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Challenge
Build a
Hyper-V
Cluster in
<20Min
Designing
Hyper-V
101 -
Checklist
HA &
Resiliency What’s New
Additional
Scripts
Bare Metal Build – PXE / WDS etc.
Install Windows 2012 R2
Install Hyper-V
Configure Proper Networking
Install Failover Clustering Role
Super Cristal will be my assistant!!
User Name = Administrator
Password = P@ssw0rd
Domain = Viamonstra
In <20 Minutes or Rick buys everyone a Beer!
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Task Sequence)
Hyper-V Networking Script
Hyper-V Hotfix Installer Script **
Consider Server Core
Update Servers
Hotfixes!!!
FIRMWARE
Core Cluster Roles
Disable RDP Printer Mapping
No other Roles
Antivirus Exclusions
.BIN Files
Microsoft PAL
Performance Tuning Guidelines
Teaming and TCP Chimney
Disk Allocation Size 64 KB
Resource SystemWindows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
Improvement
Factor
Host
Logical Processors 64 320 5×
Physical Memory 1TB 4TB 4×
Virtual CPUs per
Host512 2,048 4×
VM
Virtual CPUs per VM 4 64 16×
Memory per VM 64GB 1TB 16×
Active VMs per Host 384 1,024 2.7×
Guest NUMA No Yes -
ClusterMaximum Nodes 16 64 4×
Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8×
Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications
Scalable up to 64 Nodes & 8,000 VMs
Reduced Active Directory Dependencies*VM MonitoringFailover Priority, Affinity & Anti-Affinity
Cluster Shared Volumes Optimizations*Cluster-Aware Updating
VM Network Health Detection*
Dynamic Witness & Force Quorum*
New in Windows Server 2012 R2*
Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime
Provide the greatest levels of uptime for key applications
New in Windows Server 2012 R2*
Failover ClusteringIntegrated, scalable high availability to protect key virtualized workloads and provide the highest levels of uptime
Flexible Guest ClusteringiSCSI, Virtual Fibre Channel & SMB 3.0 support for in-guest, application level resiliency
Shared VHDX Support*Build production-ready guest clusters utilizing Shared VHDX, without exposing underlying physical storage
Integrated NIC TeamingAggregate network adaptors to increase throughput & provide redundancy in case of link failure
Veeam® Backup & Replication™
Integrated solutions for protecting key virtualized workloads
Incremental BackupPerform agentless backup operations more quickly andeasily whilst saving network bandwidth and disk space
Windows Azure Backup IntegrationQuickly and easily protect important server data offsite with automated backups to Windows Azure
Inbox VM ReplicationNear-synchronous replication of virtual machines across multiple sites with Hyper-V Replica
Rolling Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade
Storage QoS
Virtual Machine Configuration Version
New virtual machine configuration file format
Production Checkpoints
Hyper-V Manager improvements
Integration Services delivered through Windows Updates
Hot add and remove for network adapters and memory
Thank you!
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