Virtualization Deep Dive DaySystem Center Virtual

Machine Manager

Dan Stolts, MCT, MCITP, MCSE, TS...

Sr. IT Pro EvangelistMicrosoft Corporation

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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Increased Physical Server Utilization • Deploys multiple virtual servers on one physical

server• Increases flexibility• Sets up servers for testing• Decreases hardware costs

Centralized Management of Virtual Infrastructure• Uses Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) pack for

reporting and health monitoring• Reports on consolidation candidates, utilization

trending, optimization opportunities Rapid Provisioning of New Virtual Machines

• Enables end users to use Self Service Provisioning UI to request and place VMs

• Enables administrators to configure rules and boundaries for provisioning

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A centralized management application solution forMicrosoft virtual server software

Virtual Machine Manager Server

Connector

Self Service Web Portal

Administrator’s Console

Management Interfaces

SAN Storage

Operator’s Console

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Windows PowerShe

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Operations Manager Server

Virtual Server Host

VM

VM

VMM Library Server

VM Template

ISO ScriptVHD

VMware VI3

Virtual Center Server

ESX Host

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Windows® PowerShell

SCVMM 2008 Architecture

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

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Hyper-VCluster

ManagementSelection

Filters

Context Sensitive Actions

VMInformation

VMwareserver

VirtualMachines

What's new with SCVMM 2008 R2

VMM 2007•Solutions Accelerator for offline VM patching available now, integrates VMM2007 and SCCM 2007

•VMM 2007 Workgroup Edition is available as of January. Same features as the Enterprise Edition – only limited to five virtual hosts

VMM 2008 •VMM 2008 will include support for managing VMware ESX servers, with Xen integration coming in the version after

•VMM positioned as the heterogeneous VM management solution

VMM 2008 R2

•Live Migration•Support for Clustered Shared Volumes and Third Party CFS•Quick Storage Migration•Hot-Add and Removal of Storage•Maintenance Mode•Rapid Provisioning•Host Compatibility Checks

Hot Add Storage

Create a New Template and Deploy machine using that template

Driven by customer demand Unified management experience

Physical and Virtual Hyper-V and VMware

Full virtual machine management VMotion, Resource Pools, etc.

Enhanced capabilities Intelligent Placement Library Powershell PRO application aware calibration

VMware Management

Delegation and Self Service

Administrators control access through policies which designate capabilities

Delegated Administrators Manage a scoped environment

Self service user Web user interface Manage their own VMs Quota to limit VMs Scripting through

PowerShell

Capacity planning technology ensures best resource utilization

Star rated results for easy decision making Customizable algorithm to achieve your goals Applicable to both Microsoft and VMware hosts

Intelligent Placement

Conversions: P2V and V2V Intuitive and easy to use tools provide:

Core feature of VMM, no additional infrastructure or costs per conversion

Wizard based experience Reconfigure storage, memory, CPU, etc. Efficient disk copy Preserves network settings and MAC addresses Automatable through PowerShell

Supported platforms: Live - Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista,

and Windows Server 2008 SMP and x64 sources

Workload and application aware resource optimization

Extensible through the Operations Manager 2007 MP framework

Create policies that VMM acts upon tips automatically or manually

Minimize downtime and accelerating time to resolution.

Enables partners to deliver value add to our mutual customers

Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO)

Add/remove disks to virtual machines while they are running Virtual hard disk (VHD) and pass-through

disks Must be attached to virtual SCSI controller

Hot Addition & Removal of Storage

Microsoft Virtualization Products Server Virtualization

Application VirtualizationDesktop

Virtualization

Presentation Virtualization

Management

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Cross Platform Monitoring

Service Level Monitoring

User Interface Improvements

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1

DPM 2007 SP1

Online Snapshots (up to 512)Disk-based Recovery

Active Directory®

System State

file shares and directories

Up to Every 15 minutes

Tape-based Backup

Disaster Recoverywith offsite replication

& tape

DPM 2007 SP1

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/scvmm Tech Center (for documentation and downloads):

http://technet.microsoft.com/scvmm/default.aspx Microsoft Virtualization Homepage

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization Microsoft System Center Homepage

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v/

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