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vCenter Management Overview Florian Benne EMEA Product Marketing [email protected]

Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Benefits

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The Goal

Just like…..

IT as Service Provider

Inexpensive, pay as you go, pay for what you use Ubiquitously available Reliable Choice of providers

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The Management Challenge Today IT is measured on business outcomes

IT manages infrastructure components

• Server • Storage • Network • etc

Reliable email service

Component-Level Management

Service-Level Management

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Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the Game New Considerations… 

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New items and relationships not present in physical environment Dynamic and fast growing environment

Templates VMs

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Enables greater automation

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Properties solve IT management problems in a new way

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Snapshots & Clones

Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the Game New Constructs 

The ability to make apps self-describing, self-deploying Allows management of multi-tier applications as a single entity

App

App

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vApp

Utilizes industry standard OVF to provide instructions on how to deploy Simpler, application centric view of management Applications can now be written to monitor and scale themselves

Availability = 99.99% Security = High Performance = 500 msec

SLA Definitions

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VMware Uniquely Enables Service-Level Management

vCenter Product Family Unified control center for SLA-driven management across dynamic infrastructure

VMware vSphere 4 The industry’s leading virtualization platform

The Only Complete Stack for the Private Cloud

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vCenter Management Product Family

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VMware vCenter Product Family Delivers • Drives operational efficiencies and savings • Reduces opex by 50% • Leverages power of virtualization • Delivers broadest and deepest capabilities for service-level management • Enables IT to change and respond quickly • Works with all ESM tools for seamless end-to-end datacenter management

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Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Financial Impact

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Customer Needs on the Path to 100% Virtualization Phase 1 - Explore

< 100 VMs Manage hypervisors, VMs and dev/test environments • P2V • Inventory Mgt • Planning • Patching

Phase 2 - Expand

Phase 3 - Standardize

100 – 1,000 VMs

> 1,000 VMs

Manage large, dynamic, shared infrastructure including enterprise applications • Performance Mgt • Capacity Planning • Configuration Mgt • Operations Mgt • Disaster Recovery

Manage service levels with policy-driven automation across the private cloud • Self Service IT • Service Mgt • Chargeback

Existing Partner Management Solutions

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VMware vCenter Management Platform

Unified control center •Inventory management •Alarms, alerts •Templates/provisioning •Includes: • P2V Conversion • Automated patch management • Real-time policy framework

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vCenter Server: A Key Infrastructure Component

vCenter Server Heartbeat

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End-to-End Integrated Management

Self Service Portal

Provisioning

Systems Management Configuration

Service Catalog

Operations

Capacity

Performance

Billing/ Chargeback

Availability

vCenter Extensibility APIs and UI plug-in architecture to enable 3rdparty integration

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Big 4 and Ecosystem Integrations with vCenter Server Area Performance & Availability Configuration Provisioning Capacity Automation Chargeback

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Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Financial Impact vCenter Partner Ecosystem

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Typical Challenges When will I run out of capacity?

Have unauthorized changes been made?

Do I have enough capacity to support service levels?

Are VMs configured in compliance with operational and security best practices?

Can I reclaim unused or over-provisioned capacity?

Have dynamic changes to virtual entities resulted in configuration drift?

How do I scale my virtual environment?

How do I track entities, relationships and actions? Can I confidently virtualize my business critical apps?

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vCenter for Infrastructure Management

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Automated provisioning Capacity management Configuration management Application performance management

vCenter Lifecycle Manager VM Request

Automate provisioning and decommissioning workflows, increase service levels and IT control. Benefits Standardization Enforce consistent process to request, provision, deploy and decommission virtual machines Control and Visibility Optimize resource utilization for greater ROI Automated Workflows Eliminate repetitive VM lifecycle management tasks for greater productivity

Key Features Policy

Easy-to-use web interface for centralized management, approval and tracking of VM requests Auto-provision, deploy and decommission VMs based on pre-defined policies Apply lifecycle management policies to existing VMs Seamlessly integrate with 3rd party tools

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Lifecycle Manager at Work

“In our major data centers, we’ve now decommissioned more machines than we have running. That represents a huge cost savings in capacity. In our major data centers, if we had not had a good way of governing when a virtual machine was no longer being used, we probably would now have more than 1,000 extra virtual machines running.”

David Hewett Senior IT Manager Qualcomm

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Lifecycle Manager with BMC Software Initiate Provisioning

Intelligent Deployment

Configure VM

Close Change Task

Request Service Desk

Verify

Change Request

Change Approval

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Update CMDB

Lifecycle Manager

BMC Verify / Notify

vCenter AppSpeed Overview Manage performance of virtualized multi-tier applications Application

Benefits Real-time view of end-user application performance, monitoring against SLAs Dramatically reduces trouble shooting time and finger pointing 100% non-intrusive Integrated into vCenter Server and vSphere Client Reduces barriers to virtualizing business-critical applications

Key Features Dynamically discovers and maps virtual and physical infrastructure elements Breaks down application latency into component parts (infrastructure, network, and application)

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AppSpeed at Work

“Data collected by AppSpeed will save hours in monitoring, troubleshooting and identifying root-cause of potential issues with application performance.”

Ken Horn Servers and Groupware Technologies Johnson & Wales University

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Coming Soon

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Overview Analyze, forecast, and plan virtualized datacenter or desktop capacity

Benefits Deliver the right capacity at the right time Make informed planning, purchasing, and provisioning decisions Enable capacity to be utilized most efficiently and cost-effectively

Key Features Perform “What-If” impact analysis to model effect of capacity changes Identify and reclaim unused capacity Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls and needs

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Coming Soon

vCenter ConfigControl Overview Ensure Visibility and Control of Dynamic Virtual Environments 

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Tracking of configuration items that are part of a virtual infrastructure Automated discovery of accurate config, dependency and historical data Application/IT visibility via rich modeling capabilities, dynamic search and reports Discover, track, model, search, analyze (impact and drift), report Standards based, extensible, comprehensive, continuous, multi-source capture of CIs Applications, inside guests, virtual entities, associated hw, custom tags Rollup impact reporting by business unit, organization unit, etc

Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Financial Impact vCenter Partner Ecosystem

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Typical Dev/Test Infrastructure is an IT Headache Server sprawl – under desks, in closets Aging, cast-off hardware Dirty systems – inability to maintain “clean state” Users and IT bogged down in provisioning requests Release management is resource intensive and error-prone

*Actual customer photos

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vCenter for Dev/Test

Automated set up, tear down and management of complex dev/test environments

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vCenter Lab Manager Overview Simplify management of the internal cloud for dev/test Benefits Higher Service Levels Reduce dependency on IT, enable greater productivity and faster time to market Lower Infrastructure Costs Policy-based access control of shared resources Automated Management Eliminate repetitive provisioning and ad-hoc management tasks for IT

Key Features Self-service portal for non-IT users to provision VM configurations in seconds, while ensuring IT control Image Library to reduce storage footprint, improve asset sharing and team collaboration Allocate resource containers to users groups and enforce policy-based access control

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Lab Manager at Work

“VMware Lab Manager obsoletes many manual processes and lets us be more proactive and innovative. I can't think of any other product, process or project that has had a greater impact in our daily activities. Everything just runs with little interference. Lab Manager will be key to the future success of software development in Avaya.”

Jay M. Leone Lab Manager Avaya 30

Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Financial Impact vCenter Partner Ecosystem

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Requirements for Disaster Recovery Solutions Control Cost

Minimize Downtime

Minimize Risk

73% of executives expressed concern with the costs associated with maintaining a secondary data centre

93% of companies that lost their data center for ten days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.

92% of users surveyed acknowledged that their companies would face serious consequences if they had to implement their disaster recovery plans.

--Beacon Technology Partners

--National Archives and Records Administration

--Dynamic Markets Ltd.

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Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery Complex recovery processes and infrastructure

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Dependent on perfect training, documentation, and execution

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Failure to meet recovery requirements

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Recovery takes days to weeks

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Recovery tests often fail

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Significant IT time and resources consumed

vCenter for Disaster Recovery

Policy-driven workflows for automated site recovery

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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Overview Site Recovery Manager leverages vSphere to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows: Setup, testing, failover Turns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans Provides central management of recovery plans from the vSphere Client

Works with vSphere to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable

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Site Recovery Manager at Work “If your organization is already taking advantage of virtualization, then adding Site Recovery Manager to handle disaster recovery is a no-brainer.” Jerry Wilkin Senior Systems Administrator, Dayton Superior Corporation

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Today’s Agenda The Promise of Virtualization Management The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Infrastructure Management • Dev/Test • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Financial Impact vCenter Partner Ecosystem

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vCenter for the Private Cloud

• Service catalog • Self-service • Chargeback

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VMware’s Vision for Self-Service VM Users app owners, test/dev, trainers, etc.

Zone 1 Locked Down for Production

Zone 2 Hybrid for Pre-Production

VI Admin

Zone 3 Internal Cloud for dev/test/demo

Self-Service Policy

Self-Service Policy

Self-Service Policy

Read only. VI Admin approval required for all actions

Leases > 30 days require approval

Full self-service with chargeback

Access Control LDAP Group

Resources Templates

Access Control

Access Control

LDAP Group

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Segments infrastructure into zones with people, resources and selfservice provisioning policies that match use cases

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Achieves maximum efficiency, predictability and control

VM Users 

Access to VMs and monitoring data (performance, chargeback) via unified interface

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Self-service provisioning and sandboxing enhances productivity across application lifecycle

LDAP Group

Resources

Resources

Templates

Templates

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vCenter Chargeback Overview Account, monitor, and report on costs associated with virtual resources Benefits Improve Resource Utilization: By associating costs to VM’s many of the “free” VM’s will go away, freeing up resources for higher priorities Optimization of Budgets: Business units can understand how much they are paying for resources and how much goes to unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption & costs

Key Features Fixed, allocation, and utilization based costing Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure Schedule reports & email results

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Today’s Agenda vCenter Management Vision The Customer Journey • Basic Management • Development & Testing • Infrastructure Management • Disaster Recovery • Private Cloud vCenter Benefits

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Accelerating the Path to 100% Virtualization Lifecycle Manager Drive VM consistency at the front end of the scale out initiative - ensure that VMs are provisioned, placed and decommissioned in compliance with IT policies

AppSpeed Plan for deploying tier 1 apps - evaluate which apps and databases are good candidates. Assured migration of business-critical applications from physical to virtual

Chargeback Put cost structure in place prior to virtualization growth; get ahead of the curve with better understanding of usage and cost.

CapacityIQ (coming soon) Model the impact of introducing new applications for better planning and preparedness Ensure sufficient ongoing capacity to meet application SLAs

ConfigControl (coming soon) Ensure configurations of dynamic virtual entities remain compliant Reduce downstream management effort by standardizing configurations

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Top 3 Reasons Why VMware is the Right IT Investment in a Tough Economic Environment

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Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost

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Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost (e.g. Power & Cooling)

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Minimize Lost Revenue Due to Downtime

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VMware Delivers Tangible Business Outcomes Reduction in Datacenter Capital Expense $14,235

Reduction in Datacenter Operating Expense 2.0-3.0

Reduction in Risk

$30 MM

$5,694

0.3 – 1.0 $4 MM

Infrastructure Cost per App

Sys Admin per 100 Apps*

Business Loss Due to Datacenter Outage**

* Source: IDC and VMware TAM program ** Source: VMware customer – a $2bn insurance company. Estimates based on 40 hrs needed to recover before virtualizing and 4.5 hrs needed for the same recovery after virtualization.

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vCenter Management Product Family

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Thank You!

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Appendix Slides

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vCenter Chargeback Overview

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Chargeback Hierarchy Flexible model for determining cost accounting structure Cost Centers, Organizations, Business Units, VM types, etc.

Single chargeback hierarchy spans multiple vCenters for enterprise-wide management Hierarchy model provides the basis for determining costing structures and delivery reports

Drag-n-drop

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Costing Models Start simple and move to a advanced chargeback model over time

Fixed Costing Fixed cost for a VM instance

Compare between models by configuring different reporting options

Allocation Based Costing Variable costs per VM based on allocated resources

Ensure the chargeback model can align with organizational requirements

Utilization Based Costing

Flexible costing options mix & match between models

Variable costs per VM based on utilized resources

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vCenter Lab Manager Overview

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What’s New in Lab Manager 4.0? Unification of Lab Manager & Stage Manager Functionality

Engineering

One solution for Dev/Test, Pre-Production, Support, Demo & Training

IT Ops

App Team

Multiple Workspaces within an Organization provide resource and access containers Move VMs between workspaces and apply new access policies without changing configuration settings

Sales SE Demo

QA

Prod

Support

Integration

Staging

Training

Resources

Image Library

Support for vSphere 4 & ESXi Leverage the most advanced virtualization platform

Access Control LDAP Group

Next-Generation Network Fencing Isolated network configurations now can span multiple hosts Useful for deploying large VM configuration clones Requires vNetwork Distributed Switch (DVS)

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vCenter AppSpeed Overview

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vCenter AppSpeed Use Scenarios 1

Allows IT to guarantee application service level Discover and Map Monitor performance Analyze Root Causes Remediate Problems

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Migrate applications from physical to virtual Develop pre-virtualization enduser application baseline

Measure post virtualization performance

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