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Nyheterna i VMware vSphere 6Teknisk Deep Dive

Henry Persson, VMwareSr. Systems Engineerhpersson@vmware.com

Agenda

1 vSphere Platform Features

2 vCenter Server Features

3 vSphere Networking Features

4 vSphere Storage Features

5 vSphere Availability Features

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Varför vSphere 6.0? 650 Nyheter och förbättringar!

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• Scale-Up – SQL Server, Oracle,

Exchange, SAP

• Scale-Out – Big Data, PaaS, SAP

HANA

• Containers

• 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

vSphere 2015 Platform Features

2x

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Platform Features - Increased vSphere Maximums

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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 TB

VMs per Host 512 1,024

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 128

Virtual RAM per VM 1 TB 4 TB

Platform Features - Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 6 (vHW 11)

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• 128 vCPUs

• 4 TB RAM

• Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware

• WDDM 1.1 GDI acceleration features

• xHCI 1.0 controller compatible with OS X 10.8+ xHCI driver

• Serial and parallel port enhancements

– A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports

– Serial and parallel ports can now be removed

ESXi 6 Supports:

Platform Features - Local ESXi Account and Password Management Enhancements

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Now possible to use ESXCLI commands to:

Create a new local user

List local user accounts

Remove local user account

Modify local user account

List permissions defined on the host

Set / remove permission for individual users or user groups

No editing of PAM config files on the host required anymore

Change default password complexity rules using VIM API

Configurable via vCenter Host Advanced System Settings

Two Configurable Parameters

Can set the maximum allowed failed login attempts (10 by default)

Can set lockout duration period (2 minutes by default)

Configurable via vCenter Host Advanced System Settings

Available for SSH and vSphere Web Services SDK

DCUI and Console Shell are not locked

New ESXCLI CommandsComplexity Rules via

Advanced Settings Account Lockout

Platform Features - 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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Platform Features - Enhanced Microsoft Clustering (MSCS)

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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 Compatibility Mode RDM’s

Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2

Following MSCS Capabilities Available:

Platform Features - GPU Acceleration Enhancements

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• New Support for Intel GPUs

– vmklinux driver

– Driver provided by Intel

• Expanded NVIDIA support

– NVIDIA GRID vGPU.

– Native driver

– Driver provided by NVIDIA

Note: GPU cards assigned to VMs must not be used by the ESX console.

vCenter Server 6.0 Features

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 8,000 8,000

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.

vCenter Server 6.0 – Platform Services Controller

Platform Services Controller includes takes it beyond just Single Sign-On. It groups:

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 where there is less then two SSO integrated solutions

• External

vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller in their own virtual machines

- Recommended for most deployments where there are two or more SSO integrated solutions

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Platform Services Controller

PSC

vCenter

vCenter

vCenter Server 6.0 – Linked Mode Comparison

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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

• Provisions each ESXi host, each vCenter Server and vCenter Server service with certificates that are signed by VMCA

New vCenter Server solutions for complete certificate lifecycle management:

vCenter Server 6.0 - Certificate Lifecycle Management for vCenter and ESXi

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While you can decide not to use VMCA in your certificate chain, you must use VECS to store all certificates, and keys for vCenter Server and services.

All ESXi certificates are stored locally on the host.

VMware Endpoint

Certificate Service (VECS)

VMware Certificate

Authority (VMCA)

• Stores all certificates and private keys for vCenter Server and vCenter Server services

• Managing VECS is done via vecs-cli

vCenter Server 6.0 - 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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• Simultaneously changes

– Compute

– Storage

– Network

– vCenter

• vMotion without shared storage

• Increased scale

– Pool resources across vCenter servers

• Targeted topologies

– Local

– Metro

– Intra-Continental

vCenter Server 6.0 - Cross vCenter vMotion

vCenter Server

VM Network(L2 Connectivity)

vDS A vDS B

vMotionNetwork

vMotion

vCenter Server

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vCenter Server 6.0 - Long Distance vMotion

• Intra-continental distances – up to 150ms RTTs

• Maintain standard vMotion guarantees

• Does not require VVOLs, but supported

• Replication Support

– Active/Active only

• Synchronous

• Asynchronous

• Use Cases:

– Permanent migrations

– Disaster avoidance

– Multi-site load balancing

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vCenter Server 6.0 – vMotion Requirements

• ESX & vCenter 6.0+ at both source and destination

• SSO Domain

– Same SSO domain to use the UI

– Different SSO domain possible if using API

• 250 Mbps network bandwidth per vMotion operation

– Unchanged from previous versions

• L2 network connectivity on VM network portgroups

– IP addresses are retained

• VM UUID maintained across vCenter server instances

– Not the same as MoRef or BIOS UUID

• Data Preservation

– Events, Alarms, and Tasks History

• HA/DRS Settings

• Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules

• Automation level

• Start-up priority

• Host isolation response

– VM Resource Settings

• Shares

• Reservations

• Limits

– MAC Address of virtual NIC

• MAC Addresses preserved across vCenters

– Always unique within a vCenter

– Not reused when VM leaves vCenter

FeaturesRequirements

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vCenter Server 6.0 - Content Library Overview

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• Simple content management

– VM templates

– vApps

– ISO images

– Scripts

• Store and manage content

– One central location to manage all content

• Beyond templates within vCenter

– Support for other file types

• Share content

– Store once, share many times

• Publish/Subscribe

– vCenter -> vCenter

– vCloud Director -> vCenter

• Consume content

– Deploy templates to a host or a cluster

vCenter Server 6.0 - Clients

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Client Comparison

Use case Web Client vSphere Client

vSphere management ✔ ✔

ESXi/VM patching (VUM) ✖ ✔

Hardware version 8-11 ✔ ✔*

New features ✔ ✖

* v10-11 Read only access

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Client

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• 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*

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client

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• Improved login time

• Faster right click menu load

• Faster performance charts

Performance

• Recent Tasks moved to bottom

• Flattened right click menus

• Deep lateral linking

Usability

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client Features

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Major Performance Improvements:

– UI

• Screen by screen code optimization

• Login now 13x faster

• Right click menu now 4x faster

• Most tasks end to end are 50+% faster

– Performance charts

• Charts are available and usable in less then half the time

– VMRC integration

• Advanced virtual machine operations

vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client

• Usability Improvements

– Can get anywhere in one click

– Right click menu has been flattened

– Recent tasks are back at the bottom

– Dockable UI

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vSphere 6.0 Networking

vSphere 6.0 - Network I/O Control Version 3

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• 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

vCenter Server 6.0 – Multiple TCP/IP Stacks vMotion network will cross L3 boundaries

vMotion & NFC network can now use it’s own TCP/IP stack

vCenter vCenterManagement Network

VMNetwork

vMotionNetwork

NFC Network

ESXi ESXi

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vSphere 6.0 Storage

Storage IO Control & Storage DRS enhancements

• Storage DRS is now aware of storage capabilities through VASA 2.0

– Array-based thin-provisioning

– Array-based deduplication

– Array-based auto-tiering

– Array-based snapshot

• Storage DRS Integration with Site Recovery Manager

– Aware of consistency groups!

• vSphere Replication full support (replica awareness)

• Set IOps reservation on a per disk basis using the API

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Datastore Cluster

Capabilities

Thin Provisioned

Deduplication

Auto-Tiering

Vendor Provider

VASA

VMware Virtual SAN 6.0

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

…

• Software-defined storage embedded in the

vSphere core

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools local HDD/SSD into a shared datastore

• Managed through per-VM storage policies

• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and

performance

• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of

hardware failures

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

The Basics

Hard disksSSD

Hard disksSSD

Hard disksSSD

Virtual SAN Shared

Datastore

Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs

What’s New in Virtual SAN 6.0

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4x Performance

2x Scale

90K IOPS/host (4.5x more)

Scale to 64 nodes (2x more)

200 VMs/host (2x more)

62 TB max. virtual disk size

Enterprise Data

Services

New high performance

snapshots & clones

Rack awareness to tolerate

rack failures

HW-based checksum &

encryption

Broader Hardware

Support

Expand scalability for

blades with direct-attached

JBODs

Expanded HCL and more

ready nodes

All Flash

Architecture

Data persistence on SSD

Intelligent caching and two-

tier architecture

VMware Virtual Volumes

vSphere Virtual Volumes

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Management & Integration Framework for External Storage

VirtualVolumes

Overview

• Virtualizes SAN and NAS devices

• Virtual disks are natively represented on arrays

• Enables finer control with VM level storage

operations using array-based data services

• Storage Policy-Based Management enables

automated consumption at scale

• Supports existing storage I/O protocols (FC, iSCSI,

NFS)

• Industry-wide initiative supported by major storage

vendors

• Included with vSphere

Without Virtual Volumes

Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-duplication

vSphere

vSphere 6.0 – Virtual Volumes

Policy based Management

Offloaded Data Services

Eliminates LUN Management

Provides Per-VM Granularity

datastore a

vSphere

Array-a Array-b

LUN

LUNLUN

LUN

LUN

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External Storage Architectures

With Virtual Volumes

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vSphere 6.0 - High Level Storage Architecture

Published Capabilities

Snapshot

Replication

Deduplication

Encryption

Overview

• No File System

• ESX manages array through VASA

(vSphere APIs for storage

awareness) APIs

• Arrays are logically partitioned into

containers, called Storage

Containers

• VM disks, called Virtual Volumes,

stored natively on the Storage

Containers.

• IO from ESX to array is addressed

through an access point called

Protocol Endpoint (PE)

• Data services are offloaded to the

array

• Managed through storage policy-

based management framework

vSphereVirtual Volumes

Storage Policy

Capacity

Availability

Performance

Data Protection

Security

PEVASA Provider

PE

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt.

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vSphere Virtual Volumes Is An Industry-wide Initiative

Multiple

Ready at GA

Unique

capabilities

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And Many More…

29 Partners in

the Program

vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

vSphere 6.0 VMware Fault Tolerance

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Protect mission critical, high performance applications regardless of OS; No application-specific management and learning

Continuous availability – zero downtime and zero data loss for infrastructure failures; no loss of TCP connections

Fully automated response

Benefits

Enhanced virtual disk format support

Ability to hot configure FT

Greatly increased FT host compatibility

Additional new features

ESXi ESXi

Fast Checkpointing Sync

Primary Secondary

4 vCPU 4 vCPUPrimary

Instantaneous Failover

vSphere 6.0 vSphere Replication

vSphere 6.0 – VMware vSphere Replication

• End-to-end network compression

– Further reduces bandwidth requirements

• Network traffic isolation

– Controls bandwidth, improves performance

and security

• Linux file system quiescing

– Increased reliability when recovering Linux VMs

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VMware Tools

Host Mgmtvmknic0

VR Trafficvmknic1

LAN

WAN

Storage vMotion

vSphere 6.0 – VMware vSphere Replication

• Faster full sync

– Improves performance, reduces bandwidth consumption

• Move replicas without full sync

– Balance storage utilization while avoiding RPO violation

• Virtual appliances run SLES 11 SP3, supports IPv6

– Improved security and compatibility

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Replica Replica

Y YCompare

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Allocated? Allocated?

N N

vSphere 6.0 vSphere Data Protection

vSphere 6.0 VMware vSphere Data Protection

• Data protection and disaster recovery for VMs integrated with vSphere

• Included with vSphere Essentials Plus and higher editions

• Simple to deploy, easy to manage with the vSphere Web Client

• Based on EMC Avamar and utilizes changed block tracking (CBT)

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VDP VDP

Backup Data Replication

vSphere Data Protection includes all

functionality previously included with

vSphere Data Protection Advanced

vSphere 6.0 vSphere Data Protection

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• 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

– Reduce complexity and cost

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

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

– Robust protection for mission-critical workloads

Features and Benefits

vSphere Edition Line-up 1

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1 All reference pricing above is suggested MSRP for the US, in USD. Regional prices will vary, please refer to regional pricing resources.2 Advanced backup features (app-aware agents, replication, integration with Data Domain, etc.) are now available in VDP3 Storage Policy-Based Management provides the same functionality as Profile-Driven Storage, but has been renamed to reflect a complete policy-driven

engine

Price (per CPU, license only)

Features

vSphere

Standard Enterprise Enterprise+

2 vCPU

SMP-FT• High Availability, and Fault Tolerance

• vMotion, X-Switch vMotion, and Storage vMotion

• Host Profiles and Auto Deploy

• Storage DRS

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

• Reliable Memory

• Data Protection (VDP)2 / and VM Data Replication

• vShield Endpoint

• Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management

• APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing

• Big Data Extensions

• Flash Read Cache

• Distributed Switch

• X-VC and Long Distance vMotion

• Multi-VC Content Library

• Virtual Volumes and Storage-Policy Based Management3

2 vCPU

SMP-FT

4 vCPU

SMP-FT

New feature in Q1 2015

• vGPU

• APIs for Storage Awareness

vCloud Suite 2015 Edition Lineup 1,2

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vSphere Enterprise Plus

• Virtualized infrastructure with policy-based automation

Provisioning & Automation (additional licenses available for heterogeneous environments)

• Application and data services – Application provisioning, changes and data

• Governance – Approvals, reclamation, cost profile and transparency

• Extensibility – Infrastructure integrations, workflows and customizations

• Infrastructure provisioning and management

Site Recovery Manager

vRealize Business Std 3 vRealize Business Std 3

vSphere

Enterprise Plus

vSphere

Enterprise Plus

vSphere

Enterprise Plus

Operations Management (additional licenses available for heterogeneous

environments)

• Application Monitoring – OS, middleware, databases

• OS-level configuration & regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX…)

• Extensibility – Adapters for 3rd party OS and application monitoring tools

• Extensibility – Adapters for 3rd party infrastructure monitoring tools

• vSphere hardening, change and configuration management

• Application discovery and dependency mapping

• Operations dashboard – Health monitoring and performance analytics

• Capacity management – Resource monitoring, planning and optimization

vRealize Operations

Adv

vRealize

Automation Ent

vRealize Operations

Std

vRealize

Automation Adv

vRealize

Automation Std

Disaster Recovery Automation

• Automated disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution

EnterpriseAdvancedStandard

1 All reference pricing above is suggested MSRP for the US, in USD. Regional prices will vary, please refer to regional pricing resources. 2 vCloud Director and vCloud Networking Services no longer offered in vCloud Suite3 New vRealize Business Standard for vSphere being added to the vCloud Suite package.

vRealize Operations

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Business Management

• Automated infrastructure costing and metering

• Integrated pricing with self-service provisioning

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Trevor Pott, The Register, om vSphere 6.0, 5:e Februari, 2015

“VMware have THE

hypervisor. What everyone

else has is nice, but if were

being honest, nobody else

even comes close.”

“VMware changes everything, again.”

“vSphere 6 is BADASS.”

“There is now no excuse not to

be 100 per cent virtualized.

Even for applications upon

which lives depend.”

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Uppgradering

• Upgrading is straightforward, but the majority of work is planning

– Strategic Planning ‒ 75 percent

• Decisions and contingency planning

• Scheduling and change control

• Anticipating delays and issues

• Creating a formal upgrade plan

– Tactical Execution ‒ 25 percent

• Pre-upgrade tasks

• Performing upgrade

• Verifying environment

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Proper Planning is

Critical to a Successful

Upgrade

vSphere Upgrade StepsStart

Upgrade vCenter Platform Services and other

services migrated based on

original configuration

Update the

vSphere Client

Update vSphere

Update ManagerUpdate Plug-ins

Update ESXi

Hosts

Post Install

Actions

Upgrade Virtual

Machines

Only used for direct to Host

Connectivity and vSphere

Update Manager

Plug-Ins

Used?

Yes

Other Plug-Ins?

No

End

VMware ToolsVirtual Machine Hardware

Version

Upgrade VMFS

Volumes to

VMFS5

Assign vSphere

6.0 Licenses

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Mer info:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center

https://onecloud.vmware.com/

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Frågor ?

Henry Perssonhpersson@vmware.com