System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

System Center 2012Virtual Machine Manager

Norman W. Mayes, CISSP MCSE MCITP-E ITIL-FJuly 2013

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Table of Contents

System Center – VMM

Introductions

Overview of VMM

VMM Database

Clustering

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2

3

4

Next Steps5

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Introductions

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Introductions

Edgile Background

Professionalism

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Boutiques


Virtual Machine Manager Overview Brief overview of System Center 2012, SP1 – Virtual Machine

Manager (VMM)

VMM Database Discuss the deployment options and placement of SQL Server

to support Virtual Machine Manager and future System Center products

Clustering Discuss High Availability (HA), Failover and Clustering

Introductions

Session Goals


OVERVIEW

Development Production

Configure & Deploy

Cloud Abstraction

Delegated Capacity

Standardized Services

Assign dedicated and shared resources

Windows Server 2012/2008 R2 Hyper-V,VMware, Citrix XenServer

Intel, AMD, OEM hardware

Fiber Channel, iSCSI

Overview

Virtual Machine Manager 2012


Overview

Virtual Machine Manager Fabric

STORAGE

Discover, classify, and allocate storage for use by the private cloud. Provide the correct storage for use with appropriate access.

COMPUTE

Deploy your compute resources, taking them from bare metal to fully deployed for your physical and virtualization hosts.

NETWORK

Abstract your complex networking infrastructure into logical networks for cloud use. Assign IP, virtual IP, and MAC addresses from pools and integrate with load balancers.

CLUSTER

Consolidate your fabric elements for use in a private cloud.


Overview – 2012 Feature

Automated Bare-Metal Hyper-V

Bare-metal server

WDS server

VHD

Drivers

Host profile

contoso

Library server

Hyper-V server

1

3

24

5

67

8

9

OOB reboot

Boot from PXE

Download VHDInject drivers

AuthorizePXE boot

Run generic command execution scripts and configure partitions Customize and

domain join

Enable Hyper-V

Download WINPE

Hyper-V server

Host Group

Hyper-V serverHyper-V server

Host Group

VMM server

Hyper-V serverHyper-V server

Host Group

SMI-S Provider

Virtual Machine Manager

Gold Silver

Assign existing LUNs to hosts and clusters

Create new LUNs from pool and assign to hosts and clusters

Allocate storage to specific host groups

Create storage classification pools and associate with

storage

Discover storage through SMI-S

providerHost Group

Industry Standard API


Storage Allocation & Management

Server Virtualization Run multiple virtual servers

on a physical server Each VM has illusion it is running

as a physical server

Hyper-V Network Virtualization Run multiple virtual networks on a

physical network Each virtual network has illusion it is

running as a physical network Realized via Windows Server and

VMM

Blue VM Red VMVirtualization

PhysicalServer

Blue Network Red Network

PhysicalNetwork


Hyper-V Network Virtualization


Overview

VMM vs VMM SP1

System Center 2012Virtual Machine

ManagerSQL ServerWindows Server

Manages

MicrosoftHyper-V Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 R2

MicrosoftHyper-V Server 2012

SP1

2008 R22012 2008 R22008 R2 or 2012

5.1

6.0

SC 2012 SP1, VMM has to be deployed on WS 2012


Reliability and Predictability: Applications are highly available and fault-tolerant.

Highly Automated: Infrastructure is highly automated to complete tasks for provisioning new systems and configuring storage, networking, and applications on its own without any manual intervention.

Agility of Speed: Applications are deployed faster, and changes are made much easier.

Focus of Applications and Services: Applications and services, uptime, and quality of the service (QoS) as a measure for success of a private cloud.

Overview

Virtual Machine Manager Benefits


VMM DATABASE


Virtual Machine Manager Database

SQL Supported Versions

SQL Server for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager

Service Pack Editions

SQL Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) Service Pack 2 or earlier Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter

SQL Server 2008 (64-bit) Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 Standard and Enterprise

SQL Server for VMM in System Center 2012 SP1

Service Pack Editions

SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (64-bit)

SQL Server 2012 With or without Service Pack 1 Enterprise, Standard (64-bit)

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1



SQL Hardware Requirements

Hardware component Minimum Recommended

Processor Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit, 2 GHz

RAM 2 GB 4 GB

Hard disk space 80 GB 150 GB

Hardware component Minimum Recommended

Processor Dual-Core 64-bit, 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit, 2.8 GHz

RAM 4 GB 8 GB

Hard disk space 150 GB 200 GB

Managing up to 150 Hosts

Managing more than 150 Hosts

Note: Recommend a dedicated SQL Server for environments hosting more than 10 VMs


VMM encrypts some data in the VMM database (for example Run As account credentials and passwords in guest operating system profiles) by using the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI). The encryption of this data is tied to the specific computer on which VMM is installed and the service account used by VMM. Therefore, if you need to move your VMM installation to another computer, the encrypted data will not be retained.

Distributed key management, however, stores the encryption keys in AD DS. Therefore, if you need to move your VMM installation to another computer, the encrypted data will be retained, because the other computer will have access to the encryption keys in AD DS.


Distributed Key Management


The AlwaysOn feature is a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution that provides an enterprise-level alternative to database mirroring.

Introduced in SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn maximizes the availability of a set of user databases for an enterprise. An availability group supports a failover environment for a discrete set of user databases, known as availability databases, that fail over together.

An availability group fails over at the level of an availability replica. Failovers are not caused by database issues such as a database becoming suspect due to a loss of a data file, deletion of a database, or corruption of a transaction log.

Note: Requires SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition


SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn


In System Center 2012 SP1, SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn is supported in the following components:

App Controller Operations Manager Orchestrator Service Manager Virtual Machine Manager

AlwaysOn is not supported in the following components:

Data Protection Manager (DPM) Configuration Manager


AlwaysOn and System Center 2012


CLUSTERING


Clustering

Virtual Machine Manager - HA


NEXT STEPS


3-Day Planning Session

Identification of systems management and/or virtualization goals and assessment of organizational requirements

A workshop covering Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager with an architecture design session including recommendations.

5-Day Planning Session

Analysis of existing infrastructure using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit with an architecture design and technical drill down sessions followed by a Proof-of-Concept.

Next Steps

Planning Design Sessions

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