Today is the second full day of VMworld 2013, and the second keynote of the week. To start off the 0900 keynote Carl Eschenbach took the stage. A few minutes into the presentation they bring out Kit Colbert, a VMware engineer.
Background
- Business relies on IT
- Focus on innovation
- Increasing velocity in IT
- Deliver IT-as-a-Service – Bringing to life at VMworld 2013
Three Imperatives
- Must virtualize all of IT
- IT management gives way to automation
- Compatible hybrid cloud will be ubiquitous
Architectural Foundation – Software defined Datacenter (SDDC)
vCloud Automation Center
- IT-as-a-Service
- Service Catalog for multiple types of services
- Hybrid cloud support
- Breaks down costs for an app into OS licensing cost, labor, etc.
- Shows the ability to configure autoscale for an application
- Rolls up application health into the portal
- Application owner can self-service and provision applications either on-prem or in the cloud
vCloud Application Director
- Creates an execution plan that understand dependencies of VMs
- Integrates with existing automation tools like Puppet
- Provisions a multi-tier application
- This is no a vApp – it’s a full application deployment solution
- Takes care of infrastructure configuration
- Decouples the application from the infrastructure configuration
Networking with NSX
- L2 switching, L3 routing, firewall, load balancing is built-in
- When provisioning an app, it deploys L2-L7 services along with it
- Moving the switching intelligence to the hypervisor
- Routes on exiting physical network without changes
- Moves routing into the hypervisor – no more hair pinning for VMs talking to each other on different subnets
- Router is no longer a choke point on the network
- Up to 70% of traffic in a datacenter is between VMs
- Moves firewall intelligence into the hypervisor – Can enforce security at the VM layer
- Ability provision networking config in minutes
- Showed off vMotioning a VM to a NSX switch with zero downtime
NSX Delivers
- Speed and efficiency
- Same operating model as compute virtualization
- Extends value of existing network infrastructure
VMware VSAN
- Allows you to attach a storage performance policy to a VM and it follows the VM across datastores
- Enables you to dynamically extend VSAN datastore space without downtime
- Ability to define a policy that requires 2 copies of VM data, for example
- Auto re-builds any failed disks, seamlessly, and without the VM aware a failure occurred
IT Management
- Introducing policy based automation
- Shows off vCloud Director with auto-scaling out configured and automated
- Proactive response
- Intelligent analytics
- Visibility into application heath for the app owner
- vCOPS can pull in data from partners (HP, NetApp, EMC, etc.) and make intelligent recommendations for performance remediation
Big Data Analytics
- VMware is shipping Log Insight for IT analytics
- Log Insight can sift through millions and millions of data points
Hybrid Cloud
- vSphere Web Client 5.5 has a button for the VMware Public Cloud
- Seamless view into vCloud Hybrid Service (e.g. looking at VM templates)
