What’s new in vSphere 5 and vCenter Server Heartbeat

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

2. Agenda vSphere Platform Recap vSphere 5 Overview 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

4. vSphere Provides:

5. Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Network)

6. Application Services (Availability, Security, Scale, Performance)

7. Management Services (Basic/Remote Management, Patching)

8. What Does vSphere Solve for Customers?

9. Streamlines IT Operations

10. Provides a Powerful Disaster Recovery Strategy

11. Supports Running Mission-Critical Applications

13. Linked Mode

14. Orchestrator

16. FT

17. vMotion/S vMotion

18. Data Recovery

19. VMsafe APIs

20. vShield Zones

21. Hot Add

23. DRS/DPM

24. Memory Overcommit

25. VMFS

26. Thin Provisioning

27. Storage I/O Control

28. Storage APIs

29. Distributed Switch

33. 32 way SMP

35. Auto Deploy

36. HW version 8

37. Storage DRS

38. Profile-Driven Storage

39. VMFS 5

40. Storage I/O Control (NFS)

42. Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network

45. Smaller security footprint

46. Streamlined deployment and configuration

49. Centralized host and image management

50. Reduce manual deployment and patch processesvSphere vSphere

52. Simplify initial storage placement

53. Load balance based on I/O

55. Reduce time for storage planning/configuration

56. Reduce errors in the selection and management of VM storage

58. Added per virtual machine settings for Network I/O Control

60. More granular SLA settings for network traffic

62. USB 3.0

64. Extended VMware tools compatibility

67. 32 vCPU

69. Run even the largest applications in vSphere, including very large databases

71. Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring

72. Enhanced scalabilityServer Component

73. Additional Features and Enhancements

75. Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements

77. Replaces Web Access GUI

79. ESXi Migration

81. Runs on a host OS

84. Management tasks are moved outside of the hypervisorVMware Server Service Console VMkernel VMkernel Windows or Linux OS 2001 2003 2007 The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS, simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.

85. 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.

86. 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

87. ESXi and ESX Info Center All Resources in One Centralized Location

88. vSphere 5 Kits and Editions

89. VMware vSphere Essentials Kits for Small Business Benefits

90. VMware vSphere Enterprise Editions Benefits

91. Interested in Upgrading?

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

93. VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.4

94. vCenter Heartbeat What is it? 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

95. 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

96. 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.

97. Thank You!