Day 1

Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2

Day 2
Server Management & Automation with Windows Server 2012 R2 VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 R2

Cloud Optimized Networking in Windows Server 2012 R2

Access & Information Protection with Windows Server 2012 R2

Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2

Web Application & Platform with Windows Server 2012 R2

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

NEEDS
Bigger, faster, and more available virtual machines Greater flexibility and agility to deliver solutions Ability to handle complex storage and networking requests

CHALLENGES
Keep services up and running, and meet SLAs
Decrease capital and operational costs of infrastructure Use bigger, more capable servers more effectively

Removal of limits in virtual machine mobility

Support for new hardware technologies

Protect and use existing investments and infrastructure

Maintain separation of resources in multitenant environments

Run the most demanding applications with the highest levels of performance & scalability

Massive Host, Cluster & Virtual Machine scalability Guest NUMA Support Network & Storage Quality of Service

Ensure optimal resource availability for key applications & workloads

Provide guaranteed levels of service for the key applications and workloads

Enhanced Dynamic Memory Capabilities

Take advantage of hardware innovations, while still using existing hardware to maximum advantage

Hardware Offloading & integration across compute, networking & storage

Massive scalability for the most demanding workloads

Hosts Support for up to 320 logical processors & 4TB physical memory per host Support for up to 1,024 virtual machines per host Support for up to 64 physical nodes & 8,000 virtual machines per cluster

Clusters

Virtual Machines

Support for up to 64 virtual processors and 1TB memory per VM

VMs built on Optimized, Software-Based Devices

Ease of Management & Operations PXE boot from Optimized vNIC Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive VMs have UEFI firmware with support for GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB

Dynamic Storage

Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online Resize & increased performance
Removal of emulated devices reduces attack surface

Security

VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot

VHDX Provides Increased Scale, Protection & Alignment Features

Storage capacity up to 64 TBs Corruption protection during power failures Optimal structure alignment for large-sector disks
Large allocations and 1 MB aligned
Intent log

Data region (large allocations and 1 MB aligned)

Block Allocation Table (BAT)
User data blocks Sector bitmap blocks

Header region
Header

Metadata region (small allocations and unaligned)

User metadata Metadata table File metadata

Benefits
Increases storage capacity Protects data Helps to ensure quality performance on large-sector disks

Online VHDX Resize provides VM storage flexibility

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

Token-based data transfer within the storage array

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

External Intelligent Storage Array

Token Virtual Disk Virtual Disk

Access Fibre Channel SAN data from a virtual machine

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

Hyper-V host 1

Hyper-V host 2

Worldwide Name Set A

Worldwide Name Set B

Worldwide Name Set A

Worldwide Name Set B

Live migration maintaining Fibre Channel connectivity

Achieve higher levels of density for your Hyper-V hosts

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Introduced Dynamic Memory to enable reallocation of memory automatically between running virtual machines Minimum & Startup Memory Smart Paging Memory Ballooning Runtime Configuration

Maximum memory Maximum memory

Memory in use Memory in use

Minimum memory

Enhanced in Windows Server 2012 & R2

VM1 Hyper-V

Administrator can increase maximum memory without a restart

Physical memory pool

Utilize disk as additional, temporary memory

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 VM restart No physical memory is available No memory can be reclaimed from other virtual machines on that host

Maximum memory

Maximum memory

Maximum memory

Minimum memory

Minimum memory

Startup increases memory in use Memory in use after startup

Minimum memory

VM1 Hyper-V
Physical memory pool

VM2
Paging file provides Memory reclaimed additional memory after startup for startup

VMn

Used in the following situations:

Removing Virtual machine paged memory starting with after virtual Hyper-V machine smart paging restart

Features
Uses resource pools Compatible with all Hyper-V operations

Metrics
Average CPU use Average memory use Minimum memory use Maximum memory use Maximum disk allocation

10 15 25 20 5 30 0

Resource Pool Internet Resource Metering

55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
Resource Pool Internet Customer 2

Unaffected by virtual machine movement

Uses Network Metering Port ACLs

Resource Pool Internet Customer 1

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

Incoming network traffic

Outgoing network traffic Incoming storage IOPS Outgoing storage IOPS

20 45 30 0

Virtual Machine Resource Metering

25 10 40 0

A two-tenant environment built with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Control allocation of Storage IOPS between VM Disks

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

Ensure workloads have the highest levels of security & isolation with granular control capabilities Integrate with new and existing software & hardware investments

PVLANS, Virtual Port ACLs, Port Monitoring & Port Mirroring DHCP & Router Guard Hyper-V Extensible Switch BitLocker Drive Encryption

Meet compliancy requirements with through encryption

Provide in-box hooks for in-house extensibility and customization

Rich partner ecosystem extending platform with powerful solutions

Segregate traffic within VLANs

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 Isolated Community Promiscuous

Guest OS 1 10.0.0.1 2, (4)

Guest OS 2 10.0.0.2 2 , (4)

Guest OS 3 10.0.0.3 2, (5)

Guest OS 4 10.0.0.4 2, (5)

Guest OS 5 10.0.0.5 2, (5)

PVLAN Port types: Isolated Community Promiscuous Trunk mode

2, (4, 5)

3 Port Types

NIC NIC

Example PVLAN: Primary VLAN ID is 2 Secondary VLAN IDs are 4 and 5

In-box Disk Encryption to Protect Sensitive Data

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

Complete flexibility for migrating virtualized workloads without interruption or downtime Enable a scalable, isolated, multitenant infrastructure without VLANs Duplicate virtual machines for testing & troubleshooting

Simultaneous Live Migration Live Cloning Live Migration Upgrades Live Migration over SMB Storage Live Migration Live Migration with Compression Live Migration over RDMA

Support for non-Microsoft guest operating systems Upgrade to the latest version of Hyper-V without downtime for key workloads

Shared Nothing Live Migration

Network Virtualization

Comprehensive feature support for virtualized Linux

Significant Improvements in Interoperability
Multiple supported Linux distributions and versions on Hyper-V. Includes Red Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and Ubuntu 64 vCPU SMP Virtual SCSI, Hot-Add & Online Resize Full Dynamic Memory Support

Configuration Store

Worker Processes

WMI Provider Management Service

Comprehensive Feature Support

Windows Kernel

Virtual Service Provider

Independent Hardware Vendor Drivers

Hyper-V Server Hardware

Live Backup
Deeper Integration Services Support

Duplication of a Virtual Machine whilst Running

Export a clone of a running VM Point-time image of running VM exported to an alternate location
VM1 VM2

Useful for troubleshooting VM without downtime for primary VM

Export a full cloned virtual machine from a point-in-time, existing checkpoint of a virtual machine Checkpoints automatically merged into single virtual disk

Export from an existing checkpoint

Faster, Simultaneous Migration of VMs Without Downtime

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

Modified Memory Storage Live migration pages handle transferred moved setup

VM
MEMORY

Modified memory pages Configuration Memory content data

VM

IP connection

iSCSI, FC or SMB Storage

Intelligently Accelerates Live Migration Transfer Speed

Utilizes available CPU resources on the host to perform compression

Modified Memory pages Storage Livecompressed, migration handle moved setup then transferred

Operates on networks with less than 10 gigabit bandwidth available Enables a 2X improvement in Live Migration performance

MEMORY

Compressed memory sent across the network faster

Modified memory pages Configuration Memory content data

IP connection

iSCSI, FC or SMB Storage

Harness RDMA to Accelerate Live Migration Performance

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

Modified Memory Storage pages Live migration transferred handle moved setup at high speed

MEMORY

Modified memory pages Configuration Memory content data

IP Connection using RDMA

iSCSI, FC or SMB Storage

Increased Flexibility through Live Migration of VM Storage

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

Disk Disk Reads writes contents are andmirrored; writes are copied gooutstanding to to new new Reads and writes go to the source VHD changes destination are replicated VHD

Host running Hyper-V

Virtual machine

Source device

Target device

Complete Flexibility for Virtual Machine Migrations

Increase flexibility of virtual machine placement & increased administrator efficiency Simultaneously live migrate VM & virtual disks between hosts

Disk Reads Disk contents writes and writes are are copied mirrored; go toto the new Live Live Migration Migration Completes Continues outstanding source VHD. destination source changes Live Migration VHD VHD are replicated Begins
MEMORY

Source Hyper-V
Virtual machine

Live Migration Configuration data Modified memory pages Memory content

Destination Hyper-V
Virtual machine

IP connection

Nothing shared but an ethernet cable

No clustering or shared storage requirements Reduce downtime for migrations across cluster boundaries
Source device Target device

Simplified upgrade process from 2012 to 2012 R2

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

Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade without Downtime

2012 Cluster Nodes 2012 R2 Cluster Nodes

One-way Migration Only

Robust, reliable & resilient infrastructure foundation for running continuous services

Failover Clustering Online Backup Hyper-V Replica with Extended Replication Shared VHDX NIC Teaming Guest Clustering Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Provide flexibility for application-level resiliency

Simplify infrastructure maintenance

Provide granular solutions for enabling disaster recovery

Failover Priority & Affinity Rules

Integration with cloud services Cluster Aware Updating

Integrated Solution for Resilient Virtual Machines

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

Cluster Dynamic Quorum Configuration

Complete Flexibility for Deploying App-Level HA

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

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

Full Support for Dynamic Memory of Guest Cluster Nodes

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

Guest Clustering No Longer Bound to Storage Topology

VHDX files can be presented to multiple VMs simultaneously, as shared storage VM sees shared virtual SAS disk

Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

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

Monitor Health of Applications Inside Clustered VMs

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

Integrated Patching Solution for Hyper-V Clusters

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

U
Third-party plug-in for updates

Windows Server Cluster

Current Workload

Ensure Optimal VM Placement and Restart Operations

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

Anti-Affinity keeps related VMs apart Upon failover, VMs restart priority order Hyper-V cluster with VMs in on each node

Replicate Hyper-V VMs from a Primary to a Replica site

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

Once Once Upon replicated, Hyper-V site failure, Replica changes VMs is can enabled, replicated be started VMs on on chosen begin secondary replication frequency site

Replicate to 3rd Location for Extra Level of Resiliency

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

Replication canconfigured be enabled on the 1st replica to a 3rd site Replication from primary to secondary

Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds

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

Enhancing VMConnect for the Richest Experience

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

Simplifying Activation of Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview VMs

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

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