INF320 - Virtual Server 2005 R2 Product Overview and VSMT Leon ShapritskyElkana Porag VS & TS Microsoft Regional Director System Management UG Lead Team Computers & Systems Ltd.

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

Agenda Today’s IT Pressures Today’s IT Pressures DSI and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Key Customer Scenarios Features and Benefits Summary and Call to Action

Designs include all information relevant to management End to End, automated management tools Rich instrumentation and hardware resource virtualization Systems “Designed For Operations” “Operationally Aware Platform” “Intelligent Management Tools” More flexibility and control in the provisioning and use of your hardware resources.

Application Consolidation Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Consolidating and Migrating LOB Applications 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 Tool Limit Best for Hardware partitioning (HP, IBM, Unisys) Very high- throughput applications Complete isolation of applications Re-sizing partitions requires a reboot Capacity in 4-proc increments Resource Management (WSRM) Medium-high throughput applications which will co-exist Managing resource usage All applications must run on same OS level OS/HW single point of failure Virtual Machines (Virtual Server) More complex management Performance “tax” Low-throughput applications Isolating legacy applications Technology Guidance

Virtual Server architecture Up to 32 host CPUs Up to 64GB host RAM VS leverages existing system storage, networking and security infrastructure Optimized for Enterprise Edition Up to 32 host CPUs Up to 64GB host RAM VS leverages existing system storage, networking and security infrastructure Optimized for Enterprise Edition Virtualization infrastructure VM monitor COM API Resource management WMI/event log integration Virtualization infrastructure VM monitor COM API Resource management WMI/event log integration Industry-standard device models Intel 440BX motherboard Intel NIC S3 Trio64 Gfx NO custom drivers in guest Industry-standard device models Intel 440BX motherboard Intel 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. 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 VS works with Windows: Heartbeat from kernel/scheduler Device drivers

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Focused on key customer scenarios Software test and development Legacy application re-hosting Targeted production workload consolidation The most cost-effective virtual machine solution designed for Windows Server 2003 R2 to improve operational efficiency…. Reduce costs and improve IT responsiveness Reduce hardware costs by at least 50% Reduce hardware costs by at least 50% Reduce provisioning times by 50-95% Reduce provisioning times by 50-95% Increase administrator productivity Increase administrator productivity

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 Software Test and Development

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

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

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

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

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

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 Improved hardware efficiency Broad set of partner solutions Increased administrator productivity

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-guestguest-to-hostguest-to-net PXE Boot integrated in updated BIOS

VS Admin Site Demo

Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration Virtual Server Migration Toolkit Command line tools to help automate P2V migration Leverages Automated Deployment Services (ADS) Solution Accelerator for Consolidation and Migrating LOB Applications Determine which applications are good candidates for VS Guidance on using VSMT in combination with ADS Technology Guidance

VSMT Demo

Management Pack for MOM 2005 Displays all hosts including knowledge of physical vs virtual Mapping guests to host with visibility into server health MOM 2005 – Single pane for managing physical servers to virtual machines Fine grained control over virtual machines (guests) Generate scripts leveraging COM API to automate tasks 1:Many management of hosts and guests Health monitoring and configuration changes Closed loop automation via scripting and COM API

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

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

VSMT Tips & Tricks

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

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 Product Download (IT IS FREE!!!) White papers Solution accelerator Case studies Initiate a pilot project or proof of concept Available from leading partners

Additional Resources Get your own experience with Microsoft’s products at Virtual Lab: ert/virtuallab/default.mspx ert/virtuallab/default.mspx ert/virtuallab/default.mspx Windows Server System Home: ersystem/default.mspx ersystem/default.mspx ersystem/default.mspx

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