VEO (Virtual Ecosystem Optimization)

Delivering Business VALUE Through TECHNOLOGY

A “for dummies” WebEx on what you get, what it does, and how to license.

Matthew CavanaghPrincipal ConsultantPAR4 Technology [email protected]

Dennis ManeikisAccount ManagerPAR4 Technology [email protected]

Tom CroweIT ManagerWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, [email protected]

VmWare vSphere4


Par4 Overview

New England and tri-state provider of virtualization and cloud services VMWare premier and VAC partner, concentrated Virtualization focus. Purchased Flytrap Technologies in November 2009 Offices in Amesbury, Ma, Tolland, CT, and Willimantic, CT. Carrier grade datacenter providing Cloud services, hosted DR, data

replication, desktop, and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) with 24/7 NOC Provider of virtual ecosystem products, support, maintenance, training,

and managed services Member of VMWare’s VS4 Beta program Customer verticals include enterprise, financial, tech, manufacturing,

SLED, legal and healtchare Partnered with most leading virtual ecosystem hardware and software

manufacturers


VS4 – Launch Highlights

Released May 21st, all VI3 sku’s are now discontinued with the exception of existing quotes created before the launch date.

VS4 licenses CAN be downgraded to VI3 licenses VMWare’s first major release since VI3 which contains a major OS revision

(ESX 4.0) – presented as the first “cloud operating system”. Improvements to VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion,

VMware Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Includes a number of additional components to enhance functionality and deliver greater efficiency, control, and flexibility.


What’s New?

VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 4.0VMware ESXi 3.5 VMware ESXi 4.0vCenter Server 2.5 VCenter Server 4.0

Out with the oldFoundation immediate end-of-availabilityMost A la carte offerings are eliminatedSwitch to one processor licensing

In with the newvSphere Essentials editions for small and remote officesvSphere Standard at a new, lower price pointvSphere Advanced for high availability at a mid-range price pointvSphere Enterprise Plus at a new top price point


Added ESX Features

VMWare FT (Fault Tolerance) Provides application continuous availability via vLockstep

VMWare Data Recovery Disk based backup and recovery via vCenter, includes de-dup

VMWare vShield Zones Allows you to segment users and data from the network to enforce security policies

VMWare vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS) Centrally control cluster level networking beyond per host configurations

VMWare Host Profiles Apply known validated network, storage, and security settings to ESX hosts

VMWare Thin Provisioning Allows over-allocation of storage capacity for increased storage utilization, enhanced

application uptime, and simplified storage capacity management.


Added ESX Features

iSCSI 10GbE support & network performance improvements

DPM no longer Experimental Live changes to VMs:

Add memory, cpu on the fly Simplified Licensing Performance Improvements


vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform

Update Manager

High Availability

STANDARD ENTERPRISE PLUS

License (1 CPU)SnS (Gold/Plat)

$795$275 / 325

$2,245$471 / 561

VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX

4-way vSMP

VC Agent

6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory

VMotion™

High Availability


4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ADVANCED

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

VMotion™

High Availability


8-way vSMP

VC Agent

12 Physical Cores / CPUNo License Memory Limit

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

Distributed Switch

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Host Profiles

$3,495$734 / $874

High availability products for

protecting critical production

applications

Basic consolidation of a lab or

small environment

Large scale management of critical production

applications

$2,875$604 / 719

VMotion™

High Availability


4-way vSMP

VC Agent


ENTERPRISE

Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

vShield Zones

DRS / DPM

Storage VMotion

Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager

Note: US list pricing in USD – International pricing may vary

Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin ProvisioningThin Provisioning

VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs

Hot Add Hot AddHot Add


VS4 Essentials (non-core formerly foundation)

– All inclusive packages:• Licenses for 3 physical servers (up to 2 processors each)• License for central management server

– Packages cannot be decoupled or combined; components cannot be used with other vSphere editions

ESSENTIALS($995)


4-way vSMP

vCenter Server for Essentials(up to 3 servers)

ESSENTIALS PLUS($2,995)


4-way vSMP

vCenter Server for Essentials(up to 3 servers)

VC Agent VC Agent

Update Manager

High Availability

Data Recovery

6 CPUS x

6 CPUS x

6 CPUS x

1 x

x 6 CPUS

x 6 CPUS

x 6 CPUS

x 1

x 6 CPUS

x 6 CPUS

x 6 CPUS

Update Manager 6 CPUS x

vCenter Serverfor Essentials


VSphere4 Editions


Upgrade Paths and Licensing (highlights)

Linear upgrades for customers with active support are free and automatically loaded to your online portal (not emailed). Customers retain both licenses but cannot run both.

VI3 Enterprise can be upgraded to vSphere4 Enterprise at no charge. Previously purchased edition upgrades (e.g. Standard to Enterprise) and

“a la carte” feature licenses (e.g. Vmotion) will be combined into single license keys. Where eligible quantities do not match, this will result in “unfulfillable” left-over license components

Existing unlimited ELA customers will require an addendum Special discounts available until 12/15 explained further on next slide.


Upgrade Paths and Licensing (highlights)

50% PROMO: VS4 Standard to Advanced = $795 per proc (50%

savings) VS4 Enterprise to Enterprise plus = $295 per proc

(50% savings)

NEXUS PROMO: VS4 Enterprise Plus with Cisco Nexus 1000V = $3995

(regular $4190) VS4 Enterprise to Enterprise plus upgrade with Nexus

1000V = $795 (regular $1380)

Promotion available for existing VI3 customers through

December 15, 2009


VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)

6 x 2 CPU VI3 EnterpriseX $5750 / 2 CPU license$34,500

VMware vSphere 4

12 x 1 CPU vSphere 4 EnterpriseX $2875 / 1 CPU license$34,500

vSphere moves to a one CPU pricing model

Example: Enterprise licenses for 3 four-socket servers, 12 processors total

Pricing Model


Should I Upgrade?

Cost savings from enhanced efficiency

Increased operational control

Deeper integration with existing infrastructure


Should I upgrade? …or wait


Summary

We have covered some major highlights of this release Several other features have been added (e.g. vApp) that warrant

further discussion There are many more details to review before you upgrade

Planning & Scheduling your Upgrade Determining your licensing path Determine how you can leverage the new vSphere features

Now that you know the basics, please contact PAR4 to discuss the next steps.


Thanks for joining us!

For further information or to request an appointment discuss VS4, the Virtual Ecosystem, and/or Cloud Computing, please contact:

Dennis [email protected]

(207)221-6786

Q&A


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Application Performance Requirements

95% of applications

< 100 at peak

< 2.4Mbits/s

< 4 GB at peak

1 to 2 CPUs

ESX 3.5

100,000

9 Gb/s

64 GB per VM

4 VCPUs

ESX 4.0

200,000+

40 Gb/s

255 GB per VM

8 VCPUs

Performance Improvements


Assumptions: 50 out of 100 servers can be powered down for 8 hrs/day on weekdays and 16 hrs/day on weekends.Total power consumption per server ( operating power + cooling power) = 1130.625 watts/hrCost of energy = $ 0.0813 per kWH (source: Energy Information Administration)

DPM: No longer Experimental


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 Provisioning

ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Datastore

Virtual Disks

20GB

40GB

20GB

20GB

60GB

20GB

100GB

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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

Distributed Switch


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

VMware vSphere™

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Fault Tolerance


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Application Coverage

VMware FT

Unprotected

AutomatedRestart

Continuous

0% 10% 100%

with VMware HA

Fault Tolerance


OS

APP

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

De-duplicatedStorage

ESX

OS

APP

OS

APP

Data Recovery


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™

vShield Zones


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

64 GB

4 CPUs

255 GB

8 CPUs

OS

APP


– Simplified setup and change management

for ESX hosts– Easy detection of

non-compliance with standard configurations

– Automated remediation

Cluster

Reference Host

Host Profiles


•Simple license keys instead of flex• 1 license per edition• 1 key for many hosts

•New centralized license key administration in vCenter• No separate license server to manage or monitor• Centralized host and license monitoring through vCenter enabling

easy compliance

•New license portal provides more accurate view of entitlement

Simplified Licensing


– VI3 License Activation Is Failure-prone• Too many steps and “context changes” Customers have many opportunities to get confused

or take “wrong turns”• License files are the result of a long, multi-step portal transaction• Complexity illustrated: 40 pages in VI3 admin/install guide devoted to licensing

– A Dramatically Simpler Process In VI4• A short and easy activation process was the single most important design requirement• License keys are sent in email and can be copied directly into the product – no portal

activation step required• No separate license server means no additional installation, configuration or monitoring is

required

10109876543210Receive

activation code in email

Go to license portal

Generate new license file

Select license qualities to

activate

Install license server if needed

Re-read license file

to server

Product activated

Choose server or

host-based file

Download or email license

fileUpload license

file

Configure licensing in VC/ESX UI

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Receive license keys in email Enter license key into VC UI Assign license key to ESX hosts Product activated


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

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Datastore

Virtual Disks

20GB

100GBLUN

Extend 10G of virtual diskExtend 10G of virtual disk

Add new virtual diskAdd new virtual disk

VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastoreVMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore

Extend 8G of virtual diskExtend 8G of virtual disk

20GB

No change to datastoreNo change to datastore

VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastoreVMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore

40GB

Growing Storage & Disks

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