BUILDING A HIGHLY AVAILABLE HYPER-V CLUSTER USING FREE MICROSOFT HYPER-V SERVER

Max Kolomyeytsev

StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

Alex Karavanov

5nine Virtualization Security Engineer

АGENDA

Clustering evolution: from application clusters to a fully virtualized datacenter

What does free Hyper-V offer out of the box?

Hyper-V Cluster Setup

Storage component

Management component

Implementation scenarios

Q&A

STARWIND SOFTWARE

Ownership: Privately held with VC backend since 2008,

spin-off from Rocket Division Software

Investors: VEEAM, Almaz Capital, AVentures

Product: StarWind Virtual SAN™ storage virtualization software

Users: More than 250,000 paying and playing customers

Headquarters: Boston, MA, USA

Number of employees: 50+

Customer care: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support

Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Dell, IBM, HP, VEEAM

5NINE SOFTWARE

Leading solutions provider of management & security applications for Windows Server & Microsoft Hyper-V environments:• Products built exclusively for Hyper-V ecosystem

• Hyper-V Management for SMB

• Powerful agentless and multi-tenant security for Hyper-V

• Easy conversion from VMware to Hyper-V

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey and Europe.

More than 25,000 clients worldwide.

CLUSTERING EVOLUTION

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Old days Virtualized architecture

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WHAT DOES FREE HYPER-V OFFER OUT OF THE BOX?

Out of box Experience enhancements

HYPER-V CLUSTER SETUP

1. Configure and provision shared storage

2. Install the Failover Clustering feature on each Hyper-V host

3. Install the MPIO feature on each Hyper-V host

4. Configure an external virtual network switch on each Hyper-V host

5. Validate the configuration of Hyper-V hosts

6. Create a new cluster

STORAGE COMPONENT

Zero hardware footprinto

Dramatically reduced CapEx and OpEx o

Complete fault tolerance with just 2 serverso

No specialized staff required for managemento

Can run on Free & Core Windows Server editions

WHY HYPER-CONVERGED

• Native Windows application

• High performance for Microsoft Hyper-V due to reducing I/O

path: reads and writes go locally and server side running RAM

and flash cache dramatically increases the performance

VM WORKLOAD IN MIND

• VM-Centric Storage (LSFS)

a combination of RAM and Flash as multi-layered cache is used to eliminate

random IO on magnetic disks. Multiple small random writes are coalesced into big

sequential I/O writes. This allows to achieve up to 90% raw sequential write

performance of the underlying storage.• Deduplication

VM and flash-friendly space reduction technologies such as in-line

deduplication, increasing usable capacity of all-flash configurations and

prolonging flash life-cycle

OF COURSE THE MUST HAVE FEATURES

• Snapshots and Automated Storage Tiering

implementing inter-node tiering technology to offload “cold” data from fast primary all-

flash storage to slower high capacity secondary storage tier

• Asynchronous replication

Mission-critical business data is replicated to a disaster recovery site. Replication is

implemented to be asynchronous, background, deduplication, and compression-aware as

well as snapshot-based to reduce load on slow WAN connections

MANAGEMENT COMPONENT

Turn PowerShell into GUI

Dramatically simplify and save money on Hyper-V management

Manage your Hyper-V clusters

Get a user-friendly management GUI for Windows Server Core and Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Manage different Hyper-V versions (2012 R2/ 2012/ 2008 R2 SP1) from a single console

Use any client 64-bit system starting from Windows 7, to access and manage your Hyper-V

hosts remotely

MANAGE HIGH AVAILABLE HYPER-V CLUSTER

Add cluster into 5nine Manager console

Check cluster available storage

Add or remove VM to/from cluster

Enjoy live migration

Pause cluster nodes with or without draining roles, when needed

Resume cluster nodes with or without draining roles, when needed

Check all VMs statuses in a split of a second, right in the tree view

EASILY CREATE VMS OUT OF TEMPLATES

Clone your “golden image” (Template VM) as many times as you need.

To create a “golden image” (Template VM)• Create a VM with needed parameters• Install and configure OS• Install and configure required software • Run sysprep• Keep this VM in off state, to use it as a

template

TASKS ARE PERFORMED IN THE BACKGROUND

Keep working on your management operations, while tasks are being performed in the background

Make your waiting time – a productive time!

GET NOTIFIED IF…

New VM is created

VM is removed

VM is started or restarted

VM is turned off

VM is imported or exported

VM replication failed

VM configuration changed

IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIOS

Central Site

Branch

Office

Branch

Office

Remote

Office

Remote

Office

Branch

Office

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

StarWindVirtual SAN

5nine Manager

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

StarWindVirtual SAN

5nine Manager

Minimum and Sufficient Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster

GOING HYPER-CONVERGED IN ROBOS

Q&A

Feel free to ask the presenters any questions

CONTACT US

Download

5nine Manager for Hyper-V here:

http://www.5nine.com/manager

Contact 5nine Software:

USA/Canada: +1 617 982-1261

Europe: +44 (20) 7048-2021

sales@5nine.com

info@5nine.com

Download StarWind Virtual SAN 30-Day Trial

here:www.starwind.com/starwind-virtual-

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