1. EMC Support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Title
Month Year
EMC Support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Accelerating Virtualization from the Desktop to the Data Center

2. EMC and Microsoft: A Unique Alliance
Shared view of importance of information
12+ year, continually expanding partnership
Broad and deep partnership across products and services
Joint sharing of intellectual property
Significant deployments of each other’s technology internally
Thousands of joint customers
CEO-sponsored worldwide go-to-market alliance
Eleven Microsoft Gold Competencies
20x Time Partner of Year
2,700+ consultants worldwide
Cooperative Support Agreement
$20M plus equipment in Redmond labs
Information Infrastructure Excellence
MSFT Expertise
EMC’s Unique Microsoft Customer Value

3. EMC/Microsoft Alignment Areas
Joint Alliance
Management
Activities
Engineering
roadmap
alliance
Product
qualification
Customer
services
Solution
development
Professional
engagement
“EMC has gone beyond standard integration to take a broad and active approach to support and optimize Microsoft technologies including Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Window Server 7.”
The Clipper Group, October 2009

4. End-to-End Capabilities for Microsoft
EMC Consulting Services
Strategize • Advise • Architect • Implement • Manage • Support
Virtual Infrastructure
Tiered/
Unified
Storage
Backup,
Recovery, Archive
Business Continuity
Enterprise
Content Management
Security
EMC Information Infrastructure
EMC helps you successfully plan, design, deploy and manage your Microsoft applications and platforms

5. EMC Value Points for Hyper-V
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Month Year
Storage Management and Optimization
PowerPath Virtual Edition
EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)
Powershell Toolkit Storage Provisioning
-VNX\Unisphere Hyper-V wizards
Backup and Recovery
Hyper-V Parent & Child Protection
Applications running in VMs
Data Deduplication
Business Continuity
Local & Remote Replication
Support for Cluster Shared Volumes
Storage Federation
Proven Solutions Application Integration
SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, VDI

6. Storage Performance Management PowerPath/VE
Maintain predictable performance even when:
Parent Server
PowerPath
Workloads are dynamic and exhibit I/O bursts
Virtual machines are moved, added and/or removed on the fly
I/O Channels go offline (planned or unplanned)
Migration Enabler
Encryption
Storage Ports
All channels are active and used to load balance

7. Multiple points of management for provisioning
Storage Provisioning …today
Multiple points of management for provisioning
Array Management Tools
Windows Server Manager
Failover Cluster Manager
Hyper-V Manager
iSCSI Initiator/ FC Switch
Let’s talk about a scenario where we have to provision storage.
Does this seem familiar to you?
I think we all need something lot simpler and that is the focus of this session.

8. EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)
demo
Storage Provisioning for Windows Servers
Application aware Storage Provisioning
Windows MMC based
Agent less architecture
Supports all EMC arrays
Block and File support
Easy to use and familiar Microsoft Management Console Snap-ins.
It is all about empowering the Windows and App administrator.
Support for most of EMC storage platforms that you care.
Easy to use MMC Snap-ins for the Server/Application Admin

9. EMC Support for Powershell
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Month Year
EMC Powershell Toolkit
Powershell commands to automate storage functions such as..
Create new storage volumes
Create and assign LUNs
Provide server access to LUNs
Create snapshots
Remove volumes, LUNs, snaps

10. Backup/Recovery Solution
Parent Backup & Recovery:
Complete protection of VHD files
Traditional and deduplication backup
Off-host backup
No scripting
Broad Hyper-V OS support
Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 Server Core with Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
SAN storage
Backup proxy server
Centralized
Data Mover
MOUNT
Physical
server
Child Backup & Recovery:
Application-aware backups for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, etc. with application log management
Persistent snapshot for quick recoveries
In-guest source deduplication drives maximum performance

11. Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Automated failover operations for Hyper-V environments
LAN/WAN
Private Interconnect
Site A
Site B
Majority Node Set with File Share Witness
Prod 1
Target 1
Target 2
Prod 2
RecoverPoint
Cluster nodes with RecoverPoint/CE installed
Hyper-V with Failover Clusters supports up to 8 nodes with Windows 2008 R2

12. Hyper-V Live Migration with VPLEX
Title
Month Year
VM Mobility Over Distance Without Delay
Create VPLEX distributed volume from storage at both sites
Provision VPLEX distributed volume to servers at both sites
In Hyper-V, move VMs between sites using Live Migration
Hyper-V Cluster
Hyper-V Cluster
Distributed Storage
VPLEX Cluster-1
VPLEX Cluster-2
Site 1
Site 2 12

13. EMC System Center Management Packs
Single tool for physical and virtual servers
Top to bottom management of infrastructure
Provide SAN visualization, health monitoring, and drill down within SCOM

14. System Center Operations Manager Management Packs
Combine SCOM discovery and monitoring with standards based management management
Leverage SMI-S Standard for service and health models
Leverage WS-Management for communication
Provide SAN visualization, health monitoring, and drill down within SCOM

15. EMC PRO Management Pack

16. Virtualized Sharepoint Server
Managing Binary Large Objects (BLOBs)
Solution Components:
Windows 2008 R2 Server with Hyper-V in a Microsoft Failover Cluster for High- Availability
EMC VNX5300 storing Sharepoint databases, index files, snapshots, Hyper-V VHDs and BLOB storage
MetaLogix StoragePoint software to schedule and move BLOB content as it ages to more cost effective storage.
Benefits:
Moved 92% of aged data from primary databases to higher capacity storage.
Increased useable capacity without impacting performance.
Simplified management by virtualizing Sharepoint and Metalogix servers with Microsoft Hyper-V

17. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups
Multi-Site, Virtualized Exchange 2010 Solution
Microsoft, Cisco, EMC
Microsoft program to test virtualized Exchange 2010 configurations with Hyper-V
Virtualized Exchange 2010
Cisco UCS
B Series
EMC Unified
Storage
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Database Availability Groups
Solution Components:
Virtual Servers hosted on Cisco UCS B200 Server Platform hosting more than 30,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes (10,000 per site)
Replication provided by Exchange Database Availability Groups
Virtualization using Microsoft Hyper-V supporting 24 Virtual Machines
Exchange Thin Provisioned LUNs provided by EMC NS480
Configurations validated and supported by Microsoft

18. Virtualized SQL Server 2008 with EMC VNX
Using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Solution Components:
Test SQL Server 2008 in a physical and virtual configuration to compare results
Use features found in EMC VNX5700 for improving performance with SQL Server OLTP databases such as EMC FAST Cache.
Benefits:
Due to the performance of the EMC VNX array, 1,448 transactions per second (TPS) were achieved.
When using Hyper-V Pass Through there was only a slight change in performance with still over 1,300 TPS achieved.
When using VNX FAST Cache performance was increased by over 300%!

19. Virtual Desktops (VDI) on EMC Unified Storage
Microsoft, Citrix, EMC
EMC Documented Solutions for 100 to 1000 Virtual Desktops using Citrix XenDesktop & Microsoft Hyper-V
Solution Components:
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN connectivity between the hosts and the EMC storage for optimal performance.
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and virtual local area network (VLAN) connections for maximum performance and to eliminate network bottlenecks.
All virtual machine files are stored on the EMC Unified storage array.
Storage allocation for desktops is based on a 1+1 RAID 1 building block supporting up to 100 virtual desktops per building block.
Target of large customer environments with maximum shared storage capacities of 120 disks and 64TB.

20. EMC Hyper-V Industry Leadership
Title
Month Year
EMC Hyper-V Industry Leadership
EMC Proven Solutions
Over 50 technical whitepapers including:
Hyper-V Best Practices with EMC storage arrays
Deployment Guides for virtualizing Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint such as
Advanced local and remote protection including EMC VPLEX with Hyper-V Live Migration:
Blogs and Press Releases
EMC Microsoft Virtualization Blog:
Webcasts and Presentations
Session VIR203 at Microsoft TechEd 2011 on Implementing Hyper-V Cloud
Session BK07 at Microsoft MMS 2011 on Storage Provisioning and Management
Ziff Davis webcast “Optimizing storage for Enterprise Deployments of Hyper-V”
Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Microsoft Hyper-V & EMC webcast

21. EMC Documented Solutions
EMC with Hyper-V
Top 10 Reasons: Why EMC for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization
Using EMC Celerra IP Storage with Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V over iSCSI Best Practices Guide
Using EMC CLARiiON with Hyper-V Applied Technology
EMC Symmetrix with Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Applied Technology
Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross Site Virtual Environment using CX, RP & Hyper-V
EMC Networker: Complete Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
Implementing EMC VPLEX and Microsoft Hyper-V and SQL Server with Enhanced Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Backup and Replication on EMC CLARiiON Storage – Applied Technology
EMC Replication Manager for Virtualized Environments
Failover Clustering with Hyper-V on Celerra Build Document (requires Powerlink account)
Performance Characterization of CIFS, NFS & iSCSI on Hyper-V Validation Test Report (requires Powerlink account)
Dell Business Ready Configurations
EMC Business Continuity for Microsoft Hyper-V Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX and SRFDF/CE
Windows IT Pro: Essentials Guide to Microsoft Virtualization
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab Validation Report: EMC Symmetrix VMAX and Microsoft Server Virtualization
Microsoft Hyper-V Scalability with EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V on EMC VNXe Series
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with EMC & Hyper-V
Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Virtual Desktops with Windows Server R2 Hyper-V Applied Best Practices
EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops Enabled by Unified Storage, Hyper-V & Citrix XenDesktop 4

22. EMC Documented Solutions
Virtualizing Exchange with EMC & Hyper-V
Business Continuity for MS Exchange 2010 – Enabled by EMC Unified Storage, Cisco UCS and Microsoft Hyper-V
Zero Data Loss DR for Exchange 2010 – Enabled by EMC, Brocade, Dell and Microsoft Hyper-V
EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 on Hyper-V with CX4-120 iSCSI & RM Reference Architecture
EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 on Hyper-V with CX4-120 iSCSI & RM Proven Solutions Guide
EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Hyper-V Enabled by Unified Storage, Data Domain and EMC Networker Plug-in for Exchange 2010
Virtualization for Microsoft Exchange 2007 on EMC Celerra Validation Test Report (requires Powerlink account)
Hyper-V for EMC Celerra Build Document for Exchange 2007 (requires Powerlink account)
Virtualizing SQL Server with EMC & Hyper-V
EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft SQL Server – Enabled by EMC Celerra and Hyper-V Build Document (Powerlink)
EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft SQL Server – Enabled by EMC Celerra and Microsoft Hyper-V
EMC CLARiiON Database Storage Solutions: SQL Server in Virtualized Environments Best Practices
Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 Using EMC VNX Series and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Virtualizing Sharepoint Server with EMC & Hyper-V
EMC Business Continuity for Sharepoint Server 2007 – Enabled by CX4, Recoverpoint/CE & Hyper-V Reference Architecture
EMC Business Continuity for Sharepoint Server 2007 – Enabled by CX4, Recoverpoint/CE & Hyper-V Proven Solution
EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Sharepoint Server 2007 – Enabled by EMC Celerra Unified Storage & Hyper-V
EMC Tiered Storage for Sharepoint Server 2007 BLOB Externalization Enabled by EMC CX, Atmos, MS Hyper-V and Metalogix
Brocade and EMC Solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and Sharepoint Cluster
EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 with EMC CX-4, RM, Ontrack & Hyper-V
Externalizing Large Sharepoint 2010 Objects with Hyper-V, EMC VNX and MetaLogix StoragePoint

23. EMC Consulting Readiness and Offerings
Title
Month Year
Consultant Readiness
40+ consultants trained in Microsoft virtualization technologies
Active Microsoft virtualization engagements ongoing (across stack)
History with Microsoft virtualization --- EMC won 2008 Microsoft Partner of The Year for Business Process and Integration Solutions with a solution that included Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
EMC Service Offerings
EMC Proof of Concept for Microsoft Hyper-V: a one week engagement for deployment of Hyper-V, proposal of next steps for full deployment, and a Microsoft Hyper-V knowledge transfer
Virtualization Assessment: Formalized virtualization readiness assessment service across application environments and infrastructure

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