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vSphere 5.1 Delta
Module 0 Whats New
Support Readiness Training
John Browne
Rev D


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Audience for This Course
This course is designed for GSS Technical
Support Engineers and Partners located
globally
This training will introduce students to the new
features of vSphere 5.1.
Give participants hands-on experience with
installing, configuring and troubleshooting these
new features.



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Prerequisites for This Course

Students need to have taken the GSS Support
Readiness Training on vSphere 5.0, or VMware
Education Services training on vSphere 5.0.
Technical Support representatives responsible
for supporting and troubleshooting vSphere and
its components.
Basic understanding of Networking, Storage
and Virtualization Concepts.

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At the end of the course, you should be able to:
Understand the new features on vSphere 5.1.
Explain the usefulness of these new features.
Know how to install & configure these new
features.
Be able to guide customers through the
installation and configuration of these features
& assist with the troubleshooting of these
feature should issues arise.



Course Objectives
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Course Outline


Agenda
Module 2 Storage Technologies
Module 1 Flagship Products / Guest Enhancements
Module 3 Networking Technologies
Module 4 Availability Technologies
Module 0 Whats New in vSphere 5.1
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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 - Installation
vSphere 5.1 introduces two Installation paths.
vSphere Simple install.
Provides one-pass vCenter Server installation, enabling you to install all
required vCenter Server components in a single installation run.
Simple Install installs Single Sign On, Inventory Service and vCenter Server
vSphere Custom install.
Lets you customize your vCenter Server installation, allowing you to place
vCenter Server components such as the Inventory Service and the Single Sign-
On (SSO) service on different machines to improve scalability.
vSphere 5.1 components must be installed in the following order
Single Sign On
Inventory Service
vCenter Service


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Single Server Solution or Distributed components as necessary
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Inventory Service
Database Server
VMware vCenter Server
vSphere Web Client
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
Database Server
Virtual Machine
Inventory Service
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Virtual Machine
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
vSphere Web Client
Virtual Machine
Vmware vCenter Server
Single vCenter Server 5.1 Solution Distributed vCenter Server solution
Virtual Machine
Database Server
vSphere Update Manager
Virtual Machine
vCenter Server
vSphere Web Client
Virtual Machine
Single Sign On Server
Inventory Service
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Authentication - The Situation Today
Directory
Server
(AD)
vCD
Authentication at multiple points
for the same administrator
Integrates only with Active
Directory
Lack of true Single Sign On
Identity limited in scope
No way for a solution to trust
another
vCenter

Mgmt
App
Mgmt
App
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Single Sign On Server
SSO introduces the notion of a solution user
User ID associated with a software component
User ID resides in SSO repository
vSphere
Platform
Services
Customer
Identity Sources

vSphere Solutions

Authentication
(Single Sign On)
vCO
Inventory
Service
vCenter
Active
Directory

Authorization

Auditing
vSphere
Web Client
Open
LDAP
NIS
Local OS
Users
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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 vSphere Web Client
vSphere Web Client
New, full featured browser-based web client.
Based on Adobe Flex framework
Built for improved scalability, performance, and extensibility, the vSphere
Web Client exposes common administrative actions in a more intuitive way.
This new client increases the number of managed objects you can work with
as well as the number of concurrent active sessions without sacrificing
speed.
The vSphere Web Client also stores your workflow and state on the server,
allowing you to start a complex task sequence at work and continue it later from
your home without losing your place.



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vSphere Web Client Architecture
The vSphere Web
Client runs within
a browser

vCenter in either
single or
Linked mode
operation


vCenter
Fx
Application
Server that
provides a
scalable back end

Flex Client
Back End
The Inventory
Service obtains
optimized data live
from the core
vCenter Server
process
Inventory
Service
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Inventory Object Tagging
Ability to create custom tags on inventory objects
Associate an arbitrary set of objects of the same type using a tag
Search for objects by that tag
Enables the business case where customers want to create arbitrary groups of
VMs, Clusters, Datastores for ease of management
Storage Policy Based Management uses tagging to make placement
decisions
Ability to assign permissions based on tags not in initial release

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Log Browser
Proven framework to provide rich troubleshooting tools
vSphere Web Client plugin
Takes snapshot of specified ESXi Host / vCenter logs
Provides rich user interface to view log data
search
filter by name/event/keyword
compare multiple logs
highlight key words
Simplifies Troubleshooting

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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 - Networking
More efficient management and greater scalability of the vSphere
Distribute Switch:
Enhanced Network monitoring and reporting
Network Health Check
Assures proper physical and virtual operation by providing health monitoring for
physical network setups including VLAN, MTU or Teaming.
Configuration Backup and Restore
Provides you with a way to create backups for network settings at the Distributed
Switch or at the Distributed Port Group level.
Configuration Rollback and Recovery
Monitors the state of management network connectivity from vCenter Server to
Distributed Switch and rolls back to the previous state if connectivity is lost during a
configuration change.
Port Mirroring
Introduces ERSPAN and RSPAN to Distributed Switch.
- ERSPAN and RSPAN allow Distributed Switch to mirror traffic across the
datacenter to perform remote traffic collection for central monitoring.




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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 Auto Deploy
New options for automated ESXi deployment via vSphere Auto Deploy
Stateless Caching
In memory with persistent caching of ESXi state on local disk
Lets you continue operation if the Auto Deploy server becomes unreachable.
Stateful Install
Traditional full installation on local disk
Lets you obtain the master image from the Auto Deploy Server to quickly and
easily install a new host.


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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 Virtual Machines
Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA).
Expands upon existing non-hardware accelerated graphics capabilities for
basic 3D workloads, by supporting accelerating VDI workloads using physical
GPU resources.
With this new capability, it is now possible to virtualize physical GPU
resources, sharing them across virtual desktops.
Support up to 64 virtual CPUs allowing even larger applications to run
within a given virtual machine.
Upgrading VMware Tools to releases after ESXi 5.1 will not require
virtual machine reboots for common configurations of Windows Vista
and later virtual machines.

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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage
Flexible Space Efficient Storage
A new disk format that lets you achieve the right balance of space efficiency
and I/O throughput.
You can manage this balance throughout the life cycle of a virtual machine
Storage allocation (controlling the allocation block size)
How the blocks are managed after they are allocated (deleted blocks can be
reclaimed).
You can use SE Sparse to optimize storage efficiency for VDI.
Linked Clones Scalability Enhancements:
Ability to share a linked clone by up to 32 hosts, removing the current 8 host
restriction.
The increase in number of hosts simplifies deployment of VMware View and
vCloud Director environments and makes them more scalable.
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Storage Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks & VMware View
VMWARE VIEW COMPOSER
Linked
Clone
Parent
Image
VMWARE
VIEW
COMPOSER
Replica
Image
(Thin)
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
These items will be
SE Sparse Disks in
future releases of
VMware View.
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Whats New in vSphere 5.1 - Storage
Increasing the number of concurrent host locks on a file residing on a
VMFS filesystem to 32 (the maximum number of hosts in a cluster).
Support up to 5 Node Microsoft Cluster using the Node Majority
Model
Support for boot from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet ( FCoE )
All Paths Down ( APD ) enhancements
Handle the next set of APD use cases involving more complex transient APD
conditions ( Userworld I/O, hostd, etc )
Storage IO Control ( SIOC ) enhancements
Automatic latency threshold computations
Storage vMotion enhancements
Can now perform a Storage vMotion up to 4 parallel disk migrations per
operation.

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Questions?