VMworld 2013
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
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VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Architecture Deep DiveVMworld
This document provides an overview of Virtual SAN (VSAN) including:
- VSAN aggregates local flash and HDDs across ESXi hosts into a shared datastore for VMs. It provides software-defined storage that is integrated with VMware's stack.
- VSAN's goals are to provide compelling TCO through reduced CAPEX/OPEX and be the software-defined storage for all VMware products through strong integration.
- The document discusses VSAN architecture, deployment, scaling, performance, resiliency, and management.
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Best Practices and Use CasesVMworld
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on VMware Virtual SAN. It discusses key features of Virtual SAN including its software-defined storage approach and hybrid storage using SSD and HDD. Several use cases are reviewed like virtual desktop infrastructure, remote office/branch office, and DMZ/isolated environments. Best practices are also covered for various use cases around sizing, policies, and ready nodes. The document aims to introduce attendees to Virtual SAN capabilities and considerations for different deployment scenarios.
VMworld Europe 2014: A DevOps Story - Unlocking the Power of Docker with the ...VMworld
This document discusses new technologies that are currently under development by VMware and subject to change. It provides an overview of trends in development practices, containers, and DevOps. It then summarizes VMware's approach to supporting containers and DevOps workflows through tools that integrate building, running, and managing containerized applications across the application lifecycle. A new technology called Project Fargo is introduced that allows for rapid cloning of virtual machines for improved provisioning and portability of applications.
VMworld Europe 2014: Top 10 Do’s / Don’ts of Data Protection For VMware vSphereVMworld
The document discusses new VMware technologies that are under development and subject to change, with features that may or may not be delivered in products depending on technical feasibility and market demand, and pricing has not been determined. It then provides an overview of VMware vSphere Replication capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery. The remainder of the document outlines best practices, configurations, and limitations for different transport modes when using VMware vSphere Replication.
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtualizing Databases Doing IT Right – The SequelVMworld
This document provides disclaimers and information about upcoming product features that may change. It states that any new features discussed are not commitments and are subject to change based on technical feasibility and market demand. Pricing and packaging for new technologies have not been determined. The document then introduces two speakers and their backgrounds working with databases and virtualization.
VMworld 2015: Conducting a Successful Virtual SAN Proof of ConceptVMworld
In this session, Cormac Hogan and Julienne Pham of VMware take a comprehensive look at the setup, policy management, failure handling, and monitoring tools needed to perform a successful Proof of Concept. This session empowered attendees to go and implement their own VSAN POCs.
VMworld Europe 2014: A Blueprint for Disaster Recovery of Business Critical A...VMworld
This presentation discussed disaster recovery solutions for business critical applications using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). SRM supports various replication technologies including vSphere Replication, array-based replication, and application-consistent replication options like Oracle Data Guard. SRM automates the failover and failback of virtual machines in protection groups between sites using recovery plans. A demo showed configuring an SAP environment for disaster recovery with SRM and vSphere Replication, including performing a test failover recovery. Another section demonstrated using SRM for a planned migration of VMs from an on-premises data center to a cloud provider.
STO7535 Virtual SAN Proof of Concept - VMworld 2016Cormac Hogan
This document provides an overview of tools that can help administrators successfully conduct a Virtual SAN proof of concept. It discusses the Virtual SAN Health Check plugin, capacity views, performance service, HCIbench, and Virtual SAN Observer for monitoring and validating Virtual SAN configurations. Validation scenarios covered include successfully deploying Virtual SAN, deploying VMs on VSAN storage, VM availability during host and storage failures, and measuring rebuild activity.
VMworld Europe 2014: Customer Panel - Going Beyond Server VirtualizationVMworld
This document provides an overview of new VMware technologies for small and midsize businesses and outlines the agenda for the presentation, including:
1. Solutions beyond server virtualization
2. A customer panel discussing how they virtualized, automated, and connected their infrastructure
3. A question and answer session
4. Next steps
The presentation notes that 65 million servers worldwide are already virtualized and that VMware aims to simplify IT for small and midsize businesses through automating management, enabling connectivity and access from any device, and virtualizing servers and desktops.
This presentation discusses storage solutions for VMware Horizon View environments. It begins with several tips for evaluating storage needs such as performing an assessment of the current environment. Various storage technologies are then compared, including virtual SAN, all-flash arrays, and hybrid arrays. VMware Virtual SAN is discussed in more detail as a simple, hyper-converged solution that provides high performance. The presentation concludes with considerations for using all-flash arrays with Horizon View to provide consistent high performance for virtual desktop infrastructures.
This document provides an overview and update on the latest NSX network virtualization capabilities from VMware. It discusses both current NSX features such as physical network integration, encapsulations, service chaining, and multi-site network virtualization as well as potential future directions. Key points covered include using Geneve as a tunneling protocol, handling elephant flows, and challenges around multi-site network virtualization across geographically dispersed data centers.
VMworld 2013: Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of E...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Alberto Farronato, VMware
Vijay Ramachandran, VMware
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Dell Technologies è un’esclusiva famiglia di aziende che offre alle organizzazioni l’infrastruttura necessaria per costruire il loro futuro digitale, favorire l’IT Transformation e proteggere le loro risorse più importanti: le informazioni.
In particolare per il settore dell’Education di livello superiore, Dell EMC ha studiato un catalogo di soluzioni in aree quali:
Converged Infrastructure
Storage e Protection dei dati
Servizi di didattica digitale
In questo ciclo di webinar illustreremo le soluzioni Dell EMC più all'avanguardia, attualmente oggetto di studio da parte della Fondazione CRUI per un possibile contratto in convenzione.
Scaling xen desktop and xenapp with solid state drives in healthcareIntel® Software
Kaiser Permanente implemented solid-state drives to address storage bottlenecks in their virtualized Citrix XenApp environment hosting critical healthcare applications. SSDs enabled Kaiser to scale their XenApp deployment, supporting over 100,000 concurrent users on virtual desktops and applications while lowering costs. Kaiser's analysis showed SSDs allowed hosting up to 6 virtual machines per server compared to 2 with HDDs, reducing their cost per user by up to 30%. SSD performance freed access to data and kept up with the increasing demands of their virtualized environment.
VMworld Europe 2014: What’s New in End User Computing: Full Desktop Automatio...VMworld
This document discusses integrating VMware's cloud orchestration and desktop virtualization products. It begins with an agenda for the presentation and then discusses the goal of using cloud and automation to enable organizations. It describes how integrating vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and VMware Horizon View can provide workflow control, approval tracking, and self-service for end users and delegated administrators. The rest of the document covers prerequisites, configuring workflows in vCenter Orchestrator, lessons learned, and frequently asked questions about the integration.
Presentation architecting a cloud infrastructurexKinAnx
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on architecting a cloud infrastructure. The agenda includes introductions, gathering requirements, sizing and scaling, host design, vCenter design, cluster design, networking and storage considerations. It emphasizes the importance of gathering requirements from customers and conceptualizing the design based on those requirements. It also discusses various design considerations and best practices for each component of a cloud infrastructure.
VMworld 2015: The Future of Software- Defined Storage- What Does it Look Like...VMworld
The document discusses the future of software-defined storage in 3 years. It predicts that storage media will continue to advance with higher capacities and lower latencies using technologies like 3D NAND and NVDIMMs. Networking and interconnects like NVMe over Fabrics will allow disaggregated storage resources to be pooled and shared across servers. Software-defined storage platforms will evolve to provide common services for distributed data platforms beyond just block storage, with advanced data placement and policy controls to optimize different workloads.
VMworld 2013: Virtualization Rookie or Pro: Why vSphere is Your Best ChoiceVMworld
VMworld 2013
Eric Horschman, VMware
Jeff Margolese, VMware
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VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Business Decisio...VMware
VMware's Virtual SAN 6.0 software enables software-defined storage using the hypervisor. It provides a simplified storage solution that pools server-side storage and manages it through storage policies at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN delivers high performance, scale, and availability while reducing costs through server-side economics and linear scalability. It is well-integrated with the VMware software stack and supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and disaster recovery.
VMworld 2013: VMware vSphere High Availability - What's New and Best PracticesVMworld
VMworld 2013
Keith Farkas, VMware
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Jeff Hunter, VMware
Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution from VMware that radically simplifies storage. It pools server-attached flash, SSD, and HDD storage and manages it through storage policies from the vSphere client. VSAN is integrated with vSphere and provides high performance, resilience against hardware failures, and linear scalability. It can reduce both capital and operating expenses compared to traditional external storage arrays.
This document provides an overview of VMware Virtual SAN 6.0, including:
- Virtual SAN can be deployed with a hybrid or all-flash architecture to provide high performance.
- Virtual SAN is embedded in the vSphere kernel for simple management and integration.
- Virtual SAN 6.0 provides 4x performance, 2x scale, and new features like snapshots and encryption.
- Case studies show Virtual SAN can reduce storage costs by 60% and management time by 90%.
Accelerate Your Sales with Application-Centric Storage-as-a-Service Using VMw...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 provides major enhancements including 4x higher performance, 2x greater scale, and new enterprise data services. It allows for up to 90,000 IOPS per host, scaling to 64 nodes with 200 VMs per host and 62TB maximum virtual disk sizes. Virtual SAN 6.0 also delivers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness, and hardware-based checksum and encryption. It provides broader hardware support including expanded support for blades. Virtual SAN 6.0 is ready to support business critical applications with an all-flash architecture providing data persistence on SSD and intelligent caching.
PeaSoup, a VMware vCloud Air Network partner, adopted Virtual SAN to address challenges with traditional storage including
VMworld 2013: Lowering TCO for Virtual Desktops with VMware View and VMware V...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Jad Chamcham, VMware
Narasimha Krishnakumar, VMware, view, vsan, tco
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VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 includes the following new features and improvements:
1. Increased performance and scalability with support for up to 64 hosts and 9,000 components per host. Virtual machines can now have VMDKs up to 62TB in size.
2. Enhanced all-flash and hybrid architectures with new caching architectures that deliver up to 90,000 IOPS per host.
3. Usability improvements like default storage policies, visualization of storage utilization in policies, and a resynchronization status dashboard.
4. Failure resilience enhancements such as fault domains that account for failures across racks, and proactive rebalancing to leverage new nodes.
VMware EVO - Fremtidens datarom er hyperkonvergertKenneth de Brucq
Dell Solutions Tour 2014 Norge
Roger Samdal, VMware
Med Dell PowerEdge 13G servere, VMware VSAN og NSX kan du realisere et fullstendig programvare definert datasenter, der all infrastruktur er virtualisert og kjører på industristandard x86 servere. Enkelt, fleksibelt og høy ytelse til halve prisen.
Dell Solutions Tour 2015 - Programvare erstatter maskinvare, revolusjonen har...Kenneth de Brucq
Programvare kan nå erstatte tradisjonell infrastruktur på datasenteret. Med programvare-definert datalagring og nettverk fra VMware oppnår du stor fleksibilitet, valgfrihet og betydelige besparelser. Vi ser nærmere på nye versjoner av VMware Virtual SAN og NSX, samt EVO:RACK hyperconverged som alle lanseres på VMworld høsten 2015
This document provides an overview and introduction to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses the VSAN architecture which uses SSDs for caching and HDDs for storage. It also covers how VSAN can be configured through storage policies assigned at the VM level. The document outlines how VSAN provides a software-defined storage solution that is hardware agnostic and can elastically scale storage performance and capacity by adding servers and disks.
This document discusses how virtualizing datacenters with VMware and NetApp can accelerate businesses. It provides details on:
- The strong alliance between VMware and NetApp and their joint customers and support.
- Trends showing more business critical applications like databases being virtualized.
- Survey results that show NetApp storage preference growing for virtual server environments.
- How NetApp storage provides the best data protection, efficiency and flexibility for virtual environments.
Presentation v mware cloud infrastructure - success in virtualizationsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview of VMware's cloud infrastructure products and capabilities. It discusses VMware's journey to the cloud model, highlighting cost efficiency, quality of service, and business agility. It then covers the key components and features of vSphere 5, including enhanced compute, storage, network, and application services. Specific capabilities like larger virtual machines, storage I/O controls, and the vSphere storage appliance are summarized. The document concludes by emphasizing how vSphere 5 can accelerate virtualization and help customers achieve their cloud goals.
Track 1 Virtualizing Critical Applications with VMWARE VISPHERE by Roshan ShettyEMC Forum India
Virtualizing Critical Applications with Vsphere 5 provides concise summaries of the key enhancements in vSphere 5 that enable virtualizing even the most critical applications. These include support for larger virtual machines with up to 32 vCPUs, 1TB of RAM and 4x larger sizes. It also improves availability, storage, and network services with features like Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage, and Network I/O Control that provide performance guarantees and help prevent resource starvation issues. The document also highlights how vSphere 5 simplifies infrastructure deployment and management with capabilities such as Auto Deploy, vCenter Server Appliance, and the new Web Client.
VMworld 2013: Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Data CenterVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mark Achtemichuk, VMware
Michael Webster, VMware
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What is coming for VMware vSphere?
Delivered at VMUG DK/UK/BE in November 2014. Session is all about vSphere futures, what can be expected in the near future.
VMworld 2013: Dell Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheetal Kochavara, VMware
Bryan Martin, Dell Inc.
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VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Technical Decisi...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage solution that is built into vSphere and pools flash-based devices and magnetic disks from standard servers into a shared datastore. It delivers high performance, is highly resilient with zero data loss even during hardware failures, and provides a simplified storage management experience through storage policies applied at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and business critical applications through its scale, performance, integration with VMware technologies, and interoperability with solutions such as Horizon View, vSphere Replication, and OpenStack.
This document discusses the Dell EMC VxRAIL appliance, which is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution based on VMware's software-defined storage. It is a preconfigured appliance that can be easily deployed and managed. The appliance uses VMware Virtual SAN for the storage software and can be scaled out by adding additional nodes in a cluster. It offers various configurations to meet different use cases with options for all-flash or hybrid nodes. The document highlights key features of Virtual SAN like quality of service, management tools, deduplication and compression. It also outlines the simplified lifecycle management through automated configuration and non-disruptive scaling of the appliance cluster.
This document discusses VMware's hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solution using VMware vSAN software-defined storage. It begins by describing the limitations of traditional 3-tier architectures and how HCI addresses these by converging compute, storage, and networking. The document then provides details on VMware vSAN, including its features, performance advantages, market adoption rates, and pricing. It positions vSAN and VMware's HCI solution as enabling data center modernization through agility, scale, simplified management, and lower costs.
VMworld 2016: vSphere 6.x Host Resource Deep DiveVMworld
1. This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on vSphere 6.x host resource deep dive topics including compute, storage, and network.
2. It introduces the presenters, Niels Hagoort and Frank Denneman, and provides background on their expertise.
3. The document outlines the topics to be covered under each section, including NUMA, CPU cache, DIMM configuration, I/O queue placement, driver considerations, RSS and NetQueue scaling for networking.
VMworld 2016: Troubleshooting 101 for HorizonVMworld
This document provides an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques for Horizon. It begins with introductions and disclaimers. It then covers defining problems, identifying symptoms, gathering additional information, determining possible causes, identifying the root cause, resolving problems, and documenting solutions. Common troubleshooting tools are discussed, including ESXCLI commands, vSphere CLI commands, and log file locations and contents. Methods for collecting log files from Horizon components like desktops, clients, and servers are also provided.
VMworld 2016: Advanced Network Services with NSXVMworld
NSX provides network virtualization and security services including distributed firewalling, load balancing, and VPN connectivity. It reproduces traditional network and security functions in software throughout the virtual infrastructure for improved performance, agility, and security compared to physical appliances. Over 1700 customers use NSX across various industries, with growth of 100% year-over-year. NSX services can be distributed across hypervisors for massive scalability. The platform also integrates with security and application delivery partners to enhance its native capabilities.
VMworld 2016: How to Deploy VMware NSX with Cisco InfrastructureVMworld
This document provides an overview of how to deploy VMware NSX with Cisco infrastructure, including:
- NSX has minimal requirements of 1600 MTU and IP connectivity and is agnostic to the underlying network topology.
- When using Cisco Nexus switches, VLANs must be configured for various traffic types and SVIs created with consistent IP subnets. Jumbo MTU is required across all links.
- NSX is also compatible with Cisco ACI fabrics using Fabric Path or DFA topologies, with the VXLAN VLAN spanning multiple pods/clusters across the fabric.
VMworld 2016: Enforcing a vSphere Cluster Design with PowerCLI AutomationVMworld
This document discusses enforcing vSphere cluster designs using PowerCLI automation. It provides an overview of vSphere cluster design basics like HA and DRS configurations. It then discusses crafting declarative configurations to define the desired infrastructure state. Infrastructure as code principles are reviewed for managing configurations outside the endpoints. The presentation introduces the Vester project for declaratively configuring vSphere clusters using PowerCLI.
Horizon 7 introduces several new features including just-in-time desktops that instantly provision desktops and applications when users log in using VMware's instant clone technology. It also features smart policies that dynamically change desktop configurations based on user location or device. Infrastructure updates improve scalability and failover capabilities. The user experience is enhanced with support for 3D graphics, new protocols like Blast Extreme for optimized mobile access, and expanded capabilities for hosted applications and RDS desktops.
VMworld 2016: Virtual Volumes Technical Deep DiveVMworld
Virtual Volumes provide a more efficient operational model for external storage management in vSphere. They integrate storage capabilities directly into virtual machines at the individual disk level through Storage Policy-Based Management. This simplifies operations by removing the need for static LUN/volume provisioning and allows storage services to be applied non-disruptively on a per-virtual machine basis according to policies. A key component is the VASA Provider, which is used to publish an array's storage capabilities and manage the creation of VM-level objects called Virtual Volumes on behalf of vSphere.
VMworld 2016: The KISS of vRealize Operations! VMworld
This presentation introduces new features in vRealize Operations 6.3 that simplify operations management. It begins with an overview of the vRealize Operations architecture and dashboard. New features are then demonstrated, including a recommended actions page, cluster resource dashboard, data collection notifications, workload balancing through rebalancing containers, guided remediation through alerts, integration with vRealize Log Insight, capacity management of clusters and projections, and extensibility with management packs. Finally, related VMworld sessions are listed that provide further information on capacity planning, troubleshooting, intelligent operations management, log insight, and network insight.
VMworld 2016: Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI for Your VMware En...VMworld
This document provides an overview and introduction to PowerShell and PowerCLI for managing VMware environments. It discusses what PowerShell and PowerCLI are, important terminology like modules and functions, how to set them up and configure profiles, and examples of how to start coding with PowerShell including gathering data, writing logic statements, and using cmdlets safely. The presenters are introduced and an agenda is provided covering these topics at a high level to get started with PowerShell and PowerCLI.
VMworld 2016: Ask the vCenter Server Exerts PanelVMworld
This document is a disclaimer stating that the presentation may include features still under development and not committed to be delivered in final products. Any features discussed are subject to change based on technical feasibility and market demand, and pricing and packaging have not been determined for any new technologies presented. The document is confidential.
VMworld 2016: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way! VMworld
Virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers provides benefits like increased availability, scalability, and manageability. However, there are some technical challenges to address like ensuring proper time synchronization. This presentation provides best practices for virtualizing domain controllers including using host-guest affinity rules, disabling time synchronization settings, and ensuring the ESXi host clock is correct. It also introduces new "safety" features in Windows Server 2012 like VM GenerationID that help address issues from restoring or reverting snapshots like USN rollback.
VMworld 2016: Migrating from a hardware based firewall to NSX to improve perf...VMworld
Iain Leiter from A.T. Still University discussed their organization's migration from a hardware-based firewall to NSX to improve performance and compliance. Some key advantages of NSX include distributed firewalling for high performance and scalability, pay-as-you-grow flexibility, and advanced security features like microsegmentation. Their deployment process involved installing NSX, defining security groups, building security policies using syslog data from "recon rules", and applying a common services policy. Discoveries included many backdoors, application architecture issues, and the security benefits of microsegmentation.
VMworld 2015: Troubleshooting for vSphere 6VMworld
The document provides an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques for vSphere 6. It discusses gathering diagnostic information, identifying potential causes, and resolving problems. The vSphere ESXi Shell and vCLI commands can be used to troubleshoot issues locally or remotely via SSH. An example troubleshooting process is provided to demonstrate defining a vMotion failure problem, gathering logs, testing connectivity, and resolving an incorrect VMkernel interface IP address.
VMworld 2015: Monitoring and Managing Applications with vRealize Operations 6...VMworld
This year VMware vSphere 6 combined with vRealize Operations 6.1 (vR Ops 6) adds critical features to increase technical agility in the infrastructure, and reduce Mean time to Repair. With a new Automated remediation action framework in vR Ops, vSphere 6’s ability to vMotion Physical Raw Device mappings (RDMs), and a complete Management Pack Ecosystem for monitoring Infrastructure to applications, administrators have the tools needed to get to maintain 5 9’s uptime, shorten Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and predict capacity requirements as and when the business requires.. This session will be a deep technical explanation, and live demonstration of these tools. It will give administrators a solid understanding of how they can use these tools to monitor and manage their application clusters, keep applications running during Infrastructure maintenance, and get deep holistic visibility into the entire Application ecosystem, from Storage to Networking.
VMworld 2015: Advanced SQL Server on vSphereVMworld
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely deployed “apps” in the market today and is used as the database layer for a myriad of applications, ranging from departmental content repositories to large enterprise OLTP systems. Typical SQL Server workloads are somewhat trivial to virtualize; however, business critical SQL Servers require careful planning to satisfy performance, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements. It is the design of these business critical databases that will be the focus of this breakout session. You will learn how build high-performance SQL Server virtual machines through proper resource allocation, database file management, and use of all-flash storage like XtremIO. You will also learn how to protect these critical systems using a combination of SQL Server and vSphere high availability features. For example, did you know you can vMotion shared-disk Windows Failover Cluster nodes? You can in vSphere 6! Finally, you will learn techniques for rapid deployment, backup, and recovery of SQL Server virtual machines using an all-flash array.
VMworld 2015: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!VMworld
Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) allows organizations to deploy a scalable and secure directory service for managing users, resources and applications. Virtualization of ADDS has been supported for many years now, however has required careful management to avoid pitfalls around replication, time management, and access. Windows Server 2012 provides greater support for virtualization by including virtualization-safe features and support for rapid domain controller deployment.
VMworld 2015: Site Recovery Manager and Policy Based DR Deep Dive with Engine...VMworld
Policy based management greatly simplifies the work of IT Administrators making it easy to ensure that applications and VMs receive the resources, protection and functionality required. Learn about the latest enhancements of Site Recovery Manager in this space, which represent a huge step towards providing policy based DR. In this session we'll dive deep into how this approach works and how to work with them.
VMworld 2015: Building a Business Case for Virtual SANVMworld
This presentation discusses building a business case for VMware Virtual SAN. It provides an overview of Virtual SAN and its benefits for customers like choice, integration, cost savings and performance. A case study is presented of how Dominos Pizza implemented Virtual SAN which resulted in roughly 40% lower costs compared to a traditional storage array. The presentation concludes by demonstrating the Virtual SAN assessment tool and various ways customers can try Virtual SAN.
Not content to simply describe the Virtual Volume (VVOL) framework, this session instead examines practical use cases: How different configurations and workloads benefit from VVOLs. Learn how Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) couples with VVOLs to provide VM configuration options not previously available. We demonstrate a handful of real-life scenarios, specifically covering how VVOLs benefits oversubscribed systems, disaster recovery preparation and multi-tenant requirements for customers. Specific configuration options and constraints are covered in detail, including how they work with underlying storage.
Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
GDG Cloud Southlake #34: Neatsun Ziv: Automating AppsecJames Anderson
The lecture titled "Automating AppSec" delves into the critical challenges associated with manual application security (AppSec) processes and outlines strategic approaches for incorporating automation to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. The lecture is structured to highlight the inherent difficulties in traditional AppSec practices, emphasizing the labor-intensive triage of issues, the complexity of identifying responsible owners for security flaws, and the challenges of implementing security checks within CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, it provides actionable insights on automating these processes to not only mitigate these pains but also to enable a more proactive and scalable security posture within development cycles.
The Pains of Manual AppSec:
This section will explore the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manually triaging security issues, including the difficulty of prioritizing vulnerabilities based on their actual risk to the organization. It will also discuss the challenges in determining ownership for remediation tasks, a process often complicated by cross-functional teams and microservices architectures. Additionally, the inefficiencies of manual checks within CI/CD gates will be examined, highlighting how they can delay deployments and introduce security risks.
Automating CI/CD Gates:
Here, the focus shifts to the automation of security within the CI/CD pipelines. The lecture will cover methods to seamlessly integrate security tools that automatically scan for vulnerabilities as part of the build process, thereby ensuring that security is a core component of the development lifecycle. Strategies for configuring automated gates that can block or flag builds based on the severity of detected issues will be discussed, ensuring that only secure code progresses through the pipeline.
Triaging Issues with Automation:
This segment addresses how automation can be leveraged to intelligently triage and prioritize security issues. It will cover technologies and methodologies for automatically assessing the context and potential impact of vulnerabilities, facilitating quicker and more accurate decision-making. The use of automated alerting and reporting mechanisms to ensure the right stakeholders are informed in a timely manner will also be discussed.
Identifying Ownership Automatically:
Automating the process of identifying who owns the responsibility for fixing specific security issues is critical for efficient remediation. This part of the lecture will explore tools and practices for mapping vulnerabilities to code owners, leveraging version control and project management tools.
Three Tips to Scale the Shift Left Program:
Finally, the lecture will offer three practical tips for organizations looking to scale their Shift Left security programs. These will include recommendations on fostering a security culture within development teams, employing DevSecOps principles to integrate security throughout the development
INDIAN AIR FORCE FIGHTER PLANES LIST.pdfjackson110191
These fighter aircraft have uses outside of traditional combat situations. They are essential in defending India's territorial integrity, averting dangers, and delivering aid to those in need during natural calamities. Additionally, the IAF improves its interoperability and fortifies international military alliances by working together and conducting joint exercises with other air forces.
What's Next Web Development Trends to Watch.pdfSeasiaInfotech2
Explore the latest advancements and upcoming innovations in web development with our guide to the trends shaping the future of digital experiences. Read our article today for more information.
AC Atlassian Coimbatore Session Slides( 22/06/2024)apoorva2579
This is the combined Sessions of ACE Atlassian Coimbatore event happened on 22nd June 2024
The session order is as follows:
1.AI and future of help desk by Rajesh Shanmugam
2. Harnessing the power of GenAI for your business by Siddharth
3. Fallacies of GenAI by Raju Kandaswamy
Scaling Connections in PostgreSQL Postgres Bangalore(PGBLR) Meetup-2 - MydbopsMydbops
This presentation, delivered at the Postgres Bangalore (PGBLR) Meetup-2 on June 29th, 2024, dives deep into connection pooling for PostgreSQL databases. Aakash M, a PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Mydbops, explores the challenges of managing numerous connections and explains how connection pooling optimizes performance and resource utilization.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand why connection pooling is essential for high-traffic applications
* Explore various connection poolers available for PostgreSQL, including pgbouncer
* Learn the configuration options and functionalities of pgbouncer
* Discover best practices for monitoring and troubleshooting connection pooling setups
* Gain insights into real-world use cases and considerations for production environments
This presentation is ideal for:
* Database administrators (DBAs)
* Developers working with PostgreSQL
* DevOps engineers
* Anyone interested in optimizing PostgreSQL performance
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VMworld 2013: VMware Virtual SAN
1. VMware Virtual SAN
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
STO5391
#STO5391
2. 2
Agenda
Software Defined Storage
What is Virtual SAN?
Product overview
Software/Hardware Requirements
Use Cases
Customer use-case
Beta
Summary
3. 3
Software-Defined
Data Center
Software-Defined
Storage
SDDC | SDS
All infrastructure is virtualized
and delivered as a service, and
the control of this data center is
entirely automated by software.
Heterogeneous storage resources
are abstracted into logical pools,
consumed and managed through
app-centric policy-based
automation
4. 4
VMware Approach to Software-Defined Storage
Software-Defined Storage
Virtualized Data Plane
Shared
Storage
VM-centric Data Services
Policy-Driven Control Plane
HDDSSD
Server Direct
Attached
Extensible
framework for
ecosystem of VM-
centric data
services.
Common
management model
based on VM-level
policies
Hypervisor-based
pooling of
heterogeneous
storage resources
5. 5
Introducing Virtual SAN (VSAN)
VMware vCenter Server
Product Overview
• Scale out storage built into the
hypervisor
• Software solution - Uses industry
standard components
• Clusters direct attached disks and
flash
• Flash-optimized converged
compute + storage solution
• vSphere integrated management
VMware vSphere
VSAN
6. 6
Introducing Virtual SAN (VSAN)
Features
• Dynamic and capacity
performance scaling
• Shared storage properties
• High Resiliency – Distributed
RAID; No single points of failure
• High Performance – Flash based
read & write cache
• VM-Centric management
• Automated SLA management
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere
VSAN
8. 9
What is Virtual SAN?
vSphere
Distributed Storage
Distributed software built
in the hypervisor
Uses local storage
(Flash, HDD) on ESX
hosts
Converged storage-
compute platform
15. 16
VM-centric storage management
Policies: A set of SLAs to be enforced during the VM’s lifecycle
Storage Policy Specification
Capacity
Tolerate “n” Failures
Availability
Reserve x% Flash
Performance
Reserve 20%
25. 30
Requirements
At least 3 x ESXi hosts running version 5.5
1 x vCenter server running version 5.5
Each host containing at least 1 empty SSD & 1 empty HDD
1Gb or 10Gb network between hosts
Virtual Networking configured; all hosts to have VSAN network.
26. 31
VSAN Hardware Requirements
SAS/SATA Controller or RAID
Controller must work in
passthru/JBOD/HBA mode*
SAS/SATA/PCIe SSD
SAS/SATA HDD
1Gb/10Gb NIC
Server on
vSphere HCL
* Required for optimal performance
29. 34
• Handle peak performance such as boot, login, read/write
storms
• Seamless granular scaling without huge upfront investments
• Support high VDI density
• Rapid storage provisioning and complete automation
• Ideal price/performance
• Minimizes data center footprint
• Integrated with vSphere Replication and VMware SRM
• Reduces cost of storage
• Minimizes data center footprint
VMware Virtual SAN – Initial Use Cases
Virtual Desktop
(VDI)
Tier 2 / Tier 3
Test and Dev
Private Cloud
DR
Target
Site A Site B
31. 37
VSAN Delivers The Same VDI Density As An All SSD Array At
25% Of The Cost
• View Planner performance testing maximum VDI density on a 3 host scale
• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + software license costs). Additional savings come from reduced Opex
through automation.
• Virtual SAN pricing configuration: 8 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 2 copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance
288 VMs
View Planner Benchmark
(3 hosts cluster, 36 cores)
VSAN cost per
desktop is 25% the
cost of All SSD
32. 38
Virtual SAN Reduces The Cost Of Storage For VDI And Enables
Granular Predictable Scaling
Storagecostperdesktop
Number of desktops
• Compared to external storage at scale
• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)
• Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation
• Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 2 copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance
VSAN enables
predictable linear
scaling
Spikes correspond to
scaling out due to
IOPs requirements
Virtual SAN External Storage
33. 39
VMware Virtual SAN Delivers Radically Simple Storage For Your VMs
• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + software license costs)
• Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation
• Configuration assume 10TB dual socket hosts 2 data copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance
8 node Virtual SAN cluster
provides 80-100k IOPS
35. Thomson Reuters
• Services and products for financial, risk, legal, tax and accounting,
intellectual property, science, and media markets
• Employs approximately 60,000 people and operates in over 100
countries
• The world’s largest international multimedia news provider delivering
news in more than 20 different languages. A billion people are
reached by Thomson Reuters News and Insights every day.
• Data Center Operations
80 vCenter’s
2,200 + ESXi hosts
35,000 virtual machines
36. Initial Use Cases
• Reduce datastore complexity
• Contain storage IO workloads
Test / Dev
• Reduce infrastructure costs
• Quick deployment
• Self contained environments
Data Center
Consolidation
• Reduce storage administration
• Increased VM performance
• Availability zones
Private Cloud
37. The Lab
• HP DL380 Gen8
• 256 GB RAM
• 800 GB SSD
• 900 GB 10K SAS
• H220 controller for vSAN
• P420i controller for OS
• 10 GB networking
• 3 to 6 nodes
38. Performance
• Exceeds our workload requirements
• Stripes, copies & VMDK’s
• Ensure network is robust
• Great storage views – RVC Observer
Takeaway: Understand your workload
40. Experiences with vSAN beta
• Super easy to setup and get running
• Use stripes & copies appropriately
• Disk space capacity planning
• Understand your workload
• Features for initial release
• Performance, stability and usability
42. 48
• It’s free
• It’s as easy as installing vSphere
• It gives you the chance to win an iPad!
Register for Virtual SAN Beta Now!
43. 49
Summary
VMware vCenter Server
Native to ESX hypervisor -
improves resource efficiency and
low latency
First storage platform architected
for VM-level data operations and
management
Built from ground up using Policy-
Driven Management principles
vSphere integrated management
Radically simple - built for the
virtualization admin
Radically Simple Enterprise Storage
Significantly lower TCO without compromising performance
VMware vSphere
VSAN
44. 50
Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
HOL:
HOL-SDC-1308
Virtual Storage Solutions
Group Discussions:
STO1001-GD
VSAN with Cormac Hogan and VMware R&D Engineers
VMware Sessions:
STO4973:
VMware Virtual SAN Panel discussion
STO5027:
VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices
47. VMware Virtual SAN
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
STO5391
#STO5391
48. 54
What Is Virtual SAN?
Built for performance,
resilience and scale
Converged compute-
storage
VMware vSphere
VSAN
Software-defined storage
platform
Per-VM SLA management
Tightly integrated with
vSphere constructs
49. 55
Benefits of SDS
• Per VM storage management
• Policy based storage automation
• Radically simple storage - designed for the
vSphere admin
Simplified storage
management
• Choice of industry standard components
• Increased storage efficiency and agility
Lower cost of
ownership
• Hypervisor storage abstraction to uniquely
match VM requirements and hardware
capabilities
End-to-End SLA
Delivery
50. 56
VSAN Delivers Significantly Lower TCO
For Comparable Performance
Leverage inexpensive server disks for shared storage
Purely software-defined storage without specialized
hardware
Boost productivity with storage automation
Reduce power, space, cooling costs with smaller
hardware footprint
• Avoid large upfront storage investments
Scale storage performance and capacity granularly