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Introduction to Virtualisation & VI3Warren OlivierTechnical Systems Engineer

2Copyright © 2006 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

VMware: Who We Are

World’s leading providerof virtualisation solutions

100,000+ customers worldwide All sizes and industries; 100% of Fortune 100

Vision: transform computing through virtualisation

Products: reliable, award-winning, most-deployed

Analysts: up to 5-year technology lead


VMware By the Numbers

•100 / 910•Fortune 100 / Fortune 1000 Customers

•1,000,000+•VMware Workstation Licenses Sold

•20,000+•VMware Infrastructure Customers

• ~4,500•Employees

• 1998•Year Founded

• 40%•R&D Eng with Advanced Degrees

•10000+•Channel Partners

•20,000+•VMware Certified Professionals

• 350+•Technology Partners

• $1.4 B•Revenue Run Rate (Q3 2007)

•>80%•2006 Year-Over-Year Growth


Architecture with VMware (Hosted)

ACE

Workstation

VMware Server


Architecture with VMware (Native)


VMware Infrastructure – Key Solutions / Use Cases

Server Consolidation and Containment – Eliminate server sprawl by deploying systems into virtual machines

Test and Development – Rapidly provision and re-provision test and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured test machines

Enterprise Desktop – Secure unmanaged PCs. Alternatively, provide standardised enterprise desktop environments hosted on servers.

Business Continuity – Reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity by encapsulating entire systems files that can be replicated and restored onto any target server

Infrastructure Provisioning – Reduce the time for provisioning new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation capabilities.

Legacy Application Re-hosting – Migrate legacy operating systems and software applications to virtual machines running on new hardware for better reliability


Server Sprawl

Average Utilisation of 7%


• 1,000 servers with DASD

• 200 racks

• 3000 network cables

• 400 power whips

• 50 servers with SAN and NAS

• 10 racks

• 300 network cables

• 20 power whips

Before After

Server, Storage and Network Consolidation Customer Example - TXU


333 servers replaced per yearappr. 10,000 man/hrs saved

From 20-40 hrs to build a server and re-load application…

1. Build and configure hardware

2. Load operating system

3. Load configuration tools (Backup, Resource Kit, Monitoring, etc…)

4. Assign 2 IP addresses

5. Build 3 network connections, copper or fibre

6. Turn over to applications team to re-load and re-configure software

7. Test applications

8. Coordinate outage / data migration

…To 15-30 min to copy a virtual machine and restart

1. Redirect virtual disk to new VMware virtual machine instance[Tools already loaded][Application already loaded, configured]

2. Done

Before After

Instant ProvisioningCustomer Example - TXU


High Availability/Disaster Recovery

• Every year, one out of 500 data centers will experience a severe disaster (McGladrey and Pullen)

• 43% of companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within two years (McGladrey and Pullen)

• 93% of business that lost their data center for 10 days went bankrupt within one year (National Archives & Records Administration)

Disaster Recovery is a focus of executive management


Disaster Recovery

Production Environment:Approx 400 VM’s

78 Physical ESX Servers

Kingsport, TN Datacenter Johnson City, TN Datacenter

Back-Up/DR Environment:Approx 400 VM’s

50 Physical ESX Servers

17 Miles

16 ½ minutes to fail over!!

DELL IBM

Hydrogen Tanks

A Large Chemical Company

Replication


VMware Converter

VMware® Converter 3.0 automates the process of converting physical machines, other virtual machine formats and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines

Physical MachineOR Third party image format OR Other virtual machine formats

Virtual Machine

VMware Converter


VMotion technology lets you move live, running virtual machines from one host to another while maintaining continuous service availability.

VMotion™ Technology Changes The Game

• Move live running machine

• zero-downtime maintenance

• Fast Reconfiguration

• Continuous Workload Consolidation


1. Activate Maintenance Mode for physical host

2. DRS migrates running virtual machines to other hosts

zero downtime with VMware

Use VMotion to evacuate hosts

Move running applications to other servers without disruption

Perform maintenance at any time of day

Automate with DRS maintenance mode

Automates moving virtual machines to other hosts

Automates re-balancing after maintenance complete

• Shut down idle host and perform maintenance

• Restart host; DRS automatically rebalances workloads

VMotionVMotion


Virtual DesktopsBI CRMDevelopment Production

Applications Marketing

Infrastructure Optimization

Aggregate capacity:30 x (3GHs, 16GB) = 90GHs, 480GB

SHARED HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

The right resources for every application at the right time


New – Resource Optimization with VMware DRS

• What is it?

• Dynamic balancing of computing resources across resource pools

• Intelligent resource allocation based on pre-defined rules

• Customer Impact

• Align IT resources with business priorities

• Operational simplicity; dramatically increase system administrator productivity

• Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load

• Automate hardware maintenance

Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources to ensure optimal alignment between business and IT

Resource Pool

Business Demand


New - Capacity on Demand with VMware DRS

• Provisioning is “fire and forget”

• Easily add more capacity

• Avoid over-provisioning to peak load

Add hardware dynamically

Resource PoolCPU 36GHs, Mem 58GB

Priority HIGH

Resource PoolCPU 50 GHz, Mem 70GB

Priority HIGH


New – Ensure High availability with VMware HA

• What is it?• Automatic restart of virtual machines

in case of server failure

• Customer Impact• Cost effective high availability for all

applications

• No need for dedicated stand-by hardware

• None of the cost and complexity of clustering

VMware HA enables cost-effective high availability for all applications

Resource Pool

X


X

Automated Resource Assurance & DRS

Dynamic BalancingContinuous Optimization

Increased Availability

AutomatedAcross Applications

On Demand Capacity

Non- disruptive Scaling Flexible, Reconfigurable++

What Makes VMware Unique?

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VMware Consolidated Backup

Move backup out of the virtual machine

• A single agent running on the proxy server rather than an agent on every virtual machine.

Eliminate backup traffic on the local area network

• Utilise Fibre Channel tape devices for virtual machine backups

Pre-integrated with major 3rd-party backup products

Agentless file level backup


VirtualCenter - Key Functionality

7

High Availability

Virtual Machine and Server

Management

1

Provisioning

2

Migration

3

Resource Management

4

System Monitoring

5

Security and Access Control

6

Centralised Management


Virtual Appliances

• Pre-installed, pre-configured packages

• of application + OS >Easy to provision enterprise software

>Deploy on any hardware

>Less management: OS is small, more secure

• Over 300 available: OS, security, RDBS, infrastructure, collaboration, etc.


VI3.5 Feature Overview


ESX Server 3i

Next generation architecture in an ultra small form factor Improved security, reliability and simplified management

with a small, virtualisation-centric package that minimises attack surface area

Supports all the VI3 Products and Features

Hypervisor integrated in server systemsHardware is certified and ready-to-run

Intuitive start up experience that dramatically reduces deployment time

• Standards-based management of the underlying hardware

Physical Server

Virtual Machines

ESX Server 3i


VMware Update Manager

Patch management solution from VMware

Compliance-driven execution• Scan datacenter for compliance to baseline

Scan and remediate guest (VM) AND host (ESX)• Support for both embedded and non-embedded ESX versions

• Full support for Windows guests; limited support for Red Hat

• Manual or scheduled remediation

• Application patching (Adobe Acrobat, SQL Server, etc.)

• Automates backup prior to patching and rollback if patching fails

Integrated with VirtualCenter• Same familiar user-interface for targeting hosts and guests groups


Distributed Power Management (DPM)

• Reduce data center power consumption by having DRS consolidate loads during non-peak hours and powering down the inactive hosts

• The goal is to minimise total power consumption while still providing enough resource capacity to satisfy total resource demand, plus some user-specifiable amount of reserve capacity

• Provides customers with significant cost savings from reduced power consumption

Resource Pool

Business Demand

Power Off


VMotion vs. Storage VMotion

• VMotion - Moves a running VM from one ESX server to another ESX server leveraging shared storage

• The storage resource stays in the same storage location

Storage VMotion - Moves the disk resources for a VM from one datastore to another datastore

The VM stays up and running on the same ESX Server


Guided Consolidation Interface

Simplified first experience• New setup wizard

• ‘Getting started’ tabs

• Integrated tutorial

• Guided consolidation process

• Collect data on selected physical servers

• Suggest appropriate sources and targets

• Trigger physical to virtual conversion

From first time user to meaningful consolidation

Stage 1 From zero to first VM

Stage 2To First Consolidation

Stage 3Ongoing Management

Time toValue

Customer Impact: Huge ease of use benefits, low startup and try out costs, realise cost savings and greater power of virtualisation management

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Documents

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virtual machines test

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test applications

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