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 ofVMware’s success revolves around the growth in the ecosystem
 The ecosystem has enabled customers to easily fill gaps inVMware’s 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 original’s dominance

6. HYPER-V’S 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-V’S ECOSYSTEM
 Hyper-V’s 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-V’S 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 Microsoft’s Hyper-V ecosystem
 Microsoft’s 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-V’S 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
 Don’t we have a Lego Star Destroyer to
giveaway?