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A for dummies WebEx on what you get, what it
does, and how to license.
VmWare vSphere4
Tom Crowe IT Manager Wyche, Burgess, Freeman
Parham, PA tcrowe_at_wyche.com
Matthew Cavanagh Principal Consultant PAR4
Technology Group mcavanagh_at_par4tech.com
Dennis Maneikis Account Manager PAR4 Technology
Group dmaneikis_at_par4tech.com
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Par4 Overview

• New England and tri-state provider of
  virtualization and cloud services
• VMWare premier and VAC partner, concentrated
  Virtualization focus.
• Purchased Flytrap Technologies in November 2009
• Offices in Amesbury, Ma, Tolland, CT, and
  Willimantic, CT.
• Carrier grade datacenter providing Cloud
  services, hosted DR, data replication, desktop,
  and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) with 24/7
  NOC
• Provider of virtual ecosystem products, support,
  maintenance, training, and managed services
• Member of VMWares VS4 Beta program
• Customer verticals include enterprise, financial,
  tech, manufacturing, SLED, legal and healtchare
• Partnered with most leading virtual ecosystem
  hardware and software manufacturers

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VS4 Launch Highlights

• Released May 21st, all VI3 skus are now
  discontinued with the exception of existing
  quotes created before the launch date.
• VS4 licenses CAN be downgraded to VI3 licenses
• VMWares first major release since VI3 which
  contains a major OS revision (ESX 4.0)
  presented as the first cloud operating system.
  
• Improvements to VMware High Availability (HA),
  VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware
  Update Manager, VMware Distributed Resource
  Scheduler (DRS)
• Includes a number of additional components to
  enhance functionality and deliver greater
  efficiency, control, and flexibility.

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Whats New?
VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 4.0 VMware ESXi
3.5 VMware ESXi 4.0 vCenter Server 2.5
VCenter Server 4.0

• Out with the old
• Foundation immediate end-of-availability
• Most A la carte offerings are eliminated
• Switch to one processor licensing
• In with the new
• vSphere Essentials editions for small and remote
  offices
• vSphere Standard at a new, lower price point
• vSphere Advanced for high availability at a
  mid-range price point
• vSphere Enterprise Plus at a new top price point

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Added ESX Features

• VMWare FT (Fault Tolerance)
• Provides application continuous availability via
  vLockstep
• VMWare Data Recovery
• Disk based backup and recovery via vCenter,
  includes de-dup
• VMWare vShield Zones
• Allows you to segment users and data from the
  network to enforce security policies
• VMWare vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS)
• Centrally control cluster level networking beyond
  per host configurations
• VMWare Host Profiles
• Apply known validated network, storage, and
  security settings to ESX hosts
• VMWare Thin Provisioning
• Allows over-allocation of storage capacity for
  increased storage utilization, enhanced
  application uptime, and simplified storage
  capacity management.

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Added ESX Features

• iSCSI
• 10GbE support network performance improvements
• DPM no longer Experimental
• Live changes to VMs
• Add memory, cpu on the fly
• Simplified Licensing
• Performance Improvements

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vSphere 4 Editions Core Platform
Update Manager
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VS4 Essentials (non-core formerly foundation)

• All inclusive packages
• Licenses for 3 physical servers (up to 2
  processors each)
• License for central management server
• Packages cannot be decoupled or combined
  components cannot be used with other vSphere
  editions

Data Recovery
x 6 CPUS
x 6 CPUS
High Availability
6 CPUS x
x 6 CPUS
Update Manager
Update Manager
6 CPUS x
VC Agent
VC Agent
x 6 CPUS
4-way vSMP
4-way vSMP
6 CPUS x
x 6 CPUS
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
VMware ESXi OR VMware ESX
6 CPUS x
x 6 CPUS
vCenter Server for Essentials (up to 3 servers)
vCenter Server for Essentials (up to 3 servers)
1 x
x 1
ESSENTIALS (995)
ESSENTIALS PLUS (2,995)
vCenter Server for Essentials
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VSphere4 Editions
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Upgrade Paths and Licensing (highlights)

• Linear upgrades for customers with active support
  are free and automatically loaded to your online
  portal (not emailed). Customers retain both
  licenses but cannot run both.
• VI3 Enterprise can be upgraded to vSphere4
  Enterprise at no charge.
• Previously purchased edition upgrades (e.g.
  Standard to Enterprise) and a la carte feature
  licenses (e.g. Vmotion) will be combined into
  single license keys. Where eligible quantities do
  not match, this will result in unfulfillable
  left-over license components
• Existing unlimited ELA customers will require an
  addendum
• Special discounts available until 12/15 explained
  further on next slide.

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Upgrade Paths and Licensing (highlights)

• 50 PROMO
• VS4 Standard to Advanced 795 per proc (50
  savings)
• VS4 Enterprise to Enterprise plus 295 per proc
  (50 savings)
• NEXUS PROMO
• VS4 Enterprise Plus with Cisco Nexus 1000V
  3995 (regular 4190)
• VS4 Enterprise to Enterprise plus upgrade with
  Nexus 1000V 795 (regular 1380)
• Promotion available for existing VI3
  customers throughDecember 15, 2009

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Pricing Model
vSphere moves to a one CPU pricing model
Example Enterprise licenses for 3 four-socket
servers, 12 processors total

• VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
• 6 x 2 CPU VI3 Enterprise
• X 5750 / 2 CPU license
• 34,500

• VMware vSphere 4
• 12 x 1 CPU vSphere 4 Enterprise
• X 2875 / 1 CPU license
• 34,500

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Should I Upgrade?
Cost savings from enhanced efficiency
Increased operational control
Deeper integration with existing infrastructure
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Should I upgrade? or wait

• Vsphere support for additional VMWare components
  now available for
• VIEW
• Lab Manager
• Site Recovery Manager
• Stage Manager
• Lifecycle Manager

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Summary

• We have covered some major highlights of this
  release
• Several other features have been added (e.g.
  vApp) that warrant further discussion
• There are many more details to review before you
  upgrade
• Planning Scheduling your Upgrade
• Determining your licensing path
• Determine how you can leverage the new vSphere
  features
• Now that you know the basics, please contact PAR4
  to discuss the next steps.

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Thanks for joining us!
QA
For further information or to request an
appointment discuss VS4, the Virtual Ecosystem,
and/or Cloud Computing, please contact Dennis
Maneikis dmaneikis_at_par4tech.com [phone]
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Performance Improvements
95 of applications
1 to 2 CPUs
lt 4 GB at peak
lt 2.4Mbits/s
of Applications
lt 100 at peak
Application Performance Requirements
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DPM No longer Experimental
Assumptions 50 out of 100 servers can be
powered down for 8 hrs/day on weekdays and 16
hrs/day on weekends. Total power consumption per
server ( operating power cooling power)
1130.625 watts/hr Cost of energy 0.0813 per
kWH (source Energy Information Administration)
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vStorage Thin Provisioning

• Virtual machine disks consume only the amount of
  physical space in use
• Virtual machine sees full logical disk size at
  all times
• Full reporting and alerting on allocation and
  consumption
• Significantly improve storage utilization
• Eliminate need to over-provision virtual disks
• Reduce storage costs by up to 50

ESX
Thick
Thin
Thin
40GB
20GB
100GB
Virtual Disks
20GB
20GB
40GB
100GB
Datastore
20GB
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Distributed Switch

• Aggregated datacenter level virtual networking
• Simplified setup and change
• Easy troubleshooting, monitoring and debugging
• Enables transparent third party management of
  virtual environments

vSwitch
vSwitch
vSwitch
Cisco Nexus 1000V
vNetwork Distributed Switch
VMware vSphere
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Fault Tolerance

• Single identical VMs running in lockstep on
  separate hosts
• Zero downtime, zero data loss failover for all
  virtual machines in case of hardware failures
• Zero downtime, zero data loss
• No complex clustering or specialized hardware
  required
• Single common mechanism for all applications and
  OS-es

VMware vSphere
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Fault Tolerance
Hardware Failure Tolerance
Continuous
Automated Restart
with VMware HA
Unprotected
100
10
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Application Coverage
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Data Recovery

• Agent-less, disk-based backup and recovery of
  your VMs
• VM or file level restore
• Incremental backups and data de-dupe to save
  disk space
• Quick, simple and complete data protection for
  your VMs
• Centralized Management through VirtualCenter
• Cost Effective Storage Management

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ESX
De-duplicated Storage
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vShield Zones

• Self-learning, self-configuring firewall Service
• VMotion and network-configuration aware trust
  zones
• Dynamic firewall policy using application
  protocol awareness
• Dynamic security capacity using infrastructure
  vServices
• Security policies auto-adapt to network
  reconfiguration or upgrades

VMware vSphere
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• Scalable virtual machines
• Hot add of
• CPU
• Memory
• Hot add and remove
• Storage devices
• Network devices
• Hot Extend virtual disks
• Zero downtime scale out of virtual machines

255 GB
64 GB
8 CPUs
4 CPUs
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Host Profiles
Cluster

• Simplified setup and change management for ESX
  hosts
• Easy detection of non-compliance with standard
  configurations
• Automated remediation

Reference Host
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Simplified Licensing

• Simple license keys instead of flex
• 1 license per edition
• 1 key for many hosts
• New centralized license key administration in
  vCenter
• No separate license server to manage or monitor
• Centralized host and license monitoring through
  vCenter enabling easy compliance
• New license portal provides more accurate view of
  entitlement

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• VI3 License Activation Is Failure-prone
• Too many steps and context changes Customers
  have many opportunities to get confused or take
  wrong turns
• License files are the result of a long,
  multi-step portal transaction
• Complexity illustrated 40 pages in VI3
  admin/install guide devoted to licensing

Go to license portal
Choose server or host-based file
Download or email license file
Configure licensing in VC/ESX UI
Upload license file
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Receive activation code in email
Generate new license file
Select license qualities to activate
Install license server if needed
Re-read license file to server
Product activated

• A Dramatically Simpler Process In VI4
• A short and easy activation process was the
  single most important design requirement
• License keys are sent in email and can be copied
  directly into the product no portal activation
  step required
• No separate license server means no additional
  installation, configuration or monitoring is
  required

Receive license keys in email
Enter license key into VC UI
Assign license key to ESX hosts
Product activated
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Growing Storage Disks

• Hot Virtual Disk Extend
• Expand virtual disks online
• Respond quickly to growing requirements without
  downtime
• VMFS Volume Grow
• Expand VMFS Volume on the same LUN it was created
  
• Facilitate adding more virtual machines to an
  existing volume
• Facilitate data growth for the virtual machines
• Increase flexibility to simplify capacity planning

ESX
Extend 8G of virtual disk
Add new virtual disk
Extend 10G of virtual disk
Virtual Disks
20GB
20GB
No change to datastore
VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore
Datastore
40GB
VMFS Volume Grow to grow the datastore
100GB
LUN