Understanding Hyper-V Replica: Performance, Networking and Automation Raghavendran GururajanCharles Joy

MDC-B373

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• Overview of Hyper-V Replica• Infrastructure Planning• Deployment Considerations and

Automation• What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2

Session Objectives and Takeaways

Hyper-V Replica - Windows Server 2012

Simple Affordable Flexible

Inbox Replication DR Scenarios

Application Agnostic Storage Agnostic

Deployment Scenarios

Replication between two data centers

DR as a Service

Customer 1 Customer 2

Hoster’s Data Center

Infrastructure Planning

Infrastructure Planning

Customer Asks:• How much network bandwidth is

required?• How much storage is required?• Is my IOPS provisioning sufficient?• Does Hyper-V Replica impact CPU,

Memory?

Demo

Capacity Planning

Download the Capacity Planner from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39057

Storage

Storage IOPS

Network

Network Throttling• How do I use specific bandwidth for replica traffic?

• Use Windows Server 2012 QoS to throttle replication traffic

• Throttling based on the destination subnetNew-NetQosPolicy “Replication Traffic to 10.0.0.0/8” –DestinationAddress 10.0.0.0/8 –MinBandwidthWeightAction 40

• Throttling based on the destination portNew-NetQosPolicy “Replication Traffic to 8080” –DestinationPort 8080 –ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 100000

Demo

Network Throttling

Network Compression• Compression on by default• WAN optimizers on top of built-in compression

• Whitepaper available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36786

Deployment

• How do I transfer the initial VHDs?• Online Initial Replication• Out of band – Export and Import IR package• Backup/Restore with Resync

• Where do I place the replica VHDs?• Default storage location• Storage migrate to custom location before IR• Backup/Restore

Deployment Considerations

• How should I monitor replication?• Replication Health and State• Last Synchronized Time• Average Replication Latency• Perfmon counters and Event

logs

Deployment Considerations

• How are replication failures handled?• Network disconnects -

Automatic retry and resume semantics

• Out of sync - Resynchronization

Deployment Considerations

• What happens when VMs migrate?• Migration of primary VMs• Live migration and storage migration of logs• Replication resumes post migration of VMs

• Migration of replica VMs• Primary server authorization

• What is my backup strategy?•Backup from Hyper-V Primary Server

Deployment Considerations

• What’s running in the guest? • Hyper-V support matrix including Linux• Guest IP injection • http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831531.aspx• Support for Virtualized AD• Recommended: AD with WS 2012

• Support for SQL workloads• Required: EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks

Guest Dependencies

• Failover Actions (Test/Planned/Unplanned)•Failover to latest or older point in time•Static IP injection or DHCP or Network virtualization•Failback•Split brain scenarios

Failover Considerations

Demo

Charles Joy

Runbook Execution –Hyper-V Replica Orchestrated Planned Failover (and Failback)

Windows Server 2012 R2

2012 – DR Platform 2012 R2 – Cloud Scale DR

Hyper-V Replica 2012Hyper-V Replica 2012

R2

Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM)

DR Journey

Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM)

Hyper-V Recovery Service

DR Orchestration

DR

Orchestratio

n

SCVMM

Compute

Storage Networks

DRP

Primary Site

SCVMM

Compute

Storage

Networks

DRP

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) Overview

Secondary Site

Extensible Data Channel (Hyper-V Replica)

What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2

30 Sec ReplicationExtended

Replication

Linux VM Enhancements

Seamless Upgrade

Demo

30 Seconds Replication Frequency

Demo

Extended Replication

Positioning – What Hyper-V Replica isn’t?Solution Use Cases Replica Position

SAN Replication

• High availability with zero data loss • DR for Virtualized workloads

• 30 Sec – 15 min

Live Migration • Load balancing • Server Patching

• Multi site • Complements

Storage Migration

• Storage out of space• Storage upgrade

• Ongoing Replication• Complements

Guest Clustering

• Guest application patching• Guest application failure

• Not compatible

Backup solutions

• Data recovery• Archival for compliance, auditing

• Disaster Recovery only

System Center + HRM

• Manage @ Scale • Platform component of Enterprise DR

Related contentMDC-B338 - Overview of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

MDC-B306 - Implementing Enterprise-Scale Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica, Windows Network Virtualization and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1

MDC-H203 - Getting Started with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replication (Hands-on lab)

Track resourcesLearn more about Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, download the datasheet and evaluation bits on http://aka.ms/WS2012R2Learn more about System Center 2012 R2 Preview, download the datasheet and evaluation bits on http://aka.ms/SC2012R2

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