Do MUCH More with Less Presented by: Jon Farley 2W Technologies

 What is Virtualization? ◦ Specifically Microsoft Hyper-V  Why Virtualize? ◦ Because we can!  Benefits – Many ◦ Reliability, Flexibility, Performance, Lower Cost  Recommendations  Implementing Virtualization  Demonstration

 2 Pieces – Hardware & Software ◦ Hardware  Both AMD & Intel built-in virtualization technology  Included in recent Servers & most pc’s  Divides resources at the hardware-level  Keeps each virtual machine isolated from other vm’s ◦ Software  Microsoft’s Virtualization is called “Hyper-V”  built into Windows 2008/Windows 7  Enables a “Host” server to host 1 or more VM’s  Free version of Win 2008 core  “Windows 2008 Hyper-V Server” to just host VM’s  VM Ware  Invented the concept  Costs $  Separate App, not part of the Operating System

◦ Software (continued)  Hosts & Guests  Host would be full Win bit, or free Hyper-V  *Strongly recommend “R2” version of Win2008  Guest VM’s could be nearly any operating system  Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7, Linux, etc.  1 Host Hyper-V Server can several VM’s  2-4,5,6… VM’s but totally depends on workload of each  Be smart about it, distribute load over physical servers appropriately  Separate Disk-intensive VM’s on separate physical servers  Same with Processor or Network intensive VM’s  Hyper-V Manager – will demo later  Control & manage any HV hosts & all their VM’s  Can run from Win2008/R2* server, Win 7 pc, Win Vista*

◦ Because we can & it makes good sense  Hardware & Software now make it possible & affordable ◦ Get more Bang for Your Buck  1 Server can house several virtual servers  Domain controller, file server  Database server, V8/E9  Terminal server to host clients  In the past, there was a 1-TO-1 ration between Hardware & Servers  Was very expensive to split up server functions, required hardware for each  Now just buy a couple extra Windows server licenses  Enterprise version of 2008 allows for 1 physical host & 4 Virtual servers  *About the cost of 3 individual 2008 Standards  Standard allows 1 Host & 1 Virtual

 What is #1 benefit? ◦ HARDWARE INDEPENDENCE!!  1 Crash away from dreaded “Blue Screen of Death”  If the hardware, drives or operating system get damaged…  Downtime!  Very costly to business.  In a virtual environment, can quickly port a VM to another physical server or even beefy PC!  Very little downtime  No longer tied to the hardware  Another layer between VM operating systems & hardware  “Removed” from hardware

 Improved backups, disaster recovery ◦ Entire virtual server can be backed up  w/backup commands capture backup image  Or shutdown the vm & copy the.vhd file to backup disk ◦ Can easily restore entire VM if it got damaged  Can Make backup copies for Test or demo use ◦ Before loading a new update, won’t damage production server  Very Fast Performance ◦ No difference between virtual & physical server

 Improved backups, disaster recovery ◦ Entire virtual server can be backed up  w/backup commands capture backup image  Or shutdown the vm & copy the.vhd file to backup disk ◦ Can easily restore entire VM if it got damaged  Can Make backup copies for Test or demo use ◦ Before loading a new update, won’t damage production server

 Next Step -System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)  Setup a Redundant/Failover “farm” of 2 or more physical servers  Centrally control all Hyper-V host servers & all VM’s  Inexpensive license, maybe $500 per physical server *Very cheap for full server redundancy  Allows for “Live Migration” (R2 only)  Move a VM from one physical box to another with *Min downtime (2 mins. Or less)

 One Server at a time ◦ Start with one ◦ Phase-out old servers, migrate to Virtual servers ◦ Make any new server virtual from day 1  P2V (Physical to Virtual) Conversions ◦ Move an existing server from old hardware to VM  Retire Old, Slow, or Unstable hardware  Once virtualized  Can give same server more RAM, disk space  Will run much faster since on fast host server  Often much easier than reinstalling a entire server & all applications

 Build Accordingly ◦ You can overload any server, physical or virtual  Provide plenty of Memory & Disk space for all VM’s ◦ Sum of all RAM for VM’s plus 2gb or more for HV Host ◦ Have “Utility” disk partition for backups ◦ VM’s on partition by themselves  Can then backup entire volume (to utility) & get an image of all VM’s  Dual Quad Core processors if 2 or more VM’s ◦ Or more for large environments  Multiple Network cards on host ◦ Spread network load/traffic over separate gb network connections

 Show our 2W virtual servers in action  Also, new 2008 “RemoteApp” ◦ Much improved Terminal Services

Thanks for your time! Jon Farley Ph: x