Doing Better Demos: How to Get the Most from the Microsoft Demo Platform and Tools

1. Doing Better Demos: How to Get the Most from the Microsoft Demo Platform and Tools Lyle Curry Sr. Product Marketing Manager Microsoft Dynamics ERP

2. Session Objectives and Takeaways • Understanding Hyper-V in a Demo Scenario • Hyper-V – Why Hyper-V now and what is it? • Hardware – What it consumes and how to boot • Virtual environment optimization and licensing considerations

3. Advantages Performance potential Hosts x64 guest images Dedicate as much RAM as needed Better hardware utilization Disadvantages Higher degree of complexity Not ‘optimized’ for desktop No native support for wireless networks Virtualization Optionsfor Dynamics demo systems Hyper-V VPC • Advantages • Simple deployment • Simple use & management • ‘Optimized’ for desktop • Disadvantages • Performance • Only runs x86 guest images • Limited to 3.5GB RAM per VM • No VM hosting option

4. An x64 standards based virtualization technology included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter Full or Server Core Turning it on is a matter of selecting the Hyper-V Role Also available as a separate standalone SKU – Microsoft Hyper-V Server A thin layer of software between the hardware & the host OS This layer is called Windows Hypervisor Provides ability to run multiple OS environments (guests) on a host computer at the same time What is Hyper-V?

5. Hyper-V Architecture VM Worker Processes Child Partitions Parent Partition Applications Applications Applications Applications User Mode WMI Provider VM Service Windows Server 2008 R2 Non-Hypervisor Aware OS OS Windows Kernel Windows Kernel ISV / IHV / OEM VSP Microsoft Hyper-V Xen-Enabled Linux Kernel Windows Server 2003, 2008 Microsoft / XenSource IHV Drivers Kernel Mode VMBus Linux VSC Emulation VMBus VMBus VSC Windows hypervisor Ring -1 Hypercall Adapter “Designed for Windows” Server Hardware

6. Minimum Requirements 4 GB RAM / 60 GB of free hard disk space RECOMMENDED: 8GB RAM 300-400MB for the hypervisor 32MB for the first 1GB of RAM assigned to each guest OS 8MB of RAM for each additional 1GB of RAM assigned to each guest OS Laptops with 8GB of RAM meeting Virtualization requirements for Hyper-V are less than $1200 Use a 2nd Hard Disk – Internal or External If External use eSATAand SSD for best performance If Internal use a minimum 7,200 RPM Hard disk must be formatted NTFS (FAT has 2GB file size limit) Run Virtual Images with a minimum of 1.5 or 2GB of RAM Hardware Requirements

7. Virtual PC vs. Hyper-V on Demo Laptop VPC on Demo Laptop Hyper-V on Demo Laptop Only new high end hardware Import directory structure and set networking No access to local Disks within VM No native support for Wireless Networks Support for 32 and 64 Bit Guests This is why we do it! • Use existing hardware • Just point to file and run • Link to local HD within VM • Support for Wireless Networks • Support for 32 Bit Guests

8. New licensing Model Evaluation copy with 180 day activation period 10 day’s to activate via the internet or phone (trial period) 180 day evaluation period When time runs out you can re-arm up to 3 times Best Practice - customize your VM during first evaluation period and then “rearm” the VM in order to reset both the activation grace period and the trial expiration. Use the “slgmgr.vbs –rearm” command followed by a system shut down. This will allow you to use the VM with a fresh evaluation period whenever it is needed. Licensing Model

9. Sometimes Microsoft or our ISV partners would ship a differencing disk as a supplement\enhancement to the original VM Since all VM’s must be activated by the user shipping differencing disks will no longer be a viable option Users can still take advantage of differencing disks after they receive and activate their VM. You can still have multiple versions for each prospect Differencing Disks and the New Licensing Model

10. Installing Hyper-V on A demo Laptop

11. Advantages Full control Self contained Offline access Disadvantages Higher degree of complexity More costly hardware Complexities of running dual boot or running WS08 as your “productivity” OS Hyper-V Deployment Optionsfor Dynamics demo systems Native on Notebook Hosted • Advantages • Lower hardware costs • Centralized image / management • Redundancy • Performance • Disadvantages • Dependent on internet access • Potential latency • Networked (patch & antivirus)

12. Win2K8-R2 as Host (running as your desktop) Win2K8 as desktop machine Hyper-V available along with desktop Win7 as Host + Boot to VHD for Win2K8-R2 Win7 as Client OS Boot to VHD of Win2K8-R2 HV When in HV you can’t switch back to Win7 Can run multiple VM’s one being Win7 on your corporate network and including all of your applications Boot Configurations Options

13. With Hypervisor running you can utilize as demo platform You can turn off Hypervisor thru boot menu Power Management and performance benefits Drawbacks to running Hyper-V and trying to utilize your laptop for non-demo tasks 3D Graphics issues Lack of support for certain applications and drivers Difficult to achieve full “Workstation” capabilities Application compatibility issues may arise No support for Bluetooth on Windows Server Running a Windows Server 2008 R2as Your Primary OS

14. Option 1: Full install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Must maintain two partions Option 2: Boot to VHD No need to partition HD – File must not reside on BitLocker enabled partition Allows for out of the box simplicity Box-in-a-Box Mode (running VM’s from a VM almost no performance penalty) Experts can do heavy lifting for you Little if any Configuration needed Minimal Hyper-V knowledge needed to get started Requirements Fixed Disk VHD (will convert dynamic automatically) Must have enough space for maximum size of dynamic disk on drive Image must be SysPrepped for initial boot Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

15. Copy the sysprep’d VHD file to your computer Modify the boot menu to point to your VHD file Re-boot to the new entry Run through “mini-setup” Install necessary drivers If you have 64-Bit Windows 7 already installed then you will have the drivers you need already available Activate OS Finish and configuration changes you want to make How do I enable Boot to VHD?

16. Launch an elevated (Run as Administrator) Command Prompt and run the following, replacing “Boot_From_VHD” with a name of your choice: bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Boot_From_VHD” Copy the CSLID that is displayed and run the following, replacing [C:]\vhdname.vhd with the path and name of your VHD: bcdedit /set {CLSID} device vhd=[C:]\vhdname.vhd bcdedit /set {CLSID} osdevice vhd=[C:]\vhdname.vhd bcdedit /set {CLSID} detecthal on Reboot and you will see the additional boot option for the VHD you just added. Modify the Boot Menu for Boot to VHD

17. Boot Menu for Boot to VHD

18. DEMO - BOOT TO VHD

19. TOUR OF HYPER-V

20. How do I install software on a Hyper-V VM? How do I share data with my host computer like in Virtual PC? How do I cut and paste between my host computer and my VM? How do I access devices that are connected to my host computer? Hyper-V Use Questions Install ISV software Add Prospect logo Load Prospect data

21. Hyper-V Use TipsFunctional Map

22. Hyper-V Files Types .XML files – Configuration of VM .BIN files – Memory of VM .VSV files – Saved State .VHD files – Hard drives of the VM .AVHD files – Differencing disks used for Snapshots Saved State is like Hibernate Pause is like sleep You can control file location through default settings and file location of export package that will be imported Controlling file location is more of a management efficiency thing as opposed to a performance thing with Hyper-V Virtual Machine Files

23. Export Directory contains all files related to a VM Duplicate all Files checkbox Keeps import directory intact for additional imports Once a set of exported files are imported the same set cannot be re-imported Move or Restore vs Copy Copy will allow multiple copies to be loaded in the Hyper-V console This will impact things like MAC Address Move will have conflicts with any other version of the same VM on the same host This is what you should normally use Step One – Acquire the exported VM that you want to use Step Two – Make sure required Hyper-V networks are in place Step Three – Copy the files to the location that you want to run the VM from Step Four – Import using Move Import/Export

24. Keep a copy of your import files so you don’t have to re-download all the files again later Make sure that you have the files you will import in the location that you want them in before you import Make sure that you have the networks created that will be required by the import before you perform the import Naming does matter – it must be exact After import you can only move the location of the main VHD file without a full export Take advantage of snapshot export feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 Best Practices for Import/Export

25. DEMO - IMPORT AND EXPORT

26. Three types of Networks Private Between VM’s only – on a single host Internal Between VM’s and Host on Single host External Link VM to Network Adapter Wireless Not supported directly by Hyper-V To make work: Install Desktop Experience and Wireless Lan Service on Host Configure ICS, RRAS or Network Bridging with Wireless adapter and Hyper-V Internal Network Networking

27. Use Internal Network in normal demo situations Make sure you configure the automatically created “Loopback Adapter” on the host with the proper IP Address information Avoid pointing to DNS if at all possible This will help to mitigate potential network issues on the host (for example contoso.com is a real domain on the Internet) Use host file modification on the host if you want to point to resources in the VM from the host Use Private Networks when you want to run duplicate IP Address’s (for example the same VM running multiple times on the same machine) Use External Networks only when necessary Potential problems include issues with duplicate domains on the same network Avoid using Wireless External Networks if wired is available Increase VMBus buffer size on Hyper-V network adapters to increase performance – detailed in the following blog post:http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2010/02/02/increase-vmbus-buffer-sizes-to-increase-network-throughput-to-guest-vms.aspx Best Practices for Networking

28. DEMO - WIRELESS NETWORKING

29. In Hyper-V a VM is truly a separate computer You share data between computers the same way you do when the computers are not virtual “Sneaker Net” Create a virtual DVD/CD (isoimage) of your data and mount it Create a virtual floppy disk image and mount it Use a USB drive (not directly supported by Hyper-V but can be accessed via a Terminal Services RDP session Mount a VHD Drive via SCSI Use Networking Access remote hard disks via network sharing Share local hard drives from the host via Terminal Services (RDP) Sharing Data Between Your VM and Your Host

30. Terminal Services will help you by: Providing a better user interface experience than the Hyper-V console Allowing for sound Providing for USB and other device sharing with your host Providing for drive sharing Proving copy\paste functionality with the host Key to using Terminal Services is getting the networking right Terminal Services as a key feature for making Hyper-V work for you

31. DEMO - SHARING DATA AND DEVICES VIA TERMINAL SERVICES

32. Snapshots are the new Undo Drive Differencing Disks are created by Hyper-V to do Snapshots Limit of 50 (hard drive space will be a limiting factor) in tree structure to provide multiple ‘Undo’ points SnapShots can be in separate location from Data Root Export of a snapshot brings all back into single directory structure with no snapshot Export of the main VM will include all snapshots SnapShots

33. Snapshots are very useful for demo purposes even though they are discouraged in production VM environments Take a snapshot of a VM before first boot Use snapshot branching to create “different demo images” for multiple customer engagements Boot your image and fully warm it up and then create a snapshot in order get right where you want to be in a demo Use of too many snapshots will have a performance impact Best Practice with SnapShots

34. Diff Disks Works the same way as with VPC Great way of handling images for multiple deals Very little performance penalty Can be merged into new parent image SCSI Hot Add/Remove within VM Any VHD Allows for creation of a ‘Utility’ disk that can be mounted into any VM without re-booting VM Disk Drives

35. DEMO – SCSI HOT ADD & REMOVE

36. In Hyper-V use IDE drives vs. SCSI for best performance. Use SCSI for hot drive add/remove In Virtual Server some used the emulated SCSI for performance reasons but this is not helpful in Hyper-V Use the Legacy Network Adapter for booting from the network Make sure to use Integration Components for your VM’s These are native to the latest OS’s All Microsoft produced VM’s will contain these Use Terminal Services to gain access to USB devices Best Practices for Virtual Hardware Optimization

37. Hardware 8GB RAM / 100GB free hard disk space Enough memory to eliminate swapping If needed put pagefile on different drive External HD configuration similar to Virtual PC Hard Drive separation is biggest performance gain although not as much as with Virtual PC Maintain a Clean Host Hard Drive and Defrag Often Hardware Virtualization is required and must be enabled in the BIOS Many similar performance suggestions as with Virtual PC High Performance Power plan (Most Power Management Disabled with Hyper-V) Make sure to run from AC Power at all times Clean defrag’d host drive Limit Applications/Services on your Host Outlook, SQL, Scheduled Virus Scans, etc. Anti-virus precautions (exclude Hyper-V files from Anti-Virus) Unlike VPC, Hyper-V can not run NTFS compressed VHD’s Hyper-V Performance Tips

38. Multiple drives will help most if you have very unbalanced performance on your laptop (drives with vastly different speeds or limited memory) Multiple drives will help if you are running multiple VM’s Use fast drives with Hyper-V because separation of files between drives is tricky and your best I/O performance improvement will come from raw drive performance Use eSATA if possible for the performance. USB 3.0 is still very new but looks promising Best Practices for Hardware Optimization

39. Performance Research: Results

40. Newly created White Paper ‘Best Practices for Running Hyper-V on Demo Laptops’ DemoMate Click-Thru’s for common config of Hyper-V Using Boot to VHD with a pre-configured VM in order to get up and running quickly All content will be available from PartnerSource https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={0A99BDB7-ADC6-44D5-B1EA-6392B7E89B65}&NRORIGINALURL=/partnersource/deployment/methodology/vpc/nav2009r2&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&wa=wsignin1.0 Links for more help: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/hyper-v-portal.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/ Helping you with Hyper-V

41. The Hyper-V Getting Started Guide The Getting to Know Hyper-V Video Virtual Machine Processor Compatibility Mode The Hyper-V Portal More Hyper-V Resources

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43. Differencing disk. A virtual disk (VHD) that is based on a Base Virtual Disk. It is essentially a VHD that records the differences between the current state and the virtual disk that it is based on. Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk. A virtual hard disk that grows in size each time it is modified. Guest operating system. The operating system in the virtual machine in Hyper-V. Host. The operating system on the physical computer where Hyper-V is installed and that “hosts” the virtual machines through Hyper-V. Hypervisor. The layer of software that exists above the hardware and below the management operating system. It creates partitions to provide isolated execution environments and manages each partition's access to hardware resources. Integration services. A collection of services and software drivers that maximize performance and provide a better user experience within a virtual machine. Integration services are only available for supported guest operating systems. Legacy network adapter. A virtual network adapter that emulates a specific physical network adapter, the multiport DEC 21140 10/100TX 100 MB. Parent disk. The virtual disk (VHD) file that is being used to serve as a base to other virtual disks. This is used when creating differencing disks. Parent partition. The partition used to store the management operating system. Snapshot. A capture of the full current state of a Virtual Machine, including settings, working RAM, hard disk, etc. Snapshots can be “Applied” to return to that saved state at any time. Virtual machine. The machine or computer that is emulated by Hyper-V. Virtual network. A virtual version of a physical network switch. A virtual network can be configured to provide access to local or external network resources for one or more virtual machines. Key Hyper-V Terms

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