Windows Virtualization: Strategy And Roadmap Mike Neil Product Unit Manager Windows Virtualization Microsoft Corporation

Improve Utilization Increase Responsiveness Lower Operational Costs Increase Availability Server Administrators Application Developers Today’s IT Pressures Virtualization!

Virtualization Benefits Improve Utilization Consolidation increases hardware utilization Scales on MP/multi-core systems Lower Operational Costs Management tools reduce costs Workloads can be hardware agnostic Increase Availability Planned and unplanned high availability Building block for business continuity Increase Responsiveness Rapid and self provisioning of services

Virtualization Awareness February 2006 study* 75% of enterprises aware of virtualization 34% implementing virtualization by mid % increasing virtualization in the next year High interest from Microsoft customers Most virtual machines are running Windows Hundreds of thousands using Virtual Server Customers are accelerating fast Microsoft providing the platform solution! * Source: Forrester

Virtual Server 2005 R Virtual Server Roadmap R2 SP1 Beta Virtual Server MOM Management Pack R2 R2 SP1 RTM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 Legacy application re-hosting Test and development automation Server consolidation Disaster Recovery

Virtual Server Clustering Host to HostGuest to Guest Cluster storage iSCSI connection Cluster storage SAN or iSCSI connection

Virtual Server 2005 R2 Improved performance and scalability 100% improvement on transactional workloads 64-bit (x64) host support for greater scalability High availability Host clustering for both planned and unplanned downtime Linux guest support! Free!

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Support for hardware virtualization assists Support for Intel and AMD assists Performance improvements while running Linux guests Better support for backup and disaster recovery through integrated VSS support VHD mounting on the host Schedule Beta 1 with Intel support available today Beta 2 with AMD support H RTM Q1 2007

MOM And SMS For MVS 2005 R2 Centrally monitor availability, health, and performance Granular control over virtual machines Detailed information with reporting MOM 2005 MP for MVS 2005 Manages Host Operating Systems Manages Guest Operating Systems Distinguishes Guest versus Host Operating Systems SMS 2003 SP1

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack For MOM 2005 ReportsDiscovery State view Diagram view Alert view TasksPerformance

Reports Virtualization candidates

Reports Performance history

MVS 2005 R2 MP State view

MVS 2005 R2 MP Diagram view

Customer Needs: Drive up efficiency, drive down costs Tools to Maximize Operational Agility Rapid Server Provisioning and re-provisioning Rapid recovery from data, server or site loss Need tools to maximize agility using VM technology Need “scalable” migration functionality Centralized VM Management VS 2005 requires managing hosts individually Lack of tools limits deployment to dev/test/pilot Single console to manage the entire virtual environment Improve Resource Optimization Need to drive up utilization rates with consolidation 15% utilization or less is common in the industry Virtualization “stack” needs further optimization Want a “thinner” higher performance host OS VM VMVM Virtualization Management Customer Pain Points

Virtualization Management Evolution Scenarios Hardware Consolidation Business Continuity and Rapid Recovery Development and Test Environments Dynamic Data Center Future Virtual Machine Manager V1

Virtual Machine Manager v1 Features Host Configuration Virtual Machine Creation Library Management Virtual Machine Placement and Deployment Monitoring and Reporting Rapid Recovery Self Service Provisioning User Interface Automation

Physical to Virtual Machines Mapping One Click switching between physical and virtual views VM State Transition, migration and checkpoints Complete details of both physical and virtual layers Customizable grouping of physical and virtual machines into resource pools

Views, Views, And More Views By Resouce Pool By VM State By Owner By Creation Date By Operating System

Intelligent Placement Subset physical hosts to appropriate resource pool(s) Rank ordered recommendations of physical hosts for placement of virtual machine. Capacity Planning models, historical performance data, hard requirements, … incorporated into algorithm.

Public Beta 1, TAP RTM H Q Public Beta 2 H Virtual Machine Manager Roadmap

Windows Virtualization Windows Hypervisor Powerful virtualization built into the Windows platform Virtualization Platform and Management Management tools VM 2 “Child” VM 1 “Parent” VM 2 “Child”

Windows Virtualization Hypervisor based solution for Windows Integrated virtualization “role” New IO sharing model for better performance More dynamic virtual environment Standards based management API Windows virtualization platform for partners

Windows Virtualization: Architecture Parent Partition Child Partitions Kernel Mode User Mode Virtualization Service Providers (VSPs) Windows Kernel Server Core IHV Drivers Virtualization Service Clients (VSCs) Windows Kernel Enlightenments VMBus Windows hypervisor Virtualization Stack VM Worker Processes VM Service WMI Provider Applications “Designed for Windows” Server Hardware Provided by: Windows ISV OEM WindowsVirtualization

Private Beta 1, TAP RTM Q Public Beta H Windows Server Virtualization Roadmap Within 180 days of LHS RTM

Virtualization Strategy EnablingPlatformSupportStandardsManagement Think about: How does this impact your business?

How do you license your products? Strategy: Enabling Industry leadership in licensing Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition Includes 4 virtual instances Windows Server codename “Longhorn” Data Center Edition will allow unlimited VMs Licensing per virtual processor SQL, BizTalk, etc Instance based licensing Will enable new usage models

Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition includes 4 Instances Old License Model Total: 5 Windows Licenses New with Windows Server R2 EE: Total: 1 License Windows Server 2003 R2 EE Hardware Virtualization Layer WindowsWindows WindowsWindows Add an addition Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition license and get up to 4 more guests Windows Server “Longhorn” Datacenter Edition will allow unlimited guests! Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition Physical host OS and up to 4 guests

Library with 100 images of Windows 7 Servers running images (1 per server) Licensing by Running Instance License by “running instances” Old License model Total: 107 Windows Licenses New License rights Total: 7 Windows Licenses Promotes the use of virtualization and a more dynamic data center Create as many images as you would like Store the images where you need them License the machine for the instances you use

Strategy: Platform Today: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Industry support in management tools Fully documented COM API Support for partner virtualization technologies Longhorn: Windows Server Virtualization Integrated server “role” for virtualization Hypervisor based solution for Windows Server Extensible platform for partners Where can you add customer value?

Strategy: Support Clear virtualization support statement Microsoft tests and supports our products in Microsoft virtualization solutions Virtualization support is a Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) for Windows Server System (WSS) products Microsoft will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate potential issues for premier-level customers using 3rd solutions Details are in Knowledge Base article # What should your support policy be?

Strategy: Standards Management APIs Driving the industry management standard DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) Windows Server virtualization will use this model for its WMI interface Hardware Windows Server virtualization is built on AMD and Intel processor virtualization extensions Defining future IO virtualization extensions with the industry through the PCI-SIG

Strategy: Standards VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) format Zero-cost, royalty-free licensing program Simple license for specification and grants clear IP rights Over 45 vendors so far Allows ISVs to interoperate with Microsoft virtualization solutions VHD is the virtualization format Windows will be deployed and serviced in How can you integrate with VHD?

Strategy: Management Standards-based platform for management vendors VHD interoperability across industry Microsoft's VM management tools integrated with the System Center suite Management tools that span from physical machines to virtual machines Self Managing Dynamic Systems vision How can you extend our platform?

Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative System Center

Call To Action Integrate and plan for Microsoft’s virtualization products and platforms Download Virtual Server 2005 R2 today! Get ready for Windows virtualization Understand the opportunities and impacts of virtualization on your products and businesses Attend the System Fundamentals – Virtualization sessions to get more details on the architecture and technologies

Additional Resources Web Resources: Virtual Server: Licensing: Support: VHD: /virtualserver/techinfo/vhdspec.mspx /virtualserver/techinfo/vhdspec.mspxhttp:// /virtualserver/techinfo/vhdspec.mspx Related Sessions VIR047: Hypervisor Virtualization Stack and Device Virtualization Architectures BUS066: Windows Server Strategy and Roadmap VIR065: Microsoft Operating System Virtualization Strategy and Virtual Hard Disk Directions VIR124: Windows Virtualization Best Practices and Future Hardware Directions

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