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12. VMware vSphere 5.1 Highlights
Part of the vCloud Suite Announcements in October 2012
New features and functionality in vSphere 5.1
Focus on Systems Management
Monitoring
Capacity Planning
‘Cloud ready’
14. Scales to Support Mission-Critical Applications
Overview
Create virtual machines with up to:
64 vCPU
1 TB of vRAM
Benefits
2x size of previous vSphere versions
Run even the largest applications in vSphere,
2x including very large databases
Virtualise even more applications than ever
before (Tier 1 and 2)
15. vSphere Replication
Site A (Primary) Overview
Virtual machine level replication by the
vSphere vSphere host
Included with vSphere*
vSphere
Replication
Benefits
Site B (Recovery)
Low cost/efficient replication option
vSphere Simple setup from within vCenter Server
Integration with SRM enables automated DR
process
16. vMotion (w/o Shared Storage)
Overview
Live migration of a virtual machine without
the need for shared storage
Layer 2 Network
Benefits
vSphere vSphere Zero downtime migration
No dependency on shared storage
local local Lower operating cost
Helps meet service level and performance
SLAs
17. vCenter Operations Manager Foundation
Overview
vCenter Operations Manager Foundation
included in all vSphere editions - NO
CHARGE
Provides performance and health
management of vSphere hosts and virtual
machines
Benefits
Simplified management of vSphere
Easy on-ramp to automated operations
management concepts delivered by the full
Suite
20. Hypervisor Comparison
Microsoft VMware
Windows Server vSphere 5.1
Category Resource 2012 Enterprise Plus
Active virtual machines per host 1,024 512
Virtual Memory per virtual machine 1 terabyte 1 terabyte
machine
Virtual processors per virtual machine 64 64
Scalability, performance, density
Maximum nodes 64 32
Cluster
Maximum virtual machines 8,000 4,000
Network High performance with SR-IOV Yes Yes
Native 4 KB disk support Yes No
Storage Maximum virtual disk size 64 terabytes VHDX 2 terabytes VMDK
Encrypted cluster storage Yes No
Secure multitenancy Open extensible switch Yes Replaceable
1 GB simultaneous live migrations Unlimited 4
10 GB simultaneous live migrations Unlimited 8
Flexible infrastructure
Shared-nothing live migration Yes Yes
Network virtualization Yes Partner VXLAN
Virtual machine replication Yes Yes
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High availability Guest OS application monitoring Yes Yes with supporting product
Guest clustering with live migration Yes Yes
23. Hyper-V Focus Areas
VIRTUAL MACHINE ISOLATION AND
SCALE AND PERFORMANCE MOBILITY CONTINUOUS SERVICES OPEN AND EXTENSIBLE MULTITENANCY
Larger virtual Simultaneous live Clustering Open, extensible Network
machines support migrations ease enhancements switch helps support Virtualization
increased workloads management increase availability security and supports
burdens management needs multitenancy and IP
portability
Hardware Shared-nothing live Dynamic Memory Increased support Resource Metering
offloading offers migration enables increases capacity for Windows shows how many
better performance live migration with no downtime PowerShell helps resources each tenant
and scale between clusters increase automation is using
24. Hyper-V Scale Enhancements
Maximum number
Improvement
System Resource Windows 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 factor
Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×
Physical memory 1 terabyte 4 terabytes 4×
Host Virtual processors per host 512 1,024 2×
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×
Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 terabyte 16×
Virtual
Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×
machine Virtual disk size 2 terabytes 64 terabytes 32×
Nodes 16 64 4×
Cluster Virtual machines 1,000 8,000 4×
25. Enhanced Live Migration
Shared-nothing live migration Complete virtual machine mobility options
Microsoft
Windows Server Windows Server
Virtual machine mobility options 2008 R2 2012
Ethernet 1 GB simultaneous live migrations 1 Unlimited
10 GB simultaneous live migrations 1 Unlimited
Shared-nothing live migration No Yes
Network virtualization No Yes
Benefits
• Live migrate multiple virtual machines simultaneously with no limits (except bandwidth) in and out of a cluster
• Live migrate virtual machine storage from one subsystem to another without downtime
• Live migrate a virtual machine from one host to another with only an Ethernet connection
• Migrate a virtual machine to a host in another location and network address range—with no change to its IP address
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26. Hyper-V Replica
Site A – Primary location Site B – Remote location
Disaster recovery
scenarios:
• Planned, unplanned, and
test failover
• Preconfiguration for IP
settings for
primary/remote location
Benefits
• Ships as a component of Windows Server 2012 with no additional installation required
• Host-based replication operates at the virtual machine level and is application agnostic
• Storage agnostic—works with any combination of SAN, DirectAccess server, or Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB 3.0)
• Works with both clustered and non-clustered environments
27. Private Cloud Management
Licensing
Server 2012
Virtual Machine App Controller
Datacenter
Manager
Service Manager
Configuration
Manager Orchestrator
Operations
System Center
Manager
Datacenter
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30. Summary
Multiple Hyper Visors? Heterogeneous environments are common place
Tools now exist to manage both
Data Centers Are Changing Private Cloud - Public Cloud - Hybrid Cloud
Further consolidation is possible
Businesses….
Don’t get left behind Will adopt Cloud
Will consume services differently
Many already are