A Group 7 Presentation

Defenition
Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of resources across many aspects of computing For our purposes - One physical machine to support multiple virtual machines that run in parallel.

Why Virtualization ?

Too many servers for too little work Aging hardware reaching end of usable life High infrastructure requirements Limited flexibility in shared environments

VIRTUALIZATION


Cloud computing evolved from virtualization an approach that enabled more flexible IT infrastructures and lower IT costs. The major type of virtualization is hardware virtualization, which remains popular and widely used. Virtualization is often a key part of an enterprises disaster recovery plan. virtualization separates business applications and data from hardware resources
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Virtualization increases the flexibility of IT assets, allowing companies to consolidate IT infrastructure, reduce maintenance and administration costs, and prepare for strategic IT initiatives. Virtualization is not primarily about cost cutting virtualization is used because it enables flexible sourcing and cloud computing

Types of Virtualization


Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into a single storage device, managed from a central console. Network virtualization combines the available resources in a network by splitting the network load into manageable parts, assigned to a particular server on the network. Hardware virtualization is the use of software to emulate hardware or a total computer environment other than the one the software is actually running in.  It allows a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at once. This kind of software is sometimes known as a virtual machine.

Microsofts Vision
Enabling IT Pros and Development Teams Across the IT Lifecycle

Move from Physical to Logical Managed by policy State-aware, Self-healing Available, secure and real-time

Completely Services-based Federated and connected On-premise, off-premise, hosted Efficient dev-to-IT operations

Virtualization is a Virtualization is a Key Driver Key Driver

Lower TCO Increase Availability Improve Business Agility

Microsoft Virtualization can Help

Virtualization is a key driver of Dynamic IT

Lower TCO

Increase Availability

Improve Business Agility

The Benefits of Virtualization

Lower TCO, Increase Availability and Improve Business Agility Server Consolidation and Utilization of IT Resources
Management
Unify Physical Virtual and Applications

Clustered Pooled Resources Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device Access

Datacenter
Dynamic Foundation

Cloud
On-Demand Infrastructure

Client
Optimized Desktops

Faster Application Deployment and Updates Reduce Management Complexity Capacity on Demand Centralize Physical, Virtual, and Application Management and Monitoring Lower Costs through Automation

Client Virtualization
Empowering both workers and IT with The Optimized Desktop Vision

Reduce Deskto p TCO

Streamline IT Management

Increas e Busines s Agility

But what about VDI?

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (or VDI) is an architectural model where a client OS runs in a server-based virtual machine environment and serverinteracts with the user via a network connection

The storage and execution of a desktop workload (OS, apps, data) is centralized on a virtual machine in the datacenter Presentation of the UI is managed via a remote desktop protocol (such as RDP or ICA) to client devices
Desktop Workload (OS, Apps, Data)

Improve Agility with Microsofts VDI

Microsoft VDI technology provides:

Agile and secure access users desktops, rich remote experience and improved business Availability

Unified management of physical, virtual and session-based desktop infrastructure

A comprehensive and cost-effective means to deploy user desktops, applications and data within a VDI environment

Server Virtualization: Dynamic Foundation

Availability
Comprehensive capabilities including Live Migration, Failover Clustering, and Site Recovery to minimize service downtime

Applications get the resources they need when they need them

Continued Innovation:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 \ SMSD Better flexibility
Live Migration Cluster Shared Volumes Quick Storage Migration Hot Add/remove of Storage Processor compatibility mode Boot from VHD

Improved performance
Improved memory management TCP Offload support Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support Improved Networking

Greater Scalability
At 64 logical processor support Enhance Green IT with Core Parking

Live Migration
Move a virtual machine without loss of service
Guest OS is unaware of the migration Maintain TCP connections of the guest OS VM is treated as a black box Building block for Dynamic Data Center through business agility, cost reduction and increase in productivity

Enables new dynamic scenarios

Load balancing VMs via policy Physical/Platform Maintenance separated from Service Availability

Adapti g to Mark t: Datac

ter Evol tion

Microsoft irtualization Partner Ecosystem

DYNAMIC IT
Lower TCO Increase Availability Improve Business Agility

Management

Datacenter

Cloud

Client

How Microsoft Virtualization Helps You

Microsoft Virtualization accelerates the journey toward dynamic IT that will reduce costs, improve service levels, and drive agility

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Increase Availability

Improve Agility

Server Consolidation Lab Automation

usiness Continuit usiness Criti al A s Centrali ed es to

Private Cloud Remote ran h Offi e

Next Steps

Step 1 Understand your Virtualization options

Step 2 Use Solution Accelerators to determine virtualization candidates

Step 3 Determine Cost Savings you can achieve using TCO Calculators

Step 4 Talk to a Microsoft partner about optimizing your infrastructure