Windows server 8 hyper v & storage (hans vredevoort)

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V & Storage

Hans Vredevoort

Speaker Bio • Consultant & MVP

• INOVATIV – The System Center Specialists

• System Center, Hyper-V, Cluster, MS Private Cloud

• Cluster MVP (2009, 2010, 2011)

• Active in Hyper-V community: Hyper-V.nu

• Author & Editor • Mastering Hyper-V Deployment (Technical Editor)

• Microsoft Private Cloud Computing: Building the Foundation (Co-Author)

• Contact • hans.vredevoort@inovativ.nl | @hvredevoort | @hypervnu

Windows 8 Hyper-V & Storage

Creating VHDX & Hyper-V guests via PowerShell

Using Windows 8 File Services with Pools & Spaces

Serving Out iSCSI Targets to Windows 8 Cluster

Configuring ScaleOut File Server Cluster

Employing Cluster Shared Volumes 2

Deploying to Continuously Available SMB2 File Shares

Showing Live Storage Migration between SMB2 shares

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Storage Management

The new VHDX virtual disk format • New VHDX format for Hyper-V & Win8 Storage • Large virtual disk size (~ 16TB per VHDX) • Large default block sizes (1MB 32MB 256MB) • Large 4KB sector size (logical + physical same size) • Performant • Mountable • Resilient • Convertible • Scriptable

File Services with Pools & Spaces

• Windows 8 Role and Role Services

File Services with Pools & Spaces

• Pool is an aggregation of disks

• Create virtual disks

• Virtual disks = Spaces

• Virtual disk behaves like a physical disk

– Supports Thin provisioning

– Resiliency to failures of physical disks

Integrated iSCSI Target Server • ISCSI Target Server

• Optional component of Windows 8 File Server Role

• Easy serving of iSCSI disks

• Hardware independent

• Cluster Support

• CSV Support

• PowerShell Support

Deployment Options for Hyper-V

Deployment Options for Hyper-V 1. External Storage Array

– New functionality: ODX & Trim

2. File Servers - Pools & Spaces

3. Clustered PCI RAID

Offload Data Transfer (ODX)

Deployment Options for Hyper-V • Two separate clusters

– Cluster to host VMs

– Cluster to host storage

• Single cluster for VM’s and storage

– VMs can run anywhere

– Single CSV namespace

Cluster Shared Volumes 2 • Appears as CSVFS • For Hyper-V + other roles • Easy to add a disk to CSV • Higher scalability and reliability • Better interoperability with FS mini-filter drivers • Deep integration with Win8 storage & network technologies • No external authentication • Direct I/O for more scenarios • Multi-subnet Support

Cluster Shared Volumes 2 • High Speed CSV I/O Redirection

• CSV is integrated with SMB multi-channel – CSV traffic across multiple networks

– Improved I/O performance when in redirected mode

• CSV takes advantage of SMB2 Direct (SMB2 over RDMA)

Ideal Configuration

File Server 2 File Server 1

DC

/DN

S

Ethernet Switch

JBOD 1 1 2 3 4 5 9 … JBOD 2 1 2 3 4 5 9

…

Hyper-V 1 Hyper-V 2

IB Switch

IB NIC IB NIC

IB NIC IB NIC

Eth NIC Eth NIC

Eth NIC Eth NIC

Eth

NIC

SAS HBA 1 SAS HBA 2 SAS HBA 1 SAS HBA 2

IO Module IO Module

Demo Configuration

File Server 2 File Server 1 DC/DNS

Virtual Network

1 2 3 4 5 9

… …

Hyper-V

Ethernet NIC

vNIC vNIC

Clustered Virtual Disks

• Hyper-V • File Server • iSCSI Target

• File Server • Continuously

Available Shares

• File Server • Continuously

Available Shares

vNIC File Cluster

Windows 8 Hyper-V & Storage

Creating VHDX & Hyper-V guests via PowerShell

Using Windows 8 File Services with Pools & Spaces

Serving Out iSCSI Targets to Windows 8 Cluster

Configuring ScaleOut File Server Cluster

Employing Cluster Shared Volumes 2

Deploying to Continuously Available SMB2 File Shares

Showing Live Storage Migration between SMB2 shares

You can build great continuously available

platforms that shine with Hyper-V across a wide range of

storage deployment options

Big thanks for attending!!

Q & A

Hans Vredevoort @hvredevoort