VMware vSphere 6.

0 Ultimate Bootcamp
Course 2 - Virtualization Overview
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Course 2

Topic A

VMware Virtualization

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The Software-Defined Datacenter

(SDDC) Updated
6.0

• VMware paradigm for the future, starting today

• Early hypervisors abstracted CPU & RAM (Compute)
resources from hardware as a software layer
• SDDC does the same for Storage resources and
Networking & Security resources, defined as
software
• Goals are simplified management, increased
efficiency, better agility, improved choice through
elasticity, easier response to IT challenges

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vCloud Suite 6.0 New in

6.0

• Focus on a Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC)

• Built upon vSphere 6.0 at it’s core
• The versions - Standard, Advanced & Enterprise
include: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-suite/compare.html
– vSphere 6.0 Enterprise Plus (all versions)
– vRealize Automation (old vCAC)
– vRealize Operations (old vCOPs)
– vRealize Business (Advanced & Enterprise Only)
– vCenter Site Recovery Manager (Enterprise only)
• Sold & upgraded as a suite only
– Cannot upgrade separate components
• Add-Ons to vCloud Suite shown in green & gray
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Class Exercise – Why Virtualize?

Sample Sample

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Why Virtualize? – Simplified

Management!
• Physical Hardware is independent of OS and Apps
– Easier hardware maintenance and migrations
– New disaster recovery options
– Minimize upgrade problems
• Multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) operate on same
physical hardware
– Efficient memory sharing and processor usage
– Dedicate time to fine tuning hardware
– VMs are not affected by other VMs running simultaneously
• VM provisioning
– Apps and OSs are created once then deployed many times
– Templates & VMs can be updated
• Backing up all VM constituent files provides a
complete backup
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Slide 6

VMware TCO Comparison Calculator

New in
6.0

2-6 http://www.vmware.com/go/tcocalculator/#! Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview

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Slide 7

What is Virtual Infrastructure?

Apache Exchange SharePoint F&P F&P SQL 2008

Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine

Virtualization Layer (VMKernel) Virtualization Layer (VMKernel)

Shared Storage and Shared Network

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Slide 8

VMware vSphere 6.0 New in

6.0

• The Virtual Infrastructure Suite includes:

– ESXi 6.0
• Core virtualization platform installed on physical servers to
provide resources to multiple virtual machines (VMs)
– vCenter 6.0
• Centralized Server for top management of all hosts & resources
– Features included depending on license purchased
• vMotion / Storage vMotion / Metro vMotion
• DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) / DPM (Distributed Power
Management)
• HA (High Availability) / Fault Tolerance
• Update Manager
• Profile Driven Storage & Storage I/O Control
• Distributed virtual switches & Network I/O Control
• Host Profiles & Auto Deploy
• Data Protection
2 • vSphere Replication
• vShield Zones & Endpoint
2-8 http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/features.html
Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview

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Slide 9

Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors

• Type 1 hypervisor - runs
directly on physical server • VMs are built inside the
hardware hypervisor
• Operating systems and
• Type 2 hypervisor - runs as applications run inside the VMs
an application or service in
a host OS (added layer)

Product Type 1 Type 2

VMware ESXi X
VMware Workstation X
VMware Server X
Microsoft Hyper – V X
Microsoft Virtual PC X
Citrix XenServer X
Oracle VM Server 3.3 X
Oracle VM VirtualBox X
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What is a Virtual Machine (VM)?

• Virtualized Hardware Files stored on a hard

(vHardware) on which an OS drive somewhere
and Apps run
• A VM’s configuration file
describes the VM’s vHardware
(ie. CD-ROM, Floppy Drive, Application
Hard Disk controller)
• VMs are made up of multiple Operating
files (configuration & hard System
drives, plus others)
– VMware uses .vmx & .vmdk files vHardware
– Microsoft uses .xml & .vhd files
Virtual Machine
– Citrix XenServer uses .xml & .img
files
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Course 2

Topic B

Other VMware & 3rd party

Virtualization Technologies

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Slide 12

VMware Horizon View 6.0 (Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure)
VMware Horizon View Environment
• Virtual Desktops created
1 with View Composer and
ESXi Hosts
hosted on ESX/ESXi Hosts vCenter
• vSphere optimizes and
manages hosts to deploy
virtual desktops 1 View Composer
• View Manager 5.x handles
& ThinApp
Type 1 Hypervisors
2 all connections / security &
provides authorized
desktops
• View Client uses PCoIP, 2
3 RDP or web browser 1
Virtual Desktops View
• Allows users to Administrator
authenticate through View
Administrator with AD
Integration

• Select authorized desktop

4 3 3
• Displays (multi-monitor) 3
desktop of remote VM
(PCoIP, thin clients: WYSE,
IGEL, etc)
• USB 2.0 and local or
network printing at client 4
computer 4
4
• Local Mode Desktops
2-12 (ended w/v5.1, see FLEX)
Topic 2 – Other Virtualization Technologies

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VMware Horizon FLEX Type 2 Hypervisor

• Released 12/2014, substitute for old View 5.1 Local

Mode desktop, FLEX Client is Type 2 Hypervisor
• Local virtual Windows desktop, online or offline
• Centrally controlled from Horizon FLEX Policy Server
• End user can have Windows or Mac, corporate or
personal computer
• Extension of VMware Horizon Mirage

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Slide 14

Co-developed
VMware Workstation Pro 12 with the latest
Type 2 Hypervisor version of ESXi

• VM platform for the desktop • Runs XP Mode VMs

• Ready for Windows 10 RTM & supports 8.1 & natively
Metro UI • Integration with Micro
• Installs on a Windows or Linux host & runs like an Cloud Foundry,
application, can be run as a service: SpringSource Tool
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005585 Suite, Visual Studio,
• VMs can be shared across copies of Workstation 8, and Eclipse
9, 10, 11 & 12
• Supports over 600 OSs
• Supports USB 2.0 devices, USB 3.0 for Windows 8 Apache Exchange

& Linux guests

• Provides full support for 16 vCPUs, 8 TB disks, up
Virtual Virtual
to 64 GB RAM, 2 GB video RAM per VM Machine Machine

• Virtual tablet sensors from version 10 and higher

• Access applications with Unity mode
• Record entire VM execution to AVI
• Replay debugging to run & re-run apps until bug
free
• The cost is $249.00 Windows or Linux OS
2-14 http://www.vmware.com/workstation/ (Host or Guest)
Topic 2 – Other Virtualization Technologies

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VMware Fusion 8 Type 2 Hypervisor

• Run Windows or Linux Applications directly from Mac

OS X Lion
• 32 and 64 bit guest OSs (including ESXi 4.x, 5.x & 6.x)
• 3D apps, DirectX 10, or Open GL 3.3
• Unity mode
• USB 3.0
• 64GB RAM
• 150+ Guest OSs
• Up to 16 vCPUs
• 8 TB .VMDKs
• OVF Tool
• Cost - Reg/Pro
$79.99/$199.99
http://www.vmware.co
m/products/fusion/
2-15 http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion-professional/compare.html
Topic 2 – Other Virtualization Technologies

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Type 2
VMware Workstation Player Hypervisor

• Free software to run any preconfigured Windows or Linux, 32- or 64-bit VM on any PC
(over 200 OSs) Win 10/8.1, Server 2012 R2, Ubuntu 15.04, etc
• Create and run VMs with nothing but Player
• Use Unity View with applications in VM, or provide simple UI for employees to run VMs
• Evaluate preconfigured beta or evaluation software from ISVs
• Up to 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 8 TB disks, USB 3 Streams, SSD pass-through
• Can set VMs to expire
• Share data between VM and Host OS
• Run Microsoft VMs and some 3rd party images
• Plus is the commercially licensable version at $99 per license
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Windows Server Virtualization

Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2)
• Installed as a stand-alone free product (Hyper-V Server) or as role
on Windows 2012 R2 (Full install or Server Core install of Standard,
Enterprise or Datacenter editions)
Type 1 Hypervisor
– Once installed will reboot machine in hypervisor mode
• Guest OS support
– RHEL, SUSE, CentOS Linux
– Windows (all current)
• Virtual hardware
– 64 vCPUS / guest
– 256 virtual disks / guest
– 12 VNICs / guest (8 Paravirtual
Optimized + 4 legacy drivers)
• Features – New 2012 R2
– Storage QoS
– 320 logical processors & 4 TB RAM support per host, 1TB RAM per VM
– 2048 vCPUs per host / 1024 running VMs per host
– Share Virtual Disks between VMs (for clustering)
– High Availability via Failover Cluster Services (64 nodes & 8000 VMs/Cluster)
– Resize Virtual disks while VM is running
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XenServer Enterprise v6 Type 1 Hypervisor

• XenServer v6 • XenServer Hardware

– Purchased by Citrix late 2007
– Based on open source
– Bare metal install
– Less than 50,000 lines of code
– Native 64 bit platform
– Free hypervisor
– $$ versions:
Standard($348/socket/year),
Enterprise ($690/socket/year)
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– Includes XenCenter client
– 128 gigs of Host RAM
– 32 GB RAM per VM
– Unlimited CPU sockets
– XenMotion live migration
– VLAN configuration
– Resource pool support
– Unlimited active VM’s
– QOS for CPU, Disk, and
network
Topic 2 – Other Virtualization Technologies

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XenDesktop & Essentials for XenServer

• XenDesktop v6 – VDI-in-a-Box
– Desktops on any device, including
mobile 5 Pack 10 Pack 15 Pack
$975 $1,950 $2,975
– HDX user experience supports
full multimedia
– On demand apps w/ XenApp
– Open Architecture – Supports
XenServer, vSphere or Hyper-V
– Single instance Management
– Scalability across Enterprise
• Essentials for XenServer v6 Enterprise/Support Platinum/Support
$2,500/$3,000 $5,000/$3,000
– Advanced StorageLink
technology (NetApp)
– Dynamic Workload
Management
– Dynamic Provisioning Services
– Stage Management
– Automated lab management
– Workflow orchestration
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Topic 2 – Other Virtualization Technologies

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Review Questions:

1. You are planning a vSphere environment with the following specific networking
requirements:
- The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic
- Support for Private VLANs (PVLANs)
- Support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
What is the minimum vSphere Edition that will support the above requirements?
A. vSphere Essentials Plus
B. vSphere Standard
C. vSphere Enterprise Plus
D. vSphere Enterprise

2. Which of the following two IT infrastructure components can be virtualized by

vSphere Essentials?
A. Applications
B. Networks
C. Management
D. Storage
E. A & B
F. C & D
G. B & D

3. Which functions can be performed with the Plug-in Manager?

A. Enable an installed plug-in
B. Remove permissions for a plug-in
C. View the status of installed plug-ins
D. Uninstall a plug-in
E. A & C
F. B & D
G. A & D

4. Which of the following VMware products are used to manage virtual machines in
the Datacenter as desktops?
A. VMware Horizon View
B. VMware Horizon Flex
C. VMware Workstation
D. VMware Fusion
E. VMware Player
5. Which three tasks can be selected from the home page of an ESXi 6 host?
A. Browse objects managed by the host
B. Browse NFS mounts for this host
C. Download VMware vCenter or the vSphere client from vmware.com
D. Shutdown or restart the host
E. Download the PowerCLI installer
F. A, B, C
G. B, C, D
H. A, C, E

6. Which of the following are Type 1 Hypervisors?

A. VMware ESXi
B. VMware Workstation
C. VMware Player
D. Microsoft Hyper-V
E. Microsoft Virtual PC
F. Citrix XenServer
G. Oracle VM Server 3.3
H. A, B, C, D
I. A, D, F, G
J. B, D, E G

7. To add vCenter Single Sign-On authentication, what are two Identity Sources
that are available?
A. Local OS
B. NIS as an LDAP Server
C. VCMSDS
D. Open LDAP
E. A & B
F. B & D
G. A & D

8. What version of vSphere is included in all verisons of vCloud Suite?

A. vSphere Standard Edition
B. vSphere Essentials Edition
C. vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition
D. vSphere Essentials Plus Edition
9. Which Type 2 hypervisor runs on the Apple Mac?
A. VMware Workstation Player
B. VMware Fusion
C. VMware Workstation Pro 12
D. VMware Server

10. Which two VMware software components can be updated by Update Manager?
A. ESXi 6.0
B. Virtual Appliances
C. vCenter Server
D. Guest OS
E. A & B
F. B & C
G. C & D
Answer Key:

1. C
These features are available only with a Distributed Switch:
- Shaping inbound (RX) traffic
- Has a central unified management interface through vCenter Server
- Supports Private VLANs (PVLANs)
- Provides potential customization of Data and Control Planes
- An Enterprise Plus license is required to add a host to a vNetwork Distributed
Switch (vDS)
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010555

2. G
Server, Network and Storage Components can be virtualized. vSphere
Essentials Kits are for small businesses and combine virtualization for up to three
physical servers with centralized management with vCenter for Essentials.
http://wikibon.org/blog/integrating-storage-and-network-virtualization/

3. E
http://www.kumatech.ca/download/docs/110_6081-
EN_R3_HIT_VE_Installation_Guide_web.pdf (page 13)

4. A
VMware Horizon View is VMWare’s product for managing Virtual Desktops.
Horizon Flex provides virtual machines to be installed on a user’s desktop that
are centrally managed by VMware. Workstation is a type 2 hypervisor for running
virtual machines on Windows or Linux. Fusion is a type 2 hypervisor for running
virtual machines on Mac. VMware Player is a free type 2 hypervisor for running
individual VMs for demonstration or other light uses.

5. F
PowerCLI is an extension, which builds upon Windows Powershell and can be
downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/go/powercli. vSphere Remote CLI is a
separate application which can be downloaded in Windows, 32-Bit Linux or 64-
Bit Linux formats from
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details/vcli40/ZCV0YmRkJSpidHdw
So from the options given you can Download VMware vCenter or the vSphere
client, browse objects mounted by this host, and browse datastores (which could
be Network File System (NFS) mounted).
6. I
VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and Oracle VM Server 3.3
are Type 1 Hypervisors. VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC are Type
2 Hypervisors that install on top of other operating systems and rely upon those
operating systems to access hardware devices.

7. G
User and group data is stored in Active Directory, OpenLDAP, or locally to the
operating system of the machine where vCenter Single Sign-On is installed.
Upon installation, every instance of vCenter Single Sign-On has the Local OS
identity source vpshere.local. This identity source is internal to vCenter Single
Sign-On. A vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user can create vCenter Single
Sign-On users and groups. Other available Identity Sources are Active Directory
(Integrated Windows Authentication) and Active Directory as an LDAP Server.

8. C
All versions of vCloud Suite 6.0 include vSphere 6.0 Enterprise Plus Edition.
https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vCloud/VMware-vCloud-Suite-
Datasheet.pdf

9. B
VMware’s Type 2 Hypervisor that runs on the Mac is Fusion version 8 or higher.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html

10. E
Update Manager can be used to upgrade ESXi and virtual appliances. It can
also be used to update the VMware Tools and Hardware of virtual machines.