VMware vSphere™ 4.

0
The best platform for building cloud infrastructures

Leena Joshi
Product Line Manager, VMware
ljoshi@vmware.com

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The Problem

Overwhelming complexity
>70% of IT budgets just to
keep the lights on
<30% of IT budgets goes to
innovation and competitive
advantage
The Goal

IT Efficiency
as a
Service Control
(Internally or
Externally
Provisioned) Choice
The Path To IT As A Service

Existing Apps Future Apps

Private Cloud

Lots of Hardware
and Plumbing Today Internal External
Cloud Cloud
IT TODAY Federation
The Cloud… as Architecture

Datacenter/
Cloud

Virtualization is the key to making all of

Cloud OS this happen in an evolutionary way

Existing Apps New Apps Existing and multiple future app models

Management SLA management model

Policies Security, Compliance…

Software Scale and availability through software

Hardware Industry Standard building blocks

Cloud OS - The Underpinning For Cloud Infrastructures

Private Cloud

App
Load
s
Management Management
Federation & Choice
Cloud OS Cloud OS
Standards

Internal External
Clouds Clouds
Introducing…

The best platform for building cloud

infrastructures
VMware vSphere™ – The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System

Firewall
Clustering Anti-virus Dynamic Resource
Data Protection Intrusion Prevention Sizing
Intrusion Detection

Application
Services Availability Security Scalability

vSphere 4.0

vCompute vStorage vNetwork

Infrastructure
Services

Storage
Hardware Assist
Management
Enhanced Live & Replication Network
Migration Management
Storage Virtual
Compatibility
Appliances
VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers
IT Leaders Can Say “Yes!”
We can deliver new business services…

On time Within Budget With Assured QoS

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$14,235 $30 MM

$5,69
4

$4 MM
2

Before After Before After Before After

Days to Provision Infrastructure Cost Business Loss Due to
a New App Per App Datacenter Outage

* The above data comes from specific VMware customer case studies
VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers
Infrastructure Services Deliver CapEx and OpEx Savings

Highest consolidation ratios in the industry

Most efficient use of hardware resources
Low operational overhead
 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

“Speeds and Feeds” Optimization for the Highest Consolidation

Ratios
Virtual Machines
VM Scale
 Virtual Up
hardware scale out 8-way vSMP and 255 GB of
RAM per VM
APP APP
APP APP APP
OS OS
OS OS OS

ESX 64 cores and 1 TB

Hardware Scale Up physical RAM

Hardware Assist
Lowest CPU overhead
Purpose Built Scheduler
CPU
Hardware Assist
Maximum memory efficiency
Page Sharing
Memory
Ballooning

VMXNET3 Wirespeed network access

Networking VMDirectPath I/O

Greater than 200k iops per second

Storage stack optimization Lower than 20 microsecond latency
Storage VMDirectPath I/O

Current NEW
 vSphere 4 Delivers Performance for
Demanding Applications
95% of ESX 3.5 ESX 4.0
applications

1 to 2 CPUs 4 VCPUs 8 VCPUs

< 4 GB at peak 64 GB per VM 255 GB per VM

% of Applications

< 2.4Mbits/s 9 Gb/s 40 Gb/s

< 100 at peak 100,000 200,000+

Application Performance Requirements

1. Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments

I/O Throughput Optimizations for Business Critical Applications

Network Transmit iSCSI Maximums

Potential Gains
Performance increase in ESX 4.0
iSCSI Max Gbps
over ESX 3.5
86% 9.1

59%

23%
14%
.9

1VM 4VM 8VM 16VM ESX 3.5 ESX 4.0

Single VM Performance: Well-Known Database OLTP
Workload†
Next Generation Intel® Xeon® based 8-pCPU server
RHEL 5.1
Oracle 11gR1

< 15% overhead for 8 vCPU VM

In-house ESX Server
Transaction Rate (Ratio to 1-way VM)

8,900 total DB transactions per second

Near-perfect scalability from 1 to 8 vCPUs

60,000 I/O operations/second

†
A fair-use implementation of the
TPC-C workload; results are not
TPC-C compliant
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Sun Fire 15k (ca. 2002)
ESX 4.0 Performance with SQL Server 2008

Relative Scaling Ratio ESX achieves 90%

VM 147.24
of native performance
Native 133.12 on 4.0 vCPU VM
Workload transaction
94.04 latency unchanged
79.88 between ESX 4.0
and Native
51.08
45.22

1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU

Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance

APP APP APP

Application
OS OS OS

Operating System VMware

Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance

Tester Name System Name Cores Results

SPECweb2005 Scores
PRIMERGY RX600 SF,
Fujitsu Siemens 16 42783
Intel Xeon processor X7350
HP ProLiant DL585 G5
VMware Inc., USA
(with VMware16
HP ProLiant ESX Server 3.5)
16 44,000
Hewlett-Packard 30261
DL580 G5
80,000
HP ProLiant
Hewlett-Packard
DL580 G5
16 26119 69,525

Hewlett-Packard High
HP ProLiant score to16date 40046
on 16 core system
DL580 G5
16Gbits/sec web traffic (Support)
Hewlett-Packard
Would
HP ProLiant serve
143,000 3 billion
HTTP
16 ops/sec
43854
page views
(Banking) per day 44,000
DL585 G5 33,000
Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
“On a Sun
typical
Fire X4450 day, there
16 are 1 billion page views.”
39793
-Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder
HP ProLiant DL585 G5
VMware Inc., USA
(with VMware ESX Server 3.5)
16 44000 techtarget.com (July 07)

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 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

Green IT with VMware vSphere™

DPM consolidates workloads onto

fewer servers when the cluster
needs fewer resources
Places unneeded servers in
standby mode
Brings servers back online as
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS workload needs increase
VMware vSphere™ ESX supports Intel Speed
Step/AMD Power now for individual
host power optimization
DPM
Minimizes power consumption
DPMbrings
powers off
servers back while guaranteeing service levels
server when
online when
requirements No disruption or downtime
load increases
are lower to virtual machines
Additional 20% Reduction in Power Costs with DPM…

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)
 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

vStorage Thin Provisioning

APP APP APP Virtual machine disks

OS OS OS
consume only the amount of
ESX
physical space in use
Virtual machine sees full
Thick
Thick Thin
Thin Thin
Thin logical disk size at all times
20GB 40GB 100GB
Full reporting and alerting
Virtual 20GB
Disks on allocation and
20GB
consumption
40GB
Significantly improve storage
100GB
utilization
Datastore Eliminate need to over-
provision virtual disks
Reduce storage costs by up
60GB to 50%
20GB
 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

Efficient Storage Abstraction with

VMFS
APP APP APP Hot Virtual Disk Extend
OS OS OS

ESX Expand virtual disks online

Respond quickly to growing
requirements without downtime
Extend 8G of
virtual disk
Add new virtual disk VMFS Volume Grow
Virtual 20GB 20GB
Extend 10G Expand VMFS Volume on the same
of virtual disk
Disks LUN it was created
No change
to datastore
VMFS Volume Grow Facilitate adding more virtual machines
Datastore 40GB
to grow the datastore to an existing volume
VMFS Volume Grow
to grow the datastore Facilitate data growth for the virtual
machines
LUN 100GB
Increase flexibility to simplify capacity
planning
 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

vStorage APIs for Data Protection

Next generation evolution of
VMware Consolidated Backup
Centralized off-host backup of
virtual machines
No additional software on
backup server
Enables incremental, differential,
and full-image backup and
restore of virtual machines
File-level backup support for
Windows and Linux virtual
machines
Delivers efficient backup without
loading ESX servers
* Note: vSphere 4.0 includes and supports VCB 1.5
U1. New features are only available with products
supporting vStorage APIs for Data Protection
 vCompute vStorage vNetwork

vNetwork Distributed Switch 2009

Aggregated datacenter level

virtual networking
APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP
OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS
Simplified setup and change
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch
vNetwork
CiscoDistributed
Nexus 1000VSwitch Easy troubleshooting,
VMware vSphere™ monitoring and debugging
Enables transparent third
party management of virtual
environments
VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers
Application Services Provide Built in Service Level Controls
 Availability Security Scalability

VMware 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
APP APP APP failures
OS OS OS
Zero downtime, zero data
VMware vSphere™ loss
No complex clustering or
specialized hardware required
Single common mechanism
for all applications and OS-es
Transforming Availability Service Levels
Hardware Failure Tolerance

Continuous
VMware FT
Automated
Restart

with VMware HA

Unprotected

0% 10% 100%

Application Coverage
 Availability Security Scalability

VMware Data Recovery

Agent-less, disk-based backup

and recovery of your VMs
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
VM or file level restore
ESX 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
De-duplicated
De-duplicated
Storage
Storage

Copyright © 2005 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

 Availability Security Scalability

VMware VMsafe

API that enables protection of

VMs by inspection of virtual
components in conjunction with
hypervisor
Isolation of protection engine from
malware
Broad ranging coverage of virtual
machine CPU, memory, storage
and network
Application

Operating System
Protection Engine

VMware vSphere™
 Availability Security Scalability

VMware vShield Zones

Self-learning, self-configuring
firewall Service
APP APP APP APP APP APP VMotion and network-configuration
OS OS OS OS OS OS
aware trust zones
APP APP APP APP APP APP
OS OS OS OS OS OS

Dynamic firewall policy using

application protocol awareness
Dynamic security capacity using
infrastructure vServices
VMware vSphere™
Security policies auto-adapt
to network reconfiguration
or upgrades
 Availability Security Scalability

DRS Ensures Capacity on Demand

Shrink and grow of

applications based on
demand and priority
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS Dynamic and responsive
VMware vSphere™ load balancing
 Availability Security Scalability

Scale Up Applications for Assured QoS

Scalable virtual machines

Hot add of
APP CPU
Memory
OS
255
64 GBGB Hot add and remove
Storage devices
Network devices
Hot Extend virtual disks
Zero downtime scale out of
virtual machines
48 CPUs
CPUs
Next Generation Management Enhances Control

vCenter
Suite Management

Application
Services Availability Security Scalability

vSphere 4.0
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
Infrastructure
Services
VMware vCenter Server 4.0

VMware
vCenter
Server

Automation Visibility
Unlocks the power of
Deep visibility into
vSphere through Scalability every level of the
proactive
Scalable and virtual infrastructure
management
extensible
management
platform
VMware vSphere™
Automation with vCenter Orchestrator

Workflow engine for

orchestrating virtualization
Automate manual,
repeatable steps by drag
and drop interface without
scripting
vCenter Orchestrator
Centralize workflow
management for all
processes associated with
the environment
Administer and control
large environments easily
Provide custom workflows
for complex environments
vCenter Server: Host Profiles

Cluster Simplified setup and

change management
for ESX hosts
Reference
Easy detection of
Host non-compliance with
standard configurations
Automated remediation
vCenter Server – Linked Mode

Standard vSphere Client

vCenter Linked Mode can access inventory
across multiple vCenters
Replicated licenses & roles
View and search across
combined inventory of
vCenter vCenter vCenter a group of VC Servers
Server
vCenter Server
vCenter Server
vCenter
Server Server Server Shared roles and
license configurations
ESXi ESX ESX ESXi ESXi ESXi ESX
VMware vSphere™ 4.0 delivers
vApp – Self Describing Applications Enable Choice

Availability

APP APP APP

Security
OS OS OS

vApp
Scalability

Management Management
Federation & Choice
Cloud OS Cloud OS
Standards

Internal External
Clouds Clouds
VMware vSphere™: Most Comprehensive OS Support
VMware vSphere™ MS Hyper-V

Win Server 2008 (up to 4P

vSMP)
Win Server 2003 SP2 (up to 2P
vSMP)
Win Server 2000 SP4 (1P only)
SLES10 (1P only)
Windows Vista SP1
Windows XP Pro SP2/SP3

vSphere = 4x Guest OS-es

VMware vSphere™: Extensive Enterprise Apps Support

Over 300 enterprise software applications have explicit support

statements for VMware vSphere today.
See complete list at http://www.vmware.com/partners/alliances/vendors/
List includes: BMC, Cisco, CA , Dell, HP, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft,
Research in Motion, SAP, Symantec
More software vendors adding support for VMwarevSphere every
month.
Submit requests to VMware for help to get an application supported:
Click here

VMware + Software Vendors

Working together to ensure customers are supported
Future Proof IT…

Internal Cloud External Cloud

APP APP

Owned and
Rented by IT
Operated by IT

Unlock new market based economies of scale, service

and innovation beyond what currently exists today
VMware vCloud
Broad Ecosystem – Technology and Service Providers
Choice of End-to-End Integrated Management

Enterprise System Management

Non-Virtual Management Tools

vCenter
Physical-Only Environments/
Non-x86/Non-VMware

Non-Virtualized
Non-Virtualized
Summary – What’s New
Summary of VMware vSphere™
VMware vSphere™ - The best choice for your business

VMware strives to support whatever hardware, application stack,

VMware’s higher
management consolidation
stack, ratios,
OS, or service higher the
provider scalability gethas
better CapEx
VMware unique technologies like DRS, DPM, FT,customer
VMsafe, host selected
profiles,
Storage VMotion, others allow IT to deliver on SLAs while controlling costs
VMware’s Cloud OS
VMware strategy: services
Remain and vCenter
neutral capabilities
so the customer haslead to better
maximum OpEx
choice
 VMware vSphere™ 4.0 Delivers Lowest Cost Per
Application
$480,848
(with 2 yrs SA)
$434,881
(with 2 yrs support) $33,446
Management SW Cost to deploy 100 VMs
$13,089
Management SW $116,961
$75,822
Windows Server VMware vSphere 4
DataCenter Ed.
vSphere Ent Plus Lic. + SnS Enterprise Plus
$43,334
$80,973
Network, Power, $4349 per App
Windows Server
DataCenter Ed. Space

$27,333 Windows Server 2008

Network, Power, $144,500
Space Storage with Hyper-V
$128,500 $4808 per App
Storage

$92,000 $142,600 Use the VMware Cost-per-

Server HW Server HW Use the VMware Cost-per-
Application Calculator to figure
Application Calculator to figure
12:1 average 8:1 average out your cost-per-application
consolidation ratio consolidation ratio out your cost-per-application

VMware costs 10% less AND has more functionality!

 Efficiency
VMware vSphere: Most Efficient

New capability in VMware vSphere 65

Note: Many improvements were also made to existing VI3 capabilities
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 Control
VMware vSphere: Uncompromised Control

New capability in VMware vSphere 66

Note: Many improvements were also made to existing VI3 capabilities
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 Choice
VMware vSphere: Maximum Choice

New capability in VMware vSphere 67

Note: Many improvements were also made to existing VI3 capabilities
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Resources :
The VMware vSphere home page:
www.vmware.com/products/vSphere
Upgrade to vSphere - A microsite within vmware.com at
www.vmware.com/go/vsphere-upgrade-center
Contents include
Benefits, Compatibility, Licensing, Entitlements, Community Linke
How to Checklist, Guides, demos, etc
A series of deep dive webcasts into features of VMware vSphere:
http://www.vmware.com/go/vspherewebcasts

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Glossary
Cloud Operating System
A cloud operating system is a new category of software that is specifically designed to holistically
manage large collections of infrastructure – CPUs, storage, networking – as a seamless, flexible
and dynamic operating environment. Analogous to the operating system that manages the
complexity of an individual machine, the cloud operating system manages the complexity of a
datacenter. Although alternative approaches may be pursued, VMware believes that virtualization
is the key underpinning technology to enable the cloud.

Internal Cloud
An internal cloud is a cloud infrastructure provided within the internal IT environment, which brings
the benefits of cloud computing to internal IT service providers. Gartner refers to an internal cloud
as a private cloud.

External Cloud
An external cloud is a cloud infrastructure that is owned and managed by an external IT service
provider, such as a hosting or software-as-a-service (SAAS) provider. This is often referred to as a
public cloud infrastructure as well.
Virtual Private Cloud
A virtual private cloud is a cloud computing environment that spans internal and external cloud
infrastructure, presenting a seamless, managed cloud to the business.
IT Leaders Can Say “Yes!”

Yes!
We can deliver your new business service

On time

Within budget

With auditable SLAs

Toolkits to simplify VMware vSphere Management
Automate, customize your private cloud platform
vSphere is a highly customizable platform allowing for automated deployment, and
management through simple command line toolkits
vSphere CLI and Power CLI provide solutions for automating day to day
administrative tasks in large and small environments
Some examples of commonly automated tasks include:
Deploy, provision thousands of Virtual Machines
Monitor Virtual Machines and run usage reports
Recalculate Dynamic Resource Pools

Reduce learning curve with simple to use and powerful toolkits

Toolkits appeal to both Linux and Windows administrators
vSphere CLI provides familiar basic command line interface for day to day
management tasks
vSphere Power CLI leverages PowerShell technology appealing to administrators
who are more comfortable with light scripting
VMware vSphere – Command Line Interfaces

vSphere CLI
Configure, monitor, and administer vSphere servers
Previously called Remote CLI (RCLI)
vSphere Power CLI
Simple to use, powerful interface leveraging
PowerShell / .Net Technologies
Previously called VI Toolkit (for Windows)
Complete Portfolio information
Toolkits, SDKs, Documentation, Sample Code, FAQs,
Knowledge Base Articles available at
http://developer.vmware.com
 Resources
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One stop source for VMware Toolkits, Downloads, links to
documentation, Sample Code / Scripts, forums monitored by R&D,
PM, Knowledge Base Articles, FAQ
Check Developer Center Blog for latest developer information
 VMware Global Support Services
GSS will provide installation help for our Perl and PowerShell
toolkits (commandlets, utilities)
 VMware Professional Services
Services helping customers integrate using the SDK / Toolkits.
More info
 VMware Training
Scripting Module using CLI, and PowerShell (currently under
development)