1. Overview

2. Agenda Hyper-V Overview Feature Comparison
Cost / Performance comparison
Storage

3. Schedule Day 1 900 Welcome and Introductions Doug 915
Overview, VMware comparison
Paul
1000
Break
1010
Networking
Aidan
1100
1110
Storage Spaces
1200
Lunch
1300
VM Generations, Disk Formats
1350
1400 HA
1450
1500
Hyper-V Replica
1550
First Day Wrap Up

4. Schedule Day 2 0900 Recap from Day 1 Doug 0915 Scale Out File Server
Aidan
1030
Break
1045
Managing w/ PowerShell and Hyper-V Manager
Paul
1200
Lunch
1300
Live Migration
1415
1430
Managing w/ SCVMM, Linux, Vmware integration
1530
1545
Wrap up / Questions

5. New in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Generation 2 VMs Networking Storage
VM Network Protection
Virtual RSS
Storage
Online Disk Resize
Storage QoS
Shared VHDX
Spaces Storage Tiering
Live Export
Live Migration
Compression
SMB Direct
Hyper-V Replica
Configurable Replication
Tertiary Replication
Manageable SCVMM & Azure Recovery Manager

6. Updated in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Resize virtual hard disk
Live migrations
Integration services
Export
Failover Clustering and Hyper-V
Hyper-V Replica
Linux support
Management
Hyper-V Networking

7. Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support
System
Resource
Maximum number
Improvement factor
Windows 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Host
Logical processors on hardware 64
320 5×
Physical memory
1 TB
4 TB 4×
Virtual processors per host
512
2,048
Virtual machine
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4
16×
Memory per virtual machine
64 GB
Virtual disk capacity
2 TB
64 TB
32x
Active virtual machines
384
1,024
2.7×
Cluster
Nodes 16
Virtual machines
1,000
8,000 8× 7 7

8. Hyper-V Versions Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Unlimited – free of charge
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
2 VMs
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Unlimited

9. Hyper-V Costs Edition Feature comparison Licensing model Pricing
Datacenter
Unlimited virtual OSE All Features
Processor + CAL
$6,155
Standard
Two virtual OSE
All Features
$882
Essentials
Two Processors
One OSE
Limited Features
Server
25-user limit
$501
Operating System Environment (OSE)
An “operating system environment” is an instance of an operating system, including any applications configured to run on it.

10. VMware ESXi 5.1 vs MS Hyper-V Server 2012
VMware ESXi 5.1 (Free Version)
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
Scale
Limited to 4 vCPUs in VM
Limited Host RAM to 32 GB
Limited VM Memory Support
No Enterprise level features
No vMotion
No Storage vMotion
No High Availability
No Extensible Switch
No VM Replication
Scale
Up to 64 VPs per VM
Up to 4 TB of memory per Host RAM
Up to 1 TB of memory per VM
Enterprise level features included
Shared Nothing Live Migration
Live Storage Migration
High Availability via Clustering
Hyper-V Replica (Unlimited)
Storage Spaces
…much more…

11. Hyper-V vs vSphere Feature Hyper-V vSphere
# of Physical CPUs per license 2 1
Maximum active VMs per host
1024
512
Maximum # of physical hosts per cluster 64 32
Maximum # of VMs per cluster
8000
4000
Virtual machine snapshots
50 per VM
32 per VM
Minimum disk footprint
800 KB
155 MB
# of Windows Server VM Licenses per host
Unlimited

14. vSphere Standard

15. vSphere Standard

16. vSphere a la carte per CPU

17. vSphere Essentials

18. Dynamic, High Performance Storage
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Dynamic, High Performance Storage
Live Storage Migration
New VHDX Format
Up to 64 TB per disk
Auto-Alignment with SAN storage
Major performance improvements
Native 4K Disk Support
Online Meta Operations
Live virtual disk merge
Live new parent
Improved rebuild
Virtual Fibre Channel
Virtual FC HBA presented in VM
Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
Automatic Trim/Unmap
Allows storage subsystem to automatically reclaim/reuse storage deleted from a VM
Only Hyper-V provides this
Support for VMs on Continuously Available File Servers via SMB 3.0
SMB Multi-Channel, SMB Scale Out
SMB Transparent Failover, Encryption
Microsoft Confidential

19. EMC VNX5300 Base Price

20. EMC VNX5300 Marketing Information
High-performing unified storage with unsurpassed simplicity and efficiency, optimised for virtual applications. With the EMC VNX5300, you'll achieve new levels of performance, protection, compliance, and ease of management. The VNX5300 model can hold 125 drives, scalability of up to 240TB and with system memory of up to 8GB at the block level along with the support of FC, iSCSI and FCoE connectivity. VNX5300 is suitable for those wishes to take advantage of enterprise level storage at a lower TCO. VNX5300 would be ideal for medium-sized to enterprise businesses.
Product Type
SAN Server
Total Hard Drive Capacity
4.80 TB
Hard Drive Configuration
8 x 600 GB
Processor Manufacturer
Intel
Processor Type
Xeon
Standard Memory
16 GB
Number of Total Expansion Bays 15
Controller Type
Fibre Channel
RAID Supported
Yes

21. Netapp Entry Level

22. Netapp Midrange

23. Networking Improvements
In-box Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) gateway
Now part of the Hyper-V extensible switch
Two new Windows PowerShell cmdlets (Test-VMNetworkAdapter and Select-NetVirtualizationNextHop) that enables diagnostics of HNV policy and the Customer Address space.
Dynamic IP Address
Allows you to run DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory in your VM networks.
New monitoring and diagnostic capabilities
Broadcast / Multicast support
NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation) for traffic between separate networks

24. Final Thoughts Free Hyper-V Server Create VHDX and share
Replicate to other Hyper-V Servers
Storage Spaces
Requires JBOD / SAS disks
SSD greatly enhances performance
LSI controllers w/ JBOD array work great (DataON)
Networking
If you can afford 10 GbE do it
RDMA w/ 10 GbE is crazy fast