The document discusses new features in Windows Server 2012 that improve virtualization capabilities. Key features highlighted include increased scalability for Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines, live migration enhancements, storage migration capabilities, high availability options like Hyper-V Replica for disaster recovery, and flexibility in infrastructure deployment. The presentation aims to demonstrate how these features enable private cloud deployments with optimized performance, scalability, and availability.

2. The Next Generation of
Microsoft Virtualization With
Windows Server 2012
Lai Yoong Seng (MVP Virtual Machine)
www.ms4u.info | yoongseng@infrontconsulting.com
Infront Consulting Group

3. Session Objective and Takeaway
Session Objective Key Takeaway
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V • Virtualize with Windows Server 2012
Features • Choose Hyper-V
• Just Virtualization feature … • Start build Private Cloud with Microsoft

4. Windows Server 2012 is Cloud Optimized
Scalability, & Flexible Delivery High
Performance Infrastructure Availability

5. Scalability &
Performance

6. Hyper-V Host Scale and Scale-up Workload Support
Maximum number
Improvement
System Resource Windows Server 2012
Windows 2008 R2 factor
(RC)
Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5
Host Physical memory 1 TB 4 TB 4
Virtual processors per host 512 2048 2
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16
Virtual Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16
machine
Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7
Nodes 16 64 4
Cluster
Virtual machines 1,000 4,000 4
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7. Screenshot

8. Scale, Performance, and Density
Dynamic
Resource
Memory VHDX
Metering
Improvement
Increases scalability of the data center and uses fewer servers to run more
virtual machine workloads.

9. Resource Metering
• Ability to create Resource Pools
• Compatible with all Hyper-V Operations
• Data unaffected by Virtual Machine Movement

10. Live Dynamic Memory
DEMO

11. Flexibility Infrastructure

12. Move Virtual Machine Storage With No Downtime
Live storage migration
• Move virtual hard disks (VHDs) attached to
a running virtual machine
Benefits
• 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
VHD
storage)
• Windows PowerShell cmdlets
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13. Improve Live Migration
• Concurrent Live Migrations
• Live Migration Queuing
Concurrent Live Migrations:
Multiple simultaneous LMs for a
given source or target
Live Migration Queuing:
In-box tools queue & manage large
numbers of VMs

14. Migrate Virtual Machines Without Downtime
SMB-Share-based Live
Migration
• Storage remains on SMB Share
Improvements
• Faster migration and simultaneous
migration
• Live migration outside a clustered
environment
SMB-share-based live migration 14

15. WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF YOU COULD
LIVE MIGRATE A VM WITH NOTHING
BUT AN ETHERNET CABLE?

16. Migrate Virtual Machines With Just Ethernet
“Shared Nothing” Live Migration
• Virtual machine migration between two
computers that do not share an
infrastructure
Benefits
• Increase flexibility of virtual machine
placement
• Increase administrator efficiency
• Reduce downtime for migrations across
cluster boundaries
“Share nothing” live migration 16

17. Concurrent Live Migration
DEMO

18. Deliver High Availability

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20. Networking
Network Quality of
Service (QoS)
Ability to control the
throughput of the
network and network
bandwidth control.
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21. NIC Teaming Technology
• Up to 32 network adapters
• Many virtual interfaces
• Multiple teaming modes
• Local or remote management
through Windows PowerShell or
UI
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22. Hyper-V Clustering Enhancements
External Storage iSCSI SAN
Flexible VM Guest clustering
Arrays Storage
• iSCSI
Remote File Servers
• Fiber Channel
• SMB 3 Clustering Support FC SAN
File Server SMB
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23. Hyper-V VM Monitoring
• The host monitors the guest VM
• Any application with a service
– Uses Service Control Manager
• Configurable recovery actions
– Restart Service
– Reboot VM
– Move VM

24. Virtual Machine Failover Priority
• Start Order
• Live Migration
• Node Maintenance
• Running Priority
– Pre-emption shuts down
lower priority VMs
High Medium Low

25. Failover Prioritization DEMO

26. Cluster Aware Updating (CAU)
Admin
Initiate
Cluster-Aware
• Automated cluster updating Update Updating
Coordinator
• Eliminate downtime associated with
• cluster updating
• Coordinator serially updates all nodes
– Windows Update Agent (WUA)
• Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
• Windows Update

27. Disaster Happen Anywhere …
Tsunami…Earthquake … 911 incident…
How to protect your datacenter?

28. DR Solution – Hyper-V Replica
• Replicate VMs from a Primary to a Replica site
• Built in Site to Site Replication
• Failover recovery in minutes
• Work with any server vendor, any network vendor, any storage vendor

29. Hyper-V Replica
DEMO

30. Let Recap’s 64 virtual processors per VM
1TB virtual machine memory
New 64TB VHDX format
Scalability Native 4k disk support
Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V virtual fiber channel
Live storage migration
Windows NIC teaming
Concurrent live migration
Support for AES/NI
Support for up to 64 nodes per
cluster
Support for 4000 VMs per cluster
Hyper-V support for up to 2 TB of
physical memory
Hyper-V intelligent second level
paging

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