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VMware ESX Server 2Mainframe-class Virtual Machines for the Most Demanding Environments

An Overview of VMware ESX Server 2 and VMware Virtual SMP™

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VMware ESX Server 2 Mainframe-class Virtual Machines

• Mainframe-class virtual machines for the most demanding environments

• Server consolidation across the Enterprise and the Data Center

• Reduce the total cost of computing infrastructure

• VMware ESX Server delivers:

• 40% reduction in hardware and software costs• 70% reduction in operations costs• Increased availability• Highest levels of scalability• Guaranteed resources for mission-critical applications

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VMware ESX Server Mainframe-class Virtual Machines

• Runs directly on hardware

• Manages resource allocations

• Strong fault and security isolation

• Encapsulation

• Highly scalable architecture

The Industry’s first bare-metal virtualization solution for the Intel Platform

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Who Uses VMware ESX Server?


New Features of VMware ESX Server 2

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Key Features of VMware ESX Server 2

• Scalability• VMware Virtual SMP™

• Run enterprise apps

• Optimized for NUMA architectures

• Zero-downtime Management• VMware Control Center• VMotion™ Technology• Advanced file system

• New Platforms• Blade Server support

• Broad range of operating systems

• Storage and HA• Integrated SAN support

• NIC Teaming

• Better Usability• New MUI

• Better resource controls

• Improved Windows support

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2Scalability

• Support for VMware Virtual SMP™• Run enterprise applications such as Oracle 9i, SQL Server, Exchange, SAP, Siebel, etc.

• Create dev and test environments that mimic your production machines

• Increased VM Support• Support for up to 80 simultaneous Virtual Machines

• Run up to 8 VMs per physical processor

• Advanced File System• Support up to 64TB of storage

• Dynamically grow the size of a file system

• Reconfigure your storage without powering off machines

• NUMA Support• Enhanced performance by optimizing memory locality for best possible CPU utilization

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2Zero-downtime Management

• Support for VMware Control Center• ESX Server 2 is the first platform to support VMware Control Center

• Now you can manage your computing environment a single pool of resources

• Support for VMotion™ Technology• As a key component of VMware Control Center, VMotion allows the movement of live, stateful applications across distributed systems without server interruption

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2New Platforms

• Support for Blade Servers• ESX Server 2 has been tested and fully supports industry-leading blade servers from IBM and HP

• IBM BladeCenter

• HP ProLiant BL20p blade server

• Support for a broad range of operating systems• Microsoft Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Microsoft Windows 2000: Server, Advanced Server, Terminal Services Edition

• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, SP 4

• Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and Advanced Server 2.1

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and SuSE 8.2

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2New Platforms - Blades

• Blades are another form factor that can go underutilized unless correctly partitioned

• Partitioning at the blade level is too granular

• ESX Server enables:• Server consolidation on blades

• Increased blade utilization

• Fine grained resource control

• ESX Server on blades provides the advantages and TCO reductions of Racks and Towers with the form factor benefits of Blades.

• ESX Server 2 has been tested and supports:• IBM BladeCenter.

• HP Proliant BL20p

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2Storage and HA

• NIC Teaming• Create redundancy in the case of a NIC failure

• Increase network reliability and performance, while simplifying topologies

• Logically group 2-10 physical NICs to form a high-capacity network device

• Increase performance by dynamically load-balancing traffic between different physical NICs

• Improved SAN support for the Data Center*• Discover new LUNs and devices while VMs are running

• Automatic path fail-over in the event of an HBA, switch or controller failure

• Increase scalability by allowing sys admins to direct traffic from specific HBAs to individual LUNs

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2Better Usability

• New Management User Interface• Much easier to install, use, and configure

• Improved navigation, better performance, intuitive interface make configuring and managing your virtual machines a snap

• Enhanced Resource Controls and Workload Management• Specify minimum and maximum percentages of each CPU to allocate per VM

• Better Integration with Microsoft Windows Environments• COM scripting APIs

• Virtual LSI SCSI adapter simplifies the installation of Windows 2003

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What’s New in VMware ESX Server 2Partner Momentum

• Existing Intel OEM Support (Dell,HP,IBM,Fujitsu,NEC)

• IBM StorageProven certifications

• EMC, HDS Matrix Support

• RedHat, Oracle, Websphere, DB2, Citrix, Veritas, CA, Tivoli, SUSE


Technology

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VMware ESX ServerAdvantages of Bare-Metal vs. Hosted Virtualization

HostedGranularity of resource controls limited by design of underlying operating system.

Security of any virtual machine is subject all all vulnerabilities of the underlying host operating system.

Host operating systems are typically 10-25 million lines of complex error prone code.

I/O of virtual machines must go through two protocol stacks that are not aware of each other.

Bare-MetalEnables fine-grained resource management of all major system resources.

Micro-kernel virtualization layer is highly secure. There are no O/S services vulnerable to abuse.

Virtualization layer of only 100K’s of lines of code enhances availability.

Highly efficient direct I/O pass-through mimics mainframe architecture for both Network and Disk. X

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CompetitionVMware View of the World

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• Process managers provide dynamic partitioning of CPU and RAM within a single OS

• Hardware partitioning provides the strongest isolation possible between partitions

• Virtual Machines combine the best of both alternatives and make your workloads portable across systems

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Strength of Isolation


Selling ESX Server 2

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Customer Problem: Server Proliferation

Restricted AccessWindows NT 4.0 Services

Linux/Apache Web Clusters

High Priority SQL*Servers

Mutually incompatibleWindows 2000 Apps

Sample Environment

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Where in the Enterprise Does it Fit?

WebPresentation

Servers

Storage

Internet

Infrastructure Infrastructure ServersServers

Application Servers

Transaction Servers

Data Servers

WebPresentation

Servers

Intranets Extranets

ServiceProviders

8/16-way Backend Servers

Small servers can be consolidated with VMware ESX Server on a single large server

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Server Consolidation Challenges

• User acceptance barriers

• Application owners want protection from the stability and performance problems of other applications

• Application owners want only their own users to have login to the application space

• Return on Investment barriers

• Each combination of OS type, version and configuration needs a separate server

• Staff time required to determine which applications are compatible enough to co-locate

• Staff time required to reproduce application environment on the new server

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Solution: Server Consolidation with ESX Server

• Consolidate diverse operating systems into virtual machines on fewer servers

• Guarantee and prioritize resource access

• Provide strong fault & security isolation

ESX Server 3

SQL Client

NT4

DNS/DHCP

ESX Server 1

SQL Server

Win XP

Win2K ASExch ServerExch Server

Win 2K

RH 7.3

ESX Server 2

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Accelerate Server Consolidation ROI

• High User Acceptance• Application owners have full protection from stability and

performance problems of other apps

• Consolidation has no impact on application owners – they still run on a complete operating system

• Higher Return on Investment• One server can host diverse combinations of Operating Systems

• Incompatible applications run side-by-side in virtual machines

• Higher hardware utilization

• Fast deployment with migration tools and VMware Professional Services

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Pricing

• Base ESX Server 2: $1,875 per CPU

• Virtual SMP Add-on module: $625 per CPU

• Two levels of support available:• Gold

• Platinum


VMware ESX Server Customers Stories

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VMware ESX Server in Action:Server Consolidation

Farmers Insurance needed to control server sprawl and consolidate its environment of underutilized servers

Migrate existing File and Print servers onto a single physical server and clone production environment for easy provisioning

• May move up to 40% of physical servers to virtual

• Improved overall TCO• Reduced rack space by 50% • Lowered yearly maintenance costs• Improved switch utilization• Lowered power consumption

“We're re-inventing our IT environment at Farmers, and VMware ESX Server is helping us make it happen.”Stuart MacLean, systems engineer

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VMware ESX Server in Action:Application Isolation and Server Consolidation

State of Montana needed to support versioning differences within various state agencies using Oracle Forms & Reports

Implemented ESX Server to run multiple different versions of production applications without conflict

“ESX Server is a great technology that saves us money and gives us more flexibility in managing our servers.” Dave Pearson, Lead System Administrator

• Achieved 8 to 1 consolidation ratios• Now running many production

applications on ESX Server • Consolidated Citrix, Peoplesoft,

application servers, and centralized printing on fewer physical machines

• Increased flexibility and eased management

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VMware ESX Server in Action:Development and Test

Black & Decker needed a prototype environment for Exchange 2003 and Active Directory Migration

Used ESX Server to build prototype environments to test and begin production rollout

• Achieved 9 to 1 server consolidation ratio

• Projecting 20 to 1 when at capacity• Now beginning production rollout• Lowed hardware and real estate costs• Decreased maintenance costs• Increased server utilization

“VMware ESX Server is a critical technology for our IT operation. We expect the new Virtual SMP capability of ESX Server 2 to help us get even more benefits from virtualization.”Josh Heller, Sr. Technical Specialist


Summary

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Key Features of VMware ESX Server 2

• Scalability• VMware Virtual SMP™

• Run enterprise apps

• Advanced file system

• Optimized for NUMA architectures

• Zero-downtime Management• VMware Control Center• VMotion™ Technology

• New Platforms• Blade Server support

• Broad range of operating systems

• Storage and HA• Integrated SAN support

• NIC Teaming

• Better Usability• New MUI

• Better resource controls

• Improved Windows support


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