Components of VMware v Sphere Module 2 2014

Components of VMware v. Sphere Module 2 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Module 2: Components of VMware v. Sphere Topics Covered in this Module What is VMware VSphere? Arial: Font size 18 What does it do for me? • Virtual Machines • ESXi Hypervisor • v. Center and its features • Storage and Virtual Networking • v. Center Operations Manager • v. Center Configuration Manager • v. Center Site Recovery Manager 1 2 – Current Module 3 VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -2 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Module 2: Learning Objectives At the end of this module you should be able to: Discuss the features of VMware v. Sphere. Provide an overview of the challenges that v. Sphere is intended to resolve. Arial: Font size 18 VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -3 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What is a Virtual Machine? Virtual Hardware is really Software Replace and upgrade hardware on the fly! Add new devices without reboots VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -4 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What is a Virtual Machine? Real Operating System Dedicated virtual hardware Real applications Stable and dependable No need for modification VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] No special changes to OS 2 -5 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What is a Virtual Machine? Real Control You install the operating system and applications VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -6 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What can a VM do? Host any application 1 2 3 4 Install many Virtual Machines on a physical host File Servers Database Servers Email Servers Applications Servers The role doesn’t matter, you can virtualize nearly anything. VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -7 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

How do VMs help me? Snapshot Point-in-time restores Undo for VMs Timeline Snapshot VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Patch Install Crash Revert 2 -8 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

How do VMs help me? Image backups VM VM wa re “Bare-Metal” backups v. Sp he re VMv. Sp whaere re File based restores Hardware independence for restores VM wa VM re re ahere re Sp VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] wa he Vr. M e vw wa VM v. Sp VM re v. Sp he re wa re 2 -9 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

How do VMs help me? VMs Point-in-time snapshots Image-based backups (Bare-Metal restores) Hot Add Non-disruptive hardware upgrades Consolidation & Disaster Recovery VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -10 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Quiz Review Option 1 Snapshots What if someone deletes files inside one of our VMs? We need data protection, but which v. Sphere feature is designed to help us? Option 2 Image-based Backups VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -11 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Your host: The Hypervisor Resource Management for VMs VM w are v. Sp VMware v. Sphere he re VMv. Sphe wa re re X 86 architecture r iso rv ype h VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -12 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Your host: The Hypervisor Type 1 Hypervisor: “Bare-Metal” Type 2 Hypervisor: “Hosted” Installed as the operating sytem Installed as an application Example: VMware ESXi Example: VMware Workstation VMware ESXi VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -13 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

The ESXi Hypervisor ESXi Benefits Direct hardware access Type 1 Hypervisor Type 2 Hypervisor ESXi Host VMware Workstation Less overhead than hosted hypervisors Flexible installation options ESXi = Lower resource overhead VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -14 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Quiz Review Build a Type 1 Hypervisor Vmware Workstation ESXi Host Windows of Linux OS VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -15 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Host Management Common Tasks Creating VMs VM wa re Adjusting VM configurations Monitoring performance Configuring and Patching hosts VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -16 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Center Let’s simplify things a bit v. Center centralizes host management VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -17 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Center is scalable ESXi host v. Center Components Identity Management Server 1, 000 ESXi hosts Database Server Application Server 10, 000 VMs Web Server VMware v. Sphere® Web Client VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -18 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What does v. Center do? v. Center is centralized a platform for management features v. Motion DRS DPM Storage v. Motion Storage DRS v. Sphere Data Protection High Availability (HA) Fault Tolerance (FT) v. Sphere Replication VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -19 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Motion VM oti o n VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -20 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Motion v. Center v. Motion is a migration process. A VM is a large chunk of memory on an ESXi host. Data Storage Concepts Network Concepts VMware Data Center Products VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -21 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) v. Motion Resource Pool VMware ESXi Physical Servers DRS maintains rules that match your business objectives. Defines that a particular VM must run on a specific ESXi host. EXSi host may become unevenly burdened. Hot spots could impact or limit VM performance. VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -22 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Distributed Power Management (DPM) v. Motion Resource Pool VMware ESXi Standby Host Server VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] VMware ESXi Power-Optimized Servers 2 -23 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Storage v. Motion Host (VMkernel) Block-level bitmap identifies hot and cold blocks. . I/Os written to both source and mirror disks. . Storage v. Motion Destination datastore Source datastore VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Mirrored virtual disk 2 -24 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Storage DRS 2 TB Datastore Cluster (POD) Datastores 500 GB VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 500 GB 2 -25 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Storage I/O Control Data Mining Current Situation Optimal Situation Without Storage I/O Control With Storage I/O Control Print Server Online Store Data Mining Microsoft Exchange VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Print Server Online Store Microsoft Exchange VIP 2 -26 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Sphere Data Protection (VDP) Backup VMs create image-based backups Bare-metal backup in the physical world Easier to make an image-based backup of a virtual machine Restore Easily restore individual files from that image-based backup VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -27 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Sphere Data Protection (VDP) Leverages data duplication VDP Bundled with most editions of v. Center Server What if you already have a preferred backup software application? Open set of APIs VADP VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -28 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

High Availability (HA) Restart VP Resource Pool VMware ESXi Operating Server VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] VMware ESXi Operating Server Failed Server Operating Server 2 -29 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

High Availability (HA) Each VM has a special set of software and drivers. HA HA can restart the virtual machine for you. HA can monitor services and applications. VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -30 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Fault Tolerance (FT) Takes over execution without service interruption Fault Tolerance Resource Pool VMware ESXi Operating Server Failed Server Operating Server VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -31 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Sphere Replication (VR) v. Sphere Replication v. Sphere Source Target VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -32 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Quiz Review Which feature on the left matches the feature’s purpose, listed at the right? Non-disruptive migration of a VM v. Motion between ESXi hosts Load balancer for VMs across Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) multiple ESXi hosts. Provides an automatic restart High Availability (HA) for failed VMs Disaster Recovery tool for v. Sphere Replication VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] virtual machines 2 -33 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What do we need to make this stuff work? Storage Networking Shared storage Virtual networking Storage types Virtual switches VSA Advanced networking features Datastores VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -34 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Shared Storage Virtual Machines Applications and Operating Systems. Shared Storage Visible to multiple ESXi hosts Typically used to store VMs and ISO files VM w are VM wa re ESXi Hosts. Storage Array. VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -35 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Why do we need shared storage? Features that use shared storage Virtual Machines Applications and Operating Systems. DRS DPM VM w are VM wa re Storage DRS ESXi Hosts. High Availability Storage Array. Fault Tolerance VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -36 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Storage Types Fibre Channel v. Center Server Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCo. E) IP Networks x 86 Servers i. SCSI NFS Local Storage Networks ESXi Hosts NFS NAS VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] i. SCSI SAN FC SAN 2 -37 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

VSA What is VSA? Customer Benefits Cost-effective and easy to deploy • Save money VMware v. Sphere • Install easily • Add storage at any time Enables High Availability • Get HA in a few clicks Shared (Virtual) Storage • Minimize application downtime • Eliminate any single point-of-failure For small environments (SMB and ROBO) • Manage multiple VSA clusters centrally VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -38 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Flash What is v. Flash? A pool of SSD in ESXi Hosts v. Sphere Flash Read Cache Infrastructure v. Sphere Improves VMs disk read performance while reducing loads on the SAN SSD SSD SSD Flash as a New Tier in v. Sphere VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -39 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Datastores Physical Storage VMFS NFS ESXi Host 1 VM files d. NFS Datastore VM files ESXi Host 2 VM files Shared VMFS Datastore 1 VM files Shared VMFS Datastore 2 VMFS Local Datastore Local LUN NAS Share i. SCSI LUN FC LUN NFS NAS Disk Array i. SCSI SAN Array FC San Array VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] VM files DAS Local SCSI 2 -40 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Networking How do we use networking in virtualization? IP Storage v. Center Management i. SCSI v. Motion NFS HA FCo. E DRS VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] IP Storage VM Communication VM Network Traffic 2 -41 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Virtual Networking Virtual Switch Physical Switch VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -42 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

What are Virtual Switches? Physical Switch Virtual Switch 11100010010101000 01010010100101010 ESXi Host VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -43 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Virtual Switch Types Standard Virtual Switch Architecture Manages virtual machine and networking at the Host level Manages virtual machine and networking at the Data center level VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Distributed Virtual Switch Architecture 2 -44 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Networking Features VLANS Traffic Shaping Port Mirroring Qo. S, DSCP CPD/LLDP VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -45 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Quiz Review “We have several ESXi hosts with local storage devices, but none have shared storage. We want to take advantage of the High Availability features, but we can’t afford to purchase a new storage array. What should we use? ” Option 1 v. Sphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Option 2 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -46 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Sphere Product Placement Virtual machines are composed of: CPU Memory VMware v. Sphere Networking X 86 architecture Storage The host provides access to the hardware via the Hypervisor. VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -47 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Sphere Replication Storage v. Motion Fault Tolerance DRS DPM Essentials Plus X X X Standard X X X X Enterprise X X X X X Enterprise Plus X X X X X VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Distributed Switch Data Protection X Storage DRS High Availability Essentials v. Sphere Edition ESXi Hypervisor v. Motion v. Sphere Product Placement X X 2 -48 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Data Center Virtualization Products v. Center Operations Manager v. Center Configuration Manager v. Center Site Recovery Manager VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -49 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Center Operations Manager What does v. Center Operations Manager do for me? Monitor trends v. Center Operations Manager Works with v. Center Performance Capacity Configuration Monitoring Compliance Cost Dynamically adjusting thresholds VMware v. Sphere Monitor current capacity Choose your edition VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] Physical Virtual Cloud 2 -50 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Center Configuration Manager Change discovery and correlation Configuration Analysis Automatically correlating changes to performance issues Regulatory Compliance VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -51 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

v. Center Site Recovery Manager VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -52 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Module 2: Review of Learning Objectives Now that you have completed this module, you should be able to: Discuss the features of VMware v. Sphere. Provide an overview of the challenges that v. Sphere is intended to resolve. 1 2 – Current Module 3 VMware Data Center Virtualization Foundations [Rev. A] 2 -53 © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved