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TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Who Am I ? Nicola Ferrini Trainer Technical Writer Systems Engineer Server & Application Virtualization Technology Specialist Technet Speaker Microsoft System Center Influencer More on:

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Agenda Server Virtualization using Hyper-V Managing Virtual Machines using Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Desktop Virtualization using Remote Desktop Services Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Management Virtualization Solutions Profile Virtualization Document redirection Offline files Presentation Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Application Virtualization Server Virtualization

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is Server Virtualization? Server virtualization enables multiple virtual machines to run on one physical host Benefits: Server consolidation Service or application isolation Simplified server deployment and management  Increased service and application availability Multiple operating systems can run on one consistent platform

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is Hyper-V? Applications Windows Server 2003, 2008 Windows Kernel VSC VMBus “Designed for Windows” Server Hardware Windows hypervisor Supported Linux Distributions Linux VSC Child Partitions OSISV/IHV/OEMMicrosoft Hyper-V User Mode Kernel Mode Ring -1 Windows Server 2008 Windows Kernel VMBus Parent Partition VM Services WMI Provider VM Worker Processes Applications Microsoft / Citrix Provided by VSP IHV Drivers Non-Hypervisor Aware OS Emulation

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Features of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration Dynamic virtual machine storage Improved VHD performance Enhanced processor support Enhanced networking support Cluster shared volumes

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: How to manage Hyper-V

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Guidelines for Designing Virtual Machines Guidelines: Simplify and standardize the host platform Plan virtual machines for specific server roles by: Monitoring the servers before virtualization Configuring each virtual machine with a hardware configuration that is similar to the hardware required on a physical server Deploy Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2–based virtual machines whenever possible Consider other options for ensuring physical server utilization

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is a Failover Cluster?

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Failover Cluster Functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 Clustered Shared Volumes Live migration Processor compatibility mode Windows PowerShell cmdlets for failover clusters Additional tests in cluster validation

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT How Does a Failover Cluster Work with Hyper-V Nodes? Shared Bus or iSCSI Connection A dedicated network connects the failover cluster nodes

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is Live Migration?

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is VMM 2008 R2? VMM is used to: VMM 2008 R2 provides centralized administration and management of your virtual environment Manage Hyper-V hosts Manage virtual server hosts Manage VMware hosts Manage and deploy virtual machines Perform physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Infrastructure Components of VMM 2008 R2 VMM Server VMM Database VMM Library VMM Administrator Console VMM Self-Service Portal Hosts Host groups

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What’s New in VMM 2008 R2? Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host Management Enhanced Support for SAN Transfers Enhanced Support for Shared Storage Quick Storage Migration Maintenance Mode for Hosts Support for VMware Port Groups for Virtual Switches Support for Virtual Machine Permissions Assigned in Hyper-V What’s new:

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: Managing SCVMM 2008 R2

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is Windows PowerShell? Windows PowerShell features include: Cmdlets Aliases Variables Pipelining Scripting support Access to cmd.exe commands Signed scripts Windows PowerShell is: A scripting and command-line technology Directly accessible through a command shell, msh.exe Used by GUI tools

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Using Windows PowerShell to Manage VMM The VMM command shell includes the standard PowerShell cmdlets, as well as a set of cmdlets specifically for VMM, such as: Get-VMCheckPoint Get-VMCheckpoint -MostRecent –vm "VM01" | Restore-VMCheckpoint Get-Help Get-VMMServer

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Types of Hosts That VMM 2008 R2 Supports Windows Server based host in trusted domain Windows Server based host in non-trusted domain Windows Server based host in perimeter ESX based host Supported Virtualization platforms: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Hyper-V VMware ESX Server 3.0 or above VMware ESX Server 3.5i VMware VirtualCenter (VC) 2.5 (VMware Infrastructure 3 [VI3]) VMware vSphere 4 (VI3 features only)

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: Creating and Placing a New Virtual Machine Using VMM 2008 R2

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Virtual machine templates are: What Is the Virtual Machine Template? Two types of virtual machine templates: Customized templates Non-customized templates A standardized group of hardware and software settings that you can use for new virtual machines Virtual machine template components: Hardware profile Virtual hard disk Guest operating system profile (optional)

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: Creating a new Virtual Machine from an existing Template

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Are Remote Desktop Services? The Remote Desktop Services provides access from anywhere to session-based desktops, virtual machine–based desktops, and applications RDS provides the following benefits: Run an application or an entire desktop from a central location Manage session-based desktops, applications, or virtual machine– based desktops on centralized servers in the data center Provide users with an entire desktop environment, or with their individual applications and data Provide integration of local applications and RemoteApp applications that run on RDS hosts Enable secure remote access to an entire desktop, remote application, or virtual machine without users having to establish a VPN connection Centrally control which RD Session hosts can be accessed, who can access them, and device redirection

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Are the RDS Role Services? Previous NameName in Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal ServicesRemote Desktop Services (RDS) Terminal ServerRemote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) Terminal Services Licensing (TS Licensing) Remote Desktop Licensing (RD Licensing) Terminal Services Gateway (TS Gateway) Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker) Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker) Terminal Services Web Access (TS Web Access) Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access)

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT RemoteApp and Desktop Connection The benefits of RemoteApp and Desktop Connection are: Published Remote Desktop connections are included with RemoteApp programs Changes to the published connection are automatically reflected on the user’s Start menu RemoteApp programs can be easily accessed through Windows search RemoteApp and Desktop Connection does not require domain membership for client computers You can create and distribute client configuration files for users The RemoteApp and Desktop Connection feature provides a personalized view for users of RemoteApp programs, session-based desktops, and virtual desktops

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Using RemoteApp to Deploy Programs RD Remote Apps provide access to individual applications running on RD Session Host computers The benefits of RemoteApp are: Enables user access to only applications and not the RD Session Host desktop Applications run in individual windows on user desktops Multiple RemoteApps share in single connection You can configure per-user access to RemoteApps You can enable access to RemoteApps by: Creating and distributing.rdp files Creating and distributing Windows Installer Package (.msi) files Publishing the RemoteApp to an RD Web Access server

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: Deploying a RemoteApp

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure? Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a key technology for enabling successful desktop virtualization implementations – in all organizations, for network connected users. As a deployment model, VDI allows these users to access their personal desktops in the datacenter. Desktops, Applications, User Data

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Access Points (PC, Thin clients) Servers Storage Virtualization Platform Management Application Delivery User State Virtualization Desktop Delivery VDI Components Hardware Layer VDI Offering Access Points Network

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure? VDI is a centralized desktop delivery architecture, which allows you to centralize the storage, execution, and management of Windows desktops Benefits of VDI: Provides access to data and applications from any device Improves data security and compliance Simplifies management and deployment of applications Improves business continuity Integrates management of physical, virtual, and session- based desktops Centralizes data storage and backup Key deployment scenarios of VDI are persistent virtual machines and pooled virtual machines

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT How Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Works A user can connect to a virtual machined based on the VDI configured for: Personal virtual desktops 1.A user initiates the connection to the personal virtual desktop 2.The user sends the request to the RD Session Host server running in redirection mode 3.The RD Session Host server forwards the request to the RD Connection Broker server 4.The RD Connection Broker server queries AD DS and retrieves the name of the virtual machine that is assigned to the requesting user account 5.The RD Connection Broker server sends a request to the RD Virtualization Host server to start the virtual machine 6.The RD Virtualization Host server returns the IP address of the FQDN to the RD Connection Broker server 7.The RD Session Host server redirects the request to the client computer that initiated the connection 8.The client computer connects to the personal virtual desktop Pooled virtual desktops 1. A user initiates the connection to the virtual desktop pool 2. The user sends the request to the RD Session Host server running in redirection mode 3. The RD Session Host server redirects the request to the RD Connection Broker server 4. The RD Connection Broker server verifies whether any existing session exists for the requesting user account 5. The RD Session Host server redirects the request to the client computer that initiated the connection 6. The client computer connects to the virtual desktop pool A user can connect to a virtual machined based on the VDI configured for: Personal virtual desktops Pooled virtual desktops

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Virtual Machines for Virtual Desktop RD Virtualization Host can assign each user a unique virtual machine, a personal virtual desktop, or can redirect users to a shared virtual machine pool, where a virtual machine is dynamically assigned After installing a virtual machine, you must configure the following to work with RDS: 1.Join the virtual machine to a domain 2.Enable Remote Desktop 3.Add user accounts to the local Remote Desktop Users security group 4.Allow RPC 5.Create a firewall exception to allow Remote Services Management 6.Add permissions to RDP

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is the Connection Broker Role in RDS? The RD Connection Broker role service: Allows users to reconnect to their existing sessions in a RD Session Host server farm Evenly distributes the session load among RD Session Host servers in a load-balanced RD Session Host server farm Provides users with access to virtual desktops on RD Virtualization Host servers, and to RemoteApp programs hosted on RD Session Host servers through RemoteApp and Desktop Connection

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT What Is RD Web Access? RD Web Access enables: Populating the list of available RemoteApps or virtual desktops in the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection application Launching RemoteApps or virtual desktops from the RD Web Access Web site Launching the Remote Desktop Web Connection which provide Remote Desktop connections to servers or client computers RD Web Access only enables users to launch applications or Remote Desktop sessions, it does not proxy RDP sessions

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Configuring RD Web Access

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Configuring User Access to RD Web Access To enable user access to RD Web Access: Provide users with the URL for the RD Web Access server Configure RemoteApp and Desktop Connections to subscribe to a feed from the RD Web Access server To configure RemoteApp and Desktop Connections: Configure the URL for the RD Web Access server Create a client configuration file in RD Connection Manager and distribute the file to clients

TechNet and Community Tour - Dynamic IT Demo: Deploying a VDI

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