VMware vSphere 4

Overview

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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

Management

Cloud OS

Enterprise
Cloud

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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

Private Cloud
App App App App App

Management Loads
Loads Loads Loads
Loads
Management

Cloud OS Cloud OS
Federation and Choice
Internal External
Cloud Standards Cloud

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 VMware vSphere

• Firewall
• Clustering • Anti-virus • Dynamic Resource
• Data Protection • Intrusion Prevention Sizing
• Intrusion Detection

Application
Services Availability Security Scalability

VMware vSphere

vCompute vStorage vNetwork

Infrastructure
Services

• Storage
• Hardware Assist
Management
• Enhanced Live & Replication • Network
Migration Management
• Storage Virtual
Compatibility
Appliances

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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 Editions

Standard Advanced Enterprise Enterprise Plus

• vCenter Agent • vCenter Agent • vCenter Agent • vCenter Agent
• VCB/vStorage API • VCB/vStorage API • VCB/vStorage API • VCB/vStorage API
• Update Manager • Update Manager • Update Manager • Update Manager
• High Availability • High Availability • High Availability • High Availability
• Thin Provisioning • Thin Provisioning • Thin Provisioning • Thin Provisioning
• 4-way vSMP • 4-way vSMP • 4-way vSMP • 8-way vSMP
• 6 cores per CPU • 12 cores per CPU • 6 cores per CPU • 12 cores per CPU
• 256GB RAM/Host • 256GB RAM/Host • 256GB RAM/Host • No RAM/Host Limit

Basic consolidation • VMotion • VMotion • VMotion

• Hot Add Virtual • Hot Add Virtual • Hot Add Virtual
Devices Devices Devices
• Fault Tolerance • Fault Tolerance • Fault Tolerance
• Data Recovery • Data Recovery • Data Recovery
• vShield Zones • vShield Zones • vShield Zones

Mission-critical • Storage VMotion • Storage VMotion

• DRS and DPM
Production • DRS and DPM

• Distributed Switch
Large-scale management • Host Profiles
*vCenter Server licensed separately
• Multi-path Storage
*Unlicensed 60-day evaluation mode equivalent to Enterprise Plus
Plug-in Support

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 VMware vSphere Editions

ESXi Single Essentials Essentials Plus

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

Small business

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 VMware vCenter Server Editions

For Essentials Foundation Standard

• 3 ESX/ESXi host limit • 3 ESX/ESXi host limit • No ESX/ESXi host limit

Included in Essentials • Linked Mode

• Orchestrator
and Essentials Plus
At least 1 instance required for
vSphere Editions

vCenter Server is required for most vSphere features

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 60-Day Evaluation Period Expiration Implications

Component Attempted Action After Evaluation Period

Power On Not Permitted

Reset Not Permitted
Create/Delete Permitted
VM
Suspend/Resume Permitted
Configure VM with vSphere Client Permitted
Continue Operations on Existing Hosts Permitted
Power On/Off Permitted
Configure ESX/ESXi Host with vSphere
Permitted
ESX/ESXi Host Client
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

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

Update Manager
• Patch and version management
 Hosts
 VMs
• Baseline and remediation
• Upgrade

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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

Thin Provisioning
• Virtual machine disks consume only actual APP APP APP

physical space in use OS OS OS

VMware ESX/ESXi
• Virtual machine sees full logical disk
at all times
• More efficient disk storage than Thick
20GB
Thin
40GB
Thin
100GB

pre-allocated thick disks Virtual 20GB

Disks 20GB

40GB

100GB

Datastore

60GB

20GB

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 Key VMware vSphere Features

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

Hot Add Virtual Devices

• Hot add
 CPU
 Memory
• Hot add or remove
 Storage devices
 Network devices

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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

APP APP APP

OS OS OS

VMware vSphere

X
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 Key VMware vSphere Features

Data Recovery
• Agentless, disk-based backups and
recovery of VMs
• VM or file-level* restore

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• Incremental backups and data de- APP APP APP
OS OS OS
duplication
VMware ESX/ESXi
• Built on VCB/vStorage API
• Integrated with vCenter interface
• Ideal for backing up small environments
(up to 100 VMs)

De-duplicated
Storage

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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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 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) APP APP APP
OS OS OS

VMware ESX/ESXi

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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

Distributed Switch
• Aggregated datacenter-level virtual networking (vs. per-host)
• Simplified management
• Network statistics follow VMs

APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP

OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS

vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

vNetwork Distributed Switch
VMware vSphere

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 Key VMware vSphere Features

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

Reference
Host

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 vCenter Server Features

Linked Mode
• “Single pane of glass”
• Links multiple vCenter Servers
• View and search combined
inventory of vCenter Servers
• Shared licenses and roles

Replicated licenses and roles

vCenter vCenter vCenter

Server
vCenter Server
vCenter Server
vCenter
Server Server Server

ESXi ESX ESX ESXi ESXi ESXi ESX

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 vCenter Server Features

vCenter Orchestrator
• Workflow engine
• Automate and coordinate virtualization tasks

vCenter Orchestrator

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