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Building a Virtualized Development and Testing Environments
The document provides an overview of virtualization capabilities in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, emphasizing scalability, mobility, and high availability for development and testing environments. Key features include enhancements in dynamic memory, live migration, and disaster recovery options such as Hyper-V Replica, enabling greater flexibility and reduced downtime. It also highlights improvements in network quality of service and virtual hard disk format (VHDX) for optimized performance and capacity.
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- 1. Building a Virtualized Developmentand Testing Environments Lai Yoong Seng (MVP Virtual Machine) www.ms4u.info | laiys@redynamics.com
- 2. Session Objectives &Key Takeaway Get excited! Learn what’s • Scalability • Mobility hot and new in • High Availability Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Video & Demo 2
- 3. Scalability Run more Take advantage demanding of newer hardware, while applications still using with better existing hardware performance to maximum advantage
- 4. Hyper-V Host Scaleand Scale-up Workload Support Maximum number Improvement System Resource Windows 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 factor 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 8,000 8 4
- 5. New virtual harddisk format VHDX Features • Storage capacity up to 64 TBs • Corruption protection during power failures • Optimal structure alignment for large-sector SQL DB disks 2 TB (VHD) Up to 64 TB (VHDX) Benefits • Increases storage capacity • Protects data • Helps to ensure quality performance on large-sector disks 5
- 6. Dynamic Memory Improvement New configuration Item: Minimum Memory • Configure dynamic memory while the VM is up and running • Increase the maximum memory • Decrease the minimum memory • Hyper-V Smart Paging 6
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- 8. Live Merging Snapshot Test Writing Yellow Code
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- 10. Mobility Manage virtual machines independentlyfrom underlying Handle changing needs on infrastructure demand
- 11. Improve Live Migration Concurrent Live Migrations: Multiple simultaneous LMs for a given source or target Live Migration Queuing: In-box tools queue & manage large numbers of VMs
- 12. Migrate Virtual MachineWithout Downtime Live migration based on Modified pages transferred Memorymigration setup Storage handle moved Live server message block (SMB) share Improvements VM Modified memory pages Configuration data Memory content VM MEMORY • Faster and simultaneous migration • Live migration outside a clustered environment IP connection • Store virtual machines on a File Share SMB network storage 12
- 13. Move Virtual MachineStorage Without Downtime Disk writes Reads and writes go to new are mirrored; outstanding changes are Live migration of storage Disk Reads and writes go to new source VHDVHD contents are copied to the destination destination VHD replicated Move virtual hard disks attached to a running virtual machine Computer Benefits running • Manage storage in a cloud environment Virtual machine Hyper-V with greater flexibility and control • Move storage with no downtime • Update physical storage available to a virtual machine (such as SMB-based Source device Target device storage) • Windows PowerShell cmdlets 1
- 15. Migrate Virtual MachinesWithout Downtime Disk writes are are copied to new the changes Disk contents mirrored; outstanding Reads and writes go to destination Shared-nothing live Live Migration Completes Live Migration Continues source VHD. Live Migration Begins are replicated source VHD VHD migration Source Destination Live Migration Hyper-V Configuration data Hyper-V MEMORY Modified memory pages Memory content Benefits Virtual machine Virtual machine • Increase flexibility of virtual machine IP connection placement • Increase administrator efficiency • Reduce downtime for migrations across cluster boundaries Source device Target device 1
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- 17. High Availability Ensure highestuptime – Ensure Business Continuity and 99.999%, 99.99%, 99.9% ….. Setup Disaster Environment
- 18. Hyper-V Clustering Enhancements External Storage iSCSI SAN Flexible VM Guest Arrays Storage clustering •iSCSI Remote File Servers •Fiber Channel FC SAN •SMB 3 Clustering File Server Support SMB 3
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- 20. Virtual Machine FailoverPriority MySQL VM High Medium Low IIS Web Server SQL DB VM VM
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- 23. Network Quality ofService Network Quality of Service (QoS) MySQL VM Ability to control the throughput of the network and network bandwidth control. IIS Web Server SQL DB VM VM 23
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- 25. NIC Teaming Technology •Provides network fault tolerance and continuous availability when network adapters fail by teaming multiple network interfaces • Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox Virtual adapters • Provides local or remote management Team network adapter Team network adapter through Windows PowerShell or UI • Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters • Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network adapters • Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent and independent 25
- 26. Disaster Happen Anywhere… Tsunami…Earthquake … 911 incident… How to protect your datacenter?
- 27. Hyper-V Replica New feature Primary site Replica site Replicate Hyper-V virtual machines from a Exchange virtual machine primary site to a replica site CRM virtual machine IIS virtual machine Exchange replica SQL virtual machine virtual SharePoint virtual machine machine Benefits CRM replica virtual • Affordable in-box business continuity and machine disaster recovery R2 • Failure recovery in minutes Replicate over R1 R3 P1 P2 WAN link • More secure replication across network • No need for storage arrays • No need for other software replication SMB file share SAN Hyper-V role and tools Hyper-V role and tools technologies Hyper-V Hyper-V PS Hyper-V Hyper-V PS • Automatic handling of live migration cmdlets integrated UI cmdlets integrated UI • Simpler configuration and management Send/receive replica traffic Hyper-V Management Module Hyper-V Management Module tracks and replicates changes for receives and applies the changes to each virtual machine the replica virtual machine 27
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- 29. Client Hyper-V Requirements : Features Not Supported: 64 bit Windows 8 Pro RemoteFX Capability Live Migration SLAT Hyper-V Replica Hardware Virtualization SRV-IOV Network Min 4GB of Memory Virtual Fiber Channel
- 30. 64 virtual processorsper VM 1TB virtual machine memory New 64TB VHDX format 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 Live VHD merge Cluster shared volumes v2 SMB 3 Support RDMA support in SMB Scale-out file server Multi-channel SMB SRIOV Networking 30 Thousands of PowerShell commands
- 31. Q&A Virtual Lai’s Blog Thank you www.ms4u.info DOWNLOAD Windows Server 2012 http://www.microsoftvirt http://technet.microsoft.com/en- ualacademy.com us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx 31
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- 33. © 2012 MicrosoftCorporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Editor's Notes
- #2 Building a virtualized development and testing environmentsA virtual testing and development environment is the perfect place to test applications, operating systems and hardware before you place them into production -- whether it’s virtualized or not. Testing and development environments are frequent candidates for server virtualization deployments, especially for companies just starting out with virtualization. Testing and development environments provide a low-risk medium in which to test out virtualization and can improve resource allocation and storage. But there are several potential challenges for virtualized test and development environments, including networking, backup and recovery and high-availability concerns. In this session, we will talk about how to address these challenges with Windows Server 8 Hyper-V.
- #6 64 TBMore better performance & resilient from corruption
- #26 32 NICLoad Balance and FailoverGuest NICAny brand NIC
- #27 A sync replicationReplicate every 5 minReplicate VM from DC1 to DC2Work with any server, storage & network