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Senior Engineer: March 09, 2010

This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization solutions including Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. It notes that over 75% of global enterprises have or will implement virtualization in the next year. Hyper-V, introduced with Windows Server 2008, provides improved support for large memory, multi-processor virtual machines compared to Virtual Server. System Center Virtual Machine Manager allows centralized management of the virtualized environment.

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Senior Engineer: March 09, 2010

This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization solutions including Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. It notes that over 75% of global enterprises have or will implement virtualization in the next year. Hyper-V, introduced with Windows Server 2008, provides improved support for large memory, multi-processor virtual machines compared to Virtual Server. System Center Virtual Machine Manager allows centralized management of the virtualized environment.

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Senior Engineer March 09, 2010

Virtualization Today Microsoft end to end solution Microsoft Hyper-V Product compare Mange Virtualization Environment System Center Family

Close to 76% of global enterprises have or will have a virtualization solution within the next 12 months.
62% have a virtualization solution in place or are in the process of migrating. 21% plan to implement it within the next 12 months.

Rapid market adoption of server virtualization


60% of those who have implemented server virtualization plan to increase spending on it.

15-20% of Windows deployments will be in virtual environments in 2007 By 2010 OS virtualization will become mainstream.

Server Virtualization

Presentation Virtualization

Management

Desktop Virtualization

Application Virtualization

Test and Development Automation

Server Consolidation

Dynamic Data Center

Business Continuity

Codename "Viridian"

Part of Windows Server 2008 Hypervisor based architecture New virtualization role
Can be a full role with local UI or Can be configured as Server Core role

Managed by Microsoft System Center

Features 64-bit (x64) and hardware virtualization required


AMD AMD-V or Intel Virtualization Technology

32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) child partitions Large memory support within VMs Dynamic memory, Memory Page Sharing SMP VMs up to four processor cores High availability and load balancing through clustering

Features Integration for live backups New hardware sharing architecture


Disk, networking, input, video

Pass-through high performance disk access for VMs Robust networking VLANs and NLB Management interface

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)


VHD specification is freely available under Open Specification Promise (OSP)

Standards based management APIs


Defining model for management

Hypervisor hypercall API


Preliminary documentation available Final version will be licensed at RTM

Virtual Server 2008 R2 SP1


Physical memory support 64-bit VMs? Multi-processor VMs? 256 GB No No

Microsoft Hyper-V
1 TB Yes Yes, up to 4 core VMs

VM memory support?
Can be managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager? Microsoft Cluster support?

3.6 GB per VM
Yes Yes

More than 32 GB per VM


Yes Yes

Scriptable/Extensible?
User interface

Yes, COM
Web Interface

Yes, WMI + HyperCall API


MMC 3.0 Interface

System Center Virtual Machine Manager


A new System Center product that allows you to manage your virtualized environment Feature set includes centralized:
Host Configuration Virtual Machine Creation Server Consolidation Tools Image Library Management Virtual Machine Placement and Deployment Monitoring and Reporting Rapid Recovery

2008
Windows Server 2008 RTM Microsoft Hyper V Beta SCVMM v2 Beta Microsoft Hyper-V RTM System Center Virtual Machine Manager V2

Now
Windows Server 2008 RC0 System Center Operation Manager System Center Configuration manager System Center Data Potation Manager System Center Virtual Machine Manager V1 Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

Install Virtual Server 2008 R2

Install System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

Install Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V.

Prepare to Hyper-V Understand the value of Microsoft Virtualization


End to End solution for virtual and physical servers

Deputy Manager

Manager

Questions?

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