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Challenge

Build a

Hyper-V

Cluster in

<20Min

Designing

Hyper-V

101 -

Checklist

HA &

Resiliency What’s New

Additional

Scripts

Bare Metal Build – PXE / WDS etc.

Install Windows 2012 R2

Install Hyper-V

Configure Proper Networking

Install Failover Clustering Role

Super Cristal will be my assistant!!

User Name = Administrator

Password = P@ssw0rd

Domain = Viamonstra

In <20 Minutes or Rick buys everyone a Beer!

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Task Sequence)

Hyper-V Networking Script

Hyper-V Hotfix Installer Script **

Consider Server Core

Update Servers

Hotfixes!!!

FIRMWARE

Core Cluster Roles

Disable RDP Printer Mapping

No other Roles

Antivirus Exclusions

.BIN Files

Microsoft PAL

Performance Tuning Guidelines

Teaming and TCP Chimney

Disk Allocation Size 64 KB

Resource SystemWindows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

Improvement

Factor

Host

Logical Processors 64 320 5×

Physical Memory 1TB 4TB 4×

Virtual CPUs per

Host512 2,048 4×

VM

Virtual CPUs per VM 4 64 16×

Memory per VM 64GB 1TB 16×

Active VMs per Host 384 1,024 2.7×

Guest NUMA No Yes -

ClusterMaximum Nodes 16 64 4×

Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8×

Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications

Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs

Reduced Active Directory Dependencies*VM MonitoringFailover Priority, Affinity & Anti-Affinity

Cluster Shared Volumes Optimizations*Cluster-Aware Updating

VM Network Health Detection*

Dynamic Witness & Force Quorum*

New in Windows Server 2012 R2*

Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime

Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications

New in Windows Server 2012 R2*

Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime

Flexible Guest ClusteringiSCSI, Virtual Fibre Channel & SMB 3.0 support for in-guest, application level resiliency

Shared VHDX Support*Build production-ready guest clusters utilizing Shared VHDX, without exposing underlying physical storage

Integrated NIC TeamingAggregate network adaptors to increase throughput & provide redundancy in case of link failure

Veeam® Backup & Replication™

Integrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads

Incremental BackupPerform agentless backup operations more quickly andeasily whilst saving network bandwidth and disk space

Windows Azure Backup IntegrationQuickly and easily protect important server data offsite with automated backups to Windows Azure

Inbox VM ReplicationNear-synchronous replication of virtual machines across multiple sites with Hyper-V Replica

Rolling Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade

Storage QoS

Virtual Machine Configuration Version

New virtual machine configuration file format

Production Checkpoints

Hyper-V Manager improvements

Integration Services delivered through Windows Updates

Hot add and remove for network adapters and memory

Thank you!