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Ohad Saban
CTO High Networks
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• A compression engine is built into Live Migration in
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.
• The CPU in hosts is often underused.
• Hyper-V will monitor the utilization of CPU resources on
the host and throttle compression to prioritize guest.
• Virtual hard disks of the VHDX format that are attached to the SCSI
controllers of virtual machines can be resized without shutting down
the virtual machine. VHDX files can be up- and down-sized.
• Downsizing can only occur if there is unpartitioned space within the
VHDX.
• This feature supports both Windows and Linux guests.
Live Resizing of VHDX files will be huge value to those running mission
critical workloads
• New storage metrics for IOPS have been added to WS2012 R2.
• With these metrics, you can determine the IOPS requirements of
virtual machines and put caps on storage activity.
• This will limit how much physical disk activity that virtual machines
can create, and therefore limit the damage that activity spikes can
cause to other virtual machines and their guest services.
• One of the concerns with shared storage is the possibility of a race for
storage throughput. Enabling Storage QoS will limit the damage that
any virtual machine or tenant can do in a cloud.
• WS2012 R2 Hyper-V allows you to clone a running virtual machine.
This will create an exact copy of the virtual machine that is stored in a
saved state. This feature supports GenerationID.
• That means you can use Live Virtual Machine Cloning to create Active
Directory supported clones of a virtual domain controller that is not
the PDC Emulator.
• This feature will be useful for situations where you need to debug a
production system or you want to perform tests, such as guest OS
upgrades.
• You can export a virtual machine with a checkpoint (formerly known
as a snapshot)
• You can also export a checkpoint of a virtual machine.
• You can configure up to 64 virtual machines to share a single VHDX
file on some shared storage (such as CSV or SMB 3.0).
• The VM sees the shared VHDX as a shared SAS disk with SCSI-3
persistent reservations.
• This is for data volumes to create guest clusters, and not for
shared boot volumes.
• It works with down-level guest OSs, such as W2008 R2 with the
WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Integration Components installed.
• This feature is supported by Service Templates in VMM 2012 R2.
• This will really simplify guest clustering, where virtual machines are
used to create a highly available service at the application layer.
• The default period for asynchronous replication of the Hyper-V Replica Log is every
5 minutes, but this can be changed to every 30 seconds or every 15 minutes.
• This allows companies to choose the allowed recovery point objective (RPO) –
the maximum allowed amount of data loss in time.
• Hyper-V Replica can now be extended to a third site.
• This is an A-B-C extension, and not an A-B/A-C extension.
• The performance and scalability of Hyper-V Replica has been improved.
Maintaining historical copies of virtual machines in the secondary site is costly
(IOPS).
• This has been reduced, so maintaining historical copies of your replica VMs will
not punish your storage in the secondary site.
• The criticized virtual machine connection of the past (VMConnect.exe
process) is being replaced by a Remote Desktop experience that is built
into the virtualization stack.
• This has no dependency on the virtual machine’s networking. By
default, this feature is disabled in WS2012 R2 Hyper-V and enabled
in Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V.
• Things that Remote Desktop VM Connect allow you to do include:
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Copy & paste text and images.
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Copy files to/from the client desktop.
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Do session-based USB redirection.
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This means you might use a USB stick to copy files. It is
not a USB dongle solution.
• You can live migrate a virtual machine from WS2012 Hyper-V to
WS2012 R2 Hyper-V.
• This could eliminate downtime when deploying WS2012 R2 Hyper-V.
For example, you can deploy a WS2012 R2 Hyper-V host/cluster
alongside an existing WS2012 Hyper-V host/cluster. You can then
live migrate the virtual machines from the older platform to the new
platform with zero downtime to the availability of the services
provided by the virtual machines.
• Note that you cannot do a Live Migration downgrade from WS2012
R2 Hyper-V to WS2012 Hyper-V. It is a one-way upgrade path.
• If the parent partition is activated, and if it is running Windows Server
2012 R2, the Windows Server 2012 R2 guest partition is automatically
activated without any intervention.
• Similar to the StorSimple appliance, Windows Server 2012 R2 can
measure the “heat” of storage needs. “Hot” portions of files (block
levels) are moved to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and cold data to slower
magnetic drives.
• This allows a favorable balance between capacity and performance.
• Administrators can assign files to specific storage tiers. This could be a
master “gold” vhd for a business customer.
• Performance gains of over 50% can be had by having process
awareness of the common blocks that are referenced by deduplication.
• 64 Tb is the addressable space of Windows Server 2012, and a .VHDX
can be 64 Tb in size. Now .VHDX virtual disks can be used with iSCSi
in Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Live Migration can be configured to leverage SMB Direct (Remote
Direct Memory Access, or RDMA)
• on hosts that that NICs with support for this feature.
• This feature will provide hardware offloaded accelerated copy of
memory pages using SMB 3.0 NICs.
• This can take advantage of SMB Multichannel to span multiple
networks.
• SMB Direct Live Migration provides the fastest way to live migrate
virtual machines (not including storage) from one host to another.
Memory speed will be the rare bottleneck on a host with PCI3
support and three RDMA NICs for Live Migration.
• Dynamic Memory will be supported in Linux Guest OS’s on Windows
Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.
• This will give much better memory optimization for Linux virtual
machines, and it'll allow for much greater densities. Linux
distributions with this built-in Linux Integration Services for HyperV HyH support are already available.
• There will be support for online backup of Linux guest OSs. This is not
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for Linux, and it does not give an
application consistent backup. Instead, a file system consistent
backup is created by freezing the file system. This feature does
require an upgrade of any already deploy Linux Integration Services.
PowerShell 4.0 adds new cmdlets for:
• VPN configuration
• Start Screen customization
• DISM
• NAT
• TPM
• WMI
• TCP/IP
• Systems Management
• Storage
• This is the first time that Windows Server (and thus Hyper-V) is being
developed with and released at or close to the same time as System
Center.
• There has been closer than ever before cooperation within Windows
Server and System Center (WSSC).
• That means you can deploy System Center immediately and follow it up
with WS2012 R2 Hyper-V, without the long delays of the past.
Feature or functionality
Shared virtual hard disk
Resize virtual hard disk
Storage Quality of Service
Live migrations
Virtual machine generation
Integration services
Export
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Failover Clustering and Hyper-V
Updated
Enhanced session mode
Hyper-V Replica
Linux support
Management
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Automatic Virtual Machine Activation
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Feature or functionality
Shared virtual hard disk
Resize virtual hard disk
Storage Quality of Service
Live migrations
Virtual machine generation
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Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview enables clustering virtual machines by
using shared virtual hard disk (VHDX) files.
Hyper-V storage has been updated to support resizing virtual hard disks while the
virtual machine is running.
Storage QoS enables you to manage storage throughput for virtual hard disks that are
accessed by your virtual machines
Hyper-V live migration has been updated to allow the administrator to select the
optimal performance options when moving virtual machines to a different server.
Virtual machine generation determines the virtual hardware and functionality that is
presented to the virtual machine:
• Secure Boot (enabled by default)
• Boot from a SCSI virtual hard disk
• Boot from a SCSI virtual DVD
• PXE boot by using a standard network adapter
• UEFI firmware support
Windows Server 2012R2
Thank You
Ohad Saban
CTO High Networks