1. Virtualizing Critical Applications
with Vsphere 5

2. 2
Virtualizing Critical Applications with Vsphere 5 – The
foundation for the cloud
vSphere
“Virtualization is a modernization
catalyst and unlocks cloud computing.”
―Gartner
vSphere vSphere

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VMware vSphere 5.0: What’s New?
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
Scalability
VMware vSphere 5
Security
• ESXi Firewall
• 32 way SMP
• 1 TB VMs
• New HA
Architecture
• vMotion over
higher latency links
Availability
NetworkStorage
• 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
Compute
vCenter Server
• Virtual Appliance
• Web Client
vCenter Server

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Infrastructure Services –
Compute, Storage, Network

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

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Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1
>1 GB
Size Does Matter
VMware
ESXi 5
144 MB
Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Server Core with Hyper-V
3.4 GB
Hyper-V with full Windows Server
2008 R2 SP1 is even bigger at…
9.8 GB
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1
expands to
5.6 GB

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 Create virtual machines with up to:
 32 vCPU
 1 TB of RAM
 4x size of previous vSphere versions
 Run even the largest applications in
vSphere, including very large databases
vSphere 5.0 – “Monster VMs”
4x
Overview
Benefits

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New ESXi Hardware Maximums
 New for ESXi 5.0:
• 2TB host memory
• Up to 160 LCPUs
• 512 virtual machines
per host
• 2048 virtual CPUs per
host
2TB160 LCPUs
2048 VCPUs
512 VMs

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Clicker Question
Vsphere 5 has raised the bar on the size of VM’s. Does this
give you the confidence to start virtualizing critical
applications.
 Yes
 No

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Technical Barriers to 100% Virtualization Have Been Falling
Application’s Performance Requirements
%ofApplications
95% of Apps
Require
IOPS
Network
Memory
CPU
< 10,000
<2.4 Mb/s
< 4 GB at peak
1 to 2 CPUs
VMware
vSphere 4
300,000
30 Gb/s
256 GB per VM
8 VCPUs
VMware Inf.
100,000
9 Gb/s
16/64 GB per VM
4 VCPUs
VMware
vSphere 5
1,000,000
>36Gb/s
1,000 GB per VM
32 VCPUs
ESX 2
7,000
.9 Gb/s
3.6 GB per VM
2 VCPUs
ESX 1
<5,000
<.5Gb/s
2 GB per VM
1 VCPUs
3.0/3.5

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38%
43%
53%
25% 25%
18%
% of Workload Instances Running on VMware in Customer Base
MS
Exchange
MS
SQL
MS
SharePoint
Oracle
Middleware
Oracle
DB
SAP
Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010 and April 2011 interim results,
Data: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized
Jan
2010
…And Customers Have Been Making Great Progress in
Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
Apr
2011
42%
47%
67%
34%
28% 28%

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VMFS-5
VMFS-5 is a new version of the virtual machine file system that
offers improved scalability and performance.
• The datastore and a single extent can be greater than 2TB.
• The maximum datastore size is 64TB.
• Pass-through RDMs can be greater than 2TB, maximum size is 64TB.
• The maximum file size remains at 2TB.
• Newly-created VMFS-5 datastores use a 1MB file block size only.
• File system sub-block size is 8KB.
• Data of small files (less than or equal to 1KB) is stored directly in the file
descriptor.
• GPT replaces the MBR.
• GPT provides the ability to create VMFS-5 volumes greater than 2TB.

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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Profile-Driven Storage
 Tier storage based on performance or
SLA characteristics
 View a list of all compliant storage
resources
Overview
Benefits
 Utilize the correct storage resources
every time (no mistakes)
 Help IT personnel that may not be as
familiar with storage characteristics align
with business and application goals
 Improve storage utilization and
efficiencies
High IO
Throughput

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Storage DRS
 Group “like” datastores in a datastore
cluster.
 Initial placement of VMs/VMDKs
 Datastore maintenance mode
 Space and I/O load balancing
 Affinity and anti-affinity rules
Overview
Benefits
 Scalable storage management
 Reduce time for VM provisioning
 Eliminate VM downtime for storage
maintenance
 Automated Out of space avoidance
 Automated I/O bottleneck avoidance
Datastore
Cluster
Storage vMotion

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Clicker Question
Vsphere has achieved a trust status in the world of
Virtualization. Our key technologies like HA , DPM , DRS have
gained good acceptability. Do you see value in Storage DRS
– Storage mobility based on policies.
 Yes
 No

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 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
 Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem
 More granular SLA settings for network
traffic
 Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs
Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control
Overview
Benefits
1. VM requests
more resources
2. Other VMs
are starved
for resources
3. w/ I/O controls, can
give VIP VMs
preferential access

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Network I/O Control Enhancements in vSphere 5.0
Network I/O control in vSphere 5.0
has been enhanced to allow
• User-defined resource pools
• QoS (802.1p) tagging
Mgmt NFS iSCSI
vMotion FT
dvSwitch
port group
10 GigE
port group
user-defined resource pools system resource pools
port group

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

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Adding Capacity Has Just Gotten Much Easier
Time: 30 mins
Total time: 20 Hours!
...Repeat 37 more times…
Total time: 10 Minutes!
Before After
Time: 30 mins Time: 30 mins
vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere

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

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

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Customers Count on VMware for Reliability
VMware: #1 in Reliability
Financial institution customer: Over
six years of VMware ESX uptime!
Companies Trust Their Production Servers to Run on VMware
2326 days
Uptime

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vSphere: One of the Most Rapidly Adopted IT Platforms
There are > 150,000 vSphere customers
Customers deploy a copy of vSphere every 30
seconds
Customers turn on 10 new virtual machines every
minute

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