Planning Windows Server 2008 R 2 and HyperV

Planning Windows Server 2008 R 2 and Hyper-V Projects with Windows Server Solution Accelerators Baldwin Ng, Sr. Product Manager Microsoft Corporation Session Code: SVR 303

Objectives Overcome the fear of “where do I start? ” and architect the most efficient server virtualization design with Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Understand the underlying remote inventory and technology analysis capabilities of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Learn how to use the MAP Toolkit to: Create hardware/device compatibility assessment for Windows Server 2008 R 2 deployment Determine server virtualization candidates for Hyper-V R 2 server consolidation

Agenda IT Challenges Windows Server Solution Accelerators Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Series Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Demos MAP Toolkit – Windows Server 2008 R 2 Readiness Assessment MAP Toolkit – Windows Server 2008 R 2 Hyper-V Virtualization Candidates Assessment Next Steps

IT Challenges What is the best way to approach the design of a Windows Server 2008 R 2 infrastructure? How can I learn how to assess my networks for server OS migration and virtualization candidates? How can I design an efficient datacenter with virtualization? How do I get started?

Accelerating Planning and Deployment Streamline your infrastructure planning process NEW! Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Windows Server 2008 & R 2 Offline VM Servicing Microsoft. com/WSSA Windows Server Solution Accelerators De live r Service Level Dashboard NEW! Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4. 0 Assess + Plan te era Op Track availability end-to-end Reduce product evaluation time by 60% (hours instead of days) Systex Corporation – Gold Cert. Partner Reduce hardening cycle by 3 -12 months Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Hyper-V Security Guide Security Compliance Management Toolkit We got our build times down from one hour to 15 minutes - a 75 percent reduction. ” National Health Service NEW! Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

introducing Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Series

Infrastructure Planning and Design Series Features Outline infrastructure design decisions and ensure that business and technical requirements are met Offer easy-to-follow steps to design architecture including decision flows Benefits Clarify and streamline the planning and design process Shorten planning and deployment time for IT projects Microsoft. com/IPD “Solution Accelerators are part of our daily practice… we have incorporated the Infrastructure Planning and Design guides into our Capgemini Infrastructure Design Framework. ” Rene Scholten, Certified Global Infrastructure Engineer

IPD Guides – 21 so far! System Center SC Operations Manager 2007 SC Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R 2 * SC Configuration Manager 2007 R 2 with SP 1 SC Data Protection Manager 2007 SP 1 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory File Services Print Services Internet Information Services Windows Server Virtualization * Windows Deployment Services Terminal Services 2008 * Direct. Access Virtualization Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology Windows Server Virtualization * SC Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R 2 * Microsoft Application Virtualization 4. 5 Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Terminal Services 2008 * Others Series Overview Selecting the Right NAP Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services Share. Point Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services SQL Server 2008 Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios

Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology Walk through the scenario Arrive at a decision Repeat for each scenario

Server Virtualization Planning for Hyper-V 9 Steps 2 Main Parts Part 1. Determine Application Requirements Part 2. Design the Host Server Infrastructure

Map Guests to Hosts Goal: Allocate workloads onto AS FEW SERVERS as possible In this guide: One application on physical one application in a VM guest Task 1: Determine Host Resource Limits Decide the usage buffer for: CPU, memory, disk IOPS, disk capacity & network Mb/s Installation standards + allow for bursts 80% Task 2: Map guests to the Form Factor Network Mb/s Overlay with requirements for isolation, backup Opportunity to optimize the virtualization environment Guest 4 Disk capacity Guest 2 Disk IOPS Guest 3 Memory Guest 1 CPU

Map Guests to Hosts with Tools Comparing the host selection tools… Cost Deploys agent Firewall friendly Output Data sources Automated collection Positioning Discovery technique Collection frequency Security Thresholds adjustable MAP Free N Requires exception Excel and proposal WMI calls Y Pre-sales Pre-deploy of VMs AD, IP address or computer name 5 mins Domain or machine account N VMM License Y Port 80 /443 Graphical report VMM agent Y Post. Deployment (of Hyper-V) VMM discovery 9 mins VMM agent Y Manual Free N N/A Manual Perfmon N Manual On demand Machine or domain account Y

Server Virtualization Planning for Hyper-V Part 1. Determine Workload Requirements Part 2. Design the Host Server Infrastructure

IPDs: How You Can Use Them Microsoft Customers Now I have a plan – I can show it to my manager Now I know where to start I can make this work Microsoft Partners Microsoft. com/IPD

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

What is MAP Toolkit? Integrated Automated Toolkit for migration planning from desktops to servers Agent-less inventory of clients, servers, applications, devices and roles Technology migration and readiness assessment and proposal generation Provides server consolidation recommendations Multi-Product Planning and Assessment Tool (pre-sales proposals included) Windows Server 2008 & R 2 Hyper-V Virtual Server 2005 R 2 Other Products Forefront NAP MAP Windows 7 & Windows Vista 2007 Microsoft Office SQL Server 2008 App-V

MAP: How It Works Server Consolidation? Virtualization? Windows OS migration? MAP Assess your environment and recommend the right technologies MAP Toolkit User Report Generation For Different Migration Scenarios

MAP: Windows Server 2008 R 2 Proposal Readiness Assessment for Windows Server 2008 & R 2 Detailed Report

MAP: Windows Server 2008 R 2 Hyper-V Proposal Candidates Assessment for Hyper-V Virtualization Detailed Report

MAP: Integration with ROI Calculator MAP Toolkit ROI Tool More Accurate ROI/TCO Integration include data passing from MAP Toolkit to the Microsoft Virtualization ROI Calculator Benefits: Save time in server inventory and consolidation assessments More accurate ROI analysis

MAP: Discovery of Existing Virtualized Environments Discover Microsoft and VMware virtualized environments

demo Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Baldwin Ng Senior Product Manager Microsoft Corporation

MAP: Architecture Agent-Less Collection Network-wide Inventory Database Driven Database SQL Express 2008

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Features Agent-less Inventory Comprehensive coverage from servers to desktops Hardware compatibility and virtualization assessments Customer-ready proposals and reports Benefits Shorten planning time and reduce deployment costs Tailor migration specifically to your environment Reduce IT operation costs by accelerating migration to costsaving technologies Microsoft. com/MAP “The MAP Toolkit decreased the planning time for this [Hyper-V] project by 60 percent. ” David Feng, Sporton Lab, Director of IT Services

announcing Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5. 0 Community Technical Preview (CTP)

MAP 5. 0 CTP Scope Discover and inventory your heterogeneous server environment, spanning from Windows Server, VMware, to Linux and UNIX technologies Detect presence of installed SCCM agents and other technologies to assist you with tracking of Client Access License (CAL)

MAP 5. 0 CTP – Linux Discovery

MAP 5. 0 CTP – CAL Tracking

Get Solution Accelerators Now! Where to get these tools? Download Web Site URL IPD Guides http: //www. microsoft. com/IPD (Tech. Net) http: //partner. microsoft. com/IPDguides (Partners) MAP Toolkit 4. 0 RTM http: //www. microsoft. com/MAP (Tech. Net) http: //partner. microsoft. com/SAassessment (Partners) http: //blogs. technet. com/MAPBLOG (Team Blog) MAP Toolkit 5. 0 CTP https: //connect. microsoft. com/sitehome. aspx? Site. ID=297 Windows Server Solution Accelerators http: //www. microsoft. com/WSSA (Tech. Net) http: //partner. microsoft. com/SAserver (Partners) Follow us on Twitter at: http: //www. twitter. com/ipdguides http: //www. twitter. com/mapblog Join our Facebook page: http: //tinyurl. com/mapfacebook

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