Mission Critical Systems on Hyper-V

Daniel Lai (MCITP:Virtualization| MCSE:PrivateCloud | VCP:vSphere5.1 Datacenter Virtualization | VCA:WorkforceMobility , Datacenter Virtualization, Cloud )

Solutions Sales Manager | WW Cloud Platform Tech Ranger | Cloud Platform & Enterprise MobilityMicrosoft

VMware ComparisonSystem Resource

Windows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

vSphere

Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5

Enterprise Plus

Host

Logical Processors 320 320 320

Physical Memory 4TB 4TB 4TB

Virtual CPUs per Host 2,048 4,096 4,096

VM

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 8 641

Memory per VM 1TB 1TB 1TB

Active VMs per Host 1,024 512 512

Guest NUMA Yes Yes Yes

ClusterMaximum Nodes 64 N/A2 32

Maximum VMs 8,000 N/A2 4,000

1. vSphere 5.5 Enterprise Plus is the only vSphere edition that supports 64 vCPUs. Enterprise edition supports 32 vCPU per VM with all other editions supporting 8 vCPUs per VM2. For clustering/high availability, customers must purchase vSphere

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html,

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf

Virtualized Workload Performance

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Hyper-V Virtual CPU Scalability

with OLTP Workloads

SQL Server 2012

64 vCPU support drove 6x

performance increase over

previous version of Hyper-V

& 6.3% overhead compared

with physical equivalent

Highest levels of performance

for key Microsoft workloads

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Exchange Workload Scalability on

Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V

3 vCPU, 16GB RAM per VM, JetStress 2010

Exchange 2013

Virtualized 48,000 simulated

users on a single Hyper-V

host across 12 VMs, with low

response times

Highest levels of performance

for key Microsoft workloads

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Web Front Ends

SharePoint Workload Scalability on

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

8 vCPU, 12GB RAM per WFE VM

Highest levels of performance

for key Microsoft workloads

SharePoint 2013

Scaled to over 2 million

heavy users at 1%

concurrency, across 5 VMs

on a single Hyper-V host

Virtual Machine MobilityMore flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities

New in Windows Server 2012 R2*

LiveMigrationFaster, unrestricted, simultaneous VM live migrations between cluster nodes with no downtime

SMB-Based Live MigrationStore VMs on SMB 3.0 file shares, and live migrate them flexibly, without the need for a cluster

Live Migrationwith Compression*Harness spare host CPUcycles to compress memoryof migrating virtual machinesto accelerate live migration

Virtual Machine MobilityMore flexible, higher performing VM migration capabilities

New in Windows Server 2012 R2*

Live Storage MigrationMove the virtual hard disks of running virtual machines to a different storage location with no downtime

Shared-Nothing Live MigrationFlexibly move virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts with nothing but a network cable and no clustering requirements

Live Migration over SMB*Highest live migration performance, utilizing SMB 3.0 protocol & accelerated using RDMA capable NICs

Cross-VersionLive Migration*Migrate VMs from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts with no downtime

High Availability & ResiliencyProvide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications

Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs

Reduced Active Directory Dependencies*

VM Monitoring

Failover 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

High Availability & ResiliencyProvide 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

Backup & ReplicationIntegrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads

Incremental BackupPerform agentless backup operations more quickly &easily whilst saving network bandwidth & disk space

Windows Azure Backup IntegrationQuickly & 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

Cluster

Site1 Site2

Azure

Witness

Flexible Scenarios

Stretched clusters without a 3rd site

Clusters without shared storage

Guest Clusters in Azure VM role

Hybrid Cloud

Leveraging the power of the public cloud to

increase resiliency of your private cloud

Azure blob storage as an arbitration point

https

Cloud Witness – Greater efficiency

Availability

VMs continue to run even when a node falls out

of cluster membership

Flexibility

Designing for cloud scale with commodity

hardware

Configurable based on your SLA’s

Reliability

Resiliency to transient failures

VMs continue

running when node

becomes isolated

?

VM Compute Resiliency – Reliability

Resiliency

Node is quarantined if it ungracefully leaves the cluster

three times within an hour

VMs are gracefully drained once quarantined

Protection

Unhealthy nodes are quarantined and are no longer

allowed to join the cluster

Prevents flapping nodes from negatively effecting other

nodes and the overall cluster

Control

QuarantineDuration: cluster property

Default 2 hours

QuarantineState: Node read only common property

for node substatus

Quarantine of Flapping Nodes – Reliability

Visibility

VM stack quickly notified on failure

Intelligent and quick VM response to block the

file based storage infrastructure issues

Resiliency

Designing for cloud scale with standard hardware

Preserve tenant VM session state in the event of

transient storage disruption

Reliability

VM moved to PausedCritical state and will wait

for storage to recover

Session state retained on recovery

VM Storage Resiliency – Reliability

Multi-Site Cluster

Site1 Site2

Flexible

Works with any Windows volume, uses SMB3

as transport

Hardware agnostic - works with Storage

Spaces or any SAN volume

Integrated management

End-to-end Windows Server disaster recovery

solution

Failover Cluster Manager UI and PowerShell

Scalable

Block-level synchronous volume replication

Automatic cluster failover for low Recovery

Time Objective (RTO)

Cross site HA DR: Stretch clusters across sites with

synchronous volume replication

Storage Replica – More uptime

Hyper-V Cluster(s)

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

SoFS clusters with no shared storage. Doesn’t need shared JBODs and SAS fabric behind Scale Out File Server nodes

Reliability, Scalability, Flexibility

Fault tolerance to disk, enclosure, node failures

Scale pools to large number of drive

Fine-grained storage expansion

Cloud design points and

management

Prescriptive configuration. Reduced hardware

costs with SATA drives

Deploy, manage and monitor with System Center

Use Cases

Hyper-V IaaS storage

Storage for Backup and Replication targets

Storage Spaces Direct– Low cost

Hybrid Cloud Scenarios

Recovery

Encrypted Backup

VPN

Windows Backup

SC Data Protection ManagerMicrosoft

Azure

System Center

Virtual Machine

ManagerRecovery

plan

Health Monitor

System Center

Virtual Machine

Manager

Site A Site BHyper-V

Replica

Orchestrated Recovery in case of outage

Manage

Site B

System Center

Virtual Machine

Manager

Site AReplication

Recovery

Microsoft

Azure

Microsoft

Azure

VPN

Remote UsersAdmin

Hybrid Cloud Scenarios

File / Application

Servers

• Live Backups, Archives,

and Disaster Recovery

• Dramatic Cost

Reduction

• No Changes to

Application

Environment

File / Application

Servers

• File share with integrated

data protection

• All-in-one primary data

+ backup + live archives

+ DR with de-duplication

& Compression

Policies AutomatedEncrypted

• SharePoint storage on

StorSimple + Azure

• StorSimple SharePoint

Database Optimizer

• Improved

performance &

scalability

• Control Virtual Sprawl

• Cloud-as-a-tier

• Offload storage footprint

• VMware Storage DRS Storage

pools

• Virtual Machine Archive

• Regional VM Storage

• Storage for Tier 2 – 3

SQL Databases

• Integrated Backup,

Restore & Disaster

Recovery

StoreSimple

Archive

Data

Benefits

• Consolidates primary, archive,

backup, DR thru seamless

integration with Azure

• Cloud Snapshots

• De duplication

• Compression

• Encryption

• Reduces enterprise storage TCO

by 60–80%

Warm

data on

SAS Local

Tier

Most

Active

Data

on SSDEncrypted Backup

Recovery

De

duplicated

De duplicated

& Compressed

De duplicated,

Compressed & Encrypted

VPN

Microsoft

Azure

Hybrid Cloud Scenarios

Availability Set

Load

Balancing

Auto

Scaling

Tier 1

Availability Set

Tier 2

Auto

Scaling

SharePoint

Availability Set

Tier 3

Azure

StorageSQL

Azure

Analytics

& ReportingVPN

VPN

Web

SiteMobile

Service

HDInsight

(Hadoop)

Storage

BLOB

Storage

Table

Storage

Queue

Virtual

MachinesVHD

MICROSOFT

AZURE

Cache

MICROSOFT

AZURE

CDN

Microsof

t

Azure

AD

Notification

Hub

User

s

Microsoft

Azure SDK

Developers

On Premises

Microsoft

Azure

Connected Devices

Collect / Decode

Load

Balancing

Auto

Scaling

Worker

Roles

INGRESS NODES

Filter / Analyze / Aggregate

ANALYTICS NODE

Auto

Scaling

Worker

RolesAzure

Storage

Record Reporting / BI

CONSUME

Azure

StorageSQL

Azure

Analytics

& ReportingMicrosoft

Azure

Innovation throughcloud cadence

Extension of todays environment

Starting the journey. Modern management

AzureManagement

System Center foundation

OperationsManagement Suite

Linux

Patching

Inventory

Wire Data

Remote OS Management

Configuration

Containers

AlertingCMDB