1. Virtualization of SharePoint 2010 Michael Noel Convergent Computing Twitter: MichaelTNoel

4. SharePoint 2010 Virtualization Guidelines and Models

5. Virtualization of SharePoint Roles

6. Virtualization of SQL Server

7. Memory Limitations and Guidelines for Guests

8. Performance Monitoring for Virtual Machines

9. Microsoft Virtualization Software Options

10. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

11. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

12. Third Party Virtualization Product Support

14. Why Virtualize?

15. SharePoint 2010 Virtualization Guidelines

16. Virtual Host Guidelines

17. SP2010 Role Virtualization

18. SharePoint Guest Guidelines

19. SharePoint Role VM Guidelines

20. SQL Server VM Guidelines

21. SharePoint 2010 Virtualized Farm Architecture

23. Allows for separation of the database role onto a dedicated server

26. All components Virtualized

30. NUMA Memory Guidelines

32. Virtual guests that are allocated more memory than exist within a single NUMA memory boundary have significantly impacted performance

33. NUMA boundaries vary by processor and motherboard vendor, but good rule of thumb to calculate boundaries is to divide the amount of memory in the system by the total number of cores.

34. i.e. Dual Quad-core host (2x4 cores = 8 cores) with 64GB of RAM on the host would mean NUMA boundary is 64/8 or 8GB.

36. This applies to any Virtualization platform, as the limitation is hardware specific. NUMA allocation specifics will vary by vendor, however.

38. NUMA Example: 2x Quad Core, 8GB RAM Proc 1 Proc 2

39. Virtualization Performance Monitoring

41. Collect data over a week minimum to look for trends throughout the week

45. SharePoint Virtualization Support

47. Hardware-assisted Virtualization, which is available in processors that include a Virtualization option—specifically processors with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology.

48. Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is available and enabled.

50. This only covers Hypervisor products, so excludes products such as VMware Workstation or VMWare Server

52. Hyper-V R2 for SP2010Overview

53. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

55. Part of the System Center Management Suite, which includes the following:

56. System Center Operations Manager 2007

57. System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

58. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

59. System Center Mobile Device Manager 2007

60. System Center Essentials 2007

61. System Center Capacity Planner 2007

63. VMM 2008 R2 has P2V (Physical to virtual migration) and V2V (VMware Guest migration to Hyper-V) tools

64. For SharePoint, allows for creation of SharePoint template servers that can be quickly provisioned for test farms or for new farm members in production

65. Can manage both Hyper-V and VMware guests (though must ‘go through’ a Virtual Center server to manage VMware guests.)

66. Self-Service Portal allows end users and remote admins to be able to provision their own virtual machines based on templates

68. Quick Farm Provisioning with VMM 2008 R2 Live Demonstration 37

69. Farm Provisioning Script(Thanks to Muhanad Omar, MVP) $configType = read-host "Do you wish to join an existing Farm? (Y/N)" if ($ConfigType -eq "Y") { $DatabaseServer = read-host "Sounds good. Please specify the name of your SQL Server"; $ConfigDB = read-host "Next, specify the name of your Farm Configuration Database"; $Passphrase = read-host "Finally, please enter your Farm passphrase" -assecurestring } else { $DatabaseServer = read-host "In that case, let's create a new Farm. Please specify the name of your SQL Server"; $FarmName = read-host "Please specify a name for your Farm (ex. SP2010Dev)"; $ConfigDB = $FarmName+"_ConfigDB"; $AdminContentDB = $FarmName+"_Admin_ContentDB"; Write-Host "Please enter the credentials for your Farm Account (ex. CONTOSOP_Farm)"; $FarmAcct = Get-Credential; $Passphrase = read-host "Enter a secure Farm passphrase" -assecurestring; $Port = read-host "Enter a port number for the Central Administration Web App"; $Authentication = read-host "Finally, specify your authentication provider (NTLM/Kerberos)"; } if ($ConfigType -eq "Y") { Add-PSSnapinMicrosoft.SharePoint.PowerShell; Connect-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName $ConfigDB -DatabaseServer $DatabaseServer -Passphrase $Passphrase } else { Add-PSSnapinMicrosoft.SharePoint.PowerShell; Write-Host "Your SharePoint Farm is being configured..." New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName $ConfigDB -DatabaseServer $DatabaseServer -AdministrationContentDatabaseName $AdminContentDB -Passphrase $Passphrase -FarmCredentials $FarmAcct } Initialize-SPResourceSecurity Install-SPService Install-SPFeature -AllExistingFeatures New-SPCentralAdministration -Port $Port -WindowsAuthProvider $Authentication Install-SPHelpCollection -All Install-SPApplicationContent Write-Host "Your SharePoint 2010 Farm has been created!" if ($ConfigType -eq "N") { $WebAppCreation = read-host "Would you like to provision a Web Application using the default Team Site Template? (Y/N)"; if ($WebAppCreation -eq "Y") { $HostHeaderQ = read-host "Would you like to specify a host header? (Y/N)"; if ($HostHeaderQ -eq "Y") { $HostHeader = read-host "Please specify a host header for your Web Application (ex. intranet.contoso.com)"; $URL = "http://"+$HostHeader; Write-Host "Creating your Web Application..."; New-SPWebApplication -Name "SharePoint 2010 Team Site" -Port 80 -HostHeader $FQDN -Url $URL -ApplicationPool "Content_AppPool" -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $FarmAcct.UserName) -DatabaseServer $DatabaseServer -DatabaseName $FarmName+"_TeamSite_ContentDB_01"; New-SPSite $URL -OwnerAlias $FarmAcct.UserName -Language 1033 -Template "STS#0" -Name "Team Site"; Write-Host "Configuration completed."; } else { Write-Host "Creating a Web Application using the default Team Site Template..." } } else { Write-Host "Configuration completed."; } } Write-Host "Press any key to continue..." $x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

70. $ £ ¥ € Virtualization Licensing

72. Standard Edition: One virtual guest (if host is dedicated to Virtualization role)

73. Enterprise Edition: Four virtual guests (if host is dedicated to Virtualization role) / Guests can be Std/Ent

74. DataCenter Edition: Unlimited Number of Virtual Guests / Per processor socket license

75. Virtualization OS licensing applies to Hyper-V or any virtual host software listed in SVVP (KB 897615)

76. System Center Virtualization Licensing

77. System Center Management Suite Standard Edition License: Gives DPM, OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, and VMM Agents for 1 server.

78. System Center Management Suite Enterprise Edition License: Gives unlimited DPM, OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, and VMM Agents for all virtual guests on the host.

81. Best performance comes from dedicated virtual hosts, dedicated passthrough NICs (RDM), and dedicated passthrough disks (RDM) and by not overcommitting resources.

82. Monitor performance metrics to look for bottlenecks

83. KB897615 outlines MS Support for 3rd Party Virtualization such as VMware and XenServer…

84. Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V technology gives high performance and is a very cost competitive option

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