Part 1 - What s New in Hyper-V 2012 R2 Clive.Watson@Microsoft.com Datacenter Specialist
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Microsoft Workloads Run Best on Hyper-V Windows Azure runs on the same Windows Server and Hyper-V platform that we provide to our customers. The exact same. Windows Server and System Center bring our learnings and best practices from operating global scale datacenter networks to you The most tested platform Microsoft hosts more than 1,000,000 servers in our datacenters On an average day, the Server division (alone) creates, then tests over 25,000 virtual machines; over 500,000 a month on Azure + 15,000 on Hyper-V in our test datacenters (~40k VMs a day!) Integration and Partnership in Windows Server 2012 Azure users are consuming more compute capacity than the entire world used in 1998. In December 2011, Azure s cloud storage held 4 trillion objects. In mid 2013 its now 10 trillion objects. Xbox Live currently runs on 15,000 servers, but it will move to 300,000 servers in late 2013 for the Xbox One launch. Windows Azure Active Directory 400 billion identity authentications 50% of the Fortune500 use Windows Azure 1000+ customers are added to Windows Azure per day Activate your MSDN subscription and enjoy up to $150 in credits on Windows Azure with reduced Windows Server rates and use your MSDN software such as SQL Server for no additional fee. www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com for FREE online training on Windows Server, System Center, Cloud, VMware skills transfer and lots more Source: BytheNumbers
Scalability & Performance
Hyper-V Scalability Improvements System Host VM Cluster Resource Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Improvement Factor Logical Processors 64 320 5 Physical Memory 1TB 4TB 4 Virtual CPUs per Host 512 2,048 4 Virtual CPUs per VM 4 64 16 Memory per VM 64GB 1TB 16 Active VMs per Host 384 1,024 2.7 Guest NUMA No Yes - Maximum Nodes 16 64 4 Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8
Enhanced Storage Capabilities Increased performance, hardware integration and flexibility iscsi & Fibre Channel Integrate with existing storage investments quickly and easily Multi-Path I/O Support Inbox for resiliency, increased performance & partner extensibility Offloaded Data Transfer Offloads storageintensive tasks to the SAN Native 4K Disk Support Take advantage of enhanced density and reliability
Enhanced Storage Capabilities Deep integration with Windows Server 2012 R2 storage capabilities Storage Spaces Storage Tiering* Data Deduplication Hyper-V over SMB 3.0 Transform high-volume, low cost disks into flexible, resilient virtualized storage Pool HDD & SSD and automatically move hot data to SSD for increased performance Reduce file storage consumption, now supported for live VDI virtual hard disks* Ease of provisioning, increased flexibility & seamless integration with high performance *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Enhanced VM Storage Capabilities Greater performance and administrator flexibility for virtual machines Virtual Fibre Channel 64TB Virtual Hard Disks Online Checkpoint Merge Online Virtual Disk Resize* Connect a VM directly to FC SAN without sacrificing features Increased capacity, protection & alignment optimization Merge checkpoints back into main virtual disk without downtime Grow and shrink virtual disks attached to running virtual machines, with no downtime *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Enhanced Networking Performance Deeper hardware integration & enhanced vnic capabilities Dynamic VMQ IPsec Task Offload SR-IOV with Live Migration Virtual Receive Side Scaling* Dynamic distribution of VM traffic processing efficiently across multiple processors Utilize hardware capabilities to offload encryption & decryption traffic processing Hardware integration, optimized for low CPU utilization latency driving high performance Network processing inside VM now scales efficiently across multiple virtual CPUs *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Enhanced Resource Management Optimized utilization of physical & virtualized resources Dynamic Memory Resource Metering Network QoS Storage QoS* Increased management control for greater virtual machine consolidation Track historical data for virtual machine usage, across CPU, Disk Memory & Network Granular network controls for consistent levels of networking performance Prevent storage consumption from busy VMs whilst providing consistency to others. *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Security & Multitenancy
Hyper-V Extensible Switch Granular networking configuration with integrated security capabilities Extensible Switch Layer 2 virtual network switch with programmatic management, built-in security & extensibility Private Virtual LAN (PVLANs) ARP/ND Poisoning Protection DHCP & Router Guard Virtual Port ACLs Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines Monitoring & Port Mirroring PowerShell & WMI Management
Hyper-V Extensible Switch Granular networking configuration with integrated security capabilities Extensible Switch Layer 2 virtual network switch with programmatic management, built-in security & extensibility Packet Inspection Packet Filter Network Forwarding Intrusion Detection Cisco Nexus 1000v UCS VM-FEX NEC PF1000 5nine Security Manager InMon sflow
Flexible Infrastructure
Virtual Machine Flexibility Comprehensive guest OS support & management 64 Virtual Processor Support New Synthetic 2D Frame Buffer Driver Linux Support Multiple supported Linux distributions and versions, including Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, & Ubuntu Full Dynamic Memory Support* Live VM Backup Support* Virtual SCSI with Hot-Add & Online VHDX Resize* Linux kdump/kexec Support Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) Support* Memory Mapped I/O Gap Specification* *Exclusive to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
Virtual Machine Flexibility Comprehensive guest OS support & management Linux Support Multiple supported Linux distributions and versions, including Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, & Ubuntu Live VM Cloning* Duplicate a running virtual machine, even from a checkpoint, with no downtime to the running workload *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Virtual Machine Mobility More flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities Live Migration Faster, unrestricted, simultaneous VM live migrations between cluster nodes with no downtime SMB-Based Live Migration Store VMs on SMB 3.0 file shares, and live migrate them flexibly, without the need for a cluster Live Migration with Compression* Harness spare host CPU cycles to compress memory of migrating virtual machines to accelerate live migration *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Virtual Machine Mobility More flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities Live Migration over SMB* Live Storage Migration Shared-Nothing Live Migration Cross-Version Live Migration* Highest live migration performance, utilizing SMB 3.0 protocol & accelerated using RDMA capable NICs Move the virtual hard disks of running virtual machines to a different storage location with no downtime Flexibly move virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts with nothing but a network cable and no clustering requirements Migrate VMs from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with no downtime *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Network Virtualization Integrated isolation & security with increased networking flexibility Secure, Scalable Isolation with VLANs Live Migrations Across Subnets Network Virtualization Decouple virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and remove existing physical network challenges Seamless Infrastructure Integration Utilizes Generic Route Encapsulation Provides VM Networks & Virtual Subnets Simplified Management of Networks Supports PowerShell & WMI Integrated with Partner Ecosystem
Network Virtualization Integrated isolation & security with increased networking flexibility Blue Network VM Networks Red Network Network Virtualization Decouple virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and remove existing physical network challenges 10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11 10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11 192.168.2.10 192.168.2.11 192.168.5.12 192.168.6.13 Routable Hyper-V Hosts on Physical Network Inbox NV Gateway Scalable, production ready multi-tenant gateway for Site-to- Site (VPN), NAT & forwarding along with bridging virtual & non-virtual networks
High Availability & Resiliency
High Availability & Resiliency Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs Reduced Active Directory Dependencies* Failover Clustering Integrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime VM Monitoring Failover Priority, Affinity & Anti-Affinity Cluster Shared Volumes Optimizations* Cluster-Aware Updating VM Network Health Detection* Dynamic Witness & Force Quorum* *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
High Availability & Resiliency Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications Failover Clustering Flexible Guest Clustering Shared VHDX Support* Integrated NIC Teaming Integrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime iscsi, Virtual Fibre Channel & SMB 3.0 support for in-guest, application level resiliency Build production-ready guest clusters utilizing Shared VHDX, without exposing underlying physical storage Aggregate network adaptors to increase throughput & provide redundancy in case of link failure *New in Windows Server 2012 R2
Backup & Replication Integrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads Incremental Backup Perform agentless backup operations more quickly & easily whilst saving network bandwidth & disk space Windows Azure Backup Integration Quickly & easily protect important server data offsite with automated backups to Windows Azure Inbox VM Replication Near-synchronous replication of virtual machines across multiple sites with Hyper-V Replica Hyper-V Recovery Manager Manage Hyper-V Replica from Windows Azure
Virtualization Innovation
Virtualization Innovation Capabilities to improve performance, security & management Generation 2 VMs Support for UEFI firmware and Secure Boot for more secure virtualized infrastructure Enhanced Session Mode Enhanced user experience when administering Hyper-V virtual machines Automatic VM Activation Streamlined mechanism for VM activation, without additional activation infrastructure
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