New features and improvements in Windows clustering 2012

5. What? Why?
Multiple individual computers Support business needs by avoiding
working together to increase the downtime (increasing availability)
availability (and scalability) of a
clustered service.
Result
+ Complexity
+ Management
+ Cost

7. Management of the private cloud
Hyper-V Platform of the private cloud
Infrastructure of the private cloud

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VHD VHD VHD Storage

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17. Concurrent Live Migrations:
Multiple simultaneous LM’s for
Live Migration Queuing:
a given source or target
In-box tools queue & manage
large numbers of VMs
Storage Live Migration: VHD VHD
Moves VHD’s from one disk to
another
Hyper-V Replica:
Point-in-time replication of VHD’s
for disaster recovery

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VM Monitoring Guest Clustering
Application Health Monitoring  
Application Mobility 
Simplified Configuration 
Event Monitoring 

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Live-Migration of VM to other
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Monitoring “Print Spooler”

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1. Failover Take
2. Resources offline
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Patch
online
Restart

23. Initiates
Check & Update
 Admin
Update Cluster
(Orchestrator)
Windows
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Cluster
Node Drained

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26. Node N
Node 2
Node 1
Node N
Node 2 Hyper-V
Shared Node 1 VM
JBOD Mgmt OS
Platfor File VM
HB Data Clusteri Server & NIC NIC
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Manag ng Networkin h
External HB Storag NIC NIC
A ement gStack VM
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Arrays VMBus VM

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30.  Hyper-V Cluster
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File Server
Cluster
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Single Logical File Server (FSShare)
 Single File System Namespace
 Cluster Shared Volumes
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 SQL Server
 fs1share fs1share
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File Server Node File Server Node
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File Server Cluster

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SQL Server
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fs1share fs1share
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File Server Node File Server Node
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File Server Cluster

34. • Witness
Service
User
Witness
Kernel
Protocol
(new) SMB 3.0 Server
Witness
• Client
User User
Kernel Kernel
State
Operation replay SMB 3.0 persistence
SMB2 Redirector SMB3 Server
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Resume Key Filter
File System
SMB 3.0 Client SMB 3.0 Server