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  • 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

    VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive Scott Calvet Technical Account Executive VCP-DV 5, VCP-DT 5

    [email protected]

    Twitter: @Gr8VirtualScott; Blog: http://greatvirtualscott.com

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    A little about me.

    Customer for over 13 years

    Industries Financial Software Support Publishing Insurance (Fortune 500)

    Past Roles Help Desk Systems Admin Systems Engineer Systems Architect Regional IT Manager

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    My Industry Certifications

    XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer

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    What's new in vSphere 5.1

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    Announcements Key Highlights

    No more vRAM 64 vCPUs Enhanced vMotion (no shared storage) vSphere 5.1 vShield Endpoint & vSphere Replication Distributed Storage Preview Web Client VXLAN vCloud Suite vCloud Architecture Toolkit 3.0 Software Defined Datacenter

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    Whats New in vSphere 5.1?

    Automation

    VMware vSphere 5.1

    Security

    vShield Endpoint

    Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage working with VCD Enhanced Auto Deploy

    Data Protection Replication vMotion w/o shared

    storage 0 Downtime upgrades

    of VMware Tools

    Availability

    Network Storage

    Enhanced Distributed Switch

    SR-IOV support Storage Space

    Reclamation for VDI

    HW version 9 64 way SMP 1 TB VMs

    Compute

    Single Sign On (vCD, vShield, vCenter) vSphere Web Client

    vCenter Server 5.1 Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator

    Q3

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    vSphere vSphere vSphere

    Auto Deploy

    vCenter Server with Auto Deploy

    Host Profiles

    Image Profiles

    Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new on the fly model

    Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles 2 new operating modes

    Overview

    Benefits

    Fast initial deployment and patching Centralized host and image management Reduce manual deployment and patch

    processes

    Continue deployment even when a failure occurs

    vSphere

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    Distributed Switch

    Distributed Switch now delivers: Network Healthcheck Configuration Backup and Restore Roll Back and Recovery LACP Support

    Visibility into physical and virtual network status

    Backup and recover network settings Fast recovery from lost connectivity or

    incorrect configurations

    Overview

    Benefits vSphere vSphere vSphere

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    Create virtual machines with up to: 64 vCPU 1 TB of vRAM

    2x size of previous vSphere versions Run even the largest applications in

    vSphere, including very large databases

    Virtualize even more applications than ever before (Tier 1 and 2)

    vSphere Scales to Support Mission-Critical Applications

    2x

    Overview

    Benefits

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    Live migration of a virtual machine without the need for shared storage

    Extends VMwares revolutionary

    technology for automated virtual machine movement

    Zero downtime migration No dependency on shared storage Lower operating cost Helps meet service level and

    performance SLAs

    vMotion (w/o Shared Storage)

    Overview

    Benefits

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    New backup and recovery tool for the vSphere platform

    Replaces vSphere Data Recovery

    Based on EMC Avamar

    Use less disk space with deduplication Simple setup and management Proven technology

    vSphere Data Protection

    Overview

    Benefits

    VMware vSphere

    DATA DEDUPLICATED AND STORED ON VDP

    APPLIANCE

    VDP

    *All editions and kits with the exception of Essentials

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    Virtual machine level replication by the vSphere host

    Included with vSphere*

    Low cost/efficient replication option Simple setup from within vCenter Server Integration with SRM enables automated

    DR process

    vSphere Replication

    Overview

    Benefits

    *All editions and kits with the exception of Essentials

    vSphere

    vSphere Replication

    Site A (Primary)

    vSphere

    Site B (Recovery)

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    Secure your VMs with offloaded anti-virus and anti-malware (AV) solutions without the need of agents

    Included with vSphere*

    Simplified AV administration Higher consolidation ratios by preventing

    the possibility of AV storms

    Improved performance

    vShield Endpoint

    Overview

    Benefits

    *All editions and kits with the exception of Essentials

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    Web Client

    New, improved interface into vSphere delivers:

    Browser-based experience Custom tagging Scalability Enhanced workflow management

    Platform independence Tag based on specific business cases Manage more objects and 3x more active

    sessions than ever before

    Pause and resume even the most complex workflow or task

    Overview

    Benefits

    Object Navigator

    Inventory Objects

    Tabs

    Create Custom Actions

    Sidebar Extension

    Portlets

    Add right-click extensions

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    vSphere Web Client Interface Object Navigator

    Sidebar Extension Create custom actions Inventory Objects

    Tabs

    Add right-click extensions

    Portlets

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    Single Sign-On

    Sign-on once rather than multiple times in vCenter Server

    Faster operations Less complexity Support for multiple identity services Future building block for other VMware products and solutions

    Overview

    Benefits

    vSphere Platform Services

    Customer Identity Sources

    vSphere Solutions

    Authentication (Single Sign On)

    vCO Inventory Service vCenter

    Active Directory

    Authoriza

    tion

    Auditing

    vSphere Web Client

    Open LDAP NIS

    Local OS

    Users

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    vCenter Orchestrator

    Workflow Engine Enhancements:

    Web Client Integration (launch workflows)

    New workflow design Simplified configuration and

    installation

    Execute workflows with a single interface Simplicity thru drag and drop workflow

    creation

    Automatic configuration Deploy as a virtual appliance

    Overview

    Benefits

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    The Best of the Rest

    Platform Hardware Version 9 ESXi Platform Updates New VM Features and Capabilities VMware Tools Host Profiles

    Network SR-IOV Port Mirroring Enhancements Scale

    OS Support Windows 8 Server and Desktop Data Recovery Enhancements

    Storage VMFS File Sharing Limits Space Efficient Sparse Virtual

    Disks 5 Node MSCS Cluster Storage Protocol Enhancements Storage Resource Management

    Enhancements vCloud Director Interoperability VAAI for NAS

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    Whats New in vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive vCenter Single Sign On Inventory Service vSphere vCenter 5.1 Installation vSphere Web Client vCenter Performance

    vCenter Server Appliance v5.1 vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.5 vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager (MHM)

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    vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 What's New

    vCenter Server is evolving into a virtualization platform providing the necessary management framework to deliver the needs of todays virtualization administrators. With vCenter 5.1 vCenter Single Sign On Server Authentication services supporting multiple identity sources

    Enhanced Inventory Services Inventory Object Tagging

    vSphere Web Client Fully functional, cross platform vSphere client

    Architectural and Database performance improvements Faster response, better optimization of data

    Separation of components allow for improved performance by reducing direct communications to vCenter Server

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Single Sign On

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    vCenter Server 5.1 Login Experience

    No VC

    required ?

    Users connect to Identity Service for Cloud Infrastructure Suite, not individual vCenters.

    Connect from any site Identity service instances are multi site aware.

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    The Situation Today

    Directory Server (AD)

    vCD

    Authentication at multiple points for the same administrator

    Integrates only with Active Directory

    Lack of true Single Sign On Identity limited in scope No way for a solution to trust

    another vCenter

    Mgmt App

    Mgmt App

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    Introducing vCenter Single Sign On

    Provides single sign-on across management apps vCenter now authenticates with vCenter single sign-on (not AD) Establishing a notion of a solution identity

    Support for multiple or non AD user repositories (eg OpenLDAP) Trust between components using token exchange as opposed to

    each component creating users in VC, VCD, VSM, etc. Better Architecture A single component that offers Multifactor Authentication, multisite support,

    multiple directory service types

    Support an open standard: SAML 2.0 and WS-TRUST SAML 2.0 tokens can be used to authenticate user to a different trust domain

    (a public cloud, say)

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    How Does vCenter Single Sign On Work?

    AD (Domain 1)

    AD (Domain 1)

    Open LDAP

    Web Client

    Login (user, pswd)

    1 Issue Token (user, pswd)

    2Authenticate 3

    Token

    4

    vCenter 1 vCenter 2 VCO vShield vCloud Director

    Login (Token)

    Login (Token)

    Login (Token)

    Login (Token)

    Login (Token)

    5 6 7 8 9

    Local OS

    vCenter Single Sign On

    DB

    OS

    Authenticate SSO users

    3

    Authenticate Local OS users

    3

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    What Components Have Integrated With SSO?

    Inventory Service

    Web Client vCenter

    SSO

    VCO Log Browser

    VSM

    VCD *

    SRM

    VCOPS

    VDP

    Others

    Partners

    2012

    2013/14

    * VCD is partially integrated with SSO, only provider side logins can be integrated with SSO

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    vCenter Single Sign On Server

    Auto-discovery of vCenter 5.1 in vSphere Web Client.

    One time manual registration of vCenter 5.0 needed for discovery by vSphere Web Client. https://:9443/admin-app/

    User gets to see all vCenter instances for which they have permission.

    Linked Mode no longer required for Unified Views of vCenters

    Linked Mode is still required for: Sharing of Permissions Sharing of Roles Sharing of Licenses

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    vCenter Single Sign On Architecture

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    Administration Tools

    Security Token Service API

    (SOAP +

    WS-Trust)

    Group Query API (SOAP)

    Internal Identity Source

    External Identity Source

    Adapters

    Admin API (SOAP)

    Configuration & Policies

    Replication

    Tomcat Server

    Clients Service Provider

    Open LDAP

    Local OS

    Users

    External Identity Sources

    Active Directory

    Database

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    vCenter Single Sign-On Configurations

    Basic vCenter Single Sign-On

    VC Database SSO Database

    vCenter Server Host or VM

    vCenter Server

    SSO Server

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc When to use basic vCenter Single Sign-On: If you have a single vCenter server

    of any supported inventory size (up to 1,000 hosts / 10,000 VMs)

    If you have multiple geographically dispersed locations each with a local vCenter servers and have no requirement for a single pane of glass view provided with vCenter Linked Mode

    You are using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

    Most common deployment option (VMware recommended)

    This is a single standalone instance of the SSO server that supports the connectivity of Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Local Operating System and SSO embedded users and groups

    This typically would be local to the vCenter Server

    Used by the vCenter Server Simple Install option

    Preinstalled with the vCenter Server Appliance

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    vCenter Single Sign-On Configurations

    Primary vCenter Single Sign-On Used for advanced configurations

    vCenter SSO High Availability (SSOHA)

    Local Copy at Remote Sites (Multisite) Installable version of SSO (Windows

    Only) Individual Installer Supports the connectivity of

    Active Directory OpenLDAP SSO embedded users and groups

    Does not support the use of local operating system user accounts

    Only one Primary node can exist in a single SSO environment

    Database

    vCenter Server Host or VM

    vCenter Server

    SSO Server

    (Primary)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

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    vCenter Single Sign-On Configurations

    vCenter Single Sign-On HA Backup (SSO HA)

    Third Party Load Balancer + configuration Complex to setup

    SSL vCenter Components (repointing)

    No Protection of Shared Database Clustered Database support in Update 1 Three solutions for an authentication

    service? Availability Same as vCenter Server

    vSphere HA, vCenter Heartbeat

    vCenter Server 1

    vCenter Server Web

    Client

    Inventory Svc

    Shared Database

    Host or VM

    SSO Server

    (Primary)

    Load Balancer

    Host or VM

    SSO Server

    (HA Backup)

    vCenter Server Web

    Client

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server 2

    Provides failover of vCenter SSO server

    Centralized vCenter SSO server for multiple local vCenter Servers

    Individual Installer

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    vCenter Single Sign-On Configurations

    Local Databases

    vCenter Server

    vCenter Server SSO

    Server (Primary)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server

    vCenter Server SSO

    Server (MultiSIte)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server

    vCenter Server SSO

    Server (MultiSite)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    New York

    Los Angeles Miami

    vCenter Single Sign-On MultiSite Local Authentication

    Removes additional risk (WAN) Maintains same SSO security domain

    Required for Linked Mode Individual Installer Does not provide site redundancy Manual Steps required to maintain

    synchronization of SSO instances

    1. Install Primary SSO in NY 2. Install IS, VC in NY 3. Install Multisite SSO in LA 4. Replicate SSO from NY to LA 5. Install IS, VC in LA 6. Replicate SSO in LA to NY 7. Repeat steps 3-6 for each site

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    Installing vCenter Single Sign On

    Fresh Installation of vCenter Single Sign On Deployment Types (Basic/Primary/MultiSite Replica Node/HA Backup)

    Primary should be Windows vCenter Single Sign On instance

    Requires a database, supports SQL 2005/2008, Oracle 10g,11g Mixed mode authentication is required for bundled database (MS SQL Server Express).

    admin@System-Domain user is created by default as vCenter SSO Administrator Installs 2 Windows services:

    VMware Single Sign On Service (Tomcat service) SSPI Service

    Single Sign On Server included with vCenter Server Appliance

    Upgrade Installation from previous version of vSphere vSphere vCenter 4.x and higher Upgrade process will install SSO first before upgrading to vCenter 5.1 (simple install) Install SSO before upgrading any vCenter Server components (custom install)

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    Configuring vCenter Single Sign On Server

    Defaults Automatically creates SSO Admin User: admin@System-Domain Password: defined during install Local/Active Directory administrators groups added to SSO super users during vCenter install Login with SSO Admin privileges to

    add additional identity sources Define Polices Update STS Certificates

    Register vCenter 5.0 servers https://localhost:9443/admin-app

    Does not support vSphere 4.x environments Desktop VI Clients

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    Inventory Services

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    Enhanced Inventory Service

    Inventory Service provides a query service into VPXD Used by vSphere Web Client Provides reduced load on VPXD from client requests Maintains a cache of vCenter inventory

    Inventory Service installed as a separate component SSO/vCenter Server or a separate server Inventory Service included with vCenter Server Appliance Default Port used 10443, 7443 (configurable)

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    Inventory Object Tagging

    Ability to create custom tags on inventory objects Associate an arbitrary set of objects of the same type using a tag Search for objects by that tag Enables the business case where customers want to create arbitrary groups of

    VMS, Clusters, Datastores for ease of management Storage PBM uses tagging to make placement decisions

    Inventory objects can have multiple tags associated with it Assists Folder limitations of one folder per inventory object Ability to assign permissions based on tags to come later

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    Tags Vs folders

    VM

    NYC VMs

    Finance VMs

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    VM

    Cannot do this with folders

    Tag: NYC_VM

    Tag: Finance_VM

    Assign multiple tags to same VM

    Search VM inventory using tags

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    But I use Custom Attributes?

    Custom Attributes continue to Exist

    Will coexist with Tags in vCenter 5.1

    Web Client : One time migration from Custom Attributes to tags

    Custom Attributes: Legacy Tags: Future

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Installer

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    Installation Then and Now

    Download and Install vCenter

    Download and Install VI Client on desktop

    vCenter 5.0

    vCenter Inventory Service

    vCenter Single Sign On

    vSphere Web Client

    vCenter on Windows

    No desktop client to

    download

    vCenter Server Appliance

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    Order of Installation

    vCenter Inventory Service

    vCenter Single Sign On

    vSphere Web Client

    1 2 3 4

    Install

    Upgrade

    vCenter Single Sign On

    1

    (install)

    vCenter Inventory Service

    vSphere Web Client

    2 3 4

    (upgrade)

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    Simple Install

    Installs SSO, IS and vCenter in a single step. When should I use this option? If you plan to install

    SSO, IS and vCenter in the same VM (or physical server)

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    Custom Install

    When should I use this?

    Deploying SSO, IS and vCenter on different machines

    Deploying SSO in HA or Multisite mode

    If you want to point multiple vCenter instances to the same SSO instance.

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    Basic Deployment Model

    vCenter Inventory Service

    vCenter Single Sign On

    vSphere Web Client

    Deploy one instance of each corresponding to every vCenter you have Point vCenter, Inventory Service, Web Client to the corresponding SSO instance

    SSO and Inventory Service must be deployed for vCenter to run

    vCenter 5.0

    vCenter 5.1

    vCenter Server

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    Single vCenter Server Design Recommendation

    VC Database SSO Database

    vCenter Server Host or VM

    vCenter Server

    Basic SSO Server

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    No change to architecture All services are local Database can be local or

    separate (depending on scale)

    Supports 1-1000 Hosts / 1-10,000 VMs

    Availability vSphere HA vCenter Server Heartbeat

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    Multiple Local vCenter Server Design Recommendations

    Centralized SSO authentication Same Physical location Metropolitan / College Campus

    Centralized vSphere Web Client Availability vSphere HA vCenter Heartbeat

    Simple with full functionality

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    vCenter Server 2

    vCenter Server

    Inventory Svc

    Local SSO Database

    Basic SSO Server

    Web Client

    Database Server

    VCDB1,VCDB2,VCDB3

    vCenter Server 2

    vCenter Server

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server 2

    vCenter Server

    Inventory Svc

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    Multiple Remote vCenter Server Design Recommendations

    Multiple single vCenter Server design Each site is independent No single pane of glass view

    Linked Mode Maintains single pane of glass Replicates Licenses, permissions and roles

    Local Databases

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server SSO Server

    (Primary)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server SSO Server

    (MultiSIte)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server SSO Server

    (MultiSite)

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    New York

    Los Angeles Miami

    Availability vSphere HA vCenter Heartbeat

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server Basic SSO

    Server

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    New York

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server Basic SSO

    Server

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    Miami

    vCenter Server

    vCenter

    Server Basic SSO

    Server

    Web Client

    Inventory Svc

    Los Angeles

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    Sphere Web Client

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    Enhanced - vSphere Web Client

    The NEW virtual infrastructure client Primary client for vSphere administrators in vSphere 5.1 Matched functionality to legacy VI Client Additional vCenter 5.1 functionality, only available thru the vSphere Web Client

    Browser based Internet Explorer / FireFox / Chrome fully supported others (Safari etc) are possible

    But without VM console access The new face of vSphere Administration

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    End Of Life for the vSphere Client

    The release of vSphere 5.x will be the final release of the Desktop client

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    Where the Virtual Infrastructure Client fell short

    Single Platform Support (Windows)

    Scalability Limits

    White Screen of Death

    Inconsistent look and feel across VMware solutions

    Workflow Lock

    Upgrades

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    vSphere Web Client Architecture

    The vSphere Web Client runs within a browser

    vCenter in either single or

    Linked mode operation

    vCenter

    Fx

    Application Server that provides a scalable back end

    Flex Client Back End

    The Inventory Service obtains optimized data live from the core vCenter Server process

    Inventory Service

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    Web Client Performance

    32 CPU VC 1k host 10k VMs

    Client # of Sessions VC CPU Used VI Client 100 50%

    Web Client 300 25%

    CPU Usage

    50%

    CPU Usage

    25%

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    vSphere Web Client - Installation

    Installer located on ISO image Install on vCenter Server or separate server (recommended) Login using https://:9443/vsphere-client/ Install Client Integration Plugin for console access

    vSphere Web Client included with vCenter Server Appliance

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    vSphere Web Client - Object Navigator

    Breaks the traditional hierarchy view of an object Objects linked and displayed by relationships Conventional top level hierarchy view maintained on

    HOME screen and links to object navigator

    Allows an admin to view objects by solutions But maintain global perspectives

    Allows an admin to jump to the crucial element faster via object relationships and object search With less clicks

    Reduces client clutter and repetitive information by simplifying display of objects Displayed objects are all that is communicated

    between server and browser Hierarchical Trees are maintained to aid in

    inventory list adoption

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    vSphere Web Client Interface Inventory Lists

    Tasks / Pause / Alarms Object actions Inventory Objects

    Fixed Tabs

    right-click object actions

    Portlets

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    vSphere Web Client the solution

    Single Platform Support (Windows) vSphere Web Client is Platform Agnostic

    Scalability Limits Built to handle thousands of objects

    White Screen of Death Performance

    Inconsistent look and feel across Vmware solutions Extensibility

    Workflow Lock Pause current task and continue later right where you left off Browser Behavior

    Upgrades Upgrade a Single serverside component

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    vSphere Web Client Plugins

    Plugins are now server based Need to be recreated / updated in FLEX HTML Plugins (temporary work around for one release cycle)

    VMware Plugins (90 Days post GA) vSphere Update Manager (Compliance and Scanning only) vCenter Orchestrator Virtual Infrastructure Navigator

    All VMware Solutions will integrate as they get updated

    Third Party Plugins EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell etc available at or post GA

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    Partner Web Client Plug-Ins available with 5.1 by End of Year

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    Plugin Example - Log Browser

    Proven framework to provide rich troubleshooting tools vSphere Web Client plugin Available at GA Takes snapshot of specified host / vCenter logs Provides rich user interface to review log data search filter by name / event / keyword compare multiple logs highlight key words

    Simplifies Troubleshooting

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    Public SDK allowing integration and extensibility

    vSphere Web Client SDK allows you to: Add functionality with consistent user-interface Minimize coding by using the platform and tools provided Package and deploy plugins more easily

    Public Software Developer Kit (SDK) available Documentation - https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html

    Training available

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Performance

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    vCenter Platform Performance

    vSphere Web Client

    vCenter Single Sign On

    VC DB

    vCenter Inventory Service vSphere Web

    Client Performance

    vCenter and its databases,

    Stats Performance

    vCenter Single Sign On

    Reads

    Writes

    30 logins /second 10K logins/hour avg

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    Stats and database performance improvements

    Insert stats

    Roll up stats into new granularities

    Purge stats when they get too old

    We have improved each activity

    Partitioned database tables Faster to insert into smaller partition tables than in one really large table

    No collisions No collisions between data that is being inserted and data that is being rolled up

    Faster Purges By partitioning we are able to drop tables and NOT search and drop stale rows.

    Dramatically reduced I/O requirements Dramatically faster rollup times Predictable rollup procedure

    Stats Operations

    RESULT

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    Positive Effects of Database Performance Improvements

    Able to support higher stats levels for vCenter running at scale (10K VMs, 1K host)

    Improved rollup performance

    Rollups take minutes (as opposed to hours) Rollups will not back up any more

    No gaps in stats

    Much better overall database performance

    Much better vCenter Performance (at scale)

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    Better overall CPU Utilization

    vCenter Inventory Service

    vCenter Single Sign On

    vSphere Web Client

    CPU Utilization

    vCenter ++ 5.1

    vCenter 5.0

    100 85

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

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    Component Overview

    Distribution Min Deployed Max Deployed

    2.0GB ~5GB ~80GB

    vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) consists of: A pre-packaged 64 bit application running on SLES 11

    Distributed via OVF with sparse disks or packaged OVA Disk Footprint

    Memory Footprint (8GB default) Database Support External Database Oracle Only (no SQL)

    1000 hosts / 10,000 Virtual Machines Embedded Database vPostgres

    5 hosts / 50 Virtual Machines (Soft Limit) *Expected to increase with v5.1 Update 1

    A web-based configuration interface

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    Feature Overview

    vCenter Server Appliance components preinstalled: vCenter Single Sign On server Inventory Service The vSphere Web Client

    Authentication through AD and OpenLDAP Feature parity with vCenter Server on Windows

    Except Linked Mode support

    Requires ADAM (AD LDS) vSphere Web Client provides single pane of glass view

    External DB Support Oracle is the only supported external DB

    Availability No vCenter Heartbeat Support vSphere HA recommended

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    vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

    Matched functionality to installable vCenter Server Shared API Same maximums with external database

    Up and running in minutes Built In enterprise database vPostgres

    Most VMware / Third Party solutions support VCSA Exception VIEW with vCenter 5.1 (both) (resolution pending) Any solutions requiring an agent or plugin to be installed locally

    Run multiple instances configured with individual components vCenter Single Sign On, vSphere Web Client etc

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.5

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    vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.5

    vSphere Web Client plug-in Improved Documentation! Improved Installation Many manual steps now automated (incl Server re-name) Scriptable unattended installation

    Network Isolation Detection Intelligence preventing split brain

    Support for Single NIC / Subnet configurations vComposer 3.0 All vCenter components (vCenter SSO, Inventory service, vSphere Web Client etc)

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    vSphere vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive

    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager (MHM)

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    A choice of hypervisor for your business needs

    Requirements Benefits

    vSphere admins can manage their heterogeneous hypervisor environments from within a centralized vCenter user interface

    Executives can avoid the Single Vendor Lock In

    Prevent customers from being locked into a single hypervisor vendor

    Provide a choice of hypervisor for the specific application needs

    Simplify the management of datacenters with heterogeneous hypervisors.

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    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager (MHM)

    VMware already offers HYPER-V support as a free Fling* download http://labs.vmware.com/flings/xvp *Flings are provided by VMware without support

    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager 1.0 is not a Fling! It is an officially supported vCenter 5.1 feature!

    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager 1.0 will be available in Q3 2012 Together with vCenter Server Standard Edition (at no additional costs)

    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager 1.0 will be a separate installable package and delivered as a C# VI Client plugin

    Supports Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hosts Hyper-V Server 2012 support will be added when available Available for download from the vCenter Server download page.

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    vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager 1.0 Features

    Add\Remove\Connect\Disconnect\List HYPER-V Hosts

    View HYPER-V Host Configuration (Processors, Memory, Network)

    Power Operations (for Host, for VM)

    List VMs (per vCenter, per Host)

    Connect\Disconnect CD\DVD Drives

    Edit VM Settings (memory, CPU, Floppy, DVD, HDD, Network)

    Provision VMs on HYPER-V hosts

    vCenter Integrated Authorization

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    MHM Console within vCenter

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    MHM Console within vCenter

  • 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

    THANK YOU! Scott Calvet Technical Account Executive VCP-DV 5, VCP-DT 5

    [email protected]

    Twitter: @Gr8VirtualScott; Blog: http://greatvirtualscott.com