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Virtualization Futures
VMworld Europe 2008
Dr. Stephen Alan Herrod
CTO and VP of R&D, VMware
Agenda
Where is Hardware Going
Where is Software Going
Connecting Computing Clouds
Where is hardware going?
x86 continues to move upstream
Massive compute power available
Power usage grows even more critical
Highly-connected compute, networking, and storage
Emergence of high-speed, shared interconnects
Shared storage becomes less expensive and more pervasive
Networking and storage riding x86 improvement curve
VMware transforms powerful, disparate
hardware into Virtual Infrastructure
Non-Virtualized
World
Virtual
Infrastructure
Exchange
File/Print
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Virtualization
Virtualization
Virtual Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory
Pool
VPN
CRM
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Virtualization
Virtualization
Storage
Pool
Interconnect
Pool
Enables the Virtual Datacenter
File/PrintVPN
Exchange
CRM
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Exchange
File/Print
Operating System
Operating System
Virtual Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory
Pool
VPN
CRM
Operating System
Operating System
Storage
Pool
Interconnect
Pool
Self-Optimizing (Application Performance)
Exchange
CRM
File/Print
APP
APP
APP
APP
APP
APP
OS
OS
OS
OS
OS
OS
APP
APP
APP
OS
OS
OS
Virtual Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory
Pool
Storage
Pool
Interconnect
Pool
Self-Optimizing (Power)
File/Print
APP
APP
OS
OS
APP
OS
Virtual Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory
Pool
Storage
Pool
Interconnect
Pool
Active
Idle
Powered
Down
Self-Healing
Exchange
CRM
File/Print
APP
APP
APP
APP
APP
APP
OS
OS
OS
OS
OS
OS
APP
APP
APP
OS
OS
OS
Virtual Infrastructure
CPU
Pool
Memory
Pool
Storage
Pool
Interconnect
Pool
Shared Resources for Server and Desktop
Virtual Desktop
Manager
Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Virtual Datacenter
IT Service
Delivery
IT Service
Continuity
Infrastructure
Optimization
Management and
Automation
Virtual Infrastructure
Platform
ESX Server 3i
Hypervisor
Desktop
Management
Hypervisor Platform Direction
In a phase of tremendous innovation driven by:
Proliferation of cores and potential inefficiencies

Intel and AMD launches make 16+ core systems
Technology allows more workloads for virtualization

2nd generation CPU and memory HW assist, I/O acceleration, Paravirtualization
Rapidly growing move to pervasive, mission-critical use

Requires huge focus on reliability and manageability
Thin architecture
Unparalleled security and reliability
Compact 32MB footprint
Only OS-independent design focused on virtualization
Integrated in server systems
ESX Server 3i Brings Plug-and-Play Resources
Straight from the OEM to the Shared Resource Pool
Pre-installed
Pre-configured
Pre-certified
Virtual Infrastructure
ESX 3i
ESX 3i
ESX 3i
VMware Virtual Datacenter
IT Service
Delivery
IT Service
Continuity
Infrastructure
Optimization
Management and
Automation
Virtual Infrastructure
Platform
Virtualization Platforms/Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Desktop
Management
VMware Infrastructure Vision
The Self-Optimizing, Self-Protecting Datacenter
Moves functionality traditionally considered “management” into the infrastructure
Any application gains the benefits, just by virtue of being in a VM
Provides new reasons to go virtual
VMware HA
VMware DPM
Storage VMotion
VMsafe
VMware DRS
VMware’s Virtual Datacenter Stack
IT Service
Delivery
IT Service
Continuity
Infrastructure
Optimization
Management and
Automation
Virtual Infrastructure
Platform
Virtualization Platforms/Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Desktop
Management
Management and Automation Overview
IT Service
Delivery
IT Service
Continuity
Infrastructure
Optimization
Desktop
Management
Provide the fastest way to provision and manage IT services
Provide the most resilient and highly available compute platform
Provide the easiest compute platform to deploy and operate
Simplify enterprise desktop management through virtualization
Desktop Manager
Lab Manager
Stage Manager
Update Manager
Site Recovery Manager
Agenda
Where is Hardware Going
Where is Software Going
Connecting Computing Clouds
Virtualization Has Simplified Software
Easier to develop and test
Easier to deploy
Easier to protect
Virtual appliances have taken this even further
FIREWALL
Virtual
Appliance
Checkpoint
Windows
Where is software going?
More diversity in OS and application use
Simultaneous use of Linux, Solaris, and Windows farms
Customized open source stacks and diverse versions/distributions
Services becoming disaggregated and distributed
SOA leads to many more components in use
SaaS and hosted computing options growing
Management task becomes even more difficult
Need a way to normalize management approach
Can’t stifle software progress along the way
Software’s Growing Management Complexity
Provisioning, Backup, Load Balancing, DR, …
Process
Process
Process
App Stack A
App Stack B
App Stack C
DB2 9
The same process must be executed differently depending on
the hardware, OS, or application environment
Normalization is Needed: vService
A logical IT Service provided as a collection of VMs
Application and Infrastructure VMs
Logical network connections
E-commerce
vService
Managed as a single-unit
Treated as one entity (provisioning, backup)
e-commerce vService
The right view for managing & achieving SLAs
IIS #1
Load Balancer
Firewall
IIS #2
Tomcat
App Server
Oracle
vServices Provide a Better Unit of Management
Standard Software Containers
vService A
App Stack A
vService B
App Stack B
vService C
Complex application
stacks become
standardized
software containers
App Stack C
With common
processes for
management
Virtual Infrastructure
DB2 9
Physical Hardware
Agenda
Where is Hardware Going
Where is Software Going
Connecting Computing Clouds
VMware’s Role in “Cloud Computing”
VMware enables a local datacenter “cloud”
On-demand capacity via DRS
Self-healing and tolerant of hardware failures
Applications seamlessly move between resources
VMware enables hosting providers offer better services
Hosted/SaaS offerings can be standard x86 applications
On-demand capacity even more critical
Offer customers add-on services of backup, DR, and security
Next Phase: Connecting the Datacenter Clouds
VM and vService mobility goes even further
Compute-, Network-, and Storage-VMotion
Extending from the LAN to Wide-Area-Networks
Manage vServices independently of where they run
vService includes full state and infrastructure instructions
Just as VMs separate software from hardware, vServices
separate software and software management from the hardware
Next Phase: Connecting the Datacenter Clouds
Extends Virtual Infrastructure beyond a single datacenter
Use secondary DR site for workload overflow
Leverage other departments’/LOBs’ resources
vService
vService
Rent resources from
hosters
when
appropriate
vService
VM
All while maintaining the IT Service SLA
Virtual
Virtual Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Secondary
Datacenter
Primary
Datacenter
Hosting
Provider
Summary
Virtual Infrastructure aggregates hardware into flexible
resource pools and creates a truly virtual datacenter
Virtualization simplifies software management, and
vServices extend this even further
Building upon VM mobility, virtual infrastructure,
enables effective use of resources that are local or
remote, owned or rented
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