VMware uses technology to irrigate the flower of ecology

 today I decided to talk to you about VMware solutions and certification systems, because my understanding of virtualization begins with VMware. VMware's leadership in virtualization and private cloud remains unchallenged, despite several strategic adjustments and personnel changes in recent years, regardless of whether EMC federation or Dell ties operate independently. As a pure software company, VMware, through its own complete certification system and interface open strategy to attract, so that the hardware vendors to increase their cooperation to expand their own ecological environment, both in strategic vision and technical capabilities are commendable.

Next, I will analyze the topic of today according to my usual sequence. Introduce VMware overall solutions and features, then the VMware Certification system.

1Introduction to VMware Solutions

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     vmware solutions include data center infrastructure (IaaS), Hyper-converged (evo:rail, Ready nodes, and Vsan ), storage Vsan, Vvolume, VFlash (VFlash pooled host flash resources for VMS to use as read cache, and VFlash to integrate with Vcenter, HA, DRS, and Vmotion Features), Desktop virtualization Horizon ( view), storage high Availability (SRM), Software Defined network NSX, cloud Management and OPS Vrealize Suite, hybrid/Public cloud Vcloud Air, private cloud Vcloud Suite, proprietary cloud, and free trial products. But today our main focus is on vsphere, VCloud Suite and Vrealize Suit.

VC Loud Suite Package contains vSphere Enterprise Plus Virtualization Management Programs and VMware the hybrid cloud management platform VMware vRealize Suite . vCloud Suite and its accessory modules build and manage vSphere -based private cloud and multi-vendor hybrid cloud at the same time. provides the industry's most comprehensive heterogeneous hybrid cloud management solution.

About vsphere

Vsphere is a virtualized software platform that supports VMFS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VSphere Storage APIs, Thin Provisioning, high Availability (HA), Fau Lt Tolerance (FT) features, specific vsphere features reference article VMware Advanced Features Summary and article VMware Basic functionality resolution .

Vspere Enterprise Enhancements

Vsphere Enterprise Plus offers a number of enhancements on vsphere for cloud-based management, reliability assurance, and efficiency improvements, and the main enhancements are as follows.

VMware vsphere Distributed switch simplifies and enhances virtual machine network connectivity in vSphere environments and enables the use of third-party distributed virtual switches in these environments.

Disaster recovery automation for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides policy-based disaster recovery and testing for all virtualized applications.

VMware vSphere storage/network IO control sets storage and network service quality priorities to ensure critical business-to-resource access.

VMware vsphere Auto Deploy can quickly deploy more vSphere hosts as needed. It pushes the update image, eliminating the need for patching and specifically arranging patching windows.

VMware vSphere Flash Read cache enables virtualization of server-side flash to provide a high-performance read-caching layer that can significantly reduce application latency.

Nvidia GRID VGPU provides all the benefits of Nvidia hardware accelerated graphics for virtualized solutions.

VMware VRealize Suite Features

VMware VRealize Suite is a management platform designed for hybrid cloud that enables rapid delivery and management of infrastructure and applications. It provides a comprehensive management architecture for vsphere and other virtualization hypervisors, physical infrastructure, OpenStack, and external clouds, such as VMware VCloud Air and Amazon Web Services, for a unified management experience. The VMware vRealize Suite Cloud management platform includes the following components.

VMware vRealize Operations enables intelligent management of the performance, capacity, and configuration of multi-vendor environments.

VMware vRealize Automation enables policy-based, self-service infrastructure, application, and lifecycle management for virtual, physical, and public cloud environments.

VRealize Log Insight enables real-time logging management and log analysis.

VMware vRealize Business enables cost accounting, usage metering, and service pricing for multi-vendor virtualized environments.

VMware Software-defined data center components

While the VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) product-related components are not directly included in the Vcloud Suite Suite (as an add-on for Vcloud Suite), they are also important in VMware Solutions, as described below.

VMware virtual SAN (Vsan) is a software-defined storage platform that extends VCloud suite for data center storage virtualization through abstraction and pooled storage, and VSAN-related content is no longer mentioned here.

VMware NSX is a completely out-of-the-hardware security and network virtualization component that extends VCloud Suite by virtualizing network connectivity for data center virtualization and SDN standardization.

VRealize Operations Public Cloud Extension and Automation public cloud Extension as an add-on module for VCloud Suite, VCloud Suite vRealize The operations and VRealize automation capabilities extend from a private vsphere infrastructure to Vcloud Air, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud, public cloud, and heterogeneous cloud.

VMware VCloud Air enables public cloud services for hybrid clouds. Disaster recovery can be achieved using the Vcloud Air disaster recovery on vsphere 6.0, enabling users to perform workload, failover, and recovery between the Vcloud suite private Cloud and the Vcloud Air public cloud.

VRealize Suite CMP (Cloud management platform) is the management control layer of the SDDC. CMP's native integration capabilities across multiple VMware technologies make vrealize Suite the best choice for customers to build an SDDC based on VMware virtualization. CMP technology is natively integrated with other VMware SDDC solutions, such as VMware NSX features (including network connections, load balancers, firewalls, and so on) that can be included within a service template created by CMP.

VMware Integrated OpenStack features support the integration of VMware with the OpenStack API, enabling developers to connect to VMware components via OpenStack (e.g., vsphere, VMware NSX, etc.) for deployment, Manage and run the OpenStack infrastructure.

2Introduction to VMware Certification System

VMware provides authentication channels and rich interface integration capabilities to achieve and third-party hardware and software integration, system performance improvements, efficient collaboration, and unified management. Includes storage interface features (VAAI, VASA, PSA), vcenter management features, disaster-tolerant scenario characteristics (SRM), and data center management features. The following is an overview of the certifications involved.

Vspere VAAI Certification

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Assisted locking enables smaller-grained block locks to increase the density of virtual machines.

Full copy can be used to perform operations such as cloning and storage vmotion of virtual machines and offloading them to array execution.

Block Zero implements the 0 operation of the virtual machine hard drive offload to array execution.

Thin Provisioning provides Thin LUN space unmap command reclamation work.

features for NAS storage VAAI for NAS include space Reservation, which implements the creation of thick VMDK on NFS file systems, reserving disk space.

The File cloning implements virtual machine cloning acceleration, which is divided into full clone and lazy clone.

Extended Stats reports thin vmdk or virtual machine storage space consumption information.

Native Snapshots for link clone enables the creation of linked-clone virtual machines based on snapshots.

vspere PSA Certification

The Vsphere multipath API (PSA), which supports VMware and third-party storage multipath authentication, enables storage vendors to deliver better storage I/O performance and reliability than vsphere NMP, making path management of companion storage simpler, more efficient, and more reliable.

The VSHPERE/ESXI provides an ESXi storage framework pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), and the storage vendor implements its own multipath (SCSI MP plug-in) based on the framework. Due to the development of a standard framework based on ESXi, a multi-path developed by a storage vendor can work concurrently with the VMware native Multipath NMP and other third-party multipath software.

VMware Vasa Certification

Storage-aware API (VASA), which provides vsphere with information on the health, configuration, capacity, and thin configuration of the disk array, to enable tight integration between storage and VMware, simplified management, and comprehensive monitoring.

Storage topology diagram can generate storage controller Id,lun, network card, virtual machine and other related entity topology diagram.

Storage capabilities is used to collect and provide storage-related features and functionality information such as LUN types, snapshots, data deduplication, creating virtual machine storage profiles, and ensuring that virtual machines are placed on properly compliant storage devices.

Storage status can report storage status information, including configuration events and warning messages.

Statistic (VASA 2.0) queries the I/O statistics for storage objects, such as the bandwidth of an array or LUN, VVOL support and read/write I/O statistics, and so on.

Storage DRS (VASA 2.0) is used to report data such as thin-provisoning or deduplication information and performance of the storage pool.

Disaster Recovery Management SRM Certification

Disaster tolerant Management (SRM) is a VMware Data center disaster recovery solution that enables business continuity and data protection across multiple sites in a private cloud environment, based on the remote replication feature of the storage array and the SRA plug-in.

features include support for multiple disaster preparedness scenarios, repeatable disaster tolerance testing, automated failover and failback workflows, one-click Disaster recovery failover or planned migrations, centralized recovery planning based on policy management, and virtual machine storage profile placement compliance, policies, and more.

VMware supports array-based remote replication and vsphere-based replication (vsphere Replication). Array-based remote replication requires the use of array remote replication features and a third-party companion developed SRA plug-in, based on vsphere replication and site Recovery Manager native integration, by tracking the changed disk region and replicating only incremental data.

Dual Live SRM Stretch certification

Dual Live disaster recovery management (SRM Stretch) is the latest VMware dual live data center disaster Recovery solution for vsphere 6.0, replacing the VMSC certification of vSphere6.0 previous versions.

SRM Stretch is based on SPBM policy management and supports repeatable verification, orchestration, and auditing. When a failover occurs, the virtual machine can be started in the order of the start priority policy and the service dependency sequence.

Vspere Vvols Certification

vsphere virtual volumes (Vvols) is a new feature of Vsphere 6.0, supporting Vasa provider and storage arrays for virtual machine granular storage policy-driven automation management, leveraging existing storage features such as snapshots, cloning, re-deletion, QoS, etc. Improve virtual machine performance and save management costs effectively.

VASA Provider provides VMware and storage communication services that provide the core of vvols and storage storage capability to establish I/O links, complete Vvol creation/deletion, implement binding and unbinding of Vvol with PE, and more.

The PROTOCOL endpoint protocol endpoint provides the I/O interface agent for compute and storage, which is responsible for I/O forwarding.

VVol LUNs (Storage virtual volumes) are stored on the corresponding storage container, corresponding to the specific volume components of the virtual machine, such as config VVol, Data vVol, and swap VVol.

VMware vRealize Operations Certification

VMware vRealize Operations is a smart operations management solution for VMware across physical, virtual, and cloud computing platforms, with Itom software such as CAs and Manageone. Third-party vendors are required to develop corresponding management packs for storage visualization operations management and management monitoring of performance, capacity, alarms and compliance.

Storage Overview The Dashboard interface provides a hot view of the performance and capacity of storage objects, including storage, disk domain, LUN, FileSystem, Virtual machine, and more.

The storage device warning feature collects storage device alarm information and provides processing advice.

The storage capacity performance alarm function is used to generate storage performance, capacity metric data, performance and capacity alarm information.

The Object Relational Dashboard interface provides a vsphere infrastructure topology associated with storage.

VMware vRealize orchestrator Certification

VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a core component of VMware's automated workflow management, and third-party vendors develop appropriate plugin plug-ins according to Orchestrator API specifications, enabling administrators to create and design complex automated workflow tasks To implement automated configuration management for third-party devices.

features include automating complex processes, designing and automating complex workflows with a single click, automating processes, providing pre-tailored workflows to accelerate IT service delivery, and automating workflows based on scripts such as soap and rest. Implement unified integration of Vsphere,vreazlie automation and vrealize operations components.

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