Building a Private Cloud using Microsoft technologies.

1. Private Cloud 201
How to Build a Private Cloud
Harold Wong
Sr. IT Pro Evangelist
Blogs.technet.com/haroldwong
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2. “The Cloudscape”
Dedicated
Cloud
Public Cloud
Publish to Cloud Secure Cloud
or Enterprise Federation
Private
Cloud
International
ENTERPRISE
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3. Cloud Definitions
• Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is operated solely
for an organization. It may be managed by the
organization or a third party and may exist on premise or
off premise.
• Public cloud. The cloud infrastructure is made available to
the general public or a large industry group and is owned
by an organization selling cloud services.
• Hybrid cloud. The cloud infrastructure is a composition of
two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that
remain unique entities but are bound together by
standardized or proprietary technology that enables data
and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-
balancing between clouds).

4. Cloud Computing Characteristics
Ref: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc
On-demand Ubiquitous Location Rapid Measured
self-service network transparent elasticity service with
access resource pay per use
pooling

5. The *aaS’s
• IaaS Infrastructure as a Service (TBA)
• SaaS Software as a Service (Office 365)
• PaaS Platform as a Service (Windows Azure)
• ITaaS IT as a Service (Private Cloud/HyperV Cloud)

6. Service Across Devices and Platforms
Client
Tools and Cross-Platform Support
PC Phone TV
Server Cloud
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7. Really Big Datacenters

8. Private Cloud Build Options
• Build your own private cloud with help from the Hyper-V
Cloud Deployment Guides and Hyper-V Cloud partners.
• Get a pre-validated private cloud configuration from
Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track OEM partners. Hyper-V Cloud
Fast Track partners have worked with Microsoft to
combine hardware and software offerings based on a
reference architecture for building private clouds.
• Find a service provider in the Hyper-V Cloud Service
Provider Program who can host a dedicated private
cloud for you.

9. Service Provider
Partner Country Offer
Managed Hosting, Web
Adhost US
Hosting
Agarik France Webhosting
AIMS Malaysia IaaS
Alog Brazil IaaS
Applied Innovations US IaaS, Public Cloud
Web Hosting, Managed
Argeweb Netherlands
Hosting
Aruba Italy Web Hosting
Telco, Managed Hosting,
BlueFire Australia
Applications - BI
Telco, Outsourcer, Managed
BT France France
Hosting
Chungwha Telecom Taiwan Managed Hosting
Cloudmore Sweden IaaS, Applications
Corpflex Brazil IaaS
Crystone Sweden IaaS
Doruk Turkey IaaS
eLabs A.G. Germany Managed Hosting
For Complete List of Hosting Partners please see
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/hyperv-cloud-service-providers.aspx

10. Pre-Validated Private Cloud Configuration
• Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track partner offerings provide
flexibility and choice while reducing risk and increasing
the speed of deployment. Click on the partner tabs
below to learn about the available options from each
partner.

11. Build Your Own Private Cloud
• Fujitsu Launches Global Cloud Platform Service
Powered By Windows Azure By Larry Grothaus
Today, Fujitsu and Microsoft announced the upcoming August 2011 availability
of the Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service, which marks the first official
production release of a Windows Azure platform appliance delivered by
Fujitsu. The new service offering has already been running in Fujitsu’s
datacenter and available on a trial basis to companies since April 21, 2011.

12. Build Your Own Private Cloud
• Your private cloud will deliver many of the benefits of
public cloud computing
– Self-service
– Scalability
– Elasticity
– Resource Pooling

13. Build Your Own Private Cloud
• The Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides are a collection
of best practices based on a Microsoft Consulting
Services framework. They are designed to help you
deploy a private cloud solution using Windows Server
2008 R2 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine
Manager 2008 R2, and the Virtual Machine Manager
Self-Service Portal 2.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/e
n/us/private-cloud-get-started.aspx

14. System Requirements

15. Hyper V R2 Host Limitations

16. Hyper V R2 Guest Limitations

17. Hyper V R2 Guest OS Processor Limitations

18. Storage
• Direct Attached Storage
• iSCSI Storage Area Network
• Fibre Channel Storage Area Network

19. Drive Types
• SCSI
• SAS
• SATA
• Fibre Channel

20. Drive Redundancy
• Raid 1
• Raid 10
• Raid 5
• Raid 50

21. Storage Controller Architecture

22. System Architecture
• Rack Mounted Servers
• Blade Servers
• Symmetric Multi Processor Servers

23. Standard Rack Mounted Servers

24. Blade Servers

25. Symmetric Multi Processor Servers

26. Processors

27. RAM

28. Network Architecture

29. Host Bus Adapter (HBA)

30. VM’s

31. VHD’s
• Dynamically Expanding
• Fixed Size
• Differencing
• Pass Through Disks

32. Disk Access

33. iSCSI LUN

34. Virtual Networks

35. Security

36. Demo
Private Cloud Infrastructure Walkthrough

37. System Center

38. System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• SCVMM Server
• SCVMM Administration Console
• SCVMM Self Service Portal
• SCVMM Agent
• SCVMM Library Server

39. SCVMM Server
• Runs SCVMM Service
• Connects to a SQL Database
• Is the Default Library Server

40. SCVMM Administration Console
• Create, deploy, and manage virtual machines and
templates
• Monitor and manage hosts (Windows Server® 2008/
Windows Server® 2008R2 Hyper-V™, Microsoft® Virtual
Server 2005 and VMware® Virtual Center managed ESX
servers) and library servers
• Manage library objects and jobs
• Manage global configuration settings

41. SCVMM Self Service Portal

42. Self Service Portal 2.0
• VMMSSP Website
• VMMSSP Database
• VMMSSP Server
• VMMSSP Reporting Dashboard

43. Hardware Requirements

44. Software Requirements

45. Architecture (Single Server)

46. Architecture (Four Server)

47. Security Considerations
• Understanding and planning the default and custom
user roles that are defined in the self-service portal.
• Planning and preparing the service accounts.
• Understanding the ports and protocols required for
establishing communication channels between various
self-service portal components.
• Hardening the Web server that will run the VMMSSP
website component.
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48. Security Considerations
• Accounts and Groups
• Service Accounts
• Firewall Exceptions

49. Hardening The SSP Website
• Configuring SSL for the Self-Service Portal
• Disabling ISAPI Handlers That Are not Needed

50. ISAPI Handlers

51. How To Disable ISAPI Filters
1. On the Web server, in Administrative Tools, open Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Expand Sites, and navigate to the IIS website configured
for the self-service portal.
3. In the Features View pane, under IIS, open Handler
Mappings.
4. For each handler that is not listed in the preceding table,
select the handler, click Remove, and then click Yes.

52. VMSSP Dashboard

53. SCVMM Agent

54. Virtual Machine Host

55. Host Groups
• Set aside resources on the hosts for the use of the host
operating system.
• Designate hosts that are used for self-service.
• Designate which hosts are connected to a storage area
network (SAN). (This is a best practice.)
• Enable the automatic placement of virtual machines on
the best host in a group of hosts.

56. SCVMM Library Server

57. SCVMM Server Placement
One is enough except…
• When the development and test environments are
managed separately from the production virtual
environment
• When the virtual environments grows—or is planned to
grow—beyond the supported maximum of 400 hosts
and 8,000 virtual machines

58. Network Considerations
• Connectivity
• Bandwidth
• Network traffic

59. Storage Considerations
• DAS
• Fiber Channel
• iSCSI

60. Monitoring and Reporting
• Provided through the Server Virtualization Management
Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007.
• Before reports can be viewed and used, Operations
Manager must be installed and the Server Virtualization
Management Pack deployed.

61. Physical 2 virtual Migrations

62. Demo
Private Cloud System Center Tools and Automation

63. Resources
http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong

64. Resources
• Trial Software Downloads
– Windows Server 2008 R2
– Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
– Configuration Manager 2007 R3
– Operations Manager 2007 R2
– Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
– Service Manager 2010
– Opalis
– System Center 2012 Release Candidates / Betas

65. Resources
• www.microsoft.com/virtualization
– White Papers
– Case Studies
– Deployment Guides
– Partners
• http://TechNet.microsoft.com/Virtualization
– Links to webcasts
– Videos
– Whitepapers
• http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong

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