vSphere 4.

1 Whats New Overview

Q3 2010

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Introducing

The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

Are You Ready for the Key Messages for vSphere 4.1?

Agenda
Cloud Computing Introducing vSphere 4.1
Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

Key New Features

Key New Enhancements

Upgrading to vSphere 4.1 Feature Comparison Resource Q and A Appendix

Market Overview - The Rise of a New Era in IT

Cloud Web PC / Client-Server Mainframe

Cloud Computing will transform the delivery of IT services

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Cloud Computing Characteristics

Cloud Computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

Efficiency thru Utilization and Automation Pooling From machines to on-demand, highly elastic resource pools

Agility with Control

Freedom of Choice

Self-Service Easy access with policybased provisioning and deployment

Open & Interoperable Application mobility between clouds, based on open standards

Zero-touch Infrastructure Policy-driven automation of provisioning, deployment and management

Control Application-aware infrastructure with built-in availability, scalability, security and performance guarantees

Leverage Existing Investments Benefits of cloud computing to existing applications and datacenters

= Key vSphere Characteristic

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VMware Cloud Infrastructure & Services

SaaS

Core IT Services via Virtual Appliances

Zimbra

File/ Print

Directory

PaaS

SpringSource: Programming Model for the Cloud

Project Redwood: Common Service Model for Infrastructure Clouds

VMware vCenter : Policy-based Management & Automation IaaS

vCloud Partners Proprietary Clouds

VMware View : Enterprise VMware vSphere: Desktop Computing Platform for Cloud via Cloud Infrastructure

Private Cloud

VMware Virtualized Public Cloud

Public Cloud

vSphere 4.1 Messaging, Scale, and ESXi

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vSphere 4.1 Messaging Pillars

Efficiency Thru Utilization and Automation - vSphere is
the most efficient virtualization platform for cloud computing infrastructures. vSphere 4.1 transforms a traditional static, siloed IT infrastructure into a dynamic, highly elastic, on-demand cloud computing infrastructure.
Core Messages

Agility with Control vSphere 4.1 provides the optimum

combination of agility with enterprise-class control. vSphere delivers zero-touch infrastructure, with built-in availability, scalability, security, and performance guarantees.

Freedom of Choice - vSphere 4.1 is based on standards that

enable choice and flexibility when it comes to the delivery of application and infrastructure services. vSphere 4.1 supports of over 500 ISV solutions and 80 operating systems plus the latest x86 processors on the market.
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What is the vSphere 4.1 Release All About?

VMware vSphere Market Leading Virtualization Platform vSphere 4.1 delivers:

Dramatic expansion and scale for the platform New capabilities for the most efficient aggregation of all datacenter
resources into an elastic pool of computing power Additional Key Focus Areas:

The Cloud (Private and Public) ESXi Hypervisor Architecture All vertical markets (SMB to the Enterprise)

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VMware vSphere 4.1: Whats New?

vCenter Server (64-bit)
HA Diagnostics And Healthcheck vMotion Speed and Scale Update Manager Enhancements Virtual Serial Port Concentrator More VMs (per cluster, DC) More Hosts (per VC, DC)

AD Integration (host)

Application Services

Availability

Security

Scalability

VMware vSphere 4.1

vCompute vStorage vNetwork

Infrastructure Services
Memory Compression Host Affinity

Storage I/O Control More Performance Metrics APIs for Array Integration

Network I/O Control Load Based Teaming IPv6 NIST Performance +

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vSphere 4.1 Delivers Cloud Scale

3,000 VMs / cluster (2x)

500 hosts / vCenter (5x)

10,000 VMs / vCenter (3x)

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Enhanced Scalability Defined

vSphere 4
VMs per host Hosts per cluster VMs per cluster Hosts per VC Registered VMs per VC Powered-On VMs per VC Concurrent VI Clients

vSphere 4.1
320 32 3000 1000 15000 10000 120

Ratio
1x 1x >2x >3x >3x >3x 4x

320 32 1280 300 4500 3000 30

Hosts per DC
VMs per DC

100
2500

500
5000

5x
2x

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Driving Customers to ESXi with vSphere 4.1

ESXi - Establishing the Gold Standard in Hypervisors

4.1 Enhancements for ESXi

New Deployment Options Centralized updating of 3rd party
code with Update Manager

What Does This All Mean?

Recommend that all

vSphere 4.1 deployments use the ESXi hypervisor

Improved Local Authentication

for Active Directory

vSphere 4.1 is the last

release with the ESX hypervisor (sometimes known as ESX classic)

Easier CLI options for

Troubleshooting

Better Control over Local

Activity
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Visit ESXi and ESX Info

Center for more details

ESXi to ESX Info Center

All Resources in One Centralized Location

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vSphere 4.1 Key New Features

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vSphere 4.1 Storage I/O Control

Description
Set storage quality of service priorities per virtual machine

Benefits
Basic - Make storage access rights equal between VMs Advanced - Prioritize use of storage (similar to how compute is prioritized with vSphere) per VM Business priorities now define low and high priority storage resource access Create the high speed or HOV lane for VMs

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

1. All VMs created equal

2. Make Your Mission Critical VMs VIPs

Guarantee service levels for access to storage resources

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vSphere 4.1 Storage Performance Reporting

Description
Deliver of key storage performance statistics in vCenter

Benefits
Granular storage reporting for improved tuning and troubleshooting performance Independent of storage architectures and protocols

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
Set network quality of service priorities per flow type (iSCSI, NFS, etc.)

Benefits
Basic - Make network access rights equal between flow types Advanced - Prioritized use of network, especially in 10 Gbit environments Business priorities now define low and high priority network resource access as needed Create the high speed or HOV lane for VMs
iSCSI
FT
vMotion

Beta Feedback
The new Network I/O control feature is very interesting for consolidating network links with 10Gbit.

NFS

TCP/IP

Proof Point

Guarantee service levels for access to network resources

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Distributed Switch

10 GigE

vSphere 4.1 Additional New Features

Feature Name

Description
Connect over the network via the serial port concentrator to the serial port console on any server. VMware will thus enable two different ways to provide this level of management with this feature. New protocol interfaces between VMware and storage arrays. These APIs mean leverage of array-based functionality for the first time in areas such as LUN provisioning or snapshots.

Benefit
Management efficiencies Lower costs for multi-host management Enables 3rd party concentrator integration if required

Virtual Serial Port Concentrator (VSPC)

vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

vSphere platform integration Eliminate redundancy Enhance Performance Storage vMotion Provisioning VMs Thin Provisioning VMFS

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vSphere 4.1 Key New Enhancements

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vSphere 4.1 vMotion Performance and Scale Enhancements

Description
Adding Cloud Scale to online virtual machine

Benefits
Performance and Scalability More Live Migrations in Parallel (up to 8 per host pair) Elapsed time reduced by >4.5x on 10GbE tests

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 Memory Compression

Description
A new hierarchy for VMwares memory overcommit technology (a VMware key differentiator)

Benefits
Optimized use of memory Safeguard for using memory overcommit feature with confidence Performance

Beta Feedback
Great for memory over-subscription.

OS Proof Point

1,000x faster than swap-in!

Hypervisor

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vSphere 4.1 DRS Host Affinity

Description
Set granular policies that define only certain virtual machine Movements

Benefits
Tune environment according to availability, performance, and/or licensing requirements Cloud enablement

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

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VMs A Servers A Only

VMs B Servers B Only

vSphere 4.1 HA Enhancements

Description
Healthcheck status Operational window

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 Application awareness (with supported solution)

Optimized interaction with DRS

Application-Aware API Beta Feedback
Major improvements in DRS!

Proof Point

Adding Another 9 to Availability

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vSphere 4.1 Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area Description
DRS Interoperability for VMware HA and Fault Tolerance (FT)

Benefit
Optimized VM placement in FT or HA Scenario

Fault Tolerance (FT)

Core VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) Enhancements

Enhanced Network Logging Performance Extended Cisco N1K support PCI device ordering (support for selecting NICs) iSCSI support Admin password (setting root password) PSA configuration Seamless user authentication at the ESX or ESXi host (rather than vCenter Server) for centralized user management. Support for more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform (including enhanced management and the latest x86 processors on the market).

Versioning-control to run on FT-compatible hosts at different but compatible patch levels.

Improved throughput and reduced CPU usage Enhanced Configurations Choices Compliance Expanded deployment Easily assign privileges to users or groups plus roll out permission rules across hosts

Host Profiles

Active Directory Integration (host)

More choice for end users

Expanded HCL

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vSphere 4.1 Additional New Enhancements

Enhancement Area

Description
Easier software upgrade Weighted Fair Queuing (s/w scheduler) Ease of use

Benefit

Ciscos version of Network I/O Control See virtual switch scale #s below

Nexus 1000V

Increased Scalability

Scale Port Profiles > 512

IPv6 NIST Compliance Compliance with Host profiles for government agencies

Network

Performance and Scale

Enable up to 350 hosts to attach to the virtual switch (up from 64)
iSCSI offload Performance

Storage

8GB HBA

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Upgrading to vSphere 4.1

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Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center!
All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location

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Feature Comparison
vSphere 4.1 vs. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 vs. Citrix XenServer 5.6

VMware vSphere Delivers: Efficiency thru Utilization & Automation

vSphere 4.1

Hyper-V R2

XenServer 5.6

Hardware Scale Out

64 logical cores 1 TB RAM Supports HW-assist Virt-specific scheduler Ballooning Transparent page sharing Memory compression 8-way vCPU 255 GB vRAM Add: vCPU, vMem Add: virtual disk, vNIC DPM: Cluster-level power management Thin provisioning Storage Management Distributed switch 3rd party virtual switch Transparent host patch Auto guest patching

x x x x x x x

64 logical cores 1 TB RAM Requires HW-assist Reuse gen-OS scheduler None 4-way vCPU only on limited number of OSs 64 GB vRAM No hot-add CPU, mem Add: virtual disk No cluster-level power mgmt Thin disks are not recommended. No storage monitoring tools None

64 logical cores 256 GB RAM

CPU Efficiency

x
~
~

Req. HW-assist for Win Reuse gen-OS scheduler

Very static ballooning, no sharing 8-way vCPU 32 GB vRAM No hot-add CPU, vMem Add: virtual disk, vNIC Immature APM Limited heuristics Thin disk with only select SAN vendors

Memory Efficiency

Virtual Hardware (VM) Scale Out

Hot-add/remove Virtual Resources

x
~
~

Power Efficiency

Storage Usage Efficiency

Network Management Efficiency

x x

None

Automated Patching Efficiency

In-depth setup required in Config Mgr

Host patching, but no auto guest patching

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VMware vSphere Delivers: Agility With Control

vSphere 4.1

Hyper-V R2

XenServer 5.6

Control for Server Maintenance

VMware vMotion with Maintenance Mode

(up to 8 VMs at a time per host )

~
x
x x

Only one VM at a time per host

Quick Storage Migrate has downtime No logical pools

~
x
x x

Only one VM at a time per host

Nothing comparable WLB has unproven heuristics No logical pools WLB has unproven heuristics Requires 3rd-party

Control for Storage Maintenance Control of Server Resources Allocation Control of I/O Resource Allocation for guaranteed quality of service Fault Tolerance for VMs

VMware Enhanced Storage vMotion VMware DRS Logical Resource Pool VMware Network I/O and Storage I/O control VMware Fault Tolerance Integrated NIC teaming with dynamic load balancing VMware HA Up to 32 nodes VMware VMSafe API 3rd party support VMware ESXi 70-100MB disk footprint

PRO lacks quality of service guarantee No VM-level protection

x
x

Control during NIC Failure

Relies on network vendor to provide

~ ~
x

NIC teaming but no load balancing Only for host failure Up to 16 nodes Nothing comparable

Control during Host or VM Failure

~
x

Only for host failure Up to 16 nodes

Nothing comparable

Better Security than Physical Thin Hypervisor to Reduce Attack Surface

Hyper-V w/ Server Core >3GB disk footprint

XenServer 1.8GB disk footprint

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VMware vSphere Delivers: Freedom of Choice

vSphere 4.1

Hyper-V R2

XenServer 5.6

Choice thru Guest OS Support

Over 65 OSs supported, More Windows than MS Large HCL: >850 HBAs,

17 OSs supported, Windows biased Uses Windows drivers Potential driver issues Downgrade processor functionality to Pentium 4 Leader category (according to analysts) Can integrate, but SC competes w/ existing Building a MS-only offering, lock-in

25 OSs supported

Choice thru Hardware Support

Enhanced VMotion Compatibility

>350 NICs,>1600 Servers ~ vMotion across generations of CPU of same family ~

Leader category (according to analysts) Hundreds of integrations to vCenter API via SDK VMReady program for cloud providers VMReady ensures interoperability Run existing apps w/o rewriting code

HCL: ~100 storage, x Limited ~100 NICs, ~200 Servers

x
~
~

In beta

Choice thru Application Support

Integrating with Existing Mgmt Tools

~
x x x

Next-tier category (according to analysts) Citrix Essentials API not widely adopted Embryonic Citrix Cloud Center lacks clarity Embryonic Citrix Cloud Center lacks clarity Embryonic Citrix Cloud Center lacks clarity

Choice in Cloud Service Provider Interoperability between Internal & External Cloud Choice in Using Existing Apps in the Cloud

Apps in MS cloud dont come back out

Existing apps dont move easily to MS cloud

x
x

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Resources

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Where Can I Find More Information About vSphere 4.1?

VMware vSphere web pages on vmware.com

Main page SMB Focus Midsize and Enterprise Focus

vSphere Upgrade Center (version to version upgrades) ESXi and ESX Info Center (general information, transition to vSphere hosts running
ESXi hypervisor)

vSphere Support Center vSphere Purchase Advisor vSphere Compatibility (with other VMware products)

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Questions?

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APPENDIX

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vSphere Messaging Cloud Infrastructure

Tagline -The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

Core Message

Key Message - vSphere 4.1 is the ideal IT infrastructure to support scalable, reliable cloud computing environments

Targets - Existing VMware customers who have virtualized a large percentage of their applications, and are evolving quickly to cloud computing creating either a private cloud in their internal data centers or leveraging cloud services provided by an external service provider.

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vSphere Messaging Virtualization Platform

Tagline - The Industrys Most Complete and Robust Virtualization Platform
Core Message

Key Message - vSphere 4.1 is the only virtualization platform for running mission critical applications that also provides the lowest cost per application for businesses of any size

Targets
SMBs users and other who have not yet adopted virtualization and who are selecting an initial virtualization provider.

Existing VMware customers in stage 1 of the virtualization journey (IT production) who are trying to move to stage 2 (business production)
Existing VMware customers who are still running VI3.x, and have not yet upgraded to vSphere 4.x .
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Terminology Changes That Are Important

Changed with the vSphere 4.1 release (as of 7/13)

1. VMotion to vMotion VMotion is now vMotion Storage VMotion is now Storage vMotion

Why?
1. VMware is the Leader
VMware was first to market with live migration vMotion is a key vSphere feature run in over 80% of VMware customer environments today Not all live migration technologies are created equal

2. ESXi naming ESXi free or single server changes to vSphere Hypervisor References to ESXi and ESX for the vSphere platform (paid product) will now be discussed as Hypervisor architectures

2. Market Confusion
ESXi is and always has been an architecture ESXi is a full function hypervisor and is VMwares best practice or recommendation when deploying vSphere (see ESXi specific slide later in this deck)

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VMware vSphere APIs / Script Automation

VMware vSphere SDK / CLIs Overview

vSphere APIs allow you to perform same operations as the vSphere Client

vSphere Client

3rd Party Code ISVs/Customers

Web Services SDK SDK Perl

vSphere PowerCLI

vSphere vCLI

vSphere API

See complete list of our SDKs http://developer.vmware.com

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One Powerful vSphere API for two Different Users types

Developers
Building robust solutions for commercial or in-house use Willing to go deeper into code to solve a problem

Administrators
Building scripting solutions to automate repetitive / common tasks Not enough hours in the day to learn new programming languages

This property collector is not so hard after all

Need to change port numbers across 400 VMs ? Im going to use PowerCLI

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vSphere SDKs / APIs Tools for managing vSphere 4.1

Developers
vSphere Web Services SDK vSphere SDK for Perl vSphere Guest SDK

Administrators
vSphere PowerCLI vSphere Command Line Interface CLI vSphere Management Assistant (Linux VM to deploy your scripts and agents)

vSphere VIX API VMware vCloud API, vCloud SDK for Java, vCloud SDK for PHP Virtual Disk Development Kit VMware CIM SDK (SMASH SMI-S) vCenter Orchestrator API (creation of custom plugins and workflows) VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins

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The vSphere APIs fuel a diverse ecosystem

ISVs

IHVs

Large / Small End User Corporations

Admins

Developers

Consultants System Integrators VACs

VMware Platform vSphere APIs

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building rich solutions

HP, IBM Dell, Lenovo
OEM Solutions

In-House and 3rd Party Solutions

Management Solutions

Spring Source Zimbra, Rabbit MQ, Security, Gemfire

Applications Solutions

VMware Platform vSphere APIs

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What customers, partners do with the vSphere APIs

Customers, Partners, Service Providers use the vSphere APIs to build commercial and in-house large scale management solutions that manage / automate: Host Set Up / Server Provisioning Hardware Health Monitoring, CPU, Memory, Disk Performance Monitoring

Reporting Events, Alarms

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Time is money Script automation is the way to solve problems

Task Description
Finding unused VMs
Rebalance storage paths Provision new VMs

Manual
7.7
6.93 6.16

Automated
0.5
0.35 0.31

Sync VM time NTP

Migrate VM Clear space (delete snapshots, etc.) from datastores Total time (minutes)

3.85
3.70

0.17
0.74

3.08 31.42

0.15 2.22

Average IT admin earns $32 per hour simple tasks can add up
Execution of script not development Source: VMW UE Labs Study, EMA Report 2009
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Use Case Large Retail

Business Challenge Distribute vSphere to its 2200 retail stores within 5 months
Total of 4,400 vSphere (servers 2 per store) Project SLA requires 50 Stores per day (100 hosts & 350 VMs per day)

- Takes 6.6 minutes to provision a VM. (6.6 mins x 350 vms = 38.5 Hours)
Impossible to do this with out API automation

Solution
In-house software developer created solution that automates server and vm provisioning Customer using combination of core vSphere Web Services SDK and PowerCLI During Acceptance testing developer found performance problem in the way the code was executed Visiting forums was not an option as it would compromise privacy, and there are no SLAs provided SDK Developer Support team analyzed sample code and was able to make recommendations in order to improve performance Project delivered on time and within budget

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Use Case Leading Financial Services

Business Challenge Automate monthly VM Audit, and Update VMware Tools

1,000 + Server with 6,000 virtual machine environment Automate monthly reporting / auditing of resource consumption, update Tools when required

Solution
In-house team developed solution to automate auditing / reporting, and VMware Tools update using vSphere Web Services SDK and VIX API QA team ran into problems validating API usage

SDK Support team engaged, researched issue and suggested workaround

Estimated that customer would have spent 2 5 days on forums waiting for answer Forums is not ideal as it provides no privacy, and there are no SLAs

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Build your solutions right the first time

Cost of fixing bugs is huge. But the worst is when you find bugs in the field. What bugs are you shipping that you dont even know about?

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New vSphere Automation Course: Using vSphere PowerCLI

Provides introduction to using the
powerful vSphere PowerCLI

Targets vSphere Administrators

who use Windows

Provides in-depth training on

using PowerCLI to automate common administrative tasks

2 Day Course, 40% Lecture, 60%

hands on Lab

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VMware Developer Support for vSphere APIs

Seasoned expert engineers dedicated to

help you build your applications the right way

Get dedicated help when you need it vs.

hunting and waiting for answers in the forums, which can delay projects

Flexible, unlimited number of support

requests for term of contract, (1, 2, and 3 year) contracts available.

http://vmware.com/go/sdksupport

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vSphere Developer Support: 2 Levels of Service

Standard Support

Access method: Web Response method: Email SLA: Response within 2 business days

Premium Support

Access method: Web/call back by appointment Response method: Email/call back by appointment SLA: Response within 1 business day Remote support available

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What our Customers are saying: NetIQ

Our products and solutions manage some of North Americas largest data farms, and we rely on VMware APIs and VMware SDK Support to help us manage and reduce complexity. Recently, we were running into performance issues when polling our infrastructure. The Developer Support team quickly made some recommendations, and the changes we made as a result helped improved our code performance by more than 30%.
- Mike Giles, Sr. Software Engineer, Netiq

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What our Customers are Saying: European Transportation

The VMware SDK Support Program helped us by providing sanity checks and workarounds throughout our VMware vSphere API solution development process. The VMware team is extremely professional, they understand my needs and they have in-depth working knowledge of the vSphere APIs.
- Luc Dekens, Systems Engineer and vExpert

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