This document summarizes a presentation on virtualization solutions from Microsoft and VMware. It provides an overview of key virtualization concepts and the benefits of virtualization. It then covers considerations for capacity planning and highlights features of virtualization management, high availability, live migration, monitoring and guest support in both Microsoft and VMware solutions. Maximum supported virtual machines, CPUs, RAM and versions are listed. The presentation concludes with emphasizing the importance of proper planning and analysis to determine the best virtualization platform and realize ROI/TCO benefits.

1. CDH
CDH Virtualization Smackdown
March 2012

2. CDH Quick Facts
About Us Approach Partnerships
• 22nd Year • Vendor • Microsoft Gold
• Grand Rapids & Independent • VMware Enterprise
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• 30 Staff • Professional • Novell Gold
Services Only • Cisco Premier

3. CDH Expertise

4. CDH CDH Talks Tech

5. CDH Meet Your Presenter
Jason W. Hamilton
Consultant
MCTIP:EA, MCTS, VCP, CSSA
JasonH@cdh.com

6. CDH Agenda
• Overview
– What is Virtualization?
• Benefits
• Considerations
• Capacity planning
• Solutions
– Microsoft
– VMware
• Comparison
– Guests, maximums, versions, features
• Summary

7. CDH Overview
• Virtualization
– Decoupling OS from underlying hardware
– Application isolation
• History
– IBM
– VMware
• Basics
– Hypervisor
• Type 1 & Type 2
– Resource sharing

8. CDH Benefits
• Hardware savings
• Reduction in power and cooling
• High availability
• Disaster recovery / business continuity
• Operational
– Server provisioning
– Snapshots

9. CDH Capacity Planning
• Determine current utilization
– CPU
– RAM
– Network
• Average, peak
– Storage
• Current space
• IOPS
• Plan for growth
• Determine candidates for consolidation
• Capacity planning tools
– VMware Capacity Planner
– Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

10. CDH Planning
• Planning tools
– VMware Capacity Planner
– Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

11. CDH Solutions

12. CDH Management
Virtual Machine Manager vCenter server
Library Resource pools
Templates High availability
Conversion tool Resource load balancing
Resource load balancing VMotion
Alerts

13. CDH Conversions
Virtual Machine Manager vCenter Converter
P2V/V2V P2V/V2V
Online/Offline Online/Offline
Hyper-V, SCVMM Memory state
ESXi
VMware workstation
• Conversion of physical server or existing virtual
machines to virtual infrastructure.
• Convert to virtual machine and then prepare with
customizations and tools for running on hypervisor.

14. CDH High Availability
Failover cluster vCenter server
Network heartbeat Network Heartbeat
File Share Witness Load balancing w/DRS
Preferred node – 16 nodes Restart priority
NIC team vSwitch
1. Monitor heartbeat of other hosts
2. Determine host failure has occurred
3. Restart virtual machines on other available hosts
4. Load balance VMs for best performance

15. CDH Resource Load Balancing
PRO Tips DRS/DPM
Operations Manager vCenter Server
Operations Manager monitors Automation levels
Critical / Warning Affinity rules
Auto shutdown/power on
1. Monitor performance of physical hosts and virtual
machines
2. Based on configured settings, thresholds, alerts –
resource balancing recommendations
3. Manually or automatically apply recommendation
and migrate virtual machine

16. CDH Live Migration
Live Migration VMotion
Quick Storage Migration Storage VMotion
1. Active memory copied to destination VM
2. Changes to memory pages tracked
3. Changes copied to destination VM
4. Virtual disks to new VM
5. ARP request to update location

17. CDH Monitoring and Alerting
Operations Manager vCenter server
Monitors Alarms
Host/VM/VMM Triggers / Action
Topology Maps
Performance graphs

18. CDH Additional Features
Configuration Manager Memory overcommit
Data Protection Manager Data recovery
Offline VM servicing tool Distributed switches
Quick Storage Migration Host profiles
VShield zones
VMsafe
Update manager
Capacity IQ
Chargeback
Lab manager

19. CDH Guest Support
Windows Srv 2000/2003/2008 Windows 3.1/95/98
Windows XP/Vista/7 Windows NT 4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Windows Srv 2000/2003/2008
10 /11
Red Hat Ent. Linux 5.2 – 5.5 Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
NetWare 5.1/6.0/6.5
Open Enterprise Server 2.0
SUSE Linux Ent. Desktop 10/11
SUSE Linux Ent. Srv 8/9/10/11
Oracle Ent. Linux 4/5
Red Hat Ent. Linux 3.1 – 5.4
Solaris 8/9/10
FreeBSD/Ubuntu/Debian

20. CDH Maximums
Host
CPU 4 / 8 / 64 160
RAM 32GB (Std) or 2TB 2 TB
VMs 384 512
NICs “Unlimited” 32
Guests
vCPU 4 32
RAM 64 GB 1 TB

21. CDH Versions
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 vSphere Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 STD Advanced
Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Plus
Datacenter
(now SP1) ESXi
Windows licensing for virtualization
1 Enterprise  4 Enterprise
1 Datacenter  Unlimited Datacenter

22. CDH Virtual Desktop
VDI View
XP Virtualization Broker
Med-V Composer
App-V ThinApp

23. CDH Application Virtualization
App-V (Softgrid) ThinApp

24. CDH Summary
• Proper planning & analysis is key
– Numerous vendors have analysis tools
available
• Understand your workloads
• Properly scale hardware & storage
• Objectives and integration are key to
determining a platform
• ROI/TCO
– VMware virtualization TCO / ROI calculator
– Microsoft virtualization ROI calculator

25. CDH Thank You
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