Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2 – Editions Overview

FoundationNo virtualization

EssentialsSmall Business, Cloud Enabled

Standard*Low density or no virtualization

Datacenter*High density virtualization

Per Server

Per Server

Processor + CALs

Processor + CALs

• Limited to 1 processor only

• Up to 15 users

• Up to 2 processors only

• Up to 25 users

• Full product features (parity with Datacenter)

• No processor limit

Windows Server2012 R2

Foundation

Windows Server2012 R2 Essentials

Windows Server2012 R2 Standard

Windows Server2012 R2

Datacenter

As Guest OS Only

Two virtual instances

Unlimited

License Type FeaturesVirtualization

Rights

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Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012

Michel Luescher, Senior Consultant Microsoft Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager Microsoft

Agenda

Hyper-V ReplicaVM-MobilityNetworkingCross Platform Migration

15+ years of advanced datacenter development Global scale, 200+ services, 24x7

The world’s biggest apps

Experience counts

Scale enhancementsSystem Resource

Maximum numberImproveme

nt factorWindows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012

Host

Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×

Physical memory 1 terabyte 4 terabytes 4×

Virtual processors per host 512 1’024 2×

Virtual Machine

Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×

Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 terabyte 16×

Active virtual machines 384 1’024 2.7×

Virtual disk size 2 terabytes 64 terabytes 32×

ClusterNodes 16 64 4×

Virtual machines 1’000 4’000 4×

VM MobilityShared Nothing Live Migration, Multiple Live Migrations, Storage Migration

Virtual Machine Mobility

Manage virtual machines independently from underlying infrastructure

Handle changing needs on demand

Live migration within a cluster

Shared-nothing live migration

Hyper‑V Replica

Live migration of storage

Reads and writes go to the source VHD

Reads and writes go to the source VHD. Live Migration

BeginsDisk contents are copied to

new destination VHDDisk writes are mirrored; outstanding changes are

replicatedLive Migration ContinuesLive Migration Completes

Shared Nothing Live Migration

Destination

Hyper‑VVirtualmachine

Target deviceSource device

Virtualmachine

Source Hyper‑V

IP connection

Configuration dataMemory contentModified memory pagesLive Migration

MEMO

RYME

MORY

VHDVHD

Increase flexibility of virtual machine placement

Reduce downtime for migrations across cluster boundaries

Increase administrator efficiencyBenefits

DemoShared Nothing Live Migration

Hyper-V ReplicaBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery

A-Synchronous Replication Replication changes are sent every 5

minutes Additional recovery points can be

configured Incremental VSS copy for Application

consistency IP Injection for Replica

Replication Workflow

Log File 2

Primary Host

VHDLog File 1

Fixed Replication Frequency

Log to VHD converter

Driver

APP X

Primary VM

VHD

Replica VM

Replica Host

Enterprise Scenario OverviewPrimary Site

SQL VM IIS VM CRM VM Exchange VM

Replica SiteSQL

Replica VM

IIS Replica VM

CRM Replica

VM

SMB File Share SAN

Exchange Replica VM

OnPremise

SQL VM IIS VM CRM VM Exchange VM

Hosted CloudSQL

Replica VM

IIS Replica VM

CRM Replica

VM

SMB File Share

Exchange Replica VM

Hoster Fabric

SPF

Hosted Cloud Scenario

Considerations 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

DemoHyper-V Replica

NetworkNetwork Teaming, QoS, SMB3

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

Mode

QoS Policies Use QoS to enable multi-tenancy and

avoid overprovisioning in you datacenter

Minimum and Maximum Bandwidth options

Weight for Minimum Bandwidth allows oversubscription

DCB

Possible New Configurations What if I only have 1 Gbit/s Nics?

What if I have two 10 Gbit/s Nics?

10 Gbit/s LBFO Scenario – Part1

Hyper-V Extensible Switch

VM 1

VM n

Live Migration

Cluster / CSV

Management

VM 1 VM n

Network Team

Storage

10 Gbit/s LBFO Scenario – Part2

Live Migration - tnic

Cluster / CSV - tnic

VM 1 VM n

Team 1

Hyper-V Extensible

Switch

Team 2

Management - tnic

SMB 3 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

DemoNetworking, SMB 3

Cross Platform MigrationVirtual Machine Converter

Microsoft VM Converter Converts and Deploys Virtual Machines from VMware hosts to

Hyper-V Converts the virtual disks Converts the memory, virtual processor configuration, adds network interface

Supports conversion of Virtual Machines from: VMware vSphere 4.1 (if managed by vCenter 4.1) VMware vSphere 4.1 VMware vSphere 5.0

Uninstalls VMware tools prior to conversion Creates Snapshot before uninstallation for easy fallback

Scriptable command-line interfaces Wizard-driven GUI

MVMC In Action

More FeaturesSo much that we just touched the surface

Top of the ICEBERG 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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— Jonathan Hassel, Computerworld

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500,000+pre-release downloads

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— Jason Perlow, ZDNet

200+ early deployment program customers

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A dynamite product.

Al Gillen, Vice President, International Data

Corporation (IDC), IDG News Service

Windows Server 2012

Excitement

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