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What‟s New in vSphere 4.0:Technical Overview
Tom MacKay VCP, CNE, Master ASE
Senior Systems EngineerStrategic/SLED Accounts
Ohio Valley Southtmackay@vmware.com
Jeff Hunter VCP
Senior Systems EngineerEnterprise Accounts
Ohio Valley Southjhunter@vmware.com
Datacenter of the future
ScaleOutside the
Firewall
People &Info-centric
VMware‟s Initiatives
vSphere OS vCloud Initiative
vClient Initiative
Create Private Cloud
FederateBetween Clouds
SolveDesktopDilemma
3
Introducing VMware vSphere™
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
ESX
ESXi
DRS/DPM
VMFS
Thin Provisioning
VMFS Volume Grow
Distributed Switch
VMware
vSphere™ 4.0
Internal Cloud External Cloud
VMotion
Storage VMotion
HA
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
VMSafe
DRS
Hot Add
Availability Security Scalability
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
*Note vCenter Server and its components are a separate purchase
.Net SaaSGridJ2EELinuxWindows Web 2.0vApp
vCenter Suite
4
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
Infrastructure Services Deliver CapEx and OpEx Savings
Highest consolidation ratios in the industry
Most efficient use of hardware resources
Low operational overhead
Storage/network optimizations
Power Management
VMDirectPath I/O
CPU/Memory optimization
DRS
vStorage Thin Provisioning
VMFS Volume Grow
vStorage VMFS
vNetwork Distributed
Switch
Third party distributed
virtual switchesvNetwork
Standard Switch
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
Infrastructure
ServicesvCompute vStorage vNetwork
5
vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vCompute
Infrastructure
Services
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
ESX Service Console updates
Enhanced cluster resource usage views
Expanded DRS information
Expanded support for Distributed Power Management
CPU/Memory optimization
DRS
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
The Hypervisor is the Foundation
Plug-and-Play
Minimal configuration
Integrated in server hardware
OS-Independent, thin architecture
Coming in 2010
Scripted install for ESXi
PXE Network Boot
Integrated Active Directory authentication
Coming in 2011+
ESXi becomes the single architecture
ESXi is the next generation of the market-leading ESX hypervisor
VMware ESXi
Virtual Machines
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
vCompute
7
ESX 4 Service Console
64-bit, 2.6-based Linux kernel compatible with RHEL 5.2
and CentOS 5.2
Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit applications
Console root file system is a VMDK file
VMkernel runs and owns device drivers
Network interfaces fully support IPv6
Provides enhanced security via Address Space
Layout Randomization (ASLR)
Some features no longer supported
No longer a development environment
Service Console
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
8
vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Scalability
Application
Services
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
Increased host scalability
8-way SMP and 255 GB of virtual machine RAM
Hot add of virtual CPU and memory
Hot plug devices
Hot extend of virtual disks
DRS shares and reservations allow apps to shrink and grow based on priority
Availability Security Scalability
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Host Scalability
Enhanced performance and
higher consolidation rates
64-bit VMkernel
512GB 1 TB host memory*
64 logical CPUs
256 virtual machines per host
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
32 Cores 256 GB
192 VMs
512GB64 Cores
256 VMs
Availability Security Scalability
*As of 5-18-09 - http://www.stockhouse.com/News/USReleasesDetail.aspx?n=7319264
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Virtual Machine Scalability
Dynamic scale-up supports
much larger workloads
8-Way Virtual SMP
256GB RAM
Virtual Machine Hardware
Version 7
New virtual devices
VMDirectPath I/O
Hot plug support
256 GB
8 CPUs
App
OS
App
OS
Availability Security Scalability
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Hot Add for Memory and CPU
You must enable Memory
and CPU Hot Add so that the
options are available on the
Hardware tab.
Virtual Machine > Edit Settings >
Options Tab > Memory/CPU
Hotplug
Availability Security Scalability
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Hot Adding and Removing PCI Devices
You can hot-add/remove:
Network cards
SCSI adapters
Sound cards
SCSI disks and CDROMs
USB EHCI controller
VMCI
PCI passthrough devices
Virtual Machine > Edit Settings
> Hardware Tab > Add
Availability Security Scalability
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Hot Extending VMDKs
Virtual Machine > Edit Settings
> Hardware Tab
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Volume Grow expands an extent so that it fills the available
adjacent capacity.
Single partition provides improved virtual machine availability
Can grow a volume any number of times up to size for a VMFS
volume
Must grow LUN backing VMFS datastore first
Extent immediately after must have free space in LUN
VMFS Volume Grow Option
Add Extent Volume Grow
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
2009 ESX/ESXi Enhancements
Networking
Virtual Machines
VMware ESX
CPU
Memory
CPU H/W AssistLeverage CPU virtualization assist,
multi-mode execution
HW assist &
memory efficiency
Nested paging (RVI/EPT), ballooning,
page sharing, large page support
ESX Scalability64 core hosts, 1TB RAM, 512 VMs per
host, efficient memory utilization
VM scalability
8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM,
multi-core vCPU, hot plug CPU and
memory
vCompute 2Q/3Q 2009
Storage
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
ESX Scalability
Virtualization
exploits multi-core
architectures
Cores per
4-socket server
Most applications
don‟t scale beyond
4/8 way
VMware ESX
scales with server
core counts
vCompute
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
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1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
1 2 3 4 5 6
ESX Scalability During Consolidation
Number of Virtual Machines or CPUs
SP
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web
2005 A
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reg
ate
Metr
ic
Native Scaling
Virtual Scaling
vCompute
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
iSCSI Maximums
.9
9.1
ESX 3.5 ESX 4.01VM
23%
86%
Network Transmit
Potential Gains
4VM 8VM 16VM
14%
59%
iSCSI Max GbpsPerformance increase in ESX 4.0
over ESX 3.5
I/O Throughput Optimizations for Business Critical Applications
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Relative Scaling Ratio
51.08
1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU
45.22
94.04
79.88
147.24
133.12
VM
Native
ESX 4.0 Performance with SQL Server 2008
ESX achieves 90%
of native performance
on 4.0 vCPU VM
Workload transaction
latency unchanged
between ESX 4.0
and Native
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance
OS
APP
Operating System
Application
VMware
OS
APP
OS
APP
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
69,525
44,000
SPECweb2005 Scores
33,000
80,000
Multi-core + VMware = Record Performance
Tester Name System Name Cores Results
Fujitsu SiemensPRIMERGY RX600 SF,
Intel Xeon processor X735016 42783
Hewlett-PackardHP ProLiant
DL580 G516 30261
Hewlett-PackardHP ProLiant
DL580 G516 26119
Hewlett-PackardHP ProLiant
DL580 G516 40046
Hewlett-PackardHP ProLiant
DL585 G516 43854
Sun Microsystems,
Inc.Sun Fire X4450 16 39793
VMware Inc., USAHP ProLiant DL585 G5
(with VMware ESX Server 3.5)16 44000
VMware Inc., USAHP ProLiant DL585 G5
(with VMware ESX Server 3.5)16 44,000
High score to date on 16 core system
16Gbits/sec web traffic (Support)
143,000 HTTP ops/sec (Banking)Would serve 3 billion page views per day
“On a typical day, there are 1 billion page views.”-Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder
techtarget.com (July 07)
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Multi-Core + VMware = Record Performance
3xeBay‟s daily web traffic on a single
server
22
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Comparison to VISA
5xGlobal payment
processing traffic
21
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Sun Fire 15k (ca. 2002)
;) =VMware vSphere 4 can power up to:
-- 700,000 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes -- 273 4-way
Oracle databases -- 10x more storage throughput than
all of Wikipedia
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vStorage
Infrastructure
ServicesvCompute vStorage vNetwork
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
Pluggable Storage Architecture
iSCSI enhancements
Thin Provisioning for virtual disks
VMFS Volume Grow
vStorage APIs for Data Protection
VMFS
Consolidated Backup
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
vStorage APIs
Enhance integration of VMware
Infrastructure and storage partner
capabilities
Provide storage management
tools with visibility to virtual
machines’ use of storage
Leverage array capabilities at
per-VM level
Fully utilize investments in
advanced storage capabilities
Simplify storage management for
virtual environment
VWware Infrastructure
Partner Storage and Management
vStorage 2Q/3Q 2009 2010
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Enhanced Multipathing with Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
SATP PSP
HBA 1 HBA 2
NMP PSA
VMkernel
Storage Stack
Storage Array Type Plugins (SATPs)
handle path failover, monitors path
health, and reports changes to NMP.
Path Selection Plugins (PSPs)
choose the best path.
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vStorage APIs for Multipathing
Third-Party MPP
Third-Party MPP
VMware NMP
VMware SATP VMware PSP
VMware PSP
VMware PSP
Third-Party PSP
VMware SATP
VMware SATP
Third-Party SATP
Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
For unique
performance and fault-
tolerance behavior
To accommodate
specific storage
arrays
For more complex
I/O load balancing
algorithms
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Updated iSCSI Stack
Significant performance improvements
No longer requires service console connection to communicate
with an iSCSI target
New iSCSI initiator features
Host Configuration > Storage Adapters
> Properties
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
New iSCSI Initiator Configuration Options
Improved
security
Performance fine-
tuning
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Datastore
vStorage Thin Provisioning
60GB
20GB
100GB
Capacity80GB
Used
20GB
Thick
40GB
Thin
100GB
Thin
20GB
160GB
Allocate
d
Virtual Disks
40GB20GB
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Thin Disk Provisioning Operations
Create New Virtual
Machine Wizard
Clone and Migrate
Virtual Machine
Wizards
A thin-disk option is
available when you:Create a virtual machine
Clone to a template
Clone a virtual machine
Migrate virtual machine
storage (Storage VMotion)
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vStorage APIs for Data Protection
SAN Storage
Backup Proxy Server
Centralized
Data Mover
Snapshots
Backup Application
vStorage APIs for Data Protection
Physical Server or VM
(Windows or Linux)
Mo
un
t
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Features in vStorage APIs for Data Protection
Includes All VCB features
Also supports:
All storage architectures for backup and restore, LAN and SAN
Full, incremental, and differential file-level backup options
File-level backup and restore
Windows and Linux guests
Snapshots and Volume Shadow-Copy Service Quiescing
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure Services: vNetwork
Infrastructure
ServicesvCompute vStorage vNetwork
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
IPv6 support
VMDirectPath I/O
vNetwork Distributed Switch
Third-party distributed virtual switches
vNetwork virtual switch
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
IPv6 Support
Successor to IPv4
128-bit addresses (vs. 32-bit in IPv4)
Link-local addresses that appear as the interface is initialized
Addresses set by router advertisements
Ability to have multiple IPv6 addresses on an interface
Supported Components
Virtual machines (as of ESX 3.5)
VMware Tools to display addresses in vCenter Server
Service console
VMkernel
vSphere Client connection to vCenter Server not supported
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VMDirectPath I/O
I/O Device Driver Directly Accesses Physical Device
Full network support with:
Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Broadcom 57710 10 gigabit network adapter
Experimental storage I/O device support with:
QLogic QLA25xx 8Gb Fibre Channel
LSI 3442e-R and 3801e (1068 chip based) 3Gb SAS adapters
Each virtual machine can connect to up to two passthrough devices
Increases performance but trades off losing several virtualization features
VMotion, Hot add/remove of virtual devices, Suspend and Resume, Record and Replay, Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Memory Over-commitment and page sharing
I/O MMU
I/O Device
Virtualization
Layer
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Aggregated view of virtual networking
Datacenter level networking
(versus host level)
Policies, logs and statistics follow the VM
A unified infrastructure for networking
services (monitoring, filtering, mgmt)
Simplified setup and change; seamless
addition of capacity
Easy troubleshooting, monitoring and
debugging
Enables new security services
Pluggable for 3rd party integration
vNetwork Distributed Switch
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
vNetwork Distributed Switch
vNetwork
Single logical virtual switch spanning
multiple ESX hosts
2Q/3Q 2009
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
An unified fabric to efficiently connect
users, compute and storage resources
Data, iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel all
concurrent on the same Converged
Network Adapters (CNA)
Simplify cable management in the data
center and reduce operational costs
Software FCoE Initiator (2010) to
preserve investments made on 10Gb
Ethernet NICs
Data Center Bridging native support
(2010+) to offer a lossless transport for
all traffic types.
vNetwork Unified Fabric
vNetwork Today 2Q/3Q 2009
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
Unified IP and Fibre Channel storage
fabrics
Unified
Fabric
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Standard Switch Architecture
Service Console
Virtual
PhysicalPhysical NICs
Physical
Switches
vNICs
vSwitches
Port Groups VM Port GroupVMotion Port VM Port Group COS PortVMotion Port
ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2
Network configuration at
the host level
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Virtual Machines Service ConsoleVMotion
Distributed Switch Architecture
Hidden
vSwitches
(IO plane)
Distributed
Switch
(Control Plane)
Distributed
Port Groups
Service Console
ESXi Host 1 ESX Host 2
Virtual
Physical
vCenter
Server
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere Client
Plug-In
DB Control Plane
vCenter Server
IO Plane
ESX
IO Plane
Virtual Control Plane
Appliance
Agent Agent
Third-Party Distributed Switches
vNetwork Appliance APIs allow
third-party developers to
create distributed switch
solutions.
ESX
vCenter Server
Extension
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.44
Benefits of Distributed Switches
vNetwork Distributed Switches…
Simplify datacenter administration
Enable networking statistics and policies to migrate with
virtual machines (Network VMotion)
Provide for customization and third-party development
VMware
Infrastructure 3
VMware
vSphere 4
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
2009 ESX/ESXi EnhancementsVirtual Machines
VMware ESX
CPU H/W AssistLeverage CPU virtualization assist,
multi-mode execution
HW assist &
memory efficiency
Nested paging (RVI/EPT), ballooning,
page sharing, large page support
Performance & efficiency
VMXNET Generation 3, VMDirectPath
(NIC), TCP/IP stack optimizations,
iSCSI improvements, 40Gb/s line rate
ESX Scalability64 core hosts, 1TB RAM, 512 VMs per
host, efficient memory utilization
VM scalability
vNetwork 2Q/3Q 2009
Networking
CPU
Memory
Storage
8-way vSMP and 255 GB of RAM,
multi-core vCPU, hot plug CPU and
memory
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Power Off
Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Right-size Capacity
Use fewer servers when demand low
Use more servers when demand high
Minimize Power Consumption
Power off inactive hosts
Bring capacity back online as
workload needs increase
Power-on via WoL, IPMI, iLO
Integrated with DRS
Works in concert with load balancing
Respects QoS policies
No disruption or downtime to VMs
DRS Cluster
vCompute Today 2Q/3Q 2009
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Availability
Application
Services
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
Enhanced VMotion compatibility
Storage VMotion enhancements
VMware HA enhancements
VMware Fault Tolerance
VMware Data Recovery
VMware HA
VMotion
Storage VMotion
NIC/HBA teaming
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility
vCompute
G1 G2G1 G3
Enable Enhanced VMotion Compatibility
Today 2Q/3Q 2009
Protects your server investment
No complex compatibility rules
EVC allows VMotion between different server generations
HW is automatically configured
Incompatible HW is not allowed
Flexible baselines provide user control
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
EVC Cluster
CPU Baseline Feature Set
EVC prevents migrations
with VMotion from failing
due to incompatible
CPUs.
CPUI
DCPUI
DCPUI
D
CPUI
D
X… X… X…
K…
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
EVC Cluster Requirements
Hosts
CPUs from a single vendor, either Intel or AMD
Running ESX Server 3.5 Update 2 or later
Connected to vCenter Server
Hardware virtualization support (AMD‐V or Intel VT) enabled
AMD No eXecute (NX) or Intel eXecute Disable (XD) technology
enabled
Support hardware live migration (AMD-V Extended Migration or
Intel FlexMigration) or have baseline processor of intended feature
set
Virtual Machines
Powered off or migrated out of cluster when EVC is enabled
Applications on virtual machines must use CPUID instructions
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Storage VMotion in vSphere 4
Enhancements
Can administer via vSphere Client
Supports NFS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI
No longer requires 2 x memory
Supports moving VMDKs from thick to thin
formats
Can migrate RDMs to RDMs and RDMs to
VMDKs (non-passthrough)
Leverages new vSphere 4 features to speed
migration
Limitations
Virtual machine cannot include snapshots
VM must be powered off to simultaneously
migrate both host and datastore
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Storage VMotion in vSphere 4
Source Destination
12 3
4
5
1. Copy virtual machine files except
disks to new datastore
2. Enable changed block tracking on
the virtual machine‟s disk
3. “Pre-copy” virtual machine‟s
disk and swap file from source
to destination
4. Invoke fast suspend/resume on
virtual machine
5. Remove source home and disks
of virtual machine
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
New HA Cluster Settings
Ability to
suspend host
monitoring
Choice of three
admission
control
strategies
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VM Monitoring
Enable automatic
restart due to failure
of guest operating
system
Determine how
quickly failures are
detected
Set monitoring sensitivity
for individual virtual
machines
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
SecondaryPrimary
VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
vLockstep Technology
New
Secondary
vLockstep Technology
VMware FT provides zero-downtime, zero-data-
loss protection to virtual machines in an HA
cluster.
New
Primary
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
How VMware FT Works
VMkernel
Log Buffer
VMkernelVMM VMM
Primary
Virtual Machine
Secondary
Virtual Machine
Log Buffer
Heartbeat?
Record Logs
Read/Write Read
Single Copy of Disks on Shared Storage
Log Update? Log Read?
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Enable Fault Tolerance with a Single Click
Primary Virtual Machine >
Summary Tab
After you turn on Fault
Tolerance, the Status tab on the
primary virtual machine shows
Fault Tolerance information.
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Requirements for VMware FT
vSphere
Configuration
VMs on hosts in HA cluster
Host certificate checking enabled on all hosts
Storage VMs stored on shared storage
VMs provisioned with thick virtual disks
VMs not stored on physical RDMs
Networking Minimum of two VMkernel gigabit NICs for VMotion and
two for FT logging
Additional gigabit NICs for normal network traffic
Processor Uniprocessor VMs on uniprocessor or SMP systems
Hosts from same CPU model family
See KB/1008027 at http: //kb.vmware.com
Host BIOS Turn on Hardware Virtualization (HV)
Apply same instruction set extension configuration
Turn off hyperthreading
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These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
FT Interoperability
Fault-tolerant virtual machines do not support:
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SMP
Non-replayable devices such as
USB, physical floppy, and sound
Paravirtualized guests
Taking snapshots
Hot adding virtual devices, memory,
and CPU
Nested Page Tables/Extended Page
Tables (NPT/EPT)
Microsoft Cluster Services
(MSCS)
NPIV
Some network interfaces for
legacy network hardware
Automatic DRS recommendation
application
Storage VMotion
VMDirectPath I/O
For details, see the vSphere Availability Guide
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.60
VMware Data Recovery
VMware‟s Backup/Recovery
Solution based on APIs for
Data Protection
Agentless disk-based backup
and recovery
De-duplication and incremental
backups to save disk space
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VMware Data Recovery Key Components
Storage
Servers
VMware ESX/ESXi
Virtual Machines
vCenter ServerData
Recovery
vCenter Plug-in
> With vSphere Client plug-in, allows
configuration and management of
backup/recovery appliance
> Wizard driven backup and restore job creation
> Storage of backup configuration in vCenter
Server database and awareness of
HA/VMotion/DRS
VMware ESX/ESXi
> Provides VSS support
> Change block tracking functionality allows backups to
be more efficient
Storage
> Any VMFS storage: DAS, iSCSI or Fibre
Channel storage plus NFS and CIFS shares as
target
> All backed up virtual machines are stored on
disk in a deduplicated datastore
Backup and Recovery Appliance
> OVF appliance
> Leverages vStorage APIs for Data Protection to
discover, manage backup and restore
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Security
Application
Services
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW VMware VMsafe
VMware vShield Zones
Thin ESXi hypervisor with locked-down interfaces
No dependence on general-purpose OS
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Protection Engine
VMware vSphere™
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
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Capabilities
Bridge, firewall, or isolate VM zones based
on familiar VI containers
Monitor allowed and disallowed activity by
application-based protocols
One-click flow-to-firewall blocks precise
network traffic
Benefits
Well-defined security posture within
virtual environment
Monitoring and assured policies, even
through Vmotion and VM lifecycle events
Simple zone-based rules reduces policy
errors
vShield Zones
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VMware vShield Zones Architecture
vShield Host Gateway
Virtual Network Monitoring
Virtual Network Firewall
Transparently Managed
vShield Manager
Centralized Monitoring
Centralized Policy Assignment
Web-based interface
VMware ESX VMware ESX
vShieldvShield
VMware ESX
vShieldVMware
vCenter
VMware
vShield
Manager
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vSphere 4.0 Application Services: Scalability
Application
Services
VMware vSphere™ 4.0
CU
RR
EN
TN
EW
Increased host scalability
8-way SMP and 255 GB of virtual machine RAM
Hot add of virtual CPU and memory
Hot plug devices
Hot extend of virtual disks
DRS shares and reservations allow apps to shrink and grow based on priority
Availability Security Scalability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
% o
f A
pplic
ations
Application’s Performance Requirements
IOPS
Network
Memory
CPU
95% of applications
< 100
< 300 KB/s
< 4 GB
1 to 2 CPUs
1. Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments
ESX 3.5 capabilities
100,000
9 Gb/s
64 GB per VM
4 VCPUs
vSphere (2009)
capabilities
364,000*
30 Gb/s
255 GB per VM
8 VCPUs
Very Large VMs, Powerful Performance
Scalability Today 2Q/3Q 2009
*As of 5/18/09 - http://www.stockhouse.com/News/USReleasesDetail.aspx?n=7319264
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VMware vSphere: The Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware
vCloud
vCenter
Management
VServices
On-premise Infrastructure
SaaSLinux GridWindows J2EE.Net
VMware Infrastructure -> virtual datacenter OS
Application vServices
Scalability
Infrastructure vServices
SecurityAvailability
vNetworkvStoragevComputeCloud
vServices
…….
Web 2.0
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
VMware vSphere: The Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware
vCloud
vCenter
Management
VServices
On-premise Infrastructure
SaaSLinux GridWindows J2EE.Net
VMware Infrastructure -> virtual datacenter OS
Application vServices
Scalability
Infrastructure vServices
SecurityAvailability
vNetworkvStoragevComputeCloud
vServices
…….
Web 2.0
Need a Break
here???
Evolution of Virtualization Management
Element management of
hypervisors and VMs
Management of a distributed,
dynamic, shared infrastructure
Management of
private cloud
Transition physical to virtual
Convert to virtual, Inventory mgmt,
planning, provisioning, patching
Converter, CapacityPlanner,
vCenter, Update Manager
Manage large & complex virtual
datacenters w/ tier 1 workloads
Scalability, configuration automation
and compliance, operations mgmt
Linked VC, ConfigControl, Operations
mgmt, CapacityIQ, AppSpeed
Utility computing -policy driven lights-out
automation
Self service,policy driven automation, IT
service costing, SLA based mgmt
Lifecycle Manager, Access Point,
Chargeback Manager
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Management benefits in a private cloud…
• reduced opex, dynamic & responsive IT
• high management efficiency
• Centralized mgmt via end user empowerment
• SLA based IT services subscription
• hidden complex configuration & operational
plumbing
• standardize & scale management tasks easily
& on demand
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.71
vCenter Server 4 Highlights
Increased Scalability vCenter Server Linked Mode
vCenter Orchestrator
Streamlined
Management
Host Profiles
vApps
Centralized licensing
vCenter Server plug-in updates
Resource Management Performance Charts Enhancements
Storage Awareness Enhancements
vCenter Server
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Hardware
vSphere
Extensible Management Suite
SLA Driven
Management
Model
Availability
99.99%
Security
High
Performance
.2 Milliseconds
VMwarevCenter
Suite
Infrastructure Management
Self-Service Management
Self-Service Portal Service CatalogBilling/Chargebac
k
Provisioning Configuration Capacity Operations Performance Availability
Datacenter Management
Physical-Only Environments/Non-
x86/Non-VMware
Non-virtual management Tools
Business and Service ManagementIT Governance, Service Management, Financial Management, Reporting & Compliance
Enterprise ManagementOperations, Configuration, Change, Release, Incident Management
Partner Solutions
AcceleratedDevelopment
ReliableDeployment
Predictable Performance
vCenter
Platform Automation Plug-n-Play Reporting
Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure Management
Provisioning Operations AvailabilityConfiguration Capacity
Architecture
ApplicationManagement
VDC OS
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.74
vCenter Server Linked Mode Overview
Standard vSphere
Client can access
inventory across
multiple vCenters
View and search
across combined
inventory of
a group of vCenter
Servers
Shared roles and
license configurations
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.75
vCenter Server Linked Mode Architecture
vSphere Client
vCenter Server Instance
Tomcat
Web
Service
ADAM Instance
Tomcat
Web
Service
ADAM Instance
Tomcat
Web
Service
ADAM Instance
Connection information
Certificates and thumbprints
Licensing information
User roles
vCenter
Server
vCenter
Server
vCenter
Server
vCenter Server InstancevCenter Server Instance
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Scalable vCenter Platform
vCenter Linked Mode Role and license data available globally via
LDAP backbone
Standard VI Client can access inventory
across entire environment
Search and action based interface allows
VI Client to manage across multiple
vCenter Servers
Enables scale out of managed
infrastructure
High Availability solution for vCenter Server
Protect against hardware, operating system,
application, database failures
Lower complexity
Provides vCenter specific monitoring
capabilities (license server )
Flexible deployment scenarios
(physical/virtual/WAN combinations)
Uses host based replication to keep the
application state consistent
Plug- n -Play
PlatformArchitecture
ReportingAutomation
vCenter
Server
vCenter
ServervCenter
ServervCenter
Server
ESXi ESX ESX
vCenter
Server
ESXi ESXi
vCenter
Server
ESXi ESX
Replicated licenses & roles
vCenter
Server
vCenter
Server
Active Passive
vCenter Heartbeat
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Ensure Availability for the vCenter Server Platform
vCenter Server Heartbeat
Protects the mission
critical functionality of
VMware vCenter
Proactive identification
and resolution of threats to
vCenter Server availability
Protects vCenter Server
against hardware, OS,
network, application
failures and configuration
errors* Licensed Separately
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.78
vCenter Orchestrator
Use Orchestrator to create and execute workflows that
automate virtual infrastructure management processes
Workflow Engine
vCenter
ServerXML SSH …
Third-Party
Plugin
Client Configuration
Workflow
Library
Web Service
79
New Performance Charts
Performance overview charts help
to quickly identify bottlenecks and
isolate root causes of issues.
Thumbnail Views
vCenter Reporting
Integrated reporting framework built
into vCenter
Predefined and customizable Reports
Multiple Report Formats – PDF, XML,
HTML, etc.
Report types include:
Inventory Reports
Utilization Reports
Health and Availability Reports
Plug-n-Play ReportingPlatformArchitecture
Automation
81
New Storage Views Tab Adds Insight into Storage Infrastructure
The new Storage Views tab provides
greater insight into capacity
utilization and storage connectivity.
82
Maps View
HBA
LUN
Target
83
Enhanced Views for Storage Devices
Unique LUN identifier is
persistent across
reboots.
Host Configuration
> Storage > DevicesRight-click to
rename
84
Simplified License Management in vSphere 4
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
85
Managing Licenses in vSphere 4
85
Key is a string, not a text file Custom label
Manage licenses
Export report
Administration > Licensing
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter as a virtual appliance
Plug-n-play deployment, easy install
& configure
Simplified patch management
Minimized installation costs
Built to be secure – reduced surface
area
Linux-based virtual appliance
Automated patching via Update
Manager
Support for both Embedded
database and External database
vCenter on Windows will still be
supported and developed
Backup appliance would backup DB
and VC config and work with other
backup solutionsLinux-based
vCenter Server virtual appliance
vCenter Server
ReportingPlug-n-PlayPlatformArchitecture
Automation
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.87
Host Profiles Overview
Cluster
Reference Host
Host profiles reduce setup time
and allow you to manage
configuration consistency and
correctness.
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.88
Basic Workflow to Implement Host Profiles
Host Profile
Memory Reservation
Storage
Networking
Date and Time
Firewall
Security
Services
Users and User Groups
Security
ClusterReference Host1
2
3
4
5
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Working with Host Profiles
After you create the profile, attach
it to hosts/clusters so that you
can check compliance and apply
it to hosts not in compliance.
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Plug-n-Play ESXi deployment
Simplified, instant deployment in
large-scale or growing environment
Standardized, audit-ready
configuration for ESX/ESXi
Pain-free ESXi upgrades: just
reboot
ESXi remote boot (e.g. PxE, SAN
boot) and install (e.g. PxE, scripting)
Integrated, automated configuration
workflow in vCenter (using host
profiles)
VUM enhancements for patching
remote boot image repository
Image factory for custom image
authoring
Deploy Configure Maintain
Lifecycle
Existing PxE
Imaged Server
vCenter
Connect
to VC
Common + per-
host configuration
Get image
New Boot image
PatchUpdate
Manager
Author /download image
ReportingPlug-n-PlayPlatformArchitecture
Automation
VMware ESXi 4.0 Experimental PXE BootDHCP
ServerTFTP
ServerHTTP
Server
ESXi
Host
5Birth Announced
Midwife
Host DB
7Set root PW
Enter lockdown mode
1
Power On
3
gPxelinux
Config File
4
Base Image +
Customizations*
2
IP Address: w.x.y.z
Next Server: TFTP
vCenter
8
-Add host
- Apply profiles
- Register VMs
- Other configuration
Core Dump
ServerSyslog
Concentrator
NFS
Server
Crash
Files
Logs
9
NAS Mount for
-VMware Tools
- VI Client
6Birth Certificate
-Host profile
-VC IP Addr
- VM Inventory*
- Etc.
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.92
vApp Overview
vApps are multi-tier application services that you can
manage as a single inventory item.
Provides for single-step
management
Eliminates complex setup
and configuration
…
App Server
VM
vApp
OVF Descriptor
App Server
VM
Database
VM
Resource Pool
Distributed Virtualization Layer
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter vApps
Allows management of multi-tier
applications as a single entity
Utilizes industry standard OVF to
provide instructions on how to
deploy
Templates, Clone and other
operations execute at the vService
level
Simpler, application centric view of
management
Easier portability of applications
Applications can now be written to
monitor and scale themselves
Availability = 99.99%
Security = High
Performance = 500 msec
SLA Definitions
vApp
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
VMware Infrastructure Virtual Datacenter OS
Application vServices
ScalabilitySecurityAvailability
ReportingPlug-n-PlayPlatformArchitecture
Automation
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Deploying vApps
vApps from ISVs may include
additional settings to
configure.
File > Deploy OVF Template
File > Browse VA Marketplace
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter Lifecycle Manager ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability
Catalog of service offerings ensures
vApp deployment based on admin
defined standards & configurations
Fully automated provisioning of
vApps& bulk VM requests
Service Level tiers define what
management vServices get associated
to vApps during deployment
(availability, security, monitoring, etc)
Provide up front metrics on costs for
service offerings and tiers
Dynamically monitor vCenter for
unknown VM’s to enforce ownership
and placement policies for all VM’s
regardless of origin
Out of the box integrations with
Service Management tools
Service Catalog
Service Levels – Compose and tier infrastructure vServices & virtual
resources
Configuration Offerings – types of VM/vAPP that can be provisioned
Provisioning Engine
Automatically deploy services with QoS attributes
Integrate with existing process tools for end-to-end deployment
The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a
purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
CONFIDENTIAL
vCenter CapacityIQ
Capacity management solution for VMware vCenter, enabling users to analyze, forecast, and plan capacity needs of their virtual datacenter
Deliver the right capacity at the right
time
Make informed planning, purchasing,
and provisioning decisions
Enable capacity to be utilized most
efficiently and cost-effectively
Perform “What-If” impact analysis to
model effect of capacity changes
Add VMs or hosts
Identify and reclaim unused capacity
Over-, under-allocated VMs
Idle or powered-off VMs
Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls
and needs
ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter Chargeback
Drive accountability and costing into VM deployments
Metering Element Multiple Rate
CPU – GHz Used 1.5
Memory – GB Used 1.8
Disk – GB Used 2.0
Disk I/O – GB used 1.4
Network I/O – GB used 0
Fixed Cost per VM
Real Estate = $20
HA Enabled = $10
Software = $200
Power = $3
Custom Fixed Costs
Understand costs of VMs
Associate VM deployments to
appropriate business units
Report on usage costs
Targeted at VI Administrators with
tight integration to vCenter
Flexible costing model with built in
APIs
Supports costing based on allocation,
utilization or a mix of both
Add fixed costs & multiple rates at
any level, including VM level
Automatically propagate costs down
the organization structure
Build custom organization model or
use vCenter Inventory
ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter ConfigControl
Richer configuration data and a better way to get it, policy based control
Auto documents, gives richer visibility
& custom views & reports
Helps uncover latent bad
configurations quickly, accurately,
remotely
Records current & past, helps analyze
impact of change & troubleshoot faster
Dependency mapping to plan for
changes
Provides search & rich reporting
Discover & Track,Search & Tag,
Analyze (Impact & Drift), Report
Applications, inside guests, virtual
entities, associated hw, custom tags
Create custom dashboards, view
consolidated compliance across
patching, best practices, host
profiles.
ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter Update Manager
Automated patch management
solution.
Define, track, and enforce compliance
for ESX hosts/clusters, MS/RHEL*
VMs, offline VMs, templates
Central automated, actionable VI
patch compliance dashboard
leveraging baseline groups
Upgrades:
Host: DRS leveraged
VM: Tools & VM HW, appliances
Framework to support 3rd party
IHV/ISV updates, customizations
Performance and scalability
enhancements: shared patch
repository, patch staging,
performance optimization
Integration via Powershell CLI
ConfigurationProvisioning Capacity Operations Availability
*only scan supported
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Operations Management -performance
Simplified monitoring of VI environments
Ease of troubleshooting
Enhanced Alarms
Additional Metric Alarms - IOPs, Datastore, %RDY, etc.
New Event Alarms
Alarm Sensitivity Control – reduce false and redundant alarms
Improved Performance Data Visualization
Side-by-side Performance Charts, Thumbnail Views
Charts for new Performance Metrics
Aggregate ESX Ready across all vCPUs on a Host, High-water I/O
Latency across all VMDKs for each VM, etc.
New CIM Service for ESX Host health monitoring
User-Friendly, Actionable ESX Error Messages, improved descriptions,
Links to KB Articles
New Perfmon DLL: Access ESX Host metrics from within Guest;
Access via Perfmon or WMI
ConfigurationProvisioning Operations AvailabilityCapacity
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Operations Management -storage
“Assurance”: End-to-end visibility and performance when using
shared storage
“Cost reduction”: Efficient use of expensive storage resources,
thus alleviating the cost issue
“Process integration”: Easy management which fits in with
existing operational processes or enhances them
Assurance:
Topology/relationship insight for troubleshooting
Monitor/trend VM/datastore storage performance
metrics (e.g. latency, throughput)
Cost reduction:
Storage usage reports
Policy-based snapshot management
Process integration/simplification:
Manage VMware and array thin provisioning
vCenter Chargeback models include storage
Simplified iSCSI configuration
ConfigurationProvisioning Operations AvailabilityCapacity
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
Monitor and Control QoS with vCenter AppSpeed
Monitor application performance from
end-user perspective
Collect and correlate across tiers and
in VI
Automated SLA management
Enables proactive detection of end
user performance issues
Integration with VI enables root
cause and remediation
UI extends VI Client
ConfigurationProvisioning Operations AvailabilityCapacity
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App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
IT Service
55Users
2Servers
1Database
75Users
4Servers
Discover
Quality of ServiceQuality of Service
Monitor
Provision 2 more servers
Remediate
Automated Application Performance Management with vCenter AppSpeed
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
vCenter Solutions: Integrated Value
Provision DecommissionMonitorPlan
Lifecycle Manager
CapacityIQ
Chargeback
vCenter/AppSpeed
ConfigControl
Find Cluster with
available capacity for
vApp
Verify Cluster has
right type of SAN
storage connected
Provision vApp to
right Cluster
Monitor vApp health
Report on vApp’s
capacity use
Identify Idle VMs
based on capacity
usage
Monitor configuration
changes to vApp
components
Trigger
decommissioning
workflow for Idle VMs
Example: Managing lifecycle of new vApp
These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts,
purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
• vCenter enables IT to offer a unique private cloud architecture
to deliver IT as a utility
VMware is best & uniquely positioned to deliver these capabilities
VMware understands virtualization better than the competition
• VMware‟s new management capabilities will enable customers to
realize the full potential of virtualization
vCenter – the next-generation management platform
A family of virtual infrastructure management solutions built on vCenter
• VMware‟s new management capabilities will integrate with
existing enterprise IT management solutions
Management Summary
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Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
VMware vSphere™ Integrates with Solutions from Leading Partners
Scalability
Dynamic Resource
Sizing
Network
Management
vSphere 4.0
Firewall
Anti-virus
Intrusion Prevention
Intrusion Detection
Security
Clustering
Data Protection
Availability
vNetwork
Storage
Management
& Replication
Storage Virtual
Appliances
vStorage
Hardware
Assist
Enhanced Live
Migration
Compatibility
vCompute
107107
vSphere 4 Editions: Core Platform
High Availability
STANDARD ENTERPRISE PLUS
License (1 CPU)SnS (Gold/Plat)
$795$273 / 323
$2,245$471 / 561
VMware ESXi OR
VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR
VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
12 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
ADVANCED
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR
VMware ESX
8-way vSMP
VC Agent
12 Physical Cores / CPUNo License Memory Limit
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
Distributed Switch
DRS / DPM
Storage VMotion
Host Profiles
$3,495$734 / $874
High availability
products for
protecting critical
production
applications
Basic
consolidatio
n of a lab or
small
environment
Large scale management
of critical production
applicationsNew
$2,875$604 / 719
VMotion™
High Availability
VMware ESXi OR
VMware ESX
4-way vSMP
VC Agent
6 Physical Cores / CPU256 GB Physical Memory
ENTERPRISE
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
DRS / DPM
Storage VMotion
Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager Update Manager
Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning Thin ProvisioningThin Provisioning
VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs VCB / vStorage APIs
Hot Add Hot AddHot Add
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vCenter Server
VI Management
$4,995
$1,495vCenter Server Foundation
vCenter ServerStandard
LicenseSnS (Gold/Plat)
$1,049/1,249
$545/645
Per Instance (USD)
vCenter Server Standard and
vCenter Server Foundation are
management servers
vCenter Server Foundation is
limited to 3 nodes of any size /
suite
One (1) instance is required for
most vSphere Standard,
Advanced, or Enterprise Plus
features
-No host limit
-Includes Linked Mode
-Includes Orchestrator
-3 ESX host limit
vCenter Server is required for most vSphere features
$9,995vCenter Heartbeat
$2,099/2,499
Note: US list pricing in USD – International pricing may vary
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Version Downgrade Rights
vSphere 4 licenses can always be downgraded to VI3
licenses to run ESX 3.x and VC 2.x
vSphere 4 License(ESX/ESXi 4.0 & vCenter 4.0)
VI3 License(ESX/ESXi 3.x & vCenter 2.x)
vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus VI3 Enterprise
vSphere 4 Enterprise VI3 Enterprise
vSphere 4 Advanced VI3 Standard
vSphere 4 Standard VI3 Standard
Downgrade is enabled by a simple „point and click‟ in
the vmware.com license portal
NOTE: Downgrades are not available for either Essentials package
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Pricing and Packaging: Summary of Changes
Name and version updates
“VMware Infrastructure” becomes “VMware vSphere”
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 replaced by vCenter Server 4.0
VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 replaced by VMware ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.0
Switch to one-processor pricing
Introduce new editions and new price points
vSphere Essentials, Standard, Advanced, Enterprise Plus
End-of-availability for old editions:
Foundation immediate end-of-availability
Enterprise availability continues during a transition period
Eliminate most a-la-carte offerings
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Summary of VMware vSphere™
Application
Services
Infrastructure
Services
ESX
ESXi
DRS/DPM
VMFS
Thin Provisioning
VMFS Volume Grow
Distributed Switch
VMware
vSphere™ 4.0
Internal Cloud External Cloud
VMotion
Storage VMotion
HA
Fault Tolerance
Data Recovery
vShield Zones
VMSafe
DRS
Hot Add
Availability Security Scalability
vCompute vStorage vNetwork
*Note vCenter Server and its components are a separate purchase
vApp
vCenter Suite
Datacenter of the future
ScaleOutside the
Firewall
People &Info-centric
Summary
vSphere OS vCloud Initiative
vClient Initiative
Create Private Cloud
FederateBetween Clouds
SolveDesktopDilemma
Datacenter of the future
ScaleOutside the
Firewall
People &Info-centric
VMware
Efficiency Control Choice
The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a
purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
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