VMware Overview

VMware Server Virtualization Seminar Series

AgendaIntroduction to VMware and Server Virtualization

VMware Solutions Overview

VMware Product Line Overview

VMware By the Numbers

$709 M2006 Revenue

4+ millionNumber of Users

3,000+Number of Channel Partners

10,000+Number of VMware Certified Professionals

20,000+Number of VMware Infrastructure Customers

2,500+Number of Employees

1998Founded

Who Uses VMware?100% of the Fortune 100

Virtualization Technology Overview

Old Model:Traditional x86

Architecture• Single OS image per machine

• Software and hardware tightly coupled

• Multiple applications often conflict

• Underutilized resources

Old model is challenging!

The Challenge

State of Infrastructure Today – Physical

Server Sprawl38 m physical servers by 2010 - 700% increase in 15 years$140 bn in excess server capacity - a 3-year supply

Power & Cooling

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

Operating Cost

$8 in maintenance for every $1 spent on new infrastructure20-30 : 1 server-to-admin ratio

Space Crunch

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

Source: IDC

Hardware

Application

Operating System

With VirtualizationWithout Virtualization

What is Virtualization?

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

Virtualization Increases Hardware Utilization

Before VMware

Virtualization enables consolidation of workloads from underutilized servers onto a single server

to safely achieve higher utilization

After VMware

Key Properties of Virtual Machines

•Partitioning�Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine

�Divide system resources between virtual machines

•Partitioning

� Run multiple operating systems on one physical machine

� Divide system resources between virtual machines

Key Properties of Virtual Machines

•Isolation�Fault and security isolation at the hardware level

�Advanced resource controls preserve performance

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

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

files

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

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

The Enterprise PC Challenge

IT: Are We Having Fun

Yet?

Physical Server

Virtual Machines

ESX Server

ESX Server

• Deploy multiple virtual machines on a single physical server

• Market leading:

• Performance• Stability• Scalability• Cross-platform support

Non-Disruptive Capacity on Demand

Instant Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment

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

Configure hardware

Install OS

Configure OS & Tools

Assign IP Addr

Configure Network

Deploy from Template

Poweron VM

Physical

Test Apps

Virtual

<1 hr of work

1-2 days lead time

20-40 hrs of work

4-6 week lead time

From server boot to running VMs in Minutes

1. Power on server and boot into hypervisor

2. Configure Admin Password

3. (optional) Modify network configuration

4. Connect VI Client to IP Address

● Or manage with VirtualCenter

3i

VMware VMotion73% of VMware customers have implemented VMotion in production

• Live migration of virtual machines

• Zero downtime

VMware DRS

Resource Pool

Business Demand • Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources

• Ensure optimal alignment between business and IT

67% of VMware customers use DRS in production

Ensure High availability with VMware HA

Resource Pool

X• VMware HA

automatically restarts virtual machines when a physical server fails

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Distributed Power Management (coming soon)

Resource Pool

Business Demand

Power Off

● 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

NEW!

Minimize power consumption while guaranteeing service levels

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Storage VMotion

Storage independent live migration of virtual machine disks

● Zero downtime to virtual machines

● LUN independent● Supported for Fibre

channel SANs

NEW!

Storage VMotion minimizes planned downtime for storage

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VMware Update Manager

Update Manager

● 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

* Note: RHEL guests can only be scanned, not remediated

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FL

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NEW!

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Non-disruptive ESX Server Patching with Update Manager and DRS

VMotionVMotion

Update Manager 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

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Protect data with VMware consolidated backup

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

Centralized file level backup enables easy & reliable data protection

CENTRALIZEDDATA MOVER

BACKUPPROXY

BACKUP DISK

The Virtual Infrastructure Stack TodayInfrastructure Optimization

SW Lifecycle

Resource Mgt Availability

Mobility

Hypervisor

Œ

Distributed Virtualization

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Management & Automation

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Desktop Management

Business Continuity

> ESX Server> VMFS> Virtual SMP

> HA> VC

B

Security

> Storage VMotion

> VMotion

> UpdateManager

> DRS

> DPM

> Virtual Center

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Programmatic Interfaces

Virtual Machine and Server

Management

1

Provisioning

2

Migration

3

Resource Management

4

System Monitoring

5

Security and Access Control

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Centralized Management

VirtualCenter Capabilities

What's new

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Guided Consolidation

● Automatically discovers physical servers*

● Analyzes utilization and usage patterns*

● Converts physical servers to VMs placed intelligently based on user response

ANALYZE

CONVERT

DISCOVER

* Recommended for smaller environments

NEW!

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VI Transforms Key I.T. Metrics

• Reduce Capex by > 50%• Increase Server Utilization

by 3-4X

• Reduced Opex by > 70% • Reduce Cost of Power &

Cooling by > 85%• Reduce Admin cost and Time

by > 80%

• Reduce Response times by > 90%

• Save >30% of Budget & allocate to strategic projects

• Recovery Time down to

minutes!• > 90 % of Apps assured of

>99.9% availability• 100% Apps now under DR plan

Uptime, Service Levels

Return on Assets Overall Business Impact of IT

Operational Expenses

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Thank you!