Windows Server Virtualization Scenarios And Features Jeff Woolsey Lead Program Manager Windows Virtualization Microsoft Corporation

Goals You will leave with an understanding of: The core Windows Server virtualization scenarios A high level overview of Windows Server virtualization architecture The features that support the scenarios

Windows Server Virtualization Scenarios Production Server Consolidation Business Continuity Management Dynamic Datacenter Test and Development

Production Server Consolidation Physical consolidation Improve and maximize hardware utilization Consolidate workloads onto fewer highly scalable and reliable enterprise class servers Reduce TCO Physical plant Reduce electrical costs for cooling and server power consumption Reduce datacenter physical footprint Server Management Ease management and reduce operational costs by moving to a standardized platform. Increase business agility by moving to dynamic platform. Server consolidation is the fundamental driving force behind the virtualization of servers.

Business Continuity Management Business continuity is a comprehensive process that includes: Disaster and business recovery Business resumption and contingency planning For a global organization, this is particularly difficult as they provide “follow the sun” services. Ensure continuity or uninterrupted provision of operations and services Reduce service interruptions Provide scalable, high availability solutions Improve disaster and business recovery Provide robust enterprise management Business Continuity Management is the ability to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Dynamic Datacenter Reduce TCO Ensure resources are appropriately sized and used Support and enhance business processes Maximize hardware utilization Reduce IT complexity and management Decouple workloads from hardware Rapidly provision workloads Provide dynamic scale up solutions Ease scale out solutions Simplify and automate the design, deployment, and operation of complex systems Taking advantage of the benefits of virtualization to create a more agile infrastructure.

Test and Development Physical consolidation Improve and maximize hardware utilization Consolidate workloads onto fewer servers Reduce TCO Physical plant Reduce electrical costs for cooling and server power consumption Reduce physical footprint Lifecycle Management Reduce time to migrate new software from Dev to Test to Production Increase business agility by moving to a dynamic platform Streamline test and development efforts Reduce time provisioning test/development environments Rapid duplication of a production environment Maximizing test hardware, reducing costs, improving lifecycle management and improving test coverage.

Goals You will leave with an understanding of: The core Windows Server virtualization scenarios A high level overview of Windows virtualization architecture The features that support the scenarios

Windows Server Virtualization: Architecture Designed for Windows Server Hardware Windows Kernel Virtualization Service Providers (VSPs) Parent Partition VM Service Child Partitions Windows hypervisor Applications Server Core IHV Drivers WMI Provider VM Worker Processes Kernel Mode User Mode Virtualization Service Clients (VSCs) VMBus Virtualization Stack Windows Kernel Enlightenments Provided by: Microsoft ISV OEM Virtualization

Goals You will leave with an understanding of: The core Windows Server virtualization scenarios A high level overview of Windows virtualization architecture The features that support the scenarios

Server Consolidation Features Virtualization The ability to virtualize workloads with few or no limitations as to what workloads can/may be virtualized. 64-bit (x64) and hardware virtualization required AMD AMD-V or Intel Virtualization Technology 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64) child partitions Large memory support (>4GB) within VMs Memory over-commit; Page sharing SMP 2/4/8 way vms Pass-through disk access for VMs New hardware sharing architecture (VSP/VSC) Disk, networking, input, video Robust networking VLAN support, NAT, Quarantine

Server Consolidation Features Isolated partitions Enabled by the hypervisor A thin layer of software below all OSes to create partitions and delegate hardware resources Highly reliable Minimal Trusted Computing Base (TCB) No built-in driver model Taking advantage of the large base of Windows drivers Drivers run within the guest OSes Well-defined, published interface Enable others to create support for their OSes as guests

Server Consolidation Features Virtual Server migration Easily convert MS Virtual Server workloads to Windows Server virtualization workloads Windows Server Core Support for a minimal parent OS Security Ability to provide flexible role-based security

Server Consolidation Features Group policy integration Ability to publish configuration changes to Windows virtualization servers on a domain Health monitoring Ability for administrators to monitor the health and performance of their Windows virtualization servers Utilization counters Providing the ability to convert CPU/resource usage to $$$

Server Consolidation Features Authorization Ability to control the deployment of Windows virtualization servers Non-Microsoft guest OS support Ability to run and receive support for non-Microsoft guest operating systems Dynamic, secure storage Ability for virtual workloads to dynamically (hot add) access any storage Dynamic, secure networking Ability to dynamically add/remove virtual NICs and take advantage of underlying VLAN security Ability to NAT/Firewall/Quarantine VMs

Server Consolidation Features Virtual machine snapshots Ability to dynamically create multiple checkpoints and revert to any previous checkpoint Scripting interface Support for a rich scripting interface which provides the ability for a user to monitor and control the virtual machine environment Flexible resource control Ability to dynamically set minimum and maximum thresholds for CPU/Networking to guarantee resource availability Offline virtual hard disk (.vhd) manipulation Ability to securely access files within a virtual hard disk without having to instantiate a virtual machine

Business Continuity Features Virtualization stack high availability via clustering Virtual machine high availability via clustering Ability to failover cluster aware applications across servers Hot backup Support for Volume Shadow Services to provide hot, stateful virtual machine back up without downtime

Business Continuity Features Automatic failover of datacenter operations to a recovery site Ability to replicate, automatically fail over and resume operations in a recovery site Critical failure notification Ability for Windows virtualization to recognize and respond appropriately to critical notifications

Dynamic Datacenter Features Scale up (virtual) Ability to hot add virtual resources to enable an application to scale up Number of CPUs, % of CPU resources Amount of memory Number of assigned devices Live virtual machine migration Ability to move virtual machines from one Windows virtualization server to another

Test and Development Features Client guest OS support Support for client guest operating systems Local failover clustering Support for a virtual machine to failover to a second virtual machine on the same physical server

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