INF320 Virtual Server 2005 R2 Product Overview and VSMT

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INF320 - Virtual Server 2005 R2Product Overview
and VSMT

• Leon Shapritsky Elkana Porag
• VS TS Microsoft Regional Director
  System Management UG Lead
• Team Computers Systems Ltd.
• v-leonsh_at_microsoft.com
  elkana_at_team.co.il

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Lower Operational Costs
Increase Availability
Application Developers
Server Administrators
Increase Responsiveness
Improve Utilization
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Agenda

• Todays IT Pressures
• DSI and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
• Key Customer Scenarios
• Features and Benefits
• Summary and Call to Action

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Systems Designed For Operations
Operationally Aware Platform
Intelligent Management Tools
Designs include all information relevant to
management
Rich instrumentation and hardware resource
virtualization
End to End, automated management tools
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Application Consolidation
Technology
Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Consolidating
and Migrating LOB Applications
Guidance

• Prescriptive guidance for migrating and
  re-hosting NT4 LOB applications
• Determine which LOB apps are suitable for Virtual
  Server and how to use tools to migrate

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Virtual Server architecture

• Virtualization infrastructure
• VM monitor
• COM API
• Resource management
• WMI/event log integration

• Industry-standard device models
• Intel 440BX motherboard
• Intel 21141 NIC
• S3 Trio64 Gfx
• NO custom drivers in guest

• Guest OS
• Runs all major x86 OSes
• 3.6GB RAM
• 4 NICs
• 56.5TB storage (IDE, SCSI, iSCSI)
• MSCS clustering
• Guest applications
• Require NO rewriting, rewiring, retraining, etc.

• VS works with Windows
• Heartbeat from kernel/scheduler
• Device drivers

• Up to 32 host CPUs
• Up to 64GB host RAM
• VS leverages existing system storage, networking
  and security infrastructure
• Optimized for Enterprise Edition

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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
The most cost-effective virtual machine solution
designed for Windows Server 2003 R2 to improve
operational efficiency.

• Focused on key customer scenarios
• Software test and development
• Legacy application re-hosting
• Targeted production workload consolidation

• Reduce costs and improve IT responsiveness
• Reduce hardware costs by at least 50
• Reduce provisioning times by 50-95
• Increase administrator productivity

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Software Test and Development

• Consolidate and automate software test and
  development environments
• Greater flexibility
• Better test coverage
• Developer productivity
• User experience
• Test distributed server applications on a single
  physical server

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Legacy Application Re-Hosting

• Applications often outlive their original OS or
  hardware
• VS enables smooth migration on your timeline
• Upgrade infrastructure without having to upgrade
  or rewrite applications
• Host legacy applications on current hardware
  running Windows Server 2003

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Consolidate Proper Workloads

• Consolidate multiple server workloads
• Higher hardware utilization
• Increased manageability
• Use Virtual Server for
• Consolidation of infrastructure services
• Disaster recovery environments
• Departmental or branch office services

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Virtual Server Benefits
Improved hardware efficiency
Broad set of partner solutions
Increased administrator productivity
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Improved Hardware Efficiency

• Core virtual machine technology
• Building on Windows Server 2003 ensures broad
  device compatibility
• Runs on Windows XP for non-production
  environments
• Can run most x86 operating systems
• Optimized for Windows guest operating system
  performance
• Resource management
• Policy-based resource management features
• Fine-grained control of CPU and memory resource
  allocation

Improved hardware efficiency
Broad set of partner solutions
Increased administrator productivity
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64-bit Host Support

• Provides Greater Scalability
• Supported x64 hosts
• Windows Server 2003 Std/Ent x64 Edition
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• 64-bit port of VMM and service
• Better scaling from larger kernel address space
• x64 systems typically can have more RAM

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Increased Administrator Productivity

• Easy to Deploy
• Complete scripted control enables automated
  configuration and deployment
• Easy to Manage
• Use the Virtual Server Administration Website and
  standard physical server management tools to
  administer virtual machines
• Easy to Use
• Unified host and guest Windows experience
  streamlines common virtual machine tasks

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Easy to Deploy

• Comprehensive COM API
• Enables complete scripted control of virtual
  machine environments
• Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
• Encapsulates virtual machines
• Allows flexible configuration, change and
  deployment including differencing drives
• Virtual Networking
• Facilitates secure and versatile networking
• guest-to-guest
• guest-to-host
• guest-to-net
• PXE Boot integrated in updated BIOS

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VS Admin Site Demo
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Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration

• Virtual Server Migration Toolkit
• Command line tools to help automate P2V migration
• Leverages Automated Deployment Services (ADS)

Technology

• Solution Accelerator for Consolidation and
  Migrating LOB Applications
• Determine which applications are good candidates
  for VS
• Guidance on using VSMT in combination with ADS

Guidance
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VSMT Demo
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Management Pack for MOM 2005
Displays all hosts including knowledge of
physical vs virtual
Generate scripts leveraging COM API to automate
tasks
Fine grained control over virtual machines
(guests)
MOM 2005 Single pane for managing physical
servers to virtual machines
Mapping guests to host with visibility into
server health

• 1Many management of hosts and guests
• Health monitoring and configuration changes
• Closed loop automation via scripting and COM API

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High Availability Scenarios

• Virtual Machine Clustering
• Support for iSCSI allows clustering virtual
  machines across hosts
• Virtual Server R2 Host Cluster support
• The ability to cluster Virtual Server hosts.
• Virtual Server host clustering uses Windows
  Server 2003 EE/DTC clustering
• Virtual Server host clustering supports SAN,
  iSCSI or DAS
• Benefits
• Guest OS agnostic. Any virtual machine running
  any OS can be moved or failover to another
  cluster node
• FREE. Virtual Server host clustering available as
  a free download

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Host Cluster Support Details

• Accommodates both planned and unplanned downtime
• Planned downtime
• Servicing the host hardware or patching the host
  operating system
• Virtual machine migration. Virtual machines can
  be moved from one cluster node to another with
  minimal downtime. (Downtime dependent on speed of
  storage infrastructure)
• Less than 10 seconds to move 128 MB vm via 1GbE
  iSCSI (faster on SAN)
• Unplanned downtime
• Failover to another cluster node due to hardware
  failure

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VSMT Tips Tricks
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Broad Set of Partner Solutions

• Product and service offerings from Microsoft and
  partners
• Helps businesses plan for, deploy and manage
  Virtual Server
• Microsoft prescriptive guidance
• Solution Accelerator for Migrating and
  Consolidating LOB Applications
• Partner offerings
• Hardware Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, NEC,
  Unisys
• Management Computer Associates, HP, Veritas
• Services Avenade, EDS, HP

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Summary and Call To Action

• Most cost effective VM solution for WS2K3
• Visit our homepage for the latest information and
  Get familiar with Virtual Server 2005
• http//www.microsoft.com/virtualserver
• Product Download (IT IS FREE!!!)
• White papers
• Solution accelerator
• Case studies
• Initiate a pilot project or proof of concept
• Available from leading partners

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Additional Resources

• Get your own experience with Microsofts
  products at Virtual Labhttp//www.microsoft.com/
  technet/traincert/virtuallab/default.mspx
• Windows Server System Homehttp//www.microsoft.c
  om/windowsserversystem/default.mspx

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For additional Information

• Leon Shapritskyv-leonsh_at_microsoft.comVS TS
  Microsoft Regional Director
• Elkana Poragelkana_at_team.co.il
• System Management UG Lead

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