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.

2. Session Goals
Provide an overview of System Center 2012, SP1 – Virtual Machine
Manager

3. Why SP1?
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2
System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft
Virtual Machine Manager Manages Hyper-V Server 2012
Microsoft
Windows Server SQL Server Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
2008 R2
2012 2008 R2
2008 R2 or 2012

4. Agenda
Standardized
Services
Development Delegated
Production
Capacity
Assign dedicated and shared resources
Cloud
Windows Server 2012/2008 Abstraction
R2 Hyper-V,
VMware, Citrix XenServer
Intel, AMD, Configure &
OEM hardware Deploy
Fiber Channel,
iSCSI

5. Configure & Deploy

6. Configure and Deploy Fabric
COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK CLUSTER
Deploy your compute Discover, classify, and Abstract your complex Consolidate your fabric
resources, taking them from allocate storage for use by networking infrastructure into elements for use in a private
bare metal to fully deployed the private cloud. Provide the logical networks for cloud cloud.
for your physical and correct storage for use with use. Assign IP, virtual IP, and
virtualization hosts. appropriate access. MAC addresses from pools
and integrate with load
balancers.

7. COMPUTE

8. Automated Bare-Metal Hyper-V Deploy
Download WINPE
Boot from PXE
4
2 Run generic command
execution scripts Host Group
and
WDS server Customize and
configure partitions
domain join
Authorize
PXE boot
3
8
contoso
OOB reboot
5 Host Group
1
Enable Hyper-V
VMM server
Hyper-V server Hyper-V server 9
Download VHD
Inject drivers Bare-metal Hyper-V server Hyper-V server
Hyper-V server Hyper-V server
VHD
server
7
6
Drivers
Library server
Host profile

9. SP1:
Enhanced Bare Metal Deployment
Deep Discovery when running
WinPE
 Use Consistent Device Naming (CDN)
Configure Logical switch (single
management construct for multiple
virtual switch instance)
Host vNIC Configuration
Increased #hosts under VMM
management

10. Extend the VMM UI - Console Add-Ins

11. STORAGE

12. Storage Allocation & Management
Discover storage
Virtual Machine Manager through SMI-S provider
Host Group
Industry Standard API
Create storage
classification pools and
associate with storage
SMI-S
Provider
Allocate storage to
specific host groups
Assign existing LUNs to
hosts and clusters
Create new LUNs from
pool and assign to hosts
and clusters
Gold Silver

13. SP1: Storage
Deploy VM’s with VHDX format
Use of SMB 3.0 file share for stand alone/clustered host
 Windows File Server and NAS devices supporting SMB 3.0
SMI-S provider for Microsoft iSCSI target
Compatibility with Synthetic Fiber Channel in the guest
Live Storage Migration
 Seamless use of ODX with capable hardware (does not work for VMM lib)

14. NETWORK

15. VMM 2012: Logical Networks in the Private
Cloud
Standardized
Services
Development
Production
Delegated
Create Logical Networks and assign them to the appropriate Capacity
networking on the hosts
Cloud
DMZ Prod DMZ Prod DMZ Prod Abstraction
Configure and
deploy
Infrastructure
Production
Development

16. SP1 :Software Defined Networking
Software Defined Networking (management,
configuration, data)
 Hyper-V Network Virtualization
 Extensible Virtual Switch
Network Policy/Offloads
 SR-IOV
 DHCP Guard
 IPSec Task Offload
 Bandwidth Control
 Trunk Mode

17. Hyper-V Network Virtualization
Blue VM Red VM Blue Network Red Network
Virtualization
Physical Physical
Server Network
Server Virtualization Hyper-V Network Virtualization
 Run multiple virtual networks on a
 Run multiple virtual servers
on a physical server physical network
 Each virtual network has illusion it is
 Each VM has illusion it is running as a
physical server running as a physical network
 Realized via Windows Server and VMM

18. Virtual Switch
…on Host 1 …on Host 2 …on Host 3 …on Host n
Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch
Extension1 Extension1 Extension1 Extension1
Extension2 Extension2 Extension2 Extension2
Extension3 Extension3 Extension3 Extension3

19. Logical Switch
…on Host 1 …on Host 2 …on Host 3 …on Host n
Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch
Extension1 Extension1 Extension1 Extension1
Extension2 Extension2 Extension2 Extension2
Extension3 Extension3 Extension3 Extension3

20. demo

21. CLUSTER

22. SP1 : Cluster




23. Cloud Abstractions

24. Create the Private Cloud
Development
Production
Cloud
Abstraction
DMZ Prod DMZ Prod DMZ Prod Logical &
Standardized
Production
Development

25. Enabling Service Providers to Offer
IaaS
Tenant Admins
Provider’s Other
Tenant’s Systems
Apps, Scripts,
Tools
Self-service Users
REST
OData Aggregation Automation
API
Tenant Admins
Tenant’s
Apps, Scripts,
Tools
Self-service Users

26. SP1 : Cloud and User Role Enhancements
• Tenant Admin
Administrator • Manage tenant membership
• Tenant membership ID
Delegated decoupled from AD via Service
Administrator Provider Foundation (SPF)
Tenant
• Increased scale
Administrator
• Self-Service User

27. Standardized Application Deployment

28. Standardize Application Deployment :
Service Templates
Service template (Multi-tier applications)
Web tier Application tier Data tier
Scale out & health policy Scale out & health policy Scale out & health policy
IIS Web (IIS) Application server App-
Custom Scripts App (Server Data (SQL) SQL
Web Deploy V) DAC
Packs
HW profile OS profile App profile HW profile OS profile App profile HW profile OS profile App profile
Compute Storage Network

29. SP1 : Services
Service Deployment
 Support for Service deployment to untrusted domains and workgroups
 Support for Service deployment to disconnected VMs
Application Host
 Web Application Host for deploying MS Web Deploy packages to existing
web servers (virtual, physical, farm, clustered)
SQL Server 2012
 Complete installation of prepared SQL 2012 instances

30. Agenda
Standardized
Services
Development Delegated
Production
Capacity
Assign dedicated and shared resources
Cloud
Windows Server 2012/2008 Abstraction
R2 Hyper-V,
VMware, Citrix XenServer
Intel, AMD, Configure &
OEM hardware
Deploy
Fiber Channel,
iSCSI

31. System Center 2012, SP1 Virtual Machine Manager –
what platform capabilities did not make it
Networking
 Configuring from VMM
 Port ACL’s
 Promiscuous/Community mode for PVLAN’s
 Port Mirroring
 Creating teams not connected to a Virtual Switch
 Teams inside the guest
Changing DM settings for running VM (sorry, this is stupid!!!)
Hyper-V replica
ODX support for VMM Lib
Deploying File server and Storage spaces