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1. Architectural Changes in vCenter Platform
Eddie Dinel, VMware
Fausto Ibarra, VMware
TEX5738
#TEX5738

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Disclaimer
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under development.
 This overview of new technology represents no commitment from
VMware to deliver these features in any generally available
product.
 Features are subject to change, and must not be included in
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 Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
 Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features
discussed or presented have not been determined.

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Agenda
 vCenter: Today and Tomorrow
 vCenter & Management Platform: Future
• Why Are We Doing it?
• What Concretely are we doing?
• Integration & Extensibility
• Scale & Performance
• Centralized Management

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vCenter Today and Tomorrow
…and a bit of history

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vCenter 5 Architecture Changes
 Modular and
extensible services
• Single Sign-On
• Tagging
• Inventory Service
• vSphere Web Client
vCenter 5 began a transformation to modularity
Modularity makes future features easier to deliver
Tagging
Inventory SSO
UI Platform vCenter (VPXd)

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vCenter 5.0, 5.1 Introduced New Features…
 vSphere Web Client
 Shortcut navigation, custom tagging, enhanced scalability
 vCenter Single Sign-On
 Login once for VC components and instances
 Auto Deploy
• One solution for stateful and stateless deployments
 Enhanced vMotion
 vMotion without shared storage
 Multi-Hypervisor Management
 Manage Hyper-V hosts through vCenter
 Centralized Log Browser

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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.
… and vCenter 5.5 Continued to Introduce New Features
 Single Sign-On service
• New architecture, no database required
• Enhanced support for Active Directory
 vSphere Web Client
• Mac OS X support including remote console
• Usability: drag and drop, filters, recent items
 vSphere App-Aware HA
• Monitor and restart off-the-shelf applications
• Leverage Hyperic technology
 vSphere Big Data Extensions
• Provision and manage Hadoop clusters
• Support for all the leading Hadoop distributions
 vCenter Server Appliance
• Higher scalability

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Agenda
 vCenter: Today and Tomorrow
 vCenter & Management Platform: Future
• Where are we going and Why?
• What Concretely are we doing?

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vCenter & Management Platform: Future
Where Are We Going, and Why?

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$1,800
5 days,
2 minutes
$300
2 minutes
$10,000
10 weeks
PresentPast
+
Enterprise
storage
VLAN
networks
Firewall,
load-balancer
IDS, security,
monitoring
Availability

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vCenter Is Changing to Support This
And Becoming More than Just vCenter…
1

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vCenter Server & vCloud Director
Together, Providing a Scalable, Reliable Management Platform
 A single way to manage virtual
infrastructure, cloud resources,
Virtual Datacenters
 A reliable, scalable,
extensible platform
 Automated lifecycle management
of virtual infrastructure and the
virtual datacenter
Virtual Datacenter
Cloud Management Platform
Storage FabricCompute Fabric Network Fabric

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Evolution of vCloud Director
vCloud Director (vCD)
vCloud Automation Center
(vCAC)
Virtualization Platform
Well-Governed
Self-Service
Delivery
Cloud
Administration
Cloud Service
Provisioning 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.
VMware’s 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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Evolution of vCloud Director
vCloud Director (vCD)
vCloud Automation Center
(vCAC)
vSphere
• Content Catalog
• Virtual Data Center
• Intelligent Placement
• Network Virtualization
• High governance consumption
• Self-service portal
• VM lifecycle management
• Multi-tenancy
• Memory clone
2014+

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3. VM – Automatically Placed and Provisioned
1. Content Library - Select a Template
2. Virtual Data Center – Specify Requirements
Virtual Datacenter in vCenter
Storage FabricCompute Fabric Network FabricPBM Fabric
VM: 2 vCPU, 1GB vRAM
Cluster: UCS-19
Network: VXLAN-4235
Storage: VSAN-1193
UDS: TAG-PCI-ZONE
NSX

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Agenda
 vCenter: Today and Tomorrow
 vCenter & Management Platform: Future
• Where are we going and why?
• What Concretely are we doing?
• Integration & Extensibility
• Scale & Performance
• Centralized Management

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vCenter & Management Platform: Future
What Concretely Are We doing?

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First: The Goal

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Achieve Scale…and Manage It Effectively…across the Suite
Today, most Admin operations done at
each and every vCenter
Single Interface for Large-Scale Management
Tomorrow, operate once
against your entire
infrastructure
 Raise scale limits:
• 100K VMs
• 10K hosts per cloud
 Manage across clouds
 All products in one UI

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The Obstacles
…and How We’ll Tackle Them

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Integration
& Extensibility
Common
Infrastructure
Services
Services
Decoupled
from vCenter
Scale &
Performance
Leaner
vCenter
Scale-out
architecture
Centralized
Management
Cross site
“Federation”
Obstacles & Remedies

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Integration
& Extensibility
Common
Infrastructure
Services
Services
Decoupled
from vCenter
Scale &
Performance
Leaner
vCenter
Scale-out
architecture
Centralized
Management
Cross site
“Federation”
Obstacles & Remedies

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Integration Is Difficult
Getting to a Cloud Management Platform
Integration is a many-to-many problem
Behavior defined by each product
vCenter
vShield
vCOPS
Products Integrate to Common Services
Suite products have common behaviors
SRM
Common
Services
vShield
vCOPS vCenter
SRM• One Console
• Shared common
services
• Single entry point
• Extensible platform

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Services & Platforms Decouple from vCenter
Available for Use by Other Solutions
 Common services can be used
by other solutions and components
(SRM, NSX, VC-Ops etc.)
 UI/API layer can be common across
all solutions
 Designed to support integration
and extensibility
 Load on vCenter decreases
significantlyvCenter (VPXd)

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Services & Platforms Decouple from vCenter
Available for use by other Solutions
Tagging
Inventory SSO
UI Platform
vCenter (VPXd)
Licensing
Authorization
Cert Mgmt
 Common services can be used
by other solutions and components
(SRM, NSX, VC-Ops etc.)
 UI/API layer can be common across
all solutions
 Designed to support integration
and extensibility
 Load on vCenter decreases
significantly
API
Platform

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Deployment Stays Simple for Simple Situations
Notification
Tagging
Inventory
Data/Query
VM CASSO 2
ApplianceContainer
Key-Value
Licensing
Component
Manager
API
RuntimeUI Platform AuthorizationvPostgres
vCenter (VPXd)
Single node contains
all management
software—services
and application
Over time, VMware will
make this deployment
“virtual appliance”-only.

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Integration
&
Extensibility
Common
Infrastructure
Services
Services
Decoupled from
vCenter
Scale
&
Performance
Leaner vCenter
and
Intelligent
Data Storage
Scale-out
architecture
Centralized
Management
Cross site
“Federation”
Obstacles & Remedies

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Smaller Deployments Are Simple
Notification
Tagging
Inventory
Data/Query
VM CASSO 2
Key-Value
Licensing
Component
Manager
API
RuntimeUI Platform AuthorizationvPostgres
vCenter (VPXd)

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Smaller Deployments Are Simple
vCenter
(Management)
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
vCenter
(Management)
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
vCenter
(Management)
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags

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More Flexibility for Larger-Scale Deployments
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
Replication Replication
Replication

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Getting Smart About Storing Data
Not everything belongs in a relational database…
Confidential
Embedded SQL
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
Time-Series
Data
(Stats, Events)
 Slow-Changing Data 
Multi-Master Replicated Directory
 Time-Series Data
Purpose-built Storage Format
 Relational Data 
Embedded SQL DB (vPostgres)
 Inventory / Management Data 
Distributed Store

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Obstacles & Remedies
Integration
& Extensibility
Common
Infrastructure
Services
Services
Decoupled
from vCenter
Scale &
Performance
Leaner
vCenter
Scale-out
architecture
Centralized
Management
Cross site
“Federation”

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Large Scale at a Single Site…
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
“Infra”
Users, Certs,
Roles,Tags
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
vCenter
(Management)
Replication Replication
Replication

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…Becomes a Building Block for Multi-Site
Site: Los Angeles
Site: Ohio
Replication
Site: Florida

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Multi-Site…from One Pane of Glass
Today, most Admin operations done at
each and every vCenter
Tomorrow, operate once
against your entire
infrastructure
 Raise scale limits:
• 100K VMs
• 10K hosts per cloud
 Manage across sites
in one UI

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Single Pane of Glass for Management
With Full Automation through Consistent APIs
Administrator
CIS API
Cloud Infrastructure Suite
vCenter NSX VC-Ops
Roadmap
 Just like UI: Consumers have clear &
consistent programmatic interface
 Same Syntax for consumer & producer,
segregated by role
 Single API entry point for multi-site
management
 Consistent interaction model across all
products in the Suite
SRM

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Wait a Second…
…This Could Be Really Complex to Deploy and Make Available!

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vCloud Suite
Install, Upgrade, Patch—with Software Dependency
Management Built in
 Integration with Configuration
Manager to define “compliant
infrastructure”
 Integrated with Auto Deploy to allow
scale-out of management while
scaling out capacity
 Install and update vSphere and
vCloud Suite
 Automatically track and manage
dependencies — prevents
breakage through upgrade
 Infrastructure software lifecycle
manager functionality may replace
current limited VMware Update
Manager functionality
Install, Upgrade, and Patch
Roadmap
Overview

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Questions? Comments?

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43. Architectural Changes in vCenter Platform
Eddie Dinel, VMware
Fausto Ibarra, VMware
TEX5738
#TEX5738