vmworld 2015: take virtualization to the next level vsphere with operations management

Take Virtualization to the Next Level:vSphere with Operations Management

Martin Yip, VMware, IncHimanshu Singh, VMware, Inc

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Disclaimer

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Agenda

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1 Market Perspective

2 What’s New in vSphere

3 What’s New in Operations Management

4 Proof Points and Customer Successes

5 Next Steps

6 Q & A

IT at the

Speed of Business

Customers Need Help Bridging Between Existing and New IT to Support the Business and ALL Workloads

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* Source: Gartner, 2013: “Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda”

IT Technology Eras

Mainframe Client-Server Mobile-Cloud

$ $ $ $ $ $

Ability of IT to

Deliver

Steady IT

Budgets*

Business

Expectations

Public Cloud Private Cloud

Software-Defined Data Center

Hybrid Cloud

Applications

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One Cloud, Any Application

vSphere with Operations Management

is the Foundation

The Transformative Opportunity for IT

Provide Solutions at the Speed the Business Operates

Move from being Reactive to Proactive

Become a Strategic Partner to the Business

• Quickly deliver reliable services and applications and be more flexible to business requests

• Enable higher performance and availability of infrastructure and applications

• Deliver not just operational efficiency, but improve the way the business operates and add value and differentiation along the way.

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What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation

#1 - Match Speed of the Business

Consistent management and automation for the virtual data center

Optimize infrastructure

efficiency and IT productivity

Infrastructure designed for mobile, social, big data and hybrid cloud apps

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#2 – Become Proactive

Get meaningful insights in one place,

covering the entire stack

Get better visibility into dependencies of

apps to infra

Improve performance and reduce downtimes

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#3 – Become a Strategic Partner to the Business

Optimize workload placement and

balancing, for better app performance

Enforce IT standards and

security hardening guidelines, to

improve operations

Safely automate manual tasks at an effective scale, with customizable and adaptable tools

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Today’s Reality in Virtualized Data Centers

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Monitoring Data Overload Alert Storms

Finger Pointing

DBA

VI Storage

Over-provisioning

What is vSphere with Operations Management?

vSphere vRealize Operations vSphere with Operations

Management

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What’s New in vSphere

vSphere 6 | The Platform for Any Application

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• 2x to 4x scale increase across the platform

• Enhanced 2D / 3D support w. NVIDIA GRID vGPU

• Rapid provisioning 10x faster with Instant Clone

Scale & Performance Breakthrough AvailabilitySimplified Data Center

Management

• Zero Downtime Live Migration (vMotion) over long distance and across boundaries

• Continuous Availability (Fault Tolerance) for multi-processor VMs

• Sharing across environments

- Content Library

• More responsive and

streamlined Web Client

• vCenter Server the way you

like

Unified Platform for Any Application

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Scale-up, Scale-out, and Everything in Between

Scale-Up

Scale-Out

2x

2x

1.5x

3x

2x

2x

4x

Cloud and Business-Critical Applications Require Scale

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Up to 4X Scale Improvement with vSphere 6

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6

Hosts per Cluster 32 64

VMs per Cluster 4,000 8,000

CPUs per Host 320 480

RAM per Host 4 TB 12 TB1

VMs per Host 512 1,024

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 128

Virtual RAM per VM 1 TB 4 TB

1 With specific server OEM partners

• Superior 2D and 3D graphics on hosts with NVIDIA GRID GPU

• Enables shared access to physical GPUs

• Uses native NVIDIA drivers

• Best for high performance needs like desktop virtualization with

graphic intensive applications in the fields of healthcare,

manufacturing, higher education, and oil & gas

Overview

• Superior 2D and 3D graphics

• Full capabilities of physical NVIDIA GPUs

• High Density, Low Cost Graphics workstation

Benefits

NVIDIA GRID vGPU

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Superior 2D and 3D Graphics for Virtual Environments

• Technology that enables the ability to rapidly clone and provision

thousands of VMs in minutes.

• Part of vSphere 6.0 but will be enabled by other applications such

as BDE and Horizon View in later releases.

Overview

• Clone VMs 10X faster than what is currently possible today

• Deploy thousands of virtual desktops in a matter of minutes

versus what would normally take hours

Benefits

Instant Clone

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Rapidly Clone and Provision Virtual Machines

Lighting Fast Cloning

Redefine Availability

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• Targeting cross-continental distances –up to 150 ms RTTs

• Maintain standard vMotion guarantees

• Leader in VM flexibility

Overview*

• Permanent migrations between data centers

• Disaster avoidance (DA)

• SRM/DA testing

• Multi-site load balancing

• Follow the sun

Benefits

Long-Distance vMotion

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The Next Generation in vMotion Innovation

Instantaneous

Failover

*vSphere 6 will also support cross switch and cross vCenter Server vMotions

Fault Tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs

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Symmetric 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; up to 93% of workloads

• 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

Simplify Data Center Management

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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 Library

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Store and Sync VMs, OVFs, and ISOs

• vSphere’s core interface

• Supported across all web browsers

• Massive enhancements focused on performance and

responsiveness

• More intuitive and easier to navigate

Overview

• 5x Performance Gains

• Simple to find tasks, menus, and relate context to a given task

Benefits

Web Client

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Performance and Usability That Scales

vCenter Server Features - Enhanced Capabilities

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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.

Overview

When do you plan to upgrade to vSphere 6? What vSphere 6 innovations(s)/improvement(s)

do you find value in?

vSphere 6.0 On Track to Be a Strong Release for VMware

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22%

24%

31%

45%

51%

54%

66%

73%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Content Library

NVIDIA Grid vGPU

Increased Scale

Virtual Volumes

vCenter Server Appliance

Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance

Web Client Improvements

vMotion Enhancements (CrossvCenter/Long Distance vMotion

Already Upgraded

19%

Within 3 Months

21%

Within 6 Months

25%

Within1 Year25%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

91%

One Year

Key Statistics• 30% of customer base is running 6 (adopted in less than 2 quarters)

• Over 100K downloads since release

vCenter Server Appliance

• Easier to Install, Update, and Upgrade

Continued Improvement of the Web Client

• vSphere Update Manager Support

• Performance

Faster Host Evacuation Time

• Faster Maintenance of Systems

Certificate Authority – CLI to UI

• Simplified Management

vSphere 6 Update 1 HighlightsThere Has Never Been a Better Time to Move to 6!

Install /Upgrade

Configure

High Availability

Backup / Restore

Scaling

Patching

vSphere Lifecycle Focus

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Let’s Talk about Operations Management

The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics

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Operational Analytics

Performance & Availability

Logs & Unstructured

Data

Topology Analysis

Configuration Health

Capacity Consumption

Learned Behavior

Historical Data Planned ProjectsPredicted Behavior

Leveraging Past and Present – Predictive Analytics

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Expected Demand Real-time Events

Automate

workflowsImprove IT utilization

& avoid risk

Identify stress & gain

efficiency

Immediate

Problems

Emerging

issuesOpportunities to

Optimize

Smart Alerts

Monitoring the Health of Your Datacenter

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Smart Alerts and Guided Remediation withAnalytics-driven Automation

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Combine multiple symptoms to

show actual issue

Symptoms not limited to

badges: any object, any metric

What are the

recommendations

to resolve this

issue?

What automated actions

can I take to remediate?

Which symptoms across

the stack are causing this

problem?

Capacity Analytics

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Capacity Analytics to inform when,

why, what and where

Granular breakdown of

capacity metrics for

Compute, Memory,

Network and Storage

Optimization – Identify Overprovisioned Resources

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Breakdown of

reclaimable capacity

Automation – Take Action to Reclaim Capacity

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One-click action

to optimize your capacity

vRealize Operations Insight (vROI):vRealize Operations ADV + vRealize Log Insight

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vROI is an add-on bundle for vSOM, that lets you leverage all your IT data for comprehensive visibility in one place

Structured Data

Metrics Alerts Events

VMware vRealize Operations

Capacity, Performance and

Configuration ManagementEvents

Launch in Context

Unstructured Data

Logs Messages

VMware vRealize

Log Insight

Log analytics, aggregation,

and search

Log Insight Dashboard

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Logs for Last Mile to Root Cause Analysis

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SCSI Errors

NFS Errors

vMotion Failures

Host Disconnects

Dropped Packets

Failed Tasks

Slow Host Syncs

Slow DB Queries

Monitor compliance to

standards

PCI DSS Standard

Take action on non-compliant items by launching

Configuration Manager

Continuous Compliance Monitoring & Enforcement

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Gain Insights on Applications and Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

Inventory

Application

Dependencies

Application & Infrastructure Health

Automatically discover application dependencies on infra

Prioritize business critical over non-production workloads

Manage infrastructure aligned with the business

vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM) and vRealizeOperations Insight (vROI) -Packaging & Capability Map

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vSphere with Operations Management

vRealize Operations Standard

vSphere

vRealize Operations Insight

vRealize Operations Advanced

vRealize Log Insight

✚

• Monitoring and smart alerts

• Root cause analysis and remediation

• Metering, trending and optimization

• Customizable dashboards

• OS and hardware resource monitoring

• Application dependency mapping

• Change management and regulatory compliance

vRealize Operations Standard

vRealize Operations Advanced

• Real-time monitoring and analytics

• Automatic visualizations

• Supports both VMware and non-VMware logs

vRealize Log Insight

vRealize Operations Insight Partner Ecosystem

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This is not an exhaustive list

VMware Solutions

Amazon Web Services

vCloud Air

Storage Devices

NSX

vCloud Networking & Security

EMC Smarts

Partner Solutions

EMC Storage Analytics

HP OneView

VCE Vision

Dell Compellent Storage

HP StoreFront

Cisco UCS

NetFlow Logic

vSphere with Operations Management 6.1vRealize Operations Insight 6.1Coming Soon

What’s New: Intelligent Workload Management

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Intelligent Workload

BalancingIntegrated OS Monitoring*

• Capacity Utilization

Dashboard - visualize

workloads across clusters,

vCenters, data centers.

• Balancing Plan –

recommends and helps

achieve optimal placement

and balance.

• OS monitoring available

natively in vRealize

Operations.

• Comprehensive visibility in

one place to identify and

avoid issues across the entire

stack.

* Available in vROI

Intelligent Workload Balancing

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Integrated OS Monitoring

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How You and Your OrganizationCan Benefit

vSphere with Operations Management –Get More from Your vSphere

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VSOM 6.0 enables Better Business Outcomes

2.4x Return on

Investment

30% More

Visibility

53% Reduction

in

IT Costs

54% Decrease

in

Downtime

vRealize Operations Customer Benchmarking Study, Jan 2014

"One of the reasons behind our growth

and success as a leading national

provider of employee assistance

programs is technology.

VMware provides us with agility to

compete effectively with larger

competitors and the ability to

accommodate up to 5,000 new

customers in an hour while continuing to

deliver an exceptional customer

experience.

With VMware vSphere with Operations

Management, we get better insights

about where we are today and where we

want to be in the future.”

Erin Krehbiel, President,

ACI Specialty Benefits.

Customers Increase Data Center Availability andOptimize IT Resources

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1Hyper-V

displacement to

improve SLAs

<1Minute for

mean time to

resolution (vs.

15-20 min)

“For the first time ever we’re able to capacity

plan, to look ahead and forecast what we’re

going to need for the next one, three, or five

years.”

Ricky Caldwell, Director of Server Operations,

Architecture and Infrastructure

“It was almost jaw dropping in terms of the

memory and resources we would get back by

using vSphere with Operations Management.”

Leon Ravenna, VP of Infrastructure & Operations

25%Increase in

efficiency (fewer

resources

delivering

more value)

20%Increase in

VM density

70%Reduction in

hardware costs

20%Decrease in

operational

costs

“The organization has been crying out for

quicker implementation of new applications.

Using vSphere with Operations Management,

we can bring up new virtual hosts and deploy

applications much more rapidly than in the

past.”

Paul Reed, Director of IT, The Waddington Group

52%Increase in

consolidation

ratios

80%Reduction in

time spent

integrating

backend

systems

31%Boost in

storage

capacity

utilization

Want a Deep Dive? Attend These Two Sessions

INF 5239

How to Manage the Health, Performance and Capacity of Your Data Center, using vSphere with Operations Management

MGT 5245

vRealize Operations Insight: Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center…All In One Place!

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Speakers:Himanshu Singh, Product Line Marketing ManagerHicham Mourad, Group Technical Marketing Manager

Next Steps

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Take Virtualization to the Next Level:vSphere with Operations Management

Martin Yip, VMware, IncHimanshu Singh, VMware, Inc

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