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Hyper-V 3.0

Hyper-V 3.0. Top Features Administrators For The Everyday Administrator Rob McShinsky Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center VirtuallyAware.com. Who Am I?. Sr. System Engineer – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Microsoft MVP (Virtual Machine)

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Hyper-V 3.0

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  1. Hyper-V 3.0 Top Features Administrators For The Everyday Administrator Rob McShinsky Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center VirtuallyAware.com

  2. Who Am I? • Sr. System Engineer – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center • Microsoft MVP (Virtual Machine) • Advisory Board Member and Contributor for TechTarget • Blogger – VirtuallyAware.com • Twitter - @VirtuallyAware VirtuallyAware.com

  3. What Are We Going To Talk About? • Top Features of Hyper-V 3.0………according to me. • Meant to be an opinionated view based on what new features in Hyper-V 3.0 that will be the most beneficial to administrators everyday. • There are many more great features, but may not be as relevant in easing administration day to day. • Feel free to ask questions or disagree. VirtuallyAware.com

  4. Increased Number of CPUs and Memory • 32 max CPU per VM • 512GB ofh memory per VM • More resources are always good to have, but… • Need to ask how VMs of large size fit into a shared environment. • Allows us to rethink virtualization beyond VM to Host ratios. • Demos VirtuallyAware.com

  5. VHDX hard drive format • More scaleable – Can now provision virtual hard drives up to 16TB • More performance – • More resilient – Better resistance to corruption VirtuallyAware.com

  6. Hyper-V Replica • Asynchronous copy of live VM to an alternate host. • Supported Windows and Linux VMs seamlessly copied on adjustable schedule. • Disaster Recover option, but be careful of scale • Good value added no cost feature added to Hyper-V 3.0 • Demo VirtuallyAware.com

  7. SMB File Shares For VMs • Not really a feature, but a new option that came out of the new SMB 2.2 capabilities. • VM configuration and/or Storage (VHD/VHDX) files are stored at a UNC path i.e. \\Servername\HV3_SMB_Storage • Scaling is bandwidth dependent • Host Physical NIC teaming, 10GB + Ethernet, Jumbo Frames, and Multi-Host file clusters can allow enterprise workloads • On a smaller scale it allows for excellent testing or small business cost savings avoiding additional costs of disk arrays. • Much easier than iSCSI or FC configurations • Demo VirtuallyAware.com

  8. De-Duplication • Part of the Windows File Services feature. • Can really help one of the storage pain points of Hyper-V administrators. • Fixed VHD have been common place to deploy for production workloads at the expense of bloating storage systems. • Deduplication of VHD libraries, ISOs, or even live VHD volumes. • Demo • Look for this to help out SCDPM 2012 as well for disk to disk backups. VirtuallyAware.com

  9. Live Storage Migration • Removes the variable downtime associated with the current “Quick” Storage Migration • Eliminates coordination with external application teams for migration of workloads. • Helpful with migrations to new storage • Still not available between different versions of Hyper-V VirtuallyAware.com

  10. Multiple Live Migrations • Previously limited to one Live Migration per cluster at a time • SCVMM Maintenance mode can take some time, 15-20 min if many or large memory footprint VMs on a host. • Unlimited Live Migrations and Storage Migrations are now allowed. Only limit is bandwidth so architecting your environment is important. • Removes another click and wait tasks that is part of so many administration tasks VirtuallyAware.com

  11. Live Merge VM Snapshots • Point in time recovery point also called a checkpoint(SCVMM) • Used often as failsafe option during application upgrades or configuration changes. • Allows for more aggressive upgrading of production applications with a quick failback. • Previously - Had to shutdown the VM in order for completely remove snapshots causing disruption or the need to schedule another downtime to remove previous state. • Now allows for on the fly snapshot and removal without any downtime to the workload. • Opens up more self-service options for application teams • Demo VirtuallyAware.com

  12. Features That Missed My Cut VirtuallyAware.com

  13. What’s Still Missing • Live/Quick move of VMs between different Hyper-V host versions. • Storage Migration capabilities to change from VHD to VHDX format • Storage Migration option to change from Fix to Dynamic or Dynamic to Fixed virtual hard drive format • Ability to Shrink or Expand a VM on the fly during a P2V or Storage Migration VirtuallyAware.com

  14. Questions VirtuallyAware.com

  15. Contact and Blogs • My Bog– VirtuallyAware.com • Twitter - @VirtuallyAware • Email – Rob@VirtuallyAware.com • Other Hyper-V 3.0 Resources: • Virtualization Team - http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/ • Ben Armstrong - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/ • Aiden Finn - http://www.aidanfinn.com/ • Hyper-V.nu – http://www.hyper-v.nu • Thomas Maurer - http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/ • KristianNese- http://kristiannese.blogspot.com/ VirtuallyAware.com

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