VMware Solutions Symposium Vietnam

Establish Your Software-Defined Data Center Foundation Whats New in vSphere 5.5
Pham Duc Phong Systems Engineer - Vietnam

Agenda
Launch Context and Product Set vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap vSphere 5.5 New Features Announcements and Reminders Q and A

VMwares SDDC Architecture

Software-Defined Data Center

Management and Automation Compute Network and Security Storage and Availability

Abstract.

Pool.

Automate.

VMware Top Level Cloud Infrastructure and Management Offerings

vSphere with Operations Management per CPU vCloud Suite per CPU
vC SRM Ent vCAC Std vC OPS Std vCNS vCOps Std vCOps Std vCOps Std vCD vSphere Ent+ vCAC Adv vC OPS Adv vCNS vCD vSphere Ent+ vCAC Ent vC OPS Ent vCNS vCD vSphere Ent +

vSphere Std

vSphere Ent

vSphere Ent+

vSOM Std $1,745

vSOM Ent $3,625

vSOM Ent+ $4,245

vCloud Suite STD $4,995

vCloud Suite ADV $7,495

vCloud Suite ENT $11,495

Capability

Virtualization; Insight on capacity and health Enterprise (Emerging) Commercial & SMB

Private Cloud: Pooled, Automated, Self-service Enterprise & Commercial Premier SMB

Customers

vSphere with Operations Management

vSphere with Operations Management VMware vSphere Worlds leading virtualization platform The proven compute virtualization platform Insight to workload capacity and health
Capacity planning know how many days before capacity runs out so IT can continue to be responsive
Optimize efficiency know on which virtual machines might be overprovisioned Improve performance - faster root cause identification of emerging issues Proven virtualization platform for fully virtualized environments (including business critical applications)

vSphere vCenter Server

vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap

vSphere Recap Whats New in vSphere 5.1?

Management Services
Single Sign On vSphere Web Client Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator Capacity Optimization Health and Performance Montioring

Data Protection Replication* vMotion w/o shared storage 0 Downtime upgrades of VMware Tools

vShield Endpoint*

Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage integration with VCD Enhanced Auto Deploy

Availability

Security

Automation

Core Services
Compute Storage Network

HW version 9 64 way SMP 1 TB VMs

Storage Appliance Storage Space Reclamation for VDI

Enhanced Distributed Switch SR-IOV support

*Now included at no charge with vSphere platform

vSphere 5.5 New Features

vSphere 5.5: Whats New in 2013

New Features New Customer Benefits

Performance and Scale App HA Flash Read Cache Replication

Backup and Recovery

Big Data Extensions

vSphere in 2013 New Applications and Architectures

vSphere Big Data Extensions Optimize Hadoop Workloads and Extend Project Serengeti

Pivotal and VMware vSphere Building PaaS On-Premise

Latest Chip Set Support Next Generation Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 Intel Atom Processor C2000

OpenStack Delivering Architecture Choices

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vSphere Performance and Scale

Overview
Low latency application configuration

2x Increase in Configuration Maximums

Up to 64 TB VMDKs

Benefits
Low latency application optimization tune vSphere Support for even the largest business critical applications

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vSphere Configuration Maximums Increases

320 pCPU 4TB memory

16 NUMA Nodes
4096 vCPUs per ESXi host

vSphere 5.1 160 pCPU 2TB Memory 8 NUMA Nodes 2048 vCPUs

vSphere 5.5 320 pCPU 4TB Memory 16 NUMA Nodes 4096 vCPUs

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Low Latency Sensitivity Testing Proof

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vSphere App HA
Overview
Detect and recover from application or OS failure Supports most common packaged applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, etc.) vCloud Extensibility APIs to Ecosystem

VMware HA App Restart

APP OS

APP

OS

Benefits
vSphere

Simpler management from vCenter Server

Tier 1 application protection at scale Lower TCO than traditional application specific cluster availability solutions

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vSphere App HA Policy

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vSphere App HA Application Availability

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vSphere HA VM-to-VM Anti-Affinity

vSphere HA in vSphere 5.5
DRS Affinity Rule: VMs must not run on the same host

vSphere

vSphere

vSphere

vSphere HA/DRS Cluster

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vSphere APP HA
Summary
Reduce Application downtime
Protection for several off-the-shelf
applications Recovery from a variety of scenarios

VM-to-VM Anti-Affinity
Optimal workload placement

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vSphere Flash Read Cache

Overview
Virtualized flash resource managed just like CPU and memory Per-VM hypervisor-based read caching using server flash vSphere Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA

New Flash Pool

CPU Pool

Memory Pool

Benefits
Accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 2x

Accelerate performance

Enables efficient use of server flash in virtual environments

Fully transparent read-caching no host agents or application changes

SAN/NAS

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Virtual SAN: Radically Simple Storage

Key Features
SSD Hard disks

VSAN vSphere

..3 to 8

Policy-driven per-VM SLA vSphere & vCenter integration Scale-out storage Built-in resiliency SSD caching Converged Compute & Storage

SSD

Hard disks

SSD

Hard disks

SSD

Hard disks

VSAN Aggregated Datastore

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Virtual SAN: Radically Simple Storage

Customer Benefits
VSAN vSphere

..3 to 8

Radically Simple Storage designed for Virtual Machines Fast, Resilient & Dynamic Lower TCO for comparable performance
SSD Hard disks

SSD

Hard disks

SSD

Hard disks

SSD

Hard disks

VSAN Aggregated Datastore

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vSphere Big Data Extensions

Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to support Big Data workloads

Overview
vSphere extends support for Big Data workloads,
including all major Hadoop distributions

Virtualize Hadoop on common vSphere

infrastructure for unmatched flexibility

Separation of storage and compute enables

elastic scaling and true multi-tenancy

Benefits
Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute
Physical Host VM VM VM

Elastic scalability Higher cluster utilization

Current Hadoop: Combined Storage/ Compute

Compute

T1

T2

Easy to use interface

Lower TCO through hardware consolidation Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphere

VM

VM

Storage

Storage

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vSphere Replication
Site A (Primary)

Overview

VM-level replication by the vSphere host New Support for:

vSphere

vSphere Replication

Multiple Point-In-Time Copies Multiple Replication Appliances per vCenter Server Storage vMotion

Site B (Recovery)

Benefits

Low cost/efficient replication More granular recovery options DR scalability and flexibility across BCAs Integration with SRM enables automated DR process

vSphere

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vSphere Data Protection is VMwares Backup & Recovery Tool

Architecture
From Powered by

Overview
VDP provides proven, efficient and simple backup and recovery for small and midsize vSphere environments vSphere Data Protection (included with vSphere at no cost)

VDP

Deployed as a virtual appliance Agent-less, image-level backup to disk Integrated with the vSphere platform
vSphere Data Protection Advanced (additional purchase)

VMware vSphere

All VDP capabilities plus: 4x greater scalability Agent-based, application-awareness for Exchange and SQL Easy upgrade from VDP

Benefits
Whats new with VDP 5.5
Data deduplicated

Direct to host recovery (no dependency on vCenter Server)

Individual .vmdk backup and restore

Detachable/re-mountable backup storage

Built for vSphere, based on EMC Avamar technology 4x more storage-efficient 6x faster recovery Fast and easy deployment Managed directly from the vSphere Web Client Designed for the vSphere admin

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vCenter Server 5.5

vCenter Single Sign-On
Improved user experience in multi domain environments Secure Database connectivity with Windows
Authentication

vCenter Server Appliance

Scalability of embedded database (vPostgres)
Now supports up to 500 vSphere hosts / 5000 virtual
machines

vCenter Databases
Official support for database clustering technologies

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vCenter Server 5.5

vSphere Web Client
Increased Platform Support
Added support for OS X
VM Console access Deploy OVF Templates Attach Client Devices

Enhanced Usability Experience

Drag and Drop Filters Recent Items

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The Best of the Rest

Platform
Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10) Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices

Network
Enhancement to LACP feature Enhanced SR-IOV Traffic Filtering QoS Tagging Packet Capture 40 Gig Support

Support for Reliable Memory

Enhancements for CPU C-States

Storage
Support for 62TB VMDK 16GB E2E support MSCS supportability enhancements Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements

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Announcements and Reminders

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Whats Cookin?
Where is all this great stuff?

Full support lifecycle

Convergence and Transition Plan How does this impact vSphere?

GOT SuSe?
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vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Lineup

Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard Existing feature New feature

vSphere with Operations Management Standard Enterprise

$3,625

Enterprise+
$4,245

Price (per CPU, license only) Features Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics Capacity Management and Optimization Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis High Availability, and Fault Tolerance vMotion, and Storage vMotion Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication vShield Endpoint Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing Big Data Extensions Reliable Memory Distributed Switch Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV Host Profiles and Auto Deploy Flash Read Cache App HA
All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES

$1,745

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vSphere 5.5 Support Lifecycle

Normal 5 year support would end 2016

(based on vSphere 5 starting in 2011)

Support will be extended to 2018

(full 5 year cycle)

Only applies to 5.5

(ESXi and vCenter Server)

Final date to be posted by the end of Q3

and will be based on GA date

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VMwares Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify the Cloud

vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)

Well governed Self-Service Delivery

Cloud Automation provides personalized, self-service delivery of application, infrastructure, and desktop services by fully automating the end-to-end service lifecycle across heterogeneous and hybrid clouds.

vCloud Director (vCD)

Cloud Administration

Virtualization Platform

VMwares Cloud Infrastructure Platform produces an entire virtual datacenter (VDC) that harnesses the software-defined infrastructure to deliver the most agile, cost-efficient cloud

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The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

VMwares Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify The Cloud

vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) High Governance Consumption Self Service Portal VM Lifecycle Management Multi-Tenancy Memory Clone

vCloud Director (vCD)

Virtualization Platform

Content Catalog Virtual Data Center Intelligent Placement Network Virtualization

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The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Lower TCO

Proven and Reliable OS

Increased Agility

Broad ISV & Streamlined Support

vSphere customers w/ valid SnS contracts get SUSE Linux at NO COST

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Additional Nuggets

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All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

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Q and A

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Thank You

vSphere Platform Features Summary

vSphere Configuration Maximum Increases
2x increase from vSphere 5.1

Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10)

LSI SAS for Solaris 11, New CPU Enablement, AHCI Controller Support

Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support

Support for both Intel & AMD GPU vMotion supported across different GPU vendors

Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices

Hot Add/Remove SSD Devices without any downtime

Support for Reliable Memory

Provider greater uptime and reliability for ESXi by protecting VMkernel &
critical User Worlds

Enhancements for CPU C-States

Reducing power consumption
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vSphere Networking Features Summary

Enhancement to LACP feature
Number of Link Aggregation Group support on VDS increased to 64 Number of hashing algorithms supported increased to 22

Enhanced SR-IOV
Communicate Port group specific properties to the virtual functions

Traffic Filtering
Helps drop or allow selected traffic

QoS Tagging
Provides Service level agreements to important traffic types by marking the
packets

Packet Capture
Host level packet capture tool helps troubleshoot network related issues

40 Gig Support
Large bandwidth pipe to server
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vSphere Storage Features Summary

Support for 62TB VMDK
Virtual Machines VMDK can now be created or grown up to 62TB

16GB E2E support

Full end-to-end support for 16GB FC is now supported

vSphere Flash Read Cache

A more efficient way to utilized flash based devices in vSphere

MSCS supportability enhancements vSphere Replication multiple points-in-time

Virtual Machines can now be easily recovered using the latest point-in-time snapshot

Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility

Replicated Virtual Machines can now take advantage of both Storage vMotion and SDRS

VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements

Improvements made to benefit Virtual Machine space reclamations and avoiding stranded/dead
disk space

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