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Traditional Intel System

Architecture

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Resource efficiency

Memory

15% CPU

85% Idle
Disk
(OS+APP)

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Resource sharing

Memory1 Memory2

15% 10% CPU

Disk

OS1+APP1

OS2+APP2

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Consolidation

Firewall (linux)

Mail-relay (linux)

Mail server (Windows)

FS/PS (Windows)

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Intel Architecture with VMware

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VMware Virtualization Products

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VMware Product Selection
Criteria

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Virtual Machine Environment

A VMware virtual machine is simply a file

containing the operating system, applications
and user files build it once, move it anywhere!

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Key Features of VMware ESX

Scalability Wide Platforms Support

VMware Virtual SMP Blade Server support
Run enterprise apps Broad range of operating systems
Optimized for NUMA
architectures
Storage and HA
Integrated SAN support
Zero-downtime NIC Teaming
Management
VMware Control Center
VMotion Technology
Advanced file system

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Scalability
Support for VMware Virtual SMP
Run enterprise applications such as Oracle 9i, SQL Server, Exchange,
SAP, Siebel, etc.
Create dev and test environments that mimic your production machines
Increased VM Support
Support for up to 80 simultaneous Virtual Machines
Run up to 8 VMs per physical processor
Advanced File System
Support up to 64TB of storage
Dynamically grow the size of a file system
Reconfigure your storage without powering off machines
NUMA Support
Enhanced performance by optimizing memory locality for best possible
CPU utilization

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Zero-downtime Management

Support for VMware Control Center

ESX Server 2 is the first platform to
support VMware Control Center
Now you can manage your computing
environment a single pool of resources
Support for VMotion Technology
As a key component of VMware Control
Center, VMotion allows the movement
of live, stateful applications across
distributed systems without server
interruption

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Vmware ESX Platform Support
Support for Blade Servers
ESX Server 2 has been tested and fully supports industry-leading blade
servers from IBM and HP
IBM BladeCenter
HP ProLiant BL20p blade server
Support for a broad range of operating systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, SP6a
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, AS 2.1 and AS 3.0
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and SuSE 8.2
Novell Netware 5.1, 6.5
FreeBSD 4.5

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ESX Server hardware
2 16 CPUs Fibre Channel
Intel® 900MHz Pentium® III Xeon Emulex and QLogic adapters
and above
SCSI adapters
512MB RAM minimum Adaptec®, LSI Logic and most
NCR/ Symbios SCSI adapters
Ethernet
Two NIC minimum SCSI RAID adapters
Broadcom® NetXtreme 570x HP® Smart Array, Dell®
Gigabit controllers, Intel PRO/100 PercRAID (Adaptec RAID and LSI
adapters, Intel PRO/1000 MegaRAID), ServeRAID and
adapters, 3Com® 9xx based Mylex® RAID devices
adapters

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Virtual Hardware

Standard hardware items

No change between VMWare
servers

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Resource sharing with VMware

30% 70%

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Management machine

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Remote Management
Console
Windows

Windows
NT 4.0
Linux
2000

Console
VMware ESX OS

Server hardware VM W a r e m a na ge m e nt
M onit or ing
NI C NI C NI C Re m ot e Console

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Virtual Control Center

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Control Center Components

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VMotion Technology

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VMotion
Upgrade and service production hardware using VMotionTM with zero downtime and
100% customer transparency

WM Server
Win2K AS

DNS/DHCP SQL Server

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Call for Upgrade

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VMotion
Upgrade and service production hardware using VMotionTM with zero downtime and
100% customer transparency

WM Server WM Server
Win2K AS

DNS/DHCP SQL Server SQL Server

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Call for Upgrade

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VMotion
Upgrade and service production hardware using VMotionTM with zero downtime and
100% customer transparency
Always Powered On

WM Server
Win2K AS

DNS/DHCP SQL Server

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Powered Off for Upgrade

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VMotion
Upgrade and service production hardware using VMotionTM with zero downtime and
100% customer transparency

WM Server WM Server
Win2K AS

DNS/DHCP SQL Server SQL Server

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

Upgrade Finished
Powered On Again

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VMotion
Upgrade and service production hardware using VMotionTM with zero downtime and
100% customer transparency

WM Server
Win2K AS

DNS/DHCP SQL Server

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

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