vSphere Platform (including vSOM and VIC)

Whats New - Q4 2016 Launch

Martin Yip
CPBU Product Marketing
2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
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Presentation Summary

Target Roles Partner Sales and Technical

Sales Stages 1-2 | Prospect & Qualify

3 | Validate

Learning Objective Enable the sellers to identify the key release highlights and be able to
(incorporate Roles, Sales articulate their value to potential customers
Stages, and Product/Solution)
Target Customer Audiences CxO, VP/Director, VI Admin, LOB Manager

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Contents

1 Customer Challenges

2 Release Details

3 Packaging and Licensing Updates

4 Resources for Reference

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Key Customer Challenges

Delivering automation and management at scale

Securing data center comprehensively

Supporting any app, anywhere

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Release Highlights: Whats New in vSphere 6.5?

Dramatically
Comprehensive Universal App
Simplified
Built-in Security Platform
Experience
Automation and management Secure Data Any App
at scale
Secure Infrastructure Scale and performance to
Simplified architecture meet the demands of new
Secure Access applications
Streamlined Operations
Containerized Workloads
Improved User Experience
Anywhere
Foundation of SDDC and
VMware cloud strategy

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Release Highlights: Whats New in vSphere 6.5?

Dramatically
Comprehensive Universal App
Simplified
Built-in Security Platform
Experience
Automation and management Secure Data Any App
at scale
Secure Infrastructure Scale and performance to
Simplified architecture meet the demands of new
Secure Access applications
Streamlined Operations
Containerized Workloads
Improved User Experience
Anywhere
Foundation of SDDC and
VMware cloud strategy

Make IT more efficient Secure the data center Run any app, anywhere

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Dramatically Simplified Experience
Simplify Architecture Streamline Operations Improve User Experience

vCenter

VM
vCenter
VUM

VM
VUM

VM Appliance monitoring & configuration

Integrated vCenter
Server Appliance Native vCenter High Availability
Streamline Backup/Restore
One click patching

Standardize Deployment Reduce Downtime Improve Responsiveness

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 2015 +

VMware vCenter Appliance as First Choice vCenter

Standardize vCenter Rollout and Simplify Management

Overview
Deliver complete lifecycle management for
vCenter Server Appliance
Support Enterprise-ready scale, high
availability and backup
Provide comprehensive appliance
Metric Windows Appliance management and monitoring
Hosts per VC 1k Benefits
Powered on VMs per VC 25k Simplify vSphere lifecycle management
Hosts per cluster 64 Improved business agility with faster
VMs per cluster 8k vCenter rollouts
Linked Mode 10 Reduced TCO with no Windows or MS SQL
licensing requirements
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 Introducing vSphere Client (HTML5)

Feedback tool for

Search is made more providing instant
prominent for large feedback directly to
scale environments product teams

Alarms moved to
bottom to expand
horizontal working
area

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Deliver Comprehensive Built-in Security
Secure Data Secure Infrastructure Secure Access

Database
re logs
he
vSp
Guest OS

VM vSphere

VM Encryption UEFI / Secure Boot Multi-factor Authentication

Encrypted vMotion Enhanced VIB authentication Role-based Access Control
Audit Quality Logging

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Universal App Platform

Apps
And
Many More
...
APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP
Test / Dev / Tier 2/3 Business Critical Apps Desktop Virtualization 3D Graphics Deep Learning w/ GPU Big Data Cloud Native Apps

vRealize NSX VSAN Horizon

vSphere

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Introducing vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC)
Enabling the Best of Both Worlds

Docker compatible interface Familiarity of vSphere

Container management portal No new tooling or technologies
Container registry Full enterprise-grade power of
the Software-Defined Data Center

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vSphere Integrated Containers Marketecture

ENGINE

vSphere

@cloudnativeapps #vmwcna
Freedom of Choice to Build and Consume Clouds
APP
APP APP
APP APP
APP APP
APP APP
APP APP
APP

VMware Cloud Foundation Flexibility in consumption model

vSphere Virtual SAN NSX Choice in hardware

Leverage existing tools & skillsets

Private cloud Public cloud

Common foundation across clouds

Build-Your-Own Converged Hyper-Converged

Infrastructure Infrastructure

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No Pricing and Packing Changes for vSphere 6.5
vSphere STD vSphere ENT+ vSOM ENT+
Key Features Description
$995 $3,495 $4,395

Receives server health information and

vSphere Proactive HA X X
vMotions VMs from degraded hosts

vSphere VM Encryption Data at rest encryption for VM data and disks X X

Data in motion encryption for VM data and

vSphere Encrypted vMotion X X
disks

Cross-Cloud vMotion vMotioning of workloads btwn on- and off-prem X X

vSphere Integrated
Virtual infrastructure platform for containers X X
Containers
X X X
vCenter HA Native VC availability solution
(vCenter STD) (vCenter STD) (vCenter STD)
X X X
vCenter Backup and Restore Native VC backup and restore solution
(vCenter STD) (vCenter STD) (vCenter STD)
vCenter Server Appliance Single step migration and upgrade of existing X X X
Migration Tool Windows VC deployments to VCSA (vCenter STD) (vCenter STD) (vCenter STD)

Note: No changes to pricing or overall three edition packaging structure given Q116 vSphere/vSOM/vCenter Server PnP changes. CONFIDENTIAL 15
Partner Advisory: VMware vSphere 6.5 Product Compatibility
PLEASE NOTE: This information is under embargo and is not to be shared with customers until the
public announcement of vSphere 6.5
Following a new vSphere release, VMware expects to make compatible versions of dependent
products available within one quarter of GA in most cases. vSphere 6.5 is expected to GA in Q4
2016.
At GA, VMware will not have compatible versions for VMware NSX, VMware Integrated
OpenStack, vCloud Director-SP and vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
Reseller partners should advise existing NSX and VIO customers not to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 until
compatible versions become available
Compatible versions of NSX and VIO are expected to be available in Q1 2017

vCD-SP partners are advised not to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 until compatible versions become
available
A compatible version of vCD-SP is expected to be available in Q1 2017

Reseller partners should advise existing VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator customers
not to upgrade to vSphere 6.5
Partners that identify VIN customers planning an upgrade to vSphere 6.5, please email the VIN team
for further information
Any Questions? Contact your Partner Business Manager, Distribution Account Manager,
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Resources

1 Presentation Recording: [link]

2 Partner Central Product Page: https://vmware.my.salesforce.com/apex/page?name=products.vsphere

3 vSphere Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vSphere

4 Webpage: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/

5 Partner University: https://vmware.my.salesforce.com/apex/PartnerUniversity?sfdc.tabName=01r80000000G7sO

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