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Desktop Virtualization Corey Hynes Kyle Rosenthal President Technical Lead HynesITe Inc Spider Consulting @windowspcguy
Microsoft Virtual Academy
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2. Module 9 Planning Hyper-V Virtual Desktops

3. Hyper-V and Virtual Desktops
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Hyper-V and Virtual Desktops
Hyper-V is the underlying host that makes VDI possible
Parent partition hosts the child operating systems
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4. Seamless experience with RemoteFX
Enables the delivery of a full Windows user experience to a range of client devices
Delivers a rich user experience
Integrates with the RDP protocol
Enables shared encryption, authentication, management, and device support
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Provides a 3D virtual adapter, intelligent codecs, and the ability to redirect USB devices in virtual machines
Improved WAN performance
Multi-touch support
Configured through Group Policy

5. Seamless experience with RemoteFX
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Seamless experience with RemoteFX
Uses multiple codecs
Text
Graphics (static)
Video / Animation
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6. Seamless experience with RemoteFX
Progressive Rendering

7. Using Checkpoints with virtual desktops
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Using Checkpoints with virtual desktops
Point in time roll back point of Virtual machine
Great for testing!
Used in Pooled virtual desktops
Created automatically in the pooled environment
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8. Using Dynamic Memory with virtual desktops
More efficient use of available physical memory
Shared resource that can be reallocated automatically
Demand, available memory, and virtual machine memory settings
Dynamic memory settings
Startup RAM
Minimum RAM
Maximum RAM
Memory buffer
Memory weight

9. Using Dynamic Memory with virtual desktops
2 GB
4 GB
6 GB
8 GB
Virtual Machines
Memory Settings
Total System Memory
Memory in Use by virtual machines
3 GB
Physical Memory Used
37.5 %
Finance virtual machine
Sales virtual machine
Engineering virtual machine
Engineering reaches
max allocation
T = 0
T = 15
T = 30
Finance virtual machine
Sales virtual machine
Engineering virtual machine
Service virtual machine
2 GB
4 GB
6 GB
8 GB
Total System Memory
Memory in Use by virtual machines
7,5 GB
Physical Memory Used
94 %
Virtual Machines
Memory Settings
T = 0
T = 15
T = 30
2 GB
4 GB
6 GB
8 GB
Finance virtual machine
Sales virtual machine
Engineering virtual machine
Total System Memory
Memory in Use by virtual machines
Physical Memory Used
75 %
Virtual Machines
Memory Settings

10. Storage options for Virtual Desktops
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Storage options for Virtual Desktops
Virtual machines require storage for virtual hard disk files, snapshots, failover clustering, and the application’s data files
Physical
DAS (SATA, eSATA, PATA, SAS, SCSI)
SAN (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, SAS)
Required for failover clustering so all nodes can access a disk
Host clustering: Fibre Channel, FCoE, Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS), iSCSI
Guest clustering: iSCSI, FCoE, Fibre Channel, SMB
Virtual adapters
IDE, SCSI
Boot – IDE only
Fibre Channel
VHD (VHDX)
Fixed, dynamic, differencing
Pass-through
iSCSI direct (applicable to running iSCSI in guest OS)
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11. Overview of Storage Spaces & Clusters
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Overview of Storage Spaces & Clusters
Cluster supports spaces
Simple
Mirrored
Mirrored space
CSV redirection from non-owning nodes
Use low latency network (10 G or RDMA) for cluster network
Clustered
Hyper-V Host
Hyper-V Host
CSV
Space
Space
Shared JBOD SAS
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12. Overview of Disk Deduplication
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Overview of Disk Deduplication
Use for Virtual Disk Library
Store more data in less space
Redundant copies of segments of VHDs are replaced by a reference to the single copy
Compressed and then organized
Enable-DedupVolume
Disable-DedupVolume
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13. Deduplication on a Hyper-V Library
Before Deduplication: GB of disk used
After Deduplication: GB of disk used
60.9 GB of Savings!

14. Hyper-V storage over SMB
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Hyper-V storage over SMB
Highlights
Increases flexibility
Eases provisioning, management and migration
Leverages converged network
Reduces CapEx and OpEx
Supporting features
SMB Transparent Failover - Continuous availability
SMB Scale-Out – Active/Active file server clusters
SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) - Low latency, low CPU use
SMB Multichannel – Network throughput and failover
SMB Encryption - Security
VSS for SMB File Shares - Backup and restore
SMB PowerShell - Manageability
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15. Considerations for Highly Available Virtual Desktops
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Considerations for Highly Available Virtual Desktops
Pooled Desktops are highly available if there are multiple Hyper-V servers
Private Desktops are highly available if there are multiple Hyper-V servers in a Failover cluster
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