Vmware Overview / Update

Luc Gallet
lgallet@vmware.com

2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Virtualization & Cloud Management: VMware Approach

End User Computing

End-User
End-User Computing
Computing Management
Management
Provision
Provision &
& deploy
deploy desktops
desktops rapidly
rapidly
Manage
workstation
images
simply
Manage workstation images simply
Deliver
Deliver virtualized
virtualized applications
applications to
to desktop
desktop

IT Business
Management
Application
Application Management
Management

Encapsulate
Encapsulate applications
applications into
into containers
containers with
with vApps
vApps
Cloud Applications

Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
Virtualized Infrastructure

VMware Cloud Director

vSphere

Assure
Assure application
application portability
portability &
& performance
performance
Establish
service
contracts
with
Establish service contracts with infrastructure
infrastructure

Infrastructure & Operations Management

Create a zero-touch, compliant infrastructure
Build automation into platform
Deliver self-service through policy-driven control

VMware Management Solutions

Govern cloud
provisioning
processes
Track cloud
software license
usage
Standardize
cloud partitions

Once upon a time

before virtualization
1:1 Ratio of Server/OS/Application
Server Sprawl
Low utilization
Some Assembly Required
Provisioning time
Complicated and cumbersome DR
$4000/server/year
Power, cooling, real estate, networking
(NIC/HBA), service contracts

Types of Virtualization

Round 1: The Client Hypervisor

Virtual Machines
App

App

App

App

App

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

HyperVisor

HOST OS

Types of Virtualization

Round 2: The Server Hypervisor

Partitioning
Isolation
Hardware
Independence
Encapsulation
Virtual Machines
App

App

App

App

App

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

App

App

App

App

App

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

HyperVisor

System
Apps

=
App

Data

Batch

DR

Job

Test

App
OS

OS

= files in VMFS

App
OS

% Utilization

VMware Infrastructure

Physical
Server

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Types of Virtualization

Round 3: Virtual
Infrastructure
Dynamic Computing
Vmotion
Greater Availability
HyperVisor

HyperVisor

HA (High Availability)
Quick imaging &
provisioning
Centralized resource
management

Round 4: the Virtual Data Center OS

virtual data center

Round 4: the Virtual Data Center OS

The Application is the

Focus
Dynamic Compute
resources: RAM/processors

virtual data center

X
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Dynamic Network
resources: virtual
nics/switches
Dynamic disc resources
sizing/allocation
Fault tolerance
Power Management
Security

Round 4: the Virtual Data Center OS

Dynamic Computing
Vmotion stateful (live)
migration of VMs
DRS automated migration
(load balancing)
virtual data center

+ intelligent auto-placement of
new VMs

VM

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Storage Vmotion stateful

migration of vms storage - i/o,
maintenance, new storage

Round 4: the Virtual Data Center OS

Virtual Switching
Previously virtual switches
have been isolated to the host

virtual data center

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Distributed switch creates a

virtual switch to span across
the environment

Round 4: the Virtual Data Center OS

Fault Tolerance
HA still available for lower tier
apps

virtual data center

Identify VMs you want for

fault tolerance and start the
service
A shadow VM is created and
takes over if host failure
occurs

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Disaster Recovery

virtual data center

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virtual data center

Storage
Replication

The Virtualization Journey IT Production

COST EFFICIENCY

Stage

Sponsorship

IT Production

Virtualize Assets
Owned by IT and
Test & Dev Servers

Business Value

Key Capabilities

Pooling=
Abstraction+

Confidence

Shared Resources

Stages of Adoption and Maturity

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The Virtualization Journey IT Production

COST EFFICIENCY
QUALITY OF SERVICE

IT Production

Business Production

Virtualize Business
Applications,
Databases, and
Deploy More
Management Product
and Desktop
Virtualization

Control=
Service Definition +
Service Assurance

Stages of Adoption and Maturity

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The Virtualization Journey IT as a Service

COST EFFICIENCY
QUALITY OF SERVICE

IT Production

Business Production

BUSINESS AGILITY

>50% Virtualized with

Virtualization 1st Policy
Enforced,
Management
Automation

IT as a Service (ITaaS)

Zero-Touch
Infrastructure =
Policy-Driven Prov.+
Self-Service+

Stages of Adoption and Maturity Chargeback

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Private clouds, the best place to run tier 1 apps

Consolidation

Decrease infrastructure cost for Server HW

Save space and energy in the datacenter
Archive consolidation ratios of 5:1 to 10:1
Scale physical infrastructure on demand

Availability

Minimize planned downtime

Reduce recovery timer for server failure down
to zero

Build cross site disaster recovery solutions

Increase overall availability
Use redundant infrastructure immediately
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Private clouds, the best place to run tier 1 apps

Manageability

Scale infrastructure as needed

Gain flexibility through workload mobility
Move Apps during hardware maintenance
Reduce management cost per app

Quality of Service

Ensure appropriate resource assignment

Continuously monitor SLAs
React proactive and fast to issues
Dynamic scale resource as application needs
grow

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Technical Overview Technologies enabling

Automation
Self Service
Efficient Security
Efficient Management
Hybrid Clouds
...

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vCloud Director Architecture

VMware vCloud Director
Organization: Marketing
Users & Policies

Organization VDCs

Organization: Finance
Catalogs

Users & Policies

Organization VDCs

(Gold)

(Silver)

(Bronze)

Provider Virtual Datacenters

VMware vCenter Server

Resource Pools

Datastores

VMware vSphere
Secure Private Cloud

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Port Groups

Catalogs

vCloud Director Portals

System Administrator View
System Portal

Organization Portal

Organization Administrator View

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End User/Consumer View

Integrated vShield features simplify security and compliance

vShield for vCloud Director is a virtual
appliance providing essential perimeter
network and security services including:

firewall

Port-level stateful firewall

vShield

Network Address Translation

DHCP services

Enables fast, secure and automated

provisioning of multitenant Org
VDCs in private clouds
Simpler, easer to operate
One Edge per Org, deployed anywhere
Built-in network isolation
Integrated and manageable by REST APIs for script
and 3rd party automation

Improved visibility, control and compliance

Application aware NetFlow visibility
Automated log collection with syslog and VC
integration

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VMware
VMware vSphere
vSphere

DHCP Services

vShield

Security from Edge to Endpoint

vShield
vShield Edge
Edge

vShield
vShield App
App

vShield
vShield Endpoint
Endpoint

Edge

Security Zone

Endpoint = VM

Secure the edge of

the virtual datacenter

DMZ

Application 1

Application protection from

network-based threats

Application 2

Offload anti-virus processing

vShield
vShield Manager
Manager
Endpoint = VM

Centralized Management

VMware
VMware vSphere
vSphere

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VMware
VMware vSphere
vSphere

Virtualization is the Foundation for Cloud

20 MILLION VMs

Someone turns on

1 VM EVERY SIX SECONDS

If they were physical machines they

would stretch
2x the length of
Great Wall of
China

Thats faster than the rate of babies born in the U.S.

5.5 vMOTIONS PER SECOND

>68,000
VMware-CERTIFIED

At any given time, more VMs are in motion than

planes, which take off about once per second
globally.

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PROFESSIONALS
IN 146 COUNTRIES

running on
VMware vSphere

Cloud Requires a New Approach

Traditional IT Management

APP
OS

APP
OS

APP
OS

APP
OS

APP
OS

APP
OS

Services and
assets tied
together in
complex, brittle,
vertical stacks
that are hard
to change and
manage

Business agility
suffers
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Cloud Management

OS

OS

Service
components are
abstracted and
sourced from
dynamic
resource pools
with horizontal
layers loosely
bound into
services

IT able to keep up with

speed of the business

Traditional
Tools?
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Example: Problems with Traditional Monitoring Tools

What does this really mean?

Why is it happening?
What should you do?

vSphere
vCenter
Server
Cloud
requires

Server, Storage,
Network
Monitoring
new
approach

OS, DB, App

Monitoring
to management.

a
Traditional monitoring tools alone cant handle it.

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Example: Problems with Static Thresholds and Alerts

Low thresholds cause alert storms

High thresholds miss alerts

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Solving the Monitoring Problem with Analytics

Calculate
supermetrics from
thousands of data
points

Health

Risk

Efficiency

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vCenter Server and external data

sources

Solving the Alerts Problem with Dynamic Thresholds

BLUE LINE
Metrics
Current
Value

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GRAY BAR
Upper and Lower
band of Dynamic
Threshold Normal

RED BAR
Breached Dynamic
Threshold
Abnormal

Learns your dynamic ranges of Normal without templates

Learns patterns of behavior and identifies Abnormalities
Dynamic thresholds eliminate false alerts
vSphere Health Models further optimize analytics engine

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Early Warning

VMwares Approach and Differentiation

vCenter Operations Management Suite

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Patented Analytics

Integrated Approach

Designed for Cloud

Self-Learning
Dynamic Thresholds

Performance Data
Capacity Consumption

Health Model
Open and extensible

Smart Alerts

Configuration Changes

Evolutionary Approach

vSphere
vCenter Server

Server, Storage,
Network Monitoring

OS, DB, App

Monitoring

Introducing vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0

Key Capabilities
New Operations Management
Dashboard

Completely integrated capacity

management capabilities

Application-dependency mapping
with vCenter Infrastructure Navigator

In-guest change events correlated

with performance and health

Cost-based Capacity Optimization

with vCenter Chargeback Manager

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Visibility into Immediate and Potential Future Problems

Operations

Short and Long Term Capacity

Immediate

Forward

problems

Looking

What is
happening
right now?

What do I
need to pay
attention to?

Are there
areas that I
should be
concerned
about from a
capacity
perspective?

Have I
deployed my
VI in the
most efficient
manner?

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Health

Operations: Major Badge Health

Efficiency
Efficiency

One Source of Truth Across the Enterprise

Risk
Risk

How is our world doing?

Health Score - Objective measure of performance

based on underlying level of abnormal behavior

High Health is good (100-0)

Identifies current problems in the systems
Issues that need to be resolved immediately to avoid
problems

Analytics based, calculated from 3 minor badges

(Workload, Anomalies, Faults)

For any resource or grouping:

A single Server, Device, Resource
Entire Tier or Silo
Entire Application or Service
Entire Datacenter
Any Arbitrary Group of Resources

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Heatmap
-> Provides quick view of many objects at once
-> Shows Health of all parent and child objects
-> Go back in time (6 hours) and see the
weather of the Virtual Infrastructure

Smart Alerts Before problems happen.

Health
Efficiency
Efficiency

Risk
Risk

Overview
Early warning
Smart Alert

Proactive alerts that provide early

warning on building issues

Identify upcoming health,

performance and capacity issues

Automatic root cause analysis of

offending metrics across all layers
Root cause and
potential impact

Benefits
Advance notification of abnormal
behavior help avoid incidents

Immediately focus on the root cause

rather than symptoms or false alerts

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Capacity Planning Risk

Health
Efficiency
Efficiency

Are there future risks to my systems

and virtual Infrastructure?
Identifies potential problems that could
eventually hurt the performance

Risk score over the last 7 days

Low risk is good (0-100)
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Minor badges

Risk
Risk

Capacity Planning: Forecast - What-If Analysis

Capacity state
today

VM count
capacity

Actual VMs
deployed

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New capacity
shortfall if I add
10 new VMs

Current capacity
cross-over point

Health
Efficiency
Efficiency

Risk
Risk

Capacity Planning: Major Badge Efficiency

Health
Efficiency
Efficiency

Risk
Risk

Are there optimization opportunities in

my systems?
Save $$$ by better utilizing resources

How to run a leaner datacenter

High Efficiency is good (100-0)
Graph Depicts VMs by Percent
Optimal Optimally Provisioned VMs
Waste Over Provisioned VMs
Stress Under Provisioned VMs

Efficiency Score calculated from Minor

Badges
Reclaimable Waste
Density

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Three Resources Considered

CPU
Memory
Disk Space

Sub-Badges - Optimization Opportunities

Health
Efficiency
Efficiency

Risk
Risk

Reclaimable Waste: lists excessive

resource allocation
Identifies VMs with too many
CPUs/vRAM and hosts with too few VMs

Density: computes the ideal

consolidation ratio
Computes optimal VMs per host to
maximize resource utilization without
sacrificing performance

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VMware vCenter Operations Editions

vCenter Operations Enterprise
vCenter Operations Advanced
vCenter Operations Standard

+ Capacity
Planning

+ Full Configuration & Compliance

Management
+ Other VMware & 3rd Party Integrations
(View, management, servers, storage)

Performance
Real-time
Capacity
Configuration
Change

vSphere

VMware Cloud / vCenter

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Non-VMware (incl. physical) environments

Enterprise hybrid cloud computing

Apps

Apps

Private Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure

Common platform

Common management

Common security

VMware =
EnterpriseSecurity
Hybrid Cloud
Security
Management
Management

vCloud
Service Provider

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Computing Moves from a

Technology Discussion to a Business Decision
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vCloud Connector
Public vCloud

vSphere
vSphere Client
vSphere
See private/public
vCloud resources
inside vSphere
Client

Copy VMs/vApps/templates
from vSphere to
private/public vCloud

vApps

Marketing vApp
CustomerSurvey vApp
QA template

Marketing vApp

vCloud
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vCloud

Catalog
CustomerSurvey vApp
MarketingvApp
Marketing
vApp
QA template

Perform basic operation on

vCloud resources such as
power ops & console
access

VMware offers a robust set of product and solutions

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Optimized Management
vCenter Operations

Portability
Service Delivery
vCloud Director

Cross-Cloud Standards
Security and Compliance

vCloud API
Open Virtualization Format

vShield Security Family

vCenter Configuration Manager

Cross-Cloud Management
vCloud Connector

Resource Management
vSphere
vCenter Management Family

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vCloud Powered

Broad array of
VMware-compatible clouds
for any business need

Thank You

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Luc Gallet - lgallet@vmware.com

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