Windows Server 2012 R2 Jump Start - Virtualization

Day 1
Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2
Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 R2
Cloud Optimized Networking in Windows Server 2012 R2
Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2
Day 2
Server Management & Automation with Windows Server 2012
R2
VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2
Access & Information Protection with Windows Server 2012 R2
Web Application & Platform with Windows Server 2012 R2
Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 R2

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 Introduction
 Scalability & Performance
 Security & Multitenancy
 Flexible Infrastructure
 High Availability & Resiliency
 Virtualization Innovation
 Summary & Wrap Up

CHALLENGES
Bigger, faster, and more available virtual machines
Greater flexibility and agility to deliver solutions
Ability to handle complex storage and networking
requests
Removal of limits in virtual machine mobility
Support for new hardware technologies
Keep services up and running, and meet SLAs
Decrease capital and operational costs of infrastructure
Use bigger, more capable servers more effectively
Protect and use existing investments and infrastructure
Maintain separation of resources in multitenant
environments
NEEDS

Provide guaranteed
levels of service for
the key applications
and workloads
Run the most demanding applications with the highest levels
of performance & scalability
Take advantage of hardware
innovations, while still using existing
hardware to maximum advantage
Ensure optimal
resource availability
for key applications
& workloads
Massive Host, Cluster
& Virtual Machine scalability
Enhanced Dynamic
Memory Capabilities
Guest
NUMA Support
Hardware Offloading & integration
across compute, networking & storage
Network & Storage
Quality of Service

Hosts
• Support for up to 320 logical processors
& 4TB physical memory per host
• Support for up to 1,024 virtual machines
per host
Clusters
• Support for up to 64 physical nodes &
8,000 virtual machines per cluster
Virtual Machines
• Support for up to 64 virtual processors
and 1TB memory per VM
Massive scalability for the
most demanding workloads

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

Features
• Storage capacity up to 64 TBs
• Corruption protection during power failures
• Optimal structure alignment for large-sector
disks
Benefits
• Increases storage capacity
• Protects data
• Helps to ensure quality performance on
large-sector disks
VHDX Provides Increased
Scale, Protection &
Alignment
Large allocations
and 1 MB aligned
Header region
Data region (large allocations and 1 MB aligned)
Metadata region (small allocations and unaligned)
Intent log
Block Allocation
Table (BAT)
Metadata table
User data blocks
Sector bitmap blocks
User metadata
File metadata
Header

Expand Virtual SCSI Disks
1. Grow VHD & VHDX files whilst attached
to a running virtual machine
2. Then expand volume within the guest
Shrink Virtual SCSI Disks
1. Reduce volume size inside the guest
2. Shrink the size of the VHD
or VHDX file whilst the VM is running
Online VHDX Resize
provides VM storage
flexibility

External Intelligent Storage Array
Virtual Disk Virtual Disk
Token
Benefits
• Rapid virtual machine provisioning and
migration
• Faster transfers on large files
• Minimized latency
• Maximized array throughput
• Less CPU and network use
• Performance not limited by network
throughput or server use
• Improved datacenter capacity and scale
Token-based data transfer
within the storage array

Live migration maintaining
Fibre Channel connectivity
Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2
Worldwide
Name Set B
Worldwide
Name Set A
Worldwide
Name Set B
• Unmediated access to a storage area
network (SAN)
• Hardware-based I/O path to virtual hard
disk stack
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support
• Single Hyper-V host connected to different
SANs
• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel adapters
on a virtual machine
• Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality
• Supports Live migration
Access Fibre Channel SAN
data from a virtual machine
Worldwide
Name Set A

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Introduced Dynamic Memory to enable
reallocation of memory automatically
between running virtual machines
Enhanced in Windows Server 2012 & R2
• Minimum & Startup Memory
• Smart Paging
• Memory Ballooning
• Runtime Configuration
Achieve higher levels of
density for your Hyper-V
hosts
VM1
Maximum
memory
Hyper-V
Physical
memory
pool
Minimum
memory
Maximum
memory Memory in use
Physical
memory
pool
Memory in use
Physical
memory
pool
Administrator can
increase maximum
memory without a
restart

Hyper-V Smart Paging
• Reliable way to keep a VM running when
no physical memory is available
• Performance will be degraded as disk is
much slower than memory
Used in the following situations:
• VM restart
• No physical memory is available
• No memory can be reclaimed from other
virtual machines on that host
Utilize disk as additional,
temporary memory
Hyper-V
VM1
Maximum
memory
Virtual machine starting with
Hyper-V smart paging
Minimum
memory
VMn
Minimum
memory
Maximum
memory
VM2
Maximum
memory
Minimum
memory
Physical
memory
pool
Physical
memory
pool
Physical
memory
pool
Startup increases
memory in use
Paging file provides
additional memory
for startup
Removing paged memory after
virtual machine restart
Memory reclaimed
after startup
Physical
memory
pool
Memory in use
after startup

Features
• Uses resource pools
• Compatible with all Hyper-V
operations
• Unaffected by virtual machine
movement
• Uses Network Metering Port
ACLs
Benefits of Resource
Metering
• Easier to track virtual machine
use
• Can be used to aggregate
data for multiple virtual
machines
• Can be used to build accurate
lookback and chargeback
solutions
• Easier to obtain resource use
data
Metrics
Average CPU use
Average memory use
Minimum memory use
Maximum memory use
Maximum disk allocation
Incoming network traffic
Outgoing network traffic
Incoming storage IOPS
Outgoing storage IOPS
A two-tenant environment built with
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2
Preview
Virtual Machine
Resource Metering
20 10
Resource Pool Internet
Resource Metering
10 5
3045 2540
Resource Pool
Internet
Customer2
30 55
Resource Pool
Internet
Customer1
0
0 0
0
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• Allows an administrator to specify a
maximum IOPS cap
• Takes into account incoming &
outgoing IOPS
• Configurable on a VHDX by VHDX
basis for granular control whilst VM is
running
• Prevents VMs from consuming all
of the available I/O bandwidth to
the underlying physical resource
• Supports Dynamic, Fixed
& Differencing
Control allocation of Storage
IOPS between VM Disks

Meet compliancy
requirements with
through encryption
Ensure workloads have the highest levels of
security & isolation with granular control capabilities
Provide in-box hooks for in-house
extensibility and customization
Integrate with new
and existing
software &
hardware
investments
PVLANS, Virtual Port ACLs,
Port Monitoring & Port Mirroring
Hyper-V
Extensible Switch
Rich partner ecosystem extending
platform with powerful solutions
BitLocker Drive
Encryption
DHCP &
Router Guard

Enables
• Isolation of virtual machines from other
virtual machines even within the same
VLAN
• Creation of community groups of
virtual machines that can exchange
data packets
3 Port Types
• Isolated
• Community
• Promiscuous
Segregate traffic within
VLANs
Example PVLAN:
‒ Primary VLAN ID is 2
‒ Secondary VLAN IDs are 4 and 5
NIC
PVLAN Port types:
Isolated
Community
Promiscuous
Trunk mode NIC
Guest OS 1
10.0.0.1
Guest OS 2
10.0.0.2
Guest OS 3
10.0.0.3
Guest OS 4
10.0.0.4
Guest OS 5
10.0.0.5
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2, (5)

Data Protection, built in
• Supports Used Disk Space Only
Encryption
• Integrates with TPM chip
• Network Unlock & AD Integration
Multiple Disk Type Support
• Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Traditional SAN LUN
• Cluster Shared Volumes
• Windows Server 2012 File Server Share
In-box Disk Encryption to
Protect Sensitive Data

Live Migration
over SMB
Live Migration
Upgrades
Live Cloning
Duplicate virtual
machines for
testing &
troubleshooting
Complete flexibility for migrating virtualized workloads
without interruption or downtime
Upgrade to the latest version of Hyper-V
without downtime for key workloads
Enable a scalable,
isolated, multitenant
infrastructure without
VLANs
Network Virtualization
Live Migration
over RDMA
Live Migration
with Compression
Simultaneous Live Migration
Storage Live Migration
Shared Nothing Live Migration
Support for non-Microsoft guest
operating systems

Significant Improvements in
Interoperability
• Multiple supported Linux distributions
and versions on Hyper-V.
• Includes Red
Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and
Ubuntu
Comprehensive Feature Support
• 64 vCPU SMP
• Virtual SCSI, Hot-Add & Online Resize
• Full Dynamic Memory Support
• Live Backup
• Deeper Integration Services Support
Comprehensive feature
support for virtualized Linux
Server Hardware
IndependentHardware
VendorDrivers
Windows
Kernel
Virtual Service
Provider
Configuration
Store
Worker
Processes
ManagementService
WMIProvider
Hyper-V

Export a clone of a running VM
• Point-time image of running VM
exported to an alternate location
• Useful for troubleshooting VM
without downtime for primary VM
Export from an existing checkpoint
• Export a full cloned virtual machine
from a point-in-time, existing checkpoint
of a virtual machine
• Checkpoints automatically merged into
single virtual disk
Duplication of a Virtual
Machine whilst Running
VM1 VM2

VM VM
Live migration setup
iSCSI, FC or SMB Storage
IP connection
Configuration data
Memory pages transferred
Memory content
MEMORYMEMORY
Modified pages transferred
Modified memory pages
Storage handle moved
VM
• Faster live migrations, taking full
advantage of available network
• Simultaneous Live Migrations
• Uses SMB Direct if network bandwidth
available is over 10 gigabits
• Supports flexible storage choices
• No clustering required if virtual machine
resides on SMB 3.0 File Share
Faster, Simultaneous
Migration of VMs Without
Downtime

• Utilizes available CPU resources on the
host to perform compression
• Compressed memory sent across the
network faster
• Operates on networks with less than 10
gigabit bandwidth available
• Enables a 2X improvement in Live
Migration performance
Intelligently Accelerates Live
Migration Transfer Speed Live migration setup
IP connection
Configuration data
Memory pages compressed, then transferred
Memory content
MEMORYMEMORY
Modified pages compressed, then transferred

• Remote Direct Memory Access delivers
low latency network, CPU utilization &
higher bandwidth
• Supports speeds up to 56Gb/s
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview
supports RoCE, iWARP & Infiniband
RDMA solutions
• Delivers the highest performance for
Live Migrations
• Cannot be used with Compression
Harness RDMA to
Accelerate Live Migration
Performance
Live migration setup
IP Connection
usingRDMA
Configuration data
Memory pages transferred at high speed
Memory content
MEMORYMEMORY
Modified pages transferred at high speed

Host running
Hyper-V
Target deviceSource device
• Move virtual hard disks attached
to a running virtual machine
• Manage storage in a cloud environment
with greater flexibility and control
• Move storage with no downtime
• Update physical storage available to a
virtual machine (such as SMB-based
storage)
• Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Increased Flexibility through
Live Migration of VM
Storage
Reads and writes go to the source VHD
Disk contents are copied to new
destination VHD
Disk writes are mirrored; outstanding
changes are replicated
Reads and writes go to new
destination VHD
Virtual machine

Destination
Hyper-V
Virtual
machine
Target deviceSource device
Virtual
machine
Source
Hyper-V
IP connection
ConfigurationdataMemory contentModified memory pages
• Increase flexibility of virtual machine
placement & increased administrator
efficiency
• Simultaneously live migrate VM & virtual
disks between hosts
• Nothing shared but an ethernet cable
• No clustering or shared storage
requirements
• Reduce downtime for migrations across
cluster boundaries
Complete Flexibility for
Virtual Machine Migrations
Reads and writes go to the
source VHD
Reads and writes go to the
source VHD. Live Migration
Begins
Disk contents are copied to new
destination VHD
Disk writes are mirrored;
outstanding changes are
replicated
Live Migration
MEMORYMEMORY
Live Migration ContinuesLive Migration Completes

• Customers can upgrade from Windows
Server 2012 Hyper-V to Windows Server
2012 R2 Preview Hyper-V with no VM
downtime
• Supports Shared Nothing Live Migration
for migration when changing storage
locations
• If using SMB share, migration transfers
only the VM running state for faster
completion
• Automated with PowerShell
• One-way Migration Only
Simplified upgrade process
from 2012 to 2012 R2 2012 Cluster Nodes 2012 R2 Cluster Nodes
Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade without Downtime

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

• 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

• 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 ClusterGuest cluster node restarts on physical host failureGuest 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

• 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

• 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

Hyper-V cluster with VMs on each nodeUpon 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

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

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
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