Shared VHDX

Hyper-V Replica

with Extended

Replication

Online Backup

Simplify

infrastructure

maintenance

Robust, reliable & resilient infrastructure foundation for

running continuous services

Provide flexibility for

application-level

resiliency

Cluster Aware Updating

Hyper-V Recovery

Manager

Guest Clustering

Failover Clustering

NIC Teaming

Failover Priority & Affinity Rules

Integration with cloud services

Provide granular solutions for enabling

disaster recovery

• Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox

• Provides local or remote management through Windows PowerShell or UI

• Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters

• Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network adapters whilst providing traffic failover in the event of NIC outage

• Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent and independent

• Multiple traffic distribution algorithms: Hyper-V Switch Port, Hashing and Dynamic Load Balancing

Integrated Solution for

Network Card Resiliency

Virtual adapters

Team network adapter

Team network adapter

• Massive scalability with support for 64 physical nodes & 8,000 VMs

• VMs automatically failover & restart on physical host outage

• Enhanced Cluster Shared Volumes

• Cluster VMs on SMB 3.0 Storage

• Dynamic Quorum & Witness

• Reduced AD dependencies

• Drain Roles – Maintenance Mode

• VM Drain on Shutdown

• VM Network Health Detection

• Enhanced Cluster Dashboard

Integrated Solution for

Resilient Virtual Machines Cluster Dynamic Quorum Configuration

• Upon service failure, Service Control Manager inside guest will attempt to restart the service

• After 3 failures, Cluster Service will trigger event log entry 1250

• VM State = Application in VM Critical

• VM can be automatically restarted on the same node

• Upon subsequent failure, VM can be failed over and restarted on alternative node

• Extensible by Partners

Monitor Health of Applications

Inside Clustered VMs

Hyper-V cluster with VMs on each node Upon failover, VMs restart in priority order

• Failover Priority ensures certain VMs start before others on the cluster

• Affinity rules allow VMs to reside on certain hosts in the cluster

• AntiAffinityClassNames helps to keep virtual machines apart on separate physical cluster nodes

• AntiAffinityClassNames exposed through VMM as Availability Set

Ensure Optimal VM Placement

and Restart Operations Anti-Affinity keeps related VMs apart

• Reduces server downtime and user disruption by orchestration of cluster node updates

• Maintains service availability without impacting cluster quorum

• Detects required updates and moves workloads off nodes for updates

• Uses Windows Update Agent or extensible plug-in

Integrated Patching Solution

for Hyper-V Clusters

Windows Server Cluster

Current Workload

Third-party plug-in for updates

U

• Full support for running clustered workloads on Hyper-V host cluster

• Guest Clusters that require shared storage can utilize software iSCSI, Virtual FC or SMB

• Full support for Live Migration of Guest Cluster Nodes

• Full Support for Dynamic Memory of Guest Cluster Nodes

• Restart Priority, Possible & Preferred Ownership, & AntiAffinityClassNames help ensure optimal operation

Complete Flexibility for

Deploying App-Level HA Guest Cluster running on a Hyper-V Cluster Guest cluster node restarts on physical host failure Guest cluster nodes supported with Live Migration

• VHDX files can be presented to multiple VMs simultaneously, as shared storage

• VM sees shared virtual SAS disk

• Unrestricted number of VMs can connect to a shared VHDX file

• Utilizes SCSI-persistent reservations

• VHDX can reside on a Cluster Shared Volume on block storage, or on File-based storage

• Supports both Dynamic and Fixed VHDX

Guest Clustering No Longer

Bound to Storage Topology Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

• Allows incremental backup of virtual hard disks

• Is Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)-aware

• Backs up the Hyper-V environment

• Requires no backup agent inside virtual machines

• Saves network bandwidth

• Reduces backup sizes

• Saves disk space

• Lowers backup cost

Integrated Virtual Machine

Backup Capabilities Sunday Monday

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Before backup During backup After backup Before backup During backup After backup

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• Simple installation and configuration

• Ability to leverage Windows Azure Backup cloud services to back up data

• Use either the Windows Azure Backup Service Agent or the Windows Azure Backup PowerShell cmdlets

• Reduced cost for backup storage and management

• Options for third-party cloud services

• Ideal for small businesses, branch offices, and departmental business needs

Windows Server Backup

Integrated with Cloud Services

Registration

• Sign up

• Billing

Third-party cloud

• Sign up

• Billing

Windows Azure

Backup service

Windows Azure

Backup portal

Third-party online

backup service

Third-party online

backup portal

Inbox engine

Inbox UI

Windows Server 2012

R2 backup (extensible) Windows Server

2012 R2

Agents

• Windows Azure Backup

• Third-party agents

IT Pro

Registration

Backup/

Restore

Once Hyper-V Replica is enabled, VMs begin replication

• Affordable in-box business continuity and disaster recovery

• Configurable replication frequencies of 30 seconds, 5 minutes and 15 minutes

• Secure replication across network

• Agnostic of hardware on either site

• No need for other virtual machine replication technologies

• Automatic handling of live migration

• Simple configuration and management

Replicate Hyper-V VMs from a

Primary to a Replica site Once replicated, changes replicated on chosen frequency Upon site failure, VMs can be started on secondary site

Replication configured from primary to secondary

• Once a VM has been successfully replicated to the replica site, replica can be replicated to a 3rd location

• Chained Replication

• Extended Replica contents match the original replication contents

• Extended Replica replication frequencies can differ from original replica

• Useful for scenarios such as SMB -> Service Provider -> Service Provider DR Site

Replicate to 3rd Location for

Extra Level of Resiliency Replication can be enabled on the 1st replica to a 3rd site

• Protect important services by coordinating replication and recovery of VMM-managed private clouds

• Automates replication of VMs within clouds between sites

• Hyper-V Replica provides replication, orchestrated by Hyper-V Recovery Manager

• Can be used for planned, unplanned and testing failover between sites

• Integrate with scripts for customization of recovery plans

Orchestrate protection and

recovery of private clouds

Ease of Management & Operations

• PXE boot from Optimized vNIC

• Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive

Dynamic Storage

• VMs have UEFI firmware with support for GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB

• Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online Resize & increased performance

Security

• Removal of emulated devices reduces attack surface

• VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot

VMs built on Optimized,

Software-Based Devices

Improved VMBus Capabilities enable:

• Audio over VMConnect

• Copy & Paste between Host & Guest

• Smart Card Redirection

• Remote Desktop Over VMBus

Enabled for Hyper-V on both Server & Client

Fully supports Live Migration of VMs

Enhancing VMConnect for

the Richest Experience

• Activate VMs without managing product keys on a VM by VM basis

• VMs activated on start-up

• Reporting & Tracking built-in

• Activate VMs in remote locations, with or without internet connectivity

• Works with VM Migration

• Generic AVMA key for VMs activates against a valid, activated Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host

Simplifying Activation of

Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs

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