MicrosoftVirtual Academy

M7: Cross-Platform Management

Symon Perriman Matt McSpiritTechnical Evangelist Technical Product Manager

MicrosoftVirtual Academy

Introduction to Hyper-V Jump StartPart 1 | Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V &. VMware vSphere 5.1Part 2 | System Center 2012 SP1 &

VMware’s Private Cloud

(01) Introduction & Scalability(05) Introduction & Overview of

System Center 2012

(02) Storage & Resource Management

(06) Application Management

(03) Security, Multi-tenancy & Flexibility

(07) Cross-Platform Management

(04) High-Availability & Resiliency(08) Foundation, Hybrid Clouds &

Costs

** MEAL BREAK **

MicrosoftVirtual Academy

• Citrix Management• VMware Management• Cross-Platform Management

Module Agenda

Cross Platform Management

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Citrix Management

Citrix XenServer

XenServer

Key Requirements

Must be XenServer 6.0 / 6.1

Citrix XenServer – Microsoft System Center Integration Pack

Citrix XenServer 6.x | Host Setup XenCenter still required for Host Configuration

VMM supports adding both standalone hosts & pools Pools would be pre-created in XenCenter

VMM can provide Host Power Control Restart, Shutdown & Power On (if OOB Capable Hardware)

VMM supports Maintenance Mode Host updates must be managed by XenCenter

Citrix XenServer 6.x | Host Storage VMM supports the management of XenServer 6.0 with: iSCSI Storage NFS Storage Fiber Channel Storage StorageLink-based Storage

Local or Shared Storage All storage must be configured through XenCenter

VMM supports the use of ISO’s from ISO Repositories Repository can be on NFS or CIFS but must be read/write

Citrix XenServer 6.x | Host Networking Hyper-V & XenServer Networking is very different…

With Hyper-V, VLAN tagging takes place closer to the vNIC

With XenServer, VLAN tagging takes place at physical pseudo NIC level

Therefore with XenServer, you end up with a separate switch for each VLAN

VMM wraps a single Virtual Switch around all of the XenServer switches on a single physical adapter

Citrix XenServer 6.x | Host Networking

Citrix XenServer 6.x | Import Process Create Run As Account Add Resources

XenServer Hosts & Clusters Specify Host Name(s) Click Add – Finish!

Properties - NICs

Citrix XenServer 6.x | VM Management Templates

VMM Templates are supported with XenServer VMM will not deploy XenServer Tools XenServer Templates are not used by VMM

Create VM in XenCenter and create a VMM Template from this

VMM Key Features VMM Service Templates deployed to XenServer Hosts/Pools Private Cloud Creation Intelligent Placement Dynamic Optimization, Power Optimization & PRO Live Migration (XenMotion)

VMware Management

VMware vSphere

Key Requirements

Must be vCenter Server 4.1/5.1

ESX/ESXi 4.1ESXi 5.1

vSphere

VMware vSphere – Key Considerations VMM isn’t intended to replace vCenter

Aimed at day to day operations of hosts & clusters Create/Manage/Store/Deploy VMs More advanced tasks performed in vCenter

Initial Networking Configuration – Port Groups, vDS etc. Fault Tolerance – VMM recognizes FT VMs, but won’t configure them.

Update Management still requires VUM

VMware vSphere | VM Management Templates

Supports creation of VMDK-based templates from Library Supports importing of templates from vCenter (No VMDK copy)

VMM Key Features VMM Service Templates deployed to vSphere Hosts/Clusters Private Cloud Creation Intelligent Placement Dynamic Optimization, Power Optimization & PRO Live Migration (vMotion) & Storage Migration (svMotion)

Cross-PlatformManagement

Cross-Platform Management

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Deploy Linux guests

Consistency Use VM Templates for Linux based VM deployments

Deploy Linux VMs as tiers in a Service

Deploy Linux VMs to Hyper-V Hosts

CustomizationRoot password

Computername

DNSDomainName

IP address

Timezone

Root ssh public key

Run once commands

Support

Health monitoringWindowsLinux/UNIX support Novel SLES, Red Hat Enterprise

Linux, IBM AIX 7.1, HP-UX, Solaris, and others through partner management packs

Cross-Platform Visibility

Heterogeneous monitoring

Cross-Platform Management

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Service Provider

Microsoft CloudPrivate Cloud

Out-of-the-box

All Systems Center ComponentsActive DirectoryExchange (User and Admin)IBM Tivoli Netcool/OmnibusHP (OM, SM, iLO)

Windows Azure FTPVMware vSphere

Orchestrator integration enables Microsoft and third-party platforms to coordinate and use operational data in the infrastructure across varying cloud scenarios (on-premises, Microsoft cloud and service provider clouds)

Integration Packs for automation across clouds

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Out-of-the-box

All Systems Center ComponentsActive DirectoryExchange (User and Admin)IBM Tivoli Netcool/OmnibusHP (OM, SM, iLO)

Windows Azure FTPVMware vSphere

Orchestrator integration enables Microsoft and third-party platforms to coordinate and use operational data in the infrastructure across varying cloud scenarios (on-premises, Microsoft cloud and service provider clouds)

New capabilities in SP1

Partner enabled IP’sBMCDell - AIMNetApp - OCPMCisco

UCS NCM JaxMP/Frysoft

Vision Solutions - DoubleTakeKelverion

ServiceNow Data Manipulation HTTP Applications

Cross Platform Management

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Supported JEE application servers

Supported operating systems matrix

RHEL SLES Solaris AIX Windows

IBM Webshare 6.1, 7.0

Oracle WebLogic 11gRel1, 10gRel3

Redhat JBoss 4.2, 5.1, 6

Apache Tomcat 5.5, 6.0, 7

JEE monitoring – supported platforms

Microsoft | VMware ComparisonCross-Platform Infrastructure Management

Capability Microsoft VMware

Multi-Hypervisor Management Yes Limited1

Comprehensive Guest OS Support Yes Yes2

3rd Party Management Integration Yes Limited3

Multiple Application Frameworks Yes Yes4

1. vCloud Automation Center focuses on provisioning VMs to alternative hypervisors, whilst the Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in for vCenter offers only very basic capabilities

2. VMware do not produce any operating systems, and support is therefore focused not on the guest operating system itself, but instead, on the VM Tools and hardware.

3. vCenter Orchestrator has a limited number of 3rd party plug-ins and vCenter Operations Management Suite requires the purchase of 3rd Party adaptors to integrate.

4. Monitoring capabilities do extend to multiple frameworks but support for many frameworks is out of date - .NET 3.0 is the latest for instance. Also, the monitoring is not connected to any true DevOps capability, and lacks remediation guidance around detected issues.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/support/mhm/doc/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-10-release-notes.html, http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html,

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