The unofficial lowdown on everything announced at VMworld
@julian_wood
WoodITWork.com
18th November 2014 #UKVMUG VMworld 2014
vCloud Suite 5.8 vSphere 6 Beta VMware vCloud Air Certification vRealize VMware Integrated EVO:RAIL OpenStack End User Computing R&D NSX Docker, Pivotal And Google
2 time and choices…
3 vCloud Suite 5.8
Currently has: vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) vCenter Operations Management Suite Site Recovery Manager (SRM) (Ent Ed. only) vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) vCloud Director (vCD) vCloud Connector (vCC) vSphere Enterprise Plus
4 vCloud Suite 5.8 – what’s new
improved business continuity and disaster recovery increased scalability improvement on SRM integration with vCAC offer SRM as a Service in vCAC big data extensions for Hadoop 2 improved interoperability with NSX proactive support - Support Assistant
https://www.vmware.com/support/vcloudsuite/doc/vcloud-suite-58-release- notes.html
5 Site Recovery Manager 5.8
full web client integration up to 5,000 protected VMs/vCenter 2,000 simultaneously recoverable VMs Up to 75% decrease in storage portion more than 50% decrease total recovery plan time new vCO plug-in. automate vCAC provisioning to include DR IP subnet mapping Embedded database option vPostgres http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/09/site-recovery-manager-5-8-goes-ga-today-whats- new.html
6 vSphere Replication 5.8
replication to the cloud vCloud Air
improved reporting
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/08/whats-new-vdp-58-vr-58.html
7 vSphere Data Protection 5.8 Advanced
Powered by EMC Avamar
support for Exchange DAG / MS SQL AG
Replicate and Restore Anywhere
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/08/whats-new-vdp-58-vr-58.html
8 Remote Office Branch Office editions
Standard:$3,000 Advanced:$4,500 (+Host Profiles, Auto Deploy, vDS) per VM licensing available in packs of 25 virtual machines 1 pack per site replaces vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus Kits for Retail and Branch Offices
http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/introducing-vmware-vsphere- remote-office-branch-office-editions.html
9 vSphere 5.5 Update 2
new chipsets RHEL 7 & Ubuntu 10 6TB hosts C# Client:VM hardware 10
vCenter DB: SQL 2012 SP1,2014 & Oracle 12c storage vMotion with CBT New web-based vSphere Replication Calculator estimate RPO, VM numbers & network bandwidth
https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u2- release-notes.html
10 PowerCLI 5.8 R1
enhanced startup speed, pre-compiled .Net storage policy cmdlets OVF/OVA deployment and config more tag filtering better error reporting filtering support to multiple areas supports vCloud Air and vCD New-CIVM cmdlet: deploying new VMs to vCD or vCloud Air support for SRM 5.8
http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/new-release-vmware-vsphere-powercli- 5-8-release-1.html
11 VMware vCloud Air
Renamed from vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS)
desktop as a Service platform as a Service infrastructure as a Service management as a Service vRealize Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
soon in a Germany based data center Ubuntu now available AirWatch now available vCloud Connector extends vSphere layer 2 network to vCloud Air
12 VMware vCloud Air
13 vCloud Air on demand
self-service sign up purchase with credit card, no PO required provisioned in minutes pay only for what you use per minute metering
preview: www.vmware.com/go/ondemand
14 vCloud Air Object Storage
low-speed, long-term buckets of unstructured data based on EMC’s ViPR technology not associated with any specific VM looks to a VM like a block volume only pay for the storage in use S3 API with lifecycle management and versioning two tiers: Standard & SSD-Accelerated scales up to petabytes objects up to 20TB in size
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/08/vmworld-2014-vmware- vcloud-air-and-vipr-object-storage.html
15 VMware Horizon Air = Horizon DaaS applications as a service published applications (RDS) full virtual desktops (VDI) installed applications shared desktops (RDS)
http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/vmware-continues-set- innovation-agenda-end-user-computing.html
16 VMware Horizon Air = Horizon DaaS
US/European data centers(UK for now) cloud bursting with monthly terms high performance desktop 4 vCPU, 8GB vRAM, and 120 GB HD DaaS Platform for Service Providers
http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/2014/08/vmware-continues-set- innovation-agenda-end-user-computing.html
17 vCloud Automation Center 6.1
enhanced interfaces new and updated vCO workflows enhanced integration with vCloud Suite NSX enhancements simplified modeling of complex apps enhanced Puppet integration improving user experience GUI language localization bulk import of existing VMs http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2014/08/introducing-vcloud-automation- center-6-1.html
18 NSX 6.1 for vSphere
vSphere 5.5 and newer external DHCP servers 2 stage ECMP support enhanced integration with vCAC better troubleshooting and monitoring
Layer2 VPN Layer2 VPN -> Hybrid Cloud Load balancing improvements + UDP/FTP Further integration with F5 distributed firewall includes reject action
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/08/25/nsx-6-1/
19 NSX Micro Segmentation
distributed firewall kernel module configure policy with security groups
20 NSX Multi Hypervisor 4.2
includes HA/hitless upgrade DHCP relay OVS performance security profile scale enhancements scale targets unchanged upgrade from any 4.1.x release supported heartbleed issue fixed enhanced integration with vCAC
21 vRealize
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vrealize-cmp/vmw-faq-vrealize-rebrand.pdf
22 vRealize
23 vRealize Suite
extend cloud management beyond vCloud Suite
Thank to Chris Wahl for changing all the premise to premises!
24 vRealize Suite
two versions: advanced and enterprise
vRealize Automation Advanced or Enterprise vRealize Operations Advanced or Enterprise vRealize Log Insight vRealize Business Standard vRealize Business Advanced or Enterprise
per proc or per OS licensing
25 vRealize Operations 6.0
management packs scale out architecture initial setup wizard dashboard and user interface custom alerts/reports capacity planning reclaiming capacity
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/10/14/vrealize-ops-6/
26 vRealize Automation 6.2
enhanced integration: vRealize Ops health in vRealize Automation
vSphere.Next, XenDesktop 7, vCloud Air, OpenStack
admin friendly CLI
1-click support bundle
resource reclamation improved via vRealize Ops
CloudClient: CLI unified
http://thesaffageek.co.uk/2014/10/14/whats-new-in-vrealize- automation-6-2/
27 vRealize Log Insight 2.5
first phase of multi-tenancy performance improvements data integration with vCOps localisation
internal load balancer for scale-out hosts overview administration extension of universal collection framework for Linux real-time dashboard mode http://www.vmguru.com/2014/10/vrealize-log-insight-available-soon/
28 vRealize Operations Insight 6.0
add-on for vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)
vCenter Operations Management Suite Advanced
vCenter Log Insight
29 vRealize Codestream 1.0
new management product for DevOps streamlines & automates software delivery governance and visibility across release process rapid & reliable push out of frequent software releases
30 vRealize Air Automation
vCloud Automation Center as a SaaS offering
not a replacement an alternative option
private beta: http://vrealizeair.vmware.com/betaoverview
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vRealize Air Compliance
SaaS based tool quickly report on configuration compliance take proactive action
private beta: http://vrealizeair.vmware.com/betacompliance
32 EVO:RAIL
hyper converged compute, networking, and storage resources Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Inspur, NetOne Systems, SuperMicro 2U 4 node hardware platform . 2 CPU’s 192 GB RAM 16 TB via VSAN
33 EVO:RAIL
hardware vendor HW & SW Support wizard-based simple configuration 15 minute build
http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/25/vmware-marvin-comes-alive-evorail-hyper- converged-infrastructure-appliance/
34 EVO:RAIL
EVO:RAIL software includes: deployment, configuration and management vSphere Enterprise Plus VSAN storage vCenter Server Log Insight comes with vCloud Air disaster recovery
35 VMware Integrated OpenStack
on-premises private cloud, OpenStack API running on vSphere
Nova (compute mgmt), Neutron (networking), Cinder (block level storage) & Glance (images / templates) drivers through to vSphere beta: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/openstack
36 VMware Integrated OpenStack
VIO= open source OpenStack code+tools delivered as OVA=management appliance object in the vSphere Web Client
uses tenant/resource clusters as resource pools made available to AppDev teams Log Insight OpenStack Content Pack beta: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/openstack
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Docker, Pivotal And Google
container support to vSphere run a container within a VM and not or vSphere and and vCloud Air Kubernetes container management to enterprises collaboration on libsware, libcontainer and libchan pod based Open vSwitch networking with Kubernetes containers for semi-trusted workload VMs for untrusted workloads VMware Warden: Cloud Foundry to Docker http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/concepts/architecture/warden.html
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/vmware-partners-with-docker-pivotal-and- google-to-bring-container-support-to-its-platform/
38 End User Computing
VMware Workspace Suite NVIDIA tech preview of GRID vGPU VMware, NVIDIA and Google Collaboration Horizon Flex CloudVolumes Project Fargo=VMFork Project Meteor Horizon DaaS Enterprise
39 End User Computing
40 VMware Workspace Suite
contains: Horizon 6 Enterprise AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management AirWatch Secure Content Locker Workspace Portal
http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/08/introducing-vmware-workspace-suite.html
41 NVIDIA GRID vGPU
tech preview multiple VMs share single GPU 3D graphics and high perfvideo VM graphics passed through to GPU without translation
sign-up: http://www.nvidia.com/object/vmw are-vgpu-early-access.html
42 next gen VMware Blast and NVIDIA GRID vGPU on Chromebook
http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/08/vmware-nvidia-google-working-together- deliver-graphics-rich-applications-enterprise-cloud-desktops.html
43 Horizon Flex
containerised Policy-Based Desktops offline VDI/DaaS with centralised mgmt don't need View or vSphere Deliver secure desktops via network or USB
http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/announcing-horizon-flex/
44 Horizon Flex
Mirage for Horizon FLEX - image and layer management Horizon FLEX Client - VMware Fusion/Player Pro/ Workstation Horizon Plex Policy Server use of USB Devices, copy and paste, drag and drop, expiration dates, remote lock
http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/announcing-horizon-flex/
45 Cloud Volumes
now AppVolumes app layering stored as VMDK/VHD apps not installed no copying of data disks with installed apps added to VM while running VM fooled into thinking apps installed desktop/server, windows/linux http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/welcoming-new-member-vmware-family- cloudvolumes/
46 Project Fargo=VMFork rapidly clone a running VM under a second parent VM quiesced and forked, child VM is born uses disk and memory of parent for reads networking to give it new MAC fudge AD copy on write for deltas
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2014/10/07/project-fargo-aka-vmfork-what-is-it/ http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4921.jpg
47 Project Meteor
Fargo + Cloud (App) Volumes
Just in Time Desktops
user login fork a clean base win7/8/10? desktop appVolumes delivers apps http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/inspired-mobility/
48 VMware Horizon DaaS
cloud hosted desktops on vCloud Air - US and GB DaaS platform for Service Providers introduction of VMware Horizon DaaS Enterprise monthly billing HTML Access for desktops on Chrome and Safari
http://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-air-desktops/features.html
49 VMware Workspace Portal 2.1
single virtual appliance architecture 30 minutes guided install additional VA’s can be scaled out as necessary new dashboard Workspace application entitlements to AirWatch users
http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/09/introducing-vmware-workspace-portal-2-1.html
50 EUC.therest
vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon v1.7 Horizon vCO plugin for vCAC ThinApp 5.1
51 VMware CTO Stand - R&D
Congress for Openstack unleashing Agile IT, Openstack policy engine http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4922.jpg
Auto-Scaling Cloud Applications Using Machine Learning learn application behaviour, scale up or right size http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4918.jpg
Automated Management of “Sick” VMs for Cloud Applications machine learning sick VM detection, future mitigation http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4920.jpg
52 VMFork, A Fresh Approach to Application Publishing http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4921.jpg
Network Function Virtualisation Enabling cloud infrastructure for telecommunications networks http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_49191.jpg
Virtualised High Performance Computing Scientific and Engineering Agility http://www.wooditwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_4923.jpg
53 vSphere 6 Beta Announcements
tech preview, public beta, NDA
54 vSphere 6 Beta Announcements 64 hosts in cluster 320+ pCPUs, 6TB RAM VMs up to 128 vCPUs and 4TB RAM
SMP vCPU FT up to 4 x vCPUs and 64GB RAM http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-faul
vMotion across VC, VDS, Long Distance http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats- new-vsphere-6-0-vmotion/
55 vSphere 6 Beta Announcements
Virtual Datacenter http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0- virtual-data-center/ Policy Based Management
56 vSphere 6 Beta Announcements
Content Library http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/27/whats-new- vsphere-6-0-content-library/ vCenter Platform Services Controller http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/27/whats-new-vsphere- 6-0-vcenter-esxi/ Enhanced Linked Mode Web Client performance / enhancement Network aware DRS placement and more….
57 Virtual Volumes per VM storage Vendor Provider (VP): data ops mgmt policy driven (like VSAN) Storage Containers (SC): data capacity mgmt NFS/iSCSI/FT – who cares? Protocol Endpoints (PE): access mgmt
http://www.wooditwork.com/2014/08/26/whats-new-vsphere-6-0-virtual-volumes/
58 VSAN 2.0 Beta
all flash VSAN Virsto snapshot and clone integration JBOD for blades 64 host cluster
59 Certification
VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV) new=classroom requirement existing VCP=overview+labs convert from CCNA (back-door) http://www.pkguild.com/2014/11/the-vcp-nv-is-your-ticket-to-escaping-the- vcp-class-requirement-for-vcp-dcv/
VMware Certified Professional – (VCP-NV) VMware Certified Implementation Expert – (VCIX-NV) VMware Certified Design Expert — (VCDX-NV) Network Virtualisation = NV
60 61 62 63 Next year
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The unofficial lowdown on everything announced at VMworld
@julian_wood
WoodITWork.com
18th November 2014 #UKVMUG