The document discusses new features in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) SP1 for implementing private clouds, including increased scalability for VMs and hosts in a cluster, live storage migration capabilities, enhanced networking functionality through Hyper-V Network Virtualization, improved storage allocation and management, and expanded self-service user and delegated administration roles.
System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager provides:
1) Enhanced capabilities for automating bare metal deployment and configuring logical networks.
2) Improved storage allocation and management including support for VHDX and SMB 3.0 file shares.
3) Extended cloud abstractions allowing for standardized application deployment and tenant administration in software-defined private clouds.
Cluster ist die Basis für die Private Cloud. In dieser Session lernen Sie die Erweiterungen der Cluster Services kennen, wie Cluster Shared Volumes, Cluster-Aware Updating und VM-Cloning und -Monitoring. Nach der Session können Sie die neuen Möglichkeiten einschätzen und das Potenzial für Ihr Unternehmen bestimmen.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
Monitoring a SUSE Linux Enterprise Environment with System Center Operations ...Novell
Learn the architecture and how you can monitor a SUSE Linux Enterprise environment using cross-platform extensions, which will be part of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and the new Novell Linux Management Pack. The management pack extends the default cross-platform capability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provides monitoring and management capability of key services running on SUSE Linux Enterprise.
This document provides an overview of the Xen Summit agenda and Xen community updates. The first day of the Xen Summit agenda focuses on welcome presentations and case studies on using Xen Cloud Platform and XCP. It also covers topics like AMD and virtualization, energy efficient storage, and the Xen scheduler. The second day covers sessions on GoGrid, open source cloud computing, embedded workloads, and graphics passthrough challenges. It also provides an update on Xen community events and the Xen Advisory Board. Finally, it discusses the Xen Cloud Platform project and goals to create a full virtual infrastructure layer for cloud deployments.
Windows 2012 Storage & HYPER-V improvementsSusantha Silva
Windows 2012 offer many enhancement in File Servers, Clusters, Virtualization and Server Management. This presentation covers some of those enchantments.
The IBM® System x® Private Cloud Offering provides solutions that are part of the Microsoft Fast Track for Hyper-V program. This program has requirements for systems management, virtualized management, and fault tolerance through the use of the System Center management platform, clustering, and redundancy in the network and storage...
System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager provides:
1) Enhanced capabilities for automating bare metal deployment and configuring logical networks.
2) Improved storage allocation and management including support for VHDX and SMB 3.0 file shares.
3) Extended cloud abstractions allowing for standardized application deployment and tenant administration in software-defined private clouds.
Cluster ist die Basis für die Private Cloud. In dieser Session lernen Sie die Erweiterungen der Cluster Services kennen, wie Cluster Shared Volumes, Cluster-Aware Updating und VM-Cloning und -Monitoring. Nach der Session können Sie die neuen Möglichkeiten einschätzen und das Potenzial für Ihr Unternehmen bestimmen.
Windows Server 2012 introduceert het gebruik van Storage Pools. Hiermee kunt u zowel USB, externe als interne harde schijven in een Storage Pool plaatsen. Vanuit deze pool kunt u vervolgens zoveel virtuele schijven maken als u nodig heeft. Dit zijn in feite VHD bestanden zoals deze ook al door HyperV gebruikt werden. Server 2012 ondersteunt de RAID versies 0,1 en 5. Wilt u flexibiliteit en file redundancy, zonder een duur SAN aan te hoeven schaffen, dan is deze feature is voor u!
Monitoring a SUSE Linux Enterprise Environment with System Center Operations ...Novell
Learn the architecture and how you can monitor a SUSE Linux Enterprise environment using cross-platform extensions, which will be part of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and the new Novell Linux Management Pack. The management pack extends the default cross-platform capability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provides monitoring and management capability of key services running on SUSE Linux Enterprise.
This document provides an overview of the Xen Summit agenda and Xen community updates. The first day of the Xen Summit agenda focuses on welcome presentations and case studies on using Xen Cloud Platform and XCP. It also covers topics like AMD and virtualization, energy efficient storage, and the Xen scheduler. The second day covers sessions on GoGrid, open source cloud computing, embedded workloads, and graphics passthrough challenges. It also provides an update on Xen community events and the Xen Advisory Board. Finally, it discusses the Xen Cloud Platform project and goals to create a full virtual infrastructure layer for cloud deployments.
Windows 2012 Storage & HYPER-V improvementsSusantha Silva
Windows 2012 offer many enhancement in File Servers, Clusters, Virtualization and Server Management. This presentation covers some of those enchantments.
The IBM® System x® Private Cloud Offering provides solutions that are part of the Microsoft Fast Track for Hyper-V program. This program has requirements for systems management, virtualized management, and fault tolerance through the use of the System Center management platform, clustering, and redundancy in the network and storage...
Server Virtualization with QNAP® Turbo NAS and VMware®Ali Shoaee
Virtualization increases IT efficiency and resource availability. QNAP Turbo NAS provides affordable and high-performance VMware-compatible network storage. It can be used as NFS or iSCSI datastore for VMware environments, offering benefits like flexibility, high availability, and improved work continuity.
This document discusses Canonical and Ubuntu's approach to cloud computing and virtualization. It provides an overview of Canonical, describes Ubuntu Server's virtualization options including KVM and VMBuilder, discusses considerations for cloud computing, and introduces the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud solution which allows organizations to deploy their own cloud infrastructure using Eucalyptus to provide EC2-compatible services.
Cvc2009 Moscow Xen App5 Fp1 Fabian Kienle FinalLiudmila Li
The document provides an overview of the new features included in the XenApp 5 Feature Pack, including User Profile Manager, Workflow Studio, Citrix Receiver for Windows, and Citrix Receiver for iPhone. It describes each feature, how it works, and which XenApp editions it applies to. The Feature Pack is a collection of new XenApp features released between January and March 2009 to enhance XenApp 5.
The document introduces CloudBees, a platform as a service (PaaS) for Java applications. It discusses how CloudBees handles the entire lifecycle of cloud application development and deployment without the need for servers, virtual machines, or IT administration. The platform provides development tools through DEV@cloud and runtime services through RUN@cloud. It also demonstrates how to store code, build, test, and continuously deploy a sample application to the CloudBees platform.
IBM System z - zEnterprise a future platform for enterprise systemsIBM Sverige
July 22. 2010 changed the world of enterprises with consolidated systems. Hear more about IBM's technological break through within System z, which can simplify and optimize your systems further and create greater business value. Talare: Jørgen R Andersen, Nordic Regional Manager System z, IBM DK och Ray Jones, VP WW SW System z, IBM US. Denna presentation hölls vid ett seminariepass för System Z på IBM Software Day 2010.
Visão geral sobre Citrix XenServer 6 - Ferramentas e LicenciamentoLorscheider Santiago
This document provides an overview of Citrix XenServer, including:
- Why use XenServer over VMware, with XenServer having leadership in the market share and lower costs.
- An overview of XenServer's key features like virtual memory licensing, clusters and pools, live migration, snapshots, and high availability.
- A comparison of XenServer and VMware features around licensing, importing VMs, backup solutions, and more.
- Details on newer versions of XenServer that include integrated disaster recovery, provisioning services, and monitoring solutions.
The document provides an overview of a Linux Day tour agenda that promotes SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1. Key topics covered in the tour include the benefits of SUSE Linux over other distributions for reliability, scalability, systems management, virtualization, security, and certifications. It highlights new features in Service Pack 1 that improve reliability, scalability, systems management, and security.
- Xen was originally developed in the late 1990s as the XenoServer project at the University of Cambridge to build public infrastructure for distributed computing.
- Amazon EC2 and Slicehost launched in 2006 and helped popularize Xen and virtualization in the cloud.
- Xen is an open source Type 1 hypervisor that provides strong isolation between guest virtual machines while leveraging device drivers and other components from Linux via paravirtualization interfaces and driver domains.
- The Xen Project is led by multiple vendors and oversees the Xen hypervisor, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), Xen for ARM, and other related open source projects.
XenServer 6.0 includes enhancements to simplify management, improve performance and scale, and integrate additional high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Key features include integrated StorageLink for storage management, workload balancing via a virtual appliance, vApps for controlling VM startup order in HA and DR scenarios, and support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM. GPU pass-through and IntelliCache are optimized for XenDesktop deployments.
Next Generation Development Infrastructure with the Maven Enterprise StackTim O'Brien
The document discusses the Maven Enterprise Stack, which provides a complete solution for Maven-based software development. It describes how the stack handles the full development lifecycle from onboarding developers to provisioning applications to production. A key aspect is that Maven development is component-centric, with Maven describing, creating, distributing, and consuming components. The stack includes tools like M2Eclipse, Hudson, Nexus, and Proviso that integrate to provide the full solution.
Canonical established Ubuntu in 2004 and released the long-term support version 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" in April 2012. Ubuntu is positioned as the leading Linux operating system for servers, clouds, and service orchestration. Canonical's Juju service orchestration tool allows easy deployment and management of services on Ubuntu through reusable "charms" that encapsulate best practices.
Content deployment in SharePoint Server 2010 allows copying content from a source site collection to a destination site collection. It is commonly used to separate authoring and production environments. The content deployment process involves defining paths between source and destination sites, running jobs on a schedule to export content from the source and import it into the destination. It can be useful when topologies, security, or performance needs differ between environments.
This document provides an overview of open source cloud computing. It discusses the characteristics and service models of cloud computing, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also covers deployment models like public, private and hybrid clouds. The document then discusses building compute clouds with open source software, covering open virtual machine formats, sourcing open source software and VMs, open source hypervisors, open source compute clouds, scale-up vs. scale-out, private cloud architecture, managing clouds with open source tools, automation, availability targets, open source provisioning tools, monitoring tools, and additional resources.
VirtFS is a paravirtual file system that allows passing file systems between the KVM hypervisor and guest virtual machines. It uses the Plan 9 protocol for communication and has a server implemented in QEMU and a client in the guest kernel. VirtFS aims to provide better performance than virtual disks or network-based file systems by avoiding layers of indirection and enabling features like sharing files between guests.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
Design and implementation of a reliable and cost-effective cloud computing in...Francesco Taurino
This document summarizes the INFN Napoli experience in designing and implementing a reliable and cost-effective cloud computing infrastructure. Key aspects included using existing hardware, virtualization and clustering technologies to consolidate services and reduce costs. A network with redundant switches and storage servers using GlusterFS provided high availability. Custom tools were developed to simplify administration tasks like provisioning, migration, and load balancing of virtual machines. The solution provided an efficient and reliable private cloud with over one year of uninterrupted uptime.
The document discusses accessing the virtual router in a CloudStack KVM environment. It explains that the virtual router can be accessed by SSHing into its link local IP address from the compute node it is running on. When logging in, it is shown that the link local IP address may change if the virtual router is restarted. The internal interfaces, routing tables, and network configuration of the running virtual router are then displayed and examined.
The glideinWMS approach to the ownership of System Images in the Cloud WorldIgor Sfiligoi
Presentation at CLOSER 2012.
Scientific communities that are accustomed to use Grid resources are now considering the use of Cloud resources. However, moving from the Grid to the Cloud brings along the need for the creation and maintenance of the system image used to configure the provisioned resources, and this presents both opportunities and problems for the users. The impact is especially interesting in the context of glideinWMS due to its layered architecture. This presentation describes the various options available to the glideinWMS project team, their advantages and disadvantages, and explains why one of them is to be preferred.
Closer web page: http://closer.scitevents.org/
Slides from AIS and Microsoft's half-day session on the recently-announced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. After a brief overview of the Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, we will focus on key IaaS concepts. Additionally, we will walk you through a number of scenarios enabled by Azure IaaS and several demonstrations.
Agenda:
Overview of Windows Azure Platform
Azure IaaS
Why IaaS?
IaaS Core Concepts
Supported Applications
Azure Virtual Machines
Disk Mobility
VM export / Import
Availability
Azure Virtual Network
Server Virtualization with QNAP® Turbo NAS and VMware®Ali Shoaee
Virtualization increases IT efficiency and resource availability. QNAP Turbo NAS provides affordable and high-performance VMware-compatible network storage. It can be used as NFS or iSCSI datastore for VMware environments, offering benefits like flexibility, high availability, and improved work continuity.
This document discusses Canonical and Ubuntu's approach to cloud computing and virtualization. It provides an overview of Canonical, describes Ubuntu Server's virtualization options including KVM and VMBuilder, discusses considerations for cloud computing, and introduces the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud solution which allows organizations to deploy their own cloud infrastructure using Eucalyptus to provide EC2-compatible services.
Cvc2009 Moscow Xen App5 Fp1 Fabian Kienle FinalLiudmila Li
The document provides an overview of the new features included in the XenApp 5 Feature Pack, including User Profile Manager, Workflow Studio, Citrix Receiver for Windows, and Citrix Receiver for iPhone. It describes each feature, how it works, and which XenApp editions it applies to. The Feature Pack is a collection of new XenApp features released between January and March 2009 to enhance XenApp 5.
The document introduces CloudBees, a platform as a service (PaaS) for Java applications. It discusses how CloudBees handles the entire lifecycle of cloud application development and deployment without the need for servers, virtual machines, or IT administration. The platform provides development tools through DEV@cloud and runtime services through RUN@cloud. It also demonstrates how to store code, build, test, and continuously deploy a sample application to the CloudBees platform.
IBM System z - zEnterprise a future platform for enterprise systemsIBM Sverige
July 22. 2010 changed the world of enterprises with consolidated systems. Hear more about IBM's technological break through within System z, which can simplify and optimize your systems further and create greater business value. Talare: Jørgen R Andersen, Nordic Regional Manager System z, IBM DK och Ray Jones, VP WW SW System z, IBM US. Denna presentation hölls vid ett seminariepass för System Z på IBM Software Day 2010.
Visão geral sobre Citrix XenServer 6 - Ferramentas e LicenciamentoLorscheider Santiago
This document provides an overview of Citrix XenServer, including:
- Why use XenServer over VMware, with XenServer having leadership in the market share and lower costs.
- An overview of XenServer's key features like virtual memory licensing, clusters and pools, live migration, snapshots, and high availability.
- A comparison of XenServer and VMware features around licensing, importing VMs, backup solutions, and more.
- Details on newer versions of XenServer that include integrated disaster recovery, provisioning services, and monitoring solutions.
The document provides an overview of a Linux Day tour agenda that promotes SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1. Key topics covered in the tour include the benefits of SUSE Linux over other distributions for reliability, scalability, systems management, virtualization, security, and certifications. It highlights new features in Service Pack 1 that improve reliability, scalability, systems management, and security.
- Xen was originally developed in the late 1990s as the XenoServer project at the University of Cambridge to build public infrastructure for distributed computing.
- Amazon EC2 and Slicehost launched in 2006 and helped popularize Xen and virtualization in the cloud.
- Xen is an open source Type 1 hypervisor that provides strong isolation between guest virtual machines while leveraging device drivers and other components from Linux via paravirtualization interfaces and driver domains.
- The Xen Project is led by multiple vendors and oversees the Xen hypervisor, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), Xen for ARM, and other related open source projects.
XenServer 6.0 includes enhancements to simplify management, improve performance and scale, and integrate additional high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Key features include integrated StorageLink for storage management, workload balancing via a virtual appliance, vApps for controlling VM startup order in HA and DR scenarios, and support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM. GPU pass-through and IntelliCache are optimized for XenDesktop deployments.
Next Generation Development Infrastructure with the Maven Enterprise StackTim O'Brien
The document discusses the Maven Enterprise Stack, which provides a complete solution for Maven-based software development. It describes how the stack handles the full development lifecycle from onboarding developers to provisioning applications to production. A key aspect is that Maven development is component-centric, with Maven describing, creating, distributing, and consuming components. The stack includes tools like M2Eclipse, Hudson, Nexus, and Proviso that integrate to provide the full solution.
Canonical established Ubuntu in 2004 and released the long-term support version 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" in April 2012. Ubuntu is positioned as the leading Linux operating system for servers, clouds, and service orchestration. Canonical's Juju service orchestration tool allows easy deployment and management of services on Ubuntu through reusable "charms" that encapsulate best practices.
Content deployment in SharePoint Server 2010 allows copying content from a source site collection to a destination site collection. It is commonly used to separate authoring and production environments. The content deployment process involves defining paths between source and destination sites, running jobs on a schedule to export content from the source and import it into the destination. It can be useful when topologies, security, or performance needs differ between environments.
This document provides an overview of open source cloud computing. It discusses the characteristics and service models of cloud computing, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also covers deployment models like public, private and hybrid clouds. The document then discusses building compute clouds with open source software, covering open virtual machine formats, sourcing open source software and VMs, open source hypervisors, open source compute clouds, scale-up vs. scale-out, private cloud architecture, managing clouds with open source tools, automation, availability targets, open source provisioning tools, monitoring tools, and additional resources.
VirtFS is a paravirtual file system that allows passing file systems between the KVM hypervisor and guest virtual machines. It uses the Plan 9 protocol for communication and has a server implemented in QEMU and a client in the guest kernel. VirtFS aims to provide better performance than virtual disks or network-based file systems by avoiding layers of indirection and enabling features like sharing files between guests.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
Design and implementation of a reliable and cost-effective cloud computing in...Francesco Taurino
This document summarizes the INFN Napoli experience in designing and implementing a reliable and cost-effective cloud computing infrastructure. Key aspects included using existing hardware, virtualization and clustering technologies to consolidate services and reduce costs. A network with redundant switches and storage servers using GlusterFS provided high availability. Custom tools were developed to simplify administration tasks like provisioning, migration, and load balancing of virtual machines. The solution provided an efficient and reliable private cloud with over one year of uninterrupted uptime.
The document discusses accessing the virtual router in a CloudStack KVM environment. It explains that the virtual router can be accessed by SSHing into its link local IP address from the compute node it is running on. When logging in, it is shown that the link local IP address may change if the virtual router is restarted. The internal interfaces, routing tables, and network configuration of the running virtual router are then displayed and examined.
The glideinWMS approach to the ownership of System Images in the Cloud WorldIgor Sfiligoi
Presentation at CLOSER 2012.
Scientific communities that are accustomed to use Grid resources are now considering the use of Cloud resources. However, moving from the Grid to the Cloud brings along the need for the creation and maintenance of the system image used to configure the provisioned resources, and this presents both opportunities and problems for the users. The impact is especially interesting in the context of glideinWMS due to its layered architecture. This presentation describes the various options available to the glideinWMS project team, their advantages and disadvantages, and explains why one of them is to be preferred.
Closer web page: http://closer.scitevents.org/
Slides from AIS and Microsoft's half-day session on the recently-announced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. After a brief overview of the Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, we will focus on key IaaS concepts. Additionally, we will walk you through a number of scenarios enabled by Azure IaaS and several demonstrations.
Agenda:
Overview of Windows Azure Platform
Azure IaaS
Why IaaS?
IaaS Core Concepts
Supported Applications
Azure Virtual Machines
Disk Mobility
VM export / Import
Availability
Azure Virtual Network
CloudStack provides an orchestration platform that abstracts physical network resources and allows third party plugins to integrate their networking services. It separates orchestration from actual provisioning, with CloudStack only handling orchestration events and notifications, while provisioning is handled by plugins. This allows services to scale independently of CloudStack. CloudStack defines common concepts like Networks, but plugins determine how these map to physical networks through interfaces like NetworkGuru. This architecture enables innovation from partners through well-defined plugin APIs and abstraction layers.
The document introduces IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud, an integrated virtualized platform for quickly deploying IT infrastructure. It reduces the time and complexity of deploying servers, storage, networking, virtualization and management software from weeks to days. The pre-loaded platform provides a turnkey solution for virtualization and creates a base for customers to evolve to cloud computing.
This document discusses virtualization and VMware vSphere 4.0. It provides an overview of virtualization and how hypervisors partition server resources for multiple virtual machines (VMs). It then discusses how vSphere goes beyond basic partitioning by aggregating infrastructure resources into a virtual "cloud" in the datacenter. Finally, it discusses key features of vSphere 4.0 including vCompute, vStorage, and vNetwork that provide optimization, availability, security and scalability.
This document discusses VMware vSphere 4.0, which provides virtualization capabilities and serves as a cloud operating system. It allows for high consolidation ratios through features like VMotion that enable live migration of virtual machines between physical servers. vSphere optimizes computing resources through features in vCompute, vStorage, and vNetwork that improve performance, availability, security and scalability for applications.
Automating Your CloudStack Cloud with Puppetbuildacloud
This document discusses automating the deployment and configuration of virtual machines (VMs) created with Apache CloudStack using Puppet. It provides an overview of CloudStack and its architecture before explaining how Puppet can be used to classify and configure VMs at launch based on custom facts extracted from metadata passed to the VM. The document recommends minimizing templates and configuring all VMs via Puppet for easy management at scale. It also describes how the CloudStack API can be used to programmatically deploy VMs that are then automatically configured by Puppet.
VMworld Europe 204: Technical Deep Dive on EVO: RAIL, the new VMware Hyper-Co...VMworld
This document provides an overview of the VMware EVO:RAIL product. It begins with a disclaimer noting that features discussed are under development and subject to change. It then introduces EVO:RAIL as a converged infrastructure product that simplifies the deployment, configuration, and management of a software-defined datacenter through an appliance-based model. Key features highlighted include its use of trusted VMware technologies, prescribed 2U/4N hardware platform, automated scale-out capabilities, rapid time to value of deploying the first virtual machine, and non-disruptive upgrade process. Primary use cases are listed as remote/branch office, virtual desktop infrastructure, and private cloud. The document then discusses the origins and development of
Private cloud infrastructure configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
SmartCloud Provisioning - servere i skyen på et splitsekund. Steen Eriksen &...IBM Danmark
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is a cloud provisioning solution that provides highly automated, scalable, and flexible infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It allows for quick deployment of virtual machines and applications, supports multi-tenancy, and offers advanced image management capabilities. DutchCloud, an IBM partner, implemented SmartCloud Provisioning to provide their customers with on-demand, isolated cloud resources and disaster recovery capabilities with minimal administration.
Accelerate your PaaS to the Mobile World: Silicon Valley Code Camp 2012CloudBees
The document discusses using Jenkins for continuous integration of mobile apps, including demos of building, testing, and distributing an iOS and Android chess app with a REST backend, and building Google App Engine apps with Jenkins, advocating for Jenkins in the cloud to allow developers to focus on coding while automated builds, packages, tests and distributions are handled.
CTU June 2011 - Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012Spiffy
The document discusses Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. It summarizes the key features and capabilities of SCVMM 2012 including fabric management, deployment and upgrade processes, dynamic optimization, private clouds, self-service user roles, and integration with public clouds like Windows Azure. The presentation includes demonstrations of building and delegating private clouds with SCVMM 2012.
IBM provides an open and standards-based approach to cloud management for Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. This includes supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) via the open source OpenStack platform. IBM is committed to OpenStack and contributes drivers and platform support to upstream OpenStack projects. Currently IBM offers an OpenStack-enabled appliance for zSystems that provides OpenStack APIs without additional charge. IBM's strategy is to enable the OpenStack APIs on zSystems and LinuxONE platforms to allow for cross-cloud management and orchestration.
Best ofmms2013 what's new in sc2012 sp1 vmmKenny Buntinx
This document discusses System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and its capabilities for managing private clouds. It can manage Hyper-V hosts running Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2. It provides capabilities for storage, compute, and network management in private clouds, including deploying VMs, configuring logical networks, and integrating with load balancers. It also discusses role-based access control and self-service user capabilities.
This document discusses System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and its capabilities for managing private clouds. It can manage Hyper-V hosts running Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2. It provides capabilities for storage, compute, and network management in private clouds, including deploying and configuring virtual infrastructure and assigning resources. It also covers role-based access control, templates for multi-tier applications, and integration with other System Center products.
The document discusses System Center Virtual Machine Manager and its capabilities for managing virtualization infrastructure. It summarizes:
1. System Center VMM can deploy and manage virtual machines on different hypervisors like Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Citrix XenServer.
2. It provides consistency across hypervisors by using the same methods to deploy services and manage virtualization.
3. Key capabilities of VMM include live migration, storage migration, networking abstractions, and tools for capacity management and rapid provisioning of virtual machines.
The document discusses System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012. It provides an introduction to new features in SCVMM 2012 including highly available VMM servers, upgrade capabilities, custom properties, expanded PowerShell support, bare metal provisioning, hypervisor support, network and storage management, update management, dynamic optimization, power management, and more. It also includes an agenda for a presentation on SCVMM 2012 that will demonstrate some of these new capabilities.
Successful PaaS and CI in the Cloud - EclipseCon 2012CloudBees
1) The document discusses platform as a service (PaaS) and continuous integration (CI) in the cloud.
2) It provides an overview of the CloudBees PaaS platform and how it enables easier application deployment through automated scaling and updates.
3) The document notes that while the cloud provides benefits like elasticity and reduced risk, developers must weigh tradeoffs like latency versus local speed and control.
Case Study: Developing a Vblock System-based Private Cloud Platform with Pupp...VCE
This presentation provides an overview and lessons learned from deploying a large-scale private cloud platform for a key VCE customer based on Vblock Systems, Puppet Enterprise and VMware vCloud suite. VCE Vblock Systems provide seamless integration of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies, delivering fast time-to-value for customers deploying private cloud solutions. Puppet Enterprise is at the core of this solution, enabling rapid application deployment and dynamic configuration management to support business groups and IT security requirements such as SOX. This presentation also describes how Puppet Enterprise is integrated seamlessly with VMware vCloud suite and provides a self-service portal for provisioning and management of the solution.
This document summarizes the key features and benefits of Microsoft's Hyper-V platform. It highlights how Hyper-V offers significant cost savings through lower upfront costs and ongoing costs compared to alternative virtualization platforms. It also improves IT flexibility and agility by enabling features like live migration, cluster shared volumes, hot-add/removal of storage, and CPU compatibility for live migration. These features along with improved performance, scalability, and ability to park/sleep unused CPU cores allow for increased server consolidation and a more efficient use of computing resources.
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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Live Migration
Daha hızlı, sınırsız ve sorunsuz VM Live Migration
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Sanal disklerin bağlantı kaybı olmadan taşınabilmesi
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Host ve Cluster olmadan VM Live Migration
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Bütünleşik VM bazlı Replikasyon
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Configure and Deploy Fabric
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Storage Allocation & Management Discover storage through
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SP1: Storage
Deploy VM’s with VHDX format
Disks up to 64 TB
Enhanced performance with physical disks > 512 bytes sector
Added Resiliency
Use of SMB 3.0 file share for stand alone/clustered host
Windows File Server and NAS devices supporting SMB 3.0
Compatibility with Synthetic Fiber Channel in the guest
Live Storage Migration
Seamless use of ODX with capable hardware
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Logical Networks in the Private Cloud
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SP1: Cluster
Manage “Possible/Preferred Owner” settings
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SP1: Cloud and User Role Enhancements
• Tenant Admin
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Goal: Frame the enterprise cloud computing conversation by highlighting the evolution from traditional to cloud computing models. Define industry taxonomy around private and public clouds. A couple of data points from internal Microsoft research: 41 percent of our customers are using services across datacenters on premises and in public clouds. 80 percent of our customers over the next three to five years will use hybrid models.Talking pointsTransition from previous slide Let’s start with the definitive evolution that's happening within IT.Customers are telling us that they are increasingly considering cloud computing models (versus just deploying physical and virtual environments). <click> If you’re referring to Infrastructure as a Service (private cloud), you're thinking about your datacenter as a set of pooled resources (including compute, network and storage), not in terms of individual hosts or VMs.If you’re referring to public cloud, you're talking about building applications that will then be delivered as a service. The platform provides all the required building blocks for your app. Think Windows Azure. Between private and public cloud, we believe that the concept of delivering IT as a Service will transform how customers consume IT and will deliver a completely new cost structure at a much higher level of business responsiveness.We believe hybrid environments will become the norm over the next few years. A common toolset with integrated physical, virtual, Private, and Public cloud management will help you optimize your return on investment.
Goal of this slide. Frame the cloud computing opportunity for the enterprise and Microsoft’s cloud and data center management vision to address that opportunity.Spotlight the players in the IT as a Service conversation within the enterprise (call out the app leader and the ops leader in the room). Talk about their motivations and how they’re typically non-compatible.Key points to landIT as a Service is the mental model around which the app leader and the ops leader come together as consumer and provider respectively.Talk about how the System Center 2012 cloud and data center management vision uniquely addresses IT as a Service in the context of private and public cloud computing. Talking Points (progressive builds) So what does this cloud transformation mean to the enterprise)?Cloud computing is emerging as a major disruptive force in shaping the nature of business and IT conversations. Cloud computing enables what we call IT as a Service which represents IT delivered to the business in a manner that’s agile and cost-effective while meeting the quality of service (QoS) parameters that the business expects. A cloud service demonstrates attributes like self-service, metering by use, elasticity, and scalability. <click> Now, any service offering by definition has a service consumer and a service provider. Simplistically speaking, the service consumer represents business interests while the service provider represents IT. These constituencies are incented around different KPIs. <click> For example, a business or application owner (the service consumer) would care about time to market, costs, and ease of use…<click> …whereas a data center administrator (or service provider) optimizes for security, compliance, process controls, and availability. To align these interests, we need a mechanism to deliver the agility that the business needs while ensuring the operational efficiencies that IT cares about most. <click> Enter IT as a Service. IT as a Service provides the framework for the service level based agreement between IT and the business stakeholders. <click> Through System Center 2012, Microsoft’s cloud and data center management vision is to deliver: Common management experiences across private and public clouds.IT as a Service on your terms with flexible management across your hybrid environments.How does System Center 2012 do that?
Goal of this slideRepresent core messages that differentiate us from VMwareTalking PointsSo at it’s heart, System Center 2012 delivers three core promises for datacenter and cloud management.System Center 2012 cloud and data center management solutions empower you with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services. System Center helps you confidently deliver IT as a Service for your business.System Center 2012 helps your organization consume and deliver IT as a Service by enabling productive infrastructure, predictable applications, and cloud on your terms. System Center 2012 helps you to deliver flexible and cost-effective private-cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model, while carrying forward your existing data center investments. Recognizing that applications are where core business value resides, System Center 2012 offers deep application insight, which, combined with a service-centric approach, helps you deliver predictable application-service levels. Finally, System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms with common management experiences across your hybrid environments.Productive Infrastructure System Center 2012 helps you deliver flexible and cost-effective infrastructure with what you already know and own. System Center 2012 helps you integrate heterogeneous data center investments, including multi-hypervisor environments. You can pool and abstract your data center resources and deliver self-service infrastructure to your business units in a flexible, yet controlled, manner.Heterogeneous supportTo help you carry forward your existing data center investments and skillsets, System Center 2012 offers integrated management for your heterogeneous data center environments. For example, it offers multi-hypervisor management for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere/ESX, and Citrix XenServer with Virtual Machine Manager; cross-platform monitoring of Linux/Unix/Sun Solaris guests with Operations Manager; cross-platform configuration management for Linux and Unix servers with Configuration Manager; and integrated automation across management toolsets from vendors like HP, CA, BMC, EMC, and even VMware with Orchestrator.Process automation System Center 2012 helps you simplify and standardize your data center with a flexible process automation platform. By automating repetitive tasks, you can lower your costs and improve service reliability. With Orchestrator, you can integrate and extend your existing toolsets and build flexible workflows (or runbooks) that can span across multiple organizational silos and systems. These workflows are then executed in an orchestrated manner through the automation engine built into Orchestrator. Service Manager offers industry-standard service management capabilities (based on ITIL/MOF) which automates core organizational process workflows like incident management, problem management, change management, and release management.Self-service infrastructure With the provisioning capability of Virtual Machine Manager, you can pool and abstract your data center resources (such as compute, network, and storage) into a private cloud infrastructure fabric, which can then be maintained by Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager. You can allocate and delegate this pooled fabric to your business unit IT organizations in a flexible, yet controlled, manner using Virtual Machine Manager. Application owners can consume capacity (and request additional capacity) in a self-service mode using the service catalog offered by Service Manager. Requests for capacity would be fulfilled using the process automation and provisioning capabilities offered by Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Manager respectively.Predictable ApplicationsApps power your business. System Center 2012 helps you deliver predictable application service levels with deep application insight, and holistically manage your application services, which is where your core business value resides.Deep application monitoring and diagnosisOperations Manager offers deep application and transaction monitoring insight for .NET applications (and J2EE application server health) to maximize application availability and performance. Operations Manager also integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio through a connector to unlock development-to-operations collaboration, thereby helping you remediate application issues faster, which results in the delivery of predictable SLAs. Easy-to-use reporting and dashboarding allows you to track and communicate your SLAs more effectively.Comprehensive application manageability Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (SAV), a feature of Virtual Machine Manager, optimizes your modern and existing applications for private cloud deployments with sequenced state separation between the application and underlying infrastructure. SAV dramatically simplifies application servicing (such as upgrades and maintenance) with image-based configuration and management techniques that reduce administrative effort and expense. By decoupling your applications from the infrastructure, SAV helps unlock application portability as appropriate to your business needs.Configuration Manager supports SAV, thereby extending the benefits of SAV to applications and workloads that may be deployed in physical/traditional environments. Through SAV support, Configuration Manager enables easier physical-to-virtual application mobility and in-place application servicing. Service-centric approachIn a cloud computing model, a service is a deployed instance of an application along with its associated configuration and virtual infrastructure. System Center 2012 offers a service-centric approach to help you manage your application components in the context of the holistic service that it represents to the business. From provisioning services (visualization, design, composition, deployment, and configuration) to operating them (monitoring, remediation, and upgrades), we help you manage the full lifecycle. For example, Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller enable service-centric provisioning and updates while Operations Manager enables monitoring at the service level. Your CloudPrivate and public cloud computing on your terms managed with a common toolset. System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms, with common management experiences across your hybrid environments.Flexibility with delegation and controlConstruct and manage clouds across multiple data centers, multiple infrastructures (such as Microsoft and VMware), and service providers (Windows Azure). Provide delegated authority and tools to enable self-service flexibility across your environments. You retain control across your private and public cloud environments, which is important for enterprise security and compliance requirements while ensuring your IT pros have a key role even as your organization adopts cloud-computing models.Applications self-service across clouds System Center 2012 empowers your application and service owners with a common self-service experience across private-cloud and public-cloud computing models. With App Controller, you can experience full visibility and control of your private and public cloud applications and services, so you can confidently adopt Windows Azure as your enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) choice.Physical, virtual, and cloud managementSystem Center has historically been known for physical and virtual management in the data center. You can also use your familiar on-premises Operations Manager to monitor your Windows Azure applications (using the Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure Applications)—thus extending your common management experience to the cloud. App Controller provides you a single pane of glass with self-service flexibility and control for your application owners to manage their applications and services across private and public clouds, including Windows Azure. Hybrid environments will be the corporate standard for many years; a common management toolset with integrated physical, virtual, IaaS, and PaaS management will help you increase efficiency and optimize ROI.
Talking points:[Click] Deliver flexible and cost-effective infrastructure. With the provisioning capability of the System Center 2012 component Virtual Machine Manager, you can pool and abstract your compute, network, and storage resources into a private cloud fabric. To help leverage your existing datacenter investments, Virtual Machine Manager supports VMware and Citrix infrastructure as well as Hyper-V. You can allocate these pooled datacenter resources to your business units in a flexible manner using the controlled delegation capabilities offered by Virtual Machine Manager. [Click] Provision and manage standardized application services. Microsoft’s goal is to apply to your private cloud what it has learned from operating large-scale online services like Bing, Hotmail, and Windows Live efficiently and reliably using the capabilities in Virtual Machine Manager. To this end, Virtual Machine Manager enables you to easily provision and maintain standardized application services to your private cloud using capabilities like service templates and image-based management. SAV technology built into Virtual Machine Manager makes it possible to abstract (or sequence) your applications from the underlying infrastructure, so it’s easy to upgrade them, and potentially enhances their cloud readiness. [Click] Optimize virtualization management. Virtual Machine Manager delivers:Dynamic optimization of your datacenter resources based on workload demands like power management and fabric utilization. A highly available and reliable Virtual Machine Manager server infrastructure to base your private cloud on. Deeper support for industry standards like PowerShell, OVF, and SMI-S.
Talking points:Virtual Machine Manager helps you deliver a flexible and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure while leveraging your existing datacenter investments. [Click] The first step in setting up your private cloud infrastructure is to consolidate your existing datacenter resources. Virtual Machine Manager helps through its support of VMware and Citrix infrastructure as well as Hyper-V. It also supports a variety of other storage, network, and compute resources that you can take advantage of, depending on your investments. [Click] As a next step, Virtual Machine Manager helps you pool and abstract datacenter resources to provision a standardized private cloud infrastructure fabric.For compute, Virtual Machine Manager offers bare-metal to Hyper-V to cluster provisioning. For network provisioning, Virtual Machine Manager helps you define logical networks using VLANs and sub-nets, assign IP addresses, and automate load balancer provisioning. For storage provisioning, Virtual Machine Manager offers discovery of storage arrays and pools, LUN configuration and assignment to hosts and clusters, and rapid VM provisioning. [Click] Finally, to enable self-service infrastructure, Virtual Machine Manager offers flexible delegation of clouds with the right balance of control between the service provider and service consumer. Think of these as mini-clouds based on each of your organization’s requirements. While this example shows a breakout based on line of business, you could just as well think of these as being Dev, Test, and Production mini-clouds, or geography-based mini-clouds.
Talking points:Virtual Machine Manager offers service templates that help you provision standardized application services to your private cloud. This will improve the agility of your application deployments and help you benefit from cloud computing attributes like elastic scale. [Click] With Virtual Machine Manager, the application owner (or service consumer) can specify configuration requirements like application architecture, scale-out rules, health thresholds, upgrade rules, and so on, just as a developer would specify requirements for a Windows Azure application. Except in this case, we are talking about an application service that will be deployed to your private cloud. Service templates provide the blueprint for the application service, including the hardware, operating system, and application packages. Virtual Machine Manager supports multiple package types for.Net applications, including MS Deploy for the web tier (IIS), Server App-V for the application tier, and SQL DAC for the data tier. [Click] Virtual Machine Manager uses the service template specification to build out the application tiers, including the various logical instances associated with each tier. In the real world, you are likely to encounter scaled-out (or multi-instance) web front ends and application tiers, but scaled up (or single-instance–based) database tiers. [Click] Virtual Machine Manager also uses the service template specifications to help ensure that the application is deployed to the appropriate virtualized resource pools. We’ve thus seen that an application service comprises the application code, the virtual infrastructure on which it is hosted, and its configuration details. We’ve also seen how Virtual Machine Manager is bringing Microsoft’s learning from operating large-scale cloud application services to help you deploy standardized application services to your private cloud environments.
Talking points:Server Application Virtualization (SAV) dramatically simplifies maintaining standardized application services in your private cloud. SAV optimizes your applications (including a subset of existing applications) for private cloud deployments with sequenced state separation between the application and underlying virtual infrastructure. Further, it dramatically simplifies upgrades and maintenance with image-based configuration and management techniques that reduce administrative effort and expense. [Click] Let’s look at a scenario in which you can update the business logic tier of a three-tier application using image-based updates to a previously deployed application service. An image-based approach is where one or more new virtual instances (or VMs) are created, typically from an updated virtual image. Virtual Machine Manager moves the running application into these new VMs, and shuts down any VMs that the application was previously running.[Click] Let’s say we need to update the middle-tier business logic of a running application, so we must install the application’s code in the new VM. This should be pretty straightforward if the application maintains no state within its VM. But applications often make local changes within their VMs, such as modifying the Windows registry or relying on local configuration files. So moving the application successfully to a new VM might require moving this state as well. Virtual Machine Manager can accomplish this by wrapping the application code in an SAV package. Through sequencing, SAV can detect and track any local state changes the application makes. When the running application is moved into a new VM, the SAV package moves its current state as well, including registry changes and configuration files. Because image-based updates can install a new VM image beneath a running application, it allows a separation of applications and VM images. This eliminates the need to have a separate VM image for each application that uses that image. Instead, an organization might choose to use the same small set of VM images for many applications, combining them as needed with service templates. Managing fewer VM images is simpler, cheaper, and less error-prone.
Talking pointsVirtual Machine Manager includes a new feature: dynamic optimization (DO) of your datacenter resources based on workload demands. It optimizes VM performance and use of resources through cluster-level workload balancing. Virtual Machine Manager supports dynamic optimization for Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix XenServer clusters (as shown in the screenshot in the background). Dynamic optimization:Optimizes for the following resource types: CPU, memory, and disk and network I/O. Is triggered when resource usage goes above a threshold specified by the administrator. Calls upon other features like live migration to avoid fabric downtime. Can be configured according to the level of optimization required—for example, setting more aggressive thresholds will result in a greater number of optimization actions. Virtual Machine Manager uses power management to optimize for the same resource types as DO when resource usage falls below the specified threshold (as illustrated by the screenshot in the foreground). This capability works to an administrator-defined schedule—for example, hours of the day when power should be optimized. Virtual Machine Manager helps to ensure that the host is evacuated before powering off, that the evacuation will not cause other nodes to go above the DO threshold, and that no cluster quorum requirements are violated. Virtual Machine Manager offers a highly available and reliable server infrastructure on which to base your private cloud. Virtual Machine Manager server is cluster-aware, which offers a level of resiliency against OS and VM failures. For example, you could create non–high availability VMs on clustered hosts to take advantage of this capability. Virtual Machine Manager continues to offer deep support for standards like PowerShell, OVF formats, and SMI-S.
So why Service Pack 1? Well in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager we support all the current versions of the Microsoft products. Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, but shortly after that release Windows Server iterated their new version to Windows Server 2012 and so in System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager we add support to the 2012 wave of Windows Server products.
So what I’m going to go through today is I’m going to talk about how in VMM 2012 we’ve enhanced our configuration and deployment mechanism which is where we assign dedicated and shared resources to our compute fabric and storage fabric and network fabric. We put all that together so that you can present a cloud abstraction to the users of your environment. We made some enhancements there as well that I’ll be talking about throughout this session. Once you have a cloud abstraction available you can delegate that capacity to the users of your system. And then finally these users are able to build standardized services that can model a multi-tier application that can be deployed into that file.
So configuration and deployment of the fabric it really starts off with the basics of compute, storage and networking, these are the physical resources that you have in your data center. We can build those together into a cluster so that you can deploy highly available workloads into your environment.
So I’m going to walk you through the bare metal hyper-V deployment process to give you a little review of how we get an operating system onto a Hyper-V host. It starts off with a bare metal server that doesn’t have an operating system but what is does have is a called a BMC or a baseboard management controller. VMM is able to tell the BMC to do what we call an out of band reboot, we tell the machine through that controller to reboot yourself. When it does that the machine is configured to boot from PXE or the pre-boot execution environment and when it does this PXE boot it talks to a WDS server to get a boot image of a Win PE image that it’s able to deploy to boot from to get the deployment image. Now, before we can actually deploy an image to it we check to make sure that this is a bare metal server that VMM has configured for deployment. So VMM authorizes this PXE boot then downloads the customized Win PE image to the bare metal server. This Win PE image is customized to contain the VMM agent that is able to talk to the VM Server and get itself orchestrated through the deployment process. So it’s part once we’re in through Win PE as part of the deployment process we’ll run GCE’s on this bare metal machine so that we can get the machine configured into a known consistent state based off of what the generic command script contains. After we’ve prepared the machine, formatted the hard disk and downloaded the VHD we configure the machine to do a native boot from VHD or to boot into the operating system that it will be running in production and so we need to download a VHD onto the bare metal server to get that VHD on there. after we’ve put the VHD on there we will also inject drivers so that the bare metal server has the necessary drivers that it needs so that when it boots into Hyper V for the first time the operating system is able to see all the hardware in the machine. We inject the drivers from the VMM library so that we know that there’s a consistent set available for every machine that we deploy to. After we’ve deployed drivers we now reboot the machine into the customization process, we use the unattend XML that is automatically inserted into the VHD and the machine is customized based on the settings from the host profile. ? Custom process machine also joins a domain in this example the Contoso domain is joined. And then finally we install the VMM agent and enable Hyper-V so that this bare metal machine then becomes a Hyper-V server and is now ready for use. You can either use it immediately as a stand alone host or you can then continue later on and add it to a cluster or as a highly available Hyper-V server. The final thing you’ll want to do though is run post deployment scripts which can be used to configure the teaming or configure additional storage options after the initial deployment.
So in VMM 2012 we’ve added the ability to allocate and manage storage arrays, we do this through an ability called SMI-S in order to talk to SMI-S you have to have an SMI-S provider installed that let’s us talk to a particular storage array. Once we can talk to the storage array we can create storage classifications and pools and associate the storage with those pools. We can then also allocate storage from these pools to specific host groups, we can then use that storage for assigning to hosts and clusters so that you can use them for creating clusters or creating VMs.
So in Service Pack one we made a number of enhancements in the area of storage for starters you can now deploy VMs using the VHDX format for the virtual hard disk. There are a number of enhancements in the VHDX format, they can be much larger than before so the skys goes up from 2 TB to 64 TB. There’s enhanced performance and more resiliency. We also now have the ability to add SMB file shares to hosts and clusters so that you can store your VMs that are running onto SMB shares and run these VMs off of these shares. These shares will be provided by Windows file server or mass devices that support SMB 3.0. We also have compatibility with synthetic fiber channel in the guest and we now support live storage migration this lets you move the VHD or VHDX that the running VM is using, you can move it from one storage location to another, this allows you to balance out your storage if one of your storage locations is becoming too full or if there is too high of an IO workload on one storage device you can migrate some of that workload to another storage device.
So in the area of networking we’ve also made a number of enhancements. So in 2012 we added the ability to model your network to logical networks. So this lets you in each part of your data center define what the network means there but give a common name that can be used to reference that data center because nobody that deploys a VM wants to connect that VM wot VLAN 5 they want to connect it to their corp network or their production network. So by doing this we let them access named entities to deploy their VM to that environment.
So Hyper-V network virtualization is a new capability in Windows Server 2012 where the network environment is virtualized in much of the same way as a server environment is virtualized in virtual machines. So with the virtual machines you can run multiple VMs on the same physical server so with network virtualization you can have multiple networks that are each independent with their own address base completely isolated from each other all on the same physical network. This is done through isolation in the Hyper-V switch and on the network the packets are encapsulated and on the network using a portal called NBGRE.
We’ve seen a big shift happen in the last year around where modeling the fabric isn’t enough there’s been a shift towards software defined networking. Software defined networking abstracts out the hardware in much the same way that a virtual machine abstracts out the hardware of your server for your compute, software defined networking abstracts out the control layers and how that network is exposed to the virtual machines so that it’s separate from the physical infrastructure. So we interact with Software Defined Networking in two ways, number one with Hyper-V network virtualization, this abstracts out the IP Address base for what the workloads of the virtual machines will be using and we also support an extensible virtual switch this is using the new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 which allows the virtual switch in Hyper-V to be extended using third party drivers. These extensions give additional capability to the switch all done through software without any enhancements required in your network environment. So in SP1 we’ve also added support for some of the other new capabilities of the Hyper-V extensible switch such as network policy and offloads these include SR-IOV, DHCP Guard, also bandwidth controls. So in order to expose these capabilities we’ve added a new concept called a VM network, a VM network is the layer that is presented to the virtual machine and the tenants of this environment. The VM network contains it’s own address space for network virtualized networks but you can also use a VM network for other isolation technologies such as VLANs or if the Hyper-V extensible switch has a reporting extension, reporting extension can also do it’s own form of isolation. So by exposing VM networks to VMs we now have a separation from what the virtual environment sees to what’s actually defined in the fabric.
Now we’ve made a number of enhancements in SP1 to clustering including managing the “possible/preferred owner” settings, these give you a preferred location to deploy your VM. In addition we’ve increased our scale to match the new capabilities in failover clustering and we’ve now added support for availability sets so these are availability sets you set up on your clusters so that when you deploy your VM we will respect those rules and ensure that the VMs are placed on the hosts that the availability sets have defined for them.
In SP1 we’ve enhanced the user roles and the clouds that we have in there to support a new role called tenant administrator. A tenant administrator is the one person or multiple people in an organization that keep track that the organization has used in a multi-tenant environment so this tenant admin is able to delegate the resources available to sub tenants or self service users. We expose this through our service provider foundation and ultimately up through to our portals. We’ve also increased the scale that’s available to these tenants as well.
Thank you again for watching this and I’ll see you next time.