VMworld 2012 Recap

VMworld 2012 Recap

Introduction

Christopher Kusek – cxi@pkguild.com

Blog: pkguild.com @cxi Twitter

Agenda

What was announced

Some things you should know…

What was mentioned A LOT

Q/A – Open Discussion

What was announced

vSphere 5.1• Over 100 new features

• And…

vSphere 5.1

Support for 64 vCPUs with 1TB of Memory

vSphere 5.1

Zero Downtime Upgrade for VMware Tools*

vSphere 5.1

Enhanced vMotion without shared storage*• Transported over network using vMotion vmkernel

• Hosts must be managed by same vCenter Server

• Hosts must be part of same Datacenter

• Hosts must be on the same layer-2 network (and same switch if VDS is used)

• Hosts must have the same CPU or have the same EVC baseline (like for the vMotion

across clusters)

• Enhanced vMotion is a manual process

• DRS and SDRS do not leverage enhanced vMotion

vSphere 5.1

All new vSphere Web Client

All New Bundle Pricing!

vCloud Upgrade Promotion!

Available from September 10, 2012, through

11:59PM PT on December 15, 2012

What you should know

Top 10 Sessions at VMworld• VMware vSphere HA Recommendations to Maximize Virtual Machine Uptime

• VMware vSphere Distributed Switch—Technical Deep Dive

• vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices

• Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure

• vSphere Performance Best Practices

• DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions

• VMware vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices

• Tracking Down Storage Performance Issues: A Customer’s Perspective

• What's New and What's Next for VMware View

• Avoiding the 19 Biggest HA & DRS Configuration Mistakes - 2012 Edition

VMUG Advantage now with…

VMUG Advantage includes access to all

VMworld Session content and labs!*

*Until Dec 31 2012

Everything is all about the SDDC

The Software Defined Data Center

Announcing the vCAT 3.0!!!

New API Extensions vCloud Director 5.1

Horizon is ON the Horizon!

Horizon is ON the Horizon!

Running AWS workloads on vCD

Using jClouds.org and Cinderella.io

vBlob

VM storage

Cinderella

EC2 to vCloudCredential

Mapping Table

vCloud API

S3 API EC2 API

What was mentioned a LOT

Nicira and SW-Defined Network Virtualization

VXLAN has gone GA!!!!

Dynamic Ops and the Cloud Automation Suite

vCenter Operations (vCOPS)

Storage Preview and Yellow Bricks

*Cloud was almost not mentioned at all!*

Wrap-Up

Questions?

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