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100% virtualized... ...on Apple hardware Mads Fog Albrechtslund vExpert 2014 Consultant, Businessmann A/S Twitter: @Hazenet 1 Situation before... 2 Situation before... 2 Situation before... 2 Situation after... 3 Physical restructure


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100% virtualized...

...on Apple hardware

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Mads Fog Albrechtslund vExpert 2014 Consultant, Businessmann A/S Twitter: @Hazenet

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Situation before...

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Situation before...

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Situation before...

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Situation after...

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Physical restructure

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  • Server virtualization did not exist for Apple
  • To much different hardware
  • A lot of the hardware was aged
  • 42U Rack
  • New hardware, on rack-shelfs
  • New network-equipment and a KVM-switch
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Reasons to virtualize

  • Easier administration
  • Uniform backup, regardless of OS and app
  • Fewer applications per OS
  • Rapid deployment of new machines for test or

dev

  • Less dependent of the physical hardware

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Parallels Bare-Metal Server

  • Training and certification, before access to the

software

  • Specific Mac edition, not the same installer as for

the PC-hardware

  • Latest Mac hardware where not fully supported

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ESXi support on Apple

  • Apple’s Xserve supported with the release of

VMware ESXi 5.0 in Aug. 2011

  • Unfortunately the Xserve was discontinued in
  • Jan. 2011
  • Apple’s Mac Pro supported with release of

VMware ESXi 5.1

  • Mac mini works with ESXi 5.0U2 and up, but is

unsupported by VMware

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http://tiny.cc/virtualosx

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Free Hardware

  • 3 Mac Pro’s (2x 2008-version and 1x 2009-

version)

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Free Hardware

  • 3 Mac Pro’s (2x 2008-version and 1x 2009-

version)

  • Extra NIC’s
  • Extra RAM
  • Synology RS812+
  • Eaton 5PX2200 UPS + Eaton Extended

Battery Module

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Licensing of OS X

  • Individual licenses for each installed OS
  • No licens-keys
  • Not tied to the hardware

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http://tiny.cc/virtualosx

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To-P2V or not To-P2V

  • P2V of OS X is not supported by VMware

Converter

  • Possible to do a manual conversion, via CLI

tools in VMware Fusion

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Template of OS X

  • No “sysprep” for OS X
  • Possible to do a clean-up script, but no

complete guide for what needs to be cleaned

  • Without “sysprep” unique IDs is not

reset

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Never booted OS X VMDK

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System Image Creator

http://tiny.cc/sic-tool http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk

OS X Installer DMG Read-Only Customized OS X DMG

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Never booted OS X VMDK

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Disk Utility

http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk

Read-Only Customized OS X DMG Read-Write Customized OS X DMG

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Never booted OS X VMDK

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Read-Write Customized OS X DMG

http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk

VMware Tools

Customized OS X DMG w/ VMware Tools

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Never booted OS X VMDK

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http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk

Customized OS X DMG w/ VMware Tools VMware Fusion CLI Thick VMDK

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Never booted OS X VMDK

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http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk

Thick VMDK

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Best practices settings

  • Deactivate all screensavers
  • Deactivate Energy-functions
  • Activate “Remote Administration” / VNC
  • 2 vCPU’s if Open Directory is to be used
  • Problems with resizing of virtuelle HFS+

partitions

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http://tiny.cc/virtualosx

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Special workloads

  • Virtuel firewall
  • EFI Fiery XF (Printer RIP) - Requires USB dongle
  • Odystar (PDF workflow) - Requires USB dongle

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Backup of virtual OS X

  • Possibility to use traditional “agent-based”

OS X products

  • Or use products that support VADP
  • Chose to go with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Because of File-Level Recovery from HFS+

partitions

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Questions?

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http://tiny.cc/virtualosx http://tiny.cc/osxvmdk http://tiny.cc/sic-tool

Mads Fog Albrechtslund vExpert 2014 Consultant, Businessmann A/S Twitter: @Hazenet

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