Architectural Changes in vCenter Platform

Eddie Dinel, VMware

Fausto Ibarra, VMware

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Agenda

vCenter: Today and Tomorrow

vCenter & Management Platform: Future

• Why Are We Doing it?

• What Concretely are we doing?

• Integration & Extensibility

• Scale & Performance

• Centralized Management

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vCenter Today and Tomorrow …and a bit of history

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vCenter 5 Architecture Changes

Modular and

extensible services

• Single Sign-On

• Tagging

• Inventory Service

• vSphere Web Client

vCenter 5 began a transformation to modularity

Modularity makes future features easier to deliver

Tagging

Inventory SSO

UI Platform vCenter (VPXd)

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vCenter 5.0, 5.1 Introduced New Features…

vSphere Web Client

Shortcut navigation, custom tagging, enhanced scalability

vCenter Single Sign-On

Login once for VC components and instances

Auto Deploy

• One solution for stateful and stateless deployments

Enhanced vMotion

vMotion without shared storage

Multi-Hypervisor Management

Manage Hyper-V hosts through vCenter

Centralized Log Browser

7 The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in

making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.

… and vCenter 5.5 Continued to Introduce New Features

Single Sign-On service

• New architecture, no database required

• Enhanced support for Active Directory

vSphere Web Client

• Mac OS X support including remote console

• Usability: drag and drop, filters, recent items

vSphere App-Aware HA

• Monitor and restart off-the-shelf applications

• Leverage Hyperic technology

vSphere Big Data Extensions

• Provision and manage Hadoop clusters

• Support for all the leading Hadoop distributions

vCenter Server Appliance

• Higher scalability

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Agenda

vCenter: Today and Tomorrow

vCenter & Management Platform: Future

• Where are we going and Why?

• What Concretely are we doing?

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vCenter & Management Platform: Future

Where Are We Going, and Why?

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$1,800

5 days,

2 minutes

$300

2 minutes $10,000

10 weeks

Present Past

+

Enterprise

storage

VLAN

networks

Firewall,

load-balancer

IDS, security,

monitoring

Availability

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vCenter Is Changing to Support This And Becoming More than Just vCenter…

1

1

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vCenter Server & vCloud Director Together, Providing a Scalable, Reliable Management Platform

A single way to manage virtual

infrastructure, cloud resources,

Virtual Datacenters

A reliable, scalable,

extensible platform

Automated lifecycle management

of virtual infrastructure and the

virtual datacenter

Virtual Datacenter

Cloud Management Platform

Storage Fabric

Compute Fabric

Network Fabric

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Evolution of vCloud Director

vCloud Director (vCD)

vCloud Automation Center

(vCAC)

Virtualization Platform

Well-Governed

Self-Service

Delivery

Cloud

Administration

Cloud Service

Provisioning provides

personalized, self-

service delivery of

application,

infrastructure, and

desktop services by

fully automating the

end-to-end service

lifecycle across

heterogeneous and

hybrid clouds.

VMware’s Cloud

Infrastructure Platform

produces an entire

virtual datacenter

(VDC) that harnesses

the software-defined

infrastructure to

deliver the most agile,

cost-efficient cloud

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Evolution of vCloud Director

vCloud Director (vCD)

vCloud Automation Center

(vCAC)

vSphere

• Content Catalog

• Virtual Data Center

• Intelligent Placement

• Network Virtualization

• High governance consumption

• Self-service portal

• VM lifecycle management

• Multi-tenancy

• Memory clone

2014+

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3. VM – Automatically Placed and Provisioned

1. Content Library - Select a Template

2. Virtual Data Center – Specify Requirements

Virtual Datacenter in vCenter

Storage Fabric

Compute Fabric

Network Fabric

PBM Fabric

VM: 2 vCPU, 1GB vRAM

Cluster: UCS-19

Network: VXLAN-4235

Storage: VSAN-1193

UDS: TAG-PCI-ZONE

NSX

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Agenda

vCenter: Today and Tomorrow

vCenter & Management Platform: Future

• Where are we going and why?

• What Concretely are we doing?

• Integration & Extensibility

• Scale & Performance

• Centralized Management

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vCenter & Management Platform: Future What Concretely Are We doing?

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First: The Goal

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Achieve Scale…and Manage It Effectively…across the Suite

Today, most Admin operations done at

each and every vCenter

Single Interface for Large-Scale Management

Tomorrow, operate once

against your entire

infrastructure

Raise scale limits:

• 100K VMs

• 10K hosts per cloud

Manage across clouds

All products in one UI

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The Obstacles …and How We’ll Tackle Them

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Integration & Extensibility

Common Infrastructure

Services

Services Decoupled

from vCenter

Scale & Performance

Leaner vCenter

Scale-out architecture

Centralized Management

Cross site “Federation”

Obstacles & Remedies

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Integration & Extensibility

Common Infrastructure

Services

Services Decoupled

from vCenter

Scale & Performance

Leaner vCenter

Scale-out architecture

Centralized Management

Cross site “Federation”

Obstacles & Remedies

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Integration Is Difficult Getting to a Cloud Management Platform

Integration is a many-to-many problem

Behavior defined by each product

vCenter

vShield

vCOPS

Products Integrate to Common Services

Suite products have common behaviors

SRM

Common

Services

vShield

vCOPS vCenter

SRM • One Console

• Shared common

services

• Single entry point

• Extensible platform

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Services & Platforms Decouple from vCenter Available for Use by Other Solutions

Common services can be used

by other solutions and components

(SRM, NSX, VC-Ops etc.)

UI/API layer can be common across

all solutions

Designed to support integration

and extensibility

Load on vCenter decreases

significantly vCenter (VPXd)

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Services & Platforms Decouple from vCenter Available for use by other Solutions

Tagging

Inventory SSO

UI Platform

vCenter (VPXd)

Licensing

Authorization

Cert Mgmt

Common services can be used

by other solutions and components

(SRM, NSX, VC-Ops etc.)

UI/API layer can be common across

all solutions

Designed to support integration

and extensibility

Load on vCenter decreases

significantly API

Platform

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Deployment Stays Simple for Simple Situations

Notification

Tagging

Inventory

Data/Query

VM CA SSO 2

Applia

nce C

onta

iner

Key-Value

Licensing

Component

Manager

API

Runtime UI Platform Authorization vPostgres

vCenter (VPXd)

Single node contains

all management

software—services

and application

Over time, VMware will

make this deployment

“virtual appliance”-only.

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Integration &

Extensibility

Common Infrastructure

Services

Services Decoupled from

vCenter

Scale &

Performance

Leaner vCenter and

Intelligent Data Storage

Scale-out architecture

Centralized Management

Cross site “Federation”

Obstacles & Remedies

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Smaller Deployments Are Simple

Notification

Tagging

Inventory

Data/Query

VM CA SSO 2

Key-Value

Licensing

Component

Manager

API

Runtime UI Platform Authorization vPostgres

vCenter (VPXd)

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Smaller Deployments Are Simple

vCenter

(Management)

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

vCenter

(Management)

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

vCenter

(Management)

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

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More Flexibility for Larger-Scale Deployments

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

Replication Replication

Replication

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Getting Smart About Storing Data Not everything belongs in a relational database…

Confidential

Embedded SQL

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

Time-Series

Data

(Stats, Events)

Slow-Changing Data

Multi-Master Replicated Directory

Time-Series Data

Purpose-built Storage Format

Relational Data

Embedded SQL DB (vPostgres)

Inventory / Management Data

Distributed Store

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Obstacles & Remedies

Integration & Extensibility

Common Infrastructure

Services

Services Decoupled

from vCenter

Scale & Performance

Leaner vCenter

Scale-out architecture

Centralized Management

Cross site “Federation”

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Large Scale at a Single Site…

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

“Infra”

Users, Certs,

Roles,Tags

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

vCenter

(Management)

Replication Replication

Replication

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…Becomes a Building Block for Multi-Site

Site: Los Angeles

Site: Ohio

Replication

Site: Florida

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Multi-Site…from One Pane of Glass

Today, most Admin operations done at

each and every vCenter

Tomorrow, operate once

against your entire

infrastructure

Raise scale limits:

• 100K VMs

• 10K hosts per cloud

Manage across sites

in one UI

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Single Pane of Glass for Management With Full Automation through Consistent APIs

Administrator

CIS API

Cloud Infrastructure Suite

vCenter NSX VC-Ops

Roadmap

Just like UI: Consumers have clear &

consistent programmatic interface

Same Syntax for consumer & producer,

segregated by role

Single API entry point for multi-site

management

Consistent interaction model across all

products in the Suite

SRM

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Wait a Second… …This Could Be Really Complex to Deploy and Make Available!

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vCloud Suite

Install, Upgrade, Patch—with Software Dependency Management Built in

Integration with Configuration

Manager to define “compliant

infrastructure”

Integrated with Auto Deploy to allow

scale-out of management while

scaling out capacity

Install and update vSphere and

vCloud Suite

Automatically track and manage

dependencies — prevents

breakage through upgrade

Infrastructure software lifecycle

manager functionality may replace

current limited VMware Update

Manager functionality

Install, Upgrade, and Patch

Roadmap

Overview

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Questions? Comments?

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Architectural Changes in vCenter Platform

Eddie Dinel, VMware

Fausto Ibarra, VMware

TEX5738

#TEX5738