VMware vSphere 4.0: The best platform for business applications. Presenter: Grant Finer

1. vSphere 4 – The Best Platform For Business Critical Applications
Grant Finer
Partner Business Manager - VMware
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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3. Use f i t li ti
U of virtualisation i your company…
in
1) What percentage of your Server infrastructure is virtualized today
0% – 5%
5% – 30%
30-% – 80% How many virtual machines are running
in total on your virtualized x86 servers
y
80% + in your organization?
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4. Use of virtualisation in your company…
CIO Top Objectives for 2009
2) What is the number one priority for you to further virtualise in the
coming 12 months?
Virtualise business critical applications
Virtualise servers to further reduce IT costs
Virtualise some or all of the desktop infrastructure
We have no plans for further virtualization
CIOs asked to choose 3 objectiv
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5. Challenges of Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
CI
O
IT / VI App Owners
Admins • Why change?
• Standardize on VMware • Can Virtual Machines handle
• Virtualization first my performance
• Consolidation and requirements?
i ?
infrastructure efficiency • What’s in it for me?
• Reduce operational • My app is too important to run
complexity on shared h d
h d hardware
Can You Afford NOT To Run Your Business Critical Apps on
VMware?
VM ?
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6. Business-Critical Application Momentum
% of customers running apps in production on VMware
56% 53%
50%
36% 41% 34%
24% 27%
MS MS MS Oracle Oracle IBM IBM SAP
Exchange SQL SharePoint Middleware DB WebSphere DB2
Source: VMware customer survey, September 2008, sample size 1038
Data: Within subset of VMware customers running a specific app, % that have at least one instance of that app in production in
a VM
In a recent Gartner poll, 73% of customers claimed to use x86
virtualization for mission critical applications in production
Source: Gartner IOM Conference (June 2008)
“Linux and Windows Server Virtualization Is Picking Up Steam” (ID Number: G00161702)
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7. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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8. >95% of Applications Match or Exceed Native
Performance on VMware Infrastructure
ESX 2 ESX 3 ESX 3.5 ESX 4.0
100%
Overhead • 30% - 60% • 20% - 30% • <10% - 20% • <2% - 10%
ported
d
VM CPU • 1 vCPU • 2 vCPU • 4 vCPU • 8 vCPU
Apps Supp
VM Memory • 3.6 GB • 16 GB • 64 GB • 256 GB
IO • <10,000 IOPS • 100,000 IOPS • >200,000 IOPS
A
• 380 MBits • 800 MBits • 9 GBits • 40 GBits
ESX Version
Source: VMware Capacity Planner analysis of > 700,000 servers in customer production
environments
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9. Single VM Handles Most Demanding Applications
;)
) =
Sun Fire 15k (ca. 2002)
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10. Scale Out with vSphere to Exceed Native
Performance
P f
How many cores can your app scale to on a quad-socket x86?
2005 2010
64
res)
56
Quad-Socket
calability (# cor
48
16-Core
40
y
32
Quad-Socket
24
Max sc
Dual-Core
16
8
Average Exchange Web SQL ESX Average Exchange Web SQL ESX
App Servers Server (scale out) App Servers Server (scale out)
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11. Support >95% Microsoft SQL Databases
95%
200,000
SQL IO Requirements
vSphere Capacity 200 000 IOPS
200,000
uirements (IOPS)
(
1000
Dis IO Requ
700
400
100
sk
70
SQL IO Requirements
40
10
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
% SQL Databases
Source: VMware Capacity Planner analysis of > 700,000 servers in customer production
environments
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12. Run SAP inside vSphere
# SD SAP SD Benchmark
Users 10%
1000 overhead
815
800 732
7%
overhead
600
10%
480
overhead 445
400
300 270
200
Native VMware Native VMware Native VMware
CI CI CI
DB DB DB
1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU
4 Gb 8 Gb 16 Gb
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13. SQL Server Consolidation Benchmark
DVD Store 2
SQL scales very well on ESX in consolidation scenarios
Efficient, guaranteed resource allocation to individual Virtual
Machines
Complete paper at
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/SQL_Server_consolidation.pdf
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14. Double Capacity of Exchange 2007 Hosts
8,000 Mailboxes 16,000 Mailboxes
16 cores 16 cores
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15. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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16. Consolidate Business Critical Apps to Increase
Infrastructure Efficiency
Typical SAP Deployment
x86 servers by Develop
type of
t f Trainin ment Dev
application
Decisio
g
Web n Supp.
Infrast.
Email & QA / Productio
IT Collaboratio
infrastructure n Test
T t n
Business
App
Processin
ocess
Dev
D / g
R&D
• > 50 servers
0
>50%
• 7:1 non-production to
business- production
critical apps • 10:1 consolidation i common
lid ti is
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17. 5X Consolidation of Exchange Servers
Exchange Hub 2 Exchange on VMware
Exchange Hub 1
c a ge ub Edge Hub Client Mailbox
Edge Hub Client
Hub
1
Edge Hub Client Mailbox
Mailbox Mailbox Hub
2
Achieve 5X consolidation or better
Consolidate Exchange Server roles
Eliminate need for dedicated standby servers
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18. Conventional DB Consolidation is Difficult
Multi-Instancing Shared Instance
DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB
SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL Shared SQL
Shared OS Shared OS
No OS isolation No OS isolation
(configuration security
(configuration, security, (configuration, security,
(configuration security
fault) fault)
Resource isolation No Database isolation
requires Wi d
i Windows Resource i l i
R isolation
Resource Manager requires SQL Resource
No load balancing across Governor
physical nodes No load balancing across
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19. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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20. IT Services Increasingly Difficult to Deliver
Distributed Multitier Apps on Rigid Infrastructure
App Tier - Java DB - SQL
Web - IIS
Service Delivery
Challenges
>70% budgets just to
keep lights on
App Tier - .NET DB - Oracle Time to provision
Web - Apache new services
i
Capacity planning for
each tier
Service Levels
DB - MySQL across app tiers
Portal Perl, Ruby, … HA across app tiers
pp
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21. Customers Accelerate Application Lifecycle
“We
“W can give our end users a virtual machine i h lf an h
i d i l hi in half hour, when i
h it
takes two to three weeks to spec out, order, and set up a physical
one.”
Bill Frost, Senior IS Engineer, Boise Inc.
“With VMware, if I want to test a subset of our servers for upgrades or
migrations, I can take them down, clone them, and I’ve got servers I can
use for our test."
Whitney Kuszmaulm, The Cleveland Indians Company
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22. Expanding your application
Provision vApps On-Demand
Pre-Configured vApps
SharePoint Database Standardize on
Enterprise Ed.
Web APP DB
SQL
4 optimal app & OS
OS
OS OS OS
4 GB
vCPU configurations
Minimize
configuration drift
Accelerat Faster
and errors
e dev & service
Support multi-tier
S t lti ti
test availability
Apps
Lab Production Provision On Demand
Accelerate app
development
p
Faster service
availability
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23. Self-Service Developer Provisioning with Lab Manager
Self Service
Developer
Days to provision
Slow development
Lab Manager
IT Overhead
Self-service
S lf i
provisioning in
minutes
May I have a
Fast … Please?
server
development
Eliminate IT
overhead
Infrastructure Admin
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24. Lab Manager Walkthough
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25. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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26. Monitor and Control Service Levels with AppSpeed
End-user
Policies (SLA)
99.9%
99 9% Uptime Infrastructur
e
100 ms latency
App
.01% error rate
Web
W b
DB
Automatically map services to
infrastructure App
pp
Monitor service levels and
identify bottlenecks
y
Size infrastructure dynamically
to meet SLA cost-effectively
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27. vCenter AppSpeed Overview
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28. AppSpeed Walkthough
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29. VMware Fault Tolerance
Single identical VMs
running in lockstep on
separate hosts
Zero downtime, zero data
APP APP APP
loss failover for all virtual
OS OS OS machines in case of
VMware vSphere™
hardware failures
Zero downtime, zero data
loss
No complex clustering or
specialized hardware
required
Single common
mechanism for all
applications and OS-es
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30. Agenda
Introduction
Performance
P f
Consolidation
Application Lifecycle
Application Quality of Service
ISV Support
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31. Expanding ISV Ecosystem
McKesson
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32. Business Unit Designation or other information
Thank you
vSphere 4 – The Best Platform For Business Critical Applications
Grant Finer
Partner Business Manager - VMware
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