Virtualization Tour:System Center Virtual Machine Manager

SYSTEM CENTER VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGER

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A centralized management application solution forMicrosoft virtual server software

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Increased Physical Server Utilization • Deploys multiple virtual servers on one physical server

• Increases flexibility

• Sets up servers for testing

• Decreases hardware costs

Centralized Management of Virtual Infrastructure• Uses Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) pack for

reporting and health monitoring

• Reports on consolidation candidates, utilization trending, optimization opportunities

Rapid Provisioning of New Virtual Machines • Enables end users to use Self Service Provisioning UI to

request and place VMs

• Enables administrators to configure rules and boundaries for provisioning

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Administrator’s Console

Management Interfaces

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Windows® PowerShell

SCVMM 2008 Architecture

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Console

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Demo

• Provisioning and Managing with VMM– Add a Host to VMM– Create a New Template

What's new with SCVMM 2008 R2

• Live Migration• Support for Clustered Shared Volumes and Third

Party CFS• Quick Storage Migration• Hot-Add and Removal of Storage• Maintenance Mode• Rapid Provisioning• Host Compatibility Checks

VMware Management

• Driven by customer demand • Unified management experience

– Physical and Virtual– Hyper-V and VMware

• Full virtual machine management – VMotion, Resource Pools, etc.

• Enhanced capabilities– Intelligent Placement– Library– Powershell– PRO application aware calibration

Delegation and Self Service

• Administrators control access through policies which designate capabilities

• Delegated Administrators – Manage a scoped environment

• Self Service user– Web user interface – Manage their own VMs– Quota to limit VMs– Scripting through

PowerShell

Demo

• Self-Service– Configure Self-Service User– Review Web Interface

Intelligent Placement• Capacity planning technology ensures best resource utilization• Star rated results for easy decision making• Customizable algorithm to achieve your goals• Applicable to both Microsoft and VMware hosts

Conversions: P2V and V2V

• Intuitive and easy to use tools provide:– Core feature of VMM, no additional infrastructure or costs per

conversion – Wizard based experience– Reconfigure storage, memory, CPU, etc.– Efficient disk copy – Preserves network settings and MAC addresses– Automatable through PowerShell

• Supported platforms:– Live - Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and

Windows Server 2008– SMP and x64 sources

Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO) • Workload and application aware

resource optimization• Extensible through the

Operations Manager 2007 MP framework

• Create policies that VMM acts upon tips automatically or manually

• Minimize downtime and accelerating time to resolution.

• Enables partners to deliver value add to our mutual customers

Session Summary

• SCVMM has many useful management tools• SCVMM Simplifies Managing and Monitoring

Physical and Virtual Platforms

Resources

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager– Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/scvmm– Tech Center (for documentation and downloads):

http://technet.microsoft.com/scvmm/default.aspx

• Microsoft Virtualization Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/virtualization

• Microsoft System Center Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v/