Microsoft
Virtual
Academy
First Half
Second Half
(01) Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization
(05) Hyper-V Management
(02) Hyper-V Infrastructure
(06) Hyper-V High Availability and Live
Migration
(03) Hyper-V Networking
(07) Integration with System Center 2012
Virtual Machine Manager
(04) Hyper-V Storage
(08) Integration with Other System Center
2012 Components
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Virtual
Academy
Microsoft
Virtual
Academy
Leverage storage
array capabilities
Native access to SANs
from VMs
Maximize your investment
No tradeoffs
Help reduce the cost of
storage
Highly Scalable Virtual
Disks
For workloads that don’t require a SAN
Big data is here
Physical
Virtual adapters
VHD (VHDX)
DAS (SATA, eSATA, PATA, SAS,
SCSI)
SAN (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI,
SAS)
Required for failover clustering
so all nodes can access a disk
Host clustering: Fibre Channel,
FCoE, Serial-Attached SCSI
(SAS), iSCSI
Guest clustering: iSCSI, FCoE,
Fibre Channel, SMB
IDE, SCSI
Boot – IDE only
Fibre Channel
Fixed, dynamic, differencing
Pass-through
iSCSI direct (applicable to
running iSCSI in guest OS)
New-VM, New-VHD, New-VMSwitch
Merge-VHD
Software
RMW
VHD Stack
The New Default Format for Virtual Hard Disks
Larger Virtual
Disks
Enhanced
Resiliency
Large Sector
Support
Enhanced
Perf
Embed
Custom
Metadata
Larger Block Sizes
User Defined
Metadata
165000
Disk
VHD
VHDX
155000
+10%
145000
+10%
135000
125000
PassThru
Fixed
Dynamic
Differencing
2000
Disk
VHD
1500
VHDX
+25%
+25%
1000
500
0
PassThru
Fixed
Dynamic
Differencing
Over 1 Million IOPs from a Single VM
Industry Leading IO Performance
•
•
•
Windows Server 2008
R2
Windows Server 2012
250,000 IOPs
1,000,000+ IOPs
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
No. Quick Storage Migration
via VMM
No. Quick Storage Migration
via VMM
Yes, with no limits. As many as
hardware will allow.
VMs on File Storage
No
No
Yes, SMB 3.0
Guest Fibre Channel
No
No
Yes
Virtual Disk Format
VHD up to 2 TB
VHD up to 2 TB
VHD up to 2 TB
VHDX up to 64 TB
Yes, via iSCSI
Yes, via iSCSI
Yes, via iSCSI or FC
No
No
Yes
Live VHD Merge
No, offline
No, offline
Yes
Live New Parent
No
No
Yes
Secure Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
No
No
Yes
Live Storage Migration
VM Guest Clustering
Native 4k Disk Support
IDE
SCSI
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id=19867
WWN
WWN
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Shared Storage
VHD Stack
VHD Stack
Creation of a 10 GB Fixed Disk
200
~3 Minutes
150
100
Time (seconds)
50
<1 Second!
0
Average
Desktop
ODX
Clustered
Hyper-V Cluster
File storage for virtualization
What is it?
SQL
Server
SQL
Server
SQL
Server
IIS
IIS
IIS
VDI
Desktop
VDI
Desktop
VDI
Desktop
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
File
Server
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
File
Server
Shared
Storage
File Server Cluster
File Server
Node A
File Server
Node B
Clustered
Clustered
File Server
Host based Backup And Restore
VSS
Service
Backup
Agent
• Virtual Shadow Service
Remote
VSS
Provider
\\FS\S1
Remote
VSS
Agent
VSS
Service/
Provider
For SMB
\\FS\S1
~ Snap
• No Change in Flow For
Backup
File Storage for Virtualization
Highlights
Supporting features
Enable-DedupVolume
Disable-DedupVolume
Before Deduplication:
62.3 GB of disk used
After Deduplication:
1.39 GB of disk used
• When picking the disk type, consider how it will be
used and change over time
• Clustering requires using a shared storage
• MPIO and MSC can be used for additional resiliency
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