1. What’s New in vSphere 5 and Heartbeat 6.4?

2. Agenda vSphere Platform Recap vSphere 5 Overview vCenter Heartbeat 6.4
Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network
Applications Services – Availability, Security, Scalability
Additional Features and Enhancements – “The Best of the Rest”
ESXi migration
vSphere 5 Kits and Editions
Upgrading
vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

3. What is vSphere?
Industry’s Most Complete and Robust Virtualization Platform
vSphere Provides:
Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Network)
Application Services (Availability, Security, Scale, Performance)
Management Services (Basic/Remote Management, Patching)
What Does vSphere Solve for Customers?
Streamlines IT Operations
Provides a Powerful Disaster Recovery Strategy
Supports Running Mission-Critical Applications
Delivers the Most Flexible Building Block for Leveraging the Cloud

4. VMware vSphere : The Industry’s Leading Virtualization Platform
Application Services
VMware vSphere : The Industry’s Leading Virtualization Platform
Infrastructure Services
Host Profiles
Linked Mode
Orchestrator
Update Mgr
vCenter Server
VMsafe APIs
vShield Zones
Hot Add
# of Hosts, VMs HA FT
vMotion/S vMotion
Data Recovery
Availability
Security
Scalability
VMware vSphere 4.1
Compute
Storage
Network
vSphere 4.1 enabled higher consolidation ratios with unequaled performance by providing groundbreaking new memory management technology and expanding its resource pooling capabilities with new granular controls for storage and the network. The platform also offers dramatic “cloud scale” to support even the largest environments.
Compute/Performance
-Memory Compression – Reclaim application performance by up to 30% by reducing memory contention as a bottleneck
Storage
- Storage I/O Control – Set storage quality of service priorities per virtual machine for guarantee millisecond access to storage resources
-Performance Reporting – Deliver key storage performance statistics regardless of storage protocol.
Network
- Network I/O Control – Set network quality of service priorities per flow type for guaranteed access to network resources.
Scalability
-vSphere 4.1 –Fully virtualize the data center and scale at least 2x more than ever before.
 VMs per Cluster – 3,000 (3x vSphere 4.0)
Hosts per vCenter – 1,000 (3x vSphere 4.0)
Virtual Machines per Data Center – 5,000 (2x vSphere 4.0)
vSphere 4.1 extends its award winning availability and security capabilities with the world’s fastest live migrations and the ability to respond in parallel to any business need or change. Application services enhancements deliver new status details for high availability, tighter integration with an existing directory service, and new granular policies for virtual machine load-balancing.
 Availability
- vMotion – Speed and scale enhancements to vMotion deliver superior platform response and availability by migrating virtual machines up to 5x faster and enabling up to eight vMotion events in parallel.
- VMware High Availability (HA) – Deeper diagnostic and health check for VMware High Availability (HA) further enhances the already high levels of availability for virtual machines.
Security
Active Directory integration –Seamless user authentication at the ESX or ESXi host (rather than vCenter Server) for centralized user management. Easily assign privileges to users or groups plus roll out permission rules across hosts.
vShield Zones (new version available in Q3’10
Control
-DRS Host Affinity – Set granular policies for virtual machine movement (for example, restricting a virtual machine to a specific host due to licensing impact).
vSphere 4.1 builds on the VMware ecosystem not only in terms of increased hardware and software support but also by opening new possibilities for tie-in with cloud computing.
Open and Interoperable Architecture
– vSphere 4.1 enables partners to leverage new storage APIs for array integration (for availability requirements). The vSphere platform can also be leveraged through the new vCloud API for an open and interoperable computing model in the cloud.
Expanded Support
– The vSphere 4.1 latest hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform. This also now includes new support for 3rd party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management) and the latest x86 processors on the market.
Distributed Switch
Network I/O Control
VMFS
Thin Provisioning
Storage I/O Control
Storage APIs
ESX/ESXi
DRS/DPM
Memory Overcommit

5. The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures
Introducing…
VMware vSphere™ 5.0
The Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructures

6. VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New?
Application Services
VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New?
Infrastructure Services
Virtual Appliance
Web Client
vCenter Server
vCenter Server
ESXi Firewall
32 way SMP
1 TB VMs
New HA
Architecture
vMotion over
higher latency links
Availability
Security
Scalability
VMware vSphere 5
Compute
Storage
Network
Network I/O Control
(per VM controls)
Distributed Switch
(Netflow, SPAN, LLDP)
Storage DRS
Profile-Driven Storage
VMFS 5
Storage I/O Control (NFS)
ESXi Convergence
Auto Deploy
HW version 8

7. Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network

8. ESXi Convergence Overview Benefits
Most Trusted
Overview
vSphere 5.0 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor exclusively
ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors
vSphere ESXi
Benefits
Thin architecture
Smaller security footprint
Streamlined deployment and configuration
Simplified patching and updating model

9. vCenter Server with Auto Deploy
Overview
vCenter Server with Auto Deploy
Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new “on the fly” model
Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles
Image Profiles
Host Profiles
Benefits
Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and patching of hosts
Centralized host and image management
Reduce manual deployment and patch processes
vSphere
vSphere
vSphere
vSphere

10. Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage
Overview
Tier storage based on performance characteristics (i.e. datastore cluster)
Simplify initial storage placement
Load balance based on I/O
Resource alignment with SLAs
High IO Throughput
Benefits
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Eliminate VM downtime for storage maintenance
Reduce time for storage planning/configuration
Reduce errors in the selection and management of VM storage
Increase storage utilization by optimizing placement
Accelerate VM storage placement decision to a storage pod by:
Capturing VM storage SLA requirements
Mapping to the storage with the right characteristics and spare space

11. Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control
Overview
3. w/ I/O controls, can give VIP VMs preferential access
2. Other VMs are starved for resources
1. VM requests more resources
Set up SLAs for use of storage and network resources
Added per virtual machine settings for Network I/O Control
Added NFS support for Storage I/O Control
Benefits
Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem
More granular SLA settings for network traffic
Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs

12. New Virtual Machine Capabilities
Richer Desktop Experience
3D graphics
Broader Device Support
Client-connected USB devices
USB 3.0
Smart Card Readers
Additional Enhancements
VMCI enhancements
Multi-core virtual CPUs (in GUI)
Extended VMware tools compatibility
Mac OS X server support

13. Application Services – Availability, Security, and Scalability

14. Scaling Virtual Machines
Overview
Create virtual machines with up to:
32 vCPU
1 TB of RAM
Benefits 4x
4x size of previous vSphere versions
Run even the largest applications in vSphere, including very large databases
Virtualize even more applications than ever before (Tier 1 and 2)

15. New HA Architecture Overview Benefits
New architecture for High Availability feature of vSphere
Storage vMotion
VMware Fault Tolerance High Availability DRS Maintenance Mode vMotion
VMFS
VMFS
VMware
NIC Teaming Multipathing
Benefits
Storage
Simplified clustering setup and configuration
Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring
Enhanced scalability
Server
Component

16. Additional Features and Enhancements

17. vCenter Server Appliance (Linux)
Overview
Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based appliance
Benefits
Simplified setup and configuration
Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements
Leverages vSphere availability features for protection of the management layer

18. Web Client Overview Benefits
Run and manage vSphere from any web browser anywhere in the world
Benefits
Platform independence
Replaces Web Access GUI
Building block for cloud based administration

19. The Best of the Rest Platform Network Storage Availability Management
Hardware Version 8 – EFI virtual BIOS
Network
Distributed Switch (Netflow, SPAN support, LLDP)
Network I/O Controls (per VM), ESXi firewall
Storage
VMFS 5
iSCSI UI
Storage I/O Control (NFS)
Array Integration for Thin Provisioning
Swap to SSD, 2TB+ VMFS datastores
Storage vMotion Snapshot Support
Availability
vMotion with higher latency links
Data Recovery Enhancements
Management
Inventory Extensibility
Solution Installation and Management
iPad client
Data Recovery Enhancements - reports, performance, support of datastore maintenance windows

20. ESXi Migration

21. VMware ESXi: 3rd Generation Hypervisor Architecture
VMware GSX
(VMware Server)
Installs as an application
Runs on a host OS
Depends on OS for resource management
VMware ESX
Architecture
Installs “bare metal”
Relies on a Linux OS (Service Console) for running partner agents and scripting
VMware ESXi Architecture
Installs “bare metal”
Management tasks are moved outside of the hypervisor
VMware Server
VMware ESX
VMware ESXi
Service Console
VMkernel
VMkernel
Windows or Linux OS
this is a key slide to describe how and why we have evolved our architecture to arrive at ESXi. architecture evolution Virtualization is a quickly evolving market and as such we have to evolve our products to drive the next phase of computing. Let’s take a trip down memory lane…I’m not sure how many of you had GSX, our first hypervisor architecture, but in the GSX architecture, hypervisor installed on the OS as an application and we relied heavily on the OS for resource management. Of course performance and reliability are jeopardized in that type of architecture. To move customers from virtualizing test / dev apps and really start considering virtualization for their production applications, we knew we needed to re-architect the hypervisor to get rid of its OS handicap. So in 2003, we introduced ESX, which runs bare metal and we evolved it to have the right level of reliability and performance to virtualize production applications such as Exchange, databases, etc. If we had not made the investment in the enabling architecture, virtualization adoption would have been much slower. We are again at a cross roads with virtualization, where we are moving from 10% virtual to a 100% virtual, a world where virtualization is second nature and the datacenter is converted into an elastic cloud. This world requires a light weight hypervisor that is incredibly simple and easy to deploy and manage, and we need to start the next phase of innovation that simplifies deployment and ongoing management of the hypervisor even further.  This is precisely why we started investing in ESXi many years ago.   ESXi is very similar to ESX – in fact they have the same underlying code base (which is about 100 MB) – but ESX architecture also includes a 2 GB service console, which is a stripped down Linux OS (RHEL) that is used for serviceability and partner integration. This bulky OS component comes with a lot of junk than we don’t need…It is difficult to manage, secure, and limits our nimbleness.  In fact, its functionality can be replaced with more appropriate tools that deliver all the benefits without the limitations. What we have done with ESXi is take away this bulky OS, and enhanced the platform with only the serviceability capabilities that we need and have implemented them in a way that is optimal for a distributed Cloud OS. Scripting is now done with remote tools – namely the vCLI and PowerCLI. Partner integration is now API-based instead of agent-based. This allows us to have a small and stateless architecture that is very easy to deploy and manage. So let me go over some of the benefits of the ESXi architecture
Additional background info for interested presenters:
Difference between ESX and ESXI:
VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are both bare-metal hypervisors that install directly on the server hardware. Both provide industry-leading performance and scalability; the difference resides in the architecture and the operational management of VMware ESXi. Although neither hypervisor relies on an OS for resource management, VMware ESX relies on a Linux operating system, called the service console, to perform two management functions: executing scripts and installing third party agents for hardware monitoring, backup or systems management. The service console has been removed from ESXi, drastically reducing the hypervisor footprint and completing the ongoing trend of migrating management functionality from the local command line interface to remote management tools. The smaller code base of ESXi represents a smaller “attack surface” and less code to patch, improving reliability and security. The functionally of the service console is replaced by remote command line interfaces and adherence to system management standards.
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The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS, simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.

22. Converging to ESXi with the Next vSphere Release
With the GA of vSphere 4.1 in July 2010 VMware officially announced that starting with the next vSphere our hypervisor architecture will converge to ESXi
From the release note:
VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Future major releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture.
VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1.
VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according to the VMware vSphere support policy on the VMware Enterprise Infrastructure Support page.
To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi, go to the VMware ESXi and ESX InfoCenter.
Starting from the next release however vSphere will on be avilable with the ESXi hypervisor architecture. This slide shows the release note that we published when we launched vSphere 4.1 last July. ESX will continued to be supported according to our standard policy, however we won’t develop it further and it won’t allow customers to take advantage of the new features that will be part of vSphere future releases. For this reason, as you can see from the note we recommend that any new deployment of vSphere even in the current version are done using ESXi architecture and that customers migrate to ESXi with their upgrade vSphere 4.1

23. How Does A User Plan an ESX to ESXi migration?
Visit the ESX and ESXi Info Center
Start testing ESXi
If you’ve not already deployed, there’s no better time than the present
Ensure 3rd party solutions used by your customers are ESXi Ready
Monitoring, backup, management, etc. Most already are.
Bid farewell to agents!
Familiarize with ESXi remote management options
Transition any scripts or automation that depended on the COS
Powerful off-host scripting and automation using vCLI, PowerCLI, …
Plan an ESXi migration as part of vSphere upgrade
Testing of ESXi architecture can be incorporated into overall vSphere testing

24. ESXi and ESX Info Center
All Resources in One Centralized Location
ESXi Upgrade Center -

25. vSphere 5 Kits and Editions

26. VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business
For smaller environments
Essentials
Essentials + 1
Make better use of existing infrastructure 2
Save time in managing infrastructure with vCenter central management 3
Improve application availability with
vMotion (no planned downtime)
High Availability (business continuity) 4
Protect business data with VMware Data Recovery
Benefits 26

27. VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions
vSphere 5 Editions
For larger environments
Standard
Enterprise
Enterprise + 1
Consolidation and Availability Convert Physical System to Virtual Machines, Leverage Live Migration (vMotion), and Enable High Availability (HA) 2
Continuous Availability Fault Tolerance (FT) for Applications 3
Automated Resource Management Deliver Load Balancing (DRS), Power Management (DPM), and Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) without Manual Intervention 4
Simplified Operations Advanced Networking (Distributed Network Switch, I/0 Control), Advanced Storage (Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage) and Host Deployment/Configuration (Auto Deploy, Host Profiles) for More OPEX Savings
Benefits 27

28. Interested in Upgrading?

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

30. VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

31. vCenter Heartbeat What is it? What does it help protect against?
High availability for vCenter Server
What does it help protect against?
Failures that occur with:
Hardware, Networks, OS, Applications
Loss of key vSphere features and functions if vCenter is unavailable
Impact of vCenter Downtime
KEY = Component - Impact Experienced
Virtual Machines - Management requires direct; can’t provision new VMs from templates
ESXi Servers - Management requires direct connections
Performance & Monitoring Statistics - Historical records will have gaps
vMotion / Storage vMotion - Unavailable
vSphere DRS - Unavailable
vCenter Plug-ins (e.g. VUM) - Unavailable
vSphere HA / FT - HA / FT failover works once, admission control unavailable
VMware VIEW - Cannot provision new desktop instances

32. What’s New in vCenter Heartbeat 6.4?
Enhanced architecture allows the active and standby nodes to be reachable over the network at the same time, enabling both to be patched and managed
Better integration with VMware vCenter Server:
New Plug-in to the vSphere Client provides monitoring and management of vCenter Server Heartbeat from the vSphere Client
Heartbeat events and alerts will register in vCenter and display in the vSphere Client
Supports VMware vCenter Server v5.0 and VMware View Composer v5.0
Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

33. Selling vCenter Heartbeat
Sold per instance
$9,995 List Price
One license protects both vCenter Server and its database (even if the database is installed on a different host).
Qualifying opportunities
Customers with vCenter Server Standard that are virtualizing mission critical workloads, running vCloud Director or running VMware View.

34. Thank You!