NL VMUG UserCon – March 19 2015

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What’s New with vSphere6.0?

Rob GroenhuisSr. Systems Engineer VMware Netherlands BV

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Virtualization Market Leader• Pat Gelsinger CEO since September 2012

• US$ 5.21 billion turnover in 2013• US$ 6.04 billion turnover in 2014

• Leading in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

vSphere vs. Hyper-V?Send email to

rg@vmware.com

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Scalability

vSphere 5.5

Security

• 320 pCPU, 4 TB• 62 TB VMDK

• Reliable Memory• Hot Plug PCIe SSD• VDP Advanced

Availability

NetworkStorage

• vDS further enhancements (LACP, Traffic Filtering)

• 16Gb E2E• vFlash Read Cache• VSAN

• Expanded vGPU• Native drivers• CPU Day 0 Support

Compute

vCenter Server / vCloud Director / vCloud Automation Center

• Revamped SSO

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Scalability

vSphere 6.0

Security

• 64 Node Clusters• Larger Hosts

• FT for SMP• Enhanced Replication• Enhanced vMotion• Data Protection Adv.• Enhanced MSCS

Availability

NetworkStorage

• Enhanced NIOC• Virtual SAN 6.0• Virtual Volumes

• Virtual HW 11• 128 vCPU VMs• 4 TB RAM VMs

Compute

vCenter Server / vRealize Automation - Operations - Business

• Password enhancements

• Platform Services Controller

• VMCA

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Availability

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Fault Tolerance for Multi-Processor VMsSymmetric Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance - Multi-vCPU Support

Instantaneous Failover

4 vCPU 4 vCPU

vSphere

Primary Secondary

Fast Checkpointing

• FT support for up to 4 vCPUs

• Protection for high performance, multi-vCPU VMs

• New, more scalable technology: fast check-pointing to keep primary and secondary in sync

Overview

• Protect mission-critical, high-performance applications regardless of OS

• Continuous availability: zero downtime, zero data loss for infrastructure failures

• Fully automated response

Benefits

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Fault Tolerance CapabilitiesFeature FT

(vSphere 5.5)FT

(vSphere 6.0)

vCPUs 1 4

Virtual Disks EZT Any

Hot Configure FT

H/W Virtualization

Backup (Snapshot)

ParavirtualDevices

Storage Redundancy

VSAN/VVols

Feature FT(vSphere 5.5)

FT(vSphere 6.0)

HA

DRS Partial Partial

DPM

SRM

VDS

Storage DRS

VCD

vSphere Replication

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vSphere Replication Enhancements• End-to-end network compression

• Further reduces bandwidth requirements

• Network traffic isolation• Controls bandwidth, improves performance

• Move replicas without full sync• Balance storage while avoiding RPO violation

• Linux file system quiescing• Increased reliability when recovering Linux VMs

Host Mgmt

vmknic0

VR Trafficvmknic1

LAN

WAN

VMware Tools

Storage vMotionReplica Replica

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• Larger distances - up to 100 ms RTT

• Maintain standard vMotion guarantees

• Does not require Virtual Volumes

Overview

• Permanent migrations between data centers

• Disaster avoidance

• Multi-site load balancing

• Follow the sun

Benefits

Long-Distance vMotionThe Next Generation in vMotion Innovation

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Cross vSwitch vMotion

• Transparent operation to the guest OS• Works across different types of virtual

switches• vSS to vSS• vSS to vDS• vDS to vDS

• Requires L2 network connectivity• Does not change the IP of the VM

• Transfers vDS port metadata

vCenter Server

VM Network(L2 Connectivity)

vDS A vDS B

vMotionNetwork

vMotion

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Cross vCenter vMotion• Simultaneously changes

• Compute• Storage• Network• vCenter

• vMotion without shared storage• Increased scale

• Pool resources across vCenter servers• Targeted topologies

• Local• Metro• Cross-continental

vCenter Server

VM Network(L2 Connectivity)

vDS A vDS B

vMotionNetwork

vMotion

vCenter Server

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Increased vMotion Network Flexibility • vMotion network will cross L3 boundaries• vMotion can now use it’s own TCP/IP stack

vCenter vCenterManagement Network

VMNetwork

vMotionNetwork

NFC Network

ESXi ESXi

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Enhanced Microsoft Clustering (MSCS)• Support for Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012

• Failover Clustering and AlwaysOn Availability Groups

• IPV6 Support

• PVSCSI and SCSI controller support

• vMotion Support• Clustering across physical hosts (CAB) with Physical Comp. Mode RDM’s• Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2

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vSphere Data Protection in vSphere6.0• Up to 8TB of deduplicated backup data capacity per

VDP appliance

• Protect approximately 150-200 VMs per appliance, minimal storage consumption

• Agent-less VM backup and restore, file level restore

• Application level backup and restore of SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint

• Select individual databases, app-consistent quiescing, transaction log management

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Security

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Password Management Enhancements

• ESXCLI commands to• Create / List / Remove /

Modify local user accounts

• Set / remove permission for users or user groups

• Change default password complexity rules using VIM API

• Configurable via vCenter Host Advanced System Settings

• Configure maximum allowed failed login attempts (10 by default)

• Configure lockout duration period (2 minutes by default)

New ESXCLI Commands Complexity Rules via Advanced Settings Account Lockout

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Improved Auditability of ESXi Admin Actions

• Prior to 6.0, actions taken at the vCenter level by a named user would show up in ESXi logs with the “vpxuser” username. • [user=vpxuser]• This made for difficult forensic tracking of user actions.

• In 6.0, all actions taken at vCenter against an ESXi server now show up in the ESXi logs with the vCenter username• [user=vpxuser:CORP\Administrator]

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Scalability / Compute

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Increased vSphere Host Maximums

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0

32 Hosts per Cluster 64 Hosts per Cluster

4000 VMs per Cluster 8000 VMs per Cluster

320 pCPUs 480 pCPUs

4 TB RAM 12 TB RAM

512 VMs per Host 1000 VMs per Host

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Increased vSphere VM maximums

• Was 64, now 128 vCPUs• Was 1, now 4 TB RAM• Hot-add RAM now vNUMA (region) aware• WDDM 1.1 graphics device interface (GDI) acceleration features• xHCI 1.0 controller allows USB 3.0 at full speed

• Maximum of 32 serial ports• Serial and parallel port enhancements• Serial and parallel ports can now be removed

(5.5)

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Storage

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Software-Defined StorageBring all virtualization advantages towards Storage

Virtual Data Services

Data Protection Mobility Performance

Policy-driven Control Plane

SAN / NAS

SAN/NAS Pool

Virtual Data Plane

x86 Servers

Hypervisor-convergedStorage pool

Object Storage Pool

Cloud Object StorageVirtual SAN

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Virtual SAN (March 2014)

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Product Overview

• Scale out Storage built into the hypervisor

• Flash-optimized converged compute + storage solution

• Uses industry standard components

• High Performance & Resiliency (distr. RAID)

• vSphere 5.5 integrated management

vSphere

Virtual SAN

Hard disksHard disksSSD SSD Hard disks

SSD

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Virtual SAN Datastore

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What is Virtual SAN?

• A software based solution that has been developed from

the ground up by VMware

• It virtualizes local hard disks and SSDs, clusters them

together, and presents them as a datastore

• Main goal is to lower TCO (up to 50%)

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What’s New with Virtual SAN 6.0

• All Flash datastore with SSD persistence• High, predictable performance• Cost-effective all-flash architecture with SSD tiering

Data ServicesAnd

Other New Features• New VSAN Snapshots and Clones

• Hardware-based checksum and encryption support• Enable blade architectures

o Support for blade-only direct-attached JBODs• Rack Awareness: tolerate rack failures • Disk troubleshooting: LED on/off to detect failed disks

• 2x Greater Scale: up to 64 nodes/cluster• 50% greater VM densities

o Hybrid: 150 VMs/hosto All-Flash: 200 VMs/host

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5.5 Hybrid 6.0 Hybrid 6.0 All-Flash

2x

4x

IOPS

2x

All-Flash 2x Greater Scale

2x-4x More Performance

Snaps, Clones and Even More …

• 2x more IOPS with VSAN Hybrido Up to 40K IOPS/host

• 4x more IOPS with VSAN All-Flasho Up to 100K IOPS/host

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Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere

Virtual volumes

Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-duplication

• Native representation of VMDKs on SAN/NAS No LUNs or Volume management

• Works with existing SAN/NAS systems

• A new control path for data operations at VM/VMDK granularity

Solution Overview

• Snapshots, replications and other operations at VM granularity on external storage

• Automates control of per-VM service levels

Customer Value

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Network

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Network I/O Control Version 3

• Reserve bandwidth to guarantee service levels

• Applied at vNIC level• Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed at the virtual network interface on a virtual machine

• Reservation set on the vNIC in the virtual machine properties

• Applied at a Distributed Port Group• Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed to a specific VMware Distributed Switch port group• Reservation set on the VDS port group• Enables multi-tenancy on one VDS by guaranteeing bandwidth usage from one tenant won’t

impact another

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vCenter 6.0

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vCenter Server - Enhanced Capabilities

Metric Windows Appliance

Hosts per VC 1,000 1,000

Powered-On VMs per VC 10,000 10,000

Hosts per Cluster 64 64

VMs per Cluster 6,000 6,000

Linked Mode ✔ ✔

• Scalability supported by both Windows Install and vCenter Server appliance

• Windows install supports Postgres and External SQL and Oracle DBs

• vCSA supports embedded Postgres and external Oracle DBs

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vCenter Server 6 - Linked Mode Comparison

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0

Windows Yes Yes

Appliance No Yes

Single Inventory View Yes Yes

Single Inventory Search Yes Yes

Replication Technology Microsoft ADAM Native

• Roles & Permissions Yes Yes

• Licenses Yes Yes

• Policies No Yes

• Tags No Yes

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Platform Services Controller

• Single Sign-On (SSO)• Licensing• Certificate Authority

• Two Deployment Models• Embedded

• vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller in one virtual machine• Recommended for small deployments with less than two SSO integrated solutions

• Centralized• vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller in their own virtual machines• For deployments where there are two or more SSO integrated solutions

PSC

vCenter

vCenter

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VMCA

Root CA

• During installation, VMCA automatically creates a self-signed certificate

• This is a CA certificate, capable of issuing other certificates

• All solutions and endpoint certificates are created (and trusted) from this self-signed CA certificate

Issuer CA

• Can replace the default self-signed CA certificate created during installation

• Requires a CSR issued from VMCA to be used in an Enterprise/Commercial CA to generate a new Issuing Certificate

• Requires replacement of all issued default certificates after implementation

New Certificate Manager (separate download)

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• Content Library provides storage and versioning of files including VM templates, ISOs, and OVFs.

• Includes powerful publish and subscribe features to replicate content

• Backed by vSphere Datastores or NFS

Overview

• Simplifies management of templates

• Enables synchronization between local and remote vCenter Servers

• Also enables sync between vC and vCD

Benefits

Content LibraryStore and Sync VM templates, OVFs, and ISOs

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vSphere Client (Windows)

• It’s still here!

• Direct Access to hosts

• VUM remediation

• New features in vSphere 5.1 and newer are only available in the web client

• Added support for virtual hardware versions 10 and 11 (read only)

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vSphere Client (Web Client vs. Windows)

Use case Web Client vSphere Client (Windows)

vSphere management ✔ ✔

ESXi/VM patching (VUM) ✖ ✔

Hardware version 8-11 ✔ ✔*

New features ✔ ✖

* v10-11 Read only access

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vSphere Web Client

• Improved login time (13x)• Faster right click menu (4x)• Faster charts (2x)• Usability Improvements

– Anywhere in one click– Flattened right click menu– Recent tasks at bottom– Dockable UI

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Why vSphere6.0?

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Why vSphere 6.0?

• Scale-Up – SQL Server, Oracle, Exchange, SAP

• Scale-Out – Big Data, PaaS, SAP HANA

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

• Desktop Virtualization

Virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications Redefine Availability Simplify Virtual Data Center

• Zero Downtime Live Migration Over Distance and Across Boundaries

• Continuous Availability for Production Virtual Machines

• Data Protection for Business Critical Applications

• Publish and Share Content Across the Environment

• Cloning and Migration Across Boundaries

• Responsive, intuitive, and efficient user interface

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Delivering the Software Defined Data Center

• Performance and scale that power the next generation of applications

• Industry-first availability that minimizes downtime

• Support for latest hardware, drivers, and guest OS

Virtualization Applications with

Confidence

• Transform storage… in a similar manner to compute

• VM-aware storage

• Efficient storage operations on a VM level

Transform Storage Deliver Choice

• Choice of how to build and operate your cloud environments

• Containers without compromise

• Hybrid Cloud Services

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

vSphere6.0

vCloudSuite 6.0

VMwareIntegrated OpenStack

1.0

vSphere with

Operations Mgmt 6.0

Virtual SAN 6.0

Virtual Volumes

Site Recovery Manager

6.0

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Next Steps

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Next Steps• Product Info & 60-Days Eval: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere• Hands-On Labs (HOL-SDC-1410): http://labs.hol.vmware.com

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Questions?

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Thank You!

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