keep your applications running reliably with a battletested virtualization platform

8/12/2019 Keep Your Applications Running Reliably With a Battletested Virtualization Platform

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/keep-your-applications-running-reliably-with-a-battletested-virtualization 1/23

© 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Keep your Applications running reliably with a

battle-tested Virtualization Platform

Cameron Sturdevant, Sr. Product Marketing Manager



Agenda

Reliability at the core of your data center

The VMware advantage for infrastructure reliability

New reliability features in vSphere 5.5

Learn more about VMware



Reliability: Big or Small, The #1 Customer Concern

“VMware is the clear and obvious leader in

virtualization products. We tried both the

Microsoft and Oracle virtualization productsand found them lacking in features and

performance compared to the VMware

product”

- David Greer, Director o f Info rmation

Services, HelioVolt Corpor at ion

“ VMware has never failed us. We have

grown in terms of demands and

requirements, and VMware has grown in

capabilities and ability to support us.”

–Daniel Bell ini , CIO Ducati

500,000Fortune 100, Fortune 500

Global 100, Global 500

Customers using VMware

99%



Agenda







It Begins with the Architecture

VMware vSphere

x86 Architecture x86 Architecture

Architecture impacted by

operating system limitations

Thin, Legacy-free,

Purpose-built hypervisor

Guest OSGuest OSGuest OS Guest OS Guest OS

Parent

Partition

based on

Windows

or

Dom0 based

on Linux

General Purpose OS

Bo l t ing vir tua l izat ion to a general purpos e operat ing s ystem

increases r isk and d ecreases rel iabi l i ty



VMware

vSphere 5.5> 200MB

Window s Server 2012

Server Core w ith Hyp er-V

5GB

Hypervisor Architecture Does Matter!



OS-Dependent Hypervisors Require More Unrelated Patching

Almost every Patch Tuesday since the release of Hyper-V included

“important” and “critical” security updates to Server Core that:

• Were UNRELATED to virtualization, and• Required a REBOOT of the host

Jan

2013

Feb

2013

Mar

2013

Apr

2013

May

2013

Jun

2013

July

2013

Aug

2013

Sept

2013

Oct

2013

Nov

2013

Dec

2013

“Important” and

“Critical” Server CorePatches* 4 3 1 2 4 1 4 2 1 2 2 2

# of Patches Related

to Virtualization0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Reboot Required? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

* All Hyper-V deployments require these patches

Do you want to reboot your data center

every Patch Tuesday?

Source: Microsoft Security Bulletin, December 2013

Total number of important

security patches in 2013:

Hyper-V = 28

vSphere 5.1 = 3



Customers Count on VMware for Reliability

VMware: #1 in Reliability

Financial institution customer: Oversix years of VMware ESX uptime!

Companies Trust Their Production Servers to Run on VMware

2326 days

Uptime



Agenda







Proven Reliability: From Architecture to Operations

Architecture

Purpose-built hypervisor, no dependency on general-purpose OS

<200MB footprint, reduced exposure to OS vulnerabilities

This translates into:

Failover Protection vSphere HA

Protection from App failures vSphere App HA

Zero downtime

during resource add

Hot add CPU/RAM

Zero downtime for

planned maintenance

vMotion and Storage vMotion

Proven Performance,

SLA Guarantees

Advanced DRS and memory

management

Reduce memory problems Reliable Memory



Business Continuity Solutions Unique to VMware vSphere

IT Problem VMware Solution

Application

failures

App isabsolutely

critical to

business

App needs more

resourcesHot-Add

Capacity(vCPU,

vRAM)

1 vCPU

2 GB

4 vCPU

64 GB

Fault Tolerance

for zero downtime, zero data

loss, continuous availability

vSphere HA

• Native MSCS support*

• App-aware APIs

Windows

VMware ESXi VMware ESXi

Windows

* Hyper-V 3 relies on Virtual FC setup



Planned Downtime Unplanned Downtime

VMware Enables IT Business Continuity at All Levels

• vMotion

• Storage vMotion

• Fault Tolerance

• High Availability

• App HA

• Site Recovery Manager

• DR to the Cloud with SRM

• vSphere Replication

• vSphere Data Protection

• vSphere Data Protection Advanced

• vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

Site Application Availability

Local Application Availability

Data Protection



vSphere Data Protection - Backup and Recovery from VMware

vSphere

Data deduplicated

VDP Advanced

Overview

Simple, intuitive management

designed for the VI admin

4x more storage-efficient backup

6x faster recovery

Reliable enterprise-class technology

Benefits

Backup and recovery solution withbuilt-in backup data replication for

mid-sized vSphere environments

Powered by patented, industry-

leading deduplication from EMC

Avamar

Seamlessly integrated with vSphereand vSphere Web Client



Support for Reliable Memory

Memory corruption = PSOD = BAD!How does it work?

• Feature of the hardware

• Some memory is more “reliable”than others which is reported upto OS (ESXi) for optimization

Protecting Critical Components:

• VMkernel

• UW (User Worlds)

• Init thread

• Hostd and Watchdog

Memory

Corruption

Uptime and

reliability for

VMs



Hot-Pluggable SSD PCIe Devices

Use Cases

• No downtime to Hot-Plug PCIe

SSD drives (add/remove) on arunning ESXi host

• PCIe IO expansion chassis to

provide Hot-Plug of PCIe devices to

an ESXi host

Support Orderly & SurpriseHot-Plug Operations

• Orderly operation initiated through

hardware elements or software

interface

•Surprise operation initiated byphysically removing or adding

device without notifying the system

Requirements:Hardware and BIOS must

support Hot-Plug PCIe



More Features to Eliminate Planned/Unplanned Downtime

Purpose-built platform

Fault Tolerance

Datastore Heartbeat

Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules

Highly customizable admission

controls



Dierbergs

Industry

Headquarters

Employees

“ With the VMware solutions, we spend more of our day focusing on

strategic initiatives, which in turn helps IT drive real value back into

the business.”

— Jim Shipley, Chief Information Officer, Dierbergs

• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.1,

runs on 17 hosts in Dierbergs data center

• The VMware solution offers a number of

features to set it apart from Microsoft

Hyper-V, including in-cluster upgrade

capabilities, a single management tool forthe entire environment, and a more cost-

effective approach to support

Objectives

• Maximize the efforts of a small IT staff by migrating to a less

resource-intensive virtualization environment

• Gain visibility into virtualization ecosystem with a single

management tool

• Support the business more effectively by minimizing outages

VMware Solution

• Migrated from Microsoft Hyper-V to a more stable, mature,

enterprise-ready VMware vSphere 5.1 environment

• Simpler, robust VMware technology provided excellent always-on

solution with failover clustering

Business Impact

• Cut time spent on managing hypervisor by more than 60 percent

• Increased uptime by eliminating major system outages, thus

improving reliability and enabling stores to meet inventory demands

• Freed senior admins to devote more time to strategic tasks

PROFILE

Food and Beverage, Retail

Chesterfield, Missouri

5,000

VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

(INSERT CUSTOMER LOGO)

AMERICAS



VMware – The Proven Market Leader

Proven in the Trenches

• 500,000+ VMware Customers

• 99% of Fortune 100

• 99% of Fortune Global 100

• 99% of Fortune 1000

• 99% of Fortune Global 500

Supported by Many

• Best-in-class Commercial Support

• 44,700+ Solution Providers

• 59,000+ VMware CertifiedProfessionals

• Active and engaged VMware

community



Take the next step…

Reliable Foundation

1

Get the Facts:

Reliabilty

2

http://www.vmware.com/advantages/robust/robust-foundation.html

http://www.vmware.com/getthefacts/microsoft/reliability.html

http://www.vmware.com/getthefacts/microsoft/reliability.html

http://www.vmware.com/advantages/robust/robust-foundation.html



Recommended Next Steps

Why customers choose VMware

www.vmware.com/go/customers

VMware vSphere with Operations Management

Free 60 Day Evaluation

www.vmware.com/go/EvaluatevSphere

Keep up with the latest VMware activity

http://blogs.vmware.com/smb

Invest in your future with VMware Training and

Certification

www.vmware.com/education


http://www.vmware.com/education

http://www.vmware.com/education




Thank you.

keep your applications running reliably with a battletested virtualization platform

Documents