windows server hyperv as mission critical platform
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Brochure of Microsoft HperVTRANSCRIPT
Mission Critical Systems on Hyper-V
Daniel Lai (MCITP:Virtualization| MCSE:PrivateCloud | VCP:vSphere5.1 Datacenter Virtualization | VCA:WorkforceMobility , Datacenter Virtualization, Cloud )
Solutions Sales Manager | WW Cloud Platform Tech Ranger | Cloud Platform & Enterprise MobilityMicrosoft
VMware ComparisonSystem Resource
Windows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
vSphere
Hypervisor
vSphere 5.5
Enterprise Plus
Host
Logical Processors 320 320 320
Physical Memory 4TB 4TB 4TB
Virtual CPUs per Host 2,048 4,096 4,096
VM
Virtual CPUs per VM 64 8 641
Memory per VM 1TB 1TB 1TB
Active VMs per Host 1,024 512 512
Guest NUMA Yes Yes Yes
ClusterMaximum Nodes 64 N/A2 32
Maximum VMs 8,000 N/A2 4,000
1. vSphere 5.5 Enterprise Plus is the only vSphere edition that supports 64 vCPUs. Enterprise edition supports 32 vCPU per VM with all other editions supporting 8 vCPUs per VM2. For clustering/high availability, customers must purchase vSphere
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html,
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf
Virtualized Workload Performance
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Hyper-V Virtual CPU Scalability
with OLTP Workloads
SQL Server 2012
64 vCPU support drove 6x
performance increase over
previous version of Hyper-V
& 6.3% overhead compared
with physical equivalent
Highest levels of performance
for key Microsoft workloads
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Virtual Machines
Exchange Workload Scalability on
Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
3 vCPU, 16GB RAM per VM, JetStress 2010
Exchange 2013
Virtualized 48,000 simulated
users on a single Hyper-V
host across 12 VMs, with low
response times
Highest levels of performance
for key Microsoft workloads
Virtualized Workload Performance
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Web Front Ends
SharePoint Workload Scalability on
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
8 vCPU, 12GB RAM per WFE VM
Highest levels of performance
for key Microsoft workloads
SharePoint 2013
Scaled to over 2 million
heavy users at 1%
concurrency, across 5 VMs
on a single Hyper-V host
Virtual Machine MobilityMore flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities
New in Windows Server 2012 R2*
LiveMigrationFaster, unrestricted, simultaneous VM live migrations between cluster nodes with no downtime
SMB-Based Live MigrationStore VMs on SMB 3.0 file shares, and live migrate them flexibly, without the need for a cluster
Live Migrationwith Compression*Harness spare host CPUcycles to compress memoryof migrating virtual machinesto accelerate live migration
Virtual Machine MobilityMore flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities
New in Windows Server 2012 R2*
Live Storage MigrationMove the virtual hard disks of running virtual machines to a different storage location with no downtime
Shared-Nothing Live MigrationFlexibly move virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts with nothing but a network cable and no clustering requirements
Live Migration over SMB*Highest live migration performance, utilizing SMB 3.0 protocol & accelerated using RDMA capable NICs
Cross-VersionLive Migration*Migrate VMs from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with no downtime
High Availability & ResiliencyProvide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications
Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs
Reduced Active Directory Dependencies*
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*
Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime
High Availability & ResiliencyProvide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications
New in Windows Server 2012 R2*
Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime
Flexible Guest ClusteringiSCSI, Virtual Fibre Channel & SMB 3.0 support for in-guest, application level resiliency
Shared VHDX Support*Build production-ready guest clusters utilizing Shared VHDX, without exposing underlying physical storage
Integrated NIC TeamingAggregate network adaptors to increase throughput & provide redundancy in case of link failure
Backup & ReplicationIntegrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads
Incremental BackupPerform agentless backup operations more quickly &easily whilst saving network bandwidth & disk space
Windows Azure Backup IntegrationQuickly & easily protect important server data offsite with automated backups to Windows Azure
Inbox VM ReplicationNear-synchronous replication of virtual machines across multiple sites with Hyper-V Replica
Cluster
Site1 Site2
Azure
Witness
Flexible Scenarios
Stretched clusters without a 3rd site
Clusters without shared storage
Guest Clusters in Azure VM role
Hybrid Cloud
Leveraging the power of the public cloud to
increase resiliency of your private cloud
Azure blob storage as an arbitration point
https
Cloud Witness – Greater efficiency
Availability
VMs continue to run even when a node falls out
of cluster membership
Flexibility
Designing for cloud scale with commodity
hardware
Configurable based on your SLA’s
Reliability
Resiliency to transient failures
VMs continue
running when node
becomes isolated
?
VM Compute Resiliency – Reliability
Resiliency
Node is quarantined if it ungracefully leaves the cluster
three times within an hour
VMs are gracefully drained once quarantined
Protection
Unhealthy nodes are quarantined and are no longer
allowed to join the cluster
Prevents flapping nodes from negatively effecting other
nodes and the overall cluster
Control
QuarantineDuration: cluster property
Default 2 hours
QuarantineState: Node read only common property
for node substatus
Quarantine of Flapping Nodes – Reliability
Visibility
VM stack quickly notified on failure
Intelligent and quick VM response to block the
file based storage infrastructure issues
Resiliency
Designing for cloud scale with standard hardware
Preserve tenant VM session state in the event of
transient storage disruption
Reliability
VM moved to PausedCritical state and will wait
for storage to recover
Session state retained on recovery
VM Storage Resiliency – Reliability
Multi-Site Cluster
Site1 Site2
Flexible
Works with any Windows volume, uses SMB3
as transport
Hardware agnostic - works with Storage
Spaces or any SAN volume
Integrated management
End-to-end Windows Server disaster recovery
solution
Failover Cluster Manager UI and PowerShell
Scalable
Block-level synchronous volume replication
Automatic cluster failover for low Recovery
Time Objective (RTO)
Cross site HA DR: Stretch clusters across sites with
synchronous volume replication
Storage Replica – More uptime
Hyper-V Cluster(s)
SMB3 Storage Network Fabric
SoFS clusters with no shared storage. Doesn’t need shared JBODs and SAS fabric behind Scale Out File Server nodes
Reliability, Scalability, Flexibility
Fault tolerance to disk, enclosure, node failures
Scale pools to large number of drive
Fine-grained storage expansion
Cloud design points and
management
Prescriptive configuration. Reduced hardware
costs with SATA drives
Deploy, manage and monitor with System Center
Use Cases
Hyper-V IaaS storage
Storage for Backup and Replication targets
Storage Spaces Direct– Low cost
Hybrid Cloud Scenarios
Recovery
Encrypted Backup
VPN
Windows Backup
SC Data Protection ManagerMicrosoft
Azure
System Center
Virtual Machine
ManagerRecovery
plan
Health Monitor
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
Site A Site BHyper-V
Replica
Orchestrated Recovery in case of outage
Manage
Site B
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
Site AReplication
Recovery
Microsoft
Azure
Microsoft
Azure
VPN
Remote UsersAdmin
Hybrid Cloud Scenarios
File / Application
Servers
• Live Backups, Archives,
and Disaster Recovery
• Dramatic Cost
Reduction
• No Changes to
Application
Environment
File / Application
Servers
• File share with integrated
data protection
• All-in-one primary data
+ backup + live archives
+ DR with de-duplication
& Compression
Policies AutomatedEncrypted
• SharePoint storage on
StorSimple + Azure
• StorSimple SharePoint
Database Optimizer
• Improved
performance &
scalability
• Control Virtual Sprawl
• Cloud-as-a-tier
• Offload storage footprint
• VMware Storage DRS Storage
pools
• Virtual Machine Archive
• Regional VM Storage
• Storage for Tier 2 – 3
SQL Databases
• Integrated Backup,
Restore & Disaster
Recovery
StoreSimple
Archive
Data
Benefits
• Consolidates primary, archive,
backup, DR thru seamless
integration with Azure
• Cloud Snapshots
• De duplication
• Compression
• Encryption
• Reduces enterprise storage TCO
by 60–80%
Warm
data on
SAS Local
Tier
Most
Active
Data
on SSDEncrypted Backup
Recovery
De
duplicated
De duplicated
& Compressed
De duplicated,
Compressed & Encrypted
VPN
Microsoft
Azure
Hybrid Cloud Scenarios
Availability Set
Load
Balancing
Auto
Scaling
Tier 1
Availability Set
Tier 2
Auto
Scaling
SharePoint
Availability Set
Tier 3
Azure
StorageSQL
Azure
Analytics
& ReportingVPN
VPN
Web
SiteMobile
Service
HDInsight
(Hadoop)
Storage
BLOB
Storage
Table
Storage
Queue
Virtual
MachinesVHD
MICROSOFT
AZURE
Cache
MICROSOFT
AZURE
CDN
Microsof
t
Azure
AD
Notification
Hub
User
s
Microsoft
Azure SDK
Developers
On Premises
Microsoft
Azure
Connected Devices
Collect / Decode
Load
Balancing
Auto
Scaling
Worker
Roles
INGRESS NODES
Filter / Analyze / Aggregate
ANALYTICS NODE
Auto
Scaling
Worker
RolesAzure
Storage
Record Reporting / BI
CONSUME
Azure
StorageSQL
Azure
Analytics
& ReportingMicrosoft
Azure
Innovation throughcloud cadence
Extension of todays environment
Starting the journey. Modern management
AzureManagement
System Center foundation
OperationsManagement Suite
Linux
Patching
Inventory
Wire Data
Remote OS Management
Configuration
Containers
AlertingCMDB