NL VMUG UserCon March 19 2015 1
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What s New with vsphere 6.0? Rob Groenhuis Sr. Systems Engineer VMware Netherlands BV 3
Virtualization Market Leader Pat Gelsinger CEO since September 2012 US$ 5.21 billion turnover in 2013 US$ 6.04 billion turnover in 2014 Leading in Gartner s Magic Quadrant vsphere vs. Hyper-V? Send email to rg@vmware.com 4
vcenter Server / vcloud Director / vcloud Automation Center Reliable Memory Hot Plug PCIe SSD VDP Advanced Revamped SSO 320 pcpu, 4 TB 62 TB VMDK Availability Security Scalability vsphere 5.5 Compute Storage Network Expanded vgpu Native drivers CPU Day 0 Support 16Gb E2E vflash Read Cache VSAN vds further enhancements (LACP, Traffic Filtering) 5
vcenter Server / vrealize Automation - Operations - Business FT for SMP Enhanced Replication Enhanced vmotion Data Protection Adv. Enhanced MSCS Password enhancements Platform Services Controller VMCA 64 Node Clusters Larger Hosts Availability Security Scalability vsphere 6.0 Compute Storage Network Virtual HW 11 128 vcpu VMs 4 TB RAM VMs Virtual SAN 6.0 Virtual Volumes Enhanced NIOC 6
Availability 7
Fault Tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs Symmetric Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance - Multi-vCPU Support Overview Instantaneous Failover Fast Checkpointing FT support for up to 4 vcpus Protection for high performance, multi-vcpu VMs New, more scalable technology: fast checkpointing to keep primary and secondary in sync 4 vcpu 4 vcpu Primary vsphere Secondary Benefits Protect mission-critical, high-performance applications regardless of OS Continuous availability: zero downtime, zero data loss for infrastructure failures Fully automated response 8
Fault Tolerance Capabilities 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 Feature FT (vsphere 5.5) FT (vsphere 6.0) HA DRS Partial Partial DPM SRM VDS Storage DRS VCD vsphere Replication 9
vsphere Replication Enhancements End-to-end network compression Further reduces bandwidth requirements Network traffic isolation Controls bandwidth, improves performance Host Mgmt vmknic0 VR Traffic vmknic1 LAN WAN Move replicas without full sync Balance storage while avoiding RPO violation Replica Storage vmotion Replica Linux file system quiescing Increased reliability when recovering Linux VMs VMware Tools 10
Long-Distance vmotion The Next Generation in vmotion Innovation Overview Larger distances - up to 100 ms RTT Maintain standard vmotion guarantees Does not require Virtual Volumes Benefits Permanent migrations between data centers Disaster avoidance Multi-site load balancing Follow the sun 11
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 vds A vcenter Server vmotion vmotion Network VM Network (L2 Connectivity) vds B 12
Cross vcenter vmotion Simultaneously changes Compute Storage Network vcenter vmotion without shared storage Increased scale Pool resources across vcenter servers Targeted topologies Local Metro Cross-continental vcenter Server vds A vmotion vmotion Network VM Network (L2 Connectivity) vcenter Server vds B 13
Increased vmotion Network Flexibility vmotion network will cross L3 boundaries vmotion can now use it s own TCP/IP stack vcenter Management Network vcenter ESXi VM Network NFC Network ESXi vmotion Network 14
Enhanced Microsoft Clustering (MSCS) Support for Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012 Failover Clustering and AlwaysOn Availability Groups IPV6 Support PVSCSI and SCSI controller support vmotion Support Clustering across physical hosts (CAB) with Physical Comp. Mode RDM s Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 15
vsphere Data Protection in vsphere 6.0 Up to 8TB of deduplicated backup data capacity per VDP appliance Protect approximately 150-200 VMs per appliance, minimal storage consumption Agent-less VM backup and restore, file level restore Application level backup and restore of SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint Select individual databases, app-consistent quiescing, transaction log management 16
Security 17
Password Management Enhancements New ESXCLI Commands ESXCLI commands to Create / List / Remove / Modify local user accounts Set / remove permission for users or user groups Account Lockout Configure maximum allowed failed login attempts (10 by default) Configure lockout duration period (2 minutes by default) Complexity Rules via Advanced Settings Change default password complexity rules using VIM API Configurable via vcenter Host Advanced System Settings 18
Improved Auditability of ESXi Admin Actions Prior to 6.0, actions taken at the vcenter level by a named user would show up in ESXi logs with the vpxuser username. [user=vpxuser] This made for difficult forensic tracking of user actions. In 6.0, all actions taken at vcenter against an ESXi server now show up in the ESXi logs with the vcenter username [user=vpxuser:corp\administrator] 19
Scalability / Compute 20
Increased vsphere Host Maximums vsphere 5.5 vsphere 6.0 32 Hosts per Cluster 64 Hosts per Cluster 4000 VMs per Cluster 8000 VMs per Cluster 320 pcpus 480 pcpus 4 TB RAM 12 TB RAM 512 VMs per Host 1000 VMs per Host 21
Increased vsphere VM maximums Was 64, now 128 vcpus Was 1, now 4 TB RAM Hot-add RAM now vnuma (region) aware WDDM 1.1 graphics device interface (GDI) acceleration features xhci 1.0 controller allows USB 3.0 at full speed Maximum of 32 serial ports Serial and parallel port enhancements Serial and parallel ports can now be removed (5.5) 22
Storage 23
Software-Defined Storage Bring all virtualization advantages towards Storage Policy-driven Control Plane Virtual Data Services Data Protection Mobility Performance Virtual Data Plane Hypervisor-converged Storage pool SAN/NAS Pool Object Storage Pool x86 Servers Virtual SAN SAN / NAS Cloud Object Storage 24
Virtual SAN (March 2014) What is Virtual SAN? A software based solution that has been developed from the ground up by VMware It virtualizes local hard disks and SSDs, clusters them together, and presents them as a datastore Main goal is to lower TCO (up to 50%) 25 Virtual SAN vsphere Product Overview Scale out Storage built into the hypervisor Flash-optimized converged compute + storage solution Uses industry standard components High Performance & Resiliency (distr. RAID) vsphere 5.5 integrated management 25 SSD Hard disks SSD SSD Hard disks Hard disks Virtual SAN Datastore 25
What s New with Virtual SAN 6.0 All-Flash 2x Greater Scale 2x All Flash datastore with SSD persistence High, predictable performance Cost-effective all-flash architecture with SSD tiering 2x Greater Scale: up to 64 nodes/cluster 50% greater VM densities o Hybrid: 150 VMs/host o All-Flash: 200 VMs/host 2x-4x More Performance 10 8 IOPS 2x more IOPS with VSAN Hybrid o Up to 40K IOPS/host 4x more IOPS with VSAN All-Flash o Up to 100K IOPS/host 6 4 2 0 2x 4x 5.5 Hybrid 6.0 Hybrid 6.0 All-Flash Snaps, Clones and Even Data Services More And Other New New VSAN Features Snapshots and Clones Hardware-based checksum and encryption support Enable blade architectures Support for blade-only direct-attached JBODs o Rack Awareness: tolerate rack failures Disk troubleshooting: LED on/off to detect failed disks 26
Virtual Volumes Solution Overview VMware vsphere Virtual volumes Native representation of VMDKs on SAN/NAS No LUNs or Volume management Works with existing SAN/NAS systems A new control path for data operations at VM/VMDK granularity Customer Value Snapshots, replications and other operations at VM granularity on external storage Automates control of per-vm service levels Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-duplication 27
Network 28
Network I/O Control Version 3 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 29
vcenter 6.0 30
vcenter Server - Enhanced Capabilities Scalability supported by both Windows Install and vcenter Server appliance Metric Windows Appliance Hosts per VC 1,000 1,000 Powered-On VMs per VC 10,000 10,000 Hosts per Cluster 64 64 VMs per Cluster 6,000 6,000 Linked Mode Windows install supports Postgres and External SQL and Oracle DBs vcsa supports embedded Postgres and external Oracle DBs 31
vcenter Server 6 - Linked Mode Comparison 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 32
Platform Services Controller Single Sign-On (SSO) Licensing Certificate Authority PSC vcenter vcenter Two Deployment Models Embedded vcenter Server and Platform Services Controller in one virtual machine Recommended for small deployments with less than two SSO integrated solutions Centralized vcenter Server and Platform Services Controller in their own virtual machines For deployments where there are two or more SSO integrated solutions 33
VMCA Root CA Issuer CA During installation, VMCA automatically creates a self-signed certificate This is a CA certificate, capable of issuing other certificates All solutions and endpoint certificates are created (and trusted) from this self-signed CA certificate Can replace the default self-signed CA certificate created during installation Requires a CSR issued from VMCA to be used in an Enterprise/Commercial CA to generate a new Issuing Certificate Requires replacement of all issued default certificates after implementation New Certificate Manager (separate download) 34
Content Library Store and Sync VM templates, OVFs, and ISOs Overview Content Library provides storage and versioning of files including VM templates, ISOs, and OVFs. Includes powerful publish and subscribe features to replicate content Backed by vsphere Datastores or NFS Benefits Simplifies management of templates Enables synchronization between local and remote vcenter Servers Also enables sync between vc and vcd 35
vsphere Client (Windows) 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) 36
vsphere Client (Web Client vs. Windows) Use case Web Client vsphere Client (Windows) vsphere management ESXi/VM patching (VUM) Hardware version 8-11 * New features * v10-11 Read only access 37
vsphere Web Client Improved login time (13x) Faster right click menu (4x) Faster charts (2x) Usability Improvements Anywhere in one click Flattened right click menu Recent tasks at bottom Dockable UI 38
Why vsphere 6.0? 39
Why vsphere 6.0? Virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications Redefine Availability Simplify Virtual Data Center Scale-Up SQL Server, Oracle, Exchange, SAP Scale-Out Big Data, PaaS, SAP HANA VMware Integrated OpenStack Desktop Virtualization Zero Downtime Live Migration Over Distance and Across Boundaries Continuous Availability for Production Virtual Machines Data Protection for Business Critical Applications Publish and Share Content Across the Environment Cloning and Migration Across Boundaries Responsive, intuitive, and efficient user interface 40
Delivering the Software Defined Data Center Virtualization Applications with Confidence Transform Storage Deliver Choice Performance and scale that power the next generation of applications Industry-first availability that minimizes downtime Support for latest hardware, drivers, and guest OS Transform storage in a similar manner to compute VM-aware storage Efficient storage operations on a VM level Choice of how to build and operate your cloud environments Containers without compromise Hybrid Cloud Services VMware Integrated OpenStack vsphere 6.0 vsphere with Operations Mgmt 6.0 vcloud Suite 6.0 Virtual SAN 6.0 Virtual Volumes Site Recovery Manager 6.0 VMware Integrated OpenStack 1.0 41
Next Steps 42
Next Steps Product Info & 60-Days Eval: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere Hands-On Labs (HOL-SDC-1410): http://labs.hol.vmware.com 43
Questions? 44
Thank You! 45