vmware vsphere 6 & horizon view 6.1 – what's new ?

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Digicomp Event

29 septembre 2015

Jean ULRICH

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VMware vSphere: What’s New

Digicomp Event, le 29 septembre 2015

What’s New vSphere 6

vRealize Operations Manager

Horizon View

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vSphere 6 (U1)

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New Features of the vSphere 6 Platform

vSphere 6 New Feature or Enhancement

VMware ESXi™ Scalability improvements

Security

Virtual Machines Compatibility with ESXi 6

Extended Guest operating system support

Virtual NUMA

vCenter Server VMware Platform Services Controller™

Enhanced Link Mode

Certificate Management

VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™

VMware vSphere® vMotion®

VMware vSphere® High Availability

VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

vSphere Storage Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere® Data Protection™

VMware vSphere® Replication™

vSphere Networking VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control

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You use the vSphere Web Client to connect to vCenter Server systems and to manage vSphere inventory objects.

About the vSphere Web Client

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The vCenter Server Appliance ISO image contains an index.html file. Open this file in a supported browser to begin the installation.

Accessing vCenter Server Appliance

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vCenter Server Appliance can now scale to support the same numbers that vCenter Server installed on a Windows server can support: §  1,000 hosts per vCenter Server system §  10,000 powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server system §  64 ESXi hosts per cluster §  8,000 virtual machines per cluster

vCenter Server Appliance Enhancements

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vSphere vMotion has the following enhancements: §  Migrate across virtual switches. §  Migrate across vCenter Server

systems. •  MAC addresses are preserved in

migrations across vCenter Server instances.

§  Migrate long distance: •  At least 100 ms RTT. •  Intracontinental distances can be

supported. §  Separate TCP stack for vSphere

vMotion

vSphere vMotion Enhancements

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Storage in vSphere 6 has several changes and enhancements: §  Virtual Volumes §  Storage policy-based management §  NFS v4.1 with Kerberos §  Multisite content libraries

vSphere Storage Enhancements

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Virtual SAN 6 introduces the following new features and enhancements: §  Scalability improvements

Virtual SAN 6 Scalability Enhancements

Virtual SAN 5.5 Virtual SAN 5.5 Hybrid

Virtual SAN 6 All Flash

Hosts per Cluster 32 64 64 2x

Virtual Machines per Host 100 200 200 2x

IOPS per Host 20K 40K 90K 4.5x

Snapshot Depth per Virtual Machine 2 32 32 16x

Virtual Disk Size 2 TB 62 TB 62 TB 31x

Virtual Machines per Cluster 3200 6400 6400 2x

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Performance improvements: §  New on-disk format §  Snapshots and clones enhancements §  Use flash devices for the capacity layer

Virtual SAN 6 Performance Enhancements

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Availability improvements: §  Fault domains: The grouping of hosts in a Virtual SAN cluster that have

different logical failure zones.

Operational improvements: §  Default virtual machine storage policy §  Lighting LED on disks through UI for ease of identity §  Mark disks as local or as flash through UI §  Disk evacuation granularity

Virtual SAN 6 Availability and Operational Enhancements

Rack A Rack B

Virtual SAN Cluster

Fault Domain A Fault Domain B Fault Domain C

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vSphere Fault Tolerance provides instantaneous failover and continuous operation: §  Zero downtime §  Zero data loss

§  No loss of TCP connections

§  No dependency §  No application-specific management

vSphere Fault Tolerance

ESXi

Primary Virtual Machine Secondary Virtual Machine

Instantaneous Failover

Fast Checkpointing

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The content library is a repository of virtual machine templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts for vSphere administrators. The content library can be easily shared and synchronized across vCenter Server instances.

About the Content Library

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The content library has three types: local, published, and subscribed.

Content Library Subscription Types

Local Library of content that you

control

Published Local library that makes

content available for subscription

Subscribed Library that syncs with a

published library

On-Demand >>>>

Library Content •  Immediately download all library content

Download library content only when needed Saves storage backing space. Only metadata is retrieved. Content is downloaded as needed when

creating virtual machines or synchronizing content

Automatic >>>> Metadata

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§  Bandwidth admission control validates that the virtual machine reservation can be met.

§  If the reservation cannot be met on the current host, vSphere DRS places the virtual machine on a host that has the capacity to guarantee the bandwidth reserved for the virtual machine.

Bandwidth Admission Control in vSphere DRS

Distributed Switch

ESX host1

VM2

VM1

Reservation: 600Mbps

Uplink 1 Gpbs

VM reservation: 600 Mpbs per

Uplink

ESX host2 Uplink 1 Gpbs

VM reservation: 600 Mpbs per

Uplink

Reservation: 600 Mbps

VM3

Reservation: 600 Mbps

VM Network Traffic Reservation: 600 Mbps

Reservation cannot be met.

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vRealize Operations Manager

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VMware vRealize™ Operations™ provides heterogeneous management capabilities that support: §  Virtual and physical infrastructures. §  Public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Overview of vRealize Operations

Cloud Operations Console

Extensibility Integrated Management Disciplines

Performance Compliance Configuration Capacity Availability

Platform

Application Visibility Logs Analytics Reporting/

Alerting Automation SDK

Management

Packs

APIs

vRealize Operations

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The vRealize Operations Manager console is the central point of management for your environment.

vRealize Operations Manager Console

Home

Alerts

Environment

Content

Administration

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vRealize Operations Manager provides visibility across all layers of the infrastructure.

Operations Visibility

Immediate Issues

Emerging Issues

Opportunities to Optimize

Host memory contention is contributing to degraded health.

You can click this alert to investigate the issue. Coverage Across the

Entire Environment

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Alerts reduce the mean time to investigate issues. Recommendations reduce the mean time to resolve issues in the environment.

Reduced Time to Investigate and Resolve Issues

Which symptoms across the stack are

causing this problem?

What are the recommendations to resolve this issue?

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Using Capacity Projects, you can rapidly experiment with, visualize, and schedule prospective changes to your environment.

Predictive Capacity Modeling

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Compliance is about ensuring that objects in your environment meet industrial, governmental, regulatory, or internal standards. vRealize Operations Manager provides vSphere hardening content with the vSphere solution: §  Alerts §  Symptoms §  Views §  Dashboards

Compliance can be enforced against metrics derived from symptoms.

Integrated Compliance

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VMware provides several solutions for vRealize Operations Manager. The following is a partial list of solutions: §  Management Pack for vRealize Configuration Manager §  Management Pack for vRealize Hyperic §  Management Pack for Storage Devices §  Management Pack for vRealize Infrastructure Navigator §  Management Pack for NSX-vSphere §  Management Pack for vCloud Air §  To download a solution for vRealize Operations Manager, go to the

VMware Solution Exchange at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com

VMware Solutions

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Horizon View 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1 et 6.2

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Horizon 6 and Horizon View Architecture

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Cloud Pod Architecture Feature

Overview: §  Enable View deployments across

multiple data centers §  New data layer replicated across all

View Connection Servers §  Support single namespace for end

users with a global URL §  Global entitlement layer to assign

and manage desktops and users

Benefits: §  Scale View deployments to multiple

data centers and > 10,000 sessions §  Supports active-active and disaster

recovery use cases for View deployments §  Support for geo-roaming users

Federated View Pods

Pod 1

VCS 1 VCS 2

LDAP Replication

Pod 2

VCS 3 VCS 4

LDAP Replication

Global LDAP Replication

Interpod communication

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Overview: §  VMware Horizon™ Mobile™ client §  Mobile and tablet clients:

•  iOS •  Android

Hosted Applications for Mobile Client Support with View

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Overview: §  Remote applications with a local

experience §  Seamless look, feel, and interaction for

the user §  Desktops and laptops:

•  Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1

•  Mac OS X §  Integration with native local client

device OS: •  Copy, paste, shortcuts, and application

launcher

Hosted Applications for Windows and Mac with View

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Hosted Applications and Desktops with View

View Virtual Desktops

RDS Desktops

RDS Applications

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Linux Virtual Desktops

Linux Virtual Desktop Support

Linux virtual desktops in the Enterprise

§  New functionality to enable the Blast Protocol from the Horizon Client §  Linux virtual desktops only

§  Supports Windows, Mac and Linux clients §  Secure WebSocket protocol (HTTPS) §  Supports vDGA for direct pass-through of

NIVIDIA GRID

Benefits

§  Introduce even more use cases for Linux desktops §  3D CAD/CAM §  Scientific modelling

§  Lower cost alternative than Windows VDI

Overview

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