Presented at MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012.

2. Virtualization and System
Management Using
Microsoft Technology
Lai Yoong Seng (MVP Virtual Machine)
www.ms4u.info | laiys@redynamics.com
Redynamics Asia System Management

3. Session Objective and Takeaway
Session Objective
• Microsoft Hypervisor
• Microsoft System Management
Key Takeaway
• Free Hypervisor solution
• Managing Open Source using System
Center

4. Enterprise FREE ISO
class FREE Stand download
Microsoft Alone Hyper-V from
Hypervisor Microsoft.com

6. Hyper-V Server | Use Cases
Virtual Alternative Windows
Desktop Operating Server
Infrastructure Systems Licensing
• Windows Client VDI • Microsoft currently • Reassign, where
licensing is per end-point supports the following applicable, existing VL
device Linux distributions on onto Hyper-V Servers
• VDI technologies are Hyper-V: • However, you would lose
typically multi-hypervisor • SLES: (10 SP4 – 11 SP1/2) benefits of other
• RHEL: 5.5-5.7 | 6.0-6.2
aware Windows Server 2012
• CentOS: 5.5-5.7 | 6.0-6.2
• Windows 7 and Windows capabilities
• Enhancing Linux
8 run best on Hyper-V
integration and support
rapidly

7. Comparison Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 -> 2012
MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
Release Date: August 2011 RC Available.
Cost: Free Download from:
www.microsoft.com/hvs
Physical Processor Support: Up to 8 processors Up to 64 processors
(no core limitations) (no core limitations)
Physical Memory Support: Up to 1 TB per server Up to 4 TB per server
Virtual Processors Up to 4 per VM Up to 64 per VM
Virtual Machine Memory 64 GB of memory per VM 1 TB of memory per VM
Support:
Live Migration/High Availability: Yes Yes
Live Storage Migration: No Yes
Shared Nothing Live Migration: No Yes

8. Sneak Peak Hyper-V Server 2012 Features
VHD
Concurrent Live
Live Storage Migration Shared Nothing Live
Migration
Migration

10. DR Solution – Hyper-V Replica
Disaster Happen Anywhere … Replica VM from Built in Site to
a Primary to a Site Replication
Replica site
Tsunami…Earthquake …
911 incident…
Failover Recovery Work with any
in minutes server, network &
Storage
How to protect
your datacenter?

15. Virtualization Management
Fabric Cloud
Management Management
Provision Deploy Open
Linux VM Source
• Manage Cloud
Application

16. Linux Preparation Tool for Hyper-V -SetLinuxVM
Customize Support Hyper-V,
hostname, Failover Cluster and
network System Center
configuration and Virtual Machine
logical disk size. Manager
Supports Debian,
Ubuntu, Centos, Written entirely
Fedora, Redhat, in Powershell
Suse and
Written by Yusuf Ozturk CloudLinux
MVP Powershell
Download here: http://www.setlinuxvm.com

17. Operating System and Application Monitoring
AIX 5.3 / 6.1
HP-UX 11i
Solaris 8 / 9 / 10
Red Hat Linux 4 / 5 / 6
Suse Linux 9 / 10 SP1 / 11
Apache / Websphere…
Domino / Blackberry…
MS SQL / Oracle / MySQL / DB2…
• Known Issues Monitoring
• Log File Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring & Alerting
• Knowledgebase & Resolution

18. Protecting Linux
• Backup Suse Enterprise,
Redhat Enterprise Linux &
Centos Virtual Machine.
• Support backup Open
Source application running in
Windows operating system.

19. Let Recap’s 64 virtual processors per VM
1TB virtual machine memory
New 64TB VHDX format
Hyper-V Server 2012 Hypervisor Native 4k disk support
Live Migration Live Storage Migration
Shared Nothing Live Migration
Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V Replica Hyper-V virtual fiber channel
Live storage migration
Windows NIC teaming
Concurrent live migration
Support for AES/NI
Support for up to 64 nodes per
cluster
Support for 4000 VMs per cluster
Hyper-V support for up to 2 TB of
physical memory
Hyper-V intelligent second level
paging

20. Call to Action
Virtual
Lai’s Blog
www.ms4u.info
Thank you Download
Hyper-V
Server 2012
https://www.facebook. RC
com/#!/groups/mvugg www.microsoft.
roup/ com/hvs