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VMware Updates

Dushyanth Nataraj – Technical Marketing Manager, VMware Inc.

VMware – The Proven Industry Leader

Company Overview

• ~$1.9 billion in 2008 revenue

• Over $2 billion in cash

• 20%+ operating margins

• ~7,000 employees worldwide

• 5th largest infrastructure software company in the world

Proven in the Trenches

• 150,000+ VMware customers

• 100% of Fortune 100

• 100% of Fortune Global 100

• 96% of Fortune 1000

• 95% of Fortune Global 500

89% of all virtualized applications in the world run on VMware.

Gartner, December 2008

Product Releases in Q1’10

3 Confidential

VMware View Manager 4.0.1

Platform Support

VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 and ESX 3.5 Update 5

PCoIP Display Protocol Enhancements

Virtual Printing

Single sign-on support for third party providers such as Sentillion and Imprivata.

VMware Capacity IQ 1.0.2

Maintenance release fixing issues with CapacityIQ reports.

VirtualCenter 2.5 U6

Guest Customization support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

Browser Support (Web Access) for Firefox 3.x

Product patches in Q1’10

4 Confidential

VMware released the following patches:

ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 Patch 03

ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 Patch 04

ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 Patch 20

Sign up for VMware patch alerts:

https://www.vmware.com/mysupport/subscription/

Download patches:

https://www.vmware.com/mysupport/download/

Did you know?

VMware releases a Pre-Release bulletin one week prior to ESX patch releases notifying

customers about upcoming patches so they can plan their patch windows. Please contact

your SE or TAM to obtain these bulletins.

VUM Server

vCenter Server

ESX/ESXi Servers

Critical Issues to be aware of

5 Confidential

ESX 4.0, Update 1, Alert: 

If you plan to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1, it is critical to read KB article 1016070 before proceeding with the upgrade.

 

vCenter 4.0 Update1 Alert (Affecting ESXi 4.0/4.0U1):

After upgrading vCenter Server 4.0 to 4.0U1, the following error message might result while reconnecting ESXi hosts to vCenter Server, "Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Unknown Installer error". If you have ESXi hosts connected to vCenter Server 4.0, do not upgrade vCenter Server to Update 1 before installing the patch referenced in KB article 1016262.

Upcoming Webcasts in Q1’10

6 Confidential

Ensuring High Availability for Business-Critical Applications with VMware and Neverfail

Feb 24 at 09:00 AM PST

It’s Time to Upgrade from VMware ESX to ESXi—Learn How

March 9th 2010 09:00 AM PST

 

Breakthrough Performance for Business-Critical Apps with VMware and Intel

March 10th 2010 09:00 AM

Webcasts are available on-demand for playback http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/recorded/

Cloud Computing is the Next Stage in IT

Mainframe

PC / Client-Server

WebCloud

How do you get to the cloud?

Sponsorship

Business Focus

CloudReadiness

TechnologyFocus

Stage

IT

Server & infrastructure consolidation

CAPEX

OPEX

Cost Efficiency

IT / LOB

IT Operations Application Lifecycle

Efficiency Service levels Desktop

CAPEX

OPEX

Availability

Responsiveness

Quality of Service

CIO

Service catalog & self-service IT

Policy-driven automation Increased IT innovation

CAPEXOPEX

AvailabilityResponsiveness

ComplianceTime-to-market

Business Agility

Private Cloud

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

VMware vCenter Server: A Unified Control Center

• Inventory management• Alarms, alerts• Templates/provisioning• Including:

• P2V Conversion• Automated patch

management• Orchestration tool

• Foundation for vCenter Product Family

vCenter CapacityIQ

• Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls and needs

• Perform “What-If” impact analysis to model effect of capacity changes

• Identify and reclaim unused capacity

Right-Size Your Infrastructure: Improve CAPEX by 25%

Capacity Modeling

Perform “What-If” Impact Analysis to Model Effect of Capacity Changes

Hosts

Virtual Machines

Capacity Optimization

Identify and Reclaim Inefficient, Unused Capacity

Right-size or decommission unused or inefficient VMs

Use the capacity modeling to predict the savings

Eliminate waste and reduce costs in your organization

vCenter AppSpeed• Auto-discover all

infrastructure across all tiers, both virtual and physical

• Monitor application performance against SLAs at the transaction level

• Root cause analysis and faster troubleshooting

Application Performance Monitoring, Guarantee Performance SLAs

Performance Diagnostics

• Triage and troubleshoot application performance issues

• Drill down abilities to Usage tracking and performance diagnostics when degradation of performance occurs

Application SLA Monitoring

• Set thresholds for Response Time and Availability

• Alerts generated on breach of SLA

• Management of events with linkage to in-depth performance data.

• Email notifications for SLA events

Complete Application Lifecycle Management

vCenter Lab Manager• Self-service portal for non-

IT users to provision VM configurations in seconds, while ensuring IT control

• Image Library to reduce storage footprint, improve asset sharing and team collaboration

• Allocate resource containers to users groups and enforce policy-based

• One click promotion of multi-tier apps from one stage to another

Provision configurations in minutes

• Provision complex software development environments in minutes

• Mouse over library configuration and deploy

• Deploy gold master images from the Library

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows: Setup, testing, failover

• Turns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans

• Provides central management of recovery plans from the VMware vSphere Client

Works with VMware vSphere to make disaster recovery rapid,

reliable, manageable, affordable

Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware vSphere to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation

Testing and Executing Recovery Plans

Steps in recovery plan Status and time

stamps

When to execute

User confirmation

message

View 4: Breakthrough user experience

PCoIP - Built for desktops

Adaptive protocol designed for LAN and WAN

End-to-end software solution with optional hardware

Best desktop experience from task worker to power user

Adapts to use case

Traditional PC vs VMware View

TCO Comparison

Tradi-tional PC

VMWare View

$0

$500

$1,000

$1,500

View 4: Breakthrough acquisition cost and TCO

Source: IDC White Paper 2009

VMware View

$610 lessper user per

year - IDC

Total Acquisition Cost Per User

$200

$400

$600

$800

$1000

$1200

2009Time

Acquisition cost less than $800

per user

Enterprise Class Scalability

View 4 + vSphere: Breakthrough Scalability

Density Highest VM density with for desktop

workloads

Reduces VM memory requirements for better consolidation and reduced costs

Scalability Optimized for enterprise desktop delivery

Automatically balance desktops for optimal performance

Manageability Manage more than 1,000 hosts and up to

10,000 VMs per View instance

IT as a Service

Sponsorship

Business Focus

CloudReadiness

TechnologyFocus

Stage

IT

Server & infrastructure consolidation

CAPEX

OPEX

Cost Efficiency

IT / LOB

IT Operations Application Lifecycle

Efficiency Service levels Desktop

CAPEX

OPEX

Availability

Responsiveness

Quality of Service

CIO

Service catalog & self-service IT

Policy-driven automation Increased IT innovation

CAPEXOPEX

AvailabilityResponsiveness

ComplianceTime-to-market

Business Agility

Private Cloud

IT Production Business Production IT as a Service

VDC 1 VDC 2 VDC N

Manage Resources in Virtual Datacenters

HW Resource PoolsHW Resource Pools HW Resource Pools

… …

Virtual DC QoSVirtual DC QoSVirtual DC QoS

vSphere vSphere vSphere

321

Manage the virtual

datacenter:VI admin

Manage the Virtual Datacenter

321

Capacity Operations

Configuration Continuity

Standardize Service Definitions

Apache IIS SQL DB

Applications / Desktops

321Define Service

Pre configured OS images

Compute Capacity : Virtual CPUs, Virtual memory

User Access and Billing

Choose Service

Automated Approvals

Access Service

Automated Billing

Users

StandardCatalog of services

321

Assembling It Together :The End-End Private Cloud Solution

Resources

Access Control

LDAP Group

Self-Service Policy

Read only. vSphere Admin approval required for all actions

Resources

Access Control

LDAP Group

Self-Service Policy

Leases > 30 days require approval

Access Control

LDAP Group

Self-Service Policy

Full self-service with chargeback

Resources

CatalogsCatalogsCatalogs

Administrators• Divides infrastructure

into organizations with people, resources and provisioning policies that match use cases

• Achieves efficiency, predictability and control

VM Users• Access VMs and

monitoring data (performance, chargeback) via unified interface

• Self-service provisioning enhances productivity across application lifecycle

VDC 2Hybrid for

Pre-Production

VDC 1Locked Down for

Production

VDC 3Internal

for dev/test/demo

© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

VMware Updates

Dushyanth Nataraj – Technical Marketing Manager, VMware Inc.