Build an agile, efficient infrastructure with virtualization and deploy highly available applications with VMware, the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. VMware will provide a high-level overview of this powerful product set.
We offer a lot of different ways to consume the technology. Hypervisor is the free offering that does single server virtualization. Essentials and Essentials Plus have technology in them to support 3 servers with 2 CPU a piece and a vcenter server. Essentials is a self contained package that create islands of virtualization, and therefore you can’t connect it to anything else. Essentials plus is a little more advanced in technology. Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise + are more advanced editions of vSphere. For every CPU that you have on the server, you have to have license to support it. The differences between the 3 are the different features and functions. They need to be used with an existing vCenter server, or you can purchase one and run it on top of these.
From an architectural perspective, what we’re looking for is to provide virtualization for multiple servers with this platform. The vSphere hypervisor can reach multiple servers. In this above diagram, we see 3 servers. But it can reach up to 1000 hosts and 15000 VMs. This environment is very scalable and allows you to get the most effective use of your resources. A key aspect of vSphere is it acts as a resource pool by pulling together all the storage and network characteristics to create a virtualization platform. (Sharing is very important to get the economy scaled.)
A Hypervisor - Thin layer of code Enables multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
A Hypervisor
Controls host CPU, storage, RAM and I\O Allocates what is needed to each guest operating system Ensures that guest operating systems (called Virtual Machines) have access
to their required resources. Guarantees that the Virtual Machines operate independently.
The VMware Hypervisor [vSphere, ESXi]
Is purpose-built Operating System Enables the Operating System within the virtual machine to run unmodified The Guest OS behaves as if it is running on physical hardware.
A virtual machine is a software computer that runs an operating system and applications.
Virtual machines consist of a set of specification and configuration files supported by the physical resources of a host. [VMX, VMDK, NVRAM setting file, and the log file.]
Every VM has virtual devices that provide the same functionality as physical hardware plus additional benefits in terms of portability, manageability, and security.
VMs are created and configured using the vSphere platform.
Encapsulation Entire state of the virtual machine can be saved to files Move and copy virtual machines as easily as files
Partitioning Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine Divide system resources between virtual machines
Isolation Fault and security isolation at the hardware level Advanced resource controls preserve performance
Hardware Independence Provision or migrate any virtual machine to any similar
or different physical server
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Why is virtualization such a great choice for helping to deliver a simple, robust and cost effective solution for BCDR? This is because of some of the inherent characteristics of virtual machines. With Partitioning and Isolation a failure of a service in one VM will not affect the other services/VMs on the same hardware Encapsulation means that the entire state of the VM is saved to a set of file which can be easily backed up and recovered in the event of a failure. They can also be moved from one server to another as demand for resources increase or decrease. Hardware Independence enables a VM to be provisioned on one physical server and moved to any other physical server in a pool. This can help avoid or recover from hardware fault situations. It also helps VMs and services scale with the ability to better utilize resources across a pool.
VMware has created virtual devices that emulate a chipset: • BIOS • Memory • Network Adapter [vNIC] • Storage Adapter • USB, etc.
These virtual devices, collectively know as Virtual Hardware: • Implemented in software • Identical in functionality as their physical counterparts—for example,
the behavior of the virtual Intel network adapter is identical to that of the equivalent physical Intel network adapter.
The guest operating system interacts with the hypervisor’s abstraction layer of virtual hardware and not the physical hardware.
Deploying IT Solutions in a virtual machine Tie your application and VM to specific vHW version Enables that solution to remain stable for the duration of the vHW’s lifecycle. Upgrade the underlying ESX release and physical hardware vHW version 8 has a supported lifecycle of +14 years.
Virtual Hardware Version
First ESX version to support virtual hardware version
Last ESX version to support virtual hardware version
To help address the VM upgrade challenge, vSphere 5.0 formally extended the support matrix for VMs running on ESXi 5.0. ESXi 5.0 supports VMs running vHW 4, 7, and 8. In addition vSphere 5.0 supports VMs running VMware Tools 4.x as well as VMware Tools 5.0. With this extended support matrix you can continue to run older VMs in a fully tested and supported configuration w/out feeling pressure to always upgrade just to keep up with an ever increasing version number. VM upgrades are only required when necessary to benefit from the newer features and capabilities. In performing fewer upgrades there should be fewer VM reboots, which results in less overall VM downtime. vSphere 5.1 extends the support matrix to include the latest version of VMware Tools and the newest virtual hardware version, which has is now referred to as VM “compatibility”, which we will discuss next.
If you take a look at the services we provide with vSphere and the vCenter Server, you can see there’s a lot going on. Here’s a diagram that lists different features and capabilities we provide, and in this presentation we’ll go over these technologies to some degree to see how they provide additional value. The pieces to make up the vSphere platform: The infrastructure services (the pipes and plumbing) that compute the storage and the network pieces, and the application services that make the applications available and secure, and the management conduct that’s provided by the vCenter server. This is a good slide to engage people and let them see the kind of services that vSphere covers.
Description: Enables the live migration of virtual machines from one host to another with continuous service availability. Benefits: • Revolutionary technology that is the basis for
automated virtual machine movement • Meets service level and performance goals
Storage vMotion – Live Migration extended to storage
Live migration of VMs across storage disks with no downtime Minimizes planned downtime
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VMotion for servers is only the beginning. Today, this concept has been extended to storage. Migrating single VMs and their disks from one array to another is accomplished today by moving entire LUNs with datamovers/SAN tools – almost always involving downtime. Storage VMotion completes the non-disruptive management of planned downtime. Now performance optimization of VMs with the right type of storage becomes a trivial problem to solve.
X Description: Enables the high availability of virtual machines by restarting them on a different vSphere host in the event of a failure Benefits: • Minimizes downtime and IT service
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
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VMware Fault Tolerance is a component of VMware vSphere™ that ensures continuous availability for virtual machines against hardware failures. VMware FT creates virtual machine “pairs” that run in lock step - essentially mirroring the execution state of a VM. To the external world they appear as one instance (one IP address, one application) – but they are fully redundant instances. In the event of an unexpected hardware failure that causes the active, primary VM to fail – a secondary, formerly passive VM immediately picks up where the primary left off, and continues to run, uninterrupted, and without any loss of network connections or transactions. This technology will also work across any application & any OS without modifications, without scripting, and provides a much more cost-effective way of running mission critical workloads than fault-tolerant hardware dedicated entirely to individual applications. At VMware, we say that “virtual is better than physical” very frequently, and our advanced development work on providing continuous availability for VMs – to enable VMs to keep executing, completely uninterrupted by unexpected hardware failures - is one of the great examples of why this is true. We have taken technology implemented with very complex custom hardware by companies such as Tandem, Stratus etc and delivered it for commodity x86 hardware. We believe this technology, and all of the other business continuity benefits of virtualization will drive more and more mission critical workloads into virtual machines because they can enable HIGHER levels of availability, at a fraction of the cost & complexity of physical solutions. DETAILS ( use only as needed) Limitations of FT initially: dependent on shared storage, Uniprocessor VMs only, mirroring of VMs limited to 2-nodes. Additional overhead also associated with this type of solution. Overall performance impact still TBD, but you can expect more CPU & memory resources will be required to run the 2nd VM, and applications may experience small amounts of added latency. In spite of initial limitations, longer term trends are in our favor: FT will take advantage of hardware assisted virtualization in CPUs, more and more CPU cores becoming available to offload overhead, and high-speed network improvements like 10gigE to reduce latencies…
New backup and recovery tool for the vSphere platform
Replaces vSphere Data Recovery Based on EMC Avamar Included with vSphere*
Use less disk space with deduplication Simple setup and management Proven technology
vSphere Data Protection Overview
Benefits
VMware vSphere
DATA DEDUPLICATED AND STORED ON VDP
APPLIANCE
VDP
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vSphere Data Protection (VDP), an entirely new backup and recovery solution included with vSphere 5.1. It replaces vSphere Data Recovery and included with all editions of vSphere Essentials+ and above. First, VDP is very space efficient. The usage of a variable-length deduplication algorithm ensures minimum amount of disk space is used and reduces ongoing backup storage growth. Data is deduplicated across all Virtual Machines (VMs) associated with the VDP virtual appliance. A change at a beginning of a file will be processed to find that change – not considered as an entire file change. This type of algorithm has the highest rates of deduplication with an average of 99% seen in file systems and 96% in databases. Second, VDP reduces the load on hosts and required network bandwidth. Through tight Storage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) integration, VDP leverages Changed Block Tracking, sending only daily unique changes over the network in order to minimize traffic. The process is transparent and automated, enabling up to eight VMs to be backed up concurrently. Since VDP resides in a dedicated virtual appliance, backup processes are offloaded from production VMs. VDP is very easy to use and tightly integrated with vCenter, allowing users to quickly set up backup policies. And everything can be managed directly from the vSphere Web Client. Setting backup schedules is simple and efficient, since administrators can define different policies based on specified retentions and schedules. Policies are applied to groups of virtual machines, based on business needs and data types. Finally, VDP is based on EMC Avamar and provides numerous capabilities and performance optimizations for VMware Virtual Machine backup and recovery. The underlying technology found in VDP has been successfully deployed at over 6000 customers, so you can rest assure your data is reliably protected. This initial version of VDP is ideally suited to protect smaller environments with up to 2TB of deduplicated storage or 100VMs. Larger environments can be protected by scaling out multiple VDP virtual appliances.
Virtual machine level replication by the vSphere host
Included with vSphere*
Low cost/efficient replication option Simple setup from within vCenter Server Integration with SRM enables automated DR
process
vSphere Replication Overview
Benefits
vSphere
vSphere Replication
Site A (Primary)
vSphere
Site B (Recovery)
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vSphere Replication has been designed specifically to provide very cost-efficient, simple, yet powerful replication for SRM deployments. It is more cost-efficient because it reduces both storage costs and replication costs. At the storage layer, vSphere Replication eliminates the need to have higher end storage arrays at both sites. Customers can use lower end, different storage across sites, including Direct Attached Storage. For example, one popular option is to have Tier 1 storage at the production site, but lower end storage at the failover site, such as older arrays or less expensive arrays. vSphere Replication is also bundled with SRM at no additional cost, eliminating the additional cost of storage-based replication licenses. vSphere Replication is also inherently simpler than storage-based replication. Replication is managed directly from vCenter, eliminating dependencies on storage teams. And it is managed at the level of individual VMs, making the setup of SRM much simpler. Despite its simplicity and cost-efficiency, vSphere Replication is still a robust, powerful replication solution. It can provide 15 minute RPOs, and gives the flexibility to set RPOs between 15 minutes to 24 hours. It tracks changed disk areas and only replicates the latest deltas to increase network efficiency, and will scale upwards of 500 virtual machines. It does however have a few limitations, such as the lack of support for automated failback (in this initial release), file-level consistency, no support for FT, linked clones, templates, and physical-mode RDMs.
Secure your VMs with offloaded anti-virus and anti-malware (AV) solutions without the need of agents
Included with vSphere*
Simplified AV administration Higher consolidation ratios by preventing the
possibility of AV storms Improved performance
vShield Endpoint
Overview
Benefits
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VMware vShield™ Endpoint strengthens security for virtual machines while improving performance for endpoint protection by orders of magnitude. vShield Endpoint offloads antivirus and anti-malware agent processing to a dedicated secure virtual appliance delivered by VMware partners. The solution is designed to leverage existing investments by allowing customers to manage antivirus and anti-malware policies for virtualized environments with the same management interfaces they use to secure physical environments. Improve consolidation ratios and performance by eliminating anti-virus "storms" Streamline antivirus and anti-malware deployment and monitoring in VMware environments. Satisfy compliance and audit requirements through logging of antivirus and anti-malware activities.
Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows: Setup, testing, failover
Turns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans
Provides central management of recovery plans from the VMware vSphere Client
Works with VMware vSphere to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware vSphere to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation
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Key Points: vCenter Site Recovery Manager builds on the core properties of VMware vSphere that already provide basic protection of applications. Site Recovery Manager is a product that simplifies and automates disaster recovery Site Recovery Manager helps organizations to directly address the challenges of disaster recovery that were mentioned earlier: meeting RTO requirements, reducing cost, and reducing risk Site Recovery Manager is a separate product from VMware vSphere Script: With vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware has leveraged the disaster recovery features and capabilities of the VMware vSphere platform with a product developed specifically for disaster recovery. This product simplifies and automates the key elements of disaster recovery: setting up disaster recovery plans, testing those plans, executing failover when a datacenter disaster occurs, and failing back to the primary datacenter. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes it possible for customers to provide faster, more reliable, and more affordable disaster recovery protection than previously possible. Although not a part of VMware vSphere, Site Recovery Manager works closely with VMware vSphere to manage and automate disaster recovery for virtual environments.
• Redefines the hypervisor to cluster compute and storage
• Pools locally attached SSDs and HDDs to create shared distributed storage
• Based on scale-out architecture with built-in SSD read/write caching
• Leverages VM-centric storage policy-based management for automation and self-tuning
• Managed directly from vCenter Server
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vSphere
VSAN
VMware vCenter Server
Hard disks
SSD Hard disks
SSD Hard disks
SSD Hard disks
SSD
Clustered VSAN Datastore
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The Distributed Storage feature clusters internal server disks to provide scalable shared storage with cloud agility & efficiency. It’s VMware’s first major foray into delivering storage. We’re taking a software-defined approach that is radically simpler, more scalable and agile, and lower-cost than traditional monolithic SAN or NAS storage: * The storage is flexible & elastic in that virtual storage can live anywhere across the pooled resource. * It’s inherently a fault-replace model; any failure is handled without downtime. * And, the entire system is tightly integrated with, and automated by, vCenter … and it’s specifically integrated into the application provisioning workflow so that it’ll maximize Cloud application deployment agility. Radically Simple Storage Automating storage provisioning & management for virtual machines Designed For Cloud Delivering the performance, agility and scalability demanded by current & next-gen apps Up to 50% Lower TCO Reducing storage capex & opex by using low-cost internal disks & eliminating complex workflow Overview (original) Redefines the hypervisor to cluster compute and storage Virtual SAN clusters solid state drives and hard disks from multiple servers to create shared storage Scale-out architecture with built-in SSD caching Policy based management for self-tuning VM-centric storage
VMware Fault Tolerance, High Availability, DRS Maintenance Mode, VMotion
Server
Site Recovery Manager
Site
Storage VMotion
Storage
NIC Teaming, Multipathing
Component Data
VMware Data Recovery, VMware Ready Data Protection solutions from third-party partners
VMware offers protection at every level
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The power behind VMware’s BC/DR solution is how we layer our protections. At every level of the datacenter, from individual components all the way up to the entire site, we provide protection against both planned and unplanned downtime. Many of the key properties of virtualization, such as encapsulation and hardware independence, already offer some inherent protections. From there, we provide additional protections throughout our platform to ensure your organization can meet its availability requirements. We’ll be covering all of these features and products in today’s presentation.
