Virtualization – to cluster or not to cluster4/17/2012

VMware Outline

• Licensing changes• Vsphere 5 - What's new?• Management• Backup• Demo

Licensing Changes

• Versions• Hypervisor (Free)• Essentials• Essentials Plus• Standard• Enterprise• Enterprise Plus

• Memory Based

What’s New?

• New VM Format (Version 8)• Support USB 3.0 (Via vSphere Client)• Support 3D graphics for Windows Aero

• VMFS 5• 1 MB block size• GPT (Over 2TB Volumes)

• Storage vMotion (enhanced)

Vmware Management

• vCenter 5.0• Linked Installation• vCenter Server Appliance

• vSphere Client/Web Client

• vSphere Update Manager

• vSphere Operations

• vSphere Site Recovery Manager

Backup

• VM/File Level• Backup Exec 2012• VMware Data Recovery• Quest vRanger

• VM Level Only• Vmware Site Recovery Manager

DEMO

Hyper-V Outline

• Licensing• 2008 R2 SP1 - What's New?• Management• Backup• Demo

Licensing

• Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard• 1 VM per Host

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise• 4 VM’s per Host

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter• Unlimited VM’s per Host

What’s New

• Clustered Shared Volumes

• Live Migration

• 10Gb Ethernet Ready

• Processor Compatibility Mode

• Dynamic Memory

• RemoteFX

Hyper-V Management

• Built-in MMC Console

• Failover Cluster Console

• SCVMM 2012 (Newly Released)

• Web Based Self Service Portal

• PowerShell Cmdlets

Backup

• VM/File Level• Backup Exec 2012• Quest vRanger• DPM 2012

Demo

Storage Options

• VMware Storage Appliance

• SAN• iSCSI 1Gb / 10Gb• Fiber• FCoE

• NAS• NFS Volume (Vmware only)

Storage Testing

• Openfiler - http://www.openfiler.com/• Both phyiscal install & virtual appliance• Free version (and paid version)

• FreeNAS• Totally Free• Less hardware support