tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30184405083243784532024-03-05T03:14:03.083-08:00VirtualizationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16238293122625429713noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018440508324378453.post-32606009342840233072013-09-10T05:59:00.001-07:002013-09-10T06:00:11.283-07:00VMWare Vsphere 5.1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>VMWare 5.1 New Features</b><br />
- Larger VMs ( upto 1 TB vRAM, 64 vCPUs )<br />
- New VM Format ( Ver. 9)<br />
- Flexible Space efficient storage for VDI<br />
- Health ceck, configuration bkp & restore, rollback & support etc for Distributed switch<br />
- SR-IOV ( Single Root Input , Output Virtualization support<br />
- Vmotion without shared storage<br />
- Vsphere Datarecovery feature is replaced by vSphere Data Protection which is based on EMC avamar technology<br />
- More Flexible Web Client with custom tagg option etc<br />
- vCenter Single Sign on<br />
- Vsphere Replication<br />
- vRAM licensing discontinued</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16238293122625429713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018440508324378453.post-24580364436207960452012-05-14T12:54:00.002-07:002013-09-08T00:22:38.653-07:00VMWare Vsphere 5 - New features<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We may not observe much difference while deploying Vsphere 5 except increased resource support for VMware VMs ( 32 vCPU & 1 TB RAM per VM maximum)</div>
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But there are lot of new features & enhancements . ( It may depend on the license which you choose as well ) . below listed the significant features in Vsphere 5 </div>
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1.Storage DRS<br />
2.Storage I/O Control for NFS<br />
3.VMFS-5<br />
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5.VMFS Scalability and Performance enhancements<br />
6.2TB+ pass-through RDM support<br />
7.vCenter inventory extensibility<br />
8.Storage APIs -- VAAI T10 Compliancy<br />
9.Storage APIs -- VAAI Offloads for NAS<br />
10.Storage APIs -- VAAI Thin Provisioning<br />
11.Storage APIs -- Storage Awareness/Discovery<br />
12.Storage APIs -- Data Protection compatible with MN<br />
13.APD, Permanent APD Survivability Enablement<br />
14.Snapshot enhancements<br />
15.Storage vMotion scalability improvements<br />
16.iSCSI Enablement: iSCSI UI Support<br />
17.iSCSI Enablement: Stateless Support<br />
18.Multi-queue Storage IO adapters<br />
19.Increase NFSv3 Max Share Count to 256<br />
20.SATA 3.0<br />
21.Software FCoE initiator support<br />
22.Enhanced logging support<br />
23.Enhanced Storage metrics<br />
24.Profile-Driven Storage<br />
25.Storage vMotion support for snapshots<br />
26.vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)<br />
27.SSD Detection and Enablement<br />
28.vSphere Replication<br />
29.vSphere Data Recovery 2.0<br />
30.VADP enhancements<br />
31.vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) Enhancements <br />
32.vCO -- Library extension and consolidation<br />
33.vCO -- Scalability <br />
34.Network I/O Control (NIOC) Phase 2 <br />
35.NIOC -- User Defined Resource Pools<br />
36.NIOC -- HBR traffic type<br />
37.NIOC -- 802.1p tagging <br />
38.Network Traffic Stats for iOPS<br />
39.Improvement to UDP and Multicast traffic types<br />
40.New networking drivers for server enablement<br />
41.vDS support for Port mirror, LLDP and NetFlow V5<br />
42.vDS Manage Port Group UI enhancement<br />
43.Hot-Insert/Remove of Filters<br />
44.Enhanced vMotion Compatibility<br />
45.Storage vMotion support for Linked Clones<br />
46.vMotion scalability (dual-NIC & longer latency support)<br />
47.vNetwork API enhancements<br />
48.vNetwork Opaque Channel<br />
49.Support for 8 10GbE Physical NIC ports per host<br />
50.Add Host Resources MIB to SNMP offering<br />
51.Metro vMotion<br />
52.Host Profile for DRS to support Stateless ESX<br />
53.HA interop with agent VMs <br />
54.DRS/DPM interop with agent VMs<br />
55.DRS enhancements for Maintenance Mode<br />
56.Enhanced processor support for FT<br />
57.vSphere 5.0 HA aka "FDM / Fault Domain Manager" <br />
58.vSphere HA - Heartbeat Datastores<br />
59.vSphere HA - Support for partitions of management network<br />
60.vSphere HA - Default isolation response changed<br />
61.vSphere HA - New Status information in UI<br />
62.vSphere HA - IPv6 support <br />
63.vSphere HA - Application Awareness API publicly available<br />
64.Extensions to create special icons for VMs<br />
65.ESX Agent Management<br />
66.Solution Management Plugin<br />
67.Next-Gen vSphere Client<br />
68.Host Profiles Enhancements<br />
69.vCenter enhancements for stateless ESXi<br />
70.vCenter Server Appliance<br />
71.vCenter: Support for FileManager and VirtualDiskManager APIs<br />
72.Virtual Hardware - Smartcard support for vSphere<br />
73.Virtual Hardware Version 8<br />
74.Virtual HW v8 -- 1TB VM RAM<br />
75.Virtual HW v8 -- 32-way Virtual SMP<br />
76.Virtual Hw v8 -- Client-Connected USB Devices<br />
77.Virtual HW v8 -- EFI Virtual BIOS<br />
78.Virtual HW v8 -- HD Audio<br />
79.Virtual Hw v8 -- Multi-core Virtual CPU Support UI<br />
80.Virtual HW v8 -- New virtual E1000 NIC<br />
81.Virtual HW v8 -- UI and other support<br />
82.Virtual HW v8 -- USB 3.0 device support<br />
83.Virtual HW v8 -- VMCI device enhancements<br />
84.Virtual HW v8 -- xHCI<br />
85.Support SMP for Mac OS X guest OS<br />
86.Universal Passthrough (VMdirect path with vMotion support)<br />
87.Guest Management Operations (VIX API)<br />
88.Guest OS Support -- Mac OS X Server<br />
89.VM Serial Port to Host Serial Port Redirection (Serial Port Pass-Through)<br />
90.Passthrough/SR-IOV<br />
91.VMware Tools Portability<br />
92.VMRC Concurrent Connections enhancements<br />
93.Scalability: 512 VMs per host<br />
94.ESXCLI enhancements<br />
95.Support SAN and hw-iSCSI boot<br />
96.Hardware -- Interlagos Processor Enablement<br />
97.Hardware -- SandyBridge-DT Processor Enablement<br />
98.Hardware -- SandyBridge-EN Processor Enablement<br />
99.Hardware -- SandyBridge-EP Processor Enablement<br />
100.Hardware -- Valencia Processor Enablement<br />
101.Hardware -- Westmere-EX Processor Enablement<br />
102.Platform -- CIM Enhancements<br />
103.Platform -- ESX i18n support<br />
104.Host Power Management Enhancements<br />
105.Improved CPU scheduler<br />
106.Improved scalability of CPU (NUMA) scheduler<br />
107.Memory scheduler improvements to support 32-way VCPU's<br />
108.Swap to host cache<br />
109.API enhancements to configure VM boot order<br />
110.VMX swap<br />
111.Support for ESXi On Apple XServe<br />
112.Redirect DCUI to host serial port for remote monitoring and management<br />
113.UEFI BIOS Boot for ESXi hosts<br />
114.Scalability -- 160 CPU Threads (logical PCPUs) per host<br />
115.Scalability -- 2 TB RAM per host<br />
116.Scalability -- 2048 VCPUs per host<br />
117.Scalability -- 2048 virtual disks per host<br />
118.Scalability -- 2048 VMs per VMFS volume<br />
119.Scalability -- 512 VMs per host<br />
120.Stateless -- Host Profile Engine and Host Profile Completeness<br />
121.Stateless -- Image Builder<br />
122.Stateless -- Auto Deploy<br />
123.Stateless -- Networking Host Profile Plugin<br />
124.Stateless -- VIB Packaging Enhancement<br />
125.Stateless -- VMkernel network core dump<br />
126.Host profiles enhancements for storage configuration<br />
127.Enhanced driver support for ESXi<br />
128.Intel TXT Support<br />
129.Memsched policy enhancements w.r.t. Java balloon<br />
130.Native Driver Autoload support<br />
131.Root password entry screen in interactive installer<br />
132.vCenter Dump Collector<br />
133.vCenter Syslog Collector<br />
134.VMware Update Manager (VUM) enhancements <br />
135.VUM -- Virtual Appliance enhancements<br />
136.VUM -- vApp Support<br />
137.VUM -- Depot management enhancements <br />
138.vCLI enhancements<br />
139.PowerCLI enhancements<br />
140.VProbes -- ESX Platform Observability<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16238293122625429713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018440508324378453.post-88063878417608105672012-04-03T04:12:00.003-07:002013-09-10T05:57:49.688-07:00Cloud Computing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>What is CLOUD? </b><br />
set of hardware, networks, storage, services, and interfaces that combine to deliver aspects of computing as a service. Cloud services
include the delivery of software, infrastructure, and storage over the
Internet (either as separate components or a complete platform) based on
user demand<br />
Cloud provider manages & Maintains the underlying technology used for cloud.<br />
<u><b>Various CLOUD Deployment Models</b></u><br />
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<li>Public CLOUD - services are rendered over a network that is open for public use.less secure than private. </li>
<li>Private ClOUD - Operated solely for a single Organization, hosted internally or Externally.Customization Possible as per organization.</li>
<li>Hybrid CLOUD - combination of Public & private cloud.</li>
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<u><b>Various CLOUD service models</b></u><br />
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<li> IaaS ( Infrastructure as a service )</li>
<li>PaaS ( Platform as a service )</li>
<li>SaaS (Software as a service )</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16238293122625429713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018440508324378453.post-88137526373508875062011-08-24T06:00:00.001-07:002013-09-10T06:27:59.735-07:00Vmware Basics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u>Different Virtualization products ?</u></b></div>
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VMWare ESX,ESXi,Workstation,Fusion etc.</div>
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Hyper-V 1.0,Hyper-V 2.0</div>
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Citrix Xen server</div>
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WindRiver,</div>
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Virtual server 2005 R2,VPC 2007</div>
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z/LAPRS,z/VM,PowerVM</div>
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SUN xVM</div>
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Parallels</div>
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Oracle VM</div>
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LynxSecures</div>
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FreeBSDJail</div>
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<b><u>Difference between ESX,ESXi?</u></b></div>
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- The functionality and performance of VMware ESX and ESXi are the same; the difference between the two hypervisors resides in their packaging architecture and operational management. VMware ESXi is the latest hypervisor architecture from VMware. It has an ultra thin footprint with no reliance on a general-purpose OS, setting a new bar for security and reliability.</div>
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- In the future, ESXi’s superior architecture will be the exclusive focus of VMware's development efforts.</div>
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- New and existing customers are highly encouraged to deploy ESXi. Many Fortune 100 companies have already standardized on the ESXi platform.</div>
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-ESX has Service console to manage baremetal but same limited like a Firmware in ESXi to make it more secure.</div>
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-ESX have a host vCLI but ESXi have only remote scripting environment of CLI</div>
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-ESX supports kickstart kind of scriptable installation same not available in ESXi</div>
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-ESX supports Active directory integration through third party agents.but ESXi won't support</div>
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-ESX supports VI Webaccess but ESXi won't</div>
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<b><u>What is hypervisor?</u></b></div>
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Its more than a program component which get installed on a host server. The hypervisor presents to the guest operating systems a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems. Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources. it can be bare metal ( runs above hardware directly & all VMs runs a layer above it.) or hosted ( runs as part of a conventional OS)</div>
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<b><u>Different licenses in ESX?</u></b></div>
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ESXi Single server,Essentials,Essential plus,Standard,Advanced,Enterprise,Enterprise plus.</div>
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- ESXi can be acquired at no charge on vmware.com (no buying). ESXi can be acquired for a (generally nominal) fee from a server vendor.</div>
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- vSphere can be purchased from VMware or many VMware partners.</div>
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- Likewise, vCenter can be purchased from VMware or many VMware partners.</div>
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- You can download and install the ESXi single server hyper-visor for free.But to manage it, you need vSphere or vCenter. </div>
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- vSphere is available for free as a 60 day trial.<br />
- Vsphere has a Physical CPU Based Licensing </div>
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<u><b>What are the different products of VMware ?</b></u><br />
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<b>Datacenter products:- </b><br />
VMware Vsphere Server / ESX Server / ESXi Server<br />
VMware vCenter Server<br />
<b>Datacenter Extensions Products</b><br />
VMware vCOPS (vCenter Operations Manager )<br />
VMware SRM ( Site Recovery Manager )<br />
VMware Orchastrator<br />
<u><b>Cloud Products:</b></u><br />
VMware vCloud Director<br />
VMware vCloud Connector<br />
<u><b>Desktop/ End users products</b></u><br />
VMware VIEW<br />
VMware ThinApp<br />
VMware Fusion<br />
VMware workstation<br />
VMware ACE<br />
VMware Player<br />
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