Microsoft Official Course

Module 1

Evaluating the Environment for Virtualization

Module Overview
Overview of Microsoft Virtualization

Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Components

Evaluating the Current Environment for

Virtualization Extending Virtualization to the Cloud Environment

Lesson 1: Overview of Microsoft Virtualization

Challenges of Traditional Computing

Environments What Is Server Virtualization? What Is Desktop Virtualization? What Is Network Virtualization? What Is User State Virtualization? What Is Presentation Virtualization? What Is Application Virtualization? What Is Cloud Computing?

Challenges of Traditional Computing Environments

Traditional challenges: Space - Housing business equipment Power - Providing affordable power to run the server, storage and network equipment Cooling- Maintaining safe operating temperatures for equipment Resilience - Building robust and highly available solutions and offering a means to recover from failure Flexibility Providing the time to deliver or upgrade infrastructure and or applications Resources Maintaining staff to system ratios and meeting training challenges

What Is Server Virtualization?

Server virtualization: Create and run multiple computer operating systems on a single physical computer Host servers share resources with all virtual machines

Virtualization challenges: Limited amount of compute resources

Server virtualization features: Hyper-V server virtualization allows full utilization of physical resources, and provides advanced technology to create a more robust, available, and dynamic server computing environment

What Is Server Virtualization?

Type I Hypervisor

Virtual machine running Windows

Virtual machine running Windows

Virtual machine running Linux

Virtual machine running Linux

Paravirtualization drivers and tools

Hypervisor (Windows Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer

Host Physical hardware

What Is Server Virtualization?

Type II Hypervisor

Virtual machine running Windows

Virtual machine running Windows

Virtual machine running Linux

Virtual machine running Linux

Paravirtualization drivers and tools Hypervisor (Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware workstation) Host Operating system

Host Physical hardware

What Is Desktop Virtualization?

Client-side virtualization: Enables you to export Client Hyper-V virtual machines to servers Supports wireless networking and Windows 8 sleep mode Server-side virtualization: Hyper-V RemoteFX Virtual desktops Session hosts

What Is Network Virtualization?

Blue virtual machine Red virtual machine Blue network virtualization Physical server Red network

Physical network

Switches

Servers

Server virtualization runs multiple virtual servers on a physical server

Network virtualization runs multiple virtual networks on a physical network

What Is User State Virtualization?

User state virtualization: Monitors the changes made to a user application and operating system settings Stores the settings centrally Provides a consistent experience for roaming users working from any device locally or remotely using VDI Works with locally installed applications, App-V applications, and RemoteApp applications

What Is User State Virtualization?

Application process

Settings location templates

UE-V agent

Registry
Settings storage location Local Files

Settings packages

Settings packages (Remote) available offline

What Is Presentation Virtualization?

Remote Desktop Services role and services RD Session Host RD Virtualization Host RD Connection Broker RD Services Licensing RD Services Web Access RD Services Gateway Common use cases for Presentation Virtualization Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services

features

What Is Application Virtualization?

App-V virtualizes applications by abstracting them

from the operating system App-V applications can appear to users as if they are installed locally App-V allows incompatible applications to run side-by-side on the same operating system

What Is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing features: Public, private, and hybrid cloud SaaS PaaS IaaS Cloud computing benefits: Reduce computing costs Improve delivery times for infrastructure and application services Ensure availability of services Monitor performance of services

Lesson 2: Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Components

Using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 to

Manage a Data Center Overview of VMM Overview of App Controller Overview of Operations Manager Overview of Orchestrator Overview of Service Manager Overview of Data Protection Manager Overview of Configuration Manager Additional System Center Services and Tools

Using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 to Manage a Data Center

Manage virtual environment (VMM, App Controller) Enable business Continuity (Data Protection Manager) Manage physical and virtual components (VMM)

Data center

Monitor and report (Operations Manager)

Automation (Orchestrator, Service Manager)

Delegate administration and self service (App Controller, Data Protection Manager)

Overview of VMM VMM features include:

Bare-metal deployment of hosts Host and cluster creation Host groups Cross-platform management Storage configuration/network configuration Intelligent placement/dynamic optimization Power optimization PRO tips P2V and V2V migration

Overview of App Controller

App controller is a browser-based console used

for providing delegated access to manage private and public cloud services and virtual machines App Controller can connect to:
Multiple VMM instances Multiple Windows Azure subscriptions Service Provider Foundation

Overview of Operations Manager

Cross-platform, infrastructure, and application monitoring .NET Framework and Java Platform Enterprise Edition performance and diagnostics Integration with other System Center components including VMM to allow maintenance mode and PRO tips Customizable reporting, dashboarding, and diagram views for almost all Microsoft applications and core infrastructure Integration with third-party management tools

Overview of Orchestrator Orchestrator provides the ability to: Automate processes across systems and platforms Automate best practices Implement end-to-end automation across multiple System Center products Implement prebuilt integration packs

Overview of Service Manager

With Service Manager, you can: Implement service management, as defined in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library and the Microsoft Operations Framework Provide processes for:

Incident and problem management Change control and life cycle management Enforcing compliance Managing integrated systems using connectors and solution accelerators

Overview of Data Protection Manager

Data Protection Manager provides: VSS backups Hyper-V item level backup and recovery Hyper-V host and guest support Integration with Operations Manager Integration with other System Center 2012 components Self-service functionality Protection for Linux virtual machines Windows Azure backup

Overview of Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager features : Automation of operating system deployment Deployment of software applications Management of software updates Remote control Endpoint Protection Compliance and settings management Asset intelligence and inventory

Additional System Center Services and Tools

System Center provides the following services and

tools:

Windows Intune System Center Advisor Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2012 Virtual Machine Converter Plug-in for VMware vSphere client Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer VMMCA

Lesson 3: Evaluating the Current Environment for Virtualization

Evaluation Factors

Overview of Virtualization Solution Accelerators

Assessment Features of the MAP Toolkit Demonstration: Assessing the Computing

Environment by Using the MAP Toolkit Designing a Solution for Server Virtualization

Evaluation Factors
When evaluating server virtualization, consider the

following:

Project scope Hardware requirements Compatibility Applications and services Supportability Licensing Availability requirements

Overview of Virtualization Solution Accelerators

Virtualization solution accelerators include: MAP Third-party tools (import maps output) Infrastructure planning and design guides

Assessment Features of the MAP Toolkit

MAP assessment features: Discovery Inventory Hardware configuration

Servers Infrastructure (Shared storage and n etwork)

Virtual Server Consolidation Wizard Private cloud fast track

Demonstration: Assessing the Computing Environment by Using the MAP Toolkit

In this demonstration, you will see how to use MAP for planning Server Virtualization, including:

Working with MAP Databases Collecting inventory and performance data Creating hardware configurations

Designing a Solution for Server Virtualization

To design a solution for server virtualization: Determine project scope List workloads to be virtualized Design backup and fault tolerance Design storage and network Determine deployment and management technology.

Lesson 4: Extending Virtualization to the Cloud Environment

What is Windows Azure?

Windows Azure Services

Virtual Machines in Windows Azure Extending Your Data Center

What is Windows Azure? A public cloud offering from Microsoft that delivers the following service models:
PaaS IaaS SaaS

Windows Azure Services

Windows Azure Services: Compute

Websites, virtual machines, mobile, and cloud services Data management, HDInsight, business analytics, backup, recovery manager. Media services, messaging, BizTalk services, identity, caching Virtual Network, Traffic Manager

Data Services

App Service

Network

Virtual Machines in Windows Azure

Are built from scratch

Are deployed from templates including Windows,

Ubintu, CentOS Have preinstalled applications such as SQL, SharePoint, BizTalk, Microsoft Visual Studio Can be customized and built from user templates Are built on premises virtual hard disks and then imported

Extending Your Data Center

Windows Azure Virtual Network

Windows Azure Pack

Lab: Evaluating the Environment for Virtualization

Exercise 1: Selecting the Appropriate Virtualization

Method Exercise 2: Assessing the Environment by Using MAP

Logon Information Virtual machines: 20409A-LON-CL1, 20409A-LON-DC1 User name: Adatum\Administrator Password: Pa$$w0rd Estimated Time: Duration: 30 minutes

Lab Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a medium-sized manufacturing company that has four subsidiaries. Each subsidiary has several hundred employees and its own data center. All subsidiaries are connected with high-speed network connections. A. Datum IT infrastructure uses only physical servers.
A. Datum is expanding rapidly. To provide greater flexibility and the capability to respond quickly to rapidly changing business environments, IT management has decided to virtualize many of the existing servers, and deploy as many new servers as possible as virtual machines. A. Datum is planning to adopt Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 as their virtualization platform. As a senior server administrator at A. Datum, you are responsible for planning and implementing the virtualized infrastructure. The first step in deploying the virtual environment is to analyze the current A. Datum IT infrastructure and identify the appropriate virtualization methods for different business requirements. In addition, you also need to evaluate the existing servers and identify which servers would be appropriate candidates for virtualization.

Lab Review
In MAP, what is the purpose of the Windows

Azure Virtual Machine Capacity feature? What step do you need to take before you can run the Desktop Virtualization Planning Wizard?

Module Review and Takeaways

Review Question(s)

Best Practice
Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips