6. vCenter Server Features - Enhanced Capabilities
9
Metric Windows
(VCS)
Appliance
(VCSA)
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.
7. vCenter Server 6.0 – Linked Mode Comparison
12
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
8. 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
vMotion
Network
vMotion
16
9. • 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
vMotion
Network
vMotion
vCenter Server
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PSC
10. 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 (VVOL Required)
• Use Cases:
– Permanent migrations
– Disaster avoidance
– Multi-site load balancing
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11. 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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12. vCenter Server 6.0 - Clients
21
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
13. vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Client
22
• 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*
14. vCenter Server 6.0 - vSphere Web Client
2323
• 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
15. Reference: 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
25
17. vSphere 6.0 - Network I/O Control Version 3
29
• 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
18. vCenter Server 6.0 – Multiple TCP/IP Stacks
vMotion network will cross L3 boundaries
vMotion & Networtk File Copy (NFC) network can now use it’s own TCP/IP stack
vCenter vCenterManagement
Network
VM
Network
vMotion
Network
NFC
Network
ESXi ESXi
30
20. vSphere HA – VM Component Protection
• Problem:
– Host has a loss of storage connectivity
• APD: All Paths Down
• PDL: Permanent Device Loss
• Difficult to manage VMs running on
APD/PDL affected hosts
• Approach:
– VMs are restarted on healthy hosts
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All Paths Down
e.g. Path down
or port disabled
Permanent Device Loss
e.g. Array misconfiguration,
Host removed from
LUN’s Storage Group
23. vSphere 6.0 VMware Fault Tolerance
35
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 vCPU
Primary
Instantaneous Failover
24. VADP
vSphere 6.0 - Backing up FT VMs
• Support for vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
– API for non-disruptive snapshots
36
API
Backup
Target
• Many VADP solutions on the market
25. vSphere 6.0 - Fault Tolerant Storage
37
.vmx file
VMDK VMDKVMDK
Datastore 1
Primary
.vmx file
VMDK VMDK VMDK
Datastore 2
Secondary
• vmx config file
• vmdk files (new)
• Allowed to be on different datastores (new)
Each VM has
it’s own:
FT Config
FT Tie Breaker
26. vSphere 6.0 - FT Capabilities by vSphere Version
Feature
FT
(vSphere 5.5)
FT
(vSphere 6.0)
vCPUs 1 4
Virtual Disks EZT Any
Hot Configure FT
H/W Virtualization
Backup (Snapshot)
Paravirtual Devices
Storage Redundancy
VSAN/VVols
38
Feature
FT
(vSphere 5.5)
FT
(vSphere 6.0)
HA
DRS Partial Partial
DPM
SRM
VDS
Storage DRS
VCD
vSphere Replication
28. 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
40
Datastore Cluster
Capabilities
Thin Provisioned
Deduplication
Auto-Tiering
Vendor Provider
VASA
30. vSphere Virtual Volumes
42
Management & Integration Framework for External Storage
Virtual
Volumes
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
31. 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
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
AND
External Storage Architectures
With Virtual Volumes
43
32. 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
vSphere
Virtual Volumes
Storage Policy
Capacity
Availability
Performance
Data
Protection
Security
PE
VASA Provider
PE
Storage Policy-Based Mgmt.
44
33. vSphere Virtual Volumes Extends the Control Plane of
Software-Defined Storage to the Ecosystem
50
VMware Software-Defined Storage
vSphere
Storage Policy-Based Mgmt
vSphere vSphere
Virtual SAN
Storage Policy-Based Mgmt
VVOL-enabled arrays
VMware Software-Defined Storage
vSphere Virtual Volumes
35. The Storage Partner Ecosystem has Rallied behind
Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes
52
vSphere
Virtual SAN
Storage Policy-Based Mgmt
VVOL-enabled arrays
VMware Software-Defined Storage
vSphere Virtual Volumes
36. Virtual SAN Hardware Requirements
53
Any Server on the VMware
Compatibility Guide
All flash-based devices, and storage controllers MUST be listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide for VSAN
10Gb/1Gb NIC
SAS/SATA Controllers (RAID Controllers must work
in “pass-through” or RAID0” mode)
SAS/SATA//PCIe SSD
SAS/NL-SAS/SATA HDD
At least 1 of each
(Except All-Flash)
4GB to 8GB USB, SD Cards
37. Virtual SAN Implementation Requirements
• Virtual SAN requires:
– Minimum of 3 hosts in a cluster configuration
– All 3 host MUST!!! contribute storage
– Maximum of 64 hosts
– Locally and HDDAS attached devices
• Magnetic devices
• Flash-based devices
– Network connectivity
• 1GB Ethernet
• 10GB Ethernet
– (preferred for hybrid, required for all-flash)
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esxi-01
local storage local storage local storage
vSphere Cluster
esxi-02 esxi-03
HDDHDD HDD
disk group disk group disk group
38. Virtual SAN Datastore
• Virtual SAN is an object store solution that is presented to vSphere as a file system.
• The object store mounts the volumes from all hosts in a cluster and presents them as a single
shared datastore.
– Only members of the cluster can access the Virtual SAN datastore
– Not all hosts need to contribute storage, but its recommended.
55
vsanDatastore
caching devices
Each host: 5 disk groups max. Each disk group: 1 SSD + 1 to 7 HDDs
VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN networkVSAN network
caching devices caching devices caching devices caching devices
capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices capacity devices
39. Virtual SAN Components
• Virtual SAN components are chunks of objects distributes across multiple hosts in a cluster in
order to tolerate simultaneous failures and meet performance requirements.
• Virtual SAN utilizes a Distributed RAID architecture to distribute data across the cluster.
• Components are distributed with the use of two main techniques:
– Striping (RAID0)
– Mirroring (RAID1)
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disk group disk group disk group disk group disk group
VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN networkVSAN network
vsanDatastore
replica-1 replica-2
RAID1
HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD
• The number of component replicas and copies
created is based on the object policy definition.
40. VMware Virtual SAN : Hybrid Architecture
61
vSphere + Virtual SAN
…
• Software-defined storage built into
vSphere
• Runs on any standard x86 server
• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore
• Managed through per-VM storage policies
• High performance through flash
acceleration
• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event
of hardware failures
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack
Virtual SAN
Hard disksSSD
Hard disks
SSD
Hard disks
SSD
Virtual SAN Datastore
Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage Software
41. Virtual SAN Can Be Deployed With A Tiered Hybrid Or All-Flash
Architecture
62
Hybrid All-Flash
40K IOPS per Host 90K IOPS per Host
+
sub-millisecond latency
New!
Caching
Read and Write Cache Writes cached first, Reads go direct to capacity tier
Capacity Tier
SAS/NL SAS/SATA/Direct-attached JBOD
Capacity Tier
Flash Devices
Reads go directly to capacity tier
Data
PersistenceVirtual SAN
SSD PCIe Ultra DIMM SSD PCIe Ultra DIMM
42. VMware Virtual SAN: All-Flash Architecture
63
vSphere + Virtual SAN
…
• Flash devices used for caching as well as data
persistence
• Cost-effective all-flash 2-tier model:
o Cache is 100% write: using write-intensive, higher
grade flash devices (SSDs, PCIe, Ultra DIMM)
o Persistence tier: can leverage lower cost read-
intensive SSDs
• Up to 90K IOPS/Host
• Consistent performance with sub-millisecond
latencies
Virtual SAN All-Flash
Virtual SAN All-Flash Datastore
SSDs SSDs SSDs
Performance with Predictable Latency
43. Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance and Scale Improvements
64
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
44. What’s New in Virtual SAN 6.1
65
Advanced Management
& Troubleshooting
Enterprise Availability
and Data Protection
Stretched Cluster with RPO=0,
metro-distance
5 min RPO vSphere Replication
Support for SMP-FT
Support for Oracle RAC and
Microsoft Failover Clustering
Health Check plug-in for HW
monitoring, compliance
Disk & Disk Group Claiming
Virtual SAN On-Disk Format
Upgrade
vRealize Operations integration
for capacity planning and root-
cause analysis
New Hardware Options
2-node clusters for ROBO
New Flash HW options:
• Intel NVMe
• Diablo ULLtraDIMM™
45. 2x
16x
31x
2x
2x
4.5x
Virtual SAN 6.0/6.1 – Ready for Enterprise-Class Applications
66
Virtual SAN 5.5
Virtual SAN 6.0
Hybrid
Virtual SAN 6.0
All-Flash
Hosts per Cluster 32 64 64
VMs per Host 100 200 200
IOPS per Host 20K 40K 90K
Snapshot depth
per VM
2 32 32
Virtual Disk size 2TB 62TB 62TB
Virtual Machine per
Cluster
3200 6400 6400
46. Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack
Ideal for VMware environments bringing the benefit of VMware’s products to make storage easy
vMotion
vSphere HA
DRS
Storage vMotion
vSphere
Snapshots
Linked Clones
VDP Advanced
vSphere Replication
Data Protection
VMware View
Virtual Desktop
vRealize Operations
vRealize Automation
IaaS
Cloud Ops and Automation
Site Recovery Manager
Disaster Recovery
Site A Site B
Storage Policy-Based Management
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47. Virtual SAN Is Built Into vSphere
Drivers embedded in the VM kernel contain
the Virtual SAN smarts
No need to install virtual appliances
CPU utilization <10%
Being embedded in vSphere:
Provides the shortest path for I/O
Removes appliance management overheads
Does not consume resources unnecessarily
Seamlessly handles VM migrations
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vSphere
Virtual Storage Appliance
needed on each host
vSphere + VSAN
Virtual SAN is
Embedded into vSphere
Virtual
Storage
Appliance
vSphere
Virtual
Storage
Appliance
... ...
48. Virtual SAN Stretch Cluster
71
Enterprise Availability
and Data Protection
Stretched Cluster with
RPO=0, metro-distance
5 min RPO vSphere
Replication
Support for SMP-FT
Support for Oracle RAC
Support for Microsoft
Failover Clustering
– Increases Enterprise availability and data protection
– Deploy Virtual SAN between geographically dispersed locations
– Based on an Active–Active architecture
– Supported on both Hybrid and All-Flash architectures
– Enables synchronous replication of data between sites
– Site failure tolerated, with no data loss and near zero downtime
Site A
Active
Site B
Active
vSphere + Virtual SAN
Stretched ClusterHDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD
49. Virtual SAN Stretch Cluster
72
– Witness appliance can be deployed onto a 3rd site or it can be hosted on vCloud Air
– Stretched cluster introduces fault domain/site Read Locality
– vSphere enterprise features are seamlessly integrated and supported
– vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
– vSphere High Availability (HA)
Site A Site B
vSphere + Virtual SAN
Stretched ClusterHDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD
< 5 ms latency over >10/20/40 gbps
Active Active
witness
appliance
L2 with Multicast
Fault Domain A Fault Domain C
Fault Domain B
Enterprise Availability
and Data Protection
Stretched Cluster with
RPO=0, metro-distance
5 min RPO vSphere
Replication
Support for SMP-FT
Support for Oracle RAC
Support for Microsoft
Failover Clustering
50. Any distance >5 min RPO
Enhanced Replication with vSphere Replication and SRM
73
– Replication between Virtual SAN datastores enables RPOs as low as 5 minute
– 5 minutes RPO is exclusively available to Virtual SAN 6.x
site a
vSphere + Virtual SAN
Stretched Cluster
< 5 ms latency over >10/20/40 gbps
Active Active
site b
L2 with Multicast
site x
vSphere + Virtual SAN
VR
DR
vCenter
vCenter
witness
appliance
SRM
SRM
Enterprise Availability
and Data Protection
Stretched Cluster with
RPO=0, metro-distance
5 min RPO vSphere
Replication
Support for SMP-FT
Support for Oracle RAC
Support for Microsoft
Failover Clustering
51. Support SMP-Fault Tolerance
74
– Continuous availability – protect latency sensitive applications from failures
– RPO/RTO=0 – no loss of TCP connections
– FT creates a second copy of VMDKs
– Enhanced virtual disk format
– Thin
– Lazy Thick
Virtual SAN Datastore
Primary Secondary
HDDSSD HDDSSD HDDSSD
vSphere + Virtual SAN
FT logging channel FT logging channel
Enterprise Availability
and Data Protection
Stretched Cluster with
RPO=0, metro-distance
5 min RPO vSphere
Replication
Support for SMP-FT
Support for Oracle RAC
Support for Microsoft
Failover Clustering
52. Virtual SAN for Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Solution
75
Centralized Data Center
CentrallymanagedbyonevCenterServer
ROBO1
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
witness
witness
witness
vESXi
applianc
e
vESXi
applianc
e
vESXi
applianc
e
ROBO2
ROBO3
vCenter Server
2-Node ROBO Solution Overview
• Each of the node will be in a Fault
Domain (FD)
• One witness per Virtual SAN cluster
• Witness node is an ESXi appliance
(VM)
• All sites managed centrally by one
vCenter
• Patching and software upgrades
performed centrally through vCenter
• If there are N ROBOs then there will be
N witness VMs
New Hardware Options
2-node clusters for ROBO
New Flash HW options:
• Intel NVMe
• Diablo ULLtraDIMM™
Hardware Deployment options
Certified Hardware
Integrated Systems
53. 2-Node Remote Office Branch Office Solution – More details
76
Centralized Data Center
CentrallymanagedbyonevCenterServer
ROBO1
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
HDDSS
D
HDDSS
D
vSphere +
Virtual SAN
witness
witness
witness
vESXi
applianc
e
vESXi
applianc
e
vESXi
applianc
e
ROBO2
ROBO3
vCenter Server
2-Node ROBO Solution Overview
• 2-Node in ROBO share a single L2
domain. It requires multi-cast setup and
<5ms latency.
• Communication between the ROBO and
witness is unicast only. No need for
multi-cast and Witness is only reachable
via L3. Requires <500ms latency over
100Mbps
• Resource requirements for the witness
assuming 5-10 VMs in each ROBO:
• CPU: 2vCPU
• Memory: 8 GB
• Storage: 15 GB for capacity & 10GB for
catching tier (Use thin provisioning to
save costs)
New Hardware Options
2-node clusters for ROBO
New Flash HW options:
• Intel NVMe
• Diablo ULLtraDIMM™
Hardware Deployment options
Certified Hardware
Integrated Systems
54. Storage Policy-Based Management:
77
vSphere
Storage Policy-Based Mgmt
Virtual SAN
Capacity
Performance
Availability
2 Failures to tolerate
Object Space
Reservation 10 GB
Flash Read Cache
10 %
• Intelligent storage placement at
scale
• Dynamic adjustments in real
time
• Automated policy enforcement
App-centric Control Plane That Across Storage Tiers
55. Virtual SAN Capabilities
• Virtual SAN currently surfaces five unique storage capabilities to vCenter.
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56. Number of Failures to Tolerate
• Number of failures to tolerate
– Defines the number of hosts, disk or network failures a storage object can tolerate. For “n” failures
tolerated, “n+1” copies of the object are created and “2n+1” host contributing storage are required.
80
vsan network
vmdkvmdk witness
esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03 esxi-04
~50% of I/O ~50% of I/O
Virtual SAN Policy: “Number of failures to tolerate = 1”
raid-1
57. Health Check plug-in now part of vCenter
85
– Central health reporting via VC alarms across large environments:
– Updated HCL Information
– Periodic health checks – configurable (defaults to 60 minutes)
– Health check failures triggers corresponding health and alarms
– SNMP support, custom scripts, emails via vCenter Alarms
Advanced Management
& Troubleshooting
Health Check plug-in for HW
monitoring, compliance
Disk & Disk Group Claiming
Virtual SAN On-Disk Format
Upgrade
vRealize Operations
integration for capacity
planning and root cause
analysis
58. Health Check Support for Stretched Clusters
86
– Health Check includes additional checks for stretched cluster:
– Witness host configuration
– Network configuration
– Host compatibility
– Fault domain configuration
Advanced Management
& Troubleshooting
Health Check plug-in for HW
monitoring, compliance
Disk & Disk Group Claiming
Virtual SAN On-Disk Format
Upgrade
vRealize Operations
integration for capacity
planning and root cause
analysis
59. vRealize Operations Management Pack for Virtual SAN
88
– Virtual SAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations – Virtual SAN 6.1 new integration
with vRealize operations delivers a comprehensive set of features to help manage Virtual SAN:
– Global View
– Health Monitoring and Availability
– Performance Monitoring
– Capacity Monitoring and planning
Advanced Management
& Troubleshooting
Health Check plug-in for HW
monitoring, compliance
Disk & Disk Group Claiming
Virtual SAN On-Disk Format
Upgrade
vRealize Operations
integration for capacity
planning and root cause
analysis
60. Health Monitoring and Availability with vRealize Operations
89
– Health Monitoring and Availability – provides proactively notifications on failures,
performance or policy compliance issues on an ongoing basis, with root-cause
analysis and remediation strategy
Advanced Management
& Troubleshooting
Health Check plug-in for HW
monitoring, compliance
Disk & Disk Group Claiming
Virtual SAN On-Disk Format
Upgrade
vRealize Operations
integration for capacity
planning and root cause
analysis
65. VMware SDDC: One Cloud, Any Application
Rapid development, automated
deployment and secure consumption
of enterprise apps
Choice in datacenter
automation
and management
Best-in-class VMware
technologies across
the hybrid cloud
Unified Platform Any Application Flexible Control
66. • Compute Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery Automation
• Software-Defined Storage
• Network Virtualization
VSAN
NSX
VMware vCloud Suite
vSphere
SRM
vRealize Operations
vRealize Automation
vRealize Business
Notes:
• “Add-on” means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vCloud Suite
• List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions
• Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed
for use with vSphere environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air
• Operations
• Automation
• Business
Infrastructure
Platform
Cloud
Management
Platform
Software-Defined Data Center:
Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud
On-Premises Off-Premises
SDDC
Components
Add-on to vCloud Suite
Components of vCloud Suite 6.0: Build and Manage a vSphere-
based Private Cloud
67. vCloud Suite 6.0 Edition Comparison
Advanced
Compliant IT and
Business Insight
Enterprise
Resilient private
cloud
Standard
Intelligent Operations
and IaaS
vSphere Ent+
vR Operations
STD
vR Automation
STD
vSphere Ent+
vR Operations
ADV
vR Automation
ADV
vSphere Ent+
vR Operations
ENT
vR Automation
ENT
vR Business for
vSphere
vCenter Site
Recovery
Manager Ent
vCloud Suite
vR Business for
vSphere
• Compute VirtualizationInfrastructure
Platform
• Disaster Recovery Automation
• Automation
• Operations
• BusinessCloud
Management
Platform
Software-Defined Data Center:
Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud
On-Premises Off-Premises
SDDC
Components
105
vCloud Suite Edition
Notes:
• Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vSphere
environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air
• vRealize Business for vSphere includes automated costing, metering, and integrated pricing. Public cloud comparison functionality is not included
New in vCloud Suite 6.0
68. What’s New in vCloud Suite 6.0
106
Scale and performance
• Server virtualization for scale-out
(Hadoop/Big Data) and scale-up (SAP
HANA) applications
• Superior graphics and performance for
virtual desktops (NVIDIA vGPU)
Industry-first availability
• Planned migration across geographically
dispersed data centers (long-distance
vMotion)
• Availability for mission-critical applications
with up to four vCPUs (SMP-Fault Tolerance)
Platform for Any Application Cloud Business Management
Efficient, Agile, and Extensible
vSphere-based Private Cloud
Cloud Management Platform
• New scale-out and resilient architecture
(vRealize Operations)
• Developers/Tenants have visibility into VM
health via self-service portal (vRealize
Automation)
Extensibility
• Extend vCloud Suite to OpenStack and
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
vCloud Suite scales applications, availability, and the business
CONFIDENTIAL
Business Insight for vSphere Environments
• Automated infrastructure costing and usage
metering for vSphere environments (vRealize
Business)
• Integrated pricing with self-service provisioning
portal for vSphere environments (vRealize
Business)
69. • Compute Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery Automation
• Software-Defined Storage
• Network Virtualization
VSAN
NSX
VMware vCloud Suite
vSphere
SRM
vRealize Business
Notes:
• “Add-on” means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vCloud Suite
• List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions
• Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed
for use with vSphere environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air
• Operations
• Automation
• Business
Infrastructure
Platform
Cloud
Management
Platform
Software-Defined Data Center:
Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud
On-Premises
SDDC
Components
Add-on to vCloud Suite
Site Recovery Manager Continues to Deliver Industry-Leading
Disaster Recovery Automation for vSphere Environments
vRealize Operations
vRealize Automation
70. Disaster Recovery Automation Minimizes Planned and
Unplanned Downtime
vSphere
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
vSphere
Production Site Recovery Site
Servers ServersArray-based
replication
vSphere
Replication
Solution Description
• SRM is the industry-leading disaster recovery
automation solution for vSphere environments
Key Features
• Centralized recovery plans for thousands of VMs
• Non-disruptive recovery testing
• Automated DR workflows
• Integrated with the VMware product stack
Key Benefits
• Lowers the cost of DR management by 50% or more
• Eliminates complexity and risk of manual processes
• Enables fast and highly predictable RTOs
• Provides policy-driven DR control for any virtualized app
* Disaster Avoidance
vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) provides simplified business continuity and disaster recovery
71. Datastore
Cluster
ConsistencyGroup
Improved Storage vMotion and SDRS Integration
SRM 5.5 and SRM 5.8
• SRM + SDRS only supported
with homogenous storage
cluster
SRM 6.0
• SRM + SDRS supported with
heterogeneous datastore
clusters
SDRS
Datastore
Cluster
CG1CG2
SDRS
SDRS
72. Site C Datacenter
Site C
VC
Cluster(s)
SRMSRM
Site B Datacenter
Site B
VC
Cluster(s)
SRM
Enhanced Topology Support
SRM
Site A Datacenter
Site A
VC
Cluster(s)
SRMSRM
• Previous support was only for:
– Unidirectional production to DR site
– Bidirectional site to site protection
– Shared recovery site
• Now supporting those and:
– Shared protection site
– A-B-C
– And more
Note: Still Point-to-Point Replication only
73. Self-Service, Policy-Based DR Protection for Apps
(1) Agents for SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint
Architecture
Production Site
vSphere
Site Recovery Manager
Recovery Site
vSphere
Site Recovery Manager
Array-based
Replication
External
Storage
External
Storage
vCloud Automation Center
• SRM using array-based replication
• vRA management across two sites
• Integration via vRO plugin for SRM
• New APIs exposed for PowerCLI
integration
Capabilities
• Self-service DR provisioning using vRA
blueprints
• Automated protection mapping according
to pre-defined tiers
Benefits
• DR control delivered as a service to
app tenants
• Quicker time to market for apps
• Reduced complexity for
infrastructure admins
74. Not just for vRA though…
The vRO plugin for SRM offers many other
workflows as well:
• Create protection groups and add VMs
• Find protection groups by datastore
• Add protection to unprotected VMs in a
replicated datastore
• … and almost anything else the SRM API
exposes can now be accessed through the vRO
plugin.
75. • Compute Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery Automation
• Software-Defined Storage
• Network Virtualization
VSAN
NSX
VMware vCloud Suite
vSphere
SRM
vRealize Business
Notes:
• “Add-on” means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vCloud Suite
• List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions
• Cloud management platform components of vCloud Suite, including vRealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed
for use with vSphere environments only. vCloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vRealize Suite and vCloud Air
• Operations
• Automation
• Business
Infrastructure
Platform
Cloud
Management
Platform
Software-Defined Data Center:
Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud
On-Premises
SDDC
Components
Add-on to vCloud Suite
Cloud Management Platform is the Key Control Layer of the
SDDC
vRealize Operations
vRealize Automation
76. • Automated costing and metering
• Integrated pricing with vRealize
Automation
• Out-of-box integration with cloud
operations provides VM health visibility
• Improved API
Streamlined and Automated Operations, Faster Application
Delivery
114
• vRealize Business capabilities for
vSphere environments are now
included in vCloud Suite
• vRealize Automation includes
increased product integration that
optimizes cloud lifecycle
management
• vRealize Operations features a new
scale-out, resilient architecture
• #1 Cloud Systems Management1
1IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2013 Vendor Shares, June 2014, Mary Johnston Turner, #249131
Cloud
Business
Cloud
Automation
Cloud
Operations
• Up to 8x greater scalability
• Unified experience across hybrid clouds
when vCloud Suite is extended with
vRealize Suite
77. VMware Cloud Operations Management
Simplify and automate IT Management with Intelligent Operations
Structured Data
Metrics Alerts Events
vRealize Operations
Capacity, Performance and
Configuration Management
Events
Launch in
Context
Unstructured Data
Logs Messages
vRealizeLog Insight
Log analytics, aggregation, and
search
• Intelligent operations through predictive analytics across all machine data
• Policy-based automation enables proactive management and automated remediation
• Unified management for comprehensive visibility in one place, from vSphere to Hyper-V,
AWS and physical infrastructure
Public
Cloud
78. New vRealize Operations Platform
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Designed to meet the automation demands of the hybrid cloud
New architecture that scales out horizontally
to support dramatically larger environments.
Highly available, resilient and self-
monitoring
Full functionality installed on virtual or
physical, Linux or Windows
vCenter-independent license management
for heterogeneous 3rd-party objects
Scaleout
Re-architected platform with
industry-leading scalability and
resilience to support the most
complex environments
New!
79. What We Improved in vRealize Operations 6.0
Scalability
• Scale-up architecture
• Separate instances required
• Scale-out architecture
• Greatly increased scale of a single deployment
• Cluster - shared data and UI
• Resiliency - think Application RAID!
UI
• Single, integrated UI
• Unified management
• Access to all object types
• Two User Interfaces
• No shared data or UI between
vSphere and non-vSphere
domains
Alerting
• Smart Alerts
• No actions associated with alerts
• Actionable Smart Alerts
• Combine multiple symptoms
• In band recommendations/remediation
actions
Visualization
• Fixed or custom-only dashboards
• Inability to integrate vSphere and
non-vSphere objects
• Limited reporting
• Fully customizable dashboards & reports
• Bring in any object, metric or relationship
• Create custom persona-based visualization
vCenter
Operations 5.X
vRealize
Operations 6.0
Capacity
Management
• “What if” scenarios for vSphere
• Supports only ESX hosts and VM
containers
• One scenario per model
• Advanced capacity modeling
• Save capacity project & what-if analysis
• Commit projects to influence capacity
calculations
CONFIDENTIAL – Shared under NDA ONLY
80. Support for New SDDC and Hybrid Cloud Platforms in vRealize
Operations 6.0
118
Storage
VSAN
ISCSI
NFS
Networking
NSX
Arista
KEMP
vCloud Air
Cloud, Region
VDC, vApp, VM
Cloud Type
OpenStack
Hosts, NSX,
Controllers
CONFIDENTIAL & INTERNAL USE ONLY
81. vRealize Operations Suite 6.0 Capability Map
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vR Ops
Standard
vR Ops
Advanced
vR Ops
Enterprise
Operations Management Platform
• Predictive Analytics and Smart Alerts
• Policy Management
• Automation and Guided Remediation
• Customizable Dashboards and Reports
Performance Monitoring and Analytics
• vSphere Performance and Health Monitoring
• SAN Storage Analytics
• Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
• OS Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, … for Physical & Virtual)
• Application, Middleware and Database Monitoring (MS, Oracle, …)
Capacity Management
• vSphere Resource Monitoring, Planning and Optimization
• Capacity Modeling
• Save Capacity Models and model-driven Analytics
Configuration and Compliance Management
• vSphere Hardening
• vSphere change, configuration, and regulatory compliance
• OS-level configuration & regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX…)
Get more from vRealize Operations with 3rd party Management Packs. For a complete list of available Management Packs, please visit
http://solutionexchange.vmware.com
82. Health Alert – “Performance” Troubleshooting
121
Performance alert contributing to
degraded health. Let’s click to
see details …
83. Integrated OS and Application Monitoring
Extends monitoring to what the business cares about
• OS and Application monitoring built into vR Ops!
• In-Guest Awareness of OS and Application Infrastructure
• Native In Guest Visibility thru Agent-based data collection
• Application and Infrastructure Awareness tied together
• Auto Discovery of In-Guest assets, Applications, Disks, etc
• OS monitoring
• Windows, Linux and Unix support
• Process, Windows Services and file system monitoring
• Support for virtual and physical, on-prem and hybrid cloud
Technical Overview
Previously delivered with Hyperic…now
delivered natively in vR Ops!
84. Integrated OS and Application Monitoring
Value of built in OS and App monitoring
• Centralized Management
• All in product UI
• Single UI
• All data consumed through vR Ops UI
• Single instance of UI for the whole deployment
• Single solution encapsulates all
• OS/Remote Service Adapter installed OOTB
• Cleaner Agent
• Install only the plugins needed
Technical Overview
Centralized Management
Installed with
vR Ops
Centralized
Plugin
Management
85. vRealize Operations and Log Insight
Leverage all your IT data for comprehensive visibility in one place
Structured Data
Metrics Alerts Events
VMware vRealize Operations
Capacity, Performance and
Configuration Management
Inventory
Integration
Launch in
Context
Unstructured Data
Logs Messages
VMware vRealize Log Insight
Log analytics, aggregation, and
search
Public
Cloud
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