System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Technical Overview and

							Technical Introduction into
SCVMM 2008 (R2)

Nigel Cain              Arlindo Alves
Program Manager         IT Pro Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation   Microsoft Belgium
                        & Luxembourg
Agenda
• Overview of Microsoft Virtualization and
  System Center
• VMM 2008 Interface and New Features
• Core VMM features
• PowerShell Integration
Microsoft Virtualization:
From the Datacenter to the Desktop
                                 User State
                               Virtualization
                         Document redirection
                             Offline files
                                                          Server
 Presentation
                                                      Virtualization
 Virtualization




                 Desktop                  Application
              Virtualization             Virtualization
Managing The Server Lifecycle
  Virtual Machine Manager 2008
A centralized, heterogeneous management solution for the virtual datacenter

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 Optmization (PRO)
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
What’s in SCVMM 2008 R2?

 Hypervisor Management – Hyper-V,      Cluster integration
    VMware
   Host Configuration                    Intelligent Placement
   Library Management                    Deployment and Storage
   Virtual Machine Creation              Monitoring and Reporting
   Conversions: P2V and V2V              Automation with PowerShell
                                        Performance and Resource
 Delegation and Self Service
                                       Optimization (PRO)



 Manage Win2K8 R2 Hyper-V
 Live Migration                      Multiple VMs per LUN using CSV
 Maintenance mode                    SAN related enhancements
 VDI integration                     Network optimizations
VMM 2008 Architecture
Administrator’s      Self Service Web
   Console                 Portal                              Operator’s     Web         Windows
                                                                Console      Console     PowerShell
          Windows® PowerShell
                                              Connector

  Virtual Machine Manager                                           Operations Manager
           Server                                                         Server


                                     Management Interfaces
Virtual Server          VMM Library                                              VMware VI3
     Host                 Server
                                                                            Virtual Center Server


     VM                 VM    Template        VM   VM     VM   VM                 ESX Host


                                                                            VM    VM    VM     VM
     VM               ISO    VHD   Script     VM   VM     VM   VM



                                            SAN Storage
Virtual Machine Manager Topology
                           Administrator Console
     Self Service User                             Windows PowerShell




Self Service Web Servers                            Perimeter Network (DMZ)




       Library Servers                                Virtual Machine Hosts
Enterprise Topology
                                           Windows®
                                           PowerShell


                                                        Administrator
                                                          Console



                                                        Web-based
                                                         Delegated
                                                        Provisioning
     External                                                UI
     Network
      (DMZ)
                      Brussels                            Stockholm


                                 Remote
                                 Library
                                 Server
                                                                Remote
                 Virtual                                        Library
                Machine                                         Server
                 Hosts
                                                                          9
Key SC VMM 2008 Features

• P2V and V2V is a core feature of VMM, no additional
  infrastructure or costs per conversion
• Self Service Portal - Administrators control access
  through policies which designate capabilities
• Library is a Repository for all VM building blocks
• Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
 SC VMM 2008 Overview


demo
Intelligent Placement
•   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
Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)


• Workload and
  application aware
  resource
  optimization
• Extensible through
  the Operations
  Manager 2007 MP
  framework
• Create policies that
  VMM acts upon tips
• Minimize downtime
• Enables partners to
  deliver value add
Monitoring
• Discovery of Hosts, Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine
  Manager components
• Performance and Health Monitoring, Reports, etc.
• Application awareness
• Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
 Intelligent Placement


demo
Host Configuration
• Wizard based experience for adding hosts
• Easy management of Hyper-V host clusters
• Management of Windows Server 2008 Failover
  clusters for Hyper-V
Highly Available VMs in VMM
•   Simplified creation
    •   Just check a checkbox in “New VM” wizard
    •   Supports HA VM creation on disks without drive letters
•   Quick Migration
    •   Use the existing “Migrate VM wizard” for quick migration
•   Intelligent Placement
    •   Star rating for each clustered host (node)
    •   Cluster level reserve
•   Store to library
    •   Uses HA setting when you re-deploy
• Promotion/Demotion
             • Promote non-HA VM to HA VM by migrating it to a clustered
               host, and vice versa to “demote” the VM.
 Failover Clustering


demo
Network Diagram View
                • Single pane of
                  glass network
                  view
Live Migration via VMM
• VMM 2008 R2
  • Detects if Live migration can be done
     • Clustering, Shared storage availability
  • Higher star rating over Quick or SAN migration
  • Serializes live migration for maintenance mode
Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV)

• Enables multiple nodes in a cluster to access a
  single shared LUN
• VMM 2008 R2
  • Multiple VMs within a cluster can share a LUN
  • live migration of individual VMs without affecting
    other VMs on the LUN
Multiple VMs sharing a LUN

           VMM 2008 R2


Failover
Cluster




Clustered
Storage      Vol. 1                  Vol. 2
                       LUN 1                   LUN 2

                 VHD    VHD    VHD       VHD    VHD    VHD
 Live Migration


demo
Network Related Enhancements
• Network Optimization
  • Win2k8 R2 supports 2 types of network
    optimizations: VMQ & Chimney
  • During VM creation: Enable/disable network
    optimization
    • If enabled, VMM will configure the VM to use
      VMQ or Chimney, if available on the host
  • Placement: Detect and show availability of
    Network optimization on the host
Network Enhancements




                       VMM has detected that
                       host has NIC that has
                           either VMQ or
                        Chimney capabilities
Hot Add of VM storage
• Ability to add/remove storage to running VMs
  • Reduces downtime and provides flexibility to admins
  • to add/remove storage as needed
• Admin needs to add storage space to VM
  • Need to stop the VM to do this
  • With VMM R2 and Win2k8 R2
     • Create additional storage and add it to running VM
• Admin needs to backup a VM
     • Can create VSS snapshot of his running OS
     • Use the new disk as destination of snapshot
     • Remove the disk from running VM
 Hot Add of VM Storage


demo
Maintenance Mode
• For servicing a host, VMM R2 allows host to be
  put in maintenance mode
  • VMs on that host that are running are live migrated
    off the host to avoid downtime
  • Admin can choose to save state VMs if host is not
    part of a cluster
• Placement
  • Host in maintenance mode gets zero star ratings
• Supported for Hyper-V, VS and VMWare hosts
 Maintenance Mode


demo
Fully Manage + Add Value to VMware

• Unified management experience
  • Hyper-V and VMware
• Full virtual machine management
  • VMotion, Resource Pools, VMware Templates
  • Network Diagram view and VMware HA VM Support
• Enhancing capabilities on VMware VI3
  •   PRO
  •   Intelligent Placement
  •   Library
  •   Integrated conversion tools
  •   PowerShell automation
Unified Management
• Powerful Cross Platform Virtualization
  Management
  • Support for VMware VI3
  • Single management console across Virtual Server,
    Hyper-V and VI3
• Manage and integrate multiple VMware
  environments
• Streamline and automate all tasks using VMM
• You decide where workloads should run across
  your environment
Add VMware VirtualCenter
• SecureMode
  • On = Recommended
Separate Environments
Integrated Solution
                    Virtual Machine Manager 2008
 Virtual Center 1         Virtual Center 2            VMM 2007




                                              Virtual Center 2




                                              Virtual Center 1
VMM Scripting Through PowerShell

 • Microsoft’s command shell for scripting and
   development
 • Consistent scripting syntax
   • Encapsulate platform differences

 • VMM PowerShell Snap-in
   • 170+ command-line functions
   • Foundation for VMM administrator’s console and Self Service
     Portal
   • All PowerShell operations are logged and audited
PowerShell Cmdlet



    Job

      • Progress
      • Status
      • Owner
      • Affected objects
 PowerShell Integration


demo
     Offline VM Patching




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Summary


 Hypervisor Management – Hyper-V,  Cluster integration
  VMware
   Host Configuration                  Intelligent Placement
   Library Management                  Deployment and Storage
   Virtual Machine Creation            Monitoring and Reporting
   Conversions: P2V and V2V            Automation with PowerShell
                                      Performance and Resource
 Delegation and Self Service
                                     Optimization (PRO)



 Manage Win2K8 R2 Hyper-V
 Live Migration                   Multiple VMs per LUN using CSV
 Maintenance mode                 SAN related enhancements
 VDI integration                  Network optimizations
Resources
• 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 Homepage
  http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v/