Welcome to the Microsoft Architect Forum

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Welcome to the Microsoft Architect Forum
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Agenda

• 0945 0950 Welcome
• 0950 1105 Microsoft Virtualisation Today and
  Tomorrow
• 1105 1120 Break
• 1120 1235 Managing a Mixed Virtual/Physical
  Environment Tools and Techniques
• 1235 1315 Lunch
• 1315 1435 Microsoft Virtualisation Deep Dive
• 1435 1450 Break
• 1450 16.05 Avanade Virtual Server notes from
  the field
• 16.05 1645 Panel Questions and Answers

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Welcome to the Microsoft Architect Forum

• Virtual Server The Tip of the Iceberg
• 28th November 2006

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Microsoft VirtualisationToday and Tomorrow

• Kevin Sangwell
• Infrastructure Architect
• Microsoft EMEA HQ

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What is Virtualisation?

• a technique for hiding the physical
  characteristics of computing resources from the
  way in which other systems, applications, or end
  users interact with those resources
• Abstraction and Emulation
• Virtual IP Address, Virtual Directory, SAN

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Types of Virtualisation

• Machine Virtualisation
• Microsoft Virtual Server Virtual PC

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Machine Virtualisation
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Types of Virtualisation

• Machine Virtualisation
• Microsoft Virtual Server Virtual PC
• Desktop/Session Virtualisation
• Windows Terminal Services

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Desktop Virtualisation
Desktop
Desktop
Desktop
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Types of Virtualisation

• Machine Virtualisation
• Microsoft Virtual Server Virtual PC
• Desktop/Session Virtualisation
• Windows Terminal Services
• Application Virtualisation
• Microsoft SoftGrid

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Application Virtualisation
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Virtual Server R2 Overview

• Virtualisation application for Windows
• Windows service with a Web interface

• Designed for remote administration
• Fully documented COM API for scripting and ISVs
• Virtualizes everything you find in a x86 system
• Provides virtual disks (VHD), virtual networking
  and virtual video

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Virtual Server, The Story So Far

• Virtual Server becomes Free Download

• Virtual Server 2005 R2 RTM

• Virtual Server 2005 RTM

Q1 2003

• Connectix Acquisition

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Heterogeneous Guest Support

• Supported Windows guest operating systems
• Windows NT4
• Windows Server 2000
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP Professional SP2
• Supported Linux distributions
• Enterprise distributions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
• Standard distributions
• Red Hat Linux 7.3
• Red Hat Linux 9.0
• SuSE Linux 9.2/9.3
• SuSE Linux 10

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Virtual Server R2 Compatible
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Virtual Server R2 Compatible

• Microsoft
• Compatible means it just works
• Compatible guest operating systems
• DOS
• Windows Client Every version, 1.x, 3.1, 95, 98,
  ME, XP
• Window Server Every version, NT, 2000, 2003 (all
  editions except Datacenter, which requires a
  minimum of 8 processors)
• Linux
• Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu,
  Fedora, etc.
• Others OS/2, Cho-Kanji
• 1000 OSs just work http//vpc.visualwin.com/

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Virtual Server R2 Key Features

• High Availability
• Virtual Server R2 Host Cluster support
• Guest operating system-agnostic
• Up to 64 guests / host
• x64 hosts (32-bit guests)
• 64-bit port of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and
  service
• Better scaling from larger kernel address space
• Linux Guest Support

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Virtual Server Clustering
Host to Host
Guest to Guest
SAN or iSCSI connection
iSCSI connection
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Where and why its being deployed

• Test and Development
• Rapid provisioning reset of dev/test
  environment
• Server Consolidation
• SQL Server, File Print
• Low utilisation servers (e.g. NT 4.0 LoB)
• Datacentre
• Reduce space, power, cooling requirements
• Increase flexibility
• Disaster Recovery
• Clone live datacentre

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The Future

• Windows Server 2005 R2 SP1
• Support 64 guest machines on x64 hosts
• Support for Intel-VT and AMD-V assists
• Improved backup and disasterrecovery through
  integrated VSS support
• Q1 CY07 (public beta now)
• Windows Server Virtualisation
• Longhorn Timeframe (2H CY07)
• Hypervisor Based
• Longhorn Server Core

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Windows Server Virtualisation

• Requirements
• Requires x64 hardware support
• Requires AMD-V or Intel VT (IVT) enabled
  processors
• High level features
• Hardware Virtualisation enabled
• 32-bit and 64-bit guests
• 32 GB of memory per virtual machine
• Up to 8 CPU-Core virtual machines
• Virtualized devices
• WMI management and control API
• Save/Restore, Snapshotting
• CPU and I/O resource controls
• Dynamic resource addition
• Hot Add Networking, Storage, Memory, and
  Processors
• Live migration

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Windows Server Virtualisation Architectural
Overview
Parent Partition
Child Partitions
Applications
User Mode
Kernel Mode
Windows hypervisor
Designed for Windows Server Hardware with PVE
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Virtual Server 2005 vs. Windows Server
Virtualisation
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Arent Desktop and Application Virtualisation the
same?

• Desktop Virtualisation
• Execution occurs on the server
• No application client deployment just UI is
  displayed on the client (RDP)
• Multiple isolated users per server
• Excellent for
• Branch Office
• High Volume data applications
• Centralised desktop management

• Application Virtualisation
• Execution occurs on the client
• Application still needs deployment to client
• Multiple isolated applications per client
• Excellent for
• Reducing test matrix
• Concurrently running multiple versions of the
  same application
• Reducing application management

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Objective Anywhere Application Access
Central Location
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Terminal Services in Windows Server Longhorn

• Design Goals
• Improve basic out-of-box solution
• Provide improved platform for customers and
  partners
• Tighter integration with client OS to provide
  seamless experience
• Leverage and integrate with Microsoft management
  technology
• Key Advances
• TS Remote Program
• TS Gateway
• TS Web Access
• Single Sign-on for managed clients
• Improved experience, security and manageability

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What else is new in LH TS?
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Application Virtualisation

• Most software is not designed to operate in a
  utility model
• State is mixed-in
• Reconfiguration is costly
• More and more software leads to unreliable
  desktops and massive test matrix
• Application Virtualisation enables software to be
  managed independently and transformed without the
  need for source code

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Applications are transformed into an image
Operating System
Application
.VHD
.SFT
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Application Virtualization
Isolated Virtual Application Model
Traditional Layered Install Model
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SoftGrid Application Virtualisation

• Applications are virtualized per instance
• Files (including System Files)
• Registry
• Fonts
• .ini
• COM/DCOM objects
• Services
• Semafores, Mutexes
• Name spaces
• Applications do not get installed or alter the
  operating system
• Yet tasks process locally on the host computer.

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How Applications are VirtualizedThe SoftGrid
Sequencer

• Wizard-based tool, virtualizes applications
  without changing source code
• Records an applications configurations and
  dependencies then segments application code into
  a file
• Sequencer file is placed onto one or more
  SoftGrid servers for on-demand deployment
• E.g. sequence Office in less than 15 mins, Word
  executes with 15Mb download

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The SoftGrid Architectural Overview
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The SoftGrid Technologies
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Microsoft SoftGrid Availability

• Currently available from SoftGrid channel
• Available in MS channels from 01/01/07
• Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
• http//www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/
  oct06/10-17Desktop.mspx

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System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

• Physical resource optimisation
• Simple identification of consolidation candidates
• Fast and reliable Physical to Virtual migration
  (P2V)
• Uses Volume Shadow Services to create virtual
  machines at disk speed
• Intelligent placement
• Placement is at the crux of maximizing the
  utilization of physical assets
• Centralised resource optimisation
• Optimizing workloads for
• Maximum number of virtual machines per servers
• Maximum dispersion across multiple servers

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Virtual Machine Manager

• Rapid provisioning of new workloads
• Central library
• Self-service provisioning
• Industry standard storage architecture
• Employs distributed storage architecture on
  industry standard hardware and network
  infrastructure to use resources with optimal
  locality
• Host provisioning

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Rapid Provisioning using Self-Service Portal
Customized to the User
Ability to control owned virtual machines
Thumbnails of all owned virtual machines
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Centralized Management Views, Views and More
Views
By Resource Pool
By VM State
By Owner
By Creation Date
By Operating System
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Virtual Machine Manager Feature Summary (V1)
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Skillset

• Politics
• Loss of ownership and control
• Shared resources
• Budgeting

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The Datacentre
Service Layer Applications, Services, Data
File, Print, LoB, Web
Management Library, Dynamic capacity
Virtualisation Layer Machines, VLANs, Storage
Volumes
Physical Datacentre Servers, Networking, Storage
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The Branch

• Appliance-like
• LH Server Core TPM
• Virtualised Workloads
• AD, File, Print, Patching, LoB
• Automatic data replication to data centre
• Automatic fallback to data centre
• Applications
• Intelligent transparent application execution
• Local - traditional virtualised
• Central - WTS

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Licensing the virtual...

• Windows licensed per physical processor socket
  (not core)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 EE
• Includes license for 4 Win2K3 VMs
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter
• Includes license for unlimited Win2K3 VMs
• Server Products licensed per virtual processor
• See http//www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights
  /virtualization.mspx

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Resources

• Virtual Server 2003 R2 Free Download
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtu
  alserver/software/default.mspx
• Guidance Building a Virtual Test Lab
• http//go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId50491
• LoB Consolidation Guidance
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/ucs/
  lob/lobsa/lobsaovw.mspx
• Clustering Virtual Server Scripting Virtual
  Server
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/virtu
  alserver/default.mspx