Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization: What’s New for the IT Pro

Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization:

What’s New for the IT ProTim Vander Kooi

Systems Architect@tvanderkooi

NetCom Learning

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Server 2012 R2 Virtualization:What’s New? Topics we will cover

Generation 2 VMs Advancements in storage Advances in Host Scalability What’s New with Memory Upgrades to Live Migration Automatic Activation of VMs


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Generation 2 Virtual Machines

Dynamic Storage UEFI firmware with support for GPT OS disks > 2TB Faster boot time from Virtual SCSI Online Resize capable

Security UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot Fewer emulated devices reduces attach surface of VM

Operations PXE Boot via vNIC Hot-add Optical drives


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization New Virtual Hard Disk Format (VHDX)

Capacity up to 64TB Corruption protection in event of power failure

VHDX when used with Generation 2 machines Expand and Shrink Virtual SCSI disks while VM is running


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Enhanced Session Mode

Display Configuration Audio Printers Clipboard Smart Cards USB devices Drives Supported Plug and Play devices

Only Windows 8.1 & Server 2012 R2


DemoGeneration 2 VMsEnhanced Session Mode


New Storage Capabilities in Windows Server 2012 Managing physical storage and storage virtualization Application support for file servers Parity, mirrored and simple configurations Hardware offloading with SMB Direct Data deduplication Storage tiers Transparent failover SMB Multichannel Storage QOS SMB Encryption Thin provisioning Storage Live Migration


New Storage Capabilities in Windows Server 2012 Storage Pools and Storage Spaces

Virtualization of storage High availability and redundancy via mirroring or

parity Utilization of storage is optimized through thin

provisioning Connections possible to Solid-State Drives (SSD),

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial AT Attachment (SATA) hard-disk drives


New Storage Capabilities in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Tiering

Use solid-state drives (SSD) and hard-disk drives (HHD) in a tiered storage space

Improves performance/cost using industry-standard hardware

Data can be prioritized and pinned to appropriate performance tier


DemoData DeduplicationStorage Pools


New Storage Capabilities in Windows Server 2012 R2 SANS are NOT dead!

However…

They are no longer required to enable enterprise level virtualization!!!


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Both Physical and Virtual scalability have been greatly improved

Host support 320 logical processors per host 4TB memory per host 1,024 virtual machines per host

Cluster support 64 physical nodes 8,000 virtual machines per cluster

Virtual Machine support 64 Virtual processors 1TB memory


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Dynamic Memory

Introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 Improvements in Server 2012 & 2012 R2

Minimum memory configuration Startup memory configuration Smart Paging Memory Ballooning Memory configuration while VM is running


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization

Virtual Machine Live Cloning Export a clone of running VM

Allows Duplication of a virtual machine while it is running! Point-in-time Image of running VM is exported to selected location Exported VM can be imported at desired location

Export from existing checkpoint of a VM Allows for export of a clone of a VM from an existing checkpoint

Excellent way to troubleshoot systems without downtime!!


DemoVM Cloning


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Live Migration has been Upgraded

Live Migration from Server 2012 hosts to Server 2012 R2 hosts Allows for upgrading hosts from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to Windows

Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V with no downtime of VMs Includes Shared Nothing Live Migration When using SMB share for storage, only the VM run state is transferred for faster

migration Can be automated with PowerShell

This is a one-way migration only!!! No Live Migration from Server 2102 R2 back to Server 2012!


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Automatic Virtual Machine Activation

Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter host is activated using license key Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs created using Automatic Virtual Machine

Activation (AVMA) key activates against the valid activated Hyper-V host AVMA key can be injected in the build for VMs No product keys to manage on individual VMs Reporting & Tracking are built in Activation works when VMs are migrated across differing hosts


What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization Where to go from here?

SMB 3.0 - Server Pools and Storage Spaces Virtual Networking VDI capabilities

What’s right for you? System Center – SCCM, SCVMM, SCDPM all have

expanded roles due to Server 2012 R2 improvements

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MCSA: Windows Server 2012



CertificationMicrosoft Certified Specialist (MCS): Server Virtualization with

Hyper-V and System Center

Exam: 74-409Course: 20409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-

V and System Center

NOTE: This course is based on Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and System Center 2012 R2 Preview. This course is designed for experienced IT professionals who support medium to large enterprises and have experience administering Windows Server 2012.

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Upcoming Course Schedules

MCSA: Windows Server 2012• January 27th, 2014 | NYC & Live Online• February 1st 2014 | Las Vegas & Live Online (Exams Included)• February 5th 2014 | NYC & Live Online

(MCS): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V and System Center• January 27th, 2014 | NYC & Live Online (Exams Included)• March 3rd, 2014 | Las Vegas & Live Online (Exams Included)



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