1. Elad Hayun Elad@U-BTech.com

2. Agenda What's New in Hyper-V 2012 Storage Improvements Networking Improvements VM Mobility Improvements

3. What's New in Hyper-V 2012 Feature/functionalityNew or Updated Storage MigrationNew Storage on SMB 3.0New Virtual Fiber ChannelNew Virtual Hard Disk FormatUpdated Dynamic MemoryUpdated PowershellNew Hyper-V ReplicaNew VM ImportUpdated Live MigrationUpdated Virtual Machine SnapshotsUpdated Client Hyper-VNew

4. Storage Improvements Disk Types Converting Disks Location Considerations of Virtual Hard Disks Storage on SMB 3 File Shares Fibre Channel Support in Hyper-V Storage Migration Demonstration: Managing Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V

5. Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V 2012 Windows Server 2012 introduces the new VHDX format for virtual hard disks, which: Supports bigger disks – Up to 64TB Protection against data corruption during power failures by logging updates to the VHDX metadata structures Supports better alignment when deployed to a large sector disk Allows larger block size for dynamic and differencing disks, which provides better performance – 4K cluster disks

6. Converting Disks You can perform the following maintenance operations on virtual hard disks: Convert the disk from fixed to dynamic Convert the disk from dynamic to fixed Convert a virtual hard disk in VHD format to VHDX Convert a virtual hard disk in VHDX format to VHD

7. Location Considerations of Virtual Hard Disks When planning the location of virtual hard disks, ensure the following: Virtual hard disk files are stored on disks that can be accessed quickly from the Hyper-V host Virtual hard disk files are stored on a volume that is configured for redundancy Virtual hard disk files are stored on high-performance storage Virtual hard disk files configured for growth should be placed on volumes with adequate space

8. Storage on SMB 3 File Shares Hyper-V can store the following on SMB 3 files shares: Configuration files Vurtual hard disk files (in VHD and/or VHDX format) Snapshot files ** SMB 3 is available in Windows Server 2012 only, and not in earlier Windows Server versions

9. Fibre Channel Support in Hyper-V The Fiber Channel Adapter: Allows a virtual machine to directly connect to a Fiber Channel SAN Requires that the Hyper-V host has a Fiber Channel HBA Requires that the Fiber Channel HBA driver supports virtual Fibre Channel

10. Storage Migration Storage Migration technology enables you to move a virtual machine and its storage to another location without downtime. During migration the virtual machine hard drive is copied from one location to another Changes are written to both source and destination drive You can move virtual machine storage to same host, another host, or server message block share (SMB) Storage and virtual machine configuration can be in different locations

11. Live Storage Migration Enables Storage Load Balancing No downtime servicing Leverages Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Hyper-V Virtual Machine Source Device Destination Device VHD VHD Stack 1 2 3 4 5

12. What's New in VM Mobility? NIC Teaming Performance and Acceleration Security Best Practices

13. Complete mobility. Simply the best. Live Migration with High Availability Live Migrate among servers in a failover cluster SMB Live Migration Live Migrate VMs among servers with SMB storage Live Storage Migration Live Migrate VM storage from one volume to another without downtime Share Nothing (SNO) Live Migration Live Migrate VMs among servers with nothing, but an Ethernet connection

14. Hyper-V Replica Disaster Recovery Scenarios: Planned, Unplanned and Test Failover Pre-configuration for IP settings for primary/remote location Key Features: RPO/RTO in minutes Seamless integration with Hyper-V and Clustering Automatically handles all VM mobility scenarios (e.g. Live migration) Supports heterogonous storage between primary and recovery Integrates with Volume Shadow Services (VSS)

15. Hyper-V Replica

16. Easy to Setup Via wizard Or, via PowerShell Works with your current hardware All you need is two connected servers running Windows Server 2012 No Guest Dependencies

17. Demo! Demo! Managing Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V

18. QUESTIONS?

19. Elad Hayun Elad@U-BTech.com