Transcript Slide 1

So You Missed VMWorld 2012?
Agile360, a division of Entisys Solutions Inc.
Agenda
• VMware vSphere Licensing changes
• VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates
• Software defined datacenters – What are they and how will they
help you?
• VMware vCloud Director Suite Information
• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - What's New and
Technical Overview
• VMware View Updates (including Wanova acquisition update)
• Impact of Anti-Virus products on VMware View deployments
VMware vSphere Licensing
changes
VMware vSphere Licensing
changes
• vRAM Tax is gone!!!
– 4.0 had the “Core Tax” (mostly AMD
chipsets back then)
– 5.0 had the “vRAM Tax”
– Requires upgrade to vSphere 5.0
No more
“vRAM tax”!
“Reaction Guys” Meme
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
VMware vSphere Licensing
changes
• Now included with Standard
Edition and above
– Fault Tolerance (FT)
– vSphere Replication
– vShield Zones
– vShield Endpoints
– Storage vMotion
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates
Available for download as of
9/11/2012
Distributed Switches
Larger VM hardware for MissionCritical Applications
vMotion without Shared Storage
vSphere Data Protection
vSphere Replication
vShield Endpoint
Other Enhancements
• vMotion Enhancements
– One action for vMotion and Storage vMotion without Shared Storage
• Enhanced Web Client
– Expect this to be last Virtual Infrastructure Client for Windows
(everything is going to Web Client)
• Single Sign-On for multiple vCenters
• vOrchestator updates
– Enhanced workflows for VM automation processes
– Launch workflows from with Web Client
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Other Enhancements
• Virtual Machine Updates
– Windows 8 Server and Desktop Support
– Enhanced CPU Virtualization (Example: Microsoft XP Mode on
Windows 7/8)
– 64 vCPUs and 1TB of RAM
• Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics
– 3D graphics card support for Windows 7/8 based VMware
View desktops on VMware vSphere
– NVIDIA only
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Other Enhancements
• Enhanced Auto Deploy
– Stateless (AKA Diskless)
– Stateless Caching Mode
– Stateful Install Mode
• VM Tools Compatibility
– Notification in client letting you know what level
of ESX host compatibility the VM Tools will allow
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Software defined datacenters –
What are they and how will they
help you?
What is it?
– Term Coined by VMware for the basis of cloud computing
(private and public).
– Four Key Elements: Computing, Network, Storage and
Security
– It allows its tenants to have their own virtual datacenter
with an isolated collection of all the compute, storage,
networking, and security resources that they are used to in
a traditional Datacenter.
– Hardware independent platform that is served up by the
hypervisor.
How will it help you.
– The “Datacenter” can grow and shrink to efficiently use
physical resources.
– No upfront hardware cost to you.
– Resources on demand
– Time to deploy these resources can be orders of
magnitude faster than in most of today’s IT environments.
VMware vCloud Director Suite
Information
• Licensing
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– VMware vCloud Director requires VMware vSphere Enterprise edition
or higher licenses and at least one instance of vCenter Server Standard
Enables “Virtual Datacenters”
vCloud Networking and Security Technologies
Isolated Multi-tenant Organizations
Self-service Web Portal
VMware vCenter Single Sign-On
Integrated vSphere Profile-Driven Storage and vSphere Storage DRS
• Support for 64 Virtual CPU’s and 1 TB of memory
• Simplified software defined networking.
• Compute, storage and networking now can be created in a
single workflow, enabling administrators to deploy a complete
infrastructure in minutes
• Now able to take a snapshot of a single virtual machine or an
entire vApp. After a snapshot has been taken, a user easily
can revert to that point in time when it was taken.
• VCNS Gateways provide the following services:
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Load Balancing
DNS
Firewall
NAT
DHCP
Additional Documentation
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For more information about VMware vCloud Director, visit the product pages at:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html.
You can access the documentation for vCloud Director by going to:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html
VMware vCenter Site Recovery
Manager (SRM)
What's New and Technical Overview
Challenges of traditional Recovery
methods
How SRM complements vSphere
Required Components of SRM
Broad Replication Choices
Other SRM 5.1 Updates
• Updates for known issues
• SRM 5.1 supports reprotect and failback with
array based and vSphere Replication
• SRM 5.1 is now fully 64-bit
• Improved disk resignaturing for VFMS disks
• Improved handling of datastores in the all
paths down (APD) state
http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-0.html#whatsnew
So do I buy SRM or just use
vSphere Replication by itself?
• vSphere Replication
– No DR orchestration, purely replication
(No automated failover or failback
procedures)
– Expect increase in RAM and CPU
utilization needed to manage the
replication (less VM density per host)
– Can migrate VM Protection
configurations to SRM
– Can be great for Branch Office to
Datacenter Replication or for keeping
copies of local VMDK VMs replicated to
another host with local disk
• No Orchestration of
DR Events
• Less VM Density per
host
• Can be migrated to
SRM
VMware View Updates
(including Wanova acquisition
update)
Persona Management
Wanova Mirage
• Now called VMware Mirage
• Still appears to be licensed seperaly then View
• Did show VMware View integration at keynote
Key Features
• Centralized single image management with local
execution
• Total image recovery
• Fill bi-directional network optimization and
integrated deduplication
• Integrated PC break-fix and troubleshooting
– User initiated backup and restore
• Automated OS and Hardware migration
Technology Overview
Impact of Anti-Virus products on
VMware View deployments
Project Virtual Reality Check
http://www.projectvrc.com/
• Independent Consultants from Europe
– Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO - Login Consultants
– Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer - PQR
– Sven Huisman, Consultant - PQR
• Standardized testing using Login VSI and standard
applications (Office, IE, Acrobat, Flash, etc.) to
simulate load
– Same tests leverage by HP, Dell, IBM, Citrix, VMWare,
Microsoft, Cisco, VCE, etc.
Tested Anti-Virus Solutions
(Work in progress)
• Traditional AV Scanners
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McAfee Enterprise 8
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1
Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.6
Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
• Hypervisor based scanners
– McAfee MOVE AV 2.0
– Trend Micro Deep Security Scan
Symantec 12.1.2 with vShield Endpoint integration was not released yet
Maximum number of desktops:
Stateless desktops
<5%
<10% when optimized
~5% offloaded to 15% on host
~13% to 25%
<15% to 25%
~35%
Maximum number of desktops:
Stateful desktops
<5%
<10% when optimized
~5% offloaded to 15% on host
~13% to 25%
<15% to 25% (Needs more testing according to VRC)
<15% to 25%
~35%
Lessons Learned from deploying
any AV with virtual desktops
• Disable Schedule Scans of State
– But Pre-Scan Image before deploying image for a huge improvement
• Disable “Scan on Read” or force “Scan on Modify”
• “Disable Heuristics” and “Disable Buffer overflow”
– May need to be reviewed with your security group
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Perform exclusions when possible
Review AV Vendors best practices for deployment with virtual desktops
Trend Micro’s Smart Scan (cloud) has high impact on desktops
If using a hypervisor scanner, offload to another host from the virtual
desktops
Final White Paper will be published by Project VRC @
http://www.projectvrc.com/
Time Permitting….
VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Intelligent Remedition
VMware vCenter Operations Manager
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operationsmanagement/compare-editions.html
Expo Hall
• VMware Operations Manager
– VMware product specific management
software
– Oversized VMs, underperforming VMs,
poor performing storage volumes
• NetApp OnCommand Balance
– Optimize performance and capacity of
physical and virtual infrastructure
– Storage vendor independent (not just for
NetApp storage
Exhibit Hall
• Splunk
– Event log/Syslog data mining
– Troubleshoot application problems and investigate security incidents
• Login VSI
– Small to large scale Virtual Desktop or Server Based Computing performance testing
tool
– Simulate users to identify bottlnecks in your configuration or application before users
start using the system
• EG Innovations
– Application and infrastructure monitoring
– Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, and right-size your infrastructure
Exhibit Hall
• NetApp
– Edge – Virtual Appliance with NetApp ONTAP
• 10TB Limit, Source for replication, not target, includes iSCSI, NFS and CIFS protocols
– OnCommand Balance
• Storage agnostic
• Storage optimization/performance monitoring /troubleshooting
• End to end virtual infrastructure and physical servers to the storage disks
• Nutanix
– Purpose built servers and storage for virtualization
– 4 Nodes (2 CPU/6 cores/up to 192GB of RAM) in a 2U Chassis with FusionIO
SSD and 10TB usable SATA
Thanks
• Thanks for attending
• Please contact your account representative if
you have any questions or would like to have a
more detailed conversation about any of these
topic