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Why Dell and VMware?
Greg Ladwig
ASG Virtualization Specialist
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Enterprise Strategy
Standardize core elements of the datacenter to deliver superior value
Simplify
Operations
Reduced number of
management tools
Image, component
commonality
Easier SAN
implementation
Improve
Utilization
Clustering for
availability and
performance
Consolidated and
virtualized resources
Tiered storage
Cost-Effective
Scaling
Modular, pay as you
grow approach
Supply chain
excellence
Latest, innovative
technology
From departmental workloads, to core infrastructures, to datacenter environments
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VMware on Dell - Value Proposition
VMware Virtual Infrastructure delivers on Dell’s Scalable Enterprise Strategy
• Dell’s VMware virtualization solutions, on Dell PowerEdge
Servers and shared Dell/EMC Storage, provide:
– Price/performance
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4P vs. 8P servers
Expansion Flexibility
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Pay as you grow
Risk Mitigation
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Lessen the impact of hardware failure
Business continuity VMotion and HA
Operational Flexibility
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Enabled through VMotion and DRS
Improved Customer Experience
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Single point of contact for purchase, support
Simplified Installation: Dell and VMware have collaborated
to streamline ESX installation on Dell systems.
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Why Dell and VMware?
• Dell testing and validation of VMware OEM products
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Extremely rigorous and in-depth level of testing; more extensive than
VMware
Dell engineers work together with VMware engineers to ensure that critical
components like RAID cards, HBA's, NICs, and other components work prior
to release
VMware engineers on site at Dell; Dell has team of engineers dedicated to
VMware
Joint core teams to ensure future roadmaps and interoperability interlocks
with Dell storage, servers, OpenManage, and other teams.
• Dell OpenManage and VMware VMotion - working together to
provide Fault Tolerance & Business Continuity
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Online at www.dell.com/vmware
Articles featured in past issues of PowerSolutions
Solution - fully scripted SDK that moves virtual machines from one server to
another in the event of a server failure - completely automated -- while the
virtual machines are live and running client sessions
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Three Levels of Quality Assurance
VMware
Qualification
Team
EMC eLab
Configurations Tested by VMware
Configurations Tested by
VMware and EMC
Configurations Tested
by VMware, EMC,
And Dell
Dell Scalable
Enterprise
Engineering Team
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Why Dell and VMware?
• Dell offers core VMware enterprise products direct from the
factory; Dell servers are available custom configured and ship to the
customer typically within 5 working days
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VI 3 Standard and Enterprise
Virtual Center Management Server
Dell Server Factories in Austin, EMEA, Brazil, and China are shipping VMware
Synchronized Testing and Certification release schedule
• Dell offers the complete VMware portfolio of products through Dell
Software and Peripherals (S&P)
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Dell can offer any VMware product through S&P
License upgrades and renewals can be processed through Dell S&P
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There are no OEM upgrade SKU’s available
Purchase of VMware products through S&P includes direct VMware support and
subscription
Additional DPS, VMware professional service, and training offerings are available
through Dell S&P
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Why Dell and VMware?
• Dell Gold support handles OEM VMware issues
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One call to solve issues on VMware OEM products on Dell servers
Dell GOLD support allows Dell to support the entire stack - from hardware to
ESX to the guest operating system
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Dell offers full support for Microsoft operating systems within virtual machines
Dell GOLD proficient at L1/L2 issues
Seamless involvement with VMware as needed for L3 issues (code, bug fixes)
• Dell has several VMware Certified Professionals (VCP's) on staff in the
field, within DPS, on the NOS Queue, and in training departments
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VMware is one of the top 2 requested briefings in our technology centers
• Dell offers a complete set of VMware services through Dell
Professional Services (DPS)
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Virtual Readiness Assessments (VRA)
Custom deployments and implementations
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Sample of DPS Packaged Services for VMware
TYPE OF ENGAGEMENT
DAYS
SOLUTION PROVIDED
VI 3 Server FastStart
2 days
Proof of Concept or New to ESX
VirtualCenter FastStart
2 days
Proof of Concept or New to VirtualCenter
Management Server
P2V Server FastStart
2 days
Proof of Concept or New to Physical to
Virtual Migrations
FastStart Combination
(ESX/VirtualCenter/ P2V)
1 week
Interested in the combined capabilities of the
virtual infrastructure
VMware POC
2 weeks
Interested in proving out specific business
objectives or functionality
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www.dell.com/vmware
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Questions?
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VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI 3)
What is it?
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VMware Infrastructure 3 Editions
Starter
Standard
Enterprise
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$1,000
$3,750
$5,750
$675 / $805
21% / 25%
21% / 25%
ESX Server 3
• NAS or local storage (license
restricted)
• Limited to servers with
– up to 4 physical
CPU (license restricted)
– up to 8GB physical
memory (EULA
restricted)
VirtualCenter Agent
VMFS
Virtual SMP
VMotion
HA
DRS
Consolidated Backup
Price per 2 processors
SnS Gold / Platinum
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ESX Server
Deploy multiple virtual machines on a single physical server
• What is it?
– Robust, production-proven
Virtual Machines
virtualization layer that
resources into multiple virtual
machines
• Benefits
– Increase hardware utilization
ESX Server
Physical Server
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by sharing hardware
resources across a large
number of virtual machines.
Improve service levels to
applications
• Delivers the highest levels
of performance, scalability
and robustness
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Network Virtualization
Network virtual machines like physical ones
Virtual Machines
ESX Server
• Build complex networks within an
ESX server or across multiple
ESX servers
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Virtual NIC
Virtual Switch
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Teamed Physical NICs
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Virtual NICs with its own IP and
MAC address make virtual
machines indistinguishable from
physical machines
NIC Teaming groups 2-10 physical
NICs to form a highly redundant
network device
Virtual LANs (VLANs) on top of
physical LANs increase security
and balance network traffic
Virtualization for Storage
Store virtual machine files on shared storage for greater
manageability, flexibility and availability
Virtual Machines
• Virtual machines see their
ESX
Server
ESX
Server
ESX
Server
ESX
Server
own private virtual disk files
–Virtual machine disks can be
Servers
stored on local or shared
storage
–Virtual disks are simply large
Storage
A.vmdk
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files that can be copied,
moved, archived and backed
up as easily as any other file.
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New – Support for NAS and iSCSI SAN
Extend the benefits of virtualization to cost sensitive “edge”
environments like remote office
Data
Center
• Extensions for cost-
Fibre
Channel
SAN
sensitive environments:
NAS, iSCSI SAN
• VMotion, HA, DRS
Remote
Office
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• NAS
• iSCSI
supported on NAS and
iSCSI SAN
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New – Faster, Bigger Virtual Machines
Run the most resource intensive enterprise applications such as
databases, CRM and ERP applications in a virtual machines
• Expanded memory,
storage, network limits; up
to 4 virtual CPUs per
virtual machines
• Performance
improvements across the
board
• Up to 50% better for
targeted workloads
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New – 4-Way Virtual SMP
Virtualize the most processor intensive applications
Virtual Machines
• What does it do?
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ESX Server
Virtual SMP
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Allows single virtual machine to
use up to four physical
processors simultaneously
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Run resource intensive
applications in virtual machines
Scale computing environments
without adding new hardware
Create realistic development and
testing environments
Virtual Machine Provisioning and Migration
Provision infrastructure instantly
• Deployment Wizard
• New – Redesigned virtual machine
templates
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Support easy virtual machine patching
and updating by converting to VMs,
powering-on, and then re-instating as
templates
Templates are always stored in a VMFS
or NAS (no longer on VC)
• Virtual machine cloning
• Cold migration
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Drag and drop
• Live migration with VMotion
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Vmware VMotion™
Migrate running virtual machine from one server to another
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Zero downtime
Continuous service availability
Complete transaction integrity.
New – VMotion support on NAS and
iSCSI storage
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New - VMware HA
Cost effective high availability for all servers
• Automatic restart of virtual
machines in case of server
failure
• No need for dedicated
X
stand-by hardware
• None of the cost and
complexity of clustering
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New - VMware DRS
Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources to the
highest priority virtual machines to ensure optimal alignment
between business and IT
• Align IT resources with business
priorities
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Dynamically allocate resource to
virtual machines.
• Dramatically increase system
administrator productivity
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Enable system administrators to
manage more resources
• Automate hardware maintenance
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Maintenance mode automatically
migrates all virtual machines to
other physical servers.
New - VMware Consolidated Backup
Centralized file level backup
• Move backup out of the virtual
machine
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a single agent running on the
proxy server rather than an agent
on every virtual machine.
• Eliminate backup traffic on the
local area network
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Utilize Fibre Channel tape devices
for virtual machine backups
• Pre-integrated with major 3rdparty backup products
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