This document discusses virtualizing server infrastructure for SharePoint environments. It begins by outlining benefits of virtualization like reducing costs, consolidating servers, and optimizing investments. It then discusses specific SharePoint components that are good candidates for virtualization like web servers, query servers, and index servers. It provides guidelines on memory limitations and virtualizing development, test, and production environments. It also discusses virtualization software options from Microsoft and third parties and Microsoft licensing implications. Finally it shares some sample virtualized SharePoint environments.
www.doubletake.com Data Protection Strategies for Virtualizationwebhostingguy
This document discusses data protection strategies for virtualization using Double-Take software. It provides an overview of Double-Take and how it enables real-time replication for virtual machines. It outlines the business benefits of virtualization such as reduced costs, improved resource utilization, and streamlined disaster recovery. It also describes how Double-Take can be used to replicate virtual machines for high availability and disaster recovery purposes.
This document provides an overview of SQL Server clustering. SQL Server clustering uses Microsoft clustering services (MSCS) to set up a highly available Windows cluster for mission critical databases. There are two main failover configurations - active/passive where only one node is active and active/active where both nodes are active. The top three challenges to implementing a cluster are managing CPU, memory, and disk resources to allow for failover without degrading performance. Proper planning and design is important to ensure a smooth clustered SQL Server environment.
This document provides an overview of server virtualization and its benefits for Madison Plains Local School District. It discusses how virtualization can help lower costs by consolidating servers and improving hardware utilization. Specific benefits mentioned include reducing the number of physical servers needed, lowering power consumption, gaining hardware independence for virtual machines, and isolating virtual machines for improved security. The document also shows how most applications see performance on par with physical machines when run virtually. It promotes developing a plan that assesses the current infrastructure and provides a roadmap for virtualizing servers.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
VMGate.com
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Virtual Solution for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
This document describes a virtualization solution for running Microsoft SQL Server using VMware Infrastructure 3 and EMC Celerra IP Storage servers. The solution provides benefits like high availability, scalability, and maintaining performance. It ensures SQL Server environments remain available and can grow easily. Virtualizing SQL Server reduces complexity, improves flexibility and reliability of the infrastructure, and allows for simple disaster recovery and provisioning of new resources. The solution consists of VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualization, EMC Celerra IP storage servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Compare Clustering Methods for MS SQL ServerAlexDepo
Clustering is very important technology for High Availability and it is important for DBA to understand benefits and pitfalls. With very few available techniques and a lot of gray areas right decision might help to avoid extra costs. Presentation is unveiling clustering basics, reviews and compares clustering technologies including Microsoft, XCOTO Gridscale, and HP PolyserveMatrix. This presentation can be helpful not only to beginners but to intermediate level DBAs and infrastructure managers.
Virtualization can help reduce costs, increase business continuity, and create a more agile database infrastructure. It allows consolidating physical servers onto fewer virtual servers to reduce hardware, software, and operational costs. Virtualization also makes it easier to implement high availability strategies to ensure business continuity and minimize planned and unplanned downtime. Additionally, virtualization increases agility by enabling simpler and faster deployment of database servers as well as dynamic scaling of resources based on business needs.
www.doubletake.com Data Protection Strategies for Virtualizationwebhostingguy
This document discusses data protection strategies for virtualization using Double-Take software. It provides an overview of Double-Take and how it enables real-time replication for virtual machines. It outlines the business benefits of virtualization such as reduced costs, improved resource utilization, and streamlined disaster recovery. It also describes how Double-Take can be used to replicate virtual machines for high availability and disaster recovery purposes.
This document provides an overview of SQL Server clustering. SQL Server clustering uses Microsoft clustering services (MSCS) to set up a highly available Windows cluster for mission critical databases. There are two main failover configurations - active/passive where only one node is active and active/active where both nodes are active. The top three challenges to implementing a cluster are managing CPU, memory, and disk resources to allow for failover without degrading performance. Proper planning and design is important to ensure a smooth clustered SQL Server environment.
This document provides an overview of server virtualization and its benefits for Madison Plains Local School District. It discusses how virtualization can help lower costs by consolidating servers and improving hardware utilization. Specific benefits mentioned include reducing the number of physical servers needed, lowering power consumption, gaining hardware independence for virtual machines, and isolating virtual machines for improved security. The document also shows how most applications see performance on par with physical machines when run virtually. It promotes developing a plan that assesses the current infrastructure and provides a roadmap for virtualizing servers.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
VMGate.com
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Virtual Solution for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
This document describes a virtualization solution for running Microsoft SQL Server using VMware Infrastructure 3 and EMC Celerra IP Storage servers. The solution provides benefits like high availability, scalability, and maintaining performance. It ensures SQL Server environments remain available and can grow easily. Virtualizing SQL Server reduces complexity, improves flexibility and reliability of the infrastructure, and allows for simple disaster recovery and provisioning of new resources. The solution consists of VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualization, EMC Celerra IP storage servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Compare Clustering Methods for MS SQL ServerAlexDepo
Clustering is very important technology for High Availability and it is important for DBA to understand benefits and pitfalls. With very few available techniques and a lot of gray areas right decision might help to avoid extra costs. Presentation is unveiling clustering basics, reviews and compares clustering technologies including Microsoft, XCOTO Gridscale, and HP PolyserveMatrix. This presentation can be helpful not only to beginners but to intermediate level DBAs and infrastructure managers.
Virtualization can help reduce costs, increase business continuity, and create a more agile database infrastructure. It allows consolidating physical servers onto fewer virtual servers to reduce hardware, software, and operational costs. Virtualization also makes it easier to implement high availability strategies to ensure business continuity and minimize planned and unplanned downtime. Additionally, virtualization increases agility by enabling simpler and faster deployment of database servers as well as dynamic scaling of resources based on business needs.
The document outlines features and capabilities of Windows Server 2012 R2 including file and storage services, networking, clustering, Hyper-V, Windows PowerShell, remote desktop services, and directory services and security. It discusses new capabilities and enhancements in areas such as SMB, storage spaces, data deduplication, Hyper-V, and Active Directory. The presentation aims to provide an overview of the key components and updates in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Real world experience with provisioning servicesCitrix
If you use Citrix NetScaler for secure remote access to your Citrix XenApp/Citrix XenDesktop deployment, you may be wondering if there’s more that it can do. You are correct! NetScaler also offers load balancing, global server load balancing, web interface integration, HDX traffic inspection and much more. It can enhance Citrix ShareFile StorageZones and Citrix mobile deployments. Join this session for a quick NetScaler refresher.
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables consolidation of multiple SQL Server instances onto fewer servers and centralized storage. It provides high availability, virtualization-like flexibility, scalable capacity allocation, and instance mobility. Key features include an adaptive SQL platform, consolidated data management, and high availability for mission-critical applications. It goes beyond consolidation and failovers to meet Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it ideal for database consolidation.
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V includes several new features that improve virtual machine migration capabilities. Live Migration can now leverage SMB Direct to provide accelerated memory copy between hosts. Virtual machines can also be cloned while running or migrated between Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with zero downtime. In addition, storage quality of service metrics allow limiting storage throughput per virtual machine.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for configuring distributed data center virtualization using Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2, Sanbolic's Melio File System, and Microsoft Clustering Services. Key steps include installing required software, configuring a two-node Microsoft Clustering Services cluster, creating virtual machines and storage on a SAN, and configuring resources to allow active virtual machines to migrate across physical hosts while maintaining access to shared storage.
1. The document highlights top features of Windows Server 2012 for storage, security, access control, and Hyper-V including file system improvements, thin provisioning, dynamic access control, shared-nothing live migration, and support for up to 320 logical processors and 4 TB of physical memory on a single host.
2. New features allow for improved storage management, centralized SSL management, network virtualization, and dynamic virtual machine queue management.
3. Windows Server 2012 provides enhanced security features such as classification, direct access, private virtual LANs, and multitenant security and isolation in Active Directory.
The VSA provides shared storage for SMB customers without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. It deploys virtual storage appliances on each ESXi host that replicate data across hosts, providing resilience to failures. The VSA manager in vCenter automates deployment and management of the VSA cluster, mounting NFS datastores for use across all ESXi hosts. This allows features like vMotion and HA without a dedicated storage device.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
Citrix PVS Advanced memory and storage considerations for provisioning servicesNuno Alves
This document discusses memory considerations for Citrix Provisioning Services deployments. It explains how Windows handles memory, specifically the system cache which caches file data in RAM for improved performance. The size of the system cache affects storage performance. The document recommends calculating how much data is typically read from shared vDisks by target devices in order to determine the appropriate amount of RAM needed in Provisioning Services servers and target devices for caching this data in memory rather than reading it from disk. This improves performance by reducing disk read I/O operations.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V server overviewaboobakar sanjar
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single machine by dividing the physical hardware resources into virtual machines. Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization technology built into Windows Server. It uses a hypervisor to allocate resources to guest VMs. Benefits include reduced costs, high availability, centralized management, and increased efficiency. Hardware requirements include virtualization support from the CPU and enabled data execution prevention. Key Hyper-V components include virtual switches, virtual hard disks (VHD/VHDX files), and child partitions.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
** Edureka Certification Training: https://www.edureka.co **
This Edureka "VMware Tutorial for Beginners” video will give you a thorough and insightful overview of Virtualization and help you understand other related terms that revolve around VMware and Virtualization. Following are the offering of this video:
1. What is VMware?
2. What is Virtualization?
3. Types Of Virtualization
4. What Is Hypervisor?
5. Hypervisor Types
6. Demo- Creating a VM using VMware Workstation Player
1) The document discusses three main techniques for virtualizing the x86 CPU: full virtualization using binary translation, OS-assisted virtualization (paravirtualization), and hardware-assisted virtualization.
2) Full virtualization using binary translation allows any x86 OS to run virtualized without modification but has more overhead than other techniques. Paravirtualization requires OS modifications to replace privileged instructions but has lower overhead. Hardware assistance traps privileged instructions to the hypervisor with less overhead but was rigid in early implementations.
3) The document compares the techniques and notes that VMware uses all three, balancing performance and functionality for different workloads and hardware.
Hyper-V’s Virtualization Enhancements - EPC GroupEPC Group
This document discusses new features and enhancements in Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server 2012. It addresses industry trends driving changes in IT including new apps, device proliferation, data explosion, and cloud computing. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V aims to scale workloads cost effectively, build private clouds, and securely connect to cloud services. New features allow for improved scalability and performance including support for 64 virtual processors and 1TB RAM per VM. It also improves connectivity through features like shared nothing live migration, network virtualization, and identity federation across clouds. These enhancements help organizations respond quickly to business needs, control costs, and connect datacenters securely.
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.
Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
- ESXi no longer includes a Service Console. Configuration is done through ESXi Shell, vCLI, and PowerCLI commands.
- ESXi uses a single text-based installer for fresh installations and upgrades.
- vSphere Auto Deploy and ESXi Image Builder CLI allow deploying ESXi directly to memory.
- Partitions use GPT format for new installations over 2TB instead of MSDOS. VMFS5 is used.
- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
The document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by Tier 1 Research on the market for Windows-based shared hosting. 22 hosting providers were interviewed, ranging from under 10k customers to over 100k. Key findings included that 65% of customers currently use Unix-based hosting compared to 35% for Windows, but new customers are signing up for Windows and Unix packages at around the same rate. Windows hosting is expected to reach 40% market share by early 2004. Drivers for Windows hosting included Microsoft applications like FrontPage and ASP, while inhibitors were Microsoft's licensing model and perceptions of poorer scalability and security for Windows. The document also recapped recent Microsoft announcements and initiatives related to growing their infrastructure business.
Kenny Morris presented at the 2009 AAMGA Automation Conference on server virtualization at CRC Insurance Services. Some key points:
- CRC has 170 servers, with 70% in a central datacenter and 25% virtualized.
- Virtualization has reduced physical servers by 20 in one year and allows for disaster recovery by restoring physical servers as virtual servers.
- Benefits of virtualization include server consolidation, lower costs, faster deployment, improved disaster recovery, and reduced administration.
- Virtualization options for Windows include VMWare ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and free Hyper-V server. Desktop virtualization can be done through client-hosted, streaming, or server-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure
Mod_perl brings together the Apache web server and Perl programming language. It allows Apache to be configured and extended using Perl, and significantly accelerates dynamic Perl content. Mod_perl supports Apache versions 1.3 and 2.x and integrates Perl at every stage of the request process to provide great flexibility and control over Apache functionality. The mod_perl community provides extensive documentation and quick support responses.
This document provides guidance on licensing Microsoft server products, like Windows Server and SQL Server, in virtual hosting scenarios using Hyper-V. It outlines 6 common hosting scenarios and the licensing implications of each. It also discusses how Microsoft System Center products can help manage virtual environments and the associated licensing. Key scenarios covered include unmanaged dedicated servers, virtual dedicated servers, shared hosting, and using desktop systems or end-customer licenses as Hyper-V guests.
The document outlines features and capabilities of Windows Server 2012 R2 including file and storage services, networking, clustering, Hyper-V, Windows PowerShell, remote desktop services, and directory services and security. It discusses new capabilities and enhancements in areas such as SMB, storage spaces, data deduplication, Hyper-V, and Active Directory. The presentation aims to provide an overview of the key components and updates in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Real world experience with provisioning servicesCitrix
If you use Citrix NetScaler for secure remote access to your Citrix XenApp/Citrix XenDesktop deployment, you may be wondering if there’s more that it can do. You are correct! NetScaler also offers load balancing, global server load balancing, web interface integration, HDX traffic inspection and much more. It can enhance Citrix ShareFile StorageZones and Citrix mobile deployments. Join this session for a quick NetScaler refresher.
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables consolidation of multiple SQL Server instances onto fewer servers and centralized storage. It provides high availability, virtualization-like flexibility, scalable capacity allocation, and instance mobility. Key features include an adaptive SQL platform, consolidated data management, and high availability for mission-critical applications. It goes beyond consolidation and failovers to meet Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it ideal for database consolidation.
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V includes several new features that improve virtual machine migration capabilities. Live Migration can now leverage SMB Direct to provide accelerated memory copy between hosts. Virtual machines can also be cloned while running or migrated between Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with zero downtime. In addition, storage quality of service metrics allow limiting storage throughput per virtual machine.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for configuring distributed data center virtualization using Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2, Sanbolic's Melio File System, and Microsoft Clustering Services. Key steps include installing required software, configuring a two-node Microsoft Clustering Services cluster, creating virtual machines and storage on a SAN, and configuring resources to allow active virtual machines to migrate across physical hosts while maintaining access to shared storage.
1. The document highlights top features of Windows Server 2012 for storage, security, access control, and Hyper-V including file system improvements, thin provisioning, dynamic access control, shared-nothing live migration, and support for up to 320 logical processors and 4 TB of physical memory on a single host.
2. New features allow for improved storage management, centralized SSL management, network virtualization, and dynamic virtual machine queue management.
3. Windows Server 2012 provides enhanced security features such as classification, direct access, private virtual LANs, and multitenant security and isolation in Active Directory.
The VSA provides shared storage for SMB customers without requiring a separate SAN or NAS device. It deploys virtual storage appliances on each ESXi host that replicate data across hosts, providing resilience to failures. The VSA manager in vCenter automates deployment and management of the VSA cluster, mounting NFS datastores for use across all ESXi hosts. This allows features like vMotion and HA without a dedicated storage device.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
Citrix PVS Advanced memory and storage considerations for provisioning servicesNuno Alves
This document discusses memory considerations for Citrix Provisioning Services deployments. It explains how Windows handles memory, specifically the system cache which caches file data in RAM for improved performance. The size of the system cache affects storage performance. The document recommends calculating how much data is typically read from shared vDisks by target devices in order to determine the appropriate amount of RAM needed in Provisioning Services servers and target devices for caching this data in memory rather than reading it from disk. This improves performance by reducing disk read I/O operations.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V server overviewaboobakar sanjar
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single machine by dividing the physical hardware resources into virtual machines. Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization technology built into Windows Server. It uses a hypervisor to allocate resources to guest VMs. Benefits include reduced costs, high availability, centralized management, and increased efficiency. Hardware requirements include virtualization support from the CPU and enabled data execution prevention. Key Hyper-V components include virtual switches, virtual hard disks (VHD/VHDX files), and child partitions.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
** Edureka Certification Training: https://www.edureka.co **
This Edureka "VMware Tutorial for Beginners” video will give you a thorough and insightful overview of Virtualization and help you understand other related terms that revolve around VMware and Virtualization. Following are the offering of this video:
1. What is VMware?
2. What is Virtualization?
3. Types Of Virtualization
4. What Is Hypervisor?
5. Hypervisor Types
6. Demo- Creating a VM using VMware Workstation Player
1) The document discusses three main techniques for virtualizing the x86 CPU: full virtualization using binary translation, OS-assisted virtualization (paravirtualization), and hardware-assisted virtualization.
2) Full virtualization using binary translation allows any x86 OS to run virtualized without modification but has more overhead than other techniques. Paravirtualization requires OS modifications to replace privileged instructions but has lower overhead. Hardware assistance traps privileged instructions to the hypervisor with less overhead but was rigid in early implementations.
3) The document compares the techniques and notes that VMware uses all three, balancing performance and functionality for different workloads and hardware.
Hyper-V’s Virtualization Enhancements - EPC GroupEPC Group
This document discusses new features and enhancements in Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server 2012. It addresses industry trends driving changes in IT including new apps, device proliferation, data explosion, and cloud computing. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V aims to scale workloads cost effectively, build private clouds, and securely connect to cloud services. New features allow for improved scalability and performance including support for 64 virtual processors and 1TB RAM per VM. It also improves connectivity through features like shared nothing live migration, network virtualization, and identity federation across clouds. These enhancements help organizations respond quickly to business needs, control costs, and connect datacenters securely.
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.
Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
- ESXi no longer includes a Service Console. Configuration is done through ESXi Shell, vCLI, and PowerCLI commands.
- ESXi uses a single text-based installer for fresh installations and upgrades.
- vSphere Auto Deploy and ESXi Image Builder CLI allow deploying ESXi directly to memory.
- Partitions use GPT format for new installations over 2TB instead of MSDOS. VMFS5 is used.
- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
The document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by Tier 1 Research on the market for Windows-based shared hosting. 22 hosting providers were interviewed, ranging from under 10k customers to over 100k. Key findings included that 65% of customers currently use Unix-based hosting compared to 35% for Windows, but new customers are signing up for Windows and Unix packages at around the same rate. Windows hosting is expected to reach 40% market share by early 2004. Drivers for Windows hosting included Microsoft applications like FrontPage and ASP, while inhibitors were Microsoft's licensing model and perceptions of poorer scalability and security for Windows. The document also recapped recent Microsoft announcements and initiatives related to growing their infrastructure business.
Kenny Morris presented at the 2009 AAMGA Automation Conference on server virtualization at CRC Insurance Services. Some key points:
- CRC has 170 servers, with 70% in a central datacenter and 25% virtualized.
- Virtualization has reduced physical servers by 20 in one year and allows for disaster recovery by restoring physical servers as virtual servers.
- Benefits of virtualization include server consolidation, lower costs, faster deployment, improved disaster recovery, and reduced administration.
- Virtualization options for Windows include VMWare ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and free Hyper-V server. Desktop virtualization can be done through client-hosted, streaming, or server-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure
Mod_perl brings together the Apache web server and Perl programming language. It allows Apache to be configured and extended using Perl, and significantly accelerates dynamic Perl content. Mod_perl supports Apache versions 1.3 and 2.x and integrates Perl at every stage of the request process to provide great flexibility and control over Apache functionality. The mod_perl community provides extensive documentation and quick support responses.
This document provides guidance on licensing Microsoft server products, like Windows Server and SQL Server, in virtual hosting scenarios using Hyper-V. It outlines 6 common hosting scenarios and the licensing implications of each. It also discusses how Microsoft System Center products can help manage virtual environments and the associated licensing. Key scenarios covered include unmanaged dedicated servers, virtual dedicated servers, shared hosting, and using desktop systems or end-customer licenses as Hyper-V guests.
The document provides an overview of using the Internet and its various resources and technologies. It discusses topics such as online communications methods like email and social networking; terminology like domains, URLs, and browsers for navigating the web; issues like spam, malware, and piracy; and the origins and future of the Internet infrastructure. It aims to educate users on making the most of Internet resources while avoiding common problems and legal issues.
The document discusses various topics related to virtualization including drivers for virtualization, practical applications, definitions of terms like virtualization and paravirtualization, and tools like Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft virtualization products. It provides information on installing and configuring Xen on SuSE Linux, discusses security and auditing considerations for Xen, and demonstrates Xen functionality.
Inmagic Content Server Enterprise/Standard v1.3 Install Noteswebhostingguy
This document provides instructions for installing Inmagic Content Server version 1.3. It describes installing the CS/TextWorks desktop component which allows adding, modifying and deleting information from textbases. It also covers installing the optional CS/Importer service for importing records into textbases from various formats. System requirements and configuration steps are outlined to ensure successful installation of both the desktop and Web publishing components of Content Server.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V provides several improvements over the previous version including better flexibility through features like live migration and cluster shared volumes. It also offers improved performance through enhancements to memory management, TCP offload support, and network functionality. Additionally, it provides greater scalability with support for up to 32 logical processors and a core parking feature to improve energy efficiency. Overall, the document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization capabilities help reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing flexibility and performance.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a server virtualization technology that allows efficient use of hardware resources and increased administrator productivity. It enables organizations to consolidate server workloads, automate software testing, and rapidly deploy new servers. Virtual Server 2005 R2 supports virtual machine clustering for high availability and integrates with Microsoft management tools for easy administration and migration of virtual machines.
Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm; A Walkthrough of Best Practices fr...Michael Noel
This document provides guidance on best practices for architecting and configuring a highly available SharePoint 2010 farm. It recommends separating database and server roles across at least two database servers and two application servers. It also discusses options for virtualizing the farm architecture and using SQL database mirroring to provide high availability of content databases across multiple physical sites.
This document introduces the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization platform. It provides an overview of Hyper-V architecture and features such as isolation, security assumptions, and live migration capabilities. It also demonstrates how to install and manage Hyper-V through tools like Hyper-V Manager and Windows PowerShell. Finally, it discusses the role of System Center Virtual Machine Manager in providing a centralized management solution for virtualized environments.
www.doubletake.com Data Protection Strategies for Virtualizationwebhostingguy
This document discusses data protection strategies for virtual environments using Double-Take software. It provides an overview of Double-Take's replication technology and how it can be used to provide high availability and disaster recovery for virtual machines. Benefits of the Double-Take and virtualization combination include streamlining disaster recovery without sacrificing capabilities, reducing costs, and improving flexibility. Customers provide examples of successfully using Double-Take to replicate and protect virtual machines for disaster recovery purposes.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a server virtualization product that provides the following key benefits:
1) It allows efficient use of hardware resources through virtualization and features like improved performance, greater scalability with 64-bit host support, iSCSI support, and host clustering support.
2) It offers the best supported server virtualization solution with features like Windows server guest optimization, broad guest OS compatibility, and resource management policies.
3) It enhances administrator productivity and responsiveness by enabling automated deployment and configuration of virtual machines, and allowing virtual machines to be managed using existing server management tools.
Windows Server 2008 introduces a new native virtualization platform called Hyper-V. Hyper-V utilizes hardware-assisted virtualization and provides strong isolation between virtual machines and the host operating system. Microsoft also offers System Center virtualization management products that provide centralized management and monitoring of virtual machines. While virtualization adoption remains relatively low, Microsoft estimates around 17% of servers will be virtualized by 2010, representing significant growth and opportunity in the virtualization market.
Best Practices For Virtualised Share Point T02 Brendan Law Nathan MercerFlamer
This document provides best practices for virtualizing SharePoint environments. It discusses why organizations virtualize, recommended hardware, licensing, storage considerations, supported virtualization technologies, guidelines for virtualizing different SharePoint roles like web servers and databases, backup strategies, and tools for managing virtual environments. The presentation emphasizes the importance of right-sizing virtual machines, using dedicated storage, and understanding how virtualization may impact different roles like databases.
SharePoint 2010 Virtualization - Hungarian SharePoint User GroupMichael Noel
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2. Author of SAMS Publishing titles “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed,” the upcoming “Teach
Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes,” “SharePoint 2003 Unleashed”, “Teach Yourself
SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes,” “Windows Server 2008 Unleashed,” “Exchange Server 2007
Unleashed”, “ISA Server 2006 Unleashed”, and many other titles with over 250,000 books
translated into 10 languages in circulation worldwide.
Partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com / 510.444.5700) – SF Bay Area based
Infrastructure/Security specialists for SharePoint, AD, Exchange, Security
3. Why Virtualise?
What SharePoint components can be virtualised?
Memory Limitations and Guidelines for Guests
Virtualisation of Dev/Test/Prod
Virtualisation Software Options
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
VMware Products
Citrix XenServer
Microsoft Licensing for Virtual Servers
5. Reduce Costs
Direct Server over consumption / Utility Bills /
“Greener” technology
Less Physical space to consume (smaller data centers
= less rent)
Less cost to cool multiple servers
6. Consolidate / Dedicate
Reduce number of physical servers
Get rid of legacy hardware
Make it easier to provision more dedicated specialty
servers (i.e. Separate SharePoint roles onto multiple
dedicated virtual servers instead of one ‘all-in-one’
server
Dedicated servers tend to have less issues as they run
‘without surprises’ that can be caused by bundling
services
7. Optimise Investment
Idle Servers free up their memory for other servers to
use
No proliferation of disk volumes
Very large number of servers can run on a single box
(key word is RAM and Procs here)
9. Production Database Servers are generally bad
candidates for virtualisation
Good candidates include the remaining front-
end roles, including:
Web
Query
Index (with caveats)
Application
10. Test/Dev environments can potentially virtualise
all components
In some cases, (such as if stress testing),
Database role for test environments can use
existing server or another physical server
11. SQL Server I/O Ratio is generally quite high (it takes
advantage of a higher proportion of its hardware) so
less reason to virtualise from a cost perspective
High Disk and Network Activity – at large
transaction volumes virtualisation layer tends to
break down
Improved performance when on physical server
12. Can easily provision multiple web role servers for
redundancy and scalability
‘Stateless’ servers, no real data stored on them
Can be quickly provisioned, taken in and out of
farm
Be sure to keep all components, applications,
and patch levels the same!
13. Same concept as web role…can built HA into the
Search service
Requires a secondary disk (virtual, but could be
physical LUN on SAN) for Index Query
propagation
Can be combined onto Web role server, good fit
14. The ‘heaviest hitter’ of the SharePoint front-end
roles
This role should get the lion’s share of the RAM if
possible
If you had to choose which server would remain
physical, this would be it
Also requires second disk to store the Index. Index
quorum will be anywhere from 10% to 40% of total
size of content being indexed.
15. Moves the rather ‘busy’ application roles such as
Excel Services and Infopath Forms Services off
the Web role servers
If Excel Services or other app roles are heavily
utilised, this can improve rendering performance
fairly quickly
16. Create separate farms for Development, Testing, and
Production or even Demo or DR farms
Potential to host each farm’s databases on same physical
SQL Box (potentially separate instances)
Creates logical separation…installation of solutions or
applications in Test won’t affect Prod farm
In certain scenarios, where network connectivity doesn’t exist
between environments, may require separate virtual SQL
servers
17. 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.
18. 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 virtualisation platform, as the limitation is
hardware specific.
Refer to MS Whitepaper on Virtualisation of SharePoint
(http://tinyurl.com/virtualsp) for more specifics.
19. NOT Supported on Virtual PC
Supported MS platforms include Virtual Server 2005
R2 or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (better)
Only MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Supported (SPS 2003
and WSS 2.0 are NOT)
What about 3rd Party (i.e. VMware, XenServer), you ask?
20. “…for vendors with whom Microsoft has established a support relationship that
covers virtualization solutions, or for vendors who have Server Virtualization
Validation Program (SVVP) validated solutions, Microsoft will support server
operating systems subject to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy for its
customers who have support agreements when the operating system runs
virtualised on non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. This support will
include coordinating with the vendor to jointly investigate support issues. As part
of the investigation, Microsoft may still require the issue to be reproduced
independently from the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. Where
issues are confirmed to be unrelated to the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization
software, Microsoft will support its software in a manner that is consistent with
support provided when that software is not running together with non-Microsoft
hardware virtualization software. “
21. Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Novell, Inc.
Oracle, USA Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Unisys Corp.
Virtual Iron Software
VMware, Inc.
22. SharePoint now ‘supported’ on VMware, Citrix
XenServer, or others, with some caveats
Support still remains the most robust (i.e. no
need for SVVP validation) for MS Premier
Support clients
Less chance that MS will require you to
reproduce problems in physical environment
24. Allows organisations that wouldn’t normally be able to have a
test environment to run one
Allows for separation of the database role onto a dedicated
server
Can be more easily scaled out in the future
25. High-
Availability
across Hosts
All
components
virtualised
Uses only
two
Windows
Ent Edition
Licenses
26. Highest
transaction
servers are
physical
Multiple farm
support, with
DBs for all
farms on the
SQL cluster
Only five
physical
servers total,
but high
performance
27.
28. Fully supported, robust platform for SharePoint
server virtualisation. Addition of VMM 2008 for
Management.
29. Available as a free download for Windows Server
2008 (Be sure to update from the RTM version)
Can be installed on any 64bit version of Windows
Server 2008 (Std, Ent, Datacenter)
Hypervisor based application, performance gains
over Virtual Server 2005 R2 in the range of 30-
40%
30. Uses Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) format for disks,
which can be shared with Virtual PC or legacy
Virtual Server 2005
Allows for re-hosting of legacy applications and
OSes
x64 HOST and GUEST support
Supports clustering and NLB across guests
31. Supports Intel-V and AMD-V Chips for improved
virtualisation support
Integrates with Active Directory using Service
Connection Points (SCPs)
Comprehensive Virtual Networking support
32. One highly redundant scenario would be to
deploy two Virtual Hosts, then distribute guests
across the hosts.
Load-balance the guests across the two hosts,
i.e. one SP Web server on each side, one Query
on each side, etc.
SP Database would be physically clustered in this
case
If a Virtual host fails, SP stays active.
33. Virtualisation 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 (Beta)
34. Released to Manufacturing in October, 2008
VMM 2008 has P2V 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.)
35. Licensed either ‘a la carte’, with individual VMM
2008 licenses for each managed Host machine, or
you can purchase the following:
System Center Server Management Suite – Standard
Edition
Provides for DPM, ConfigMgr, OpsMgr, and VMM 2008 Agents for a
single guest
System Center Server Management Suite – Enterprise
Edition (List $1497 USD)
Provides for DPM, ConfigMgr, OpsMgr, and VMM 2008 Agents for all
virtual guests running on a single host server
38. Low-cost tool that is designed to run on a
desktop, can virtualise and run a few systems at a
time
Not recommended for SharePoint, unless simply
testing on a limited basis
Typically used to virtualise Desktop OSes or
when testing Servers in a lab
39. Free download
Typically used for stand-alone VMware host
servers
Runs on a ‘host’ OS, such as Windows Server
2003/2008 x64 or Linux
Missing range of VMware tools such as VMotion,
Virtual Center management, etc.
40. Full function VMware Virtualisation platform running
on Linux Host OS
Designed for enterprise environments, integrates
with other Virtual Infrastructure components to
provide HA, DR, and easy server provisioning
Very scalable, currently industry leader
Both versions of VMware Server support wide range
of Guest OSes (Windows, Linux, etc.)
41. Standalone version of ESX, uses same kernel and
Linux OS
Positioned for remote and small offices
No-cost, though management requires licensing
Virtual Center
42. Can be used to failover sessions automatically
from one ESX server to another (Virtual Disks on
shared storage)
Can be integrated as one layer of SharePoint DR
strategy
Only available as an add-on or if buying the
whole VI3 Suite
43. Very slick tool that can be used to scan a physical
server and ‘export’ it to a virtual disk which can
be then mounted.
Essentially converting Physical to Virtual (P2V)
Often used to get rid of older hardware that is
running application software that can’t be retired
Free tool
44. Centralized console for managing VMware
sessions
Allows for quick provisioning of new Server OSes
Add-on component or part of VI3
46. Part of the Citrix Xen line of application, desktop,
and server virtualisation products
Open-source virtualisation offering using Xen
Hypervisor as base
Xen Hypervisor, developed at University of
Cambridge, is slim, with only 50,000 lines of
code. Xen performance is substantial.
47. Simplified interface, quick setup and
configuration
Includes ‘Xenmotion’ HA capability, similar to
VMware’s Vmotion
Can be installed as part of a suite, including the
popular XenDesktop (formerly known as
Presentation Server/Citrix Metaframe.)
48. Express Edition
No Cost – Single host, max 2 CPU
Standard Edition
Adds multi-host and multi-VLAN capabilities, unlimited
CPUs
Enterprise Edition
Adds Resource Pools, XenMotion live migration, and QOS
Platinum Edition
Adds Dynamic Provisioning of physical and virtual servers
49. Server License Options have been changed to allow
for multiple Guest licenses per single license as
follows:
One Standard Edition License = 1 Physical/Virtual OS
License (Can be one physical host plus one physical
guest if host is only used for virtualisation.
One Enterprise Edition License: One Physical (dedicated
to VMs) and Four Virtual OS License
One DataCenter Edition License = One Physical
Processor (socket) and UNLIMITED Virtual OS Licenses
running under that host.
50. Guests can run any combination of downlevel
licenses (i.e. Datacenter host, Ent or Std edition
guests)
Applies not only to OSes running virtualised with
Windows Virtualisation, but it also applies to 3rd
party virtualisation as well!
51. Virtual Windows VMware VMware Citrix
Server Server Server ESX XenServer
2005 R2 2008
Hyper-V
SharePoint Production * * * (Via SVVP) * (Via * (Via SVVP)
Support SVVP)
Hypervisor based, High * * *
Performance
64 bit Guest Support * * * *
Server Templates (with VMM (with VMM * * *
2008) 2008)
Resource Pools * * (with Ent and
Platinum
editions)
Intelligent Assignment to (with VMM
Hosts based on Application 2008 and
Performance Counters OpsMgr
2007)
Automatic Failover between * *
hosts
52. VMware ESX
Mid to large size organisations
Organisations looking for automatic session failover with
VMotion
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Microsoft ‘friendly’ shops
Organisations looking for cost-effective virtualisation
Mixed VMware/Hyper-V/Virtual Server 2005 shops looking for
central management
Citrix XenServer
Organisations heavily invested in Citrix Products
Open-source friendly environments
53. Virtualisation is a key emerging technology that allows
organisations to be able to cut costs, consolidate equipment,
and take greatest advantage of hardware resources.
SharePoint 2007 Servers are supported in virtualisation
environments (within limits), in Dev/Test and on the front-
end roles in Production, use caution for DB role
KB897615 outlines MS Support for 3rd Party Virtualisation
such as VMware and XenServer…support exists but has some
caveats
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology gives high
performance and is a very cost competitive option
MS Licensing has new virtualisation support, and Datacenter
edition will provide for unlimited guests under a single host.
54. SharePoint 2007 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing)
(http://www.samspublishing.com)
Windows Server 2008 Unleashed and/or Hyper-V Unleashed
(http://www.samspublishing.com)
Microsoft ‘Virtualising SharePoint Infrastructure’ Whitepaper
(http://tinyurl.com/virtualsp)
VMware Server Products (http://www.vmware.com)
Citrix XenServer Products (http://www.citrix.com)
Microsoft TechNet Edge Videos on Virtualisation of
SharePoint:
http://tinyurl.com/edgenoel2
http://tinyurl.com/edgenoel3