Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® Upgrading your Virtual Infrastructure Scott Herold Director of Research and Development Scott Bennett Central Europe Sales

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 2 Agenda Vizioncore Overview New VI-3 Items Relative for Migration Upgrades Migration Upgrade Overview esxMigrator from Vizioncore esxRanger Professional 2.0 New Features Q&A

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 3 What Was in My Suitcase? 4 Armani Suits 37 Bottles of Peroni 2 Italian Supermodels Lamborghini Gallardo

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 4 Who is vizioncore Founded in 2002 Self-funded software company Solutions the enhance VMware ESX Server Community Source Program member Technology Alliance Program member Launched flagship product, esxRanger – 2004 Over 2,500 customers & 20,000 licenses Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois Other locations – MI, NJ, UK, Germany, Sweden Sales Worldwide via Channel Partners

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 5 vizioncore Solutions esxRanger Professional The Hot backup for VMware ESX Server esxCharter Real time performance monitoring & control for your ESX Server environment esxReplicator Live replication of Virtual Machines for DR purposes esxMigrator Automated Migrations from ESX Server 2 to VI3

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® Migrating from VMware ESX Server 2 to VI3

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 7 Choose Migration Path In-Place Migration Shut Down, Upgrade Migration Upgrade Introduce new hardware Install VI3 architecture Move VM’s to this new architecture

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 8 VMware Manual Migration Process Step 1: Upgrade Virtual Center Step 2: Upgrade ESX Server hosts & VMFS datastores Step 3: Upgrade Virtual Machines & Virtual Hardware (VMX) Step 4: Upgrade VMware Tools inside guest OS Four-Stage Approach

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 9 Manual Migration Challenges Complexity Scheduling Downtime Permanent Spider-web architecture Single application or volume cannot be tied to single host Application dependencies spread across hosts/data volumes. Scheduling difficult/impossible w/o multiple large scale outages VMware’s recommended upgrade processes are non reversible! Significant downtime to upgrade volumes or transfer data

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 10 Manual Migration Upgrade Steps Selected VMs powered off VMX file & ea. VMDK file of ea. VM are copied through SAN from VMFS-2 to VMFS-3 VMDK data is imported into ESX 3.0 VMDK spec on VMFS-3 VMX file upgraded to Virtual Hardware Ver. 4. ***** VM is powered on VMware Tools software is installed in each guest

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 11 Overcoming Challenges?  esxMigrator  Automated GUI driven - no scripting Minimized downtime  ~ 2-3 minutes for required 2 reboots Managed Scheduling options Multiple Servers and VM’s’ Includes install of VMware Tools

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 12 esxMigrator Process Enables cross-platform replication Final cutover can be scheduled Source VM is unmodified (can fail back) VM is migrated in a consistent state Includes VMware Tools 2 VM reboots is the only downtime (~120 Seconds)

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 13 esxMigrator Advantages Leverages core technologies from existing vizioncore offerings Performs a complete VM migration and conversion across platforms with a simple reboot of VM Source VM remains 100% consistent and unmodified during migration/conversion Minimize downtime during migration process from 2.X to 3.0 to as little as 60 seconds Can be staged in advance – replicate for specified time, final cutover during scheduled maintenance window

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® esxRanger 2.0 Features

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 15 esxRanger Professional Proven, recognized image-backup leader Used by 2,500 clients with over 20,000 licenses Provides:  Full bare-metal image backups, full restore  File-level restore from image  Windows® based GUI w/centralized control  Scheduling, reporting, intelligent rules

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 16 esxRanger Professional Features Integration with VirtualCenter  Manage backups by folders and groups VMotion compatible Significant compression Any level admin ready Policy-based performance control

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 17 New Features! esxRanger Professional 2.0 Differential backups & restores  Only the differences since last image VI-3 support  Backup & restore to/from Windows on VI-3  With quiescing capabilities Rapid restore & multiple VM restore Resync restore  Full restore from differential backup engine File level restore from differential Archive Retention Policies

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 18 esxRanger Professional GUI Backup in 3 easy steps! Recovery in 3 easy steps! Differential backup and restores!

Enhancing VMware® ESX Server® 19 Questions ?

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