VMware Overview

Powering the Virtual

Enterprise
Ted Craig – Federal Account Manager
David Grand – Senior Systems Engineer

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 NCACMG – VMware Virtual
Infrastructure Technical
Overview
David Grand, Senior Systems Engineer
[email protected]

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 Agenda

• Company Overview
• The New IT Landscape
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Product Line
• Solutions
• Customers

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 Executive Summary

VMware…
• Modernized and brought virtualization to the x86 platform 7
years ago
• Has saved its customers hundreds of millions of dollars

• Is the fastest growing $100 million+ software company in

the world today
• Partners with the world’s largest IT vendors to produce
tested and compatible solutions for customers
• Has extensive customer success in:
• Server consolidation and containment
• Business Continuity
• Test/development automation
• Enterprise desktop management

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 VMware Mission

Transform industry standard server and desktop computing

through virtualization.

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 VMware at a Glance

Founded 1998

Total Employees 900+

Number of Users 3+ Million

Key Partnerships IBM, HP, Dell

# Channel Partners 1,800+

Customer Profile 80% of the Fortune 100

Operating Structure Independent EMC Subsidiary

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 Virtual Infrastructure Ecosystem

Resellers and Consulting Partners

System Hardware
Integrators Virtual Partners
Infrastructure

Global ISVs and Technology Partners

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 What The Analysts Say About VMware

Illuminata Gartner
“…VMware is one of the very few “Enterprises that do not leverage
who have the deep experience virtualization technologies will
needed to create, harden, and spend 25 percent more annually
optimize complex, sophisticated for hardware, software, labor and
virtualization products.” space for Intel servers…”

Forrester Meta
“Forrester believes that Intel’s “There is very strong market
economies of scale will eventually momentum for VMware within
shift most computing workloads to META Group’s Global 2000 client
Intel- or AMD- based servers. base. VMware has become the de
And VMware now makes it facto standard for Intel server
possible to bring the Organic IT virtualization.”
benefit of high utilization to
underutilized Intel Servers.”

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 Virtualization Leadership Awards

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 Agenda

• Company Overview
• The New IT Landscape
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Product Line
• Solutions
• Customers

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 Challenges Facing IT

Lower TCO
Server Sprawl
Asset Utilization

Business Value Responsiveness

Justify business Shortened cycle-times
benefits of IT Deployment of new services
spending

Security
Virus control,
New Initiatives remote access,
How to build an lockdown, compliance
efficient infrastructure
within budget

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 Evolution of Server Computing

Explosion in # of Physical Low x86 Utilization…Becoming

& Logical components Even Lower (i.e. Multicore)

Relative CPU Utilization

70%
60%
# components

50%
40%

+ 30%
20%
10%
0%
SOA
Web

Mainframe Unix x86

C/S

Source: IBM Scorpion, VMware Internal

à Increased complexity and inefficiency!

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 EMC’s Information Lifecycle Management Product
Offerings

AAM VMware

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 Agenda

• Company Overview
• The New IT Landscape
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Product Line
• Solutions
• Customers
• Futures

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 VMware Technology Overview

Old Model:
Traditional x86 Architecture
• Single OS image per machine

• Software and hardware tightly coupled

• Multiple applications often conflict

• Underutilized resources introduce real

cost into the infrastructure

à Old model doesn’t work anymore!

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 VMware Technology Overview

New Model:
VMware Technology
• Separate OS and hardware – break
hardware dependencies

• Manage OS and application as single

unit by encapsulating them into VMs

• Strong fault and security isolation

• Standard, HW independent
environments can be provisioned
anywhere

• Flexibility to chose the right OS for

the right application

à Works with what you have today…

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 Traditional Intel System Architecture

Gartner says
average server Application
utilization is
less than 15%

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 Intel Architecture With Vmware. . .

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 VMware Common Features
• Virtualization – This is the core technology for all
Vmware products
• Standard unmodified OS’es
• Run multiple operating systems concurrently:
• No repartitioning
•
•
Windows 95 / 98
Windows NT
• No rebooting
•
•
Windows 2000
Windows XP
(professional, server, advanced server)
(professional and home edition)
• Isolation
•
•
Windows 2003
Windows 3.1
(enterprise and advanced edition) • Encapsulation (portability)
• Ms-dos • Full networking
• Linux (red hat, SuSE, mandrake, caldera)
• FreeBSD
• Novell Netware (4.X, 5.X, 6.X)
• Hardware-independent

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 Application + OS: Now A Data File

Entire server – OS, apps, data, • Server provisioning is

devices, and state – is now similar to copying a file
simply a file.
• Server migration is now
similar to data migration

• Datamanagement
techniques can be used for
server management
• Server cloning/copying
• Versioning
• Server archival
• Remote mirroring

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 Virtual Infrastructure

Enables You to:

• Dynamically map computing resources
to the business

• Lower IT costs through increased

efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness

• Provision new services and change the

amount of resources dedicated to a
software service
• Treat your data center as a single pool
of processing, storage and networking
power

Virtual infrastructure brings uniformity to your data center

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 Agenda

• Company Overview
• The New IT Landscape
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Product Line
• Solutions
• Customers

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 VMware Product Line

Production Server

VirtualCenter ESX Server

Test/Development

Workstation GSX Server

Enterprise Desktop

VMware ACE

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 VMware Product Innovation
GSX SERVER VMWARE ACE

ESX SERVER VIRTUAL CENTER

WORKSTATION ESX SERVER

1st w/ 64-Bit Support

INNOVATION

1st Virtual SDK

1st VRM Solution

1st Virtual SMP

1st w/ VMotion

1st IA-32 virtual

1st NSA-Certified 2004-2005
virtual desktop
machine (+ host arch.)
1st Intel-based
hypervisor
2002 - 2003

1999 - 2001
CONSISTENT VIRTUAL HARDWARE PLATFORM

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 Core Building Blocks - Virtual Infrastructure Nodes

• ESX Server
• Hosts multiple virtual machines (VMs)

VMotion • Virtual SMP

• Enables dual virtual CPU VMs

• VirtualCenter
VirtualCenter • Enables centralized management

• VMotion
• Enables migration of VMs between physical
Virtual SMP hosts

• Virtual Infrastructure Node (VIN)

• ESX Server + VC Agent + VSMP + VMotion
ESX Server

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 Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration

Seamlessly transform physical systems

into Virtual Machines with P2V Assistant

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 Virtual Infrastructure Components

• ACE • ACE Managed Desktop

• Workstation • WKS and GSX install as
• GSX Server applications on an existing OS
• ESX Server • ESX installs on bare metal

• Snapshots a
• P2V Assistant physical machine
• Converts into a
Virtual Machine

• Manages multiple Virtual

• VirtualCenter Machines across boxes.
(With VMotion) • VMotion, can move VMs between
boxes while they’re running

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 Vmware Product Set
Workstation GSX Server ESX Server ESX SMP Virtual Center
Desktop Workgroup Data Center Data Center Data Center

SMP

• Data Center Server • Dual Processor • Manage hundreds of

• OS Migration • Department Server servers from one
Consolidation Consolidation Support location
• Technical Support
• Development & Test • Rapid Server • Processor • Eliminate scheduled
downtime
• Training Server Consolidation Deployment Intensive
Applications • Rapidly deploy new
• Sales Demos • Office in a Box virtual machines

• Move virtual machines

• Development & Test • Disaster Recovery with no service
interruption

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 VMware Virtual Infrastructure Solutions
Connectivity

Test &
Dev

Production

Test &
Dev

Performance

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 Introducing VMware ACE
The Assured Computing Environment for the Enterprise

VMware ACE is an enterprise

desktop solution for PC
managers who want to:
• Ensure safe access to enterprise
resources from remote and
guest PCs

• Secure data on enterprise PCs

• Standardize PC environments

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 Key Benefits

VMware ACE is a hardware-

independent solution that can be
provisioned to any PC. It works
online or offline, delivering:
• Improved security of enterprise
information

• Simplified desktop support and

management

• Improved cost-effectiveness of
enterprise PCs

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 Product Overview
VMware ACE Manager
• Used by desktop managers to create assured computing
environments that can be provisioned to any PC.
VMware ACE client
• A simple application installed by end users to run an
assured computing environment on their PC.

VMware VMware
ACE Manager ACE Client
ACE Package
OS + Apps Policies

&
IT Desktop End User’s PC
Manager’s PC

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 Key Features

• Manageability
• Virtual Rights Management interface
• Design Once – provision anywhere

• Security
• Rules-based network access
• Tamper resistant
• Copy protection

• Usability
• Intuitive and customizable UI
optimized for all PC users
• Revert to previous state, resume
current session

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 Sweet Spot Applications - Ideal for Consolidation

• MS Exchange servers • Financial Apps

• File/print • CRM Services
• Lotus notes • Visual Basic Apps
• IIS web servers • Domain Controllers
• Databases • Active Directory Servers
• Web app servers • Virus Protection Servers
• Custom applications

and…individual applications residing on a single underutilized server

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 Key Features: Partitioning, Isolation, and Encapsulation

Partitioning Isolation Encapsulation

• Multiple OS on one • Fault and security • Entire state of the VM:
physical machine isolation at the hardware Memory, disk images, I/O
level device state
• Fully utilize server • Hardware resource • VM state can be saved
resources controls preserve to a file
• Shared data is cluster- performance
• Re-use or transfer whole
ready for failover • Guarantee service levels VMs with a file copy

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 Feature: Server Utilization

• Run multiple
operating systems
on one physical
machine
• Fully utilize server
resources
• SCSI reservations
enable clustering

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 Feature – Virtual Machine Isolation
• Each virtual machine is isolated from others
• Totally separate OS, registry, applications and data files
• Immune to guest OS crashes, viruses or corruption
• NSA NetTop project

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 Feature – Encapsulation / Rapid Provisioning
• Virtual machine (VM) state is simply a file
• Entire VM state is encapsulated to include memory, disk images, I/O device
state
• Duplicate VMs by simply copying the files to a new directory.
• Virtual machines can be copied or moved between physical machines.
• Maintain pre-configured systems for rapid deployment when you need them.

ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2

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 Feature - VMware Networking

vmnic0

vmnet0
vmnet1

Host System
Network Card

•Supports static address or DHCP Guest Virtual

Machines Database
or Application
•VMs have unique MAC/IP address Servers Guest
Virtual
Machin
•Virtual network traffic passed over system data e
bus at 1.0 ghz +.
Guest Virtual Machine
Web Server
•Network speed can be constrained via ESX
resource management (average, peak, burst)

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 Agenda

• Company Overview
• The New IT Landscape
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Product Line
• Solutions
• Customers

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 Key Leverage Points

Server Consolidation – Virtualize and consolidate existing

workloads, increasing utilization rates and lowering operating
costs

Test and Development – Rapidly provision and re-provision

test and development servers; store libraries of pre-configured
test machines

Business Continuity – Improve recovery times by storing

copies of production servers as hardware-independent virtual
machines

Enterprise Desktop – Provision standardized PC environments

to remote and guest workers and ensure safe access to
enterprise resources

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 Virtualization Solution Areas

Server ●Test and Dev. Disaster

Containment Lab Automation Recovery
●Consolidate and ●Consolidate multiple test ●Provides less hardware-
partition systems and development servers intensive approach to
High Availability
●Increases utilization ●Fewer physical machines
rates ●Improve recovery times
●Rapidly provision and de-
●lowers operating provision servers ●Store copies of
costs production servers as
●Store libraries of test hardware-independent
machines virtual machine files

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 Solution: Server Consolidation

• Single management
console can control all
environments

• Works with systems

management platforms

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 Example: Vmware ESX Server Enables Server Consolidation in
Mixed OS Environments

Mail System Example Mail System Example

Traditional Approach Consolidated Environment
Customer Benefits
• No need to standardize
Apache on on one OS
Linux
1U, 2-way Rackmount
• Removes concerns
about application
interaction or
dependencies
Sendmail • VMware resource
Gateway
on Linux governing guarantees
1U, 2-way Rackmount
that critical apps will get
the resources they need
• Reduced system setup
Exchange + IIS
on and management costs
Windows 2000
1U, 2-way Rackmount 3U, 4-way
Rackmount

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 Example: Vmware ESX Server Enables Server Consolidation in
Single-OS Environments

Web Hosting Example Web Hosting Example

Traditional Approach Consolidated Environment Customer Benefits
• Customers demand dedicated
machine for security, reliability,
and maintenance reasons
• Dedicated machines have high
space, management, and
resource costs
• By giving each customer their
own virtual machine, service
providers meet SLAs but
reduce space, management,
and resource costs
Six 1U
2-way Rackmount Servers
• Since VMs can be copied and
Running IIS on Windows 2000 moved, time to deploy a new
3U, 4-way Rackmount server is decreased
Multiple virtual machines, dramatically
each with its own instance of
Windows 2000 and IIS

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 Server Consolidation
The Challenge
AIG Technology wanted to free up data center space to make
room for additional projects. Also wanted to speed deployment
time

The VMware Solution

“Our customers are our VMware ESX Server provided an immediate ROI and and
highest priority. Product improved business response to AIGT’s managed services client
quality and customer base
service are two key
metrics by which we
• Cut server provisioning time in half, from
6 hours to 3 hours
measure success at
AIGT – VMware has • Substantially increased server utilization
helped improve both.” • 20:1 consolidation of servers
• Reduced data center rack space 8:1
Joseph Nadan
Chief Technology Officer • Increased quality and reliability of IT
AIG Technology
environments through built-in
redundancy

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 Solution: Development / Test
• Rapid Provisioning of Machines
• Develop a centralized virtual test bank
of reusable environments
• Reductions in hardware costs by 48 to 80 percent.
• Immediate cash savings from reduced operational,
space, power, and support needs.

• Create virtual test environments to

increase productivity
• The ability to deploy applications on or ahead of
schedule

• Implement global standardization

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 Example: Vmware ESX Server Reduces Time, Costs of Deploying
Services and Applications

Production Systems Test System

Customer Benefits
New York
New York
• Dramatically lowers costs of
3U, 2-way Rack provisioning new services
Tokyo Tokyo and applications
• The test environment
Stockholm exactly mirrors the
1U, 2 way Rack production environment,
London Stockholm
down to the OS and
London
hardware configurations
• Model the effects of different
1-way Tower hardware configurations by
changing resources
allocated to each virtual
2-way Tower
server
• Create backup copies of
3U, 4-way Rackmount virtual servers
Hosting Virtual Servers

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 Vmware ESX Server in Action: Development and Test

Black & Decker needed a prototype environment

for Exchange 2003 and Active Directory migrations
Used ESX Server to build prototype environments to
test and begin production rollout

• Achieved 9 to 1 server consolidation

ratio
“VMware ESX Server is a
• Projecting 20 to 1 when at capacity
critical technology for our IT
operation. We expect the • Now beginning production rollout
new Virtual SMP capability • Lowed hardware and real estate costs
of ESX Server 2 to help us
• Decreased maintenance costs
get even more benefits from
virtualization.” • Increased server utilization

Josh Heller, Sr. Technical

Specialist

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 Solution: HA / DR
VMware server software gives you practical, easy to
implement ways to increase recovery and availability

•Avoid 1-to-1 mapping of production and backup servers

•Uniform virtual platform allows restore to any hardware
•Checkpoints reduce recovery time
•Easier to keep up with change and growth

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 Cluster Solution in a Box

• Run cluster management software

• Support failover and other software reliability techniques

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 Example: ESX Server Provides a Cost-effective Failover Solution
for Mixed OS Environments

VMware-based Failover Architecture Failover Server

MS Exchange
Windows 2000
MS Exchange
Customer Benefits
Windows 2000
• Full support for NLB,
1U, 2-way Rack MSCS, and VCS in VM’s
File / Print
in ESX with no
File / Print
Data Windows NT modifications.
Windows NT
• Low cost: when 1-1 fail-
over is unaffordable
Intranet App Server
1U, 2-way Rack on Windows 2000
• Flexible: allows failover
Data
of heterogeneous-OS
Intranet App Server servers
on Windows 2000
• Scalable: additional
failover machines can
1U, 2-way Rack
Data
be added as needed

4-way Rackmount

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 Example: Cluster Across Boxes
VMware based Failover
Architecture
Shared
• Full support for NLB, MSCS,
ESX Server 1 disks
ESX Server 2 and VCS in VMs in ESX with
arrays, or
MS Exchange
no modifications.
MS Exchange SAN storage
W indows 2000 Windows 2000 • Cluster is still made out of
VMs
• Shared data stored on SAN or
File / Print File / Print attached storage.
W indows NT Data W indows NT
• Allows high availability with
less server related hardware
• Can now deal with crash of a
Intranet App Server Intranet App Server
Data on Windows 2000
physical machine
on Windows 2000
• Consolidate 4 clusters of 2
machines each to two physical
machines with 4 VMs each
• Protection from both hardware
Data
and software failures

4 Way 4 Way
Rackmount Rackmount

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 High Availability / Disaster Recovery
The Challenge
As a provider of network management solutions, Applied
Innovation needed an efficient, flexible infrastructure.

Using VMotion, AI can move The VMware Solution

servers around so that VMware Workstation, ESX Server, Virtual SMP, VirtualCenter
and VMotion provide cost-effective, scalable, highly available
underlying hardware and
solution
storage can be serviced without
disrupting user sessions.
• 15:1 server consolidation ratio
• Minimal downtime, high availability of servers
"We have high availability with • VMware ESX Server and the associated
VMotion," Jarvis explains. "It hardware paid for itself in less than 12 months
eliminates the need for • Reduced maintenance and server costs
downtime for maintenance
windows on the VMware ESX • Effective disaster recovery solution
servers." • Saves on development and test time
Phil Jarvis
IT Director • Improved security
Applied Innovation Inc.

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 VMware
VirtualCenter

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 Centralized Management with VirtualCenter

VMware VirtualCenter gives you total control

over a large-scale virtual infrastructure.

• Provision and boot virtual

machines

• Monitor system availability and

performance

• Automated notifications and

email alerting

• Integrate
SDK with existing
management tools

• Secure the environment with

robust access control

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 Vmware VirtualCenter Key Features

1. Central management console

2. Server provisioning

3. Virtual machine dashboard

4. VMotion™ technology

5. Secure access management

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 Instant Provisioning

VirtualCenter Provisioning Process • Takes under 10 minutes

1) Start deployment wizard • Speed of a file copy
• Hardware-independent
2) Choose server template • Template based
3) Select server location • Fully leverages the SAN
• Automatic and Standardized
4) Click next, next, done

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 Automated Server Provisioning
Automate the deployment of new servers into a server farm using a single
repository of VM templates

ESX1 ESX2 ESX3 Exch

SQL S Exch S SQL C Server
Win XP Win 2K
RH 7.3 Win2K AS
Exch
Server NT4

Exch SQL SQL

Server Server Win 2K
Server
VM Control SQL
Server Win 2K DNS/DHCP
Center

Win XP RH 7.3 SQL

Client
Win XP RH 7.3 Win XP RH 7.3 SQL
Client

VM Templates
ESX Server 1 ESX Server 2 ESX Server 3

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 Virtual Machine Dashboard
Track VM-specific usage metrics to identify performance bottlenecks

• Monitor and report on each VM’s

resource usage
• Use pre-built alerts to proactively
identify resource contention
trends
• Set triggers and alerts for key
performance and availability
metrics
• Quickly identify good candidate
hosts when provisioning new
VMs

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 VMotion™ Technology Changes The Game

VMotion technology lets you move live, running virtual machines from one host to
another while maintaining continuous service availability.
(HA Workload Management)

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 VMotion™ Technology
Instantly shift running systems across hosts with imperceptible downtime

• 100% application availability

• 100% transaction integrity
• 100% data availability
• 100% transparent to end users

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 VMotion™ Technology Changes The Game

VMotion technology lets you move live, running virtual

machines from one host to another while maintaining
continuous service availability.

| Continuous Optimization | Fast Reconfiguration |

| Zero-Downtime Maintenance |

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 VMotion™ Technology Changes The Game

• Real-time online migration

• Zero-downtime maintenance
• Persistent connection
throughout migration
• Can be automatically initiated
when
• Critical alarm is generated for the host
hardware
• Host hardware utilization exceeds
specified level
• It is time for the scheduled
maintenance

• Automate dynamic balancing

of workload
• Initiate when the number of
transactions exceeds specified level

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 Traditional Process vs. VirtualCenter

VirtualCenter
Key Task Traditional Approach
Approach
Provision a new • 3 - 10 days hardware • 5 - 10 minutes
server procurement provisioning new VM
• 1 - 4 hours provisioning new
server
Hardware • Requires 1 - 3 hour maintenance • Zero downtime
maintenance window hardware upgrades with
VMotion™
• Requires days/weeks of change
management preparation
Ongoing • 4 - 6 hours for migration • 1 hour migration with
Consolidation of P2V
Servers • Service interrupted for duration of
maintenance window • 2 - 5 minutes using
Moving Servers to VMotion™ (no service
optimize Workloads • Requires days/weeks of change interruption)
management preparation

Virtualization → Virtual Infrastructure → VirtualCenter → Business Benefits

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 Physical to Virtual Migrations (P2V)
Vmware Professional Services offerings
• Paid for migrations
• 2-day training and use of P2V toolkit
Three steps
• Image origin server
• Virtualize image
Virtual
• Boot image into a virtual machine
Physical
P2V toolkit
• Captures your existing physical environment
• Migrates it into a virtual environment,
automatically
Preserves original OS, applications
• No need for reinstallation, rebuild, risk of
corruption or missing DLLs
Takes hours, not weeks

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 Support for Blades

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 Increased Hardware Utilization

Before VMware After VMware

Actual Customer Results

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 Summary

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 Benefits of Virtual Infrastructure

CEO CFO CIO

It responds faster to Costs are lower and It’s the most flexible way
business demands easier to manage to build IT
• Integration with partners • You don’t pay for what • Leverages technologies you
and customers is easier you don’t need are already investing in
• Expansion or M&A • You get more out of • Increases quality and
activities can happen your IT investment consistency
faster dollars • Gives you lower-cost
• Resources can be • Easier to separate the platform options
deployed or moved strategic IT • Minimizes technology risk
quickly to the business investments from the
units that need them commodity IT functions

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 VMware Delivers

Innovative solutions for the difficult problems facing IT

• Increasing utilization, availability and flexibility

Up to 70% savings in operational costs

• Server provisioning cycles cut from weeks to minutes

Freedom to run your choice of operating system

• Run unmodified Linux and Windows OSes

Dramatic hardware costs savings

• “Same Day ROI”

Increased service availability

• Planned downtime no longer affects service availability

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