V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kit

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VMware vSphere™
Overview

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-- VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Service Document Map http://ouo.io/qS1Mq
00 vSphere Upgrade SET Document Map http://ouo.io/5qCAh
01 vSphere Services Consultant Overview http://ouo.io/qlNxm
02 vSphere Services Consultant FAQ http://ouo.io/3dW74I
03 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Service Definition Methodology (SDM) http://ouo.io/HkI8PU
04 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Delivery Reference Guide (DRG) http://ouo.io/pJ6fbj
A1 vSphere Jumpstart Overview http://ouo.io/uKljT
A2 vSphere Overview http://ouo.io/i1MWh
A3 vSphere Architecture http://ouo.io/XnuIkS
A4 vSphere Getting Started http://ouo.io/1ICzv
A5 vSphere Using vSphere http://ouo.io/cBMro
A6 vSphere Administration http://ouo.io/ZSNQCC
A7 vSphere PoC Installation Guide http://ouo.io/Vzvv2
A8 vSphere Jumpstart PoC Checklist http://ouo.io/pjyYAw
A9 VMware Network Port Compendium http://ouo.io/85GSiL

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B1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter-P2V Jumpstart Overview http://ouo.io/c1CBmS
B2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Overview http://ouo.io/KSrrm9
B3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Architecture http://ouo.io/V1JMp
B4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Converter Standalone - Usage http://ouo.io/Rn8MEP
C1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Project Kickoff http://ouo.io/4Z3S3Y
C2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Overview http://ouo.io/fjVSL
C3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Planning http://ouo.io/g4NaH
C4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Prerequisites Checklist http://ouo.io/8tsU5Q
C5 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Plan http://ouo.io/JhwTW
C6 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - Upgrade Operational Verification http://ouo.io/VSfxiv
D1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Project Kickoff http://ouo.io/Yk61R
D2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Overview http://ouo.io/xpo7m
D3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Planning http://ouo.io/aK56c
D4 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Prerequisites Checklist http://ouo.io/gONL2I
D5 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - ESXi Migration Plan http://ouo.io/9B5oT7
E1 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Overview http://ouo.io/ZI3Ye
E2 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Architecture http://ouo.io/h0eQ2
E3 VMware vSphere 5 Fundamentals Services - vShield Zones - Admin and Usage http://ouo.io/JSL9WO

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Virtualization Overview
Virtualization
• Hypervisor abstracts traditional physical machine resources and runs
workloads as virtual machines (VMs)
• Each VM runs guest OS and applications

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Virtualization Overview
Hypervisor
• Partitions computing resources of a server
for multiple VMs
• Hypervisors alone lack coordination for
higher availability and efficiency
VMware vSphere
• VMware vSphere goes beyond basic host
partitioning by aggregating infrastructure
resources into a giant virtual computer
• Serves as a dynamic OS for a private
internal cloud in your datacenter

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Cloud Computing
IT as a Service
• Abstract complexity in the enterprise datacenter
• Achieve economies of scale
• Renew focus on application services
 Availability
 Security
 Scalability
Enterprise
Cloud
Cloud OS
Management

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VMware’s Vision for Cloud Computing
Pay As You Go
• Leverage external clouds as needed
Ubiquity
• Choice in external cloud providers
External
Cloud
Internal
Cloud
Private Cloud
App
Loads
Federation and Choice
Standards
Cloud OS
Management
Cloud OS
Management

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Key Benefits of VMware vSphere
Efficiency
• Highest utilization of resources
Control
• Automated quality of service
Choice
• Hardware independence
• Wide selection of guest OS support

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VMware vSphere
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
Scalability
VMware vSphere
Security
• Firewall
• Antivirus
• Intrusion Prevention
• Intrusion Detection
Dynamic Resource
Sizing
• Clustering
• Data Protection
• Fault Tolerance
Availability
vNetworkvStorage
Network
Management
• Storage
Management
& Replication
• Storage Virtual
Appliances
• Hardware Assist
• Enhanced Live
Migration
Compatibility
vCompute
vCenter Server

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VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New?
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
Scalability
VMware vSphere 4.1
Security
• AD Integration (host)
• vShield Zones
• More VMs
(per cluster, DC)
• More Hosts
(per VC, DC)
• HA Diagnostics
And Healthcheck
• vMotion Speed
and Scale
Availability
vNetworkvStorage
• Network I/O Control
• Storage I/O Control
• Storage Performance
Reporting
• Memory
Compression
• DRS
Host Affinity
vCompute
VMware vCenter™ Server (64-bit)

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vSphere 4.1 Enhanced Scalability
vSphere 4 vSphere 4.1 Ratio
VMs per host 320 320 1x
Hosts per cluster 32 32 1x
VMs per cluster 1,280 3,000 >2x
Hosts per VC 300 1,000 >3x
Registered VMs per VC 4,500 15,000 >3x
Powered-On VMs per VC 3,000 10,000 >3x
Concurrent VI Clients 30 120 4x
Hosts per DC 100 500 5x
VMs per DC 2,500 5,000 2x
Linked Mode 10,000 30,000 3x

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VMware vSphere Editions – Medium to Large Organizations
• vCenter Agent
• VCB/vStorage API
• Update Manager
• High Availability
• vMotion
• Thin Provisioning
Standard Advanced Enterprise Enterprise Plus
• Hot Add Virtual
Devices
• Fault Tolerance
• Data Recovery
• vShield Zones
• Storage vMotion
• DRS and DPM
• 4-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host
• vCenter Agent
• VCB/vStorage API
• Update Manager
• High Availability
• vMotion
• Thin Provisioning
• Hot Add Virtual
Devices
• Fault Tolerance
• Data Recovery
• vShield Zones
• 4-way vSMP
• Storage vMotion
• DRS and DPM
• 8-way vSMP
• Distributed Switch
• Host Profiles
• Multipath Storage
Plug-in Support
Basic consolidation
Mission-critical
Production
Large-scale management
*vCenter Server licensed separately
• 256GB RAM/Host
• 12 cores per CPU
• 4-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host
• 12 cores per CPU
• No RAM/Host Limit
*Unlicensed 60-day evaluation mode equivalent to Enterprise Plus
• vCenter Agent
• VCB/vStorage API
• Update Manager
• High Availability
• vMotion
• Thin Provisioning
• vCenter Agent
• VCB/vStorage API
• Update Manager
• High Availability
• vMotion
• Thin Provisioning
• Hot Add Virtual
Devices
• Fault Tolerance
• Data Recovery
• vShield Zones

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VMware vSphere Editions – Small Organizations
Essentials Essentials Plus
• 4-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host
• Thin Provisioning
• Update Manager
• vCenter Agent
• vCenter Server for
Essentials to manage
3 ESX/ESXi Hosts
• High Availability
• Data Recovery
• 4-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host
• Thin Provisioning
• Update Manager
• vCenter Agent
• vCenter Server for
Essentials to manage
3 ESX/ESXI Hosts
Small business
ESXi Single
• 4-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host
• Thin Provisioning
• Free License

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VMware vCenter Server Editions
Foundation Standard
• 3 ESX/ESXi host limit
• Linked Mode
• Orchestrator
For Essentials
vCenter Server is required for most vSphere features
At least 1 instance required for
vSphere Editions
Included in Essentials
and Essentials Plus
• 3 ESX/ESXi host limit • No ESX/ESXi host limit

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60-Day Evaluation Period Expiration Implications
Component Attempted Action After Evaluation Period
VM
Power On Not Permitted
Reset Not Permitted
Create/Delete Permitted
Suspend/Resume Permitted
Configure VM with vSphere Client Permitted
Continue Operations on Existing Hosts Permitted
VMware
ESX™/ESXi
Host
Power On/Off Permitted
Configure ESX/ESXi Host with vSphere
Client
Permitted
Restart VMs automatically per VMware HA Not Permitted
Add or Remove License Keys Permitted
vCenter Add ESX/ESXi Host Not Permitted

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Key VMware vSphere Features
VMware vMotion™
• Live migration of VMs from one host to another with zero downtime
• Used by other vSphere Features
 Fault Tolerance
 Storage vMotion
 DRS and DPM

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Storage vMotion
• Relocate running VM from one datastore
to another datastore with zero downtime
• Relocate across different storage types
• Change VM disk format (thick or thin)
OS
APP
VMware ESX/ESXi
OS
APP
OS
APP

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Key VMware vSphere Features
DRS
• Automated load balancing
DPM
• Optionally consolidate VMs
onto fewer hosts and power
off/on hosts as needed

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Key VMware vSphere Features
High Availability (HA)
• Protects VMs and automatically restarts VMs in the event of:
 Host failure
 VM failure (loss of heartbeat)

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Fault Tolerance (FT)
• A protected VM has a shadow VM in lockstep on another host
• Zero downtime in the event of primary host failure
• Automatic secondary protection after initial failover
VMware vSphere
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Distributed Switch
• Aggregated datacenter-level virtual networking (versus per-host)
• Simplified management
• Network statistics follow VMs
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
VMware vSphere
vNetwork Distributed Switch
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Host Profiles
• Simplified ESX/ESXi host configuration management
• Create “gold” reference configurations
• Compliance checks
• Remediation
Cluster
Reference
Host

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Thin Provisioning
• Virtual machine disks consume only actual
physical space in use
• Virtual machine sees full logical disk
at all times
• More efficient disk storage than
pre-allocated thick disks
VMware ESX/ESXi
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
Datastore
Virtual
Disks
20GB
40GB
20GB
20GB
60GB
20GB
100GB
Thick Thin Thin
40GB 100GB

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Hot Add Virtual Devices
• Hot add
 CPU
 Memory
• Hot add or remove
 Storage devices
 Network devices

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Key VMware vSphere Features
VCB/vStorage API
• Centralized, off-host VM backups
• Third-party backup vendors to leverage
 Full, incremental, and differential backups
 File-level backup and restore
 Windows and Linux VMs

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Data Recovery
• Agentless, disk-based backups and
recovery of VMs
• VM or file-level* restore
• Incremental backups and data de-
duplication
• Built on VCB/vStorage API
• Integrated with vCenter Server interface
• Ideal for backing up small environments
(up to 100 VMs)
*experimental
OS
APP
De-duplicated
Storage
VMware ESX/ESXi
OS
APP
OS
APP

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Key VMware vSphere Features
Update Manager
• Patch and version management
 Hosts
 VMs
• Baseline and remediation
• Upgrade

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Key VMware vSphere Features
vShield Zones
• Monitor and enforce network traffic within and between hosts
• Maintain trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data
• Integrated with vCenter inventory

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vCenter Server Features
Linked Mode
• “Single pane of glass”
• Links multiple vCenter Server instances
• View and search combined
inventory of vCenter Server instances
• Shared licenses and roles
Replicated licenses and roles
ESXi ESX ESX ESXi ESXi ESXi ESX
vCenter
Server
vCenter
Server
vCenter
ServervCenter
Server
vCenter
Server
vCenter
Server

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vCenter Server Features
VMware vCenter Orchestrator™
• Workflow engine
• Automate and coordinate virtualization tasks
vCenter Orchestrator

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage I/O Control
Description Benefits
• Prioritized use of storage (similar to how compute
is prioritized with vSphere)
• Improved application performance
• Business priorities now define low and high priority
storage resource access
• Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs
Set storage quality of
service priorities per
virtual machine
Beta Feedback
“I really feel that the Storage I/O
Control is a must have for our
environment and we should move
forward without delay.”
Proof Point
Make Your Mission
Critical VMs VIPs
All VMs Created
Equal
Guarantee
service levels
for access to
storage
resources

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vSphere 4.1 – Storage Performance Reporting
Description Benefits
• Granular storage reporting for improved tuning and
troubleshooting of performance
• Independent of storage architectures and protocols
Delivery of key storage
performance statistics
in vCenter
Beta Feedback
“In the monitoring area,
the enhanced storage
statistics are very useful.”
Proof Point
Real-Time and
Historical
Trending for
Storage

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vSphere 4.1 – Network I/O Control
Description Benefits
• Prioritized use of network, especially in 10 GbE
environments (similar to how compute is prioritized
with vSphere)
• Improved application performance
• Business priorities now define low and high priority
network resource access as needed
• Create the “high speed” or HOV lane for VMs
Set network quality of
service priorities per
flow type (such as iSCSI
and NFS)
Beta Feedback
“The new Network I/O control
feature is very interesting for
consolidating network links with
10GbE.”
Proof Point
Guarantee
service levels
for access to
network
resources
FT vMotion NFS
vSwitch
TCP/IP
iSCSI
10 GigE

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vSphere 4.1 – Memory Compression
Description Benefits
• Optimized use of memory (freeing up space as
needed)
• Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature
with confidence
• Reclaim performance
A new hierarchy for
VMware’s memory
overcommit technology
(a VMware key
differentiator)
Beta Feedback
“Great for memory over-subscription.”
Proof Point
1,000x faster
than swap-in!
Virtual Memory (Virtual Machine)
Physical Memory (Physical Host)

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vSphere 4.1 – DRS Host Affinity
Description
Set granular policies
that define only certain
virtual machine
movements
Beta Feedback
“Awesome, we can separate VMs
between data centers or blade
enclosures with DRS host affinity
Rules.”
Proof Point
Mandatory
Compliance
Enforcement for
Virtual
Machines
Benefits
• Tune environment according to availability,
performance, or licensing requirements
• A cloud enabler(multitenancy)
OS
APP
“Server A” “Server B”“Server B”“Server A”
4-host DRS/HA cluster
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
“A” “B” “A” “A” “B”
VMs A  Servers A Only VMs B  Servers B Only

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vSphere 4.1 – vMotion Performance and Scale Enhancements
Description Benefits
• Performance and scalability
• More Live Migrations in parallel (up to 8 per host
pair)
• Elapsed time reduced by 5x on 10GbE tests
Adding “Cloud Scale” to
online virtual machine
migration (a VMware key
differentiator)
Beta Feedback
“This release product has some nice
benefits in particular increased
vMotion capabilities.”
Proof Point
5x faster with
the 4.1 platform
release

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vSphere 4.1 – HA Enhancements
Description Benefits
• Event or alarms when configuration rules are
broken
• No click status (cluster status available at all times)
• Move VMs to the best host available
• Healthcheck status
• Operational window
• Optimized interaction
with DRS
Beta Feedback
“Major improvements in HA!”
Proof Point
Improving
Availability

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Features
Feature Name Description Benefit
Virtual Serial Port
Concentrator (VSPC)
Connect over the network via the
serial port concentrator to the
serial port console on any
server. This feature provides
two different ways to attain this
level of management.
• Management efficiencies
• Lower costs for multihost
management
• Enables third party
concentrator integration if
required
vStorage API for Array
Integration (VAAI)
New protocol interfaces between
VMware and storage arrays,
offering the ability to leverage
array-based functionality for the
first time
• vSphere platform integration
• Eliminate redundancy
• Enhance performance
 Storage vMotion
 Provisioning VMs
 Thin Provisioning
 VMFS

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements
Enhancement Area Description Benefit
Fault Tolerance (FT)
• DRS Interoperability for VMware HA
and Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Core VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
Enhancements
• Enhanced Network Logging
Performance
• Optimized VM placement in FT or HA Scenario
• Versioning-control to run on FT-compatible hosts
at different but compatible patch levels.
• Improved throughput and reduced CPU usage
Host Profiles
• Cisco Nexus 1000v support
• PCI device ordering (support for
selecting NICs)
• iSCSI support
• Admin password (setting root
password)
• PSA configuration
• Enhanced Configurations Choices
• Compliance
• Expanded deployment
Active Directory
Integration (host)
Seamless user authentication at the ESX
or ESXi host (rather than vCenter Server)
for centralized user management.
Easily assign privileges to users or groups, and roll out
permission rules across hosts
Expanded HCL
Support for more operating systems,
devices, applications, and service
providers than any other virtualization
platform (including new support for third
party serial port concentrators, enhanced
management, and the latest x86
processors on the market).
More choice for end users

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vSphere 4.1 – Additional New Enhancements
Enhancement Area Description Benefit
Cisco
Nexus 1000V
• Easier software upgrade
• Weighted Fair Queuing (s/w
scheduler)
• Increased scalability
• Scale port profiles > 512
• Ease of use
• Cisco’s version of Network I/O Control
• See virtual switch scale numbers below
Network
• IPv6 – NIST compliance
• Performance and scale
• Compliance with Host Profiles for government
agencies
• Enable up to 350 hosts to attach to the virtual
switch (up from 64)
Storage
• iSCSI offload
• 8GB HBA
Performance