emc support for microsoft system center and private cloud

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EMC Support for Microsoft System Center and Private Cloud

Accelerating Virtualization from the Desktop to the Data Center



EMC and Microsoft: A Unique Alliance• Shared view of importance of information• 12+ year, continually expanding partnership• Broad and deep partnership across products and

services• Joint sharing of intellectual property• Significant deployments of each other’s

technology internally• Thousands of joint customers• CEO-sponsored worldwide go-to-market alliance

Eleven Microsoft Gold Competencies20x Time Partner of Year2,700+ consultants worldwideCooperative Support Agreement$20M plus equipment in Redmond labs

Information Infrastructure

Excellence

EMC’s Unique Microsoft

Customer Value MSFT Expertise



EMC/Microsoft Alignment Areas

“EMC has gone beyond standard integration to take a broad and active approach to support and optimize Microsoft technologies including Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server and Hyper-V.”

— The Clipper Group

Joint AllianceManagement

Activities

Engineeringroadmapalliance

Productqualification

Customerservices

Solutiondevelopment

Professionalservices

Customerengagement



EMC Consulting ServicesStrategize • Advise • Architect • Implement • Manage • Support

End-to-End Capabilities for Microsoft

Virtual Infrastructure

Tiered/Unified Storage

Backup, Recovery, Archive

Business Continuity

EnterpriseContent

ManagementSecurity

EMC helps you successfully plan, design, deploy and manage your Microsoft applications and platforms

EMC Information Infrastructure



EMC Value Points for Hyper-V• Storage Management and Optimization

– PowerPath Virtual Edition– EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)– Powershell Toolkit Storage Provisioning– -VNX\Unisphere Hyper-V wizards

• Backup and Recovery– Hyper-V Parent & Child Protection– Applications running in VMs– Data Deduplication

• Business Continuity– Local & Remote Replication– Support for Cluster Shared Volumes– Storage Federation

• Proven Solutions Application Integration– SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, VDI



Storage Performance ManagementPowerPath/VE

• Workloads are dynamic and exhibit I/O bursts

• Virtual machines are moved, added and/or removed on the fly

• I/O Channels go offline (planned or unplanned)

Migration Enabler Encryption

Maintain predictable performance even when:Parent Server Parent Server

PowerPath PowerPath

Storage Ports

All channels are active

and used to load balance



Array Management Tools

Windows Server Manager

Failover Cluster Manager

Hyper-V Manager iSCSI Initiator/ FC

Switch

Multiple points of management for provisioningStorage Provisioning …today



EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) Storage Provisioning

for Windows Servers Application aware

Storage Provisioning Windows MMC based Agent less

architecture Supports all EMC

arrays– Block and File

supportEasy to use MMC Snap-ins for the

Server/Application Admin



EMC Support for PowershellEMC Powershell Toolkit Powershell commands to

automate storage functions such as..–Create new storage volumes–Create and assign LUNs– Provide server access to

LUNs–Create snapshots–Remove volumes, LUNs,

snaps



Backup/Recovery Solution• Parent Backup & Recovery:

– Complete protection of VHD files

– Traditional and deduplication backup

– Off-host backup– No scripting

• Broad Hyper-V OS support– Windows Server 2008 with

Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 Server Core with Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

SAN storage

Backup proxy server

CentralizedData Mover

MOUNT

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V

Physicalserver

Child Backup & Recovery:– Application-aware backups for

Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, etc. with application log management

– Persistent snapshot for quick recoveries

– In-guest source deduplication drives maximum performance



Site B

Prod 2

Disaster Recovery for Hyper-VAutomated failover operations for Hyper-V environments

Site A

RecoverPoint

Majority Node Set with File Share Witness

LAN/WAN

Private Interconnect

Hyper-V with Failover Clusters supports up to 8 nodes with Windows 2008 R2

Cluster nodes with RecoverPoint/CE installed

Target 2

Prod 1 Target 1



Hyper-V Live Migration with VPLEX

VPLEX Cluster-1 VPLEX Cluster-2

Distributed Storage

1. Create VPLEX distributed volume from storage at both sites

2. Provision VPLEX distributed volume to servers at both sites

3. In Hyper-V, move VMs between sites using Live Migration

Hyper-V Cluster Hyper-V Cluster

Site 1 Site 2

VM Mobility Over Distance Without

Delay

VPLEX Engines feature high performance multi-core Intel Xeon processors



EMC System Center Management Packs

Single tool for physical and virtual servers

Top to bottom management of infrastructure

Provide SAN visualization, health monitoring, and drill down within SCOM



System Center Operations Manager Management Packs• Combine SCOM discovery and monitoring

with standards based management management

• Provide SAN visualization, health monitoring, and drill down within SCOM



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EMC PRO Management Pack



Virtualized Sharepoint Server Managing Binary Large Objects (BLOBs)

• Solution Components:– Windows 2008 R2 Server with

Hyper-V in a Microsoft Failover Cluster for High-Availability

– EMC VNX5300 storing Sharepoint databases, index files, snapshots, Hyper-V VHDs and BLOB storage

– MetaLogix StoragePoint software to schedule and move BLOB content as it ages to more cost effective storage.

• Benefits:– Moved 92% of aged data from

primary databases to higher capacity storage.

– Increased useable capacity without impacting performance.

– Simplified management by virtualizing Sharepoint and Metalogix servers with Microsoft Hyper-V

EMC Proven Solution Powered by Intel® Xeon® Processor Technology



• Solution Components:– Virtual Servers hosted on Cisco

UCS B200 Server Platform hosting more than 30,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes (10,000 per site)

– Replication provided by Exchange Database Availability Groups

– Virtualization using Microsoft Hyper-V supporting 24 Virtual Machines

– Exchange Thin Provisioned LUNs provided by EMC NS480

• Configurations validated and supported by Microsoft

Multi-Site, Virtualized Exchange 2010 Solution

Virtualized Exchange

2010


2010


2010

Cisco UCS B Series

Cisco UCS B Series

Cisco UCS B Series

EMC Unified Storage

EMC Unified Storage

EMC Unified Storage

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups

Microsoft program to test virtualized Exchange 2010 configurations with Hyper-V

EMC Proven Solution Powered by Intel® Xeon® Processor Technology



• Solution Components:– Test SQL Server 2008 in a physical

and virtual configuration to compare results

– Use features found in EMC VNX5700 for improving performance with SQL Server OLTP databases such as EMC FAST Cache.

• Benefits:– Due to the performance of the EMC

VNX array, 1,448 transactions per second (TPS) were achieved.

– When using Hyper-V Pass Through there was only a slight change in performance with still over 1,300 TPS achieved.

– When using VNX FAST Cache performance was increased by over 300%!

Virtualized SQL Server 2008 with EMC VNXEMC Proven Solution Powered by Intel® Xeon® Processor Technology



• Solution Components:• Fibre Channel (FC) SAN connectivity

between the hosts and the EMC storage for optimal performance.

• Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and virtual local area network (VLAN) connections for maximum performance and to eliminate network bottlenecks.

• All virtual machine files are stored on the EMC Unified storage array.

• Storage allocation for desktops is based on a 1+1 RAID 1 building block supporting up to 100 virtual desktops per building block.

• Target of large customer environments with maximum shared storage capacities of 120 disks and 64TB.

Virtual Desktops (VDI) on EMC Unified StorageMicrosoft, Citrix, EMC

EMC Documented Solutions for 100 to 1000 Virtual Desktops using Citrix XenDesktop & Microsoft Hyper-V

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/technical-documentation/h8102-virtual-unified-storage-hyper-v-citrix-ra.pdf






EMC Hyper-V Industry Leadership• EMC Proven Solutions

• Over 80 technical whitepapers including: • Hyper-V Best Practices with EMC storage arrays• Deployment Guides for virtualizing Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint such as http://

www.emc.com/collateral/solutions/reference-architecture/h7041-bc-sharepoint-clariion-recoverpoint-hyperv-ref-arc.pdf.

• Advanced local and remote protection including EMC VPLEX with Hyper-V Live Migration: http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h7116-vplex-hyper-v-sql-wp.pdf

• Blogs and Press Releases• EMC Microsoft Specialists: http://windowtotheprivatecloud.com• EMC Microsoft Virtualization Blog: http://vwin.typepad.com/• Inside the EMC Microsoft Partnership: http://emcmsft.typepad.com/

• Consultant Readiness• EMC Proof of Concept for Microsoft Hyper-V: a one week engagement for

deployment of Hyper-V, proposal of next steps for full deployment, and a Microsoft Hyper-V knowledge transfer

• Virtualization Assessment: Formalized virtualization readiness assessment service across application environments and infrastructure

http://www.emc.com/collateral/solutions/reference-architecture/h7041-bc-sharepoint-clariion-recoverpoint-hyperv-ref-arc.pdf



http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h7116-vplex-hyper-v-sql-wp.pdf

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h7116-vplex-hyper-v-sql-wp.pdf

http://windowtotheprivatecloud.com/

http://vwin.typepad.com/

http://vwin.typepad.com/

http://emcmsft.typepad.com/

http://emcmsft.typepad.com/

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