The unofficial lowdown on everything announced at VMworld

@julian_wood

WoodITWork.com

18th November 2014 #UKVMUG

VMworld 2014

vCloud Suite 5.8

VMware vCloud Air

vRealize

EVO:RAIL

End User Computing

NSX

vSphere 6 Beta

Certification

VMware Integrated OpenStack

R&D

Docker, Pivotal And Google

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time and choices…

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vCloud Suite 5.8

Currently has:

vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)

vCenter Operations Management Suite

Site Recovery Manager (SRM) (Ent Ed. only)

vCloud Network and Security (vCNS)

vCloud Director (vCD)

vCloud Connector (vCC)

vSphere Enterprise Plus

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vCloud Suite 5.8 – what’s new

improved business continuity and disaster recovery

increased scalability

improvement on SRM integration with vCAC

offer SRM as a Service in vCAC

big data extensions for Hadoop 2

improved interoperability with NSX

proactive support - Support Assistant

https://www.vmware.com/support/vcloudsuite/doc/vcloud-suite-58-release-notes.html

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Site Recovery Manager 5.8

full web client integration

up to 5,000 protected VMs/vCenter

2,000 simultaneously recoverable VMs

Up to 75% decrease in storage portion

more than 50% decrease total recovery plan time

new vCO plug-in.

automate vCAC provisioning to include DR

IP subnet mapping

Embedded database option vPostgres http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/09/site-recovery-manager-5-8-goes-ga-today-whats-

new.html

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vSphere Replication 5.8

replication to the cloud

vCloud Air

improved reporting

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/08/whats-new-vdp-58-vr-58.html

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vSphere Data Protection 5.8 Advanced

Powered by EMC Avamar

support for

Exchange DAG / MS SQL AG

Replicate and Restore Anywhere

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/08/whats-new-vdp-58-vr-58.html

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Remote Office Branch Office editions

Standard:$3,000

Advanced:$4,500 (+Host Profiles, Auto Deploy, vDS)

per VM licensing

available in packs of 25 virtual machines

1 pack per site

replaces vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus Kits for Retail and Branch Offices

http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/introducing-vmware-vsphere-remote-office-branch-office-editions.html

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vSphere 5.5 Update 2

new chipsets RHEL 7 & Ubuntu 10 6TB hosts C# Client:VM hardware 10

vCenter DB: SQL 2012 SP1,2014 & Oracle 12c

storage vMotion with CBT New web-based vSphere Replication Calculator

estimate RPO, VM numbers & network bandwidth

https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u2-release-notes.html

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PowerCLI 5.8 R1

enhanced startup speed, pre-compiled .Net storage policy cmdlets OVF/OVA deployment and config more tag filtering better error reporting filtering support to multiple areas supports vCloud Air and vCD New-CIVM cmdlet: deploying new VMs to vCD or vCloud Air support for SRM 5.8 http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/new-release-vmware-vsphere-powercli-

5-8-release-1.html

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VMware vCloud Air

Renamed from vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS)

desktop as a Service platform as a Service

infrastructure as a Service management as a Service

vRealize Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

soon in a Germany based data center Ubuntu now available

AirWatch now available vCloud Connector extends vSphere layer 2 network to vCloud Air

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VMware vCloud Air

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vCloud Air on demand

self-service sign up

purchase with credit card, no PO required

provisioned in minutes

pay only for what you use

per minute metering

preview:

www.vmware.com/go/ondemand

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vCloud Air Object Storage

low-speed, long-term buckets of unstructured data based on EMC’s ViPR technology

not associated with any specific VM looks to a VM like a block volume

only pay for the storage in use S3 API with lifecycle management and versioning

two tiers: Standard & SSD-Accelerated scales up to petabytes

objects up to 20TB in size

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/08/vmworld-2014-vmware-vcloud-air-and-vipr-object-storage.html

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VMware Horizon Air = Horizon DaaS

applications as a service

http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/vmware-continues-set-innovation-agenda-end-user-computing.html

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published applications (RDS) installed applications

full virtual desktops (VDI) shared desktops (RDS)

VMware Horizon Air = Horizon DaaS

US/European data centers(UK for now)

cloud bursting with monthly terms

high performance desktop

4 vCPU, 8GB vRAM, and 120 GB HD

DaaS Platform for Service Providers

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http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/vmware-continues-set-innovation-agenda-end-user-computing.html

vCloud Automation Center 6.1

enhanced interfaces

new and updated vCO workflows

enhanced integration with vCloud Suite

NSX enhancements

simplified modeling of complex apps

enhanced Puppet integration

improving user experience

GUI language localization

bulk import of existing VMs http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2014/08/introducing-vcloud-automation-

center-6-1.html

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NSX 6.1 for vSphere

vSphere 5.5 and newer external DHCP servers 2 stage ECMP support

enhanced integration with vCAC better troubleshooting and monitoring

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Layer2 VPN Layer2 VPN -> Hybrid Cloud

Load balancing improvements + UDP/FTP Further integration with F5

distributed firewall includes reject action

http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/08/25/nsx-6-1/

NSX Micro Segmentation

distributed firewall kernel module

configure policy with security groups

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NSX Multi Hypervisor 4.2

includes HA/hitless upgrade

DHCP relay

OVS performance

security profile scale enhancements

scale targets unchanged

upgrade from any 4.1.x release supported

heartbleed issue fixed

enhanced integration with vCAC

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vRealize

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http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vrealize-cmp/vmw-faq-vrealize-rebrand.pdf

vRealize

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vRealize Suite

extend cloud management beyond vCloud Suite

Thank to Chris Wahl for changing all the premise to premises!

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vRealize Suite

two versions: advanced and enterprise

vRealize Automation Advanced or Enterprise

vRealize Operations Advanced or Enterprise

vRealize Log Insight

vRealize Business Standard

vRealize Business Advanced or Enterprise

per proc or per OS licensing

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vRealize Operations 6.0

management packs

scale out architecture

initial setup wizard

dashboard and user interface

custom alerts/reports

capacity planning

reclaiming capacity

http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/10/14/vrealize-ops-6/

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vRealize Automation 6.2

enhanced integration:

vRealize Ops health in vRealize Automation

vSphere.Next, XenDesktop 7, vCloud Air, OpenStack

admin friendly CLI

1-click support bundle

resource reclamation improved via vRealize Ops

CloudClient: CLI unified

http://thesaffageek.co.uk/2014/10/14/whats-new-in-vrealize-automation-6-2/

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vRealize Log Insight 2.5

first phase of multi-tenancy

performance improvements

data integration with vCOps

localisation

internal load balancer for scale-out

hosts overview administration

extension of universal collection

framework for Linux

real-time dashboard mode http://www.vmguru.com/2014/10/vrealize-log-insight-available-soon/

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vRealize Operations Insight 6.0

add-on for vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)

vCenter Operations Management

Suite Advanced

vCenter Log Insight

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vRealize Codestream 1.0

new management product for DevOps

streamlines & automates software delivery

governance and visibility across release process

rapid & reliable push out of frequent software releases

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vRealize Air Automation

vCloud Automation Center as a SaaS offering

not a replacement

an alternative option

private beta: http://vrealizeair.vmware.com/betaoverview

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vRealize Air Compliance

SaaS based tool

quickly report on configuration compliance

take proactive action

private beta:

http://vrealizeair.vmware.com/betacompliance

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EVO:RAIL

hyper converged

compute, networking, and storage resources

Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Inspur, NetOne Systems, SuperMicro

2U 4 node hardware platform .

2 CPU’s

192 GB RAM

16 TB via VSAN

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EVO:RAIL

hardware vendor HW & SW Support

wizard-based simple configuration

15 minute build

http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/25/vmware-marvin-comes-alive-evorail-hyper-converged-infrastructure-appliance/

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EVO:RAIL

EVO:RAIL software includes:

deployment, configuration and management

vSphere Enterprise Plus

VSAN storage

vCenter Server

Log Insight

comes with vCloud Air disaster recovery

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VMware Integrated OpenStack

on-premises private cloud, OpenStack API running on vSphere

Nova (compute mgmt), Neutron (networking), Cinder (block level storage) & Glance (images / templates) drivers through to vSphere

beta: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/openstack

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VMware Integrated OpenStack

VIO= open source OpenStack code+tools

delivered as OVA=management appliance

object in the vSphere Web Client

uses tenant/resource clusters as resource pools

made available to AppDev teams

Log Insight OpenStack Content Pack

beta: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/openstack

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Docker, Pivotal And Google

container support to vSphere run a container within a VM

and not or vSphere and and vCloud Air

Kubernetes container management to enterprises collaboration on libsware, libcontainer and libchan

pod based Open vSwitch networking with Kubernetes containers for semi-trusted workload

VMs for untrusted workloads VMware Warden: Cloud Foundry to Docker

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/concepts/architecture/warden.html

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/vmware-partners-with-docker-pivotal-and-google-to-bring-container-support-to-its-platform/

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End User Computing

VMware Workspace Suite

NVIDIA tech preview of GRID vGPU

VMware, NVIDIA and Google Collaboration

Horizon Flex

CloudVolumes

Project Fargo=VMFork

Project Meteor

Horizon DaaS Enterprise

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End User Computing

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contains:

Horizon 6 Enterprise

AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management

AirWatch Secure Content Locker

Workspace Portal

VMware Workspace Suite

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http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/08/introducing-vmware-workspace-suite.html

NVIDIA GRID vGPU

tech preview

multiple VMs share single GPU

3D graphics and high perfvideo

VM graphics passed through to GPU without translation

sign-up: http://www.nvidia.com/object/vmware-vgpu-early-access.html

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next gen VMware Blast and NVIDIA GRID vGPU

on Chromebook

http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/08/vmware-nvidia-google-working-together-

deliver-graphics-rich-applications-enterprise-cloud-desktops.html

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Horizon Flex

containerised Policy-Based Desktops offline VDI/DaaS with centralised mgmt

don't need View or vSphere Deliver secure desktops via network or USB

http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/announcing-horizon-flex/

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Horizon Flex

Mirage for Horizon FLEX - image and layer management

Horizon FLEX Client - VMware Fusion/Player Pro/ Workstation

Horizon Plex Policy Server

use of USB Devices, copy and paste,

drag and drop, expiration dates,

remote lock

http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/announcing-horizon-flex/

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Cloud Volumes

now AppVolumes

app layering

stored as VMDK/VHD

apps not installed

no copying of data

disks with installed apps added to VM while running

VM fooled into thinking apps installed

desktop/server, windows/linux http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/welcoming-new-member-vmware-family-

cloudvolumes/

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Project Fargo=VMFork

rapidly clone a running VM under a second

parent VM quiesced and forked, child VM is born

uses disk and memory of parent for reads

networking to give it new MAC fudge AD

copy on write for deltas

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http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2014/10/07/project-fargo-aka-vmfork-what-is-it/

http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4921.jpg

Project Meteor

Fargo + Cloud (App) Volumes

Just in Time Desktops

user login

fork a clean base

win7/8/10? desktop

appVolumes delivers apps http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/inspired-mobility/

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VMware Horizon DaaS

cloud hosted desktops on vCloud Air - US and GB

DaaS platform for Service Providers introduction of VMware Horizon DaaS Enterprise

monthly billing HTML Access for desktops on Chrome and Safari

http://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-air-desktops/features.html

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VMware Workspace Portal 2.1

single virtual appliance architecture 30 minutes guided install

additional VA’s can be scaled out as necessary new dashboard

Workspace application entitlements to AirWatch users

http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/09/introducing-vmware-workspace-portal-2-1.html

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EUC.therest

vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon v1.7

Horizon vCO plugin for vCAC

ThinApp 5.1

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VMware CTO Stand - R&D

Congress for Openstack unleashing Agile IT, Openstack policy engine

http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4922.jpg

Auto-Scaling Cloud Applications Using Machine Learning

learn application behaviour, scale up or right size http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4918.jpg

Automated Management of “Sick” VMs for Cloud Applications

machine learning sick VM detection, future mitigation http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4920.jpg

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VMFork, A Fresh Approach to Application Publishing http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4921.jpg

Network Function Virtualisation

Enabling cloud infrastructure for telecommunications networks

http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_49191.jpg

Virtualised High Performance Computing

Scientific and Engineering Agility http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4923.jpg

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vSphere 6 Beta Announcements

tech preview, public beta, NDA

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vSphere 6 Beta Announcements

64 hosts in cluster

320+ pCPUs, 6TB RAM

VMs up to 128 vCPUs and 4TB RAM

SMP vCPU FT

up to 4 x vCPUs and 64GB RAM http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-faul

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vMotion across VC, VDS, Long Distance

http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-vmotion/

vSphere 6 Beta Announcements

Virtual Datacenter http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-

virtual-data-center/

Policy Based Management

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vSphere 6 Beta Announcements

Content Library http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/27/whats-new-

vsphere-6-0-content-library/

vCenter

Platform Services Controller http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/27/whats-new-vsphere-

6-0-vcenter-esxi/

Enhanced Linked Mode

Web Client performance / enhancement

Network aware DRS placement

and more….

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Virtual Volumes per VM storage

policy driven (like VSAN)

NFS/iSCSI/FT – who cares?

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http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-virtual-volumes/

Vendor Provider (VP): data ops mgmt

Storage Containers (SC): data capacity mgmt

Protocol Endpoints (PE): access mgmt

VSAN 2.0 Beta

all flash VSAN

Virsto snapshot and clone integration

JBOD for blades

64 host cluster

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Certification

VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV) new=classroom requirement existing VCP=overview+labs

convert from CCNA (back-door) http://www.pkguild.com/2014/11/the-vcp-nv-is-your-ticket-to-escaping-the-

vcp-class-requirement-for-vcp-dcv/

VMware Certified Professional – (VCP-NV) VMware Certified Implementation Expert – (VCIX-NV)

VMware Certified Design Expert — (VCDX-NV) Network Virtualisation = NV

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Next year

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The unofficial lowdown on everything announced at VMworld

@julian_wood

WoodITWork.com

18th November 2014 #UKVMUG