup Storage
DeployApplication
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vCenter Availability
Never lose business critical workloads
RPO and RTO times of < 5 minutes
vCenter 5.0 provides various ways to maintain availability Workload High Availability vCenter’s own High Availability
Benefits
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vSphere HA drives higher availability
Protects workloads against total node failure or individual workload failureESX host health monitoring to identify failing nodesWorkload is automatically restarted (OS Reboot) upon failureVM Restart Priority to prioritize critical workloadsSophisticated admission control and failover policies to ensure sufficient capacityIndividual VM/App health monitoring
App
OS
App
OSXXApp
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
X
VMware ESX VMware ESX
vSphere High Availability
HAHAHAHA
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HA Improvements
New VMware HA infrastructure
• More reliable
• Deploys and configures within seconds, regardless of cluster size
• multiple channels for agent-to-agent communication: network and storage
• Removes dependencies on DNS
• Provides better error reporting for easier serviceability
• Higher Scalability
New and Improved features
• Management network partition (new)
• Single HA log file per host and syslog integration (new)
• Host isolation response (improved)
• Admission control (improved)
• Agent error reporting (improved)
• More Alarms and Events (improved)
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Better vCenter Availability through Heartbeat
Enhanced architecture – consistent way to manage
• Both primary and secondary nodes are visible and reachable simultaneously
• Enables patching and managing of the primary and secondary nodes
Unified Management Console• New plug-in enables Heartbeat to be managed
from the vCenter console• Heartbeat events and alarms seen in the
vCenter Client
Added support for• VMware vCenter Server v5.0• VMware View Composer v5.0• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
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Why a new client?
Scalability
• Number of Objects
• Number of concurrent sessions
Common UI
• Many solutions/ One UI
Extensibility
• Allow VMW solutions, partners and customers to build plug-ins
Platform independence
Upgrade
Web Client wrapped in Thick client clothing
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Monitor Information
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Display Cloud-Scale Information cleanly
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Datacenter’s New Requirements
ResiliencyNew
WorkloadsSLA Tiers
Massive
Operational
Savings
Reduce
CAPEX
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