I’ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II

Greg Shields, MVP, vExpert

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I’ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II

Greg Shields, MVP, vExpert, CTP

Senior Partner and Principal Technologist,

Concentrated Technology, LLC

http://ConcentratedTech.com

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

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.

…Now What?

Are you really ready?

That environment can host virtual machines.

But can it host your most-critical workloads?

…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?

…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.

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

Now What #1:

Understand Hyper-V’s Objects to Monitor

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.

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

Now What #2:

Track Resource Utilization, Supply & Demand

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. Operating System

Applications

Hypervisor

Virtual Host

Storage

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.

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

Now What #3:

Identify Performance Issues & Take Action

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?

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.

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

Now What #4:

Get Assistance in Automating these Activities

You can’t do this unaided...

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

Now What #5:

Figure out Per-Object RTO/RPO. Meet it.

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?

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.

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.

Now What #6:

Get Comfortable with VSS

Now What #6:

Get Comfortable with VSS

A triple-headed beast of a service…

Volume Shadow

Copy Service

VSS RequestorVSS Writer

VSS Provider

Disk Volume

Backup ApplicationMicrosoft Exchange

SQL Server

Oracle

Active Directory

Others...

Operating System

Storage Array

Now What #6:

Get Comfortable with VSS

A triple-times-triple-headed beast of a Hyper-V service…

Volume Shadow

Copy Service

VSS RequestorVSS Writer

VSS Provider

Disk Volume

Windows Server

BackupHyper-V Writer

Operating System

Storage Array

VSS Writer

Virtual Machine

Microsoft Exchange

Etc...

Now What #7:

Test Every Backup

Now What #7:

Test Every Backup

Forgetting to test the backups:

The IT pro’s greatest Resume Producing Event.

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.

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.

Now What #8:

Remember to Add Backup Jobs for New VMs

Now What #8:

Remember to Add Backup Jobs for New VMs

Ahhh, the joys of self-service.

Ahhh, the pain.

Now What #9:

Automate and (Almost) Forget It

Now What #9:

Automate and (Almost) Forget It

Similar to Volume 1’s Now What? questions,

the answer here is automation.

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.

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

I’ve Got Hyper-V, Now What? Volumes I & II

Greg Shields, MVP, vExpert, CTP

Senior Partner and Principal Technologist,

Concentrated Technology, LLC

http://ConcentratedTech.com

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