You need to identify which component or components of Tier 2 of App1 can be deployed by using Server App-V.
Which component or components should you identify?
(Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)
Case Study Title (Case Study):
Case Study 4 – Litware Inc
Overview
Litware, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company.
Litware has an office in Montreal. Litware has a marketing department and a research department.
Existing Environment
Network Infrastructure
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named litwareinc.com. The domain contains 1,000 physical servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2. All of
the servers are located in a leased data center that has a high-bandwidth, low-latency network. The data center contains third-party iSCSI SAN storage devices that
support an SMI-S provider.
Application Infrastructure
Users in the research department use multiple instances of a three-tier application named Appl. App1 consists of the components shown in the following table.
The Web Server (IIS) server role, WMI providers, Windows services, Windows drivers, and web applications will be installed on the servers that host Tier 2.
Problem Statements
Litware identifies the following issues:
– The cost of leasing data center space is increasing steadily.- The research department users report that it takes too long to provision new instances of Appl.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Litware plans to deploy 400 additional servers that will run Windows Server 2008 R2. The servers will be configured as shown in the following table.
Litware also plans to deploy the following System Center 2012 components:
– Orchestrator
– App Controller
– Service Manager
– Operations Manager
– Data Protection Manager (DPM)
– Virtualization Machine Manager (VMM)
Litware plans to provide the research department users with the ability to deploy instances of Appl.
Private Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
Litware identifies the following requirements for the planned private cloud infrastructure:
– VMM must be available if a server or a service fails.
– Virtual machines must be provisioning by using SAN copy cloning.
– The implementation of App Controller must support single sign-on.
– The implementation of Service Manager must support French and English.
– The implementation of VMM must support the provisioning of virtual machines by using SAN copy.
– Virtual machines hosted on Hyper-V failover clusters must remain available during the installation of Windows updates.
– Physical servers that have workloads that are suitable for a virtualized environment must be virtualized. Performance
data must be taken into account when identifying which servers must be virtualized.
Private Cloud Integration Requirements
Litware identifies the following requirements for integrating the System Center 2012 components:- Incidents in Service Manager must be resolved automatically, whenever possible.
– Alerts generated by Operations Manager must trigger incidents in Service Manager.
– Operations Manager alerts triggered by VMM events must be remediated automatically, whenever possible.
– All of the Orchestrator components responsible for executing the activities of Service Manager workflows must be
highly available.
Private Cloud Services Requirements
Litware identifies the following requirements for managing services in the private cloud:
– App1 must be deployed by using a VMM service template.
– The Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as a highly available virtual machine.
– The research department users must use App Controller to deploy virtual machines and services.
– The virtual machines deployed by the research department users must be hosted on servers in the research department.
– The virtual machines in Tier 1 of App1 must be configured as cluster nodes by using the Network Load Balancing (NLB)
feature.
– A web application named WA1 in Tier 2 of App1 must use a connection string that points to a Microsoft SQL Server
database in Tier 3 of App1.
– The software components included in Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as Microsoft Server Application Visualization
(Server App-V) packages, whenever possible.
A.
The Web Server (IIS) server role
B.
Web applications
C.
Windows services
D.
WMI providers
E.
Drivers
Explanation:
Some of the features supported by Server App-V are the following:
Windows Services: Server App-V includes the possibility to virtualize Windows Services in a different approach than the one we’ve seenin Desktop App-V. With
Server App-V, the service is installed and placed in the OS as a normal installation of the server application. Thisway we can monitor it as any local service.
Web applications hosted in IIS: We can virtualize web applications entirely (web sites, virtual directories and application pools) on IIS 6,IIS 7 and IIS 7.5. WMI:
Server App-V Sequencer also captures the WMI providers and/or classes created during an installation. SQL Services Reporting Services: Even though SQL
Server engine is not supported for virtualization, the applications that install SQLServices Reporting Services (SSRS) are supported. COM/DCOM/COM+ objects:
These components are registered in the deployment process, this way other applications in the server canaccess them.Local users and Groups: If the application is creating users and/or groups during the installation, the Server App-V Sequencer captures itand maintains, including
SID, for next deployments. Not all applications are supported for use with Server App-V. Applications such as antivirus software thatrequire device or kernel driver
support are not supported. Server App-V is primarily designed for use withbusiness applications or the business tiers of multi-tiered applications. Consequently
some large serverapplications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft SharePoint are notsupported. While there is no list of
supported applications for use with Server App-V, Server App-V has beenoptimized to create virtual application packages for applications with the following
attributes:
State persisted to local disk
Microsoft Windows Services
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Registry
COM+ / DCOM
Text-based Configuration Files
WMI Providers
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Local Users and Groups
Scheduled Tasks
Microsoft SQL Server Databases