Robust, reliable & resilient infrastructure foundation for running continuous services

Failover Clustering Online Backup Hyper-V Replica with Extended Replication Shared VHDX NIC Teaming Guest Clustering Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Provide flexibility for application-level resiliency

Simplify infrastructure maintenance

Provide granular solutions for enabling disaster recovery

Failover Priority & Affinity Rules

Integration with cloud services Cluster Aware Updating

Integrated Solution for Network Card Resiliency

Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox Provides local or remote management through Windows PowerShell or UI Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network adapters whilst providing traffic failover in the event of NIC outage Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent and independent Multiple traffic distribution algorithms: Hyper-V Switch Port, Hashing and Dynamic Load Balancing

Virtual adapters

Team network adapter

Team network adapter

Integrated Solution for Resilient Virtual Machines

Massive scalability with support for 64 physical nodes & 8,000 VMs VMs automatically failover & restart on physical host outage Enhanced Cluster Shared Volumes Cluster VMs on SMB 3.0 Storage Dynamic Quorum & Witness Reduced AD dependencies Drain Roles Maintenance Mode VM Drain on Shutdown VM Network Health Detection Enhanced Cluster Dashboard

Cluster Dynamic Quorum Configuration

Monitor Health of Applications Inside Clustered VMs

Upon service failure, Service Control Manager inside guest will attempt to restart the service After 3 failures, Cluster Service will trigger event log entry 1250 VM State = Application in VM Critical VM can be automatically restarted on the same node Upon subsequent failure, VM can be failed over and restarted on alternative node Extensible by Partners

Ensure Optimal VM Placement and Restart Operations

Failover Priority ensures certain VMs start before others on the cluster Affinity rules allow VMs to reside on certain hosts in the cluster AntiAffinityClassNames helps to keep virtual machines apart on separate physical cluster nodes AntiAffinityClassNames exposed through VMM as Availability Set

Anti-Affinity keeps related VMs apart Upon failover, VMs restart priority order Hyper-V cluster with VMs in on each node

Integrated Patching Solution for Hyper-V Clusters

Reduces server downtime and user disruption by orchestration of cluster node updates Maintains service availability without impacting cluster quorum Detects required updates and moves workloads off nodes for updates Uses Windows Update Agent or extensible plug-in

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Third-party plug-in for updates

Windows Server Cluster

Current Workload

Complete Flexibility for Deploying App-Level HA

Full support for running clustered workloads on Hyper-V host cluster Guest Clusters that require shared storage can utilize software iSCSI, Virtual FC or SMB Full support for Live Migration of Guest Cluster Nodes

Guest Cluster running on a physical Hyper-V Cluster node restarts on host failure Guest cluster nodes supported with Live Migration

Full Support for Dynamic Memory of Guest Cluster Nodes

Restart Priority, Possible & Preferred Ownership, & AntiAffinityClassNames help ensure optimal operation

Guest Clustering No Longer Bound to Storage Topology

VHDX files can be presented to multiple VMs simultaneously, as shared storage VM sees shared virtual SAS disk

Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

Unrestricted number of VMs can connect to a shared VHDX file

Utilizes SCSI-persistent reservations VHDX can reside on a Cluster Shared Volume on block storage, or on File-based storage Supports both Dynamic and Fixed VHDX

Integrated Virtual Machine Backup Capabilities

Allows incremental backup of virtual hard disks Is Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)-aware Backs up the Hyper-V environment Requires no backup agent inside virtual machines Saves network bandwidth Reduces backup sizes Saves disk space Lowers backup cost

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Windows Server Backup Integrated with Cloud Services

Simple installation and configuration Ability to leverage Windows Azure Backup cloud services to back up data
Windows Azure Backup portal

Third-party cloud
Third-party online backup portal

Use either the Windows Azure Backup Service Agent or the Windows Azure Backup PowerShell cmdlets
Reduced cost for backup storage and management Options for third-party cloud services Ideal for small businesses, branch offices, and departmental business needs

Sign up Billing

Windows Azure Backup service

Third-party online backup service

Sign up Billing

Registration Backup/ Restore Registration

Inbox engine Inbox UI Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2 backup (extensible)

Agents Windows Azure Backup Third-party agents IT Pro

Replicate Hyper-V VMs from a Primary to a Replica site

Affordable in-box business continuity and disaster recovery Configurable replication frequencies of 30 seconds, 5 minutes and 15 minutes Secure replication across network Agnostic of hardware on either site No need for other virtual machine replication technologies Automatic handling of live migration Simple configuration and management

Once Once Upon replicated, Hyper-V site failure, Replica changes VMs is can enabled, replicated be started VMs on on chosen begin secondary replication frequency site

Replicate to 3rd Location for Extra Level of Resiliency

Once a VM has been successfully replicated to the replica site, replica can be replicated to a 3rd location Chained Replication Extended Replica contents match the original replication contents Extended Replica replication frequencies can differ from original replica Useful for scenarios such as SMB -> Service Provider -> Service Provider DR Site

Replication canconfigured be enabled on the 1st replica to a 3rd site Replication from primary to secondary

Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds

Protect important services by coordinating replication and recovery of VMM-managed private clouds Automates replication of VMs within clouds between sites Hyper-V Replica provides replication, orchestrated by Hyper-V Recovery Manager Can be used for planned, unplanned and testing failover between sites Integrate with scripts for customization of recovery plans

VMs built on Optimized, Software-Based Devices

Ease of Management & Operations PXE boot from Optimized vNIC Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive VMs have UEFI firmware with support for GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB

Dynamic Storage

Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online Resize & increased performance
Removal of emulated devices reduces attack surface

Security

VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot

Enhancing VMConnect for the Richest Experience

Improved VMBus Capabilities enable:

Audio over VMConnect

Copy & Paste between Host & Guest Smart Card Redirection Remote Desktop Over VMBus

Enabled for Hyper-V on both Server & Client Fully supports Live Migration of VMs

Simplifying Activation of Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs

Activate VMs without managing product keys on a VM by VM basis VMs activated on start-up Reporting & Tracking built-in Activate VMs in remote locations, with or without internet connectivity Works with VM Migration Generic AVMA key for VMs activates against a valid, activated Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host

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