Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Advanced Virtualization Management

1. SESSION CODE: VIR309 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Advanced Virtualization Management Required Slide Iftekhar Hussain Partner Technology Advisor Microsoft Corporation ihussain@microsoft.com

2. Session Objectives • Objective • Overview of Virtual Machine Manager and how you can use it to manage your virtual environment • Key Takeaway • VMM 2008 R2 coupled with Windows Server 2008 R2 provides a complete, highly available and extensible management solution for your virtualized environment

3. Agenda • Dynamic IT And Virtualization • Key Virtualization Concerns • Efficient VM provisioning • Day to Day operations with VMM • Performance and Resource Optimization • Delegated Administration and Self Service • Demo

4. Microsoft Virtualization Your Infrastructure: Virtual Cloud Increase server utilization, reduce operating costs and improve service levels Access to applications at anytime from anywhere Datacenter Desktop Flexibility and agility for infrastructure, applications, management and security Management Seamless physical, virtual and application management

5. Efficient management reduces cost Case Study http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000006879

6. Few Virtualization concerns How do I streamline VM Provisioning? Can I do Live migrations between servers with different processors? How do i determine suitable host for my VM? How can I optimize resources and performance ? Can I host more than 1 VM per LUN? Can I monitor and manage services inside my VMs? Can I migrate VM storage from 1 SAN to another?

7. Building a Virtualized Environment Administrator’s Console Self Service Web Portal Operator’s Console Web Console Windows PowerShell Connector Windows®PowerShell • Virtual Machine Manager • Server Operations Manager Server Management Interfaces Virtual Server Host VMM Library Server VMware VI3 Virtual Center Server ESX Host VM VM VM VM VM VM Template VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM ISO VHD Script SAN Storage

8. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Overview • Clustered Shared Volumes • Hot addition/removal of storage • SAN migrations in and out of clustered hosts • Maintenance Mode • Live Migration • Expanded support for iSCSI SANs • Support for optimized networking • Support for Quick Storage Migration • Queuing of Live migrations • Support for third party CFS Support for third party CFS Support for optimized networking Maintenance Mode Hot addition/removal of storage Expanded support for iSCSI SANs Clustered Shared Volumes SAN migrations in and out of clustered hosts Live Migration: Queuing of Live migrations Support for Quick Storage Migration For users requiring a true clustered file system, VMM 2008 R2 supports third party file systems by detecting CFS disks and allows for deploying multiple VMs per LUN. • Place multiple virtual machines on a single LUN and manage them individually. The key benefit that CSV delivers here is greatly simplified LUN configuration for the administrator. Quickly and efficiently respond to changing storage requirements of virtual machines. Easily migrate virtual machines between clustered hosts without affecting the connected users. Perform multiple Live Migrations without having to keep track of other Live Migrations within the cluster. Ability to automatically migrate VMs in and out of clustered hosts using SAN transfers. Simplify the process of initiating maintenance or upgrades to virtual hosts, VMM 2008 R2 provides maintenance mode – a one-step process whereby active virtual machines are safely evacuated to other hosts within the cluster before maintenance begins. Support for two new networking services – Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) and TCP Chimney – built into Windows Server 2008 R2. Key benefits to both of these technologies are more efficient processing of network traffic (through the creation of virtual network queues in the former and offloading of TCP/IP workloads to a physical NIC, in the latter) and thus freeing up CPU cycles on the host machine. With expanded support now covering the majority of available iSCSI SANs, VMM 2008 R2 enables administrators to choose from a much wider range of options when selecting a new SAN solution. For those with SAN infrastructure in place, VMM 2008 R2 features greater SAN compatibility enabling administrators to leverage their storage investments. VMM 2008 R2 now allows for the migration of a VM’s storage both within the same host and across hosts with minimum downtime.  VMM 2008 R2 also supports VMware storage vMotion so the storage for a VMware VM can be transferred on the same hosts no downtime.

9. Finding Suitable Hosts: Intelligent Placement • Planning technology that ensures best resource utilization • Star based rating system for easy decision making • Customizable algorithm to achieve your goals • Applicable to both Hyper-V and VMware hosts • Utilized during: • New virtual machine creation (through UI, PowerShell or Self-Service) • Virtual machine migration • Checks host compatibility before migrations • Prevents migration from failing • Uses Windows Server 2008 R2 and VMware compatibility APIs • Network Optimization Support • Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)

10. Intelligent Placement – Rating Stars

11. Intelligent Placement – VMQ VMM has detected that host and NIC has VMQ capabilities

12. Speedup VM provisioning using Templates • Consist of Hardware and Guest OS Profile • Consistent hardware and guest OS configuration across all VMs • Reduce Provisioning time • Enables provisioning using Self Service Portal

13. Rapid Provisioning (Cmdline Only) • Rapidly create VMs from template • In VMM R2 • Create hardware and OS profiles with desired settings. • Create a template using profiles and specify blank VHD • Out of Band to VMM R2 • Create generalized VHD • Provision storage, clone VHD and present it to host • Using storage technologies such as snap cloning • In VMM R2 • Call New-VM with new parameter –UseLocalVirtualHardDisk

14. VM Provisioning Using Templates and Rapid Provisioning DEMO

15. Support for CSV • Multiple VMs Sharing a LUN VMM 2008 R2 • CSV provides a single consistent file name space • Files have the same name and path when viewed from anynode in the cluster • CSV volumes are exposed as directories and subdirectories under the “ClusterStorage” root directory • C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\<root> • C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2\<root> • C:\ClusterStorage\Volume3\<root> Failover Cluster Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Clustered Storage LUN 1 LUN 2 VHD VHD VHD VHD VHD VHD

16. CSV brings Cluster Fault Tolerances I/O Redirected via network Routed to Redundant Network Node Failure VM running on Node 2 is unaffected VM running on Node 2 is unaffected VHD SAN Brief queuing of I/O while volume ownership is changed Volume mounted on Node 1 SAN Connectivity Failure Network Path Connectivity Failure Volume relocates to a healthy node

17. Live Migration Support Moving a virtual machine from one server to another without loss of service • Guest OS is unaware of the migration • Maintain TCP connections of the guest OS • VM is treated as a black box • Building block for Dynamic Data Center through business agility, cost reduction and increase in productivity Enables new dynamic scenarios • Load balancing VMs via policy

18. Orchestrated Live Migration Virtual Machine Virtual Machine • Memory Content • Memory Sync • Configuration Data Cluster Node 1 Cluster Node 2 User VHD Network Storage

19. Quick Storage Migration • VMM supports • Quick Storage Migration • VMware Storage vMotion • Useful when; • Consolidating existing VMs in a Clustered Shared Storage (CSV) • Upgrading your SAN • Migrating from old to new SAN • Low disk space • Site to site migration

20. Quick Storage Migration behind the scene • Create Checkpoint – Now R/W to Diff Disk • Copy VHD to Disk 2 • Pause VM and Transfer Diff Disk to Disk 2 • Apply Diff Disk • Start VM, Clean up Original Source Disk Destination Disk

21. Support for third party CFS • Support for Veritas Volume Manager. • Supports Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Windows (SFW), • An SFW volume is limited to one virtual machine. • Support for Sanbolic Clustered File System. • Support for Live/Quick Migration in Windows 2008 R2 clusters • Support for Quick Migration on Windows 2008 clusters • (solves the 1 LUN/VM limitation in clustering for down level Windows 2008)

22. Maintenance Mode and Live Migration Queuing • Maintenance Mode Options: • Live-migrate all running HA VMs and save-state for non-HA running VMs • Place all running virtual machines into a saved state. • When host is in maintenance mode, • Blocks all virtual machine creation operations on the host. • Excludes the host from the host ratings during placement. • No VM can be moved into the host. • Host is not monitored • Supported for Hyper-V, VS and VMware hosts

23. Maintenance Mode usage scenarios Enable Maintenance Mode Host is now offline for servicing Shared Storage

24. Conversions: P2V and V2V Intuitive and easy to use tools provide: • Core feature of VMM, no additional infrastructure or costs per conversion • Wizard based experience • Reconfigure storage, memory, CPU, etc. • Efficient disk copy • Preserves network settings and MAC addresses • Automatable through PowerShell Supported platforms: • Live - Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 • Offline - Windows 2000 Server

25. Processor Compatibility Mode Intel® Pentium® 4 VT Intel® Xeon® Host 1 Host 2 Shared Storage

26. Delegation & Self Service Portal Administrators • Full access to all actions • Full access to all objects • Can use the Admin console or PowerShell interface Delegated Administrators • Full access to most actions • Scope can be limited by host groups and Library servers • Can use the Admin console or PowerShell interface Self-Service Users • Limited access to a subset of actions • Scope can be limited by host groups, library shares and VM ownership • Limited by utilization quotas and template costs • Can use the Self-Service Portal or PowerShell interface

27. Live MigrationMaintenance Mode Self Service Portal DEMO

28. Performance and Resource Optimization

29. VMM PRO Partner Ecosystem STORAGE SERVERS LOAD BALANCERS SECURITY CAPASITY PLANNING NON MS WORKLOAD and APP VIRTUAL I/O Power and Cooling

30. Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) DEMO

31. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 ANNOUNCING

32. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 Goals • Add support for key Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 Features • Configuration support • Intelligent Placement support • Dynamic Memory • Startup Memory, Maximum Memory • Memory Priority, Target Buffer • RemoteFX • Maximum number of monitors • Maximum monitor resolution The feature areas and investments in this slide represent design goals and, as such, are subject to change between now and actual product release.

33. Management Beyond VMM • Patch management and deployment • OS and application configuration management • Software upgrades • End to end service management • Server and application health monitoring & management • Performance reporting and analysis • Live host level virtual machine backup • In guest Apps backup • Rapid recovery • Incident and change management • Automation, orchestration, and integration for IT management tools

34. To review… • Streamlined VM Provisioning. • Migrations between machines with different processors. Templates and VM Profiles, Processor Compatibility Mode • Determine the right Host for your VM. • Optimize Resources and Performance. Intelligent Placement PRO TIPS • Migrating Storage from 1 SAN to another. • End to End Virtualization Management. Quick Storage Migration System Center "Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place" - Thomas Bittman, Gartner

35. Thank you Iftekhar Hussain ihussain@microsoft.com http://blogs.technet.com/iftekhar Q&A

36. Required Slide Speakers, please list the Breakout Sessions, Interactive Sessions, Labs and Demo Stations that are related to your session. Related Content VIR206: Virtualization 360- Microsoft Virtualization Strategy • VIR403: Hyper V tips and Tricks • VIR08-HOL- Hands-on Labs SCVMM 2008 R2: Introduction VIR09-HOL: Hands –on Lab SCVMM 2008 R2: Advanced Topics

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