Virtualization – to cluster or not to cluster 4/17/2012

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