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2. The Busy Developer’s Guide to Virtualization
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The Busy Developer’s Guide to Virtualization
Brian A. Randell
Senior Consultant
MCW Technologies
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3. Development Trends
Growth
Innovation
Team
Cloud

4. Complex World, Full of Technology

5. Virtualization Provides Flexibility

6. Session Roadmap What you need to get started
Hardware and software
Working with Virtual Machines
Optimizations

7. Some Vocabulary
Virtual machine—a “completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system”
Host—the physical machine providing hardware services
Guest—a virtual machine running on a host

8. Different Types of Virtualization
Operating System
Application
Presentation
Device

9. Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
Hyper-V
Native-Boot Virtual Hard Disk
Also known as “boot-to-VHD”
App-V
Remote Desktop Services
Virtual PC
Virtual Server
Windows Virtual PC

10. Hyper-V
Microsoft’s enterprise class hypervisor that relies upon processor provided hardware virtualization
Two versions
A role of 64-bit versions of Windows host OS
First made available in Windows Server 2008
Updated in Windows Server 2008 R2/SP1
Windows Server 2012 is that magical 3rd release
A separate, free server product
Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise support running Hyper-V on the client

11. Set up your host Configure Hyper-V Use Add/Remote Programs on Client
Server Manager, Add Role

12. demo Installing Hyper-V 9/16/2018 2:12 AM
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13. Hardware
Processor
RAM
Hard disk
Video
Networking

14. Processor Processor Specific Virtualization
Intel VT
AMD-V
What about that extra stuff in my BIOS?
SLAT required for virtualization on Windows 8 Client

15. BIOS Settings

16. demo Checking for Support 9/16/2018 2:12 AM
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17. RAM
Generally more is better
Optimize for use case

18. Physical Storage Direct Attached Storage Network-based SSD Hybrid
Mechanical
Network-based
iSCSI on the cheap
Production SANs (fibre channel, etc.)
SMB 3.0 when used with Windows Server 2012 allows you to run VMs right over the wire

19. Performance Comparison

20. Video Video Cards in general don’t have a huge impact
You’re stuck with the emulated video card
RemoteFX however brings a rich experience to your virtual machines by utilizing your video card’s GPU
Requires Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Server 2012
Requires Remote Desktop Services Virtualization Host
Additional Licensing Requirement
Requires a compatible video card
Watch VIR313 from Tech Ed 2012 North America or Tech Ed 2012 Europe via Channel 9

21. Create Your First Guest
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Create Your First Guest
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22. Creating a guest Need a supported operating system Questions to answer
Yes Hyper-V supports Linux too
Questions to answer
How many virtual processors?
How much RAM?
What kind and how many disks?
What about networks?
Getting Connected

23. Virtual Processors Hyper-V “virtualizes” the processor
The VM sees the real “type” of processor you have
Sockets, Cores, and Hyper-threading … oh my!
(S(n) * C(n)) * HT(1,2) = logical processors
Hyper-V on Windows 8/2012 supports 320 logical processors; up from 64 on Server 2008 R2 SP1
Use Resource Control to balance usage across VMs

24. demo Virtual Processors 9/16/2018 2:12 AM
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25. Memory Windows 8/2012 guests support up to 1 TB of RAM
VMs can have static or dynamic memory
Dynamic Memory requires guest operating system support
With dynamic memory, memory usage can grow and shrink
Depending upon configuration, Hyper-V may allocate a bin file to save in memory state
Can turn off in Windows 8/2012

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demo
Memory
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27. Virtual Storage Virtual Hard Disk Two formats
VHD—backwards compatible; limited to 2 TB in size
VHDX—Better resiliency and up to 64 TB in size
VHDX is new for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
Can be fixed or dynamically expanding in size
Can be connected to IDE or SCSI interface
IDE to boot
SCSI gives hot add/remove

28. Differencing Drives Parent Child Grand Child
A virtual hard disk that is a child of another is a differencing drive (“diff drive”)
You can chain one diff drive to another
You should only ever change the tip of the chain
You can merge children with their parent(s)
Parent
Child
Grand Child

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demo
VHDs
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30. Networking Hyper-V supports virtual switches and virtual NICs
Three Network Types from the host
External
Internal
Private
Windows 8 brings official Wi-Fi support
VMs can have multiple adapters; two types exists
Network
Legacy Network Adapter

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demo
Networks
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32. Getting Connected
Hyper-V supports a direct VMBus video interface using RDP via Virtual Machine Connection (VMConnect)
Nice access to common commands (start, stop, snapshot, etc.)
Can connect without network connectivity
Limited clipboard support
Limited resolutions
RDP generally more flexible for day to day use

33. But wait …
… there’s more

34. Boot to VHD Device Virtualization
Presents a “native” hard drive to your host computer
Boot to VHD supports VHD and VHDX (only Win8/2012)
Can be Dynamic, Fixed, or Diff
Drive EXPANDS to full size if a Dynamic or Differencing VHD(x)
Requires Windows 7 EE/UE, Windows 8, Server 2008/2012
Can use with or without a native install

35. Boot to VHD Tools
BCDEDIT allows you to configure your native boot settings
Run as Administrator from command-line
BCDBOOT creates configuration with one command
DISKPART lets you create / manage VHDs from Windows as well as WinPE
System Configuration Tool (MSCONFIG.EXE) does some things if you need a GUI

36. demo
Boot to VHD

37. Get Simple UNDO Support
Virtual PC had an undo feature
Hyper-V doesn’t … exactly …

38. Snapshots Snapshots Windows 8 brings Hyper-V Live Merge
Provide your VMs until UNDO and REDO
Limited to 50 per VM
Eat disk space
Capture both data and configuration changes
Windows 8 brings Hyper-V Live Merge

39. demo
Snapshots

40. Deleting Virtual Machines
Deleting the Virtual Machine from the console does not remove it’s files
Deleting a Virtual Machine with Snapshots will cause the snapshot tree to merge with the parent VHD
Can take a LONG TIME to complete if what you really want is to just get the thing removed
Two strategies
Delete the snapshots from the bottom up first
Apply the root snapshot and then delete the tree (my favorite)

41. Other Tips When using Boot to VHD consider using fixed size VHDs
Unless you’re really going to be careful
Watch out for drives > 2 TB pre-Windows 8
Things that don’t work or work well in virtual machines
Windows Phone Tools
Profilers
Programs that need direct access to hardware

42. thumbdrive.vhd
Using SCSI adapters and VHDs makes it easy to hot move your data to & from VMs
Great when you don’t have network connectivity
Great to bring data to each new VM
Installs
Source files
Whatever

43. Optimize your Dynamic VHDs
Compact is built-in to the Console Tools
Only does tail end clean up
Use SDELETE from Sysinternals to zero out free space

44. Building Guests Better
MSDN and Technet are your friends
Product Activation
Sysprep is your friend
Diff drives are another related feature
Keeping things up to date
VMs need to be patched just like “real” machines
WSUS Offline Update
Thanks Richard Knight

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Tips
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46. Automation Hyper-V exposes a WMI interface on all versions
SCVMM 2008 and later offer PowerShell Cmdlets
Hyper-V on Windows 8 also provides in box PowerShell support via CmdLets

47. Hyper-V and PowerShell
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Hyper-V and PowerShell
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