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WHAT'S NEW IN VMWARE VCLOUD SUITE FOR THE SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA CENTER 2
Table of Contents Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center and vcloud Suite What s New in vcloud Suite 6.0 and Key Capabilities Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Management Platform Extensibility Training, Education, and Professional Services for the vcloud Suite 3
My business and its IT organization are being engulfed by a torrent of digital opportunities. We cannot respond in a timely fashion, and this threatens the success of the business and the credibility of the IT organization. Worldwide CIO Survey Gartner, 2014 4
VMware SDDC: One Cloud, Any Application Unified Platform Any Application Flexible Control Best-in-class VMware technologies across the hybrid cloud Rapid development, automated deployment and secure consumption of enterprise apps Choice in datacenter automation and management 5
Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC): The Foundation of the New Model of IT End-User Computing Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud Extensibility Management and Automation Compute Network Storage SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER 6 6
vcloud Suite 6.0 is a vsphere-based Private Cloud End-User Computing Extensibilit y VMware API Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud OpenStack API Compute Virtualization Management Cloud Management and Automation Platform Software-Defined Networking Software-Defined Storage Compute Network Storage Pivotal CF API Open Container API SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER 7 7
Components of vcloud Suite 6.0: Build and Manage a vsphere-based Private Cloud SDDC Components Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud On-Premises Off-Premises Cloud Management Platform Business Automation vrealize Business vrealize Automation Operations vrealize Operations VMware vcloud Suite Infrastructure Platform Compute Virtualization Disaster Recovery Automation Software-Defined Storage vsphere SRM VSAN Network Virtualization NSX Add-on to vcloud Suite Notes: Add-on means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vcloud Suite List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions Cloud management platform components of vcloud Suite, including vrealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vsphere environments only. vcloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vrealize Suite and vcloud Air 8
vcloud Suite 6.0 Edition Comparison Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud SDDC Components On-Premises Off-Premises vcloud Suite Cloud Management Platform Business vr Business for vsphere vr Business for vsphere New in vcloud Suite 6.0 Automation vr Automation STD vr Automation ADV vr Automation ENT Operations vr Operations STD vr Operations ADV vr Operations ENT Infrastructure Platform Compute Virtualization vsphere Ent+ vsphere Ent+ vsphere Ent+ Disaster Recovery Automation vcenter Site Recovery Manager Ent vcloud Suite Edition Standard Intelligent Operations and IaaS Advanced Compliant IT and Business Insight Enterprise Resilient private cloud Notes: Cloud management platform components of vcloud Suite, including vrealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vsphere environments only. vcloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vrealize Suite and vcloud Air vrealize Business for vsphere includes automated costing, metering, and integrated pricing. Public cloud comparison functionality is not included 9
Using vcloud Suite, vcloud Air, and vrealize to Build a Hybrid Cloud SDDC Components Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud On-Premises Off-Premises Cloud Management Platform Infrastructure Platform Business Automation Operations Compute Virtualization Disaster Recovery Automation Software-Defined Storage Network Virtualization VMware vcloud Suite vsphere-based private cloud 1 2 VSAN NSX VMware vrealize Suite Cloud Management Platform for hybrid cloud VMware vcloud Air vsphere-based public cloud service Note: vrealize Public Cloud Extensions provide another way for customers to get to hybrid cloud. These extensions may be purchased as add-ons to the vcloud Suite to extend management to hybrid cloud. 1 Start with vcloud Suite to deliver a vsphere-based private cloud with onpremises infrastructure 2 Extend to hybrid cloud with vcloud Air capacity and vrealize Suite for a unified Cloud Management Platform 10
What s New in vcloud Suite 6.0 vcloud Suite scales applications, availability, and the business Platform for Any Application Cloud Business Management Efficient, Agile, and Extensible vsphere-based Private Cloud Scale and performance Server virtualization for scale-out (Hadoop/Big Data) and scale-up (SAP HANA) applications Superior graphics and performance for virtual desktops (NVIDIA vgpu) Industry-first availability Planned migration across geographically dispersed data centers (long-distance vmotion) Availability for mission-critical applications with up to four vcpus (SMP-Fault Tolerance) Business Insight for vsphere Environments Automated infrastructure costing and usage metering for vsphere environments (vrealize Business) Integrated pricing with self-service provisioning portal for vsphere environments (vrealize Business) Cloud Management Platform New scale-out and resilient architecture (vrealize Operations) Developers/Tenants have visibility into VM health via self-service portal (vrealize Automation) Extensibility Extend vcloud Suite to OpenStack and vcloud Air Disaster Recovery 11
vsphere 6.0 Delivers Scale, Availability, and Simplicity SDDC Components Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud On-Premises Cloud Management Platform Business Automation vrealize Business vrealize Automation Operations vrealize Operations VMware vcloud Suite Infrastructure Platform Compute Virtualization Disaster Recovery Automation Software-Defined Storage vsphere SRM VSAN Network Virtualization NSX Add-on to vcloud Suite Notes: Add-on means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vcloud Suite List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions Cloud management platform components of vcloud Suite, including vrealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vsphere environments only. vcloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vrealize Suite and vcloud Air 12
PLATFORM FEATURES INCREASED VSPHERE MAXIMUMS vsphere 5.5 vsphere 6.0 32 Hosts per Cluster 64 Hosts per Cluster 4000 Virtual Machines per Cluster 8000 Virtual Machines per Cluster 320 CPUs 480 CPUs 4 TB RAM 12 TB RAM 512 Virtual Machines per Host 1000 Virtual Machines Per Host 13
PLATFORM FEATURES VIRTUAL MACHINE COMPATIBILITY ESXI 6 (VHW 11) ESXi 6 Supports: 128 vcpus 4 TB RAM Hot-add RAM now vnuma aware WDDM 1.1 GDI acceleration features xhci 1.0 controller compatible with OS X 10.8+ xhci driver Serial and parallel port enhancements A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports Serial and parallel ports can now be removed 14
PLATFORM FEATURES 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] 15
PLATFORM FEATURES ENHANCED MICROSOFT CLUSTERING (MSCS) Following MSCS Capabilities Available: 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 Compatibility Mode RDM s Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 16
VCENTER SERVER FEATURES 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 8,000 8,000 Linked Mode Windows install supports Postgres and External SQL and Oracle DBs. vcsa supports embedded Postgres and external Oracle DBs. 17
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 PLATFORM SERVICES CONTROLLER Platform Services Controller PLATFORM SERVICES CONTROLLER TAKES IT BEYOND JUST SINGLE SIGN-ON. IT GROUPS: 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 where there is less then two SSO integrated solutions External vcenter Server and Platform Services Controller in their own virtual machines - Recommended for most deployments where there are two or more SSO integrated solutions 18
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 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 19
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 CERTIFICATE REPLACEMENT OPTIONS FOR VCENTER SERVER 20
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 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 21
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 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 22
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 LONG DISTANCE VMOTION Cross-continental distances up to 150ms RTTs Maintain standard vmotion guarantees Does not require VVOLs Use Cases: Permanent migrations Disaster avoidance Multi-site load balancing Follow the sun 23
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 INCREASED VMOTION NETWORK FLEXIBILITY vmotion network will cross L3 boundaries vmotion can now use it s own TCP/IP stack 24
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 CONTENT LIBRARY OVERVIEW Simple content management VM templates vapps ISO images Scripts Store and manage content One central location to manage all content Beyond templates within vcenter Support for other file types Share content Store once, share many times Publish/Subscribe vcenter -> vcenter vcloud Director -> vcenter Consume content Deploy templates to a host or a cluster 25
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 VSPHERE CLIENT 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* 26
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 VSPHERE WEB CLIENT Performance Improved login time Faster right click menu load Faster performance charts Usability Recent Tasks moved to bottom Flattened right click menus Deep lateral linking 27 27
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 - VSPHERE WEB CLIENT FEATURES Major Performance Improvements: UI Screen by screen code optimization Login now 13x faster Right click menu now 4x faster Most tasks end to end are 50+% faster Performance charts Charts are available and usable in less then half the time VMRC integration Advanced virtual machine operations 28
VCENTER SERVER 6.0 VSPHERE WEB CLIENT Usability Improvements Can get anywhere in one click Right click menu has been flattened Recent tasks are back at the bottom Dockable UI 29
Site Recovery Manager Continues to Deliver Industry-Leading Disaster Recovery Automation for vsphere Environments SDDC Components Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud On-Premises Cloud Management Platform Business Automation vrealize Business vrealize Automation Operations vrealize Operations VMware vcloud Suite Infrastructure Platform Compute Virtualization Disaster Recovery Automation Software-Defined Storage vsphere SRM VSAN Network Virtualization NSX Add-on to vcloud Suite Notes: Add-on means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vcloud Suite List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions Cloud management platform components of vcloud Suite, including vrealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vsphere environments only. vcloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vrealize Suite and vcloud Air 30
What s New in Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Compatibility Flexibility Compatible with vsphere 6.0 SRM 6.0 is fully compatible with vsphere 6.0 Architecture enhancements Integration with new linked-mode, PSC and SSO model Improved Storage vmotion and SDRS integration Now supported for heterogeneous clusters in addition to homogenous clusters when using ABR More topologies- Now supporting more options, easier configuration and management * Scale supported with array-based replication 31
Compatibility Full support for vsphere 6.0 New SRA not required Integration with new linked-mode Visibility, Roles, Permissions and Licenses Improved SSL cert implementation 32
Improved Storage vmotion and SDRS Integration SRM 5.5 and SRM 5.8 SRM + SDRS only supported with homogenous storage cluster SRM 6.0 SRM + SDRS supported with heterogeneous datastore clusters SDRS Consistency Group SDRS SDRS CG 1 CG 2 Datastore Cluster Datastore Cluster 33
Cloud Management Platform is the Key Control Layer of the SDDC SDDC Components Software-Defined Data Center: Architecture for the Hybrid Cloud On-Premises Cloud Management Platform Business Automation vrealize Business vrealize Automation Operations vrealize Operations VMware vcloud Suite Infrastructure Platform Compute Virtualization Disaster Recovery Automation Software-Defined Storage vsphere SRM VSAN Network Virtualization NSX Add-on to vcloud Suite Notes: Add-on means product is available at promotional price when purchased with the vcloud Suite List of products and services is not exhaustive of VMware offerings and does not show editions Cloud management platform components of vcloud Suite, including vrealize Automation, Operations, and Business, are specifically designed for use with vsphere environments only. vcloud Suite can be extended to hybrid cloud with the vrealize Suite and vcloud Air 34
Cross vrealize Suite Integration VMware Cloud Management vrealize Operations vrealize Automation vrealize Business
Streamlined and Automated Operations, Faster Application Delivery vrealize Business capabilities for vsphere environments are now included in vcloud Suite Cloud Business Automated costing and metering Integrated pricing with vrealize Automation vrealize Automation includes increased product integration that optimizes cloud lifecycle management Cloud Automation Out-of-box integration with cloud operations provides VM health visibility Improved API vrealize Operations features a new scale-out, resilient architecture #1 Cloud Systems Management 1 Cloud Operations Up to 8x greater scalability Unified experience across hybrid clouds when vcloud Suite is extended with vrealize Suite 1 IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2013 Vendor Shares, June 2014, Mary Johnston Turner, #249131 36
Business Insight for vsphere Environments Automates IT Costing and Metering vcloud Suite includes vrealize Business for vsphere vcloud Suite 5.8 vcloud Suite 6.0 Costing Costing not included Separate purchase required Analyze cost of virtualized infrastructure View cost of total vsphere infrastructure Calculate cost per VM and cost of any category of VM Analyze cost drivers and component contributions Metering Pricing Metering not included Separate purchase required Pricing not included Separate purchase required Meter resource usage by specific consumers Understand and report on costs by consumer Analyze spending patterns by consumers and applications Publish prices to service catalog Define and publish service prices to the vrealize Automation self-service catalog 37
vcloud Suite Edition Focused on Private Cloud Only 39
Automatically Cost Your Virtual Infrastructure Total cost of Cloud infrastructure Cost per VM Component Contributions Cloud Consumption 40
Fast Operational Insight Resource Trends Physical Host Aging Compute & Storage Detailed Drilldown 41
FAST TIME TO VALUE Quickly Update Cost Drivers With Your Costs Reference Costs Provided for Fast Cost Calculation Out of the Box 42
vcloud Suite Edition includes Private Cloud Consumption Cost vs. Charge with Basic Pricing Policies but no Budgeting 43
vcloud Suite Edition Includes Reports for Private Cloud Resources 44
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vcloud Suite Edition Provides Hierarchical Private Cloud Consumption Analysis Views 46
Automated Delivery for vsphere Environments Delivers More Integration What s new in vrealize Automation vcloud Suite 5.8 vcloud Suite 6.0 Operational Visibility Health status VM health visible in vrealize Operations only Health status also in vrealize Automation VM health badges visible to admins in vrealize Automation Admins take corrective action on VMs through vrealize Automation portal Resource Reclamation Reclamation started manually Limited identification of reclamation targets Improved identification and action Right-size virtual machines based on vrealize Operations data APIs Multiple APIs Separate APIs for Common Services, IaaS, Applications, and vrealize Orchestrator Cloud Client and improved API Easy-to-use command-line utility with unified interface across all vrealize Automation APIs Improved vrealize Automation API that allows any customer-facing action Common security and exception handling 47
Improved Operational Visibility View vrealize Operations Health Status in vrealize Automation displays In Admin Portal List Views In Item Details See the health of a machine Understand the issues Impacting Health 48
vrealize Operations Identifying Idle VMs Set Idle Threshold Values View List of VMs That meets Idle Threshold Criteria This list of VMs feeds vra Reclamation 49
vrealize Automation Reclamation Enhancements Adding vrealize Operations to identify idle resources Any VMs that show up on the vcops Idle Report will show up in the list of VMs that could be reclaimed 50
vrealize Automation Reclamation Savings by Group and by Owner 51
Calendar of Events Allows end users to see a calendar of important events like leases expiring and machines being archived. Will be much more functional than it was in 5.2 in that it will allow users to click into the object from the calendar. Not only just for IaaS objects, but ALL objects within vra. 52
Editing Email Templates Alter the email template body as well as the subject line through editing files located on the vra virtual appliance. Edit default templates as well as ones specific to a tenant. Install the templates from the KB article here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_us&cmd=displaykc&externalid=2088805 53
Add Custom Fields in Approval Edit not only pre-defined properties when the approval is accessed, but also custom properties as well. Works for multi-machine, single machine, and ASD requests. Custom properties will not use the property dictionary during the approval and you cannot set conditional approvals based on the custom fields. Custom Properties 54
Swap Space Property There is a new property: VirtualMachine.Storage.ReserveMemory Allows customers to ensure that space on storage will be saved and allocated to memory swap. This means that if you enable this setting and the VM has 1 GB of memory and 5 GB of storage, that 6 GB total storage will be allocated and reserved for this machine in vra: the storage requested, plus the memory size for swap 55
VM Disk Improvement Previous to 6.2, provisioned machines could only have a max of 15 volumes because vra would only be able to attach to 1 SCSI port. As of 6.2, the maximum number of volumes a VM can have has been increased to 60 which is the maximum allowed by vsphere (4 controllers with 15 volumes each) 56
Telemetry Also known as the Customer Experience Improvement Program or CEIP. Allow customers to opt-in to send information back to VMware for the purpose of improving the product. Lives within the vra VA and is turned off by default. Available under vra VA VAMI -> Telemetry Can unsubscribe from the program at any time Can set when and how often the data is sent back to VMware along with data masking rules that you want to set up. 57
Telemetry Info Gathered When you enable the Program, vra attempts to establish a connection to https://vmware.com and to automatically discover any proxy server you might have configured for your vrealize Automation deployment. Information that is gathered by the feature and sent back to VMware is the following: 58
INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS FOR VSPHERE ENVIRONMENTS IS MORE SCALABLE, ACTIONABLE, AND CUSTOMIZABLE What s new in vrealize Operations Scalability Alerting vcloud Suite 5.8 vcloud Suite 6.0 Scale-up architecture Separate instances required Smart alerts No actions associated with alerts Scale-out architecture Greatly increased scale of a single deployment Cluster - shared data and UI Resiliency - think Application RAID! Actionable smart alerts Combine multiple symptoms In band recommendations/remediation actions Visualization Capacity Management Fixed or custom-only dashboards Limited reporting What if scenarios for vsphere Supports only ESX hosts and VM containers One scenario per model Fully customizable dashboards & reports Bring in any object, metric or relationship Create custom persona-based visualization Advanced capacity modeling Save capacity project & what-if analysis Commit projects to influence capacity calculations 59
vr Ops New Platform Two VMs Single VM NODE UI: Admin/Product Collector Controller Analytics Persistence Global xdb FSDB xdb Scale for larger customers HIS Technical Overview Flexible and Scalable Platform Node: Virtual appliance (VA) Complete vr Ops stack in each VA Uniform Deployment one or many Scale *OUT* Cluster - shared data and UI Resiliency - think Application RAID! Remote Collector Same installation as any other node Set role to Remote Collector Installable / Standalone Built-in Database 60
vr Ops New Improved UI Technical Overview Powerful New Combined UI for Better Visualization One UI to rule them all! Unified Mgmt Access to all object types Highly customizable Features and views work the same throughout Alerting consolidated All objects are First Class Citizens 61
vr Ops Scalability The official numbers Max 64,000 Objects 5 times better than 5.8.x!!! (12,000 objects in 5.8.x) HA is half of this (cause it doubles the number of nodes) Max 8 node cluster (1 master and 7 data) This DOES NOT include Remote Collectors This does include HA (Max is still 8 when HA is on) Max Certified 30 Remote Collectors per cluster Max 30 Adapter Instances per cluster 62
vr Ops The new single vr Ops VM Global xdb NODE Slice UI: Admin / Product Collector (REST API) Controller Analytics Persistence FSDB xdb HIS User Interface Admin UI for cluster management Product UI for application access Collector Processes data from adapters Pluggable interface published API Controller Determines mapping for data insertion and queries Analytics Metric calculations, threshold processing, alert generation, stats storage / retrieval Persistence Each node persists its partition of data to local disk 63
vr Ops Scalability & Scale Out Master Node Node Increased scale compared to 5.x UI: Admin/Product UI: Admin/Product Details pending!!! Collector Controller Analytics Collector Controller Analytics Extensive self monitoring Alerts triggered if cluster reaching capacity limits Adding more management packs? Spin up additional nodes and add them to the cluster Persistence Persistence Persistence Each node persists its partition of data to local disk HIS HIS Global xdb FSDB xdb FSDB 64
vr Ops GemFire Shared Memory Cluster Master Node Node Node UI: Admin/Product UI: Admin/Product UI: Admin/Product Collector Collector Map Reduce Collector Controller Map Reduce Analytics Map Reduce Persistence HIS HIS HIS Global xdb FSDB xdb FSDB FSDB 65
vr Ops High Availability & Resiliency Master Node Node Node UI: Admin/Product UI: Admin/Product UI: Admin/Product Collector Collector Map Reduce Collector Controller Map Reduce Analytics Map Reduce Persistence HIS HIS HIS Postgres FSDB xdb FSDB FSDB 66
vr Ops Upgrade = Migration / Side by Side NODE UI: Admin/Product Collector Controller Analytics Persistence HIS Global xdb FSDB xdb 67
vr Ops Alerting and Remediation Intelligent, Actionable Alerts Technical Overview New Alerting Drives Ease of Use Policy based Alerts combine multiple symptoms to show actual issue Correlation across objects Symptoms not limited to badges Any Metric Any Object Fix the problem Troubleshooting tips Remediation actions New Dashboard views of Alerts Shows real issues Allows for quick MTTR 68
vr Ops Alert Definitions Alert Definition Symptom(s) Recommendation(s) Action(s) Alert Defs and its components OOTB from VMware OOTB from Partner Vendors User Created Alerts are issues that are active on a given object Alerts are assigned to an Alert Base Object (e.g. Datacenter) Alerts are assigned to a Major Badge (Health) Alert Components One or more active Symptoms One or more Recommendations in priority order One or more Actions Alerts Engine to correlate Symptoms Across relationships Symptoms can be on the Alert Base Object Symptoms can be related to the Alert Base Object (e.g. Children Objects, Parent Objects) 69
vr Ops Integrated Compliance New, Integrated Compliance Framework Technical Overview Integrated Compliance Framework vsphere Hardening Content included with vsphere Management Pack. Symptoms, Alerts, Views, Dashboards Managed per object/group via policies (ie, rule exceptions for group). Users may tweak and enforce their own compliance property symptoms Configuration properties and changes assessed near real-time Compliance Framework will allow for future content 70
vr Ops New Reporting and Customizations Reports Views Widgets (from the Old Custom UI) Dashboards View your data the way you need to vr Ops Adv Technical Overview Customizable Views, Reports and Dashboards Custom Views Object detail visibility Numerous view types & options Build once use MANY times Custom Reports Drag and drop a view into the report Custom Dashboards Drag and drop a view into a dashboard Drag and drop a widget into the dashboard (as before) 71
vr Ops Capacity Planning Technical Overview Extending Capacity Planning Capacity modeling for all containers and vsphere Capacity for Heterogeneous environments Must be built into the adapter Improved defaults, first Default Policy Configuration flow Projects - Persistent What-If Scenarios Extensible Views and Reports for Capacity Alert definitions for Capacity 72
vr Ops New Access Control Options Technical Overview Flexible User Access VC users LDAP users vr Ops Local Users Both object and privilege access control in one place New User Access Control methodology Greater flexibility with a three pronged approach vcenter only for vsphere Objects Active Directory and OpenLDAP for vsphere and non-vsphere objects Local vr Ops for vsphere and nonvsphere objects 73
vrealize Operations Suite 6.0 Capability Map Operations Management Platform vr Ops Standard vr Ops Advanced Predictive Analytics and Smart Alerts Policy Management Automation and Guided Remediation Customizable Dashboards and Reports Performance Monitoring and Analytics vsphere Performance and Health Monitoring SAN Storage Analytics vr Ops Enterprise Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping OS Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, for Physical & Virtual) Application, Middleware and Database Monitoring (MS, Oracle, ) Capacity Management vsphere Resource Monitoring, Planning and Optimization Define and Save Capacity Modeling Projects Commit Projects for Model-Driven Analytics Configuration and Compliance Management vsphere Hardening vsphere change, configuration, and regulatory compliance OS-level Configuration & Regulatory Compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX ) Architectural Features Multi-Node Configuration and Remote Collectors High Availability 74
Hyperic Management Pack - New Enhancements Exchange 2013 support SQL 2014 support Updates for Exchange and SQL Dashboards Updated KPIs, Problem Alerts Recommendations Support for HyperV 2012 R2 Alignment with the updated units feature of 6.0 75
vcloud Suite Features vcloud Suite s cloud management platform components are specifically designed for vsphere environments only New feature in Q1 2015 Standard Advanced Enterprise Cloud Management Cloud Infra Automated Delivery for vsphere Environments Application and data services Application provisioning, changes and data Governance Approvals, reclamation, cost profile and transparency Extensibility Infrastructure integrations, workflows and customizations Infrastructure provisioning and management Intelligent Operations for vsphere Environments Application Monitoring OS, middleware, databases OS-level configuration & regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX ) Extensibility Adapters for 3 rd party OS and application monitoring tools Extensibility Adapters for 3 rd party infrastructure monitoring tools vsphere hardening, change and configuration management Application discovery and dependency mapping Operations dashboard Health monitoring and performance analytics Capacity management Resource monitoring, planning and optimization Business Insight for vsphere Environments Automated infrastructure costing and metering Integrated pricing with self-service provisioning Disaster Recovery Automation Automated disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution Compute Virtualization Virtualized infrastructure with policy-based automation 76
How to Design, Deploy and Optimize a vcloud Suite Solution Expertise from VMware Professional Services and Education Services Upgrade Services Planning & Functionality Testing Design, Configuration and Deployment vrealize Operations Manager Upgrade Service vrealize Automation Accelerator Service Virtualization Design and Deploy Service Assess and document upgrade requirements Upgrade, test, deploy and document transition Planning workshop Functionality Testing Use Case Configuration Product deployment & Use Case Validation Operational Processes & Organizational Structure Expertise Knowledge Transfer Workshop Building Knowledge & Expertise Education & Certification Cloud Certification Track Data Center & Cloud Management Learning Path 77
Summary Platform for any application Virtualize applications from scale-up SAP HANA to scale-out Hadoop and everything in between vsphere 6 includes industry-first long distance vmotion and 4 vcpu fault tolerance Cloud Business Management for vsphere Environments vrealize Business for vsphere delivers costing, metering, and pricing for virtualized infrastructure Efficient, Agile, and Extensible Private Cloud Re-architected cloud management platform with more product integration Extensible to VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and Hybrid Cloud 78
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) Capabilities are Free to Use with vcloud Suite The Fastest and Most Reliable Route to Running a Production-grade OpenStack Environment Fully Validated Architecture vcloud Suite Customers Get VIO Free of Charge* Existing vsphere environment VMware Integrated OpenStack (full OpenStack distribution) OpenStack-aware VMware Cloud Management Single Support Contact *VMware Integrated OpenStack support is not included with vcloud Suite. Optional production-level support for VMware Integrated OpenStack is available as a separate purchase. 80
Virtualize Any Application: Run All Applications on vcloud Suite Scale-Up Apps / Business Critical Apps Desktop Virtualization Scale-Out Applications And Many More Integrated OpenStack Containers vsphere is the platform for existing and new applications Scalability enhancements (VMs and Clusters) for all application workloads* Big Data Extensions and Pivotal CF (PaaS) Support Desktop Virtualization 2D/3D Graphics, Instant Clone* OpenStack on vsphere = Success* Linux Container Support *New with vsphere 6.0 Increased scalability and performance SAP Hana 400% performance gains over RDBMS and 9x gains in planning load times Rapid deployment of desktop virtual machines in seconds 10x faster than in previous releases Productivity and portability for application developers Deliver Choice of Architecture 81
vcloud Suite is a Starting Point for Delivering IT Outcomes A business running vcloud Suite responds quicker to customer demands, spends more time on innovation, and is ready for the next generation of applications SDDC IT Outcomes Supported by vcloud Suite Data Center Virtualization with Hybrid Cloud Extensibility Impact Metrics Up to 49% Capex Savings 1 vcloud Suite Customer Examples Streamlined and Automated Data Center Operations Up to 56% Opex Savings 2 High Availability and Resilient Infrastructure Up to 50% Savings in DR Management Costs 3 App and Infrastructure Delivery Automation IT Services Delivery from Weeks to Minutes Sources 1) Taneja Group. (August, 2014). For Lowest Cost and Greatest Agility, Choose Software-Defined Data Center Architectures, Hopkinton, MA. 2) Taneja Group. (June, 2014). Transforming the Datacenter with VMware s Software-defined Data Center vcloud Suite. Hopkinton, MA. 3) Forrester. (May, 2013). The Total Economic Impact of VMware vcenter Site Recovery Manager. 82 82
UI Updates New Business Group drop down field within the catalog, request, and items screens. Lets users quickly filter by the business group Especially useful when users have access to the same blueprint but from the context of multiple groups. List of available business groups shows users the list of all groups that they are either a business group manager or a user on. If the logged in user is a support user, and they attempt to do an action on behalf of someone, the list of business groups will change to reflect the user who they are working on behalf of. 83
vrealize Operations vrealize Automation Integration Notes This integration will not be available with any lower version combination. If the integration is enabled, Tenant Administrators will see the vr Ops health badge for that machine in the item details screen 84
One-click support bundle generation Enhanced Supportability Designed to collect all logs from the vra VA AND IaaS machines, package them up, and post them to the "Last collected..." link for an admin to download. Makes it easier for admins to collect the logs for all vra VA machines in a distributed environment. This process can take quite some time to complete once clicking the Collect Logs button. 85
vra VA High Availability Cluster Info For distributed environments, improves manual work for when multiple vra VA machines need to be deployed behind a load balancer Handles the following: Copying files from one VA to another Changing security on files Manually disabling services Editing configuration files 86
vra VA High Availability Nodes List Lists all registered vra nodes that make up the service. The list does not differentiate which type of IaaS services are installed on nodes listed with a type of IAAS. If you have a DEM running that's registered, it will show up as IAAS even though it only has that small piece installed on it. In the case that you would want to remove a node from the list and the vra database, you can do so with a simple command against the vra VA and the unique identifier given in the "Node #" column. Once removed, if the machine tries to connect again later, the connection to the vra VA will fail. 87
vra VA Host Settings Certificate page is removed and consolidated into the Host Settings View the current certificate, generate a new self-signed certificate, and import a certificate from a PEM If you do not enter anything into the common name field when generating a certificate, vra will create the certificate using the machine name automatically. Along with a new look, there are a ton of checks that will occur: Load balancer certificate matches the local machine certificate Certificate chain is valid Certificate revocation list can be accessed If it does not, a message appears and the vra service will not be able to start 88
Database Log File Rollover Two new global properties added to allow admins to better control how and when the database logs get cycled. Located in Infrastructure > Administration > Global properties The below shown properties allow you to control the following tables in the IaaS database: dbo.userlog dbo.audit dbo.categorylog dbo.virtualmachinehistory dbo.virtualmachinehistoryproperties DynamicOps.Tracking.AuditLogItems DynamicOps.Tracking.AuditLogItemProperties DynamicOps.Tracking.TrackingLogItems DynamicOps.RepositoryModel.WorkflowHistoryInstances DynamicOps.RepositoryModel. WorkflowHistoryResults 89
Database Log File Rollover (continued) Values are operated in the following manner: DataRollover isarchiveenabled: True = Data is moved into archive tables at the interval that is stated in the DataRollover MaximumAgeInDays. The archive table names are similar to the original table names. For example, items in the DynamicOps.Tracking.TrackingLogItems table will be moved to the TrackingLogItemsArchive table. Once the data is in the archive tables, it will live there until the archive table is truncated from within the database. False = The data will be deleted from the table at the interval that is stated in the DataRollover MaximumAgeInDays. No record will be kept of these logs. DataRollover MaximumAgeInDays: Determines how long a log entry can live in the primary tables before either being deleted or moved into the archive tables. The default is 30 days. 90
What is CloudClient? User Interface Common Services Administration vrealize Automation API Explorer (CLI) vrealize Automation Java SDK vrealize Automation REST API Home Page Advanced Services Designer (XaaS) vrealize Orchestrator REST API CloudClient Self-Service Catalog IaaS Design and Administration (IaaS) vrealize Automation IaaS REST API Application Design and Administration (PaaS) Auth, SSO, tenancy Service Catalog/Day 2 Orchestration (vco) Infrastructure as a Service (DynamicOps) vrealize Automation Application Services Approvals Application Director REST API Notifications Application Director CLI Etc... Common components Back-end components 91
CloudClient Overview Command-line utility that provides verb-based access with a unified interface across the vrealize Automation APIs (including: Common Services, IaaS, Applications, vrealize Orchestrator) Focused on providing an easy-to-use command-line interface for the IT administrator where scripting and CLI use is more feasible than direct API calls Stable interface while underlying APIs may change over time Provides common security; exception handling; JSON, CSV and tabular formatting; file export; auto login for scripting (password and keyfiles); and auto-generated documentation. Available as a separate download in early Q4 (supports 6.1) 92
CloudClient Overview By accessing a command prompt and then running the script, users are able to run commands against vra. The purpose of this tool is to create a layer of abstraction between the vra functionality and the end consumer to increase the ease of which users are able to run automated actions against vra. Generally, you would use this tool in the case of a northbound integration with another interface or tool. This tool is not a REST or SOAP API, but uses the vra API instead. This means that if a customer were to code an interface against the Cloud Client, the chances that they would have to change their code once a new version of vra came out would be low. All they would have to do is update vra and the Cloud Client, but all of their interface commands would remain the same the Cloud Client would be brokering the commands to the API as needed. 93
Product Editions and Feature Comparisons vcloud Suite vsphere Edition For Private Cloud Environments vrealize Suite Standard Edition (included in vrb Advanced & Enterprise Editions) Private Cloud Cost Management Operational Analysis Consumption Analysis (Basic Pricing Policies: Cost vs. Charge) Private Cloud Reporting All Features of vcloud Suite Edition Plus: Public Cloud Account and Cost Management Private-Public Cloud and Data Center Cost Comparisons EMC SRM Integration for Storage Cost Management Advanced Pricing Policies and Budgeting for Private Cloud Consumers Role Based Consumption Analysis Views Reports for Public Cloud Resource Costs Data Integration with vrb Advanced/Enterprise 94
vr Ops Viewing Alerts Object Summary View Go to Alert Details Current Badge Status Health Risk Efficiency Alerts on the Object Recommendations Alerts on Descendents Number of objects with the alert Recommendations Click alert to see details 95
vr Ops Viewing Alerts Alert Details Summary Tab Available Actions Recommendations 96
vr Ops Viewing Alerts Alert Details Summary Tab Actions in Action 97
vsphere Compliance Analysis Compliance Tab Expected vs. Found property values Violated Compliance Rules Rule violated date 98
vr Ops Views Reports Dashboards Numerous View Types Summary, Chart, Wizards Simplify Building View, Reports, Dashboards Any object of any type can be Added to View, Reported on, or used in a Dashboard vsphere Hyperic 3 rd Party Adapters SCOM NetApp EMC Oracle OEM Etc 99
vr Ops Access Control - Authentication vr Ops authentication module will authenticate users from different sources: vcenter Server, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and Local users (xdb) VC users vr Ops Virtual Virtual Center Virtual Center Center LDAP users Authentication Module Delegate LDAP LDAP LDAP vr Ops Local Users Global xdb 100
vrealize Operations Content Unified Mgmt OOTB with vrealize Technical Overview New Operations Mgr MGMT Packs Hyperic - Updated NSX for vsphere Updated NSX for Multi-Hypervisor NEW! MPSD Updated NetApp New EMC-ESA Update vra (aka vcac) New OpenStack (All distributions) - New vcloud Air Update AWS Update SAP Update Oracle Update New Log Insight Content Packs NSX for vsphere Cisco Nexus Modular Cisco Nexus Fixed Cisco ASA Arista switches IIS Java/JRW 101
vra (vcac) Mgmt Pack Tenant-aware Operations! Technical Overview Cloud Provider Benefits Analytics in Context of vcac Objects Reservations Tenants Policies Fabric Groups Tenant-aware Operations Which Tenants and LOB are impacted by an infrastructure issue Which Tenants, Business Groups, VMs are impacted Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need more vcac Reservation for storage? Analytics Driven Insights for Provider Capacity Planning, Sizing, Waste, etc 102
Tenant Overview Dashboard List of all supported Tenants & Monitoring Policies Top Outstanding Alerts for selected Tenant/Business Group/Blueprint Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need more vcac Reservation for storage? 103
Top N Tenant Dashboard Tenants & Business Groups with most Wasteful VMs Tenants & Business Groups with most undersized VMs & active Alerts Most Popular & Most Wasteful Blueprints 104
vcloud Air Disaster Recovery Provides Failover and Failback between vspherebased Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Simple and Secure Asynchronous Replication and Failover for vsphere* Site A (Primary) vcloud Air, Site B (Recovery) Warm standby capacity on vcloud Air Self-service protection, failover and failback workflows per VM 15 min 1 24 hr. recovery point objective (RPO) Initial data seeding by shipping a disk (optional) *Not included in vcloud Suite. vcloud Air Disaster Recovery requires separate purchase. 1 Dependent on available bandwidth 105
vrealize Business Features Comparison Features vcloud Suite ADV/ENT (vrb for vsphere) vrealize Business STD 6.x vrealize Business ADV 8.x vrealize Business ENT 8.x Virtual Element Costing / Rate Card Creation Virtual Infrastructure Metering VM Tagging (Hierarchy Management) Reporting (incl. Basic Showback) Service Catalog Integration (vrealize Automation) Capacity Planning Integration (vrealize Operations) Public Cloud Cost Comparison Public Cloud Usage Management Virtual Infrastructure Financial Management 3 rd Party Integrations IT Service Financial Management - - - - - - - - - - - IT Service Level Management 106