1. ENABLINGTHE MODERN DATA CENTER HYPER-V MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL Hyper-V Readiness Series: Part One

2. ABOUT US

3. THE HYPERVISOR ECOSYSTEM vSphere has enjoyed a decade almost a decade as the de facto standard hypervisor platform Much ofVMwares success revolves around the growth in the ecosystem The ecosystem has enabled customers to easily fill gaps inVMwares offerings and buy solutions that are better than those offered byVMware

4. PLATFORM COMPLETION Innovative technologies hit the market and become platforms in an of themselves In order to extend the capability of these platforms, vendors either hook into platform APIs or embed their own functionality The ultimate result is a complete platform

5. AN EVOLVING ECOSYSTEM As the platform matures Third party solutions may begin to be pushed out as the platform vendor seeks to expand profits and overall share Third party vendors must continually innovate or be subsumed by their platform partner New platforms may emerge that challenge the originals dominance

6. HYPER-VS EMERGENCE Hyper-V came on the scene well after vSphere had cemented its position It was sorely lacking in many ways With latest release, Hyper-V has achieved feature parity mostly with vSphere

7. HYPER-VS ECOSYSTEM Hyper-Vs ecosystem is quickly catching up toVMware Hyper-V does owe some credit toVMware for paving the way Many vendors have added Hyper-V support to existing vSphere products This has enabled a faster ecosystem build than was possible with vSphere The ecosystem now provides support for all of the major areas Backup, storage, monitoring, security, infrastructure efficiency Microsoft even has Oracle on board very important!

8. HYPER-VS ECOSYSTEM NOWTHRIVES Backup Storage Monitoring Security Infrastructure Optimization

9. HYPER-V ANDTHE CLOUD Hyper-V is but one part of the overall puzzle Microsoft has a major advantage overVMware: Azure Workloads can move seamlessly between on-premises and Azure Azure should be considered a part of Microsofts Hyper-V ecosystem Microsofts other cloud moves solidify the approach Office 365 replaces Exchange for many organizations

10. THE DATA CENTER IS ALSO EVOLVING Many platform options provide customers with ability to choose where workloads should run Locally On PaaS (Azure) In SaaS (Office 365) Azure PaaS Office 365

11. HYPER-V 2012 R2 AND AZURE Microsoft has neatly hooked Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Azure to provide complementary, but critical functionality VMs shift seamlessly between Azure and Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Excellent for disaster recovery needs Provides location independent management of Hyper-V Replica

12. HYPER-VS GROWING MARKET SHARE Hyper-V penetration 2013: 14% 2015: Expected to surpass 16% (39% overall growth rate) Every measurement has its bias Average number of hypervisors = 1.82 Source: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/The_VDI_Landscape_is_Shifting_in_Microsoft's_Favor

13. COMMON HYPER-V WORKLOADS VDI growing common use case Test/Dev General virtualization Particularly in certain verticals (i.e. education, non-profit)

14. GETTING FROM HERETOTHERE: FACTS vSphere remains and will remain the dominant hypervisor for the foreseeable future Hyper-V has achieved almost feature parity with vSphere The Hyper-V ecosystem has matured to a level where Hyper-V, too, can enable complete end-to-end, full-stack solutions in the data center

15. GETTING FROM HERETOTHERE: RISKS Increasingly common projects 1. Implementing Hyper-V side-by-side with vSphere 2. Migrating from vSphere to Hyper-V 3. Implementing a new virtual environment atop Hyper-V only #1 and #2 carry migration risks that must be well understood

16. GETTING FROM HERETOTHERE: RISKS Misunderstanding of technical differences between platforms Not ensuring that the internal ecosystem is fully prepared for a transition to or the addition of Hyper-V Not understanding the performance characteristics of key workloads before migration Has a direct impact on the overall costs of running the data center Making decisions based on guesswork/hypothetical data

17. MIGRATION REWARDS All Hyper-V Potentially lower costs, particularly if you already had SCCM Seamless support forWindows Azure Some Hyper-V Use the right hypervisor for the right job Ecosystem support enables integrated management

18. WHAT STANDS INTHE WAY? 70% of IT budget = keeping the lights on How do we change this equation and bring a supply/demand perspective to data center economics

19. LETTHE DATA CENTER MANAGE ITSELF CIOs and other C-levelers want faster, simpler, nimbler IT. Administrators spend an inordinate amount of time managing, tuning, and attempting to optimize the data center. Why not let computers manage themselves using: Business goals SLAs

20. THANKYOU! Q & A Dont we have a Lego Star Destroyer to giveaway?