Summary at the top = nice View 5 feature overview and then HUGE stuff around using vCOPs to monitor View environments. This is critical stuff for building out and maintaining large VDI deployments.

• Found that a lot of the underlying requirements for Server Virtualization are the same as for VDI (stability, speed, scalability, etc.).
• First VDI solution to enable full 3D in Windows without any hardware….can do it all in software.
  • Easily enable 3D apps for users
• Storage Access Optimization with Content Based Read Cache
  • In-memory cache of common block reads
  • Applicable to all types of desktops
  • Completely transparent to the guest
  • 100% server based
  • No special array technology needed.
  • Lower storage costs by reducing peak IOps
    • This is huge for boot storms….will cache I/Os at the ESX level.
  • Ensure consistent user experience by handling worst case peak usage.
• vShield Endpoint
  • More benefit to storage I/O
  • Publicly announced commitments from….
    • Trend
    • Symantec
    • Kaspersky
    • Sophos
  • Glad to hear commitments…it’s taken quite long enough for anyone but Trend to support it.
  • Higher security as AV module is isolated and more difficult to evade.
• vShield App in the future for better physical network protection.
  • Context aware in enforcing security with vMotion, etc.
  • Transparent, application aware firewall.
  • Talked about this morning in the General Session.
• vCenter Operations for View
  • End-to-end monitoring for vCloud environments using vCenter Ops
  • Now a live demo about this….
• Looking at the entire solution..who is involved?
  • VI Admins – build and configure ESX, on/off-board users, Maintain healthy infrastructure, guarantee good end-user experience.
  • Desktop Specialists – provide 1st level technical support, perform basic triage, engage VI admins when needed.
  • Helpdesk – log and manage tickets, hotline for end-users.
  • BUT….end-users just want to do their work!
• Typical problems in the end-to-end View infrastructure
  • Client side — using iPad from home….network issues.
  • Internal network
  • ESX configuration.
  • View-level config issues (not enough VMs provisioned, etc.).
  • Storage — lack of storage and/or backend bandwidth.
• vCenter Operations for View — “Divide, Correlate, and Conquer”.
  • Gather thousands of metrics to measure performance in real time.
  • PCoIP stats (user experience), IOPs, r/w latency, etc.
  • Breaking up into sections watched by vCOPs for…
    • Clients
    • Network
    • vSphere
    • Storage
    • View Application
• How does it work?
  • Learns the dynamic ranges of each and every performance metric.
  • Learns behavior patterns and identifies abnormalities.
  • Correlates multiple anomalies into a Health Score
  • Isolates root-cause for performance degradations.
  • Automatically – no configuring/tuning needed.
• Walkthrough of an end-user call.
  • Can search by user.
  • See lots of info about the user/VDI session/etc.
  • Red/yellow/green scoring to highlight any issues.
• Canned video walkthrough
• Discussion about how vCOPs can and does alert before end-user visible issue happens (based on robust trending/alerting).
• Even further futures – enhanced vSphere web client that is really a mashup with vCOPs, has specific stuff even for View admins too.