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2. Why Microsoft for Virtualizing & Managing SharePoint
2/23/2019
Why Microsoft for Virtualizing & Managing SharePoint
Matt McSpirit Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager
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3. Flexibility & Resiliency
2/23/2019
Flexibility & Resiliency
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4. Virtual Machine Mobility
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Virtual Machine Mobility
Accelerated performance & flexibility for SharePoint VM Migration
Live Migration with Compression*
Harness spare host CPU cycles to compress memory of migrating SharePoint VMs to accelerate live migration
Live Migration
Faster, unrestricted, simultaneous SharePoint VM live migrations between cluster nodes with no downtime
SMB-Based Live Migration
Store SharePoint VMs on SMB 3.0 file shares, and live migrate them flexibly, without the need for a cluster
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 *
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5. Virtual Machine Mobility
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Virtual Machine Mobility
Accelerated performance & flexibility for SharePoint VM Migration
Cross-Version Live Migration*
Migrate SharePoint VMs from Windows Server Hyper-V to 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with no downtime R2
2012
Live Storage Migration
Move the virtual hard disks of running SharePoint VMs to a different storage location with no downtime
Shared-Nothing Live Migration
Flexibly move SharePoint VMs 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
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 *
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6. Integrated Network Virtualization
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Integrated Network Virtualization
Integrated isolation & security for virtual multi-tenant SharePoint deployments }
Powerful capability for Service Providers
Secure, Scalable Isolation without VLANs
Network Virtualization
Decouple virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and remove existing physical network challenges.
Live Migrations Across Subnets
Seamless Infrastructure Integration
Utilizes Generic Route Encapsulation
Provides VM Networks & Virtual Subnets
Simplified Management of Networks
Supports PowerShell & WMI
Integrated with Partner Ecosystem
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7. Integrated Network Virtualization
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Integrated Network Virtualization
Integrated isolation & security for virtual multi-tenant SharePoint deployments }
Blue Network
Red Network
VM Networks
Network Virtualization
Decouple virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and remove existing physical network challenges
Routable Hyper-V Hosts on Physical Network
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8. Integrated Network Virtualization
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Integrated Network Virtualization
Integrated isolation & security for virtual multi-tenant SharePoint deployments
Inbox NV Gateway
Scalable, production ready multi-tenant gateway for Site-to- Site (VPN), NAT & forwarding along with bridging virtual & non-virtual networks
Network Virtualization
Decouple virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and remove existing physical network challenges
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9. Failover Clustering for VM Resiliency
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Failover Clustering for VM Resiliency
Provide greater levels of availability for SharePoint VMs }
Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs
Reduced Active Directory Dependencies*
Failover Clustering
Integrated, scalable high availability to protect virtualized SharePoint Servers and provide the highest levels of uptime
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 *
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10. SharePoint High Availability
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
SharePoint High Availability
Comprehensive resilience for Web Front Ends, Application & SQL Servers
Multiple Levels of Redundancy
SharePoint 2013 enables administrators to implement redundancy at web, application and database layers.
SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) or Availability Groups provide resilience at database level.
Multiple Application servers provide resilience for farm services and specific application components such as search.
Multiple front end web servers dedicated to serving content, behind an NLB for network distribution.
Front-End Web Servers
Web content servers behind a Network Load Balancer
Application Servers
Search Query & Index along with other application roles
SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance or Availability Groups
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11. Combining HA Configurations
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Combining HA Configurations
Dual-levels of resilience with Hyper-V & SharePoint HA
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
Failover Clustering at host level provides resiliency in the event of hardware failure.
Supports Failover Priority to ensure SharePoint VMs start first upon failover, and in a specific order.
Supports Anti-Affinity rules to keep SharePoint farm member VMs on different physical hosts.
SharePoint Resilience
SharePoint VM virtual disks should be stored on resilient storage (SMB 3.0, iSCSI, FC).
A 3-tier deployment with multiple VMs per tier would be recommended for production.
SharePoint farm nodes, including SQL Servers, fully supported with Hyper-V Live Migration.
Guest SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster for SharePoint content databases
Hyper-V Host
Cluster
iSCSI, Fibre Channel or SMB 3.0 Storage, used to store SharePoint & SQL Server VM virtual disks and/or SQL Server data files (SMB)
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12. Integrated Cluster Maintenance
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
Integrated Cluster Maintenance
Cluster-Aware Updating ensures clusters stay patched & protected
Hyper-V Host Maintenance
Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) will orchestrate the automatic Live Migration of SharePoint VMs away from Hyper-V nodes that are ready to be patched.
Node is placed into maintenance mode before patching, and removed upon completion.
CAU can be manually triggered, or set to Self- Updating Mode for automated patching on a scheduled basis - daily, weekly, or monthly intervals
CAU can also be extended to include 3rd party patches, hotfixes, firmware updates etc.
CAU can be managed via PowerShell or through GUI.
No downtime to the SharePoint Virtual Machines whilst the process of patching the host is underway.
Virtualized SharePoint Web, Application or SQL Servers
Hyper-V Host
Cluster
iSCSI, Fibre Channel or SMB 3.0 Storage, used to store SharePoint & SQL Server VM virtual disks
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13. High Availability & Resiliency
Windows Server Management Marketing
2/23/2019
High Availability & Resiliency
Integrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads
Failover Clustering
Integrated, scalable high availability to protect virtualized Exchange Servers and provide the highest levels of uptime
Integrated NIC Teaming
Aggregate network adaptors to increase throughput & provide redundancy in case of link failure
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