I ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II. Greg Shields, MVP, vexpert

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1 I ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II Greg Shields, MVP, vexpert

2 Administrative points on this webinar Questions Can use the virtual Q&A panel. This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days. At the end of the webinar, we can raise virtual hand for dialog questions. Stick around until the end of the webinar! Winners will receive a choice of books! Overview of Veeam

3 About Veeam Veeam Software develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.

4 I ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II Greg Shields, MVP, vexpert, CTP Senior Partner and Principal Technologist, Concentrated Technology, LLC

5 You ve got Hyper-V Purchase orders were signed. Equipment s been delivered. Out of the box and into the rack. Operating systems have just finished installing, as have Windows updates and the necessary roles

6 You ve got Hyper-V Purchase orders were signed. Equipment s been delivered. Out of the box and into the rack. Operating systems have just finished installing, as have Windows updates and the necessary roles Congratulations! You ve got yourself a shiny new Hyper-V environment! You re ready for production virtualization, running your company s most-critical workloads atop Microsoft s hypervisor.

7 Now What? Are you really ready? That environment can host virtual machines. But can it host your most-critical workloads?

8 Now What? Are you really ready? That environment can host virtual machines. But can it host your most-critical workloads? Staring at that Hyper-V Console, you might be asking yourself I ve got Hyper-V, Now What?

Staring at that Hyper-V Console, you might be asking yourself I ve got

9 Now What? Are you really ready? That environment can host virtual machines. But can it host your most-critical workloads? Staring at that Hyper-V Console, you might be asking yourself I ve got Hyper-V, Now What? Answering that question is the topic of this three-volume ebook (and webinar) series.

10 Three Volumes that Answer the?? Now What? Volume 1: Implement Better Monitoring Volume 2: Protect VMs with Comprehensive Backup and Recovery Volume 3: Ensure Visibility with Alerts, Reporting, & Business Relevance

11 Now What #1: Understand Hyper-V s Objects to Monitor

12 Now What #1: Understand Hyper-V s Objects to Monitor First up is understanding what s going on underneath the Hyper-V Manager console. Virtual environments are far more complex. More moving parts that must perfectly orchestrate. Resources that are in greater contention.

13 Now What #1: Understand Hyper-V s Objects to Monitor First up is understanding what s going on underneath the Hyper-V Manager console. Virtual environments are far more complex. More moving parts that must perfectly orchestrate. Resources that are in greater contention. Core Four resources. Processor Memory Networking Storage

14 Now What #2: Track Resource Utilization, Supply & Demand

15 Now What #2: Track Resource Utilization, Supply & Demand Counters / Metrics can exist in multiple locations. On the host / hypervisor In the VM. Applications At the storage. From the network. Operating System Hypervisor Virtual Host Storage

16 Now What #2: Track Resource Utilization, Supply & Demand Counters / Metrics can exist in multiple locations. On the host / hypervisor In the VM. At the storage. From the network. Each location measures behaviors from that unique perspective. Behaviors at one layer aren t captured by the counters at other layers. can t be seen by the metrics in other layers.

17 Now What #2: Track Resource Utilization, Supply & Demand Counters / Metrics can exist in multiple locations. On the host / hypervisor In the VM. At the storage. From the network. Each location measures behaviors from that unique perspective. Behaviors at one layer aren t captured by the counters at other layers. can t be seen by the metrics in other layers. Hyper-V s Economics Model: Resource Supply & Demand

18 Now What #3: Identify Performance Issues & Take Action

19 Now What #3: Identify Performance Issues & Take Action Virtualization by design creates the situation where resources can come into contention. You implemented virtualization to get rid of resource waste, yes?

20 Now What #3: Identify Performance Issues & Take Action Virtualization by design creates the situation where resources can come into contention. You implemented virtualization to get rid of resource waste, yes? Contention defines the situation where resource demand exceeds resource supply. A well-oiled virtual environment rides the razor-thin line between perfectly meeting demand with supply and suffering from too much demand and too little supply.

21 Now What #3: Identify Performance Issues & Take Action Virtualization by design creates the situation where resources can come into contention. You implemented virtualization to get rid of resource waste, yes? Contention defines the situation where resource demand exceeds resource supply. A well-oiled virtual environment rides the razor-thin line between perfectly meeting demand with supply and suffering from too much demand and too little supply. Meeting supply to demand requires automation. Monitoring Analysis Traceability Action

22 Now What #4: Get Assistance in Automating these Activities You can t do this unaided...

23 Three Volumes that Answer the?? Now What? Volume 1: Implement Better Monitoring Volume 2: Protect VMs with Comprehensive Backup and Recovery Volume 3: Ensure Visibility with Alerts, Reporting, & Business Relevance

24 Now What #5: Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it.

25 Now What #5: Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it. Recovery Time Objective: How long are you willing to be down? Recovery Point Objective: How much data are you willing to lose?

26 Now What #5: Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it. Recovery Time Objective: How long are you willing to be down? Recovery Point Objective: How much data are you willing to lose? Biggest mistake: RTO/RPO per-datacenter, not per-object.

27 Now What #5: Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it. Recovery Time Objective: How long are you willing to be down? Recovery Point Objective: How much data are you willing to lose? Biggest mistake: RTO/RPO per-datacenter, not per-object. Define an RTO/RPO per object and find a solution that can restore an entire virtual machine. can restore a file and/or folder. can restore an application. can restore individual application objects.

28 Now What #6: Get Comfortable with VSS

29 Now What #6: Get Comfortable with VSS A triple-headed beast of a service Microsoft Exchange SQL Server Oracle Active Directory Others... VSS Writer Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS Requestor Backup Application VSS Provider Operating System Storage Array Disk Volume

30 Now What #6: Get Comfortable with VSS A triple-times-triple-headed beast of a Hyper-V service Virtual Machine Microsoft Exchange Etc... VSS Writer VSS Writer VSS Requestor Hyper-V Writer Volume Shadow Copy Service Windows Server Backup VSS Provider Operating System Storage Array Disk Volume

31 Now What #7: Test Every Backup

32 Now What #7: Test Every Backup Forgetting to test the backups: The IT pro s greatest Resume Producing Event.

33 Now What #7: Test Every Backup Forgetting to test the backups: The IT pro s greatest Resume Producing Event. And yet testing the backups is also Our Greatest Sisyphusean Task. Take a backup. Test that backup. Take another backup. Test that backup.

34 Now What #7: Test Every Backup Forgetting to test the backups: The IT pro s greatest Resume Producing Event. And yet testing the backups is also Our Greatest Sisyphusean Task. Take a backup. Test that backup. Take another backup. Test that backup. Testing the backups requires automation. Essentially, testing backups requires not testing them yourself.

35 Now What #8: Remember to Add Backup Jobs for New VMs

36 Now What #8: Remember to Add Backup Jobs for New VMs Ahhh, the joys of self-service. Ahhh, the pain.

37 Now What #9: Automate and (Almost) Forget It

38 Now What #9: Automate and (Almost) Forget It Similar to Volume 1 s Now What? questions, the answer here is automation.

39 Now What #9: Automate and (Almost) Forget It Similar to Volume 1 s Now What? questions, the answer here is automation. Automation facilitates all the necessary VSS activities. Automation ensures data is backed up correctly, and in ways that makes it easy to restore. Automation gets the job of testing done right. Automation ensures that every VM gets protected.

40 Three Volumes that Answer the?? Now What? Volume 1: Implement Better Monitoring Understand Hyper-V s Objects to Monitor Track Resource Utilization, Supply and Demand Identify Performance Issues and Take Action Get Assistance in Automating these Activities Volume 2: Protect VMs with Comprehensive Backup and Recovery Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it. Get Comfortable with VSS Test Every Backup Remember to Add Backup Jobs for New VMs Automate and (Almost) Forget It

41 I ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II Greg Shields, MVP, vexpert, CTP Senior Partner and Principal Technologist, Concentrated Technology, LLC

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Preparing for Server 2012 Hyper-V: Seven Questions to Ask Now Greg Shields

Preparing for Server 2012 Hyper-V: Seven Questions to Ask Now Greg Shields Microsoft MVP and VMware vexpert September, 2012 may be the release date for Windows Server 2012, but odds are good that your