Best practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic
Data Center in an HP BladeSystem
environment
Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2 Overview............................................................................................................................................ 2 Hypervisor-based virtualization.............................................................................................................. 3 Microsoft Virtual Server 2005............................................................................................................ 3 Microsoft Hyper-V ............................................................................................................................ 4 Microsoft tools..................................................................................................................................... 5 Microsoft Windows Server 2008....................................................................................................... 5 Hyper-V .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager..................................................................................... 7 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.............................................................................. 8 Microsoft PowerShell ........................................................................................................................ 9 HP tools............................................................................................................................................ 10 HP Systems Insight Manager ........................................................................................................... 10 HP Onboard Administrator.............................................................................................................. 12 HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2).................................................................................................... 14 F5 tools ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Example of F5 in a virtualized environment....................................................................................... 18 F5 technologies leveraged .............................................................................................................. 19 PowerShell enabled iControl API .................................................................................................. 19 Virtualization capable health monitoring model ............................................................................. 19 Dynamic and intelligent load balancing ........................................................................................ 20 A Dynamic Data Center in an HP environment ...................................................................................... 20 F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager................................................................................................... 21 BladeSystem servers ................................................................................................................... 21 Hyper-V hosts............................................................................................................................. 22 Storage area network ................................................................................................................. 22 Management server.................................................................................................................... 22 Conclusion........................................................................................................................................ 22 For more information.......................................................................................................................... 23 Executive summary
This document provides a general reference for a proof of concept for Microsoft® Hyper-V in a dynamic data center scenario utilizing HP BladeSystem c-Class technology. Contained in this reference is an overview of what components HP recommends for implementing a Microsoft Hyper-V dynamic... [download for more]
