Storage overview
Windows Server 2012 R2
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Date
Windows Server
Microsoft Azure
Windows Server
Microsoft Azure
Flat or shrinking IT
budgets even as business
expectations increase.
“Keeping the lights on”
mandate reduces agility to
address app owners’ needs.
Efficient datacenter
operations across
entire customer base.
Need to offer differentiated
services to customers.
Enterpriseclass
Simple and
cost-effective
Complexities due to diverse
datacenter infrastructure.
End user pressure to
enable access to corporate
information from a variety
of devices.
Application
focused
User centric
High performance
and resiliency at a
fraction of the cost
IT demands
Less expensive,
enterprise-class storage
solution
Guaranteed high levels of
Service Level Agreement
(SLA)
Efficient management of
storage resources
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
High-performance storage
on industry-standard
hardware.
Continuous application
availability and robust
recovery.
Comprehensive storage
management and backup.
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VHDX
Increased flexibility through
Live Migration of VM Storage
• Move virtual hard disks attached
to a running virtual machine
• Manage storage in a cloud environment
with greater flexibility and control
• Move storage with no downtime
• Update physical storage available to a
virtual machine (such as SMB-based
storage)
• Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Disk
Disk
Reads
writes
contents
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andmirrored;
writes
are copied
gooutstanding
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new
Reads and writes go to the source VHD
changes
destination
are replicated
VHD
SMB client
Reads and writes go to new
destination VHD
Host running
Hyper-V
App
Buffer
SMB
Buffer
Virtual machine
SMB
Buffer
Source device
Adapter
Buffer
Target device
Adapter
Buffer
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Offloaded Data
Transfer (ODX)
Virtual fibre
channel in Hyper-V
Thin and trim provisioning
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Access Fibre Channel SAN
data from a virtual machine
• Unmediated access to a storage area
network (SAN)
• Hardware-based I/O path to virtual hard
disk stack
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support
• Single Hyper-V host connected to different
SANs
• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel adapters
on a virtual machine
• Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality
• Supports Live migration
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Microsoft Azure
Third-party cloud
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Replicate Hyper-V VMs from
a Primary to a Replica site
Replicate to 3rd Location for
Extra Level of Resiliency
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Once a VM has been successfully
replicated to the replica site, replica
can be replicated to a 3rd location
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Chained Replication
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Extended Replica contents match the
original replication contents
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Extended Replica replication frequencies
can differ from original replica
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Useful for scenarios such as SMB ->
Service Provider -> Service Provider DR
Site
Orchestrate protection and
recovery of private clouds
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Protect important services by
coordinating replication and recovery of
VMM-managed private clouds
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Automates replication of VMs within
clouds between sites
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Hyper-V Replica provides replication,
orchestrated by Hyper-V Recovery
Manager
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Can be used for planned, unplanned and
testing failover between sites
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Integrate with scripts for customization of
recovery plans
Orchestrate protection and
recovery of private clouds
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Protect important services by
coordinating replication and recovery of
VMM-managed private clouds
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Automates replication of VMs within
clouds between sites
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Hyper-V Replica provides replication,
orchestrated by Hyper-V Recovery
Manager
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Can be used for planned, unplanned and
testing failover between sites
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Integrate with scripts for customization of
recovery plans
Get-Command –module [
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SMBshare
NFS
FileServerResourceManager
DFSN
Deduplication
iSCSITarget
Storage
FailOverClusters
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Private Cloud
Storage
Windows Server file-based
storage clusters + Storage
Spaces
System Center (DPM)
Windows
Azure Backup
Hyper-V Replica &
3rd Party Solutions (for
apps)
Hybrid Cloud
Storage
Flat or shrinking IT
budgets even as business
expectations increase.
“Keeping the lights on”
mandate reduces agility to
address app owners’ needs.
Efficient datacenter
operations across
entire customer base.
Need to offer differentiated
services to customers.
Enterpriseclass
Simple and
cost-effective
Complexities due to diverse
datacenter infrastructure.
End user pressure to
enable access to corporate
information from a variety
of devices.
Application
focused
User centric
Enterprise-class.
Simple and
cost-effective
Application
focused
User centric
Best-in-class performance and scale
for Microsoft workloads
SMB traffic offload to RDMA-capable
NICs for dramatic performance
improvements
Complete VM portability between
Windows Server and Microsoft Azure
without the need for VM conversion
Always-on remote access to corporate
information from trusted devices
Flexible guest clustering options for
file and block storage with shared
VHDX files that preserve dynamic
memory, live migration and storage
live migration for guest virtual
machines.
Same development model between
Windows Server and Microsoft Azure
Industry-leading support for
64-node clusters and 8,000 VMs per
cluster
64 TB VHDX virtual disk with online
resize for dynamically growing and
shrinking the VHDX file
Hyper-V Network Virtualization and
multi-tenant VPN gateway for inbox
software-defined networking (SDN)
solution
Integration with Windows Azure
Backup for reliable and cost-effective
backup to the cloud.
VDI storage de-duplication
Common development tools between
Windows Server and Microsoft Azure
for a rich and complete environment
to build applications on-premises and
for the cloud
Consistent, inbox Windows experience
for remote users virtually anywhere on
any device
Unified application and device
management with common identity
on-premises and in the cloud
Granular, policy-based data
protection and regulatory compliance
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