vCenter Management Overview

Florian Benne
EMEA Product Marketing
fbenne@vmware.com

Todays Agenda
The Promise of Virtualization Management
The Customer Journey
Basic Management
Infrastructure Management
Dev/Test
Disaster Recovery
Private Cloud
vCenter Benefits

The Goal

Just like..

IT as
Service
Provider

Inexpensive, pay as you go, pay for what

you use
Ubiquitously available
Reliable
Choice of providers

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

Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the

Game
New Considerations

New items and relationships not

present in physical environment
Dynamic and fast growing
environment

Templates
VMs

and New Opportunities!

Enables greater automation

Properties solve IT management

problems in a new way

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

OS

OS

App

OS

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

VMware Uniquely Enables Service-Level Management

vCenter Product Family

Unified control center for SLA-driven
management across dynamic infrastructure

VMware vSphere 4
The industrys leading virtualization platform

The Only Complete Stack for the Private Cloud

vCenter Management Product Family

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

Todays 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

Physical-Only
Environments/
Non-x86/Non-VMware
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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Todays 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, weve 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

Todays 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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Todays 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

?
?
?

Dependent on
perfect training,
documentation,
and execution

?
?

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Failure to meet
recovery requirements

>

Recovery takes days

to weeks

>

Recovery tests often

fail

>

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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Todays 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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VMwares 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

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

Achieves maximum
efficiency, predictability
and control

VM Users

Access to VMs and

monitoring data
(performance,
chargeback) via unified
interface

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
VMs many of the free VMs 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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Todays 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

Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost

Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost

(e.g. Power & Cooling)

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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Whats 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

Migrate applications from physical to virtual

Develop pre-virtualization enduser application baseline

Measure post virtualization

performance

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