John Kelbley Senior Technical Product Manager

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Encapsulation Benefits  Integrated Management  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Benefits  Difference from Windows ICs  Installation  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Introduction John Kelbley  Senior Technical Product Manager with Microsoft’s Platform Tech Strategy Team (Redmond-based group)  Field-based “corporate” resource focused on customer and partner engagement for new server technology  Server Virtualization  High Performance Computing (HPC)

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Why Virtualize Linux?  The same reasons you might virtualize Windows!  Consolidation  High Availability  Recoverability  Security (and others)

Why Do You have Linux in your Shop?  Do you consider yourself primarily a Linux Administrator or a Windows Administrator?  Regardless of Linux distribution, would you like to:  Reduce the number of physical systems to manage…  Make Linux highly available…  Back up and recover Linux easily…  Monitor up time and services… …in an integrated fashion with your existing Windows infrastructure?

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Hyper-V is familiar – no specialization required (part of Windows – which you already know!)  Windows provides the foundation for:  High Availability  Backup and Recovery  Management  Monitoring

Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Price - Hyper-V Server is FREE!!! (Hyper-V also included in Windows Server 2008)  Major Linux distributions are supported:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 x86 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 x64 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 x86 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 x64 Edition  Planned support for more (Red Hat):  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (x86)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (x64)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x86)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x64)

Novell / Microsoft Interop Lab  - Cambridge, MA  Virtualization, Heterogeneous Systems Management, Directory and Identity management, document Format compatibility  Formed as a result of feedback from clients and partners Microsoft Confidential

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Support  Major Linux distributions are supported:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 x86 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 x64 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 x86 Edition  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 x64 Edition  Planned support for more (Red Hat):  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (x86)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (x64)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x86)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x64)  What about other distributions?

Performance Comes from ICs  IC = Integration Component  ICs enable a child OS instance to run better through “enlightenment”  Enlightenments generally include:  Synthetic Drivers  Integration Services

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

 Enlightenments for Windows include:  Synthetic Drivers  IDE driver  SCSI driver  Network Drive  Mouse Integration  Video  Integration Services  Operating System Shutdown  Time Synchronization  Data Exchange  Heartbeat  Backup (VSS co-ordination) ICs for Windows

What do you get for Linux?  Current Enlightenments for Linux include:  Synthetic Drivers  IDE driver  SCSI driver  Network Driver  What’s Missing?  Mouse Integration  Synthetic Video  SMP Support (only one processor supported)  Integration Services (shutdown, time sync, data exchange, heartbeat, backup)

Tested Linux VM Configs  Emulated  IO and network subsystems experience significant degradation compared to “metal”  Enlightened  IO is ~40% faster and network performance is ~30% better than emulated (your mileage may vary)

Where To Get the ICs? Currently available from Microsoft Confidential Downloads Windows Application IC ISO File Instructions!

You also Need Linux!  Must be sure to install  Source Code  C compiler (building drivers!)  Xen components (better performance at this time)

 You actually don’t need Xen  ICs are just drivers  SCSI  IDE  Network  Xen (parvirtualized) Linux provides better performance at this time Linux Installation Source Code Xen Compiler

 You actually don’t need Xen  ICs are just drivers  SCSI  IDE  Network  Xen (parvirtualized) Linux provides better performance at this time Linux Installation (not so Secret) Source Code X e n Compiler

Linux IC Installation  Prepare  Run as root (changing the configuration)  Mount LinuxIC.ISO inside VM  Copy contents to system volume  Officially, only SLES 10 SP2 with Xen Kernel is supported as Para-virtualized Linux on Hyper-V  Build and install synthetic drivers  SCSI  IDE  Network  Reboot/Confirm

Linux IC Installation Add Hyper-V Shim to Xen Add Hyper-V Drivers Get to package

Verifying Installation Microsoft Confidential Check Version Check Drivers

Verifying Installation Microsoft Confidential

Other Versions of Linux  Installation typically works, but is unsupported Microsoft Confidential Red Hat!

Installing Integration Components

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

IT Management With System Center Hardware Provisioning Workload Provisioning PatchingMonitoring Disaster Recovery Backup Virtual machine management Server consolidation and resource utilization optimization Conversions: P2V and V2V Patch management and deployment OS and application configuration management Software upgrades Live host level virtual machine backup In guest consistency Rapid recovery End to end service management Server and application health monitoring & management Performance reporting and analysis

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2  Key Benefits  Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms  Monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers, and their workloads  Improved management of applications in the data center  Delivers scale for URL monitoring  Helps meet agreed service levels through enhanced service level tracking  Increased speed of access to information and functionality to drive management  Improved console performance, with simplified administrative experience  Integrated wizard for identification of new and updated management packs, and their download  Beta available today!  us/opsmgr/dd aspx us/opsmgr/dd aspx

DHCP Service Performance (for instance)

Backup and Recovery (for example)  Linux backup a challenge for Windows admins (new agents / processes – YUCK!)  Hyper-V can facilitate backup & recovery  DPM (or WSB, or even a batch file with Xcopy) easier and almost always costs less than other enterprise backup solutions  VM can be restored to exact point in time of backup  Linux VMs backed up using parent VSS – VMs “saved” during backup  VM paused and memory saved to disk  Snapshot taken on parent  VM resumed

DPM Virtualization Virtual Machine1 Virtual Machine 4 Virtual Machine 2 Virtual Machine 3

For any OS or application that is not internally VSS- aware:  Linux  Windows 2000  Windows with Oracle  Windows with LOB app Virtual Machine1 Virtual Machine 2 Windows 2000 Virtualization - with non-VSS Guest OS

 Hibernate OS to dump memory / CPU to VSV  Snap with VSS  Resume OS  Compare block checksums to send only changes within VHD’s Virtual Machine1 Virtual Machine 2 Windows 2000

Backup and Recovery  If DPM won’t fly, try “free” Hyper-V backups (included with Windows Server 2008)  Windows Server Backup (WSB) is included  “DiskShadow” backup can work as well  Call Diskshadow.exe with a pre-defined script (example: diskshadow -s HyperVBackup.txt )

Agenda  Introductions  Why Virtualize Linux?  Why Linux on Hyper-V?  Support and Performance  Integration Components (ICs)  Managing Linux on Hyper-V  Q & A

Summary  Linux on Hyper-V can improve operational stability and reduce cost  ICs and paravirtualization improve performance  Hyper-V makes management of Linux easier by providing simplified/ integrated  High Availability  Backup and recovery  Management and monitoring

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