virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Consolidate and Virtualize your Linux Environment M.S.Anand │ Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010  Planning for Virtualization  Hardware & Software Requirements  Supported Linux distributions  Set up Linux on Hyper-V  Create and Install Linux virtual machines  Migrate existing physical machines  Managing your Linux environment  Monitor, Backup, Centrally Manage Linux virtual machines virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 S E S S I O N A G E N D A

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Virtualizing with Hyper-V Hypervisor based virtualization platform Leverages Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition technology – Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Editions Hardware Requirements – x64 server with hardware assisted virtualization AMD-V or Intel VT – Hardware enabled Data Execution Prevention (DEP) required AMD (NX no execute bit) Intel (XD execute disable) 3

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Simplified, optimized and free – Provides basic virtualization capabilities – Great stand-alone hypervisor-based virtualization product Streamlined – Micro-kernelized hypervisor Easily integrates into existing infrastructure – Active Directory integration – Leverage existing management tools (e.g,: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2) – Leverage existing support tools & processes – Leverage existing IT Pro skill-set and knowledge 4

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Hyper-V scenarios & Benefits 5

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Windows Server Editions 6

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Hyper-V Architecture 7 Windows Server 2008/R2 VSP Windows Kernel Applications Non-Hypervisor Aware OS Windows Server 2003, 2008 Windows Kernel VSC VMBus Emulation “Designed for Windows” Server Hardware Windows hypervisor Hypervisor Aware OS Hypervisor Linux VSC Hypercall Adapter Parent Partition Child Partitions VM Service WMI Provider VM Worker Processes User Mode Kernel Mode Ring -1 IHV Drivers VMBus Applications

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Supported Guest OS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition) 8

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Integration Components & Performance IC = Integration Component ICs enable a child OS instance to run better through “enlightenment” Enlightenments generally include: – Synthetic Drivers – Integration Services 9 Emulated IO and network subsystems experience significant degradation compared to “metal” Enlightened IO is ~40% faster and network performance is ~30% better than emulated

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Why Linux on Hyper-V? Hyper-V is familiar – no specialization required (part of Windows – which you already know!) Hyper-V Server is FREE!!! (Hyper-V also included in Windows Server 2008/R2 ) Windows provides the foundation for: – Secure Access (via Active Directory) – High Availability – Backup and Recovery – Management – Monitoring 10

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Setup Linux on Hyper-V

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Migrate Physical Linux servers to Hyper-V Two easy steps: – Use DD to capture disk image to file – Use VHDTool ( to convert the image file to vhd (Hyper-V virtual hard disk) 12

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 Manage your Linux Environment

Managing the Server Lifecycle

virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 virtual techdays INDIA │ august 2010 USEFUL RESOURCES  Download Hyper-V Server 2008 R2   Screencast: Run Linux on Hyper-V   Screencast: Monitor Heterogeneous Operating Systems 

virtual techdays THANKS │ august 2010 │