1. Microsoft
Virtual
Academy

2. 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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4. Leverage storage
array capabilities
Maximize your investment
Native access to SANs
from VMs
No tradeoffs
Help reduce the cost of
storage
For workloads that don’t require a SAN
Highly Scalable Virtual
Disks
Big data is here

6. Physical
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
Virtual adapters
IDE, SCSI
Boot – IDE only
Fibre Channel
VHD (VHDX)
Fixed, dynamic, differencing
Pass-through
iSCSI direct (applicable to
running iSCSI in guest OS)

7. New-VM, New-VHD, New-VMSwitch

12. Merge-VHD

13. Software
RMW

14. VHD Stack

15. The New Default Format for Virtual Hard Disks
Larger Virtual
Disks
Large Sector
Support
Enhanced
Perf
Larger Block Sizes
Enhanced
Resiliency
Embed
Custom
Metadata
User Defined
Metadata

16. 125000
135000
145000
155000
165000
PassThru Fixed Dynamic Differencing
Disk VHD VHDX
+10%
+10%

17. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
PassThru Fixed Dynamic Differencing
Disk VHD VHDX
+25% +25%

18. Windows Server 2008
R2
Windows Server 2012
250,000 IOPs 1,000,000+ IOPs
Over 1 Million IOPs from a Single VM
Industry Leading IO Performance
•
•
•

19. Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012
Live Storage Migration 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
VM Guest Clustering Yes, via iSCSI Yes, via iSCSI Yes, via iSCSI or FC
Native 4k Disk Support 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

21. IDE SCSI

24. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?
id=19867

28. WWN WWN

29. Shared Storage
WWPN A: C0:03:FF:78:22:A0:00:14
WWPN B: C0:03:FF:78:22:A0:00:15
WWPN A: C0:03:FF:78:22:A0:00:14
WWPN B: C0:03:FF:78:22:A0:00:15

35. VHD Stack

36. VHD Stack

37. 0
50
100
150
200
Average
Desktop
ODX
Creation of a 10 GB Fixed Disk
Time (seconds)
<1 Second!
~3 Minutes

40. Clustered

42. Hyper-VHyper-VHyper-VHyper-VHyper-VHyper-V
File storage for virtualization
What is it?
File
Server
File
Server
Shared
Storage
Hyper-V
SQL
Server
IIS
VDI
Desktop
Hyper-V
SQL
Server
IIS
VDI
Desktop
Hyper-V
SQL
Server
IIS
VDI
Desktop
Hyper-V Cluster
File Server Cluster

45. Clustered
File Server
Node B
File Server
Node A

46. Clustered
File Server

47. Host based Backup And Restore
• Virtual Shadow Service
For SMB
• No Change in Flow For
Backup
FSS1
VSS
Service
Backup
Agent
Remote
VSS
Agent
Remote
VSS
Provider
FSS1
~ Snap
VSS
Service/
Provider

48. File Storage for Virtualization
Highlights Supporting features

49. Enable-DedupVolume
Disable-DedupVolume

50. After Deduplication:
1.39 GB of disk used
Before Deduplication:
62.3 GB of disk used

51. • 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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