E2EVC Copenhagen What’s New With Microsoft Virtualization
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2. About Aidan Finn
• Technical Sales Lead at MicroWarehouse
• MSFT Value Added Distributor in Dublin, Ireland
• Working in IT since 1996
• MVP (Virtual Machine)
• Experienced with Windows Server/Desktop, System Center,
virtualisation, and IT infrastructure
• @joe_elway
• http://www.aidanfinn.com
• http://www.petri.co.il
• Published author/contributor of several books
3. Wow, What A Year!
• New everything was released!
• Windows 8 Client Hyper-V (Pro and Enterprise editions)
• Windows Serer 2012 (including RDS & Hyper-V) & Hyper-V Server
2012
• System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
• Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
• Service Provider Foundation (SPF)
• Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (aka “Katal”)
4. The Cloud OS & Beyond Virtualisation: Just Marketing?
5. • All New Networking
• Extensible virtual switch
• Hyper-V Network Virtualization
(Software Defined Networking)
• Scalable workloads
• 64 vCPUs/VM
• 1 TB RAM/VM
• Virtualize almost all workloads
• Disaster recovery
• Hyper-V Replica
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
• Investments in storage
• 64 TB 4K sector VHDX
• SMB 3.0 (SMB Multichannel &
SMB Direct)
• Scalable storage and
transparent failover
• Mobility and flexibility
• Concurrent Live Migration
• Lots of new Live Migration
options
• Administration:
• Around 2,400 PowerShell
cmdlets
6. • New
• Host designs
• Storage designs
• Backup
• Clustering
• Patching
• And on and on and on and …
• In short, designed for deploying clouds
Need A Day Just To List New Hyper-V Features
7. • What does the business care about?
• The services provided by IT
• What does the business not care about?
• The virtualization layer
• Yes, I know … we IT Pros must care about the
infrastructure
• How about making our job easier while satisfying
the needs of the business?
The Unique Selling Point of Microsoft Cloud OS
9. • Virtual Machine Manager
• Create fabrics and deploy clouds
• VM Templates and Service Templates
• App Controller
• Self-service portal for on premise and public clouds
• Operations Manager
• Monitor infrastructure from network to application
• Service monitoring from business perspective
• Data Protection Manager
• Backup locally and to Windows Azure Online Backup
One Product With All The Components
10. • Configuration Manager
• Device lifecycle management
• Endpoint Protection
• Antivirus
• Orchestrator
• Deploy runbooks to automate
• Integrate Hyper-V, System Center, AD, vSphere, Exchange …
• Service Manager
• Run IT as a service to the business
One Product With All The Components
11. Simple Private Cloud
Scale-Out File Server
Non-clustered Hyper-V
Hosts w/ Live Migration
64 Node Hyper-V Cluster
Block Storage SAN
Admins &
Delegated Admins
App Controller
End Users
SCVMM
12. Bigger Private Cloud
Admins &
Delegated Admins
Service Manager
The Business
SCVMM
Hyper-V
vSphere
XenServer
Orchestrator
DPM
Operations Manager
Active Directory
Exchange
15. Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Secondary Site
VMM VMM
Direct Site-Site Replication
Hyper-V
Recovery
Manager
Admins
Configure Replication &
Failover Orcestration
Admins
Initiate Failover
Primary Site
16. • There is much more to the Microsoft story than
virtualisation
• No one that matters cares about 4 TB RAM/host, 8,000 VMs
per cluster, etc
• Microsoft is thinking BIGGER … a business solution
• IT as a Service
• Automation
• Scalable, flexible, empowered …
• Where do you want your service to run today?
Summary