1. The Path to Continuous Availability with Windows Server 2012 Luke Notley Technical Consultant – Red Ember WSV326

2. Why now?What you said

3. cost SLA

5. introducing Windows Server 2012 'Active On'

11. Event log Processor User mode process WHEA 2 3 5 KERNEL 4 Fetch data or execute code from memory location with uncorrected error 1 Memory Machine Check Exception Handle Exception Recovery Actions Recovery Actions: User Mode Terminate the process Take memory offline Kernel Mode BugCheck the system 2

13. ... Scale up Scale out...

15. demo Configuring Clustering

19. File Server Cluster SQL Server or Hyper-V Server Failover to Node B File Server Node A File Server Node B \\fs1\share

21. Multiple 10GbE/IB RSS-capable NICs Multiple 1GbE NICs SMB Server SMB Client Switch 1GbE Switch 1GbE SMB Server SMB Client NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE Switch 1GbE Switch 1GbE NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE NIC 1GbE Switch 10GbE/IB Switch 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB Switch 10GbE/IB Switch 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB NIC 10GbE/IB Sample Configurations

23. Single File System Namespace Cluster Shared Volumes Single Logical Server (\\Foo\Share) SMB Hyper-V Cluster File Server Cluster

24. Clustered iSCSI Target or NFS v3 server iSCSI Initiator(s), NFS v3 clients 1 2 3 Node A Node B Failover of iSCSI Target or NFS connections to Node B

25. demo Clustered File Shares

27. VHD

28. Update Coordinator

29. demo Cluster Aware Updating

32. Windows Server 2012 storage can deliver enterprise-class storage availability, reliability and performance – at a fraction of the cost Windows Server 2012 continuously available storage Flexible, low-cost solutions for Hyper-V and SQL Server Easy to set up and configure More options for storage

33. Find Me tomorrow morning at the Speaker Community Lounge WSV325 - WS2012 File and Storage Services Management – Jeff Alexander WSV326 - The Path to Continuous Availability with WS2012 – Luke Notley WSV332 - Cluster-Aware Updating & the New Generation of WSUS – Orin Thomas