Yury Kissin Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and SCVMM 2012

Agenda What's New in Hyper-V 2012 Storage Improvements Networking Improvements VM Mobility Improvements SCVMM 2012 Architecture Concepts Fabric Management Services and Applications Private Cloud Management

Hyper-V Scale Comparison Massive Scale in the Box Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 HW Logical Processor Support 16 LPs64 LPs320 LPs Physical Memory Support1 TB 4 TB Cluster Scale16 Nodes up to 1000 VMs 64 Nodes up to 4000 VMs Virtual Machine Processor Support Up to 4 VPs Up to 64 VPs VM MemoryUp to 64 GB Up to 1 TB Live MigrationYes, one at a time Yes, with no limits. As many as hardware will allow. Live Storage MigrationNo. Quick Storage Migration via SCVMM Yes, with no limits. As many as hardware will allow. Servers in a Cluster16 64 VP:LP Ratio8:18:1 for Server 12:1 for Client (VDI) No limits. As many as hardware will allow.

What's New in Hyper-V 2012 Feature/functionalityNew or Updated Storage MigrationNew Storage on SMB 3.0New Virtual Fiber ChannelNew Virtual Hard Disk FormatUpdated Dynamic MemoryUpdated PowershellNew Hyper-V ReplicaNew VM ImportUpdated Live MigrationUpdated Virtual Machine SnapshotsUpdated Client Hyper-VNew

Storage Improvements Disk Types Converting Disks Location Considerations of Virtual Hard Disks Storage on SMB 3 File Shares Fibre Channel Support in Hyper-V Storage Migration Demonstration: Managing Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V

Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V 2012 Windows Server 2012 introduces the new VHDX format for virtual hard disks, which: Supports bigger disks – Up to 64TB Protection against data corruption during power failures by logging updates to the VHDX metadata structures Supports better alignment when deployed to a large sector disk Allows larger block size for dynamic and differencing disks, which provides better performance – 4K cluster disks

Converting Disks You can perform the following maintenance operations on virtual hard disks: Convert the disk from fixed to dynamic Convert the disk from dynamic to fixed Convert a virtual hard disk in VHD format to VHDX Convert a virtual hard disk in VHDX format to VHD

Location Considerations of Virtual Hard Disks When planning the location of virtual hard disks, ensure the following: Virtual hard disk files are stored on a volume that is configured for redundancy Virtual hard disk files are stored on high-performance storage Virtual hard disk files configured for growth should be placed on volumes with adequate space

Storage on SMB 3 File Shares Hyper-V can store the following on SMB 3 files shares: Configuration files Vurtual hard disk files (in VHD and/or VHDX format) Snapshot files ** SMB 3 is available in Windows Server 2012 only, and not in earlier Windows Server versions

Fibre Channel Support in Hyper-V The Fiber Channel Adapter: Allows a virtual machine to directly connect to a Fiber Channel SAN Requires that the Hyper-V host has a Fiber Channel HBA Requires that the Fiber Channel HBA driver supports virtual Fibre Channel

Storage Migration Storage Migration technology enables you to move a virtual machine and its storage to another location without downtime. During migration the virtual machine hard drive is copied from one location to another Changes are written to both source and destination drive You can move virtual machine storage to same host, another host, or server message block share (SMB) Storage and virtual machine configuration can be in different locations

Live Storage Migration Enables Storage Load Balancing No downtime servicing Leverages Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Hyper-V Virtual Machine Source Device Destination Device VHD VHD Stack

Demo! Demo! Managing Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V

Hyper-V Storage No Limits & Dynamic Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 Live Storage MigrationNo. Quick Storage Migration via SCVMM Yes, with no limits. As many as hardware will allow. VMs on File StorageNo Yes, SMB 3.0 Guest Fiber ChannelNo Yes Virtual Disk FormatVHD up to 2 TB VHDX up to 64 TB VM Guest ClusteringYes, via iSCSI Yes, via iSCSI or FC Native 4k Disk SupportNo Yes Live VHD MergeNo, offline. Yes Live New ParentNo Yes Secure Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) No Yes

What's New in Hyper-V Networking? NIC Teaming Performance and Acceleration Security

NIC Teaming We can connect up to 32 NICs in a single team. That’s a lot of bandwidth! NICs in a single team can be different models from the same manufacturer or even NICs from different manufacturers Multiple teaming modes: Generic/Static Teaming requires the switches to be configured for the team and isn’t dynamic LACP is self-discovering and enables dynamic expansion and reduction of the NICs in the team Switch independent works with just a single switch – switches have no knowledge of the team.

Performance and Acceleration Bandwidth Management allows you to easily reserve minimum or set maximums to provide QoS controls to manage to a service level agreement Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) uses hardware packet filtering to deliver packet data from an external virtual machine network directly to virtual machines to reduce the overhead of copying thru the Management OS IPsec Task Offload moves this workload from the main computer's CPU to a dedicated processor on the network adapter SR-IOV is a specification that allows a PCIe device to appear to be multiple separate physical PCIe devices

Security DHCP Guard is a security feature that drops DHCP server messages from unauthorized virtual machines pretending to be DHCP servers. Router Guard is a security feature that drops Router Advertisement and Redirection messages from unauthorized virtual machines pretending to be routers.

Demo! Demo! Managing Networking

What's New in VM Mobility? NIC Teaming Performance and Acceleration Security Best Practices

Complete mobility. Simply the best. Live Migration with High Availability Live Migrate among servers in a failover cluster SMB Live Migration Live Migrate VMs among servers with SMB storage Live Storage Migration Live Migrate VM storage from one volume to another without downtime Share Nothing (SNO) Live Migration Live Migrate VMs among servers with nothing, but an Ethernet connection

Hyper-V Replica Disaster Recovery Scenarios: Planned, Unplanned and Test Failover Pre-configuration for IP settings for primary/remote location Key Features: RPO/RTO in minutes Seamless integration with Hyper-V and Clustering Automatically handles all VM mobility scenarios (e.g. Live migration) Supports heterogonous storage between primary and recovery Integrates with Volume Shadow Services (VSS)

Hyper-V Replica

Easy to Setup Via wizard Or, via PowerShell Works with your current hardware All you need is two connected servers running Windows Server 2012 No Guest Dependencies

SCVMM 2012

SCVMM 2012 Architecture Concepts Fabric Management Services and Applications Private Cloud Management User Roles and Management Service Provisioning

Virtual Machine Manager Management Server Virtual Machine Manager Management Server VMM Connector Windows PowerShell Self Service Web Portal Console Management Interfaces Operations Manager Management Group Operations Manager Management Group VMM 2008 R2 - Architecture VMware vCenter VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters VMM Library Server VMM Library Server Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters

Virtual Machine Manager Management Server Virtual Machine Manager Management Server VMM Connector Windows PowerShell Self Service Web Portal Console Management Interfaces (Virtualization Abstraction, Storage, Networking) Windows Software Update Services Server (WSUS) Windows Software Update Services Server (WSUS) Windows Deployment Services Server (WDS) Operations Manager Management Group Operations Manager Management Group VMware vCenter VMM Architecture VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters VMM Library Server VMM Library Server Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters Storage and Network management Citrix XenServer Hosts and Clusters

Services Cloud Fabric Hyper-V Bare Metal Provisioning Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Network Management Storage Management Update Management Dynamic Optimization Power Management Monitoring Integration Fabric Management System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Services Cloud Fabric Hyper-V Bare Metal Provisioning Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Network Management Storage Management Update Management Dynamic Optimization Power Management Monitoring Integration Fabric Management

Fabric Management Physical Servers Manage multiple hypervisors – Hyper-V, VMware, Xen Server hardware management – IPMI, DCMI, SMASH, Custom via Provider Host provisioning – from bare metal to Hyper-V to Cluster provisioning Networking Define Logical Networks using VLANs and Subnets per datacenter location Address management for Static IPs, Load Balancer VIPs and MAC addresses Automated provisioning of Load Balancers via Provider (F5 and Citrix) Storage Storage Management using SMI-S (Netapp, HP, EMC) Discover storage arrays and pools Classify storage based on throughput and capabilities Discover or configure LUNs and assign to hosts and clusters Rapid provisioning of VMs using snapshot cloning of LUNs

Fabric Management Update Management of Fabric Servers Update operation control (on-demand scan and on-demand remediation) Updating a Hyper-V cluster is fully automated/orchestrated Integrated with Windows Server Update Server Dynamic Optimization (DO) Cluster level workload balancing scheme to optimize VM performance Leverages live migration to move workloads Power Optimization (PO) Powers down servers to optimize power utilization Leverages live migration to pack more VMs per host Enhanced Placement Over 100 placement checks/validation Support for custom placement rules Multi-VM deployment for Services

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Services Cloud Fabric Hyper-V Bare Metal Provisioning Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Network Management Storage Management Update Management Dynamic Optimization Power Management Monitoring Integration Fabric Management

Services Management Service Templates Used to model a multi-tier application Source of truth for deployed service configuration Applications Built-in support for Web deploy, Server App-V, SQL DAC Custom command execution for other application packages Image-based OS separated from apps Composed during deployment Servicing Change the template and then apply that change to deployed instances Upgrade domains ensures application availability during servicing

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Services Cloud Fabric Hyper-V Bare Metal Provisioning Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Network Management Storage Management Update Management Dynamic Optimization Power Management Monitoring Integration Fabric Management

Private Cloud Management Private Cloud Abstraction that enables opaque usage model for service and VM management Fabric Compute: Logical grouping of hosts or host clusters in host groups Storage: Storage Classifications, Pools, Providers and Arrays Network: Logical Networks, IP/MAC Address Pools, Load Balancers, VIP Templates Delegation - User Role Quota: Defines per-user limits on compute, memory, storage, number of VMs

Cloud Capacity Cloud can expose Aggregate capacity of underlying resources (vCPU, Memory, Storage) Oversubscription is allowed Dimensions of Capacity Number of CPUs Amount of Memory Type of and amount Storage Number of deployed VMs (VMs in Library are not counted)

Private Cloud Usage Scenario Configure the fabric (servers, network, storage) Create a cloud from the fabric Delegate the cloud to a Self Service User Self Service User creates VMs and Services in the cloud

Legal Manufacturing HR Infrastructure Infrastructure Service A Production Environment Corp Net Resources: Network access, storage allocation & quotas, access control Infrastructure Service B Test/Dev Environment Dev Net Virtual LAN Resources: Network access, storage allocation & quotas, access control Shared Resource Pool of SCVMM 2012 Logical Concept Network Storage Compute Shared Resource Pool of Web Front Ends (SR) Web Front Ends (SR) Service Reporting Servers (SR) Service Web Front Ends (SR) Web Front Ends (SR) Service Reporting Servers (SR) Service Storage Compute Network

Demo! SCVMM

Session Objectives and Takeaways New in Hyper-V Storage improvements Network improvements DR/HA improvements SCVMM 2012 Fabric Management Service Management

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