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Virtual Infrastructure Overview


Building Virtual Machines

2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Creating Virtual Machines

Virtual machines are a core component of a virtual infrastructure.


VMware vSphere includes to the ability use templates to quickly provision virtual machines. A template is created by creating, configuring, and testing a virtual machine, and then converting it to template format. Templates reduce deployment time and costly mistakes when you deploy additional virtual machines.

First.. A look at the infrastructure.

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Using vSphere
vSphere provides the foundation for any virtual datacenter small, medium, or large: Management services:
VMware vCenter Suite

Application services:
For availability, security, scalability

Infrastructure services:
VMware ESX/ESXi

vSphere also provides the major building blocks for VMware vCloud: Infrastructure, platform, and
software services on demand

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What Is Virtualization?

Virtualization is a technology that transforms hardware into software.

Virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single computer. Each copy of an operating system is
installed into a virtual machine.

Virtualization is not: Simulation Emulation

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Host Operating SystemBased Virtualization


A host-based virtualization system requires an operating system (such as Windows or Linux) to be installed on the computer.

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Hypervisor Architecture
A virtualization layer is installed. It uses either a hosted or a bare-metal hypervisor architecture.

hosted or bare-metal architecture

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What Is a Virtual Machine?

virtual machine

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What Is a Virtual Machine?

From the users perspective, a virtual machine is a software platform that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications. From the hypervisors perspective, a virtual machine is a discrete set of files. Main files: Configuration file Virtual disk file NVRAM settings file Log file

virtual machine

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Why Use Virtual Machines?


Physical machine
Difficult to move or copy Bound to a specific set of hardware components

Virtual machine
Easy to move and copy:
Encapsulated into files Independent of physical hardware

Often has a short life cycle


Requires personal contact to upgrade hardware

Easy to manage:
Isolated from other virtual machines Insulated from hardware changes

Provides the ability to support legacy applications Allows servers to be consolidated

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Virtual Machine Hardware


Up to 3 ports Up to 4 ports 1 IDE controller Up to 4 CD-ROMs 1 floppy controller Up to 2 floppy drives

Up to 255GB RAM VM chipset 1 CPU (up to 8 CPUs with VMware Virtual SMP)

110 NICs

14 SCSI adapters; 115 devices per adapter

Virtual machine hardware is scalable enough to meet most business and application needs.

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Centralized Virtual Machine Management

Manage a virtual machine using its virtual machine console: Send power changes
to virtual machine.

Access virtual
machines guest operating system. VM console

VM console icon

Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to
guest operating system.

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Fast, Flexible Guest OS Installations

virtual machine

VM console

Install from ISO image to virtual disk. Configure a datastore with a library of ISO images for easy virtual machine deployment and application installation.

local

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Enhanced Virtual Machine Performance


VMware Tools enhances performance and improve management of a virtual machine. Features include: Virtual machine heartbeat Improved mouse movement Ability to gracefully shut down
virtual machine
VMware Tools icon

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Reducing Virtual Machine Deployment Time

A template is a VMware vCenter Server feature used to create and provision new virtual machines. A template is a master image that typically includes a guest operating system, a set of applications, and a specific virtual machine configuration.

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Creating a Template
Clone virtual machine to template. Virtual machine can either be
powered on or powered off.

Convert virtual machine to template. Virtual machine must be powered


off.

Clone an existing template.


Select template in inventory first.

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Deploying a Virtual Machine from a Template


To deploy a virtual machine from a template, provide such information as the virtual machine name, inventory location, host, datastore, and guest operating system customization data.

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Deploying Virtual Machines Across Datacenters


Virtual machine deployment is allowed across datacenters. For example, deploy
from a template located in one datacenter to a virtual machine in a different datacenter.

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Storage Overview

datastore types

VMware vStorage VMFS

NFS

storage technology

Locally Attached

Fibre Channel

iSCSI

NAS

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Datastores
A datastore is a logical storage unit that can use disk space on one physical device or one disk partition, or span several physical devices. Types of datastores: VMFS Network File System (NFS) Datastores are used to hold virtual machines, templates, and ISO images. A VMFS datastore can also hold a raw device mapping (RDM), which is used to access raw data.
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VMFS

VMFS: Allows concurrent access to


shared storage

Can be dynamically expanded Can use an 8MB block size,


good for storing large virtual disk files

Uses subblock addressing,


good for storing small files

Provides on-disk, block-level


locking

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RDM

An RDM is a mapping file in a VMFS volume that acts as a proxy for a raw physical device. A raw disk can be used for existing data, virtual machine clustering, and storage array snapshots.

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vStorage Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning

Virtual machine disks consume only the amount of capacity needed. A virtual machine sees the full allocated disk size at all times. You can mix thick and thin formats. Full reporting and alerts help manage allocations and capacity.

More efficient storage utilization: Virtual disk allocation Used storage capacity 140GB 80GB Available datastore capacity 100GB

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Demonstration:

Creating new Virtual Machines Deploying Templates

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Key Points
A virtual machine is a set of virtual hardware on which a supported guest
operating system and its applications run.

A template is a master image that typically includes a guest operating


system, a set of applications, and a specific virtual machine configuration.

Deploying virtual machines from a template provides a fast, easy, scalable


method for creating virtual machines.

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