What's New in Hyper-v 2012 R2 JIM RATSCH DMVMUG Reston, VA

 Session Objectives:  Learn about the new features in the latest release of Hyper-V  Hyper-V for Private Cloud is just getting better  Increasing virtual machine up-time is always a priority  Listening to customers and refining features  Innovating in virtualization Session Objectives And Takeaways

 Focused on delivering Private Cloud solutions  Incredibly well received – some key highlights:  Hyper-V Replica  Shared Nothing & Simultaneous Live Migrations  Storage Migration  Support for virtual machines on SMB 3.0  Full PowerShell Support – more than 160 cmdlets  VHDX format  Online disk merging  Increased scalability – VMs 1TB memory & 64 vprocs!  Dynamic memory enhancements – minimum memory, smart paging  Virtual Fibre Channel (virtual HBAs)  …more Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012

Windows Azure IaaS  Windows Azure uses the same Hyper-V virtualization service built-into Windows Server 2012  Complete virtual machine compatibility between on premise Hyper-V and Azure IaaS

Moving Virtualization Forward

New Generation Of Virtual Machines Generation 2 virtual machines  Legacy free  UEFI based (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)  Many emulated devices removed  Boots from virtual SCSI or synthetic network adapters  Enables UEFI secure boot standard  Supported guest operating systems:  64-bit versions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012  64-bit versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Demo: Generation 1 vs generation2

Generation 2 Virtual Machine Hardware Legacy Devices RemovedReplacement DevicesEnhancements IDE ControllerVirtual SCSI ControllerBoot from VHDx ( 64TB max size, online resize) IDE CD-ROMVirtual SCSI CD-ROMHot add/remove Legacy BIOSUEFI firmwareSecure Boot Legacy NICSynthetic NICNetwork boot with IPv4 & IPv6 Floppy & DMA ControllerNo floppy support UART (COM Ports)Optional UART for debuggingFaster and more reliable i8042 keyboard controllerSoftware based inputNo emulation – reduced resources PS/2 keyboardSoftware based keyboardNo emulation – reduced resources PS/2 mouseSoftware based mouseNo emulation – reduced resources S3 videoSoftware based videoNo emulation – reduced resources PCI BusVMBus Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)No longer required Programmable Interrupt Timer (PIT)No longer required Super I/O deviceNo longer required

Automatic Activation  Zero touch activation of virtual machines  Virtual machines automatically activated according to the hosting environment  Reduces configuration for hosters / enterprises

Enhanced VM connect Remote Desktop over VMBus  Full remote desktop capabilities  Shared clipboard  Audio redirection  Enhanced login  Smart card integration  USB support  Enabled even when the network is down  Integrated into Hyper-V Management experience

Demo: enhanced vm connect

legacy Virtual Machine Control

Existing Virtual Machine Control

Enhanced Virtual Machine Control

Zero-downtime upgrade  Cross version compatibility - Compatibility In Windows Server 2012 R2 from Windows Server 2012  Live migration  Saved states  Checkpoints (aka Snapshots)  Includes shared nothing live migration

Faster Live Migration  Compression  Significantly faster live migration times  No hardware changes are required  Enabled by default  SMB Direct  Utilizes existing and new high-end networks  Enables super high-speed live migrations  Supports SMB Multichannel to leverage multiple interfaces

Faster Live Migration  Simple guidance:  If your live migration network is….  10 Gbit or less – use compression  Over 10 Gbit – use SMB / SMB Direct

Demo: live migrations

Online VHDX resize  Increase AND decrease the size of virtual hard disks – while the virtual machine is running!

Demo: online vhdx resize

Live virtual machine export / clone While the virtual machine is running…  Export a complete copy – including memory state  Export any snapshot of a virtual machine

Continuing Linux Guest Support  Full dynamic memory  Online backup  Online VHDX resize  New video driver

File Based Storage Block Storage Guest clustering with shared virtual disks VHDX Guest Clustering Guest Clustering with commodity storage Sharing VHDX files provides shared storage for Hyper-V Failover Clustering Maintains separation between infrastructure and tenants Virtual SAS VM presented a shared virtual SAS disk Appears as shared SAS disk to VM Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) on block storage Scale-Out File Server for file based storage

Storage QoS  Enables constant SLA delivery  Dynamically configurable while the virtual machine is running  Can restrict disk throughput for overactive / disruptive virtual machines

Hyper-V Replica  Extended replication  Finer grained control of replication  More…

Demo: hyper-v replica

Summary  Hyper-V for Private Cloud is just getting better  Increasing virtual machine up-time is always a priority  Listening to customers and refining features  Innovating in virtualization

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