VMware Overview

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VMware Overview

• VMware Server Virtualization Seminar Series

Noah Johnson Sr. Systems Engineer VMware Inc
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Agenda

• Introduction to VMware and Server Virtualization
• VMware Solutions Overview
• VMware Product Line Overview

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VMware By the Numbers
1998
Founded
709 M
2006 Revenue
2,500
Number of Employees
20,000
Number of VMware Infrastructure Customers
4 million
Number of Users
3,000
Number of Channel Partners
10,000
Number of VMware Certified Professionals
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Who Uses VMware?
100 of the Fortune 100
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Virtualization Technology Overview
The Challenge

• Old ModelTraditional x86 Architecture
• Single OS image per machine
• Software and hardware tightly coupled
• Multiple applications often conflict
• Underutilized resources

? Old model is challenging!
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State of Infrastructure Today Physical
Power Cooling
Server Sprawl

• 38 m physical servers by 2010 - 700 increase in
  15 years
• 140 bn in excess server capacity - a 3-year
  supply

• 50c for every 1 spent on servers
• 29 bn in power and cooling industry wide

Operating Cost
Space Crunch

• 8 in maintenance for every 1 spent on new
  infrastructure
• 20-30 1 server-to-admin ratio

• 1,000 /sqft
• 2,400 / server
• 40,000 / rack

Source IDC
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What is Virtualization?
Without Virtualization
Application
Operating System
Hardware

• VMware provides hardware virtualization that
  presents a complete x86 platform to the virtual
  machine
• Allows multiple applications to run in isolation
  within virtual machines on the same physical
  machine
• Virtualization provides direct access to the
  hardware resources to give you much greater
  performance than software emulation

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Virtualization Increases Hardware Utilization
Before VMware
Virtualization enables consolidation of workloads
from underutilized servers onto a single server
to safely achieve higher utilization
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Key Properties of Virtual Machines

• Partitioning
• Run multiple operating systems on one physical
  machine
• Divide system resources between virtual machines

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Key Properties of Virtual Machines

• Partitioning
• Run multiple operating systems on one physical
  machine
• Divide system resources between virtual machines

• Isolation
• Fault and security isolation at the hardware
  level
• Advanced resource controls preserve performance

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Key Properties of Virtual Machines

• Partitioning
• Run multiple operating systems on one physical
  machine
• Divide system resources between virtual machines

• Isolation
• Fault and security isolation at the hardware
  level
• Advanced resource controls preserve performance

• Encapsulation
• Entire state of the virtual machine can be saved
  to files
• Move and copy virtual machines as easily as
  moving and copying files

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Key Properties of Virtual Machines

• Partitioning
• Run multiple operating systems on one physical
  machine
• Divide system resources between virtual machines

• Isolation
• Fault and security isolation at the hardware
  level
• Advanced resource controls preserve performance

• Encapsulation
• Entire state of the virtual machine can be saved
  to files
• Move and copy virtual machines as easily as
  moving and copying files

• Hardware-Independence
• Provision or migrate any virtual machine to any
  similar or different physical server

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State of Infrastructure with Virtualization
Note Savings include estimated cost of VMware
licenses, Support and Subscription
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The Enterprise PC Challenge
IT Are We Having Fun Yet?
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ESX Server

• Deploy multiple virtual machines on a single
  physical server
• Market leading

ESX Server

• Performance
• Stability
• Scalability
• Cross-platform support

Physical Server
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Non-Disruptive Capacity on Demand
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Instant Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment
Physical
Test Apps
Configure hardware
Install OS
Configure OS Tools
Assign IP Addr
Configure Network
20-40 hrs of work 4-6 week lead time
lt1 hr of work 1-2 days lead time
Deploy from Template
Power on VM
Virtual

• Provisioning time reduced to minutes, not days to
  weeks!

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From server boot to running VMs in Minutes
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• Power on server and boot into hypervisor
• Configure Admin Password
• (optional) Modify network configuration
• Connect VI Client to IP Address
• Or manage with VirtualCenter

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VMware VMotion
73 of VMware customers have implemented VMotion
in production

• Live migration of virtual machines
• Zero downtime

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VMware DRS
67 of VMware customers use DRS in production
Business Demand

• Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware
  resources
• Ensure optimal alignment between business and IT

Resource Pool
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Ensure High availability with VMware HA

• VMware HA automatically restarts virtual machines
  when a physical server fails

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Resource Pool
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Distributed Power Management (coming soon)
NEW!
Minimize power consumption while guaranteeing
service levels

• Consolidates workloads onto fewer servers when
  the cluster needs fewer resources
• Places unneeded servers in standby mode
• Brings servers back online as workload needs
  increase

Business Demand
Power Off
Resource Pool
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Storage VMotion
NEW!
Storage VMotion minimizes planned downtime for
storage

• Storage independent live migration of virtual
  machine disks
• Zero downtime to virtual machines
• LUN independent
• Supported for Fibre channel SANs

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VMware Update Manager
NEW!

• Eliminates manual tracking of patch levels of ESX
  Server hosts and virtual machines
• Automates enforcement of patch standards
• Reduces risk through snapshots and offline
  virtual machine patching

OFFLINE
Update Manager
Note RHEL guests can only be scanned, not
remediated
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Non-disruptive ESX Server Patching with Update
Manager and DRS

• Update Manager patches entire DRS clusters
• Each host in the cluster enters DRS maintenance
  mode, one at a time
• VMs are migrated off, host is patched rebooted
  if required
• VMs are migrated back on
• Next host is selected

Update Manager

VMotion
VMotion
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Protect data with VMware consolidated backup
Centralized file level backup enables easy
reliable data protection

• What is it?
• Centralized agentless backup for virtual
  machines
• Move backup out of the virtual machine
• Eliminate backup traffic on the local area
  network
• Pre-integrated with major 3rd-party backup
  products

CENTRALIZEDDATA MOVER
BACKUPPROXY
BACKUP DISK
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ESX Server 3i
NEW!
Next generation, thin hypervisor integrated in
server systems

• Integrated in server systems
• Easiest way to deploy and manage virtualization
• Hardware is certified and ready-to-run
• Intuitive start up experience that dramatically
  reduces deployment time
• Optimized for remote management
• Thin architecture
• Unparalleled security and reliability
• Compact 32MB footprint
• Only OS-independent design focused on
  virtualization

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The Virtual Infrastructure Stack Today
Infrastructure Optimization
SW Lifecycle
Desktop Management
Business Continuity
Resource Mgt
Security
Availability
Mobility

• ESX Server
• VMFS
• Virtual SMP

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VirtualCenter Capabilities
Centralized Management
What's new
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Guided Consolidation
NEW!
DISCOVER

• Automatically discovers physical servers
• Analyzes utilization and usage patterns
• Converts physical servers to VMs placed
  intelligently based on user response

ANALYZE
CONVERT
Recommended for smaller environments
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Introducing VMware Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware
Infrastructure to transform disaster recovery

• Simplifies and automates disaster recovery
  workflows
• Setup, testing, failover, failback
• Provides central management of recovery plans
  from VirtualCenter
• Turns manual recovery processes into automated
  recovery plans
• Simplifies integration with 3rd-party storage
  replication

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DR Challenges Today
Challenges of Traditional DR Recovery Process
Prod
DR
Boot Pray
cd, tape or ghost image
WAN
Application
Application
OS
OS
x86
x86
OS files
OS files
local storage
local storage
Repl process OS Images App Data-Replication
SW SAN-SAN, OS based
Storage
Storage
Just Tier 1!

• Complex to physically recover OS, applications
  data
• Separate processes for system and application
  data
• OS applications have dependencies on hardware
  configuration
• Tier 2 3 applications left unprotected, adding
  to Tier 1 RTO risk

Slow and Unreliable Process
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Replication with VMware Array-Based Replication
DR SITE
PRIMARY
WAN or Dark Fiber
Target VMFS
Source VMFS
SLAs High
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Disaster Recovery
Recovery Site
Primary Datacenter
Host-based replication
30 miles

• RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 24 hours
• Reduced TCO by 50
• Saw ROI of 600 in four months

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Customer Example Infrastructure Optimization
1200 Servers on 100 Physical Chassis

• Utilization up to 80
• 121 consolidation ratio
• 201 Space reduction
• 60 of x86 environment virtualized
• Staffing not increased in 2.5 years
• Provisioning reduced to hours from weeks

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Software Lifecycle Automation

• Developer Productivity
• gt75 reduction in server-to-staff ratio
• 10X reduction in system config time
• 20 acceleration of software lifecycle
• Software Quality
• Assists defect capture and resolution in
  pre-production

• 816,000 saved over 3 years
• 21.6 days reduction per release cycle

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Virtual Desktops

• Benefits
• Central Management, Security, Compliance
• Business Continuity
• Standard PC management model and isolation

• Eliminated need to buy PCs
• Reduced time to add a new PC image to lt10 min
• Administer all desktops worldwide centrally with
  VirtualCenter

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VI Transforms Key I.T. Metrics
Return on Assets
Overall Business Impact of IT

• Reduce Response times by gt 90
• Save gt30 of Budget allocate to strategic
  projects

• Reduce Capex by gt 50
• Increase Server Utilization by 3-4X

• Reduced Opex by gt 70
• Reduce Cost of Power Cooling by gt 85
• Reduce Admin cost and Time by gt 80

• Recovery Time down to minutes!
• gt 90 of Apps assured of gt99.9 availability
• 100 Apps now under DR plan

Operational Expenses
Uptime, Service Levels
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Get Started Today
Free 30 day VMware Infrastructure evaluation
license
Engage VMware and VMware partners to - Assess
your infrastructure needs - Design an
implementation roadmap
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Thank you!
Noah Johnson Sr Systems Engineer VMware
Inc njohnson_at_vmware.com