Welcome!
Clyde Johnson
President,
Boston Area Windows Server User Group
www.windowsboston.org
Senior Systems Manager with 28 years in HiTech with 16 in IT.
MCITP: Enterprise administrator
MCSE: NT 4.0, 2000 and 2003
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Type 1 Hypervisor based virtualization
platform
Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition
technology
◦ Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Editions
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Role on Windows 2008 R2 in both Core and
full Version
◦ x64 server with hardware assisted virtualization
 AMD AMD-V or Intel VT
◦ Hardware enabled Data Execution Prevention
(DEP) required
 AMD (NX no execute bit)
 Intel (XD execute disable)
Note: Enabling these BIOS features requires
powering down (not rebooting) the server to take
effect
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Capabilities
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32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64) VMs
Large memory support (64 GB) per VM
SMP VMs (up to 4 cores)
Integrated cluster support for HA & Quick Migration
BitLocker: Seamless, secure data encryption
Live Backup: Volume Shadow Service integration
Pass-through disk access for VMs
Virtual Machine snapshots
New hardware sharing architecture (VSP/VSC/VMBus)
 Disk, networking, input, video
◦ Robust networking: VLANs and NLB
◦ DMTF standard for WMI management interface
◦ Support for Full or Server Core installations
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Better flexibility
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Improved performance
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Live Migration
Cluster Shared Volumes
Hot Add/remove of Storage
Processor compatibility mode for live migration
Improved memory management
TCP Offload support
Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support
Improved Networking
Second Level Address Translation
Greater Scalability
◦ At 64 logical processor support
◦ Enhance Green IT with Core Parking
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New feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
 Upgrade the Guest Integration Components
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Higher VM density across all nodes
Memory allocated to VMs is
dynamically adjusted in real time
 “Ballooning” makes memory pages nonaccessible to the VM, until they are needed
 Does not impact Task Scheduler or other
memory-monitoring utilities
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Memory Priority Value is configurable per VM
 Higher priority for those with higher performance requirements
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Ensure you have enough free memory
on other nodes for failure recovery
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Goes by several names
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Processor provides two levels of translation
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Intel calls it Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD calls it Nested Page Tables (NPT) or
Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)
Walks the guest OS page tables directly
No need to maintain Shadow Page Table
No hypervisor code for demand-fill or flush operations
Resource savings
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Hypervisor CPU time drops to 2%
Roughly 1MB of memory saved per VM
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Overview
◦ NIC can DMA packets directly into VM memory
 VM Device buffer gets assigned to one of the queues
 Avoids packet copies in the VSP
 Avoids route lookup in the virtual switch (VMQ Queue ID)
◦ Allows the NIC to essentially appear as multiple NICs on
the physical host (queues)
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Benefits
◦ Host no longer has device DMA data in its own buffer
resulting in a shorter path length for I/O (performance
gain)
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Jumbo Frame Support
◦ Ethernet frames >
1,500 bytes
◦ Ad hoc standard is ~9k
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Overview
◦ Enables 6x larger
payload per packet
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Benefits
◦ Improves throughput
◦ Reduce CPU utilization
of large file transfers
Ensure All Network Segments Have Jumbo
Frames Enabled!
C:\>Ping.exe –l 9000 <src>
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Overview
◦ TCP/IP traffic in a VM can be offloaded to a physical
NIC on the host computer
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Benefits
◦ Reduce CPU burden
◦ Networking offload to improve performance
◦ Live Migration is supported with Full TCP Offload
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Overview
◦ Scheduling virtual machines on a single server for
density as opposed to dispersion
◦ This allows “park/sleep” cores by putting them in
deep C states
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Benefits
◦ Enhances Green IT by reducing
CPU power consumption
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Isolation
◦ No sharing of virtualized devices
◦ Separate VMBus instance per vm to the parent
◦ No sharing of memory
 Each has its own address space
◦ VMs cannot communicate with each other, except
through traditional networking
◦ Guests can’t perform DMA attacks because they’re
never mapped to physical devices
◦ Guests cannot write to the hypervisor
◦ Parent partition cannot write to the hypervisor
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Two physical network adapters at minimum
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One for management
One (or more) for VM networking
Dedicated NIC(s) for iSCSI
Connect parent to back-end management network
 Only expose guests to internet traffic
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Types
◦ Private (between VM’s only
◦ Internal (Host and VM’s)
◦ External (On the network. Limited by the # of NIC’s)
Management OS
Virtual Machine Switch
Routing
VLAN Filtering
Data Copy Port 2 Port 1
VM1
VM2
TCP/IP
TCP/IP
VM NIC1
VM NIC2
Miniport
Driver
VMBus
NIC
Ethernet
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Time synchronization
Heartbeat
Shutdown
Key/Value pair exchange
Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS)
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Performance wise from fastest to slowest…
◦ Fixed Disk VHDs/Pass Through Disks
• Slight performance difference
◦ Dynamically Expanding VHDs
• Grow as needed
• Do not use for production workloads
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Pass Through Disks
◦ VM writes directly to a disk/LUN without encapsulation
in a VHD
◦ Cons:
• You can’t use VM snapshots
• Dedicating a disk to a vm
◦ CSV provides a single consistent file name space;
All Windows Server 2008 R2 servers see
the same storage
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Easy setup; Uses NTFS
No reformatting SANs
Create one big data store
No more drive letter problems
Existing tools just work
Migrate one Machine at a time
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All servers “see” the same storage
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Minimal installation option
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Benefits
◦ Provides essential server functionality
◦ Command Line Interface only, no GUI Shell
◦ Less code results in fewer patches
◦ Low surface area server for targeted roles
◦ More secure and reliable with less management
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VERY useful for Managing CORE servers
Written in Powershell
Product Licensing
Networking Features
DCPromo Tool
ISCSI Settings
Server Roles and Features
User and Group Permissions
Share Creation and Deletion
Dynamic Firewall settings
Display | Screensaver
Add & Remove Drivers
Proxy settings
Windows Updates (Inc. WSUS)
Multipath I/O
Hyper-V including VM
Thumbs
Join Domain
Computer rename
Add/remove programs
Services
WinRM
http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/
Complete logging of all commands
executed
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Do NOT use snapshots in production.
Use CoreConfig to help manage your servers
Ensure High-Speed Access to Storage
Install Multiple Network Interface Cards
Dedicate one Network interface to
Administration
Avoid mixing VM’s that can and cannot use
integration Services
Configure Antivirus to bypass Hyper-V
processes and Directories.
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Run Anti-Virus within your guests.
Rename Virtual switches to be identical on all
your Hyper-V.
Think of Naming Standards now.
Enterprise Edition lets you have 4 Licensed
VM’s at no cost.
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Measuring Processor Usage
• Measuring the physical host computer’s (Root Partition)
Processor Capacity
• Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(*)\% Total Run Time:
The percentage of time spent by the processor in guest and
hypervisor code.
• Measuring Guest Computer Processor Utilization
• \HyperVisor Hyper-V Logical Processors(*)\% Guest Run Time:
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Measure Memory usage
• Measuring Available Memory on the Hyper-V Host
Computer:
• \Memory\Available MBytes: Available MBytes is the amount
of physical memory available to processes running on the
computer, in Megabytes.
• Same for measuring memory usage in the Virtual machine
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Heterogeneous
Virtualization Management
Physical to Virtual
Conversion (P2V)
Virtual to Virtual Conversion
(V2V)
◦ Virtual Server to Hyper-V
◦ VMware to Hyper-V
Virtual Machine Library
PowerShell Scripting
Delegated Administration
Virtual Machine Authoring
VM Templates/Cloning
Failover Cluster Integration
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host Management
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Enhanced Support for SAN Transfers
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Enhanced Support for Shared Storage
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Quick Storage Migration
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Maintenance Mode for Hosts
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Support for VMware Port Groups for Virtual Switches
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Support for Virtual Machine Permissions Assigned in
Hyper-V
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New
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Client Hyper-V (in Windows 8 Consumer preview)
Hyper-V Module for Windows Powershell
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Migration
Virtual Fibre Channel
Updated
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Live Migration of non-clustered VM’s and Multiple instances
Significant Scale and resiliency increases.
Virtual Hard disk Format (64TB)
Virtual Switch.
Client requires SLAT processor. Server only
requires it if the RemoteFX role is enabled
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Builtin to the OS and supported
Simplified deployment & support
Load balancing and failover(LBFO)
Aggregate bandwidth
Use different model & vendor NICs
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/
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Microsoft Virtualization
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Hyper-V
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◦ Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
◦ Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/virtualization/default.aspx
◦ Web: http://www.microsoft.com/scvmm
◦ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv.asp
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Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid)
◦ Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx
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Terminal Services
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Virtual PC 2007
◦ Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/
◦ Web: www.microsoft.com/terminalserver
◦ Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc
Microsoft Virtualization Home:
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
Windows Server Virtualization Blog Site:
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/default.aspx
Windows Server Virtualization TechNet Site:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/virtualization.mspx
MSDN & TechNet Powered by Hyper-V
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/msdn-and-technet-poweredby-hyper-v.aspx
Virtualization Solution Accelerators
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/cc197910.aspx
How to install the Hyper-V role
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-install.aspx
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Performance Tuning Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/Perf_tun_srv.mspx
Using Hyper-V & BitLocker White Paper
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2c3c0615-baf4-4a9c-b6133fda14e84545&DisplayLang=en
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/
http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/winserverClustering/threads/
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/08/21/9878286.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/clusteringhome.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/clusteringresources.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443539.aspx