vCenter Management Overview
Florian Benne
EMEA Product Marketing
fbenne@vmware.com
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
…and New Opportunities!
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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
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The ability to make apps
self-describing, self-deploying
Allows management of multi-tier
applications as a single entity
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
App
App
App
OS
OS
OS
vApp
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
EFFICIENCY
• Drives operational efficiencies
and savings
• Reduces opex by 50%
CONTROL
• Leverages power of virtualization
• Delivers broadest and deepest
capabilities for service-level
management
FLEXIBILITY
• 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 – 1,000 VMs
< 100 VMs
Manage
hypervisors, VMs and
dev/test environments
• P2V
• Inventory Mgt
• Planning
• Patching
Phase 2 - Expand
Manage large, dynamic,
shared infrastructure including
enterprise applications
• Performance Mgt
• Capacity Planning
• Configuration Mgt
• Operations Mgt
• Disaster Recovery
Phase 3 - Standardize
> 1,000 VMs
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
Operations
Capacity
Service Catalog
Performance
Billing/
Chargeback
Availability
Non-Virtual
Management Tools
vCenter Extensibility
APIs and UI plug-in architecture
to enable 3rdparty integration
Physical-Only
Environments/
Non-x86/Non-VMware
vCenter Product Family
Non-Virtualized
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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
Have unauthorized
changes been made?
When will I run
out of capacity?
Are VMs configured in
compliance with operational
and security best practices?
Do I have enough capacity to
support service levels?
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
Lifecycle Manager
BMC
Close
Change Task
Request
Service Desk
Verify
Change
Request
Change
Approval
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Update
CMDB
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
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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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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.
Effective disaster recovery is a business imperative,
but is very difficult to achieve
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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
VI Admin
app owners, test/dev,
trainers, etc.
Zone 1
Locked Down
for Production
Zone 2
Hybrid for
Pre-Production
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
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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
2
Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost
(e.g. Power & Cooling)
3
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
Before
After
Infrastructure Cost per App
Before
After
Sys Admin per 100 Apps*
Before
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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After
vCenter Management Product Family
EFFICIENCY
CONTROL
FLEXIBILITY
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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
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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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