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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. How virtualization can enable your business Richard Allen, IBM Alliance, VMware 0780-966.5800 rallen@vmware.com
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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. The ‘physical’ Datacenter Cost of… …acquisition …setup …power …heat …physical rack space …(re-)configuration …maintenance …support….
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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. The VMware Datacenter Flexibility Rapid provisioning Disaster Recovery High Availability Automation 87% of VMware customers deploy in production
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950 days uptime
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Hidden benefits… The set of devices presented to every VM is identical single image required for your whole company hardware-independency = even hw upgrades do not require new VMware images; even if you switch vendors Power and heat VMware is licensed by socket…quad core is optimal A server running at 25% and 75% are almost identical from a power and heat perspective…so get your servers to 75% before buying more… Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Installs like an application and runs on any standard x86 hardware Hardware Windows/Linux VMware Hosted virtualization
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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Bare-metal virtualization -- VMware ESX Bare metal installation: stable, secure and high performance
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Which OS can I run in an ESX Virtual Machine? 4-way Virtual SMP; 16GB VM memory 64-bit or 32-bit 32-bit only
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ESX Server only: Hot Migration VMotion Moves running VMs between hosts while maintaining continuous service availability - Continuous Workload Consolidation - Zero-Downtime Maintenance 56% use in production; 80% using or evaluating
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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Physical server generates hardware prefailure alert Integration with Systems Management VMware VirtualCenter IBM Director System Management Server SAN, iSCSI, NFS ESX Server VM 4 VM VM 3 VM 2 VM 1 Alert sent to Systems Management ServerSystems Management Server sends command to VirtualCenter VirtualCenter initiates live migration of VMs using VMotion Virtual machines migrated intelligentlyServer maintenance\upgrade – with zero downtime client always connected to VM4
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1. Overloaded host: automatic workload balancing ESX Server only: VMware DRS Automated load balancing Dynamically add resources VMware Infrastructure Resource Cluster VMotion 2. Dynamically add resources: DRS rebalances load
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ESX Server only: VMware HA VMware Infrastructure Automates virtual machine restart Independent of OS and applications 2-way System 4-way System 8-way System
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Copyright © 2006 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Hardware-independent recovery VMware Infrastructure Solution Different servers at primary and secondary site Fewer servers at recovery site Use retired production servers at recovery site Primary Data Center Recovery Data Center APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS 68 IBM Servers hw or IP 50 IBM Servers Storage Array
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VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI sizer: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdi_sizing_vi3.pdfhttp://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdi_sizing_vi3.pdf Client Device (Thin Client or PC) Load-balancing (via eg: Propero) VMware Infrastructure …including VMware HA, DRS, VMotion Dynamic application publication (via eg: Softgrid)
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Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. How do I size? - VMware Capacity Planner Accurate agentless workload analysis… CP collector
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Thank you… Richard Allen, IBM Alliance VMware 0780-966.5800 rallen@vmware.com
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