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SC VMM 2008 R2

Management

Microsoft IT Camps - Virtualization

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Managing Hyper-V Hosts Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1+ Wizard-based experience for adding hosts

Remote installation and configuration of virtualization software and managem

Remotely enable the Hyper-V role

Simplified management of Hyper-V host clusters Add entire Hyper-V host cluster in a single step

Automatic detection of node additions/removals

Management of Windows Server 2008 failover clusters for Hyper-V Deploy or migrate VMs to the cluster

Live migration between cluster nodes

Specify number of node failures you want to sustain

Intelligent Placement ensures that new HA VM creation will not overcommit t

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VMM with VMware VMware support

VMware ESX Virtualized infrastructure in conjunction with vCenter

VMware ESX Server 3.0 (or above)

VMware ESX Server 3.5i

VMware Virtual Center (VC) 2.5 (VMware Infrastructure 3 [VI3])

VMware vSphere 4 (VI3 features only)

Supports many features, including vMotion (similar to Live Migration)

Converts VMware VMDK files to VHD using V2V process

Import VMware templates into the VMM Libraryusing the Import templates action

Ability to select the VMware port group to use on that switch

Must add a VirtualCenter Server before adding a ESX Server

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Host Properties Summary

Status Virtual Machines

Reserves

Hardware

Networking

Placement

Remote

Custom

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Intelligent Placement Automates placement logic

Capacity planning improves resource utilization Spreads VMs across nodes

Star-Rated results for easy decision making based on customialgorithm

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Performance & Resource Optimiz

PRO provides System Center integration between Operations Man

and Virtual Machine Manager OpsMgr sends alerts to VMM to trigger live migration of VMs

Automates capacity load balancing

Alleviate the effects of host-level failure

Ensure efficient use of resources in the virtualized environment

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PRO Workflow

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Operations Manager Report

Use reporting features from

OpsMgr 2007 R2 to learn aboutVMs and hosts

Reports can be viewed from theReporting view of the VMMAdministrator Console and from

the Operations Manager console First configure Operations Manager

integration with VMM, then set upreporting in VMM

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Enhanced Live Migration &

Node Maintenance Mode Enhanced Live Migrations

Detects if live migration can be done Selects best node based on Intelligent Placement

Live migrations can be queued and executed serially

Automatically live migrations retry if a node is busy

Node Maintenance Mode

Automatically live migrate all VMs to other nodes Optional Save State for quick placement

No VMs can move to a host in maintenance mode

Ideal for host maintenance and patching

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Backup & Restore VMM Console Backup

SQL database (user accounts, configuration data) Configure in GUI: Administration General Actions

Restore by CLI > SCVMMRecover [-Path ] [-Confirm]

Other Backup Solutions Virtual Machine Manager Server

Create system state backup so server can be recreated using the same SID

Hosts, VMs, Host configuration data (virtual networks)

Library server data, Virtual hard disks ISO images

Other Considerations Backup VMM database from Administrator Console

Restore VMM database using scvmmrecover.exe Hosts

Restore considerations

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Jobs

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PowerShell

Integrated with VMM

170+ command-line functions

Generate PowerShell scriptsafter completing a wizard

Consistent scripting syntax All PowerShell operations are

logged and audited

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Self Service Portal

Give VM management to trusted users

IT administrators retain control over access to reso

Considerations The number of users using a portal

The number of virtual machines available via Self-Serv

Network traffic with the number of users or if VMs cadeployed from a library

Not supported if VMM is installed on a domain contro

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Takeaways

VMM can be the only multi-hypervisormanagement tool in the datacenter, suppHyper-V, Virtual Server and VMware

Use Intelligent Placement, PRO and live mto dynamically manage hosts with no dow

to guest VMs Enable end-user self management with th

Service Portal 2.0 after delegating user ro