Speaker: Michael Adams, VMware (ma****@vm****.com)
- vCloud Suite Launches very soon – Free upgrade for Enterprise Plus Customers. Should be in Q3, meaning Sept 2012.
- Jump upgrades possible in the future, or VMware may recommend customers can skip a release
- VMware plans on yearly vSphere Suite upgrades for customers
- vCloud Suite launched this morning
- Operations Manager, vFabric Application Director, vCloud Director, SRM, vSphere
- Single license key for the entire suite
- Software defined networking will be a common phrase
- vCloud Director – More than just test/dev, single sign on, elastic capability
- VCD – vCloud Director is key to building virtual datacenters
- vCloud Suite – Three editions: Standard, Advanced (adds Operations Manager), Enterprise (adds SRM).
- Hardly anyone uses AutoDeploy in the real world
- Most customers use storage DRS in vSphere 5.0
- Good uptake of VMFS 5.0
- Future – Larger VMDK limitations, still at 2TB today
- Everyone should be using the vDS, to take advantage of vCD, vShield, etc.
- Load based NIC teaming, Network I/O control, etc.
- Users have deployed a 32-way 256GB MS SQL VMs
- Windows-based client will go the way of the dodo bird. Web management console only in the future.
- vSphere 5.1 features
- No more VMware tools reboots needed
- 64-way vSMP
- HW version 9
- Enhanced auto deploy
- RAID-5 or RAID-6 with VMware storage appliance, and you can now add capacity
- Single sign on with vCD, vShield, vCenter
- Storage space reclamation for VDI (delete a file, frees up storage on array)
- 32-host linked clone maximum (up from 8 in 5.0)
- Enhanced distributed switch features – SR-IOV support (enterprise plus only)
- vShield EndPoint becomes part of the platform
- vCenter Express installation now an option
- Be sure to check out Release Notes and Config maximum docs when they are available
- Auto Deploy Enhancements – Enterprise Plus only
- Old model was a stateless only option
- Stateless caching model, or boot from disk or USB
- Stateful model – Full local install
- Better tie-in with host profiles, and single installation model
- Deploy new ESXi servers in less than 5 minutes
- Distributed Switch Enhancements – Still only in enterprise plus
- Network health check
- Configuration backup and restore
- Roll back and recovery
- LACP support
- Backup can be used as a vDS template for future deployments
- RSPAN and ERSPAN, and port mirroring enhancements.
- 350 to 500 host increase for the vDS
- Larger VMs
- 64-way, 1TB RAM
- Availability, Security and Automation
- vMotion without shared storage – across all levels except essentials
- vMotion and Storage vMotion unified
- Zero downtime, no dependency on shared storage
- Slowly getting to long-distance vMotion (future)
- 10ms latency max still applies
- Must be in same vCenter server, same datacenter, and same L2 network
- sDRS does not apply to unified vMotion
- vSphere Data Protection
- Based on EMC Avamar
- New backup and recovery tool
- Replaces vSphere data recovery
- vSphere Replication
- vSphere Replication is decoupled with SRM, and included with all license options except essentials. No need for enterprise plus.
- Low cost, efficient replication
- back-end Database enhancements
- vSheild EndPoint included at all license levels
- Web Client UI
- This is the way of the future, Windows client is going away
- Browser based UI, custom tagging, scalability
- Platform independent
- Chrome, IE, Firefox (Safari is unsupported)
- Pause or resume even the most complex workflow or task
- Manage 3x more active sessions and objects
- Max 300 concurrent sessions into vCenter
- Native plug-in experience
- VUM does not have a native plug-in at this time (future), you must use Windows Client
- Windows based client does NOT have all 5.1 functionality. Must use web client.
- Native plug-in in CY12: HP, EMC, Dell, Cisco, VCE, Tegile, Fujitsu
- Single Sign-on
- Open LDAP, NIS, and other options for other identity services
- vCenter, vCO, vSphere web client
- vCenter Orchestrator Enhancements
- Workflow engine enhancements
- Customer told VMware it is the “biggest piece of crap” (version 5.0)
- Automatic configuration
- Deploy as virtual appliance
- Supports Java script
- Additional enhancements
- Windows 8 and Server 2012 support
- 5-node MSCS Cluster
- Space efficient sparse Virtual Disks
