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Overview Slide 2 Agenda Hyper-V Overview Feature Comparison Cost / Performance comparison Storage 2 Slide 3 Schedule Day 1 3 900Welcome and IntroductionsDoug 915Overview, VMware comparisonPaul 1000Break 1010NetworkingAidan 1100Break 1110Storage SpacesAidan 1200Lunch 1300VM Generations, Disk FormatsPaul 1350Break 1400HAAidan 1450Break 1500Hyper-V ReplicaAidan 1550First Day Wrap Up Slide 4 Schedule Day 2 4 0900Recap from Day 1Doug 0915Scale Out File ServerAidan 1030Break 1045Managing w/ PowerShell and Hyper-V Manager Paul 1200Lunch 1300Live MigrationAidan 1415Break 1430Managing w/ SCVMM, Linux, Vmware integration Paul 1530Break 1545Wrap up / Questions Slide 5 New in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Generation 2 VMs Networking VM Network Protection Virtual RSS Storage Online Disk Resize Storage QoS Shared VHDX Spaces Storage Tiering Live Export Live Migration Compression SMB Direct Hyper-V Replica Configurable Replication Tertiary Replication Manageable SCVMM & Azure Recovery Manager Slide 6 Updated in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Resize virtual hard disk Live migrations Integration services Export Failover Clustering and Hyper-V Hyper-V Replica Linux support Management Hyper-V Networking 6 Slide 7 Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support SystemResource Maximum number Improvement factor Windows 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Host Logical processors on hardware643205 Physical memory1 TB4 TB4 Virtual processors per host5122,0484 Virtual machine Virtual processors per virtual machine46416 Memory per virtual machine64 GB1 TB16 Virtual disk capacity2 TB64 TB32x Active virtual machines3841,0242.7 Cluster Nodes16644 Virtual machines1,0008,0008 7 Slide 8 Hyper-V Versions Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Unlimited free of charge Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 2 VMs Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Unlimited 8 Slide 9 Hyper-V Costs 9 EditionFeature comparisonLicensing modelPricing Datacenter Unlimited virtual OSE All FeaturesProcessor + CAL$6,155 Standard Two virtual OSE All FeaturesProcessor + CAL$882 Essentials Two Processors One OSE Limited Features Server 25-user limit$501 Operating System Environment (OSE) An operating system environment is an instance of an operating system, including any applications configured to run on it. Slide 10 VMware ESXi 5.1 vs MS Hyper-V Server 2012 10 Scale Limited to 4 vCPUs in VM Limited Host RAM to 32 GB Limited VM Memory Support No Enterprise level features No vMotion No Storage vMotion No High Availability No Extensible Switch No VM Replication Scale Up to 64 VPs per VM Up to 4 TB of memory per Host RAM Up to 1 TB of memory per VM Enterprise level features included Shared Nothing Live Migration Live Storage Migration High Availability via Clustering Hyper-V Replica (Unlimited) Storage Spaces much more VMware ESXi 5.1 (Free Version)Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Slide 11 Hyper-V vs vSphere 11 http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or- microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windows-server-2012-r2-at-a- glance.aspx FeatureHyper-VvSphere # of Physical CPUs per license21 Maximum active VMs per host1024512 Maximum # of physical hosts per cluster6432 Maximum # of VMs per cluster80004000 Virtual machine snapshots50 per VM32 per VM Minimum disk footprint800 KB155 MB # of Windows Server VM Licenses per hostUnlimited0 Slide 12 12 Slide 13 13 Slide 14 vSphere Standard 14 http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/pricing.html Slide 15 vSphere Standard 15 Slide 16 vSphere a la carte per CPU 16 Slide 17 vSphere Essentials 17 Slide 18 Dynamic, High Performance Storage Live Storage Migration New VHDX Format Up to 64 TB per disk Auto-Alignment with SAN storage Major performance improvements Native 4K Disk Support Online Meta Operations Live virtual disk merge Live new parent Improved rebuild Virtual Fibre Channel Virtual FC HBA presented in VM Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Automatic Trim/Unmap Allows storage subsystem to automatically reclaim/reuse storage deleted from a VM Only Hyper-V provides this Support for VMs on Continuously Available File Servers via SMB 3.0 SMB Multi-Channel, SMB Scale Out SMB Transparent Failover, Encryption Slide 19 EMC VNX5300 Base Price 19 Slide 20 EMC VNX5300 20 Marketing Information High-performing unified storage with unsurpassed simplicity and efficiency, optimised for virtual applications. With the EMC VNX5300, you'll achieve new levels of performance, protection, compliance, and ease of management. The VNX5300 model can hold 125 drives, scalability of up to 240TB and with system memory of up to 8GB at the block level along with the support of FC, iSCSI and FCoE connectivity. VNX5300 is suitable for those wishes to take advantage of enterprise level storage at a lower TCO. VNX5300 would be ideal for medium- sized to enterprise businesses. Product TypeSAN Server Total Hard Drive Capacity 4.80 TB Hard Drive Configuration 8 x 600 GB Processor Manufacturer Intel Processor TypeXeon Standard Memory16 GB Number of Total Expansion Bays 15 Controller TypeFibre Channel RAID SupportedYes Slide 21 Netapp Entry Level 21 Slide 22 Netapp Midrange 22 Slide 23 Networking Improvements In-box Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) gateway Now part of the Hyper-V extensible switch Two new Windows PowerShell cmdlets (Test- VMNetworkAdapter and Select-NetVirtualizationNextHop) that enables diagnostics of HNV policy and the Customer Address space. Dynamic IP Address Allows you to run DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory in your VM networks. New monitoring and diagnostic capabilities Broadcast / Multicast support NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation) for traffic between separate networks 23 Slide 24 Final Thoughts Free Hyper-V Server Create VHDX and share Replicate to other Hyper-V Servers Storage Spaces Requires JBOD / SAS disks SSD greatly enhances performance LSI controllers w/ JBOD array work great (DataON) Networking If you can afford 10 GbE do it RDMA w/ 10 GbE is crazy fast 24