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Copyright © 2004 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

NERCOMP Server Virtualization Event

Monday, September 25th, 2006

2Copyright © 2004 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

VMware Infrastructure – Key Solutions / Use Cases

Server Consolidation and Containment – Eliminate server sprawl by deploying systems into virtual machines

Test and Development – Rapidly provision and re-provision test and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured test machines

Enterprise Desktop – Secure unmanaged PCs. Alternatively, provide standardized enterprise desktop environments hosted on servers.

Business Continuity – Reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity by encapsulating entire systems files that can be replicated and restored onto any target server

Infrastructure Provisioning – Reduce the time for provisioning new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation capabilities.

Legacy Application Re-hosting – Migrate legacy operating systems and software applications to virtual machines running on new hardware for better reliability


Bottom Line: VMware Unassailable on the Most Important Customer Criteria

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Security

Price

Heterogeneous OS Support

Scalability

Management and automation

Performance

Maturity

Percentage of Users

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VMware Product Lines

Enterprise Desktop

VMware ACE

Developers/Technical Professionals

Workstation VMTN Subscription

Free Virtualization Products

VMware Player VMware Server

Virtual Infrastructure for the Enterprise

VirtualCenter ESX Server P2V Assistant


MANAGEMENT

DEPLOYMENT

AGGREGATION

VIRTUALIZATION

AvailabilityResource

ManagementData

Protection

Server, storage and networking

Unified resource pools

All enterprise workloads

Central management of large environments

Better service levels to applications

SOLUTIONS

VMware Infrastructure – How Does It Work?


MANAGEMENT

DEPLOYMENT

AGGREGATION

VIRTUALIZATION


ManagementData

Protection

SOLUTIONS

VirtualCenter

•HA•DRS•Consolidated Backup

•ESX Server•VMFS•Virtual SMP

VMware Infrastructure – Component Products


The Customer Expectation

From Server Partitioning Five Years Ago…

...to Transforming Infrastructure through Virtualization

HypervisorHypervisor

MANAGEMENT

DEPLOYMENT

AGGREGATION

VIRTUALIZATION


ManagementData Protection

SOLUTIONS•75%+ of customers buy VMware Infrastructure

•63% implemented disaster recovery solutions

•50% implemented availability and optimization with VMotion


VMware Virtualization Basics

System without VMware Software System with VMware Software

• Separates BIOS, operating system, and applications from physical hardware• Allows many virtual systems to share same physical hardware• Standardizes multiple generations of multi-vendor hardware


Key Features of Virtualization

Hardware Independence

Run a virtual machine on any server without modification

Partitioning

Run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a single physical

server

Isolation

Each virtual machine is isolated from other virtual machines on the

same server

Encapsulation

Entire virtual machine is saved in files and can be moved and copied

by moving and copying files


ESX Server 3 New Features Virtualization Everywhere!

• NAS and iSCSI storage

• Expanded hardware compatibility list

• 4-way Virtual SMP

• 16GB guest memory

• Hot-add virtual disks

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 guests

• Multiple snapshots

• Enhanced performance

• Updated Service Console (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3)

• More flexible networking

Branch Office

Branch Office NAS/iSCSI

Storage

Dev & Test

Dev & Test Local

Storage

Fibre Channel

SAN

Data Center

Data Center


Interoperability

I/O Subsystem

CPU

Operating System

Networking

Applications

Management

Storage


New - Resource Pools

• Abstraction of resources from hardware• Failed server means less resources

not a failed application

• Flexible hierarchical organization• Each business unit with its own (virtual)

hardware

• Management of an entire SOA application stack as a single entity

Aggregate collections of disparate hardware resources into unified logical resource pools

Servers, Storage, Networking

Business UnitDepartment A Department B

ResourcePool


Resource optimization with VMware DRS

What is it?• Dynamic balancing of computing

resources across resource pools• Intelligent resource allocation

based on pre-defined rules

Customer Impact• Align IT resources with business

priorities • Operational simplicity; dramatically

increase system administrator productivity

• Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load

• Automate hardware maintenance

Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources to ensure optimal alignment between business and IT

Resource Pool

Business Demand


Ensure high availability with VMware HA

What is it?• Automatic restart of virtual

machines in case of server failure

Customer Impact• Cost effective high availability

for all applications• No need for dedicated

stand-by hardware• None of the cost and

complexity of clustering

VMware HA enables cost-effective high availability for all applications

Resource Pool

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New - VMware Consolidated Backup

• Move backup out of the virtual machine• a single agent running on the proxy

server rather than an agent on every virtual machine.

• Eliminate backup traffic on the local area network • Utilize Fibre Channel tape devices

for virtual machine backups

• Pre-integrated with major 3rd-party backup products

Centralized file level backup


New – Faster, Bigger Virtual Machines

• Expanded memory, storage, network limits; up to 4 virtual CPUs per virtual machines

• Performance improvements across the board

• Up to 50% better for targeted workloads

Run the most resource intensive enterprise applications such as databases, CRM and ERP applications in a virtual machines


Virtual Machines

ESX Server

• What does it do?• Allows single virtual machine to use

up to four physical processors simultaneously

• Benefits• Run resource intensive applications

in virtual machines

• Scale computing environments without adding new hardware

• Create realistic development and testing environments

Virtual SMP

New – 4-Way Virtual SMP

Virtualize the most processor intensive applications


New – Expanded OS Support

• Experimental 64-bit support

• Solaris 10 support

Expanded operating system support


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Explosion in # of Physical& Logical components

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70%

Mainframe Unix x86

Source: IBM Scorpion, VMware Internal

Relative CPU Utilization

Low x86 Utilization…Becoming Even Lower (i.e. Multicore)

• Dramatic increases in dedicated, under-utilized IT assets• Management of servers is costly and complex• Inflexibility makes it hard to meet business needs

Evolution of Server Computing


Vmware VMotion™

Migrate running virtual machine from one server to another

• Zero downtime

• Continuous service availability

• Complete transaction integrity.

• New – VMotion support on NAS and iSCSI storage


Server and Virtual Machine Management

• New - Manage hundreds of servers and thousands of virtual machines• Faster start up, more responsive

• New - Significant usability improvements• Virtual Infrastructure Client

• Virtual Infrastructure Web Access

• Inventory model

• Virtual machine shortcuts

• Topology maps

Manage large environments


Virtual Machine Provisioning and Migration

• Deployment Wizard

• New – Redesigned virtual machine templates• Support easy virtual machine patching and

updating by converting to VMs, powering-on, and then re-instating as templates

• Templates are always stored in a VMFS or NAS (no longer on VC)

• Virtual machine cloning

• Cold migration• Drag and drop

• Live migration with VMotion

Provision infrastructure instantly


Centralized Management with VirtualCenter

• Provision and boot virtual machines

• Monitor system availability and performance

• Automated notifications and email alerting

• Integrate SDK with existing management tools

• Secure the environment with robust access control


• 1,000 servers with DASD

• 200 racks

• 3000 network cables

• 400 power whips

• 50 servers with SAN and NAS

• 10 racks

• 300 network cables

• 20 power whips

Before After

Server, Storage and Network Consolidation


HP Servers

Dell Servers

Production Environment: 400+ VMs on

68 Physical ESX Servers

Back-Up/DR Environment: 400+ VMs on

50 Physical ESX Servers

Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site

Customer Example: Rapid Disaster Recovery

Reduced recovery time from >20 hours to <20 minutes


Virtualization Appliances

What is a Virtualization Appliance?

• A pre-packaged operating system and application in a VM

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/


VMware Community Source

• Community source program provides industry partners with an opportunity to collaborate with VMware on the ESX Server source code, under royalty-free license.


Virtualization Open Interfaces and Formats

• Hypervisors are the primary component of virtualization

• Enables basic computer partitioning

• Partitioning of CPU, Memory, Disk and NIC I/O


Transparent Virtualization

• Full Virtualization: requires no modification to a gust operating systems on a Hypervisor

• Para-virtualization: allows guest operating system to indicate its intent to the Hypervisor getting better performance

• Allows a single binary version of the operating system to run ether on native hardware on a Hypervisor in Para-virtualized mode


Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK)

• Virtual Machines encapsulate an entire server or desktop environment in a file

• Virtual Machine disk format specification describes and documents the virtual machine environment and how its stored.

• Disk format specification is critical to how virtual environments are provisioned, manipulated, patched, updated, scanned and backed up


Management Interface

These interfaces enable management software• HP, IBM, VMware, CA, BMC, etc.

• Deploy, control and monitor virtual machines


Higher Education Case Studies

• Broward Community College (Server Consolidation)

• Consolidated 70 Servers onto 3 ESX Servers

• Raised CPU utilization from 1-2 % to 40-50%

• 80,000 users access applications on Virtual Machines

• New Server Deployment Process = 15 Minutes or <

• Purdue University (Virtual Lab Environments)

• Application Training Centers converted into Virtualized Labs

• Image Library of Virtual Machine Templates and Applications


Higher Education Case Studies

San Jose University (Server Provisioning & Deployment)

• Drove down average server cost from 5-6K to 1K

• Reduced server deployment from 4 months to 1 week

• Repurposed existing hardware for Disaster Recovery initiatives

Quinnipiac University• Virtualized Blackboard – Using Clustering across multiple ESX Host

• Setup Synchronous DR Replication of VM across campus

Collier County• 20,000 users running Virtual Desktop Environment (VDI)


VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables server-hosted enterprise

desktops. Unlike other solutions it delivers full desktop environments that are

always on, accessible from anywhere, and centrally managed.

The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

• VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):

• Consolidates and centralizes complete desktop environments within the data center

• Virtualizes, optimizes, and manages server resources to host and deliver secure, isolated desktops that are always-on and accessible from anywhere

• Is built on VMware’s market-leading Virtual Infrastructure technology and leverages the significant benefits of desktop virtualization


Benefits of a Virtual Desktop Strategy

• Remote access to complete desktop environments

• Access virtual desktops via remote client connection from anywhere, and from any device

• Instantly access virtual desktops at anytime - since they are always on and available

• Enable remote connection to a desktop via a browser

• Standardize desktops on common virtual machine images

• Virtual machines are always connected and powered on enabling easy & timely software updates

• Complete hardware independence –Host any desktop OS/ app on any shared x86 h/w resources

• Improved resource management eliminates underutilized PC CPU cycles

Manageability Accessibility

• Easily provision entire desktops by simply creating or copying a new virtual machine

• Quickly recover desktops from disasters or crashes by deploying a new virtual desktop to a user

• Troubleshoot desktops through virtual machine snapshots and quickly resolve or reprovision new desktops

Responsiveness


Desktops Without Limits

Virtual Desktops

Centrally Managed & Secured

Management without limits

Secure Access without limits

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Deploy & support any client device

Provide full desktop access (incl. multiple environments)

(Complete Access)

Flexible resource provisioning

(CPU, Memory, NICs, Storage)

Provide access to users at any

location

(Anywhere Access)

Provide access at all times -“Always On”

(Anytime Access)

Deploy any app (desktop & enterprise)

Support any OS (incl. legacy OS)

Access using any device over any network

(Anyhow Access)


VDI - Business Use Cases

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

Desktop Consolidation

Secure corporate assets within your own data centers while providing controlled access to external transaction workers

Consolidate, standardize and centrally manage desktops distributed across the enterprise (incl. branches) within corporate data centers

Disaster Recovery

Alternative Workspaces In the event of a pandemic outbreak, ensure alternative, remote

access to complete desktop environments and resources for users safely located away from infected areas

Ensure desktop continuity by redirecting user access to alternate desktop infrastructure while helping quickly and reliably recover desktops and data in the main data center


VDI- How Does it work?

ESX Server

VirtualCenter

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• Connection using remote display software (e.g. RDP, VNC, etc.)

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1 • Virtual desktops hosted on VMware Virtual Infrastructure

• Virtual Infrastructure optimizes and manages servers to deploy desktops

Virtual Desktops

Secure Data Center

3 • Clients can be a desktop, a laptop or a specialized thin client

• Displays desktop of remote virtual machine


VDI - The Building Blocks

Enterprise Server Infrastructure

The VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VMware ESX Server

VMware Virtual Center

User Management(Connection Brokering / Session Management)

Remote Access Protocol(RDP)

VMware

VIM

SDK

Systems Integration Services

Devices Operating Systems

Desktops Laptops Thin Clients


Benefits of a VDI Solution•Fewer PCs to manage•Shared infrastructure•Secure offshore development

VDI enables organizations to provide local or offshore developers access to multiple environments.

Traditional Challenges•Need multiple desktops•Duplicate infrastructure

Local Develope

r

Pool of Desktop Virtual Machines

TestingDevelopment

Remote Developer

Key VDI Use Case: Developer Desktops


Firewall

Key VDI Use Case: Call CenterVDI is a secure way to provide desktop environments for transaction

workers such as call centers and order processing, particularly for outsourced and off-shored environments

• Traditional Challenges• Cost of building infrastructure

• Complexity of ensuring security

• Limited ability to manage systems

• Benefits of a VDI Solution• Limited infrastructure requirements

• Fully-standardized desktops

• Seamless access to key data

• Data remains inside datacenter

• Leverages datacenter tools and processes for security and management

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