Virtual Server 2005 R2

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Virtual Server 2005 R2

• Torben Nelausen Pedersen
• Produktchef Infrastruktur

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Virtual Server 2005 R2

• Higher Availability
• Clustering virtual machines across hosts
• Virtual Server R2 host cluster support
• Greater Scalability
• X64 host support
• Increased Performance
• Up to 50 drop in CPU utilization
• Improved Manageability
• PXE booting Integrates virtual machines into
  deployment infrastructure
• Better Interoperability
• Linux guest support

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Overview

• Higher Availability
• Support for iSCSI allows clustering virtual
  machines across hosts
• Virtual Server R2 host cluster support
• The ability to cluster Virtual Server hosts.
• Virtual Server host clustering uses Windows
  Server 2003 EE/DTC clustering
• Virtual Server host clustering supports SAN,
  iSCSI or direct attached storage
• Planned downtime
• Servicing the host hardware or patching the host
  operating system
• Virtual machine migration. Virtual machines can
  be moved from one cluster node to another with
  minimal downtime. (Downtime dependent on speed of
  storage infrastructure)
• Less than 10 seconds to move 128 MB vm via 1GbE
  iSCSI (faster on SAN)
• Unplanned downtime
• Failover to another cluster node due to hardware
  failure
• Other benefits
• Guest OS agnostic. Any virtual machine running
  any OS can be moved or failover to another
  cluster node
• FREE. Virtual Server host clustering will be
  available as a free download in the same time
  frame as Virtual Server 2005 R2

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Overview

• Greater Scalability with 64-bit
• x64 hosts - 32-bit guests
• Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• 64-bit port of VMM and service
• Better scaling from larger kernel address space
• x64 systems typically can have more RAM
• Increased Performance
• Improved shadow page table management
• Improved performance of guest process switching
  and memory intensive application
• 65 performance increase in internal memory
  testing
• Early customer saw a 50 drop in CPU utilization

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Overview

• Improved Manageability
• PXE booting
• Emulated Ethernet card now supports PXE booting
• Integrates virtual machines into deployment
  infrastructure
• Better Interoperability
• Linux Addition (Q4 Beta)
• Additional guests supported
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack
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• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Overview

• Other improvements
• Bug fixes
• Improved Hyperthreading support
• F6 Disk (SCSI driver)
• Virtual disk pre-compactor
• Open necessary ports at install time
• Reserve space for saved states

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Licensing Changes

• Windows Server R2 EE
• 1 4 model
• Price reduction on VS 2005 R2

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Agenda

• Pain points
• Target audience
• Introducing DPM
• Key technologies

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Industry WavesBackup and recovery evolution
Version 1.0
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Customer Data Protection Pain Points
Customer Needs Faster Recovery

• Recovery is unreliable and painful
• Too slow and expensive to recover files
• typical recovery takes hours or days (slow,
  expensive)
• Recoveries and unreliable
• 42 of companies had failed recovery in past year
• 50 of customers wish for online backup
  verification
• Data protection is labor intensive
• All recoveries go through the server admin

Rapid and Reliable Recovery

• Solution with DPM
• Designed for fast recovery
• Enables a whole new recovery scenarioend users
  files, Admins servers
• Snapshots enable multiple recovery points
• Recoveries are assured through verification

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Customer Data Protection Pain Points
Customer Needs Eliminating Backup Window

• Backup is too complex, slow, and inefficient
• Shrinking backup window
• Growth in data makes it too difficult and time
  consuming to back up
• Backups too slow/lots of manual scheduling
• Mandated disaster recovery plans
• 24 hours of data loss assumed with tape
• Tape as one size fits all (file and server
  recovery, offsite protection and long term
  archive)
• Tape inconvenience and unreliability of is 1
  challenge

• Solution with DPM
• Faster and More Efficient Backup
• Never do a full backup from a production server
  again
• Avoid the shrinking backup window

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Customer Data Protection Pain Points
Customer Needs Simpler Solution, Lower costs

• Current backup products are too complex, costly
• Companies spend too much time and money on backup
• Labor is the majority of backup cost
• Branch office data protection is cumbersome
• Massive data growth increases costs
• Too many tapes
• Most disk-based backup solution are cost
  prohibitive

• Solution with DPM
• Designed to reduce TCO via continuous,
  disk-based backup
• Automatic protection schedules reduce
  operational costs, increase efficiency
• Allows end users to easily recover their own
  files
• Usability and easier management
• Integration into existing environment
• Industry standard hardware and software

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Ideal Customers

• DPM is a solution for customers of all sizes but
  the ideal customers are
• Medium-sized data centers
• 5 - 99 servers
• Significant backup window issues
• Frequent file recoveries from tape
• Few IT staff
• Familiarity with VSS and SCSF
• Have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of
  approximately one hour
• Have a faster Recovery Time Objective (RTO) than
  tape can provide
• Enterprises with lots of branch offices
• Many distributed branch office file servers
• Few or no dedicated IT staff in the branch
• Likely to currently use existing tape
  infrastructure
• High backup costs

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Implementation Scenarios D2D2T backup scenario
within the data center
Active Directory
Clients
File Servers
Tape Library
DPM Server
Archive Offsite
Backup to Tape via 3rd party software

• How Microsoft Data Protection Manager works
• Agents are deployed on each production file
  server
• Capture only byte level changes
• Agent logs all changes that occur on the
  production servers
• Logs are replicated and stored on DPM server
  based on IT administrator policy
• Production server not impacted
• DPM becomes first tier of data protection

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Implementation Scenarios Branch office data
protection

• Backup process
• Agent deployed to branch office servers
• Agent captures data and replicates to DPM server
  in HQ
• DPM takes snapshots to enable recovery at
  multiple points in time
• Benefits
• Rapid reliable recovery including end user
  recovery
• Less potential data loss
• Easy and efficient scheduling and management
• No trained staff needed in branch
• Reduce tape equipment requirements in the branch

Clients
New York
DPM Server
Clients
Chicago
Headquarters
Clients
Los Angeles
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Restore Experience IT Admin
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Restore Experience End User
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Customers tell the best story..

• Des Moines School district
• Its going to save a tremendous amount of staff
  time doing recovery,
• Almost a full-time person was doing nothing but
  that (file recoveries) . Its going to save us a
  lot of money just by allowing them to recover
  their own files.
• Expect to shrink backup time from 36 hours to 2
  hours for 100 servers

• New York City Department of Sanitation, Bureau of
  Motor Equipment
• Ease of installation and use, handy management
  and reporting features, speed of recovery and
  cost-effectiveness of DPM blow the competition
  away
• Shrunk backup from 48 hours to 10 minutes
  drastically lowered failed backup jobs and error
  messages across 30 file servers

• Kansas City Chiefs
• "If you're not ready on game day, your opponent
  doesn't care." Anything we can do to get
  recovery done quicker, that's what we were
  looking for.
• Protecting multi-terabyte Windows Storage Server
  device

NFL Football
club
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DPM And Windows Server 2003 R2

• If client wants high availability/failover of
  branch office file servers, we recommend Windows
  Server 2003 R2.
• For centralized backup and fast recovery of
  branch office files with multiple recovery
  points, we recommend DPM.
• For both high availability/failover and
  centralized backup capabilities, recommend both
  Windows Server 2003 R2 and DPM.

Key Differentiators
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DPM/MOM Integration

• Control and monitor multiple DPM servers
• All alerts and events uploaded to MOM

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Release Roadmap
System Center Microsofts management product
line
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Industry Partners
Hardware
Software
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Top 10 Reasons To Deploy DPM

• Recover files in minutes instead of hours
• Eliminate the backup window of your production
  servers
• Shrink potential data loss down to 1 hour
• No more failed recoveries
• Get easy instant backup verification
• Enable end users to perform their own recoveries
• Setup and protect your file servers in minutes
• Advanced functionality at low cost
• Remove tapes from branch offices and centralize
  backups at datacenter
• Rich out-of-box reporting and monitoring
  functionality