2. Clive Watson Virtualization Specialist Microsoft UK
Ensure Business Continuity with SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V Live Migration
Clive Watson
Virtualization Specialist
Microsoft UK
Mark Anderson
Data Platform Specialist
Microsoft UK

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4. Agenda Virtualization and management SQL High Availability
Live Migration
Sysprep with SQL

5. Virtualization is a Game Changer
More options for effective disaster recovery
Companies previously unable to afford disaster recovery can not implement
Companies can cost justify providing full DR for additional applications
According to a March 2009 study by Enterprise Resource Group, 31% of businesses surveyed said disaster recovery (DR) will be their main driver for Virtualization in 2009
Virtualization helps in downtime situations in that for most environments it is easier to both replicate and recover a virtual machine than it is to recover a physical server. With the consolidation capabilities Virtualization provides, an Organization can now provide a more comprehensive disaster recovery solution at a much lower cost than comparable physical solutions.

6. Complete Management Solution
Virtual
Environment
Deep Application Level Knowledge
Greater testing and compatibility
Management packs for extended management capabilities
Create a health model with Microsoft System Center
Support dynamic resource management and remedial actions
Physical
Environment
Physical and Virtual Management
Centralized management of physical and virtual assets across full stack
Cross Platform and Hypervisor Support
Mixed platform: Windows Server® 2003, 2008
Multiple OS: Linux®, all versions of Windows Server
Multiple Hypervisor
Speaking Points:
Through our System Center Suite of Tools, Microsoft offers the complete virtualization management solution
It goes without saying that because of our deep knowledge of Microsoft applications, Microsoft virtualization is the best choice when virtualizing our products. It enables you to optimize your assets, centrally managing all of your physical and virtual resources across multiple hypervisors, down to the application level.
Deep Application Level Knowledge:
Microsoft® System Center Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) gives you a wide variety of integrated management functionality for both your physical and virtual environments, and is the only solution that lets you manage Hyper-V™ and VMware®, all through one monitoring point (seamless physical and virtual management).
Physical and Virtual Management:
Microsoft lets you manage virtual and physical environments and uses common deployment, provisioning, monitoring, and backup methodologies across both. VMware’s answer to management is to use Virtual Infrastructure Enterprise and Virtual Center, but even this combination falls short: you still can’t manage multiple hypervisors, physical resources or applications you can only do this with Microsoft virtualization
Microsoft virtualization technologies enable you to optimize your assets, centrally managing all of your physical and virtual resources across multiple hypervisors down to the application level.
Cross Platform & Hypervisor Support:
Manages the entire lifecycle of the IT infrastructure from a single console
Allows IT Manager to dynamically create and optimize workloads for virtualization
Integrates management of both physical and virtual systems, from the hardware to the workload
System Center is the glue that brings everything together and unlocks virtualization's real potential. Not only does it pinpoint where virtualization products reside since they are no longer tied to a single location, it lets you easily allocate the right resources to the right people in real-time.
Additional Information – Microsoft Virtualization Products:
System Center provides you with one system to manage physical and virtual assets across the full application and OS stack, including multiple hypervisors (from Microsoft, as well as from Citrix® and VMware®). It lets you manage your virtual and physical environments with the same levels of specificity, and uses common deployment, provisioning, monitoring, and backup methodologies across both.
The componets of System Center are as follows:
System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2008: provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms.
Virtual Machine Manager 2008 end-to-end capabilities include planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure. From helping identify prime consolidation candidates and improving the placement of virtual workloads with sophisticated algorithms, to fast and reliable physical-to-Virtual (P2V) machine conversions, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 helps improve the most vital tasks associated with consolidating multiple physical servers. It also makes managing the virtual data center much easer by providing IT administrators with productivity-boosting tools including Windows PowerShell scripting, a centralized library of virtual machine assets, and self-service provisioning capabilities that enable authorized end users to rapidly provision new virtual machines.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007: provides advanced disk-to-disk-to-tape protection for infrastructures that depend on Microsoft virtualization technology. DPM can protect virtual machines without hibernation downtime. Using shadow copy-based block-level protection of your virtual disks, DPM delivers fast backup and very efficient retention that does not consume inordinate disk space.
DPM’s agent model supports protecting all virtual machines within a single host with only one agent on the host platform, or agents within each virtual instance, for a range of protection and recovery options. And, unlike other backup technologies from alternative virtualization vendors, DPM also protects physical servers running Windows Server® 2008, SQL Server® 2008, Exchange Server 2007, or SharePoint® products and technologies.
Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007: Easy-to-use monitoring environment for thousands of servers, applications, and clients. Provides a complete view of the health of your IT environment and enables rapid response to disruptive events.
Computing environments contain many different components: client and server machines, operating systems, databases, mail servers, and much more. To deal with this diversity, Operations Manager 2007 relies on management packs (MPs). Each MP encapsulates knowledge about how to manage a particular component. By installing the appropriate MPs, an organization can exploit the knowledge of their creators to manage its environment more effectively.
Operations Manager 2007 relies on an agent that runs on each machine it manages, and so every machine—physical or virtual—has one. From the perspective of an operator at the Operations Manager 2007 console, both virtual and physical machines look and are managed in the same way, applying the same user interface and the same MPs. Operations Manager 2007 also includes specific MPs for managing virtualization technologies. The MP for Virtual Server, for example, allows an operator to enumerate the virtual machines that are running on a particular physical machine, monitor the state of those virtual machines, and more.
Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Vastly simplifies system deployment, task automation, compliance management, and policy-based security management, making businesses much more agile.
Configuration Manager 2007 treats a virtual machine provided by Virtual Server as if it were a physical machine. Software can be installed on this machine, updated as needed, and appear as part of the asset inventory maintained by Configuration Manager Similarly, this tool works with applications running on a terminal server just like any others.

7. Datacenter Virtualization: Dynamic Foundation
Better Value
Built-in virtualization and integrated windows-based platform less than 1/6 of the upfront and on-going cost of competitors
Availability
Comprehensive capabilities including Live Migration, Failover Clustering, and Site Recovery to minimize service downtime
Business Agility
Provide fluid pools of resources and QoS for dynamic applications with integrated platform and management
Applications get the resources they need when they need them
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Like we have said previously, in the Datacenter, IT is concerned with being able to provide the resources the applications need when they need them. Microsoft Datacenter Virtualization provides this capability at a tremendous value. We do this by taking the Foundation Windows Server 2008 R2 provides and automating the response to the changes in demand through the Management Capabilities of System Center. This coordination ensures that the applications will dynamically received the resources they need because now we can treat a cluster of servers as a pool of resources that can be distributed to the applications as needs change.

8. Continued Innovation Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Better flexibility
Live Migration
Cluster Shared Volumes
Quick Storage Migration
Hot Add/remove of Storage
Processor compatibility mode
Boot from VHD
Improved performance
Improved memory management
TCP Offload support
Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support
Greater scalability
At 64 logical processor support
Enhance Green IT with Core Parking
With Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V we have added the capabilities that our customers have been asking for. The two main capabilities are Live Migration as well as Cluster Shared Volumes. These enhanced capabilities lower the cost of running and implementing a virtualization infrastructure. With the improved performance in things like networking and storage access, customers are now running their business critical applications virtual where they may not have before.
“In our environment, a single physical server running Windows Server 2008 and the original Hyper-V can support about 10 to 15 of our standard workloads. Windows Server 2008 R2 with the improved Hyper-V can support more than 30. From a fixed capital asset perspective alone, that’s a savings of $60,000 to $80,000 per Hyper-V server,” says Jason Foster, Systems Architect and Director of Technology at Continental Airlines.
Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has also added some capabilities that our customers have been asking for, and a new feature that helps an IT Organization be more responsive is Quick Storage Migration. With Quick Storage Migration, IT can adjust where a Virtual Machine is stored with minimal downtime allowing an Organization to proactively adjust the storage as the needs arise.

9. SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Features
Database Mirroring
Windows Clustering
Log Shipping
Backup/Restore
Transactional Replication
Database Snapshot

10. High Availability with Guest Clustering Using iSCSIVM
FAULT TOLERANCE BOTH AT APPLICATION AND HOST
Guest Cluster
MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY BASED ON SQL SERVER® AND SYSTEM CENTER MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Guest Cluster
USES WINDOWS FAILOVER CLUSTER 1 2
VHDs FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
Shared Storage
iSCSI
Redundant
Paths to storage

11. Cluster Shared Volumes Migration and Storage
NEW Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2008 R2
Overview
CSV provides a single consistent file name space
All Windows Server 2008 R2 Server servers see the same storage
Benefits
Easy setup; uses NTFS
No reformatting SANs
Create one big data store
No more drive letter problems
Existing tools just work
Highly recommended for live migration scenarios
We have now seen Live Migration and what it can do for an organization, but customers have been asking for more. With the previous versions of Hyper-V, if you wanted to enable your Virtual Machines for High Availability, you had to place each individual VM on its’ own LUN. This increased the complexity of the environment. With this new release of Hyper-V we have added new technology called Cluster Shared Volumes specifically to address this customer concern. Cluster Shared Volumes allows me to share a LUN between multiple Hyper-V hosts allowing me to store multiple VMs on the same LUN that are accessed by different Hyper-V servers simultaneously. This means that I could have multiple VMs on the SAME LUN and I can Live Migrate them between different Hosts in the cluster all of them seeing the same consistent name space. An IT administrator can now ask the SAN team for one (or many) large LUNs, put all of the VMs they need to on these LUNS, but have the flexibility to add new VMs in the future without having to go back to the SAN team every time they needed to create a new VM. This isn’t required for Live Migration, but you can see how they complement each other.
Technology within Failover Cluster feature
Single consistent name space
Compatible: NTFS volume
Simplified LUN management
Multiple data stores supported
Enhanced storage availability due to built in redundancy
Scalable as I/O is written directly by each node to the shared volume
Transparent to the VM

12. High Availability with Live MigrationVM
NO LOSS OF SERVICE
AVAILABILITY WITH LOWER COMPLEXITY
Live
Migration
MANAGE LOADS ON VMS ACROSS PHYSICAL MACHINE 1 2
Host cluster
EASIER MANAGEMENT THROUGH SYSTEM CENTER VMM
Shared Storage
iSCSI, SAS, Fiber

13. SQL VM Single-Site and Multi-Site Clusters
Single-site Cluster
Multi-site Cluster
Two node single-site cluster
Primary Site
Secondary Site
WAN Connectivity
VMs move between physical nodes on different SANs and without true shared physical storage between the sites
VMs move between nodes on the same SAN and share common storage
SAN
SAN
SAN
SAN Replication
Storage Array
Primary Storage Array
Secondary Storage Array
Common physical location
Common storage infrastructure presents shared disk visible to all nodes
Multi-site clusters have different independent storage arrays in each site
Each node in distributed clusters typically access storage from local sites
“True” shared disk not visible to all nodes
In a single-site cluster, the two nodes communicate with the same LUN. In Multi-Site Clusters, nodes at each locations communicate with the LUNs at their sites, and the data is replicated via the storage back end. The storage replication can be either Synchronous or Asynchronous

14. Live Migration SAN INITIATE MIGRATION VHD
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Live Migration
INITIATE MIGRATION
Client accessing VM
Live Migrate this VM to another physical machine
SAN
VHD
IT Admin initiates a Live Migration to move a VM from one host to another

15. Live Migration SAN MEMORY COPY: FULL COPY VHD
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Live Migration
MEMORY COPY: FULL COPY
Memory content is copied to new server
VM pre-staged
SAN
VHD
The first initial copy is of all in memory content

16. MEMORY COPY: DIRTY PAGES
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Live Migration
MEMORY COPY: DIRTY PAGES
Client accessing VM
Pages are being dirtied
VM pre-staged
SAN
VHD
Client continues to access VM, which results in memory being modified

17. MEMORY COPY: INCREMENTAL COPY
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Live Migration
MEMORY COPY: INCREMENTAL COPY
Recopy of changes
Smaller set of changes
VM pre-staged
SAN
Hyper-V tracks changed data, and re-copies over incremental changes
Subsequent passes get faster as data set is smaller
VHD

18. Live Migration SAN FINAL TRANSITION VHD VM Paused
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Live Migration
FINAL TRANSITION
Partition State copied
VM Paused
SAN
VHD
Window is very small and within TCP connection timeout

19. POST-TRANSITION: CLEAN-UP
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Live Migration
POST-TRANSITION: CLEAN-UP
Client directed to new host
Old VM deleted once migration is verified successful
SAN
ARP issued to have routing devices update their tables
Since session state is maintained, no reconnections necessary
VHD

20. DEMO
Live Migration

21. Processor Compatibility Mode
OVERVIEW
BENEFITS
Allows live migration across different CPU versions within the same processor family (i.e. Intel- to-Intel and AMD-to-AMD).
Does NOT enable cross platform from Intel to AMD or vice versa.
Enables migration across a broader range of Hyper-V host hardware.
Provides a great deal of migration flexibility within clusters.
No specific hardware requirements needed.

22. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Maximize Resources
Centralized virtual machine deployment and management for Hyper-V, Virtual Server, and VMware ESX servers
Intelligent placement of Virtual Machines
Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion
Comprehensive application and service-level monitoring with Operations Manager
Integrated Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) of VMs
A centralized, heterogeneous management solution for the virtual datacenter
Increase Agility
Rapid provisioning of new and virtual machines with templates
SQL 2008 R2
Centralized library of infrastructure components
Leverage and extend existing storage infrastructure and clusters
Allow for delegated management and access of VMs
Leverage Skills
Familiar interface, common foundation
Monitor physical and virtual machines from one console
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
System Center Virtual Machine Manger is the centralized location where an Organization can administer their Virtualization environment. Virtual Machine Manger is a tool that allows you to manage your Hyper-V environments as well as your Virtual Server and VMware environments. VMM provides a common interface for deploying, managing and operating your Datacenter. By integrating with the other System Center Suite of Products an IT Organization has a consistent and coherent view of not only their Virtual Environments, but the physical hosts and applications as well. This increases the efficiency of an IT Organization to provide the best services it can to its customers.
Maximize Resources
Centralized virtual machine deployment and management for Hyper-V, Virtual Server, and VMware ESX servers
Intelligent placement of Virtual Machines
Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion
Comprehensive application and service-level monitoring with Operations Manager
Integrated Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) of VMs
Increase Agility
Rapid provisioning of new and virtual machines with templates
Centralized library of infrastructure components
Leverage and extend existing storage infrastructure and clusters
Allow for delegated management and access of VMs
Leverage Skills
Familiar interface, common foundation
Monitor physical and virtual machines from one console
Fully scriptable using Windows PowerShell

23. SQL Server SysPrep Functionality
SQL Server 2008 R2 setup split setup into two internal phases:
Prepare
Configure
SQL Server 2008 R2 setup:
Two separate workflows/actions to the users
/ACTION=PrepareImage
Install SQL Server static bits without configuring the product
/ACTION=CompleteImage
Configure the product features upon system startup to complete the product install
Difference from Windows SysPrep:
We do not fully configure SQL Server and then remove the configuration settings during Windows SysPrep

24. Value Proposition Increased setup reliability: Rapid provisioning:
Customers using CompleteImage will avoid pre-req installs and associated reboots
Rapid provisioning:
Reduce the visible SQL Server deployment time to configuration time
Align with virtualization, policy based deployments and manageability features of SQL Server

25. System Center Management
Lower the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments
Focus:
Customers can get started on lower the cost of delivering datacenter services today with System Center
The System Center Server Management Suite provides you with full lifecycle coverage for datacenter management
The products that enable these capabilities include Config, VMM, Ops Mgr and Data Protection Manager

26. For resources, decks and video:
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

27. Summary Virtualization is a game changer
SQL is a great workload for virtualization
Management is key

28. © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.