SharePoint 2010 can be successfully virtualized using Microsoft's virtualization platforms and third-party virtualization products that are part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program. Microsoft provides guidelines for virtualizing SharePoint farms and roles including front-end web servers, application servers, and database servers. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 allows for quick provisioning of SharePoint farms from templates.
In this presentation I’ll be discussing the following beginner points to understanding and creating monitoring.
* Why Monitor?
* What’s the minimum to Monitor?
* How to monitor?
* Monitoring Software Options.
* How to use the most basic of monitoring to help
* The basics of graphing results
* The rule of Everything
* The important on Application metrics and timings
For a very little investment in time, simple monitoring can be in place, and I can guarantee it will be of benefit to any system.
The basis of monitoring are metrics that combined with application measurements can provide trending insights, bottleneck understanding and provide valuable feedback about your growing site.
Master VMware Performance and Capacity ManagementIwan Rahabok
12 Sep 2016 update: See this http://virtual-red-dot.info/operationalize-sddc-program-2/ for details.
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Based on the book http://virtual-red-dot.info/performance-and-capacity-management/
Master performance and capacity management of VMware SDDC
This is a level 200 - 300 presentation.
It assumes:
Good understanding of vCenter 4, ESX 4, ESXi 4.
Preferably hands-on
We will only cover the delta between 4.1 and 4.0
Overview understanding of related products like VUM, Data Recovery, SRM, View, Nexus, Chargeback, CapacityIQ, vShieldZones, etc
Good understanding of related storage, server, network technology
Target audience
VMware Specialist: SE + Delivery from partners
Presented by Michael NOEL, this session focuses on SharePoint Server 2010 farm virtualization, and how components of a SharePoint 2010 environment can be successfully virtualized.
SharePoint Saturday Vietnam 22/01/11 was sponsored by Officience. Visit http://www.officience.com/
In this presentation I’ll be discussing the following beginner points to understanding and creating monitoring.
* Why Monitor?
* What’s the minimum to Monitor?
* How to monitor?
* Monitoring Software Options.
* How to use the most basic of monitoring to help
* The basics of graphing results
* The rule of Everything
* The important on Application metrics and timings
For a very little investment in time, simple monitoring can be in place, and I can guarantee it will be of benefit to any system.
The basis of monitoring are metrics that combined with application measurements can provide trending insights, bottleneck understanding and provide valuable feedback about your growing site.
Master VMware Performance and Capacity ManagementIwan Rahabok
12 Sep 2016 update: See this http://virtual-red-dot.info/operationalize-sddc-program-2/ for details.
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Based on the book http://virtual-red-dot.info/performance-and-capacity-management/
Master performance and capacity management of VMware SDDC
This is a level 200 - 300 presentation.
It assumes:
Good understanding of vCenter 4, ESX 4, ESXi 4.
Preferably hands-on
We will only cover the delta between 4.1 and 4.0
Overview understanding of related products like VUM, Data Recovery, SRM, View, Nexus, Chargeback, CapacityIQ, vShieldZones, etc
Good understanding of related storage, server, network technology
Target audience
VMware Specialist: SE + Delivery from partners
Presented by Michael NOEL, this session focuses on SharePoint Server 2010 farm virtualization, and how components of a SharePoint 2010 environment can be successfully virtualized.
SharePoint Saturday Vietnam 22/01/11 was sponsored by Officience. Visit http://www.officience.com/
Hpe service virtualization 3.8 what's new chicago admJeffrey Nunn
Service Virtualization is an HPE branded solution that helps simulate and emulate the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications such as API-driven apps, ERP apps, cloud-based apps, and web services/service-oriented architectures (SOA).
Value Proposition
Empowers developers and testers to easily automate, predict, accelerate and scale their application testing and delivery through virtualization and simulation of dependent components and services that are either off limits, unavailable, inaccessible, or with costly fees to access.
Nano Server - the future of Windows Server - Thomas MaurerITCamp
Nano Server is the future of Windows Server. With Nano Server Microsoft created the foundation for Windows Server for the next 20 year. In this session you will get an overview about Nano Server and see some great live demos how you can deploy, manage and operate Nano Server as well as creating applications for it.
Get a better understanding of Nano Server and see how you deploy, manage and operate it.
Consolidation, cloud privé, cloud public, SQL As A Service etc. sont autant de scénarios de virtualisation possibles avec SQL Server. Cette session reposera les règles de bon usage de ce type de déploiement et les scénarios clés. Nous reviendrons sur quelques-unes des « Lessons learned from Azure ».
Combatting Cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender 365 - CollabDays Finland 2023Michael Noel
As presented at CollabDays Finland, Helsinki, 2023-09-09
The dramatic rise in the number and severity of cyber-threats faced by organizations today has led to a proliferation of countermeasure IT security tool-sets. In many cases, these security tools operate independently from each other and can lead to siloed alerting and monitoring making it difficult for IT staff to effectively identify threats and mitigate them before they become major issues.
Microsoft Defender 365 suite of cloud security tools consolidates multiple security tool-sets under a single management interface and provides for end-to-end security, allowing administrators to quickly identify and contain threats. Rather than constantly being on the defensive, Defender 365 provides for the ability to proactively hunt for vulnerabilities and potential bad actors while they are still making lateral moves within your environment, allowing IT cybersecurity the ability to stay one step ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers.
This session takes an in-depth look at the tools that are part of the Microsoft Defender 365 suite, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity and more. Discover how to better control, audit, and manage your organization’s data in both the cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Explore the various tool-sets and capabilities built into Microsoft 365 Defender, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality, endpoint threat detection and management, and sophisticated on-premises real-time threat prevention tools.
• Examine how real-time threats can overwhelm more traditional threat management systems and how an intuitive ‘single pane of glass’ view of threat detection and management can greatly improve the odds of stopping sophisticated cyberattacks.
• Understand how Microsoft licensing for Microsoft Defender 365 is structured and how you can take advantage of these security tools for little or even no cost in some scenarios.
You are Doing IT Security Wrong - Understanding the Threat of Modern Cyber-at...Michael Noel
Organizations today are vastly unprepared for the threat of modern cyber-attacks. At the same time, the attackers are becoming more sophisticated and the amount of resources at their disposal is increasing. It has become a lucrative business to hack, disrupt, and steal intellectual property from organizations of all sizes and in all business sectors.
While the attackers are becoming more sophisticated, organizations have their IT security positioned for threats from the past century, with poor password management techniques, simple ACL based file permissions, and basic firewall and zone-based containment techniques. This makes it easier for attackers to obtain access to critical intellectual property and makes career-ruining disruptions all the more common.
This session focuses on understanding what is currently wrong with IT security practices and how your organization can change processes, techniques, and tools to provide for a significantly higher level of IT security without necessarily having to implement expensive tools or obtrusive processes.
• Understand the pitfalls of current IT Security practices, including myths around password change policies, allowing logins without providing multiple factors, and the proliferation of ‘always-on’ admin rights.
• Examine how simple changes in IT strategy can greatly improve your overall IT posture, including providing for up to a 99% improvement in the likelihood of a data credential theft.
• Determine which easy to deploy tools and features which you may already be licensed for can be used to tighten up IT security within an environment, including solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Cloud App Security, next-generation firewalls, and more.
Securing IT Against Modern Threats with Microsoft Cloud Security Tools - M365...Michael Noel
Organizations today are facing unprecedented and sophisticated attacks to their internal Information Technology infrastructure. These evolving attacks include spear phishing, ransomware, credential hijacking, and more and can result in significant data loss and/or theft of confidential and valuable intellectual property. In response to these threats, Microsoft has released an array of tools such as Azure Sentinel, Cloud App Security, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and more which can help to secure and protect against these threats. These tools work with both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure to provide for comprehensive protection of hybrid environments.
This session breaks down each of these Microsoft tools and provides for an understanding of their value for specific security scenarios. A simple, no-marketing approach is taken to evaluating each individual tool, and a simple breakdown of what is provided with each Microsoft licensing model is outlined. Attendees will gain a better appreciation to which tools to utilize and how to better protect their Information Technology investments from the type of career-ending attacks which are unfortunately common today.
• Understand how modern threats such as spear phishing, ransomware, credential hijacking, and more are commonly faced in today’s IT environments and what tools and techniques can be used to mitigate the risk faced by these modern threats
• Examine Microsoft security tools such as Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Cloud App Security, Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, Azure AD Identity Protection, Azure Information Protection, and more
• Understand which tools are available for each licensing model in the Microsoft world and when it may make sense to ‘upgrade’ existing licenses to support specific toolsets as opposed to investment in third-party tools
Understanding the Tools and Features of Office 365 - New Zealand Digital Work...Michael Noel
As presented at the New Zealand Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland, May 1st, 2018
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organisations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well-known tools such as Power BI, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Flow, Delve, Stream, MyAnalytics and many more which are added on a continual basis.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs. It examines the overall Office 365 licensing options and compares the internal tools with other common industry tools to help business decision makers to get the most out of their licensing.
Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Groups, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and much more
Determine what type of license is required for your organisation based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
Compare Office 365 native tools with other similar industry tools to better understand what type of cost savings can be realized through the platform.
AUDWC 2016 - Using SQL Server 20146 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for SharePoi...Michael Noel
SQL Server 2016 provides for unprecedented high availability and disaster recovery options for SharePoint farms in the form of AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Using this new technology, SharePoint architects can provide for near-instant failover at the data tier, without the risk of any data loss. In addition, the latest version of this technology, available with SQL Server 2016, allows for replicas of SharePoint databases to be stored in the cloud in Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering. This technology, which will be demonstrated live, completely changes the data tier design options for SharePoint and revolutionises high availability options for a farm. This session covers in step-by-step detail the exact configuration required to enable this functionality for a SharePoint 2013 farm, based on the best practices, tips and tricks, and real-world experience of the presenter in deploying this technology in production.
Understand the differences between SQL AlwaysOn options, and determine the requirements to deploy the technologies
Examine how SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can provide aggressive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of a few seconds.
See the exact steps required to enable SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for a SharePoint 2013 On-Premises environment, including options for storing replicas in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.
Understanding Office 365 Service Offerings - O365 Saturday Sydney 2015Michael Noel
Version of the presentation given at Office365 Saturday Sydney on 12 June, 2015. Contains licensing info in AUD.
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth in recent months, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organizations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well known services such as OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business that make Microsoft’s cloud offering even more tempting for IT decision makers.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Office Web App, and the Office 2013 client suite
• Determine what type of license is required for your organization based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
• Review key decision points to make when considering an Office 365 deployment such as whether or not to provide Single Sign On to the platform with an internal Active Directory environment, data retention decisions, and migration options
2. Michael Noel Author of SAMS Publishing titles “SharePoint 2010 Unleashed,” “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed,” “SharePoint 2003 Unleashed”, “Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes,” “Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed,” “Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed”, “ISA Server 2006 Unleashed”, and many other titles . Partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com / +1(510)444-5700) – San Francisco Bay Area based Infrastructure/Security specialists for SharePoint, AD, Exchange, Security
3. What we will cover Why Virtualize? SharePoint 2010 Virtualization Guidelines and Models Virtualization of SharePoint Roles Virtualization of SQL Server Memory Limitations and Guidelines for Guests Microsoft Virtualization Software Options Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Third Party Virtualization Product Support Microsoft Licensing for Virtual Servers Demo: Quick Farm Provisioning with VMM 2008 R2
22. NUMA Memory Limitations and Guidelines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Boundaries exist at the hardware level. Virtual guests that are allocated more memory than exist within a single NUMA memory boundary have significantly impacted performance NUMA boundaries vary by processor and motherboard vendor, but good rule of thumb to calculate boundaries is to divide the amount of memory in the system by the total number of cores. i.e. Dual Quad-core host (2x4 cores = 8 cores) with 64GB of RAM on the host would mean NUMA boundary is 64/8 or 8GB. In this example, allocating more than 8GB for a single guest session would result in performance drops.
23. NUMA Memory Limitations and Guidelines Keeping NUMA boundaries in mind, this means that you will get significantly better performance provisioning two SharePoint front-ends with half the amount of RAM as a single front-end with twice as much RAM. This applies to any virtualization platform, as the limitation is hardware specific. NUMA allocation specifics will vary by vendor, however. Refer to MS Whitepaper on Virtualization of SharePoint (http://tinyurl.com/virtualsp) for more specifics.
27. Virtualization Performance MonitoringCollect Performance Data Manually with Perfmon counters Collect data over a week minimum to look for trends throughout the week Use to help prove performance problems are not because of virtualization Consider using System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 for long-term performance analysis and threshold alerting
28. Virtualization Performance MonitoringPerformance Counters and Thresholds on Hosts and Guests Network Bandwidth – Bytes Total/sec <40% Utilization = Good 41%-64% = Caution >65% = Trouble Network Latency - Output Queue Length 0 = Good 1-2= OK >2 = Trouble Processor (Host Only) <60% Utilization = Good 60%-90% = Caution >90% = Trouble Available Memory 50% and above = Good 10%-50% = OK <10% = Trouble Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read or Avg. Disk sec/Write Up to 15ms = fine 15ms-25ms = Caution >25ms = Trouble
30. Microsoft Support of SharePoint Virtualization Microsoft’s official SharePoint support stance is that any SharePoint role or service is supported for hardware virtualization, including SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, or SQL Server 2008 R2. There are only three requirements for virtualization that must be satisfied, these are as follows: Hardware-assisted virtualization, which is available in processors that include a virtualization option—specifically processors with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology. Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is available and enabled. Either deployed on Microsoft Hyper-V (RTM or R2 version) or a validated third-party hypervisor that is part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) – KB 897615
31. What does this mean for SharePoint on Third party? SharePoint supported on VMware ESX/ESXi, Citrix XenServer, or others in the SVVP This only covers Hypervisor products, so excludes products such as VMware Workstation or VMWare Server
35. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Virtualization Host and Guest Management Platform Part of the System Center Management Suite, which includes the following: System Center Operations Manager 2007 System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 System Center Mobile Device Manager 2007 System Center Essentials 2007 System Center Capacity Planner 2007 System Center Service Manager 2010
36. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 New version out (VMM 2008 R2) VMM 2008 R2 has P2V (Physical to virtual migration) and V2V (VMware Guest migration to Hyper-V) tools For SharePoint, allows for creation of SharePoint template servers that can be quickly provisioned for test farms or for new farm members in production Can manage both Hyper-V and VMware guests (though must ‘go through’ a Virtual Center server to manage VMware guests.) Self-Service Portal allows end users and remote admins to be able to provision their own virtual machines based on templates
37. Quick SP2010 Farm Provisioning with VMM 2008 R2 Create new Virtual Guest (Windows Server 2008 R2) Install SP2010 Binaries. Stop before running Config Wizard Turn Virtual Guest into Template, modify template to allow it to be added into domain Add PowerShell script to run on first login, allowing SP to be added into farm or to create new farm Voila! 15 minute entire farm provisioning…
41. Virtualized Farm ArchitectureMicrosoft Virtualization Licensing Primer Windows Server Virtualization Licensing Standard Edition: One virtual guest (if host is dedicated to virtualization role) Enterprise Edition: Four virtual guests (if host is dedicated to virtualization role) / Guests can be Std/Ent DataCenter Edition: Unlimited Number of Virtual Guests / Per processor socket license Virtualization OS licensing applies to Hyper-V or any virtual host software listed in SVVP (KB 897615) System Center Virtualization Licensing System Center Management Suite Standard Edition License: Gives DPM, OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, and VMM Agents for 1 server. System Center Management Suite Enterprise Edition License: Gives unlimited DPM, OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, and VMM Agents for all virtual guests on the host. Check with Microsoft for Specifics…
42. Microsoft Virtualization Guest Licensing Model Guests can run any combination of downlevel licenses (i.e. Datacenter host, Ent or Std edition guests) Applies not only to OSes running virtualized with Windows Virtualization, but it also applies to 3rd party virtualization as well!
43. Session Takeaways Understand the architecture options for SharePoint 2010 Consider Virtualization for SharePoint, but architect host and guest environments very carefully. Best performance comes from dedicated virtual hosts, dedicated passthrough NICs, and dedicated passthrough disks and by not overcommitting resources. KB897615 outlines MS Support for 3rd Party Virtualization such as VMware and XenServer… Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V technology gives high performance and is a very cost competitive option MS Licensing has new virtualization support, and Datacenter edition will provide for unlimited guests under a single host.
44. For More Information SharePoint 2007 Unleashed and SharePoint 2010 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing) (http://www.samspublishing.com) Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed and/or Hyper-V Unleashed (http://www.samspublishing.com) Microsoft ‘Virtualizing SharePoint Infrastructure’ Whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/virtualsp) Microsoft ‘Virtualizing SQL Server’ Whitepaper (http://tinyyurl.com/virtualsql) Microsoft SQL Mirroring Case Study http://tinyurl.com/mirrorsp Failover Mirror PowerShell Script http://tinyurl.com/failovermirrorsp Microsoft Edge Videos on Virtualization of SharePoint: http://tinyurl.com/edgenoel2 http://tinyurl.com/edgenoel3 Contact us at CCO.com