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VMware Cloud Infrastructure - Success in Virtualization of Business Critical Applications with New Competency
Jerome Mariño Senior Systems Engineer
Philippines, VMware
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Agenda
§ Different stages of customer’s journey to their cloud
§ VMware vSphere 5 licensing approach
§ vSphere 5 – Key differentiations & value propositions
§ Understanding licensing schemes from SQL and Oracle in virtual environment and support issues
§ Competitive analysis
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COST EFFICIENCY
IT Production
Get the Most Out of Your
Infrastructure
The Journey to Your Cloud
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COST EFFICIENCY QUALITY OF SERVICE
The Journey to Your Cloud
Business Production IT Production
Get the Most Out of Your
Infrastructure
Achieve Unprecedented
Reliability
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COST EFFICIENCY QUALITY OF SERVICE
BUSINESS AGILITY
The Journey to Your Cloud
IT as a Service Business Production IT Production
Achieve Unprecedented
Reliability
Get the Most Out of Your
Infrastructure
Enable Agility via Cloud
Computing Architecture
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COST EFFICIENCY QUALITY OF SERVICE
BUSINESS AGILITY
The Journey to Your Cloud
Enable Agility via Cloud
Computing Architecture
Achieve Unprecedented
Reliability
Get the Most Out of Your
Infrastructure
Optimizing Production
of IT Services
IT as a Service Business Production IT Production
ü Efficient Pooling
ü Elastic Resource Scheduling
ü Automation Thru Policy
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COST EFFICIENCY QUALITY OF SERVICE
BUSINESS AGILITY
Enable Agility via Cloud
Computing Architecture
Optimizing Business
Consumption
The Journey to Your Cloud
Achieve Unprecedented
Reliability
Get the Most Out of Your
Infrastructure
Optimizing Production
of IT Services
ü Efficient Pooling
ü Elastic Resource Scheduling
ü Automation Thru Policy
IT as a Service Business Production IT Production
ü Secure Self-Service
ü Business Driven SLAs
ü Pay for Use
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vSphere vSphere vSphere
vCloud Director
vShield Security
vCenter Management
vCloud Director 1.5
vShield 5.0
vCenter Operations 1.0 vCenter SRM 5.0
vSphere 5.0
Cloud Infrastructure Launch (vSphere, vCenter, vShield, vCloud Director)
In 2011 VMware is Introducing a Major Upgrade of the Entire Cloud Infrastructure Stack
New
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VMware vSphere 5.0: Key differentiations & value propositions
Application Services
Infrastructure Services
Scalability
VMware vSphere 5
Security
• ESXi Firewall • 32 way SMP • 1 TB VMs
• New HA Architecture
• vMotion over higher latency links
Availability
Network Storage
• Network I/O Control (per VM controls)
• Distributed Switch (Netflow, SPAN, LLDP)
• Storage DRS • Profile-Driven Storage • VMFS 5 • Storage I/O Control • (NFS)
• ESXi Convergence • Auto Deploy • HW version 8
Compute
vCenter Server • Virtual Appliance • Web Client
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Infrastructure Services – Compute, Storage, Network
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vSphere 5 – Thin Architecture
• vSphere 5.0 will utilize the ESXi hypervisor exclusively
• ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors
• Thin architecture
• Smaller security footprint
• Streamlined deployment and configuration
• Simplified patching and updating model
Most Trusted
vSphere ESXi
Overview
Benefits
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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS
• Tier storage based on performance characteristics (i.e. datastore cluster)
• Simplify initial storage placement • Load balance based on I/O
• Eliminate VM downtime for storage maintenance
• Reduce time for storage planning/configuration
• Reduce errors in the selection and mgmt of VM storage
• Increase storage utilization by optimizing placement
High IO throughput
Overview
Benefits
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§ Set up SLAs for use of storage and network resources § Added per virtual machine settings
for Network I/O Control § Added NFS support for Storage I/O
Control
§ Eliminate the “noisy neighbor” problem
§ More granular SLA settings for network traffic
§ Extend Storage SLAs to more VMs
Performance Guarantees – Network and Storage I/O Control
Overview
Benefits
1. VM requests more resources
2. Other VMs are starved
for resources
3. w/ I/O controls, can give VIP VMs
preferential access
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vSphere 5.0 – Auto Deploy
• Deploy and patch vSphere hosts in minutes using a new “on the fly” model
• Coordination with vSphere Host Profiles
• Rapid provisioning: initial deployment and patching of hosts
• Centralized host and image management • Reduce manual deployment and patch
processes
vSphere vSphere
vCenter Server with Auto Deploy
Host Profiles
vSphere
Image Profiles
vSphere
Overview
Benefits
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Application Services – Scalability, Availability, Security
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25% 25%
18%
% of Workload Instances Running on VMware in Customer Base
Oracle Middleware
Oracle DB SAP
Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010 and September 2011. Data: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized
Jan 2010
The Trend Is Clear: Customers Trust VMware for Their Business Critical Applications
Sep 2011
38%
MS Exchange
50%
43%
MS SQL
56% 53%
MS SharePoint
70%
45% 40% 40%
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vSphere 5.0 – Scaling Virtual Machines
• Create virtual machines with up to 32 vCPU and 1 TB of RAM
• 4x size of previous vSphere versions
• Run even the largest applications in vSphere, including very large databases
• Virtualize even more applications than ever before (tier 1 and 2)
Overview
Benefits
4x
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Bigger Than The Biggest Exchange Configuration
Single Exchange 2010 role on a server
Microsoft recommended maximum =12 cores
Multiple Exchange 2010 roles on a server
Microsoft recommended maximum =24 cores
Single VM = 32 vCPU
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vSphere 5.0 – New HA Architecture
• New architecture for High Availability
feature of vSphere
• Simplified clustering setup and configuration
• Enhanced reliability through better resource guarantees and monitoring
• Enhanced scalability
NIC Teaming, Multipathing
VMware Fault Tolerance, High Availability,
DRS Maintenance Mode, vMotion
Storage vMotion
Component Server Storage
Overview
Benefits
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vSphere 5.0 – vCenter Server Appliance (Linux)
• Run vCenter Server as a Linux-based
appliance
• Simplified setup and configuration
• Enables deployment choices according to business needs or requirements
• Leverages vSphere availability features for protection of the management layer
Overview
Benefits
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• Lowers capital costs to get to virtualized IT
• Drops knowledge barrier for virtualization adoption
• Enables more SMBs to benefit from unique vSphere capabilities (e.g., vMotion, High Availability, automated resource management)
Introducing: vSphere Storage Appliance - Shared storage for everyone
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
Revolutionary software that delivers shared storage capabilities without the cost and complexity
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VSA cluster with 2 members
Volume 1 Volume 1 (Replica)
VSA Datastore 1
VSA Datastore 2
VSA Manager VSA Cluster Service
vCenter Server
Manage
Volume 2 (Replica) Volume 2
Two Member VSA
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Volume 3 (Replica)
VSA Manager
vCenter Server
Manage VSA
Datastore 1
Volume 1 (Replica) Volume 2
VSA cluster with 3 members
VSA Datastore 3
Volume 1
VSA Datastore 2
Three Member VSA
Volume 3 Volume 2 (Replica)
VSA Cluster Service
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Failover in a VSA cluster with 2 hosts
VSA Manager VSA Cluster Service
vCenter Server
VSA Datastore 1
VSA Datastore 2
Manage
Volume 1 (Replica) Volume 2 Volume 1 Volume 2
(Replica)
Resilience Diagram
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VMware vSphere
All VM’s on the same vCenter cluster can use VSA storage
…
VMware vCenter Server
…
To use shared storage in a separate vCenter cluster, add a VSA license to that cluster
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA): Storage Accessibility by Virtual Machines
VMware vSphere
VSA
VMware vSphere
VSA
VMware vSphere
VSA
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere
VSA
With one instance of VSA, you have the option of running on two or three nodes
VM’s outside the VSA enabled vCenter cluster cannot run on VSA storage
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Broadest Software and Hardware Support in the Industry
Broadest ISV and IHV Support
Majority ISVs support VMware " Microsoft, SAP and IBM have clear
support statements for running their software on VMware
" Oracle’s official support policy (Document ID #249212.1) states they will support Oracle Databases, applications & middleware virtualized on VMware
" VMware is supported by over 1400 ISV partners to run over 2500 applications
Broadest x86 hardware support " The broadest choice of x86 hardware
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vSphere – Best Platform for Business Critical Applications
• vSphere Auto Deploy for adding ESXi capacity
• Linked Clones in vCloud Director for resource elasticity
• Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage for better storage management
• Storage and Network I/O controls to eliminate ‘noisy neighbor’ problem
• Monster VMs for virtualizing large applications • vSphere replication and automatic failback in SRM to simplify BC/DR • Sensitive data discovery in vShield to improve security and compliance • High availability for all SMBs with Virtual Storage Appliance
Accelerate App Time-to-Market
Improve App Quality of Service
Improve App Efficiency
Eliminating Barriers to 100% Virtualization
Cost Reduction
SLAs
Agility
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vSphere 5: Accelerating the Path to 100% Virtualization
IOPS
Network
Memory
CPU
VMware vSphere4
300,000
30
256
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VMware Inf. 3
100,000
9
64
4
VMware vSphere 5
1,000,000
>36
1,000
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ESX 2
7,000
.9
3.6
2
ESX 1
<5,000
<.5
2
1 (VCPUs)
(Gb/s)
(GB per VM)
4x
97% capacity compared to a native
environment
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Segmentation of applications, servers
• VLAN or subnet based policies • Interior or Web application Firewalls
• DLP, application identity aware policies
VLAN 1
VLANs
Data Center needs to be secured at different levels
Cost & Complexity At the vDC Edge
• Sprawl: hardware, FW rules, VLANs • Rigid FW rules
• Performance bottlenecks Keep the bad guys out • Perimeter security device (s) at the edge
• Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention • Load balancers
End Point Protection • Desktop AV agents, • Host based intrusion
• DLP agents for privacy
Perimeter Security
Internal Security
End Point Security
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Introducing VMware vShield Products
DMZ Application 1 Application 2
Securing the Private Cloud End to End: from the Edge to the Endpoint
Edge vShield Edge
Secure the edge of the virtual datacenter
Security Zone
vShield App + Sensitive Data Discovery
Create segmentation between enclaves or silos of workloads
Endpoint = VM vShield Endpoint
Offload anti-virus processing
Endpoint = VM vShield Manager
Centralized Management
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Solution : vShield App Protects Application from Internal Threats
Overview
§ Segments critical applications and databases from the rest of the environment.
§ Hypervisor-level firewall provides protection immediately in front of critical workloads.
§ Adaptive security templates - “stretch” dynamically as servers are added.
§ Robust flow monitoring for application visibility
§ Programmable interface(API) for high scale deployments, ecosystem integration
Business Benefits
§ Isolate critical applications § Eliminates cost and operational
overhead of hardware firewalls. § Improves business flexibility
SAP
PCI CDE
§ Unpatched VM
§ Infected VM
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Cloud Infrastructure (vSphere, vCenter, vShield, vCloud Director)
! ! !
Overview
Benefits
§ More than 80 pre-defined templates for country/industry specific regulations
§ Accurately discover and report sensitive data in unstructured files with analysis engine
§ Segment off VMs with sensitive data in separate trust zones
§ Quickly identify sensitive data exposures § Reduce risk of non-compliance and
reputation damage § Improve performance by offloading data
discovery functions to a virtual appliance
vShield App with Data Security Protects Against Data Leaks
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Improving Business Continuity At All Levels
Local Availability § vSphere High Availability § vSphere Fault Tolerance § vMotion and Storage vMotion
Data Protection § vSphere Data Recovery § Storage APIs for Data Protection
Local Site Failover Site
Disaster Recovery § vCenter Site Recovery Manager § Includes vSphere Replication
New in 2011
Improved in 2011
Improved in 2011
vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere
Improved in 2011
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43% of companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within two years.
(McGladrey and Pullen)
93% of business that lost their data center for 10 days went bankrupt within one year.
(National Archives & Records Administration)
40% of all companies that experience a major disaster will go out of business if they cannot
gain access to their data within 24 hours. (Gartner)
Top executives say 10 hours to recovery; IT managers say up to 30 hours.
(Harris Interactive)
Disasters Happen. Do You Need Protection?
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Simple Setup And Management of Recovery And Migration Plans
§ Weeks or months to set up
§ Error-prone
§ Quickly falls out of sync with apps and infrastructure changes
§ Simple recovery plan set up in minutes
§ Fewer steps means far less room for errors
§ Simple to keep in sync with changes
…to Simple Recovery Plans From Complex Runbooks…
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager Ensures Simple, Reliable DR
Provide cost-efficient replication • Built-in vSphere Replication • Broad support for storage-based replication Simplify management of recovery and migration plans • Replace manual runbooks with centralized
recovery plans • From weeks to minutes to set up new plan Automate failover and migration processes • Enable frequent non-disruptive testing • Ensure automated failover and migration • Automate failback processes
Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere to provide the simplest and most reliable disaster protection and site migration for all applications
VMware vSphere
VMware vCenter Server
Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Server
Site Recovery Manager
VMware vSphere
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Servers Servers
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SRM Benefits
vCenter Server Site
Recovery Manager
vSphere
vCenter Server Site
Recovery Manager
vSphere vSphere
Replication
Storage-based replication
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Benefits: • Setup simple disaster recovery plans • Test the recovery plan non disruptively • Automated planned site migration, failover, and failback processes • Simple built in replication capability without license
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What We Are Hearing From You
Configuration & Compliance Performance & Capacity
“I need a more integrated, simpler approach to ensure the performance,
capacity, and health of our virtual environment”
“In the past we’ve just over-provisioned as that was the safest
way. But now management is asking for usage reports and capacity plans before they allow us to buy more infrastructure.”
“We are constantly preparing for our
responding to an audit. We basically shut down
normal IT Ops, other than emergencies,
during each quarterly audit period.”
“We don’t really have good visibility with
our servers – we don’t know what patches have been applied
or when. It would be great to know what percentage we are
patched each week.”
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Performance Analytics Learning Approach
My brain understands the health of my body. Should I do anything?
Your Brain Understands Context:
§ If my heart rate and temperature are increasing I should go to the hospital
§ If I’m tired, rest more
§ If I tire easily, start exercising!
Heart Rate Respiration Temperature
Muscular Skeletal Cardio Vascular
Monitoring UserEx Metrics Monitoring Business Metrics
Monitoring App Layer Metric – JVM, DB Connections, etc.
Monitoring Server O/S Metrics – CPU, RAM, Disk, I/O, etc.
vCenter Operations understands the health of my enterprise by analyzing millions of measurements.
Should I do anything? vCenter Operations Understands Context:
§ Act based on urgency of emerging problems
§ Act based on real-time performance dashboards
§ Act based on long term correlations and trends
vCenter Operations
Nervous
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What is it and Why it’s Different VMware’s Solution for Automated Operations Management
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Exchange Hub 1
Mailbox
Edge Hub Client
Exchange Hub 2
Mailbox
Exchange on VMware Edge Hub Client Mailbox
Edge Hub Client Mailbox
Hub 2
Hub 1 1
Consolidate Exchange Server roles
Eliminate the need for dedicated standby servers
vSphere vSphere
5x-10x Exchange Consolidation
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Virtualizing Exchange 2010
§ Option 1:Virtualizing with DAG § Better availability for higher SLAs
§ VMware HA reduces time that database is unprotected in case of DAG failover (VMware HA, vMotion and DRS fully supported with Exchange DAG)
§ Reduce overall costs with server consolidation
§ Option 2: Virtualizing without DAG § Replace expensive DAG
implementation with VMware App-Aware HA based on SLA requirements
Exchange 2010 Introduces DAG for Database Availability
http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/05/using-vmware-ha-drs-and-vmotion-with-exchange-2010-dags.html http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/03/high-availability-for-exchange-2010-without-dag.html
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Conventional DB Consolidation is Difficult
Confidential
Multi-Instancing Shared Instance
Shared OS SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL DB DB DB DB DB
Shared OS Shared SQL
DB DB DB DB DB
• No OS isolation (configuration, security, fault)
• Resource isolation requires Windows Resource Manager
• No load balancing across physical nodes
• No OS isolation (configuration, security, fault)
• No Database isolation • Resource isolation requires SQL
Resource Governor • No load balancing across physical
nodes
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Consolidate Your “Per Processor” Software Licenses
SQL SQL SQL SQL
SQL SQL SQL SQL
8 servers 16 processors / licenses
$100K
$200K
$300K $400K $500K
$596K
8 servers
16 Enterprise Edition licenses
SA $600K
2 servers 4 processors / licenses
SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL
$100K
$200K
$300K $400K $500K
$158K 4 licenses
SA
$600K
2 servers
>70% cost reduction
SQL Server 2008 R2 Consolidation Example
*Note: Use Datacenter Edition if running more than 4 instances
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Ideal Platform for DB Consolidation Hardware & Software Licensing
Legacy DB
Fast consolidation with P2V Increase performance! 1
2 Preserve isolation in VM OS isolation DB isolation Security isolation
3 Guarantee resources Reservations Priorities Maximums
4 Load balance across nodes vMotion DRS
Resource Pool
vSphere vSphere
SQL
vSphere
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Virtualize Oracle
Licensing Hosts Licensing Clusters
§ Partially licensed clusters • DRS Host Affinity to restrict VM
mobility to licensed hosts only
• Oracle has no official stance on such clustering technologies
§ Fully licensed clusters • Dedicated clusters when lots of
Oracle across test/dev/prod
• Load as many VMs as you wish, with full VM mobility
§ Partially Licensed Hosts
• VMware’s CPU Pinning is considered ‘soft-partitioning’ and not valid for Oracle licensing
§ Fully Licensed Hosts
• All the CPUs in the host must be fully licensed
• Once fully-licensed, run as many VMs as you wish
For Oracle Applications licensed per User – no licensing impact For Oracle Databases licensed per CPU – license consolidation opportunity
Note: Verify compliance with respective software vendors
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Oracle Licensing: Which Edition?
§ For all of the below situations: License FULL machine
§ Remember the different functionality (but do you NEED RAC?)
§ Once “fully licensed” you can deploy unlimited VMs!
STANDARD EDITION ONE -Licensed by SOCKET
-Limited to TWO SOCKETS
STANDARD EDITION -Licensed by SOCKET
-Limited to FOUR SOCKETS)
ENTERPRISE EDITION -Licensed by CORE
Apply x86 factor of 0.5 to cores
Pricing per Oracle Technology Global Price List, October 20, 2011
$11,600
$70,000
$380,000
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Processor Core Factors
§ This applies to Enterprise Edition only § In our (x86) space it is currently simple
• Each core has a factor of 0.5: • 4 core chip – 0.5 x 4 = 2 licenses • 8 core chip – 0.5 x 8 = 4 licenses
§ Hardware very important • License at $22,500/core – if a core is 10% faster then that core is worth $2,250
• Big play for large memory footprints? (vSphere 5 J ) • Check benchmarks – Spec, RPE etc..
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Workload Optimization – balance costs/savings and functionality
8x 2x CPU hosts running Oracle DB EE
$720,000
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
? $90,000
$180,000
+ HA + DRS
+ Capacity?
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$360,000
8x 2x CPU hosts running Oracle DB EE
$720,000
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
OS Oracle
SRM?
Workload Optimization – balance costs/savings and functionality
$720,000
+ HA + DRS
+ Capacity?
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So, how do I maximize the value of virtualizing?
§ Today’s multicore systems make SE1 very attractive and Virtualization could render RAC redundant?
§ Realistically most clients still need Enterprise Edition • Consolidate to fewer larger boxes. You will get an economy of scale and it is
likely your workloads will meld together
• Squeeze as much workload as you can onto your Oracle cluster – the benefits could be mind boggling (1 fewer 64 core node = $1.5m saving on list price)
• Use management tools (VC Operations) to drive up utilization
• Use vSphere control surfaces to guarantee SLAs.
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Business Critical Application (BCA) Support Statements
§ Oracle’s official support policy (document ID #249212.1) states they will support Oracle Databases, applications & middleware virtualized on VMware. If Oracle won’t, vmware will: www.vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-support.html
§ SAP and IBM have clear support statements for running their
software on VMware
§ Microsoft fully supports all leading applications on VMware (and
recently extended support for Exchange 2010 DAG)
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Officially Supported by Oracle (MyOracleSupport note 249212.1)
“Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running
on VMware”
www.vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-support.html
• Oracle RAC supported since Nov 2010 • VMware does not modify native OS • Not a single reported incident of vSphere causing an
issue in the Oracle database or application • VMware offers full support and total ownership
Oracle Certification and Support for VMware
Not Directly Certified (Oracle Does Not Certify Infrastructure)
• Oracle does not certify anything below the OS. Eg: Dell, HP, IBM hardware • Run an OS certified by both Oracle and VMware for confidence at every level
of the stack
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vSphere Licensing
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vSphere 5.0 Licensing Model vSphere 4.1 and prior
Per CPU with Core and Physical Memory Limits
vSphere 5.0 and later Per CPU with
vRAM Entitlements
Licensing Unit CPU = CPU
SnS Unit CPU = CPU
Core per proc Restrictions by vSphere editions • 6 cores for Standard and Enterprise, Ess, Ess+ • 12 core for Advanced and Ent. Plus
< Unlimited
Physical RAM capacity per host
Restrictions by vSphere edition • 256GB for Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. Ess,
Ess+ • Unlimited for Enterprise Plus
< Unlimited
vRAM entitlement per proc Not applicable ≠
Entitlement by vSphere edition • 32GB vRAM for Essentials Kit • 32GB vRAM for Essentials Plus Kit • 32GB vRAM for Standard • 64GB vRAM for Enterprise • 96GB vRAM for Enterprise Plus
Pooling of entitlements Not applicable < YES – vRAM entitlements are pooled among vSphere hosts managed by a vCenter or linked vCenter instance
Max amount of vRAM per VM counted Not applicable ≠
96GB – a powered on VM will count for a maximum of 96GB against the pool regardless of its actual configured amount
Compliance policies • Purchase in advance of use • High Watermark =
• Purchase in advance of use • 12 months rolling average of daily high
watermark
Monitoring tool Not applicable ≠ YES – built-into vCenter Server 5.0
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Key vRAM Concepts
Pooled vRAM Entitlement
Each vSphere 5 processor license comes with certain amount of vRAM entitlement
Sum of all processor license
entitlements Consumed vRAM Sum of vRAM
configured into all powered on VMs
1
2
3
Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement
4
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Key concepts - Example
Host A
1 1
vSphere Ent
1 1
vSphere Ent
CPU CPU CPU CPU
Host B
64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
vRAM Pool (256GB)
Consumed vRAM = 80 GB
4 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Edition
provide a vRAM pool of 256GB (4 * 64 GB)
Customer creates 20 VMs with 4GB
vRAM each
Each vSphere Enterprise Edition license entitles
to 64GB of vRAM.
Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement
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Competitive
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Hyper-V R2 SP1 vSphere 5 XenServer 6
XenServer requires Linux OS x
XenServer >1 GB disk footprint x
Very static ballooning, no sharing ~
StorageLink only supported by
4 storage arrays ~
Indirect driver model; dom0 becomes
bottleneck x
Unrelated patching due to general purpose OS x
4% market share (according to analysts) x
Follower (according to analysts) ~
Far fewer ISVs support XenServer x
Hyper-V part of Windows Server OS x
Hyper-V w/ Server Core >3 GB disk footprint x
Ballooning only ~No storage APIs; relies on 3rd party x
Unrelated patching due to general purpose OS x Indirect driver model; parent OS becomes
bottleneck x
11% market share (according to analysts) ~
Follower (according to analysts) ~
ISVs prioritize vSphere over Hyper-V ~
ü
True purpose-built, bare-metal hypervisor ü
VMware vSphere 144 MB disk footprint ü No Windows/Linux to
patch in hypervisor ü Direct driver model w/
optimized drivers ü
Ballooning Transparent page sharing
Memory compression ü Storage APIs supported
by 150+ arrays ü 84% market share
(according to analysts) ü
Virtualization Leader (according to analysts) ü
ISVs support vSphere 1st 1,400 ISV partners 3,000 applications ü
vSphere 5 – The Most Trusted Virtual Infrastructure
Most Secure Thin Hypervisor
Most Trusted Hypervisor Architecture
Most Reliable Hypervisor
Most Efficient Hypervisor
Most Trusted Memory Management
Most Trusted Storage Management
Most Trusted by Customers
Highest Performing Virtualization Platform
Most Trusted by ISV Partners
No hot-add vCPU, vRAM No hot add or hot extend
virtual disk x No hot-add vCPU
No hot extend virtual disk x Hot-add vCPU, vRAM Hot-add/extend virtual disk ü Most Trusted Scalable Environment
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Hyper-V R2 SP1 vSphere 5 XenServer 6
vSphere 5 – Business Critical Applications with Confidence
üü
160 logical cores 2TB RAM ü Run More Apps on a Host 64 logical cores
1TB RAM x 64 logical cores 1TB RAM x
32-way vCPU 1 TB vRAM ü Run Larger Apps in a VM
4-way vCPU on limited guests
64GB vRAM x
Only one VM at a time per host ~ Only one VM at a time
per host ~ VMware vMotion with
Maintenance Mode (up to 8 VMs at a time per host) ü Keep Apps Online through
Faster Server Maintenance
VMware Enhanced Storage vMotion ü Keep Apps Online through
Storage Maintenance Nothing comparable x Quick Storage Migrate has downtime x
VMware Fault Tolerance ü Keep Apps Online through VM Failures Requires 3rd-party x No VM-level protection x Keep Apps Online through NIC Failures
Integrated NIC teaming with dynamic load
balancing ü Relies on network vendor to provide x NIC teaming limited to 2
physical NICs ~ Protect Apps through Host or VM Failures
VMware HA Up to 32 nodes; simple to setup ü Only for host failure
Up to 16 nodes; complex ~ Only for host failure Up to 16 nodes ~
Automated Disaster Recovery and Planned Migration for Tier 1 Apps
Site Recovery Manager 5*: Automated DR plan, test,
execution, and failback ü Requires manual scripting through Opalis x Failover not automated;
No workflows; No storage integration ~
üüCost Effective Disaster Recovery for Tier 2 Apps
vSphere Replication*: Built-in SW replication w/
any storage ü No built-in replication x Requires expensive storage-based replication x
üüSupport More Apps with Broad Guest OS Support
Over 80 OSs supported; More Windows than MS ü 25 OSs supported;
Windows biased x 30 OSs supported x
üüSupport More Apps with Broad Hardware Support
Large HCL: >550 storage, >400 NICs, >1600 Servers ü Limited HCL: ~150 storage,
~100 NICs,~200 Servers x Uses Windows drivers; Potential driver issues ~
* Purchased separately
32-way vCPU (Linux only) 128GB vRAM ~
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Hyper-V R2 SP1 vSphere 5 XenServer 6
vSphere 5 – Respond to the Business Faster
üüIntelligent Server Resource Load Balancing
VMware DRS Logical resource pools ü No logical pools x WLB is limited to one
host pool; single point of failure ~
Intelligent Storage Resource Load Balancing VMware Storage DRS ü Nothing comparable x Nothing comparable x
No cluster-level power management x VMware DPM: Cluster-
level power management ü Lack of affinity rules minimizes its usefulness ~ Intelligent Power Management
In-depth setup required in Config Mgr ~ Transparent host patching
Auto VM upgrades ü Faster Patching of Hosts and Virtual Machines
vSphere Auto Deploy ü Faster Provisioning of Multiple Hosts
In-depth setup required in Config Mgr ~ Nothing comparable x
Faster Storage Provisioning Profile-Driven Storage:
Automates assignment of VMs to tiered storage ü Nothing comparable x Nothing comparable x
Faster Network Configuration & Simplified Management
VMware Distributed Switch 3rd party virtual switch ü Nothing comparable x DVS consumes systems
resources; awkward integration with XenCenter ~
More Effective I/O QoS Management VMware Network I/O and Storage I/O Control ü PRO lacks quality of
service guarantee x Very basic traffic shaping; no reservations or shares ~
More Choice in Management Tools vSphere Web Client vCenter Server Appliance ü Thick Windows mgmt
client only x Thick Windows mgmt client only x
More Choice in Cloud Service Providers
Over 4,000 vCloud Service Providers ü Citrix CloudStack lacks
traction in SPs (<50 SPs) x Azure is proprietary, users locked-in x
Real Hybrid Cloud for Greater Flexibility
vCloud ensures mobility and federation across
clouds ü Citrix CloudStack lacks traction in SPs (<50 SPs) x Apps in Azure don’t
come back out x
Host patching only, no VM upgrades ~
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Competitive Resources on the Web
§ “Why Choose VMware” on www.vmware.com
www.vmware.com/go/whyvmware
Competition-related blogs:
• Virtual Reality
• VMwareArmy
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VMware Resources
§ Deployment Guides, Best Practices, Whitepapers on VMware.com
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/
§ VMware blog http://blogs.vmware.com/apps
§ VMTN user communities
§ Email (Exchange, Lotus, BlackBerry) http://communities.vmware.com/
community/vmtn/general/emailapps
§ Oracle http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/
oracle
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