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VMware vSphere 6
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Platform Features
– Increased vSphere Maximums
Up to 4X Scale Improvement with vSphere 6
vSphere 5.5
vSphere 6
Hosts per Cluster
32
64
2x
VMs per Cluster
4,000
8,000
2x
CPUs per Host
320
480
1.5x
RAM per Host
4 TB
12 TB
3x
VMs per Host
512
1,024
2x
Virtual CPUs per VM
64
128
2x
Virtual RAM per VM
1 TB
4 TB
4x
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Platform Features - Virtual Machine
Compatibility ESXi 6 (vHW 11)
ESXi 6 Supports:
•128 vCPUs
•4 TB RAM
•Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware
•WDDM 1.1 GDI acceleration features
•xHCI 1.0 controller compatible with OS X 10.8+ xHCI driver
•Serial and parallel port enhancements
–A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports
–Serial and parallel ports can now be removed
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Platform Features - GPU Acceleration
Enhancements
•New Support for Intel GPUs
–vmklinux driver
–Driver provided by Intel
•Expanded NVIDIA support
–NVIDIA GRID vGPU.
–Native driver
–Driver provided by NVIDIA
Note: GPU cards assigned to VMs must not be used by the ESX console.
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vSphere 6 with Operations
Management Edition Line-up 1
vSphere with Operations Management
New feature in Q1 2015
Price (per CPU, license only)
Standard
Enterprise
Enterprise+
$1,745
$3,625
$4,245
Features
•Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics
•Capacity Management and Optimization
•Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis
•High Availability, and Fault Tolerance
2 vCPU
SMP-FT
2 vCPU
SMP-FT
•vMotion, X-Switch vMotion, and Storage vMotion
•Data Protection (VDP)2 / and VM Data Replication
•vShield Endpoint
•Virtual Volumes and Storage-Policy Based Management3
•APIs for Storage Awareness
•Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management
•Big Data Extensions
•Reliable Memory
•APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing
•Distributed Switch
•Storage DRS
•I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV
•Host Profiles and Auto Deploy
•Flash Read Cache
•X-VC and Long Distance vMotion
•Multi-VC Content Library
•vGPU
1
All reference pricing above is suggested MSRP for the US, in USD. Regional prices will vary, please refer to regional pricing resources.
Advanced backup features (app-aware agents, replication, integration with Data Domain, etc.) are now available in VDP
3 Storage Policy-Based Management provides the same functionality as Profile-Driven Storage, but has been renamed to reflect a complete policydriven engine
2
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vCenter Server 6.0 Features
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vCenter Server Features
- Enhanced Capabilities
•Scalability supported by both Windows
Install and vCenter Server appliance.
•Windows install supports Postgres and
External SQL and Oracle DBs.
Metric
Windows
Appliance
Hosts per VC
1,000
1,000
Powered-On VMs per VC
10,000
10,000
Hosts per Cluster
64
64
VMs per Cluster
8,000
8,000
✔
✔
Linked Mode
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•vCSA supports embedded Postgres and
external Oracle DBs.
vCenter Server 6.0
- Platform Services Controller
Platform Services Controller
Platform Services Controller
includes takes it beyond just
Single Sign-On. It groups:
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Licensing
Certificate Authority
Two Deployment Models:
•Embedded
vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller in one virtual
machine
- Recommended for small deployments where there is less then two SSO integrated solutions
•External
vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller in their own virtual
machines
- Recommended for most deployments where there are two or more SSO integrated solutions
vCenter
PSC
vCenter
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vCenter Server 6.0 - Certificate Lifecycle
Management for vCenter and ESXi
New vCenter Server solutions for complete certificate lifecycle
management:
VMware Certificate
Authority (VMCA)
VMware Endpoint
Certificate Service (VECS)
•Provisions each ESXi host, each vCenter Server and vCenter Server service
with certificates that are signed by VMCA
•Stores all certificates and private keys for vCenter Server and vCenter Server services
•Managing VECS is done via vecs-cli
While you can decide not to use VMCA in your certificate chain, you must use VECS to store all
certificates, and keys for vCenter Server and services.
All ESXi certificates are stored locally on the host.
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vCenter Server 6.0 Cross vSwitch vMotion
vCenter Server
•Transparent operation to the guest OS
•Works across different types of virtual switches
–vSS to vSS
–vSS to vDS
–vDS to vDS
•Requires L2 network connectivity
–Does not change the IP of the VM
•Transfers vDS port metadata
vMotion
vMotion
Network
vDS A
vDS B
VM Network
(L2 Connectivity)
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vCenter Server 6.0
- Cross vCenter vMotion
•Simultaneously changes
–Compute
–Storage
–Network
–vCenter
•vMotion without shared storage
•Increased scale
–Pool resources across vCenter servers
•Targeted topologies
–Local
–Metro
–Intra-Continental
vCenter Server
vCenter Server
vMotion
vMotion
Network
vDS A
vDS B
VM Network
(L2 Connectivity)
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vCenter Server 6.0
- Long Distance vMotion
•Intra-continental distances – up to 150ms RTTs
•Maintain standard vMotion guarantees
•Does not require VVOLs, but supported
•Replication Support
–Active/Active only
•Synchronous
•Asynchronous
•Use Cases:
–Permanent migrations
–Disaster avoidance
–Multi-site load balancing
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vCenter Server 6.0
– vMotion Requirements
Requirements
•ESX & vCenter 6.0+ at both
source and destination
•SSO Domain
–Same SSO domain to use
the UI
–Different SSO domain
possible if using API
•250 Mbps network bandwidth
per vMotion operation
–Unchanged from
previous versions
•L2 network connectivity on VM
network portgroups
–IP addresses are retained
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Features
•VM UUID maintained across vCenter server instances
–Not the same as MoRef or BIOS UUID
•Data Preservation
–Events, Alarms, and Tasks History
•HA/DRS Settings
•Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules
•Automation level
•Start-up priority
•Host isolation response
–VM Resource Settings
•Shares
•Reservations
•Limits
–MAC Address of virtual NIC
•MAC Addresses preserved across vCenters
–Always unique within a vCenter
–Not reused when VM leaves vCenter
vCenter Server 6.0
- Content Library Overview
•Simple content management
–VM templates
–vApps
–ISO images
–Scripts
•Store and manage content
–One central location to manage all
content
•Beyond templates within vCenter
–Support for other file types
•Share content
–Store once, share many times
•Publish/Subscribe
–vCenter -> vCenter
–vCloud Director -> vCenter
•Consume content
–Deploy templates to a host or a cluster
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vCenter Server 6.0
- vSphere Web Client
•Usability Improvements
–Can get anywhere in one click
–Right click menu has been
flattened
–Recent tasks are back at the
bottom
–Dockable UI
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vSphere 6.0 Networking
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vCenter Server 6.0
-Multiple TCP/IP Stacks
•vMotion network will cross L3 boundaries
•vMotion & NFC network can now use it’s own TCP/IP stack
vCenter
Management
Network
vCenter
VM
Network
ESXi
ESXi
NFC
Network
vMotion
Network
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vSphere 6.0 Storage
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Storage IO Control & Storage
DRS enhancements
•Storage DRS is now aware of storage capabilities
through VASA 2.0
VASA
–Array-based thin-provisioning
–Array-based deduplication
–Array-based auto-tiering
–Array-based snapshot
•Storage DRS Integration with
•Site Recovery Manager
Datastore Cluster
Vendor Provider
–Aware of consistency groups!
•vSphere Replication full support
•(replica awareness)
Capabilities
Thin Provisioned
•Set IOps reservation on a per disk basis
•using the API
Deduplication
Auto-Tiering
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vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance
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vSphere 6.0 VMware Fault Tolerance
Additional new features
Benefits
Enhanced virtual disk format support
Ability to hot configure FT
Greatly increased FT host compatibility
Protect mission critical, high performance applications
regardless of OS; No application-specific management and
learning
Continuous availability – zero downtime and zero data
loss for infrastructure failures; no loss of TCP connections
Fully automated response
Instantaneous
Failover
Fast Checkpointing
Sync
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4 vCPU
4 vCPU
Primary
Secondary
Primary
ESXi
ESXi
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vSphere 6.0 vSphere Replication
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vSphere 6.0
-VMware vSphere Replication
•End-to-end network compression
–Further reduces bandwidth requirements
•Network traffic isolation
–Controls bandwidth, improves performance
–and security
Host Mgmt
LAN
vmknic0
VR Traffic
WAN
vmknic1
•Linux file system quiescing
–Increased reliability when recovering Linux VMs
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