VMware Cloud Infrastructure

Product Roadmap
Yu-Shen Ng, Director of Product Management, vSphere

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© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved
The Cloud Era: Two Forces of Change

Connected, Mobile,
Information-Centric World

Business

Reduction in Complexity via

New IT Architectures and
Business Models

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The New IT: Promises &Challenges

Empowered, Secure, Mobile Workforce

 Any app on any device, anytime, anywhere – securely!

New Generation of Enterprise Apps

 Combining the social, mobile experience
Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps
with enterprise requirements

A More Flexible, Efficient Infrastructure

 Exploiting modern, cost-effective hardware
 Creating & spanning both internal and external resource pools
Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services

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The IT Transformation Journey

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

Virtualization
Becomes the Norm

~ 50%
vSphere 4
generation 2011

2010
2009
VI 3
generation 40%
30%

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The IT Transformation Journey

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

Cloud
Infrastructure Suite
Virtualization
Becomes the Norm

50%
vSphere 5

Amplify
~generation

Accelerate

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The First Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite

Cloud Infrastructure Suite

Policy, Reporting,
vCloud Director Self-Service

Virtualized Security &

vShield Security Edge Functions

Monitoring &
vCenter Operations Management

vCenter SRM Business Continuity

High Performance
vSphere 5 Resource Control, Pooling
& Scheduling

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Delivering Choice: Hybrid Cloud Model

Apps Apps
vCloud Partners: e.g.

Private Cloud vCloud

Service Provider

VMware vCloud =
Cloud Infrastructure Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

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 VMware Cloud Infrastructure
Product Roadmap
Yu-Shen Ng, Director of Product Management, vSphere

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© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved
 Disclaimer
 This presentation may contain product features that are currently
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
contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.
 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.
 This is information is confidential

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Three Core Focus Areas

Re-think End-User Computing

Modernize Application Development

Existing Apps New Enterprise Apps SaaS Apps

Evolve the Infrastructure

Existing Datacenters Public Cloud Services

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Cloud Computing Drives New Business Model For IT

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Cloud Infrastructure Vision

Enable our customers to build and manage enterprise-

class, elastic (dynamic) computing clouds at radically
lower costs and with greater simplicity

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The First Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite

Cloud Infrastructure Suite

vCloud Director

vShield Security

vCenter Operations

vCenter SRM

vSphere 5

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Transforming Today’s Infrastructure to Cloud Infrastructure

Storefront Self-service
vCloud Director

Automation via policy

Management
vShield Security and trust
vCenter Operations

Pooling of resources
The Compute Cloud
vCenter SRM
Virtualization of every
vSphere
datacenter resource

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The Compute Cloud

Cost-effective infrastructure to rival public IaaS offerings

Metric: hardware cost per VM
• Deliver a flexible, software-
driven giant computer on
industry-standard hardware

• Leverage industry standard

HW advances

• Virtualize every datacenter

resource. Migrate network,
Resource Pool
storage and security functions
into scale-out virt. appliances vSphere vSphere vSphere

• Pool resources at large scale

for maximal efficiency and
non-stop resilience

• Leverage geo-distributed sites

for availability and load-
balancing (flex capacity, DR,
DA, maintenance, etc.)
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 Resource Pooling

Pooling
For efficiency &
resilience

• Pooling of
• Hosts
• Clusters
• Datacenters
• Providers

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 Technology Roadmap: Resource Pooling

Pooling
For efficiency &
resilience

2011 2012 2013 Benefit

• Pooling of
• Hosts  HA, FT, DRS,  SMP FT
(vSphere)
Non-stop service upon hardware
failure
SDRS, vNDS
• Clusters  Elastic VDC  Elastic VDC
Cross-cluster load-balancing to
drive up utilization efficiency
(VCD - for Pay as (VCD – for all VM’s)

• Datacenters you go VMs)

 Metro Leverage metro-sites for load-
clusters balancing & BC/DR
• Providers  vCloud  DR to cloud
(vSphere)
Backup/DR to a third-party
(SRM)
Connector cloud provider

• Management  Linked mode  Tagging & Scalable management views

search
(vCenter)  Content Sharing of content across VCs
library, VM
movement
(vCenter)

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Technology Roadmap: Virtualizing Every Datacenter Resource
Today’s Challenges
 Lack of mobility: VMs are pinned to their physical environment (clusters, VLANs, arrays, etc.)
 Inflexible, purpose-built hardware prevents us from delivering “just-in-time” scale & flexibility.

The roadmap 2012 2013

More portable  VDL2  vVols

abstractions (vSphere (vSphere
networking) storage)

Flexible, just-in-  Network &  SAN on

time, scale-out security local
resources datapath storage
insertion (vSphere
(vSphere, vShield) add-on)

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Transforming Today’s Infrastructure to Cloud Infrastructure

Storefront Self-service
vCloud Director

Automation via policy

Management
vShield Security and trust
vCenter Operations

The Compute Cloud

Pooling of resources
vCenter SRM
vSphere
Virtualization of every
datacenter resource

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Security and Trust in the Cloud Infrastructure
Transforming the way Apps and Data are protected and compliant

2011
vShield  Edge – network and security services at
the Edge of the VDC
Elastic  App – vApp micro segmentation
Efficient  Endpoint – Efficient AV
Automated  Data – Sensitive Data Discovery
Programmable
Security as a Service 2012
 App & Edge NetSec insertion framework
 App – automated micro segmentation
 Endpoint – AV scale out, vulnerability
scanning and white listing use cases
 Data – Dynamic Groups, RSA upgrade
 Trusted Boot update
2013
 App – App and Identity auto discovery
 App and Edge – NetSec scale out
 Endpoint – even wider set of use cases
 Data – VMDK Encryption
 Security Policy Based Management

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 The Goal : Next Breakthrough in Datacenter Economics

100

Decrease labor cost

through self service,
policy based automation
Labor and post-ITIL
67 management

Software 17

Hardware 7
Facilities + Fabric 4
Telecom 5
Legacy
Source: TMT Value Migration Database, Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2009; McKinsey

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Where the time goes

4.00
Managing VM Requests

3.50 Managing Storage (Creating LUNs, …)

Provisioning Hosts (Racking, Cabling, …)

3.00 Managing Guest OS

Reporting (Utilization, Inventory)

2.50 Managing VM Performance

Designing Environment

2.00 Managing ESX (install, configure, patch)

Provisioning VMs

1.50

1.00

0.50

0.00
2009 2013

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Cloud Management
Efficient operations while delivering enterprise service
Metrics: admin hours per 1000 VMs,
achievement against performance, uptime, security, and SLA promises

Configuration & Release Service

Change Management Assurance
• Simplified management – esp. at
scale

• Automated via policy

• Particular attention to provisioning
• Resource • Resource
automation requests commits

• More prescriptive design &

deployment patterns Virtual Data Center Virtual Data Center Virtual Data Center

• Cloud-scale tools for day-to-day

operations

• A robust management platform Private Cloud Public Cloud

Planning Provisioning Monitoring

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Automation via policy

 This is your life – with policies.

Policy-based management: simplify or eliminate processes through

intelligent designs.
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Intelligent Policy Management – VM Provisioning

Eliminating Steps RatherProcess

Typical Than Automating Steps
 vSphere Admin identifies the repetitious patterns, define a policy to
Step 0 capture the pattern. Add to catalog.

Requestor makes
 Requestor makes request
request from
at thethe
Help
standardized
Desk Queuecatalog
Step
Step 11

 vSphere Admin verifies user rights, service choices (budgets, approvals),

Step 2  and right-sizes
Deliver theVM
the final VM.
Step 2
 vSphere Admin assesses availability, backup, D.R., geography, security
zone needs, makes cluster placement decision (considering capacity), and
Step 3 then creates the VM – configuring RAM, CPU, disk, network
 Add task to Network Admin queue
Step 4  Network Admin assigns VLANs and/or IP addresses

 Add task to OS provisioning Admin queue

Step 5  OS provisioning admin installs OS
 Add task to Tools teams’ queue
 Tools admin installs agents, configures permissions.
Step6,7,8…
 Deliver the final VM

Days
Minutes
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Intelligent Policy Management – Standardized Service Tiers

SLA Definitions
Availability = 99.99%
Availability 99.99%
DR
DR RTO RTO = 1 hour
1 hour
Back up
Max Latency = 500 daily
ms
Storage capacity 1 TB
Performance High I/O
Security High

?
Availability
99.99% 99.9% 99.0%
DR RTO
1 hour 3 hour none
Back up
daily weekly none
Storage
10 TB 10 TB 10 TB
capacity
Performance
Gold
High I/O Silver
Med I/O Bronze
low I/O
High Mid low
Security

 DR plan
 Back up
Cloud Infrastructure
 Anti-virus
 Firewall

Automated…. Placement Provisioning of infra services

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vCloud Director: Automation Roadmap

 Policy: simplify or eliminate processes through intelligent designs.

Org A Org B

Present 2012 2013

Storefront-facing  Catalogs  Tiered Provider

VDC’s (gold,
features  VSM
silver, etc.)

Capacity-management  Elastic VDC:  Elastic VDC:

features initial VM on-going
placement in
a cluster

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vCenter Management Platform Directions

Core vSphere Management

Operator Model – Standardized Automation

Cluster Services vApp Services

Host Services VM/VA Services

Physical and Virtual Inventory
H/W Monitoring and Health

Core Platform Services Platform Essentials

Ensure integrated, interoperable management
Licensing
Availability
Reporting
Deployability
Stats, Events, Alarms
Extensibility
Inventory Service
Scalability
Content Library
Serviceability
Automation (APIs, CLIs, Scripting)
Security
UI Framework/Usability
Usability
Authentication, Authorization, Auditing

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Scaling your datacenter

Description VCD

• Scale is not just about a

single vCenter any more VC
VC
VC VC
• It is about having Management
 a pool of VCs that can Infrastructure VC
manage
 a datacenter of physical
resources that host
 a cloud of virtual Physical
resources Resources
• Create multiples
depending on your needs
• Manage all your
datacenters with vCloud Virtual
Director
Inventory

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vCenter as a Collection of Services

Roadmap Benefits
• Services are embedded within • Services can be independently scaled and shared across
each vCenter deployment multiple deployments of vCenter
(such as Licensing) while
others are separable and
shareable (Authentication,
Content Library) as Virtual
Machines
• VMs can be vMotioned vSphere Client
between vCenters within a
site or migrated from one SSO Content Lib SSO Content Lib
datacenter to another. SSO
Content Lib
Inventory Inventory Inventory

ESX ESX ESX ESX

ESX ESX ESX ESX
ESX ESX ESX ESX
Site A Site B Site C

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What’s different about Operations Management in a Virtual
Environment?
OPERATIONS

Dedicated resources
Shared infrastructure
Pre-committed
Resource abstraction
Mobility
Static 1-1 mapping Speed / self-service
Limited movement

HA DRS SDRS
INFRASTRUCTURE

vMotion Distr. S/W I/O Control

vSphere

Physical Datacenters Virtual Datacenters

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 vCenter Operations - Solution Overview

Performance
(formerly Integrion Alive)
Patented Performance Analytics
• Self-learning of “normal” performance conditions
• Service health baseline and trending
• Smart alerts of impending performance degradation

Capacity
(our current CapacityIQ product)
Purpose Built Capacity Planning & Analysis
• Integrated capacity analysis and forecasting
• Decision support & automation via views, alerts, reports
• VM right sizing and capacity reclamation

Config Compliance
(our current VMware Config Mgr product)
Automated Configuration & Compliance
• Automated Patching and Provisioning
• Comprehensive change tracking to isolate root cause
• Single-click rollback to remediate and return to normal

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vCenter Operations Roadmap:
Convergence into the Cloud Infrastructure Suite
Optimize the Unify &
Bundle
3 indep Converge
products
for vSphere
2010 2011 2011/12

 2011/2012 Convergence:
• Migration of UIs to shared UI model based on Next-Gen Client
• Out-of-the box use case based integrations across the VC Ops products
• VCO plug-ins to enable cross-product workflows and 3rd party integrations

 2012/2013 Convergence:
• Integration into the vCenter UI

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Transforming Today’s Infrastructure to Cloud Infrastructure

Storefront Self-service
vCloud Director

Automation via policy

Management
vShield Security and trust
vCenter Operations

The Compute Cloud

Pooling of resources
vCenter SRM
vSphere
Virtualization of every
datacenter resource

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Cloud Service Delivery

Service Offerings for VMs

Enable the new business model 1. Web Tier 3. Desktops

2. Test and Dev 4. Database Tier
for IT
Infrastructure Service Levels

Metric: Time to provision app infrastructure Security Performance

Availability

• Self-service requests Tiered Infrastructure Resources

• Mass customization vs. maximum

standardization: automate where possible Provider VDC1
CapEx Cost
Provider VDC2
Optimized for
Provider VDC 3
High IO
Optimized Desktop Highly Available

• Chargeback/showback Virtual Resources

• A superior user experience

Datastores Port Groups Resource Pools

Physical Hardware

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The Journey to Self-Service: from low to high governance

Self Service Cloud Production Cloud

Cloud
Rapid self- Securely and reliably Journey
provisioning for low extend for high
governance governance
workloads workloads
Cloud Adoption

IT Production Business Production

Virtualization
Get the Most Achieve
Out of Your Unprecedented Journey
Infrastructure Reliability

Virtualization Expansion

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vCloud Director: Self-Service Roadmap

 Enable an optimal consumer experience

 Chargeback or showback to enable a virtuous feedback cycle

2011 2012 2013

Web portal  Low governance  Simpler portal  Hybrid

 High governance:  Broader services
approval process

Integration with  ESM (IPAM,  Network

Enterprise Systems CMDB, Service firewalls & load-
Desk) balancers

Catalog  Templates  Embedded

Enhancements  Deployment policy
customization  PAAS & App
provisioning
 Chargeback  Analytics to
Cost Control
 Showback support dynamic
Enhancements
pricing (e.g. spot)

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CloudFoundry & vFabric roadmaps / synergies with cloud infrastructure

 Developers want a VM… fast! Opportunity: beyond VMs and IAAS,

 They want to be productive… deliver pre-packaged application
with their preferred toolsets infrastructure as a service

2011 2012 2013+

CloudFoundry  µCloudFoundry  Private

(VAM virt. appliance) CloudFoundry
roadmap & synergy (as a VCD extension
1. They come seeking synergy
service)

2. You suggest synergies

vFabric  vFabric 5 suite  Blob Storage

(vFabric)
roadmap & synergy  Elastic Memory for
Java (vFabric tcServer)
 RelationalDB  RelationalDB
on vSphere on VCD
(vFabric) (vFabric)

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Transforming Today’s Infrastructure to Cloud Infrastructure

Storefront Self-service
vCloud Director

Automation via policy

Management
vShield Security and trust
vCenter Operations

The Compute Cloud

Pooling of resources
vCenter SRM
vSphere
Virtualization of every
datacenter resource

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Cloud Infrastructure – 2013

Grid

Users & Policies VDCs Catalogs

• Self-service user access
vCloud • Standardized offerings
Director

Network Application Data

• Virtualized & virtual-aware
security
Performance Capacity Compliance
• Automation via policy
• Cloud-scale operational tools
vCenter Site Recovery Manager *

vSphere vSphere vSphere • Pooling of resources

• Virtualization of every datacenter
resource
• Leverage of geo-distributed sites
and providers

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* Also, vSphere Stretch HA/DRS, vCloud Connector

For more info, consult one of our deep dive roadmap decks

VMware’s Private/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Suite

vCenter Ops Suite vCloud Director

vSite Recovery M.

vShield

vSphere
vCenter Security

Availability Storage

Core Network

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 Reference slides

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 Scale Clusters
Cluster Scalability and Mobility
 Foundation for Availability & Resource Mgmt
• Increase Scale
• Increase Distance

2011 2012 2013+

64 Hosts per cluster

Compute 32 Hosts per cluster 32 Hosts per cluster
512 VMs per host 512 VMs per host 512 VMs per host
clusters 3,000 VMs per cluster 4,000 VMs per cluster 6,000 VMs per cluster

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 2012 – Consolidated view of vSphere, VCD, vShield
Goals Products / subsystems
ESX / VC Network, Storage, Avail VCD & vShield
Provisioning • Elastic VDC
• Business rules integration
with ESM via VCO (2011)

Network & • Multi-tenant network: VDL2 • Multi-tenant network (VDL2)

security • vDS data path filter • vShield App in VCD
• Monitoring & troubleshooting • vShield Edge Fit & Finish
improvements
Cloud
Operations • VC modular patching • vApp Backup (2011)
• VCD-vSphere consistency • VCD-vSphere consistency
• SNMP v3

Workloads • Optimizations for VoIP servers, • Cloud Foundry Support

Gemfire • Storage independent from
VMs
User experience • Support for Windows 8 Beta • Storage efficiency
& TCO • Optimizations for VoIP • SE sparse disk
Desktop
• 3D graphics hardware assist • Native
snapshots
Scale, • 20K VMs per VC • Windows clustering / • API parity with UI (2011)
Core resilience, eco • Web Client, single sign-on MSCS: 5 node configs

Leveraging the • HW enablement: CPU

hardware (Haswell, etc.), 16Gb FC
HBA*, NPA NICs (Intel)
* Items in bold were not mentioned earlier in the deck

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* HBA only; and auto-negotiated down to 8Gb speeds
 vSphere Feature Highlights in 2012

• More powerful, more efficient VMs

• Next-gen client
• Storage
• Storage efficiency: SE sparse
• Storage efficiency: native snapshots

• Networking
• VDL2
• Improved monitoring & troubleshooting
• 3rd party extensibility framework
• Management
• SSO

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vCloud Director 2012 Release Themes

Scale & Elasticity Layer-2 Support

1. Elastic VDC 1. Cloud Foundry on vCloud

2. Network Multi-tenancy (VDL2) 2. Storage independent of VM
3. Multiple classes of capacity 3. Multiple classes of capacity

Usability Extensibility

1. Install/upgrade improvements
2. SSO 1. UI/API Consistency
3. VCD as an appliance 2. vCloud Extensibility
4. Tenant improvements (basic)
5. API/UI Consistency
6. vShield App Integration
7. Networking Usability and
feature improvements

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 Back
vCD Integration with Enterprise Management Systems

Description Benefits
• vCO Plug-Ins and • Rapidly stand up a vCloud that is compatible with your
Workflows that integrate existing management processes
vCD with Enterprise IT
Management Systems • Customizable reference implementations and
(ESM) guidelines for integrating leading enterprise
• Integrate vApp Lifecycle management tools with your vCloud
Management operations in
vCD with:
 IP Address
Management (IPAM) vCloud API Extensions
(New Capabilities)
 CMDB
vCloud API Core
 Service Desk
 Provisioning vCloud Director
• Toldeo vs. T2:
Southside
 Toledo – integrations Integrations
with select leading ESM (Callouts)
vCO
products
 T2 – integrations with
additional ESM products IPAM CMDB …

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vCD Integration Roadmap

Integration Toledo T2

Lucent-Alcatel VitalQIP
IPAM Infoblox NIOS
Bluecat Networks Proteus

HP UCMDB
CMDB BMC Atrium
CA CMDB

HP Service Manager
Service Desk BMC Remedy CA Service Desk Manager
Service-Now.com

HP Opsware
Provisioning BMC BladeLogic
Symantec Altiris

Back

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vCloud Director Releases

2010 2011 2012 2013

Make vCloud
Establish Hybrid
Enable creation of Director a market Reduce Federation of
Cloud UI & API
Public and Private competitive operational cost of internal and
interfaces for
vClouds solution for private successful vCloud external clouds
consumption
clouds

Expand
Integrate Cloud
Respond to SP addressable
Management with
Market Feedback workloads for
vSphere
vClouds

Develop vCloud
Lay extensibility
Ecosystem on
foundations for the
extensibility
product
foundations

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 Key Limits: 1 of 7

Virtual Machine Maximums

vSphere vSphere vSphere in Business Justification / Use
4.1 5.0 2012 Case

vCPUs per 8 32 64 Virtualize even larger workloads.

VM Data mining, ERP and IT
infrastructure. This also allows
for next-gen mainframe-sized
workloads.

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 Key Limits: 2 of 7

ESX Host Maximums

vSphere vSphere vSphere
4.1 5.0 in 2012
Logical CPUs 128 160 256
per host
RAM per host 1 TB 2 TB 2 TB
Physical NICs 32 32 50
per host
VMDirectPath 32 32 48
PCI/PCIe
devices per
host

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 Key Limits: 3 of 7

Cluster Maximums
vSphere vSphere vSphere in
4.1 5.0 2012
Hosts per 32 32 32
cluster
VMs per 3000 3000 4000
cluster

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vCloud Director Maximums

2012

Total VM Count 50,000

Maximum VMs per 10,000

organization
Maximum orgs 25,000
Maximum vApps 10,000
per org at max size
– scale out style
Maximum org 64
networks per org
Max. VMs per vApp 128

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vCloud Director Maximums

2012

Max VMs per org 10,000

Maximum vApps 50,000

Maximum number 25,050

of networks
Maximum users 10,000
per org
Max VMs created 5,000
and destroyed
(across mult. VCs)
Max active API 250
calls per minute
(to a single VC)

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 Key Limits: 6 of 7

vCenter Server Maximums

2010 2011 2012

Powered-On 10000 10000 20,000

VMs per VC
Number of 400 500 1,000
hosts per DC
Concurrent 8 8 128
storage
vMotions per
datastore
USB devices - - 20
connected to
Web Client

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 Key Limits: 7 of 7

Storage Maximums
vSphere, View vSphere, View, vSphere, View, &
in 2010 & VCD in 2011 VCD in 2012
Hosts per base image 8 8 32
(for linked clones)

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