1. BUILDING A HIGHLY AVAILABLE HYPER-V CLUSTER USING FREE MICROSOFT HYPER-V SERVER Max Kolomyeytsev StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager Alex Karavanov 5nine Virtualization Security Engineer

2. АGENDA  Clustering evolution: from application clusters to a fully virtualized datacenter  What does free Hyper-V offer out of the box?  Hyper-V Cluster Setup  Storage component  Management component  Implementation scenarios  Q&A

3. STARWIND SOFTWARE  Ownership: Privately held with VC backend since 2008, spin-off from Rocket Division Software  Investors: VEEAM, Almaz Capital, AVentures  Product: StarWind Virtual SAN™ storage virtualization software  Users: More than 250,000 paying and playing customers  Headquarters: Boston, MA, USA  Number of employees: 50+  Customer care: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support  Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Dell, IBM, HP, VEEAM

4. 5NINE SOFTWARE Leading solutions provider of management & security applications for Windows Server & Microsoft Hyper-V environments: Products built exclusively for Hyper-V ecosystem Hyper-V Management for SMB Powerful agentless and multi-tenant security for Hyper-V Easy conversion from VMware to Hyper-V Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey and Europe. More than 25,000 clients worldwide.

5. CLUSTERING EVOLUTION $ Old days Virtualized architecture $ $ $

6. WHAT DOES FREE HYPER-V OFFER OUT OF THE BOX? Out of box Experience enhancements

7. HYPER-V CLUSTER SETUP 1.Configure and provision shared storage 2.Install the Failover Clustering feature on each Hyper-V host 3.Install the MPIO feature on each Hyper-V host 4.Configure an external virtual network switch on each Hyper-V host 5.Validate the configuration of Hyper-V hosts 6.Create a new cluster

8. STORAGE COMPONENT Zero hardware footprint o Dramatically reduced CapEx and OpEx o Complete fault tolerance with just 2 servers o No specialized staff required for management o Can run on Free & Core Windows Server editions

9. WHY HYPER-CONVERGED Native Windows application High performance for Microsoft Hyper-V due to reducing I/O path: reads and writes go locally and server side running RAM and flash cache dramatically increases the performance

10. VM WORKLOAD IN MIND VM-Centric Storage (LSFS) a combination of RAM and Flash as multi-layered cache is used to eliminate random IO on magnetic disks. Multiple small random writes are coalesced into big sequential I/O writes. This allows to achieve up to 90% raw sequential write performance of the underlying storage. Deduplication VM and flash-friendly space reduction technologies such as in-line deduplication, increasing usable capacity of all-flash configurations and prolonging flash life-cycle

11. OF COURSE THE MUST HAVE FEATURES Snapshots and Automated Storage Tiering implementing inter-node tiering technology to offload “cold” data from fast primary all-flash storage to slower high capacity secondary storage tier Asynchronous replication Mission-critical business data is replicated to a disaster recovery site. Replication is implemented to be asynchronous, background, deduplication, and compression-aware as well as snapshot-based to reduce load on slow WAN connections

12. MANAGEMENT COMPONENT Turn PowerShell into GUI Dramatically simplify and save money on Hyper-V management Manage your Hyper-V clusters Get a user-friendly management GUI for Windows Server Core and Microsoft Hyper-V Server Manage different Hyper-V versions (2012 R2/ 2012/ 2008 R2 SP1) from a single console Use any client 64-bit system starting from Windows 7, to access and manage your Hyper-V hosts remotely

13. MANAGE HIGH AVAILABLE HYPER-V CLUSTER  Add cluster into 5nine Manager console  Check cluster available storage  Add or remove VM to/from cluster  Enjoy live migration  Pause cluster nodes with or without draining roles, when needed  Resume cluster nodes with or without draining roles, when needed  Check all VMs statuses in a split of a second, right in the tree view

14. EASILY CREATE VMS OUT OF TEMPLATES Clone your “golden image” (Template VM) as many times as you need. To create a “golden image” (Template VM) Create a VM with needed parameters Install and configure OS Install and configure required software Run sysprep Keep this VM in off state, to use it as a template

15. TASKS ARE PERFORMED IN THE BACKGROUND Keep working on your management operations, while tasks are being performed in the background Make your waiting time – a productive time!

16. GET NOTIFIED IF…  New VM is created  VM is removed  VM is started or restarted  VM is turned off  VM is imported or exported  VM replication failed  VM configuration changed

17. IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIOS Central Site Branch Office Remote Office Branch Office Microsoft Hyper-V Server StarWind Virtual SAN 5nine Manager Microsoft Hyper-V Server StarWind Virtual SAN 5nine Manager Minimum and Sufficient Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster

18. GOING HYPER-CONVERGED IN ROBO S

19. Q&A Feel free to ask the presenters any questions

20. CONTACT US Download 5nine Manager for Hyper-V here: http://www.5nine.com/manager Contact 5nine Software: USA/Canada: +1 617 982-1261 Europe: +44 (20) 7048-2021 sales@5nine.com info@5nine.com Download StarWind Virtual SAN 30-Day Trial here: www.starwind.com/starwind-virtual-san/ StarWind Software Inc.: 301 Edgewater Place, Wakefield, MA 01880 USA/Canada: 1-617-449-7717 EMEA and Asia: +44-207-193-67-27 sales@starwindsoftware.com info@starwindsoftware.com