virtualization smackdown
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C D H Virtualization Smackdown
March 2012
C D H Quick Facts
About Us• 22nd Year• Grand Rapids &
Royal Oak• 30 Staff
Approach• Vendor
Independent• Non-reseller• Professional
Services Only
Partnerships• Microsoft Gold• VMware Enterprise• Citrix Silver• Novell Gold• Cisco Premier
C D H Expertise
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C D H Agenda
• Overview– What is Virtualization?
• Benefits• Considerations• Capacity planning• Solutions
– Microsoft– VMware
• Comparison– Guests, maximums, versions, features
• Summary
C D H Overview
• Virtualization– Decoupling OS from underlying hardware– Application isolation
• History– IBM– VMware
• Basics– Hypervisor
• Type 1 & Type 2– Resource sharing
C D H Benefits
• Hardware savings• Reduction in power and cooling• High availability• Disaster recovery / business continuity• Operational
– Server provisioning– Snapshots
C D H Capacity Planning
• Determine current utilization– CPU– RAM– Network
• Average, peak– Storage
• Current space• IOPS
• Plan for growth• Determine candidates for consolidation• Capacity planning tools
– VMware Capacity Planner– Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
C D H Planning
• Planning tools– VMware Capacity Planner– Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
C D H Solutions
C D H Management
Virtual Machine Manager vCenter server
Library Resource pools
Templates High availability
Conversion tool Resource load balancing
Resource load balancing VMotion
Alerts
C D H Conversions
Virtual Machine Manager vCenter Converter
P2V/V2V P2V/V2V
Online/Offline Online/Offline
Hyper-V, SCVMM Memory state
ESXi
VMware workstation
• Conversion of physical server or existing virtual machines to virtual infrastructure.
• Convert to virtual machine and then prepare with customizations and tools for running on hypervisor.
C D H High Availability
Failover cluster vCenter server
Network heartbeat Network Heartbeat
File Share Witness Load balancing w/DRS
Preferred node – 16 nodes Restart priority
NIC team vSwitch
1. Monitor heartbeat of other hosts2. Determine host failure has occurred3. Restart virtual machines on other available hosts4. Load balance VMs for best performance
C D H Resource Load Balancing
PRO TipsOperations Manager
Operations Manager monitorsCritical / Warning
DRS/DPMvCenter Server
Automation levelsAffinity rules
Auto shutdown/power on
1. Monitor performance of physical hosts and virtual machines
2. Based on configured settings, thresholds, alerts –resource balancing recommendations
3. Manually or automatically apply recommendation and migrate virtual machine
C D H Live Migration
Live MigrationQuick Storage Migration
VMotionStorage VMotion
1. Active memory copied to destination VM2. Changes to memory pages tracked3. Changes copied to destination VM4. Virtual disks to new VM5. ARP request to update location
C D H Monitoring and Alerting
Operations Manager vCenter server
Monitors Alarms
Host/VM/VMM Triggers / Action
Topology Maps
Performance graphs
C D H Additional Features
Configuration Manager Memory overcommit
Data Protection Manager Data recovery
Offline VM servicing tool Distributed switches
Quick Storage Migration Host profiles
VShield zones
VMsafe
Update manager
Capacity IQ
Chargeback
Lab manager
C D H Guest Support
Windows Srv 2000/2003/2008 Windows 3.1/95/98
Windows XP/Vista/7 Windows NT 4
SUSE Linux Enterprise10 /11
Windows Srv 2000/2003/2008
Red Hat Ent. Linux 5.2 – 5.5 Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
NetWare 5.1/6.0/6.5
Open Enterprise Server 2.0
SUSE Linux Ent. Desktop 10/11
SUSE Linux Ent. Srv 8/9/10/11
Oracle Ent. Linux 4/5
Red Hat Ent. Linux 3.1 – 5.4
Solaris 8/9/10
FreeBSD/Ubuntu/Debian
C D H Maximums
HostCPU 4 / 8 / 64 160
RAM 32GB (Std) or 2TB 2 TB
VMs 384 512
NICs “Unlimited” 32
Guests
vCPU 4 32
RAM 64 GB 1 TB
C D H Versions
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 vSphere Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 STD Advanced
Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Enterprise Plus
(now SP1) ESXi
Windows licensing for virtualization1 Enterprise 4 Enterprise
1 Datacenter Unlimited Datacenter
C D H Virtual Desktop
VDI View
XP Virtualization Broker
Med-V Composer
App-V ThinApp
C D H Application Virtualization
App-V (Softgrid) ThinApp
C D H Summary
• Proper planning & analysis is key– Numerous vendors have analysis tools
available• Understand your workloads• Properly scale hardware & storage
• Objectives and integration are key to determining a platform
• ROI/TCO– VMware virtualization TCO / ROI calculator– Microsoft virtualization ROI calculator
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