Future ESX Features

Jay Rogers – VMware System Engineerjrrogers@novanthealth.orghttp://virtual-jay.blogspot.com/

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

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!

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

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

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…

VM specs

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……

FAULT TOLERANCE

(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

• 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

FAULT TOLERANCE

FAULT TOLERANCE

(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

HOST REQUIREMENTS

**CPU must have new HV support**

FAULT TOLERANCE

(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

Virtual Machine Requirements

FAULT TOLERANCE

(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

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

vStorage(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

vStorage(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

Demo

sVmotion(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

sVmotion(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

DVS(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

DVS(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

demo

vCenter(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

vCenter(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

Reporting(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

Quick Prep(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

DEMO

Demo time(VMware Certified Fault Tolerance Professional)

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.

VMworld Links:http://vmware-land.com/VMworld2008.html http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/categories/12-VMworld-2008http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1312743,00.html – AMD processor planshttp://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/19/intel-to-ship-six-core-microprocessors-this-year - Intel Processor planshttp://snipurl.com/5eyl5http://snipurl.com/5eyn7 http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/FT_Demo_800x600.htmlhttp://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/DVS_Demo_800x600.htmlhttp://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/Hostprofiles_Linked_VC_800x600.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/simplified_management.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/application.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/infrastructure.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/cloud-vservices/http://www.vmware.com/technology/universal-client/view.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vclient_vmworld08.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/partners/alliances/programs/vmware-ready/partnerships.htmlhttp://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcadminportalhttp://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.jspahttp://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=1748227http://vimeo.com/esloofhttp://www.govirtual.org/home.jspahttp://vimeo.com/1757390?pg=embed&sec=1757390http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-ken/collections/72157607345419513/ great collection of picshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/m-ken/sets/72157607351296445/ - vendor expo collectionhttp://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

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 RogersNovant Health