Virtualization Rookie or Pro:

Why vSphere is Your Best Choice

Eric Horschman, VMware

Jeff Margolese, VMware

VSVC4731

#VSVC4731

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Agenda

vSphere – The best platform for virtualization – vSOM

Advantages of using vSphere with OpenStack

Cost Comparisons

Wrap Up

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Some Claims Made by the Other Guys…

Good enough parity

The Windows you know

Less expensive

Lower cost alternative

Free from lock-in

Single-vendor stacks are best

Low prices

Ready for enterprise apps

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VMware: Consistent Delivery, Continuous Innovation

“…and the company doesn't

show any signs of relinquishing

that title any time soon…”

Paul Ferrill, ServerWatch (May 7, 2012)

2011

2010

2009

2008 2007 2006

VI 3 HA

DRS

VCB

NAS & iSCSI support

4-way vSMP

16GB RAM per VM

VI 3.5 Embedded, OS-free

hypervisor

Storage vMotion

Guided consolidation

256GB host memory

support

Large memory page NPT

support

vSphere 4.1 Memory Compression

Storage and Network

I/O Control

DRS Host Affinity

Linked mode

Boot from SAN

vStorage APIs

8-way vMotion

3000 VMs per cluster

vSphere 5 Storage DRS

Profile-driven Storage

Auto Deploy

Improved HA engine

Metro vMotion

vSphere web client

vCenter Server Appliance

32-way vSMP

1 TB RAM per VM vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance

vNetwork Distributed

Switch

vShield Zones

Host Profiles

Thin Provisioning

8-way vSMP

255GB RAM per VM

2012

vSphere 5.1 vSphere Data Protection

vSphere Replication

Improved Auto Deploy

Improved Distributed

Switch

vCenter Single Sign-on

64-way vSMP

“VMware has been a market

leader in virtualization as long as

there's been a market…”

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VMware vSphere is the Industry-Wide Choice for Virtualization

More than 2,000 technology partners that

have built 3,600+ applications and

6,000+ infrastructure products

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Broadest Software Support in the Industry

Top 3 App Makers Support Their

Apps on VMware

Oracle supports their apps on

VMware (ID #249212.1). VMware

will also:

vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-

support

Microsoft supports their apps on

VMware (and recently extended

support for Exchange 2010 DAG)

SAP supports their apps on VMware

Top 10

Healthcare Apps

Top 10

Finance Apps

Four of Top 5

Retail Apps

Top 5

Telecom Apps

2000 App Makers Support 3600

Apps on VMware, including

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vSphere 5.5 and the Future of the Datacenter

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The most reliable and proven virtualization platform

VMware Uniquely Delivers on Key Business Needs

Proactive management that provides deeper insight into the env.

The VMware Advantage

Ability to provide higher levels of service

Reduced Business Risk and Cost

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What’s New in vSphere 5.5

Support for Reliable Memory Technology

vSphere App HA

MSCS Updates

vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource

Scheduler™ (vSphere DRS)

High Availability

Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices

Enhancements for CPU C-States

Expanded vGPU Support

Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests

40GB NIC support

SR-IOV Enhancements

vSphere Flash Read Cache

Expanded Features

vSphere Replication Multi-Point-in-Time Snapshot Retention

Network Quality of Service Tagging

Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture

Ease of Use

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vSphere 5.5 Configuration Limits Second to None

Scalability Features VMware

vSphere 5.5

Windows Hyper-V

2012 (and R2)

Logical Processors per Host 320 320

Physical memory per host 4TB 4TB

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 64

Active VMs per Host 1,024 1,024

Max Nodes in a Cluster 64 64

Max Virtual Disk Size 62TB VMDK 64TB VHDX

Don’t be distracted by “brag numbers”

VMware is far ahead in enabling Software-Defined Data

Centers for customers

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Better Architecture for Better Reliability

VMware vSphere

x86 Architecture

x86 Architecture

Windows Hyper-V / KVM / Xen

Parent

Partition

based on

Windows

or

Dom0 based

on Linux

Legacy operating system

architecture! Thin, Legacy-free,

Purpose-built hypervisor

Hypervisors shouldn’t be bolted to a general-purpose OS!

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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

Aug

2012

Sep

2012

Oct

2012

Nov

2012

Dec

2012

Jan

2013

Feb

2013

Mar

2013

Apr

2013

May

2013

Jun

2013

July

2013

Aug

2013

“Important” and

“Critical” Server

Core Patches* 1 0 2 2 2 4 3 1 2 4 1 4 2

# of Patches

Related to

Virtualization 0 -- 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?

Number of important security patches in vSphere 5.1 2

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VMware Software-Defined Storage Technology: vSAN

vSphere

Hard

disks

SSD

vSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

…3 to 32…

Hard

disks

SSD Hard

disks

SSD

Converged compute & storage with

vSphere integration & vCenter mgmt

Scale-out storage with SSD caching and

built-in resiliency

Converts low cost server disks into

intelligent shared storage

Easy to setup, configure & manage:

policy-driven storage with automated

per-VM SLA enforcement

Eliminate performance bottlenecks and

single points of failure

Lower storage TCO

Overview

Benefits

Clustered vSAN Datastore

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Virtual SAN: Radically Simple, Fully Automated, Storage System

JBODs

with

disks

inside

Virtualization

Cluster

Switches

File cluster

Hypervisor

vSphere

Hard disks SSD

Virtual SAN

Hard disks SSD

Clustered VSAN

Datastore

vCenter Server

vSphere

Hard disks SSD

Virtual SAN

Hard disks SSD

…………….

Hard disks SSD

Clustered VSAN Datastore

VMware vCenter Server

VMware Virtual SAN Few Other Approaches

Management

Radically simple, self tuning storage

• Dynamic scaling: Storage capacity and performance

grows dynamically with the data cluster

• Policy-based mgmt for self-tuning VM-centric storage

• Purely software-defined: Unifies compute and storage

hardware & management

Separate compute and storage servers

Raw storage placed in a JBOD device connected directly

to a file cluster

• Storage made available to virtualization cluster via

this file cluster

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vSphere Std. + Virtual SAN Storage Cost Savings

Estimated Acquisition

Cost Comparison for a

100 VM Deployment

• SDD

• Hard disk

• Add’l Servers

• Virtualization Hosts

• Virtualization Lic.

• Add’l Mgmt Lic.

• Add’l Support

$$92,000

Red Hat Microsoft

$94,000 $88,000

VMware

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DR: Fully Automated, Data Center-level Disaster Recovery

Per VM/Script-based solution

• No support for suspending VMs at the

protected site

• Limited support for controlling VM start-up –

no support for priorities and VM dependencies

• No support for raw disk mapping

• Typically requires 3rd-party replication software

Other Vendors’ DR Solutions VMware SDDC

Data center-level DR, DR to the cloud

• Automated failover and failback, non-disruptive

testing, centralized mgmt

• Predictable Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

• DR to the cloud: Pay per use, storage agnostic

vSphere Replication included in vSphere

Hypervisor

Main Site

Recovery Site

Hypervisor

Script-

based

Unique Advantages

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The most reliable and proven virtualization platform

VMware Uniquely Delivers on Key Business Needs

Proactive management that provides deeper insight into the env.

The VMware Advantage

Higher levels of service

Reduced Business Risk

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VMware Delivers Predictive Mgmt for Faster Root Cause Analysis

Security Events

HW

Performance

Admin

actions

Usage Data

Web App

App

Performance

vSphere with Operations Management Other Vendor solutions

Basic predictive management, scale- limited

• No self-learning analytics, uses manual, static,

hard thresholds and alerts

• Triangulation on static figures

• Limited ability to provide meaningful insights

• Does not correlate within their own stack

• No heat maps

• High complexity: manual and script-driven

Purpose-built management for dynamic

virtual and cloud environments

• Integrated performance, capacity and

configuration management

• Advanced self-learning analytics, dynamic

thresholds, Smart Alerts

• Accurate and actionable information

• Identify immediate and potential problems

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Short and Long Term Capacity

Planning, Resource Optimization

Higher Resource Utilization and Capacity Management

vSphere with Operations Management

Capacity mgmt, resource optimization

• Do more with less - Deploy VMs in most

efficient way

• Make informed decisions proactively

• Capacity optimization: Reclaim unused

VMs, right size under-provisioned VMs

• Improve capacity utilization and

consolidation ratios

Basic reporting only

• No capacity management

• 3rd party tools required

e.g. Veeam, vKernel

• Reporting on what has been consumed –

extrapolation

• Prone to errors, misleading

Other Vendor solutions

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Customers can Achieve Higher Efficiency and Service Levels with their Existing Platform and Resources

Use the platform they already know

Leverage the agent they

already trust

Enable the expert they have already grown

Customers can…

and deliver better service in a more efficient way

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vSphere w/ Operations Management – The Best Platform for SMB

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vSphere with Operations Management Edition Line-up

Price (per CPU, license only)

Features

• Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics

• High Availability, and Fault Tolerance

• vMotion, and Storage vMotion

• Host Profiles and Auto Deploy

• Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage

All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES

Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard

• Capacity Management and Optimization

• Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis

• I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV

$1,745 $3,625 $4,245

vSphere with Operations Management

Standard Enterprise Enterprise+

• Reliable Memory

• Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication

• vShield Endpoint

• Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing

• Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management

• Big Data Extensions

• Flash Read Cache

• Distributed Switch

Existing feature

• App HA

New feature

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Agenda

vSphere – The best platform for virtualization - vSOM

Advantages of using vSphere with OpenStack

Cost Comparisons

Wrap Up

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What Is OpenStack?

An open source framework

• Build and customize “Amazon-like” cloud offering based on users choice of underlying

compute/network/storage virtualization technologies

• Realistic, production-quality deployments require resident engineering resources or

consultants to customize and maintain the environment

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Two Different Approaches

OpenStack

vCloud Suite

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OpenStack Architecture

vSphere vSAN* NSX

vCenter Server APIs

* Roadmap for Q4 2013

VMware is an OpenStack Foundation Gold Member

VMware delivers proven virtualization (Compute/Network/Storage)

Code contributions to Nova, Neutron and Cinder

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OpenStack Advantages on vSphere

Whatever the Application, the Platform Matters

Far superior availability

Resource management

Infrastructure management

Capacity management

Interoperability

Protection from noisy neighbors

A broad ecosystem

VMware Advantages

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Agenda

The Virtualization and Software Defined-Data Center

Landscape

OpenStack Advantages with VMware

Cost Comparisons

Wrap Up

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Heterogeneous Environments: Costly Affair

Added Cost, Complexity and Productivity Loss with Multiple Platforms Dual skill sets, additional staff, DR, Backup and Management tools

8,780

13,790

Tim

e in

se

c

Time Comparison All Scenarios

Single Hypervisor Two Hypervisors

84

142

Num

be

r o

f ste

ps

Complexity Comparison All Scenarios

Single Hypervisor Two Hypervisors

36%* more time consuming

*Edison Group, August 2012 (Link to the report)

“Any CapEx saving could be offset by increased OpEx”

Chris Wolf, Gartner @ Gartner Datacenter Conf, Dec 2012

41%* more complex

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Cloud Deployments on VMware Cost Less than on Amazon

Amazon cost

misdirection!

AWS charts like this

compare AWS to non-

virtualized physical

deployment

VMware is clearly a more cost effective solution

$-

$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

$600,000

AWS Business Support

AWS Monthly Fees

AWS Upfront Fee

vSOM w/SnS

OS & SQL Licensing

Datacenter Opex

Networking HW

Storage HW

Server HW

Four year cost to run 100 VMs

$394K

$541K

100 VMs across 5 hosts using vSOM Enterprise

100 VMs at AWS

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vCloud Suite: Lower TCO, Faster TTM than “Free” Solutions

Cost comparison for a 500 VM environment

Time-to-market 2 engineers , 1 week-3 months1 52 engineers, 2-6 months

Software license cost vCloud Suite Ent + vCenter:

$993,565 $0

Ongoing

expense/year

Production SnS: $248,413

Ongoing operations:

$86,000/year5

Ongoing operations

$750,0004+/year

Stand up $6,000 - $144,000 $400,000 - $1,200,0003

1 Estimate based on customer usage reports 2 eNovance How Much for an OpenStack Cloud please? 4/2013, and Cloud Spectator Implementing and Running Your Own Cloud Service 4/2012 3 eNovance How Much for an OpenStack Cloud please? 4/2013 Labor costs based on industry estimates 4 Based on five devops at $150,000 salary 5 1vSphere admin for 500 VMs based on customer usage reports, average vSphere admin salary at $86,000

6 100 CPU environment, full list price for licenses, vCenter Server and SnS

With

KVM

VMware

50% less

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Operational Expenses – Where VMware Really Saves

80-90% lower OpEx costs for vSphere and vCloud Suite

private clouds

• Demonstrated in independent studies based on typical sysadmin tasks

VMware OpEx advantages come from:

• Configuration and management interfaces optimized for virtual

infrastructure – vCenter, vSphere Client

• Advanced automation features – DRS, Storage DRS

• Well-implemented resource controls – Network & Storage I/O Controls,

logical resource pools

• Automated DR failover and testing – Site Recovery Manager

• Time-saving, self-learning monitoring and capacity optimization –

vCenter Operations Management

• Built-in, automated usage and chargeback reporting – vCenter

Chargeback Manager

• Less patching and updating of hosts, agents and management packs

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Summary

Unique VMware virtualization platform advantages

• Proven leadership and innovation – extended with vSphere 5.5

• Most extensive ecosystem of technology partners and solution providers

• Software-Defined Data Centers for enterprises of all sizes

VMware features reduce business risk and cost

• Best hypervisor architecture

• Virtual SAN changes storage economics

• Robust High Availability and fully automated Disaster Recovery

Integrated vCenter Operations Management enables the highest

service levels

vSphere makes the best OpenStack platform

VMware lowers costs compared to other hypervisors

and cloud platforms

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session

HOL:

HOL-SDC-1301

Applied Cloud Operations

HOL-SDC-1304

vSphere Performance Optimization

Group Discussions:

VSVC1002-GD

Overall vSphere/vSOM, pricing packaging and licensing, roadmap with

Mike Adams

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Virtualization Rookie or Pro:

Why vSphere is Your Best Choice

Eric Horschman, VMware

Jeff Margolese, VMware

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