IT Pro Day

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

The next chapter
Michel Luescher, Senior Consultant Microsoft
Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager Microsoft

Hyper-V Replica
VM-Mobility
Networking
Cross Platform Migration

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Agenda

15+ years of
advanced datacenter
development
Global scale, 200+
services, 24x7
The worlds
biggest apps
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Maximum number
System

Host

Virtual
Machine
Cluster

Improvement
factor

Resource

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Logical processors on hardware

64

320

Physical memory

1 terabyte

4 terabytes

Virtual processors per host

512

1024

Virtual processors per virtual machine

64

16

Memory per virtual machine

64 GB

1 terabyte

16

Active virtual machines

384

1024

2.7

Virtual disk size

2 terabytes

64 terabytes

32

Nodes

16

64

Virtual machines

1000

4000

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Shared Nothing Live Migration, Multiple Live Migrations, Storage Migration

VM Mobility
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Manage virtual machines independently

from underlying infrastructure

Live migration
within a cluster

Live migration of
storage

Handle changing needs on demand

Shared-nothing live
migration

Hyper-V
Replica

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Benefits

Reduce downtime
for migrations
across cluster
boundaries

Increase
administrator
efficiency

Source
Hyper-V
Virtual
machine

MEMORY

Disk
Reads
Disk
contents
writes
and writes
are
arecopied
mirrored;
go totothe
new
Live
Live Migration
Migration Completes
Continues
outstanding
source VHD.
destination
source
changes
Live Migration
VHD
VHD
are replicated
Begins

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Virtual
machine

IP connection

Source device

Increase flexibility
of virtual machine
placement

Destination
Hyper-V

Live Migration
Configuration
data
Modified
memory
pages
Memory
content

Target device

Demo
Shared Nothing Live Migration

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Hyper-V Replica

 Replication changes are sent every 5 minutes

Additional recovery points can be configured
Incremental VSS copy for Application

consistency
IP Injection for Replica

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Fixed Replication
Frequency
Primary VM

Replica VM

APP X
Log to VHD
converter
Driver

VHD
VHD

Log File 2

Primary Host

Log File 1

Replica Host

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Primary Site
SQL VM

IIS VM

CRM VM

SMB File
Share

Replica Site
Exchange VM

SQL
Replica
VM

IIS Replica
VM

SAN

CRM
Replica
VM

Exchange
Replica VM

OnPremise
SQL VM

IIS VM

CRM VM

Hosted Cloud
Exchange VM

SQL
Replica
VM

IIS Replica
VM

CRM
Replica
VM

Exchange
Replica VM

SPF

Hoster Fabric
SMB File
Share

Place Page file on a separate VHDX

Network QOS for Replica Traffic
How to send Initial Replica?
Do I need more than one Replica listener?
Replica Folder name as GUIDs
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Demo
Hyper-V Replica

Network Teaming, QoS, SMB3

Network

Up to 32 Network Cards
Unlimited Virtual Interfaces (t-nics)
Hyper-V distribution mode available
Switch Independent and dependent Mode

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 Use QoS to enable multi-tenancy and avoid

overprovisioning in you datacenter

Minimum and Maximum Bandwidth options
Weight for Minimum Bandwidth allows
oversubscription
DCB
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 What if I only have 1 Gbit/s Nics?

What if I have two 10 Gbit/s Nics?

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VM
1

VM 1

VM
n

VM n

Live
Migration
Cluster /
CSV

Hyper-V Extensible Switch

Manageme
nt

Network Team

Storage

VM 1

VM n

Live Migration tnic

Cluster / CSV tnic

Hyper-V
Extensible
Switch

Management tnic

Team 1

Team 2

 SMB for Server Applications, Hyper-V & SQL

Active SMB File Sharing with Scale Out File Server
Scale, fast and efficient storage access with SMB

Direct (RDMA up to 54Gbit/s!!)

Fault Tolerance with Multichannel SMB
VSS for file shares
SMB Encryption

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Demo
Networking, SMB 3

Virtual Machine Converter

Cross Platform Migration

 Converts and Deploys Virtual Machines from VMware hosts to

Hyper-V

Supports conversion of Virtual Machines from:

Uninstalls VMware tools prior to conversion
Scriptable command-line interfaces
Wizard-driven GUI
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So much that we just touched the surface

More Features

CDN
Extensible Switch
SR-IOV
Dynamic VMQ
Dynamic RSS
Router Guard
DHCP Guard
IP Sec Offload
Guest Fibre Channel Adapter
Guest NUMA
Dynamic Memory Minimum
Memory

Multiple Live Migrations

Cross Cluster Live Migration
CAU
CSV CACHE
Guest Application Monitoring
Startup Priorities
VHDX, TRIM/Unmap
ODX
Online Snapshot Merge
And much more

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Windows
Server 2012
Excitement

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