Evento Assyrus – Microsoft 2009

Windows Server 2008 R2

Hyper-V R2
Panoramica delle nuove funzionalità

20 novembre 2009
Andrea Mauro
Direttore Tecnico

Assyrus Srl

Microsoft Virtualization

User State
Virtualization
Server Virtualization

Presentation
Virtualization

Management

Desktop
Virtualization
Application
Virtualization

The Virtual Datacenter Vision

“We’ve reached a point of virtualization awareness where customers clearly

understand the risk of single point of failure and the importance of employing
a high availability solution. To that end, we see almost 100% adoption of
Failover Clustering with Hyper-V in production environments.”

-Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager Lead, Virtualization, Microsoft

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Windows Server 2008 R2 – Hyper-

Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 – Hyper-

Hyper-V

Building on the rock-solid architecture of Windows Server

2008 Hyper-V
Integration with new technologies and products
Enabling new dynamic scenarios:
Increased Server Consolidation
Dynamic Data Center
Virtualized Centralized Desktop

New Features

Logical Processor Support

Support for 64 logical processors on host computer
Hot Add/Remove Storage
Add and remove VHD disks to a running VM without requiring a reboot
Second Level Translation (SLAT)
Leverage new processor features to improve performance and reduce load on Windows
Hypervisor
VM Chimney (TCP Offload Support)
TCP/IP Traffic in a VM can be offloaded to a physical NIC on the host computer (disabled by
default)
Processor Compatibility Mode
Allows live migration across different CPU versions within the same processor family (i.e.
Intel-to-Intel and AMD-to-AMD).
Does NOT enable cross platform from Intel to AMD or vice versa.
Configure compatibility on a per-VM basis.
Abstracts the VM down to the lowest common denominator in terms
of instruction sets available to the VM.
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Live Migration
Overview
Live-migration of VMs between servers with no loss of service
Clustered Shared Volumes facilitates LM

Benefits
No dropped network connections
Leverages Microsoft Failover Clustering
Enables dynamic IT environment
How
SCVMM is recommended and can provide additional Live Migration
management and orchestration scenarios such as Live Migration via
policy
Moving from Quick to Live Migration:
Changes to VMs: No
Changes to Storage infrastructure: No
Changes to Network Infrastructure: No
Update to Hyper-V 2.0 : Yes

Live Migration

Memory content is
copied to new server
Live Migrate

May be additional incremental data

copies until data on both nodes
Entire VM memory copied is essentially identical

VHD

Live Migration

Client directed to new

host

Session state is maintained

ARP issued to point routing devices to No reconnections necessary
new node Clients stay connected to “live” VM
Old VM deleted after success
VHD
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Live Migration Operation

Configuration

State

Quick Migration vs Live Migration

Quick Migration Live Migration
(Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V) (WS08R2 Hyper-V)
1. Save state 1. VM State/Memory Transfer
a) Create VM on the target a) Create VM on the target
b) Write VM memory to shared b) Move memory pages from the source
storage to the target via Ethernet
2. Move virtual machine 2. Final state transfer and virtual
a) Move storage connectivity from machine restore
source host to target host via a) Pause virtual machine
Ethernet
b) Move storage connectivity from
3. Restore state & Run source host to target host via
a) Take VM memory from shared Ethernet
storage and restore on Target 3. Un-pause & Run
b) Run

Host 1 Host 2 Host 1 Host 2

Processor Compatibility Mode

Overview
Allows live migration across different CPU versions within the
same processor family (i.e. Intel-to-Intel and AMD-to-AMD).
Does NOT enable cross platform from Intel to AMD or vice versa.
Configure compatibility on a per-VM basis.
Abstracts the VM down to the lowest common denominator in
terms of instruction sets available to the VM
Benefits
Greater flexibility within
clusters
Enables migration across a
broader ranger of Hyper-V
host hardware
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Forward & Backward Compatibility

How Does it Work?

When a VM is started the hypervisor exposes guest visible
processor features
With Processor Compatibility Enabled, the guest processors is
normalized and the following processors features are “hidden”
from the VM.

Host running AMD based processor Host running Intel based processor

SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.A, SSE5, POPCNT, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT,

LZCNT, Misaligned SSE, AMD 3DNow!, Misaligned SSE, XSAVE, AVX
Extended AMD 3DNow!

Processor Management Enhancements

Overview
Uses new processor features to improve performance
and reduce load on Windows Hypervisor
AMD: Nested Page Tables (NPT)
Intel: Extended Page Tables (EPT)

Network Performance Improvements

Overview
Performance gains by offloading network traffic directly to
network hardware
Allows network hardware to essentially appear as multiple
network adaptors on the physical host
Increased data transfer sizes
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Core Parking

Overview
This allows processor cores into a
“park/sleep” mode when not in use.
Scheduling virtual machines on a single
server for density as opposed to dispersion

Failover Cluster

Failover Clustering has implemented a “shared nothing” storage model

for the last decade
Placing VHDs on same volume or LUN requires that VMs run on same
host cluster node

Only one node accesses a

LUN at a time

SAN

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

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Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

Concurrent access to
a single file system

Single Volume

Disk5
VHD VHD VHD

CSV Compatibility

CSV is fully compatible with what you have deployed today

in Windows Server 2008!
No special hardware requirements
Same requirements as standard cluster disk
iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS
No file type restrictions
No directory structure or depth limitations
No special agents or additional installations
No proprietary file system
Uses well established traditional NTFS
Simple migrations to CSV

CSV Benefits

Easier Storage Management

Individual VMs can failover from a shared LUN
Optimized Capacity Planning
VMs use shared pool of free space
Improved Performance
Dynamic I/O Redirection
Network Prioritization
Higher Availability
Node Fault Tolerance
99.9% 99.99%
Network Fault Tolerance
SAN Fault Tolerance Availability
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
99% 99.999%
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Independent VM Failover

VMs running on
Node 1 are
unaffected

Node owns
the CSV disk
Same LUN
(Coordinator Node)
VHD 1 VHD 2 VHD 3

I/O Connectivity Fault Tolerance

I/O Redirected
via network

VM running on
Node 2 is
unaffected

Coordination
Node

SAN Connectivity
Failure

VM’s can then be live migrated

to another node with zero
VHD
client downtime

Hot Add/
Add/Remove Storage

Overview
Add and remove storage to virtual machines
on the fly without requiring a reboot.
Hot-add/remove disk applies to VHDs and pass-
through disks attached to the virtual SCSI controller
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Microsoft Hyper-
Hyper-V Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server Microsoft Hyper-V Server

2008 R2
Up to 4 processors Up to 8 processors
Processor Support
up to 24 LPs Up to 32 LPs

Physical Memory Support Up to 32 GB Up to 1 TB

Up to 32 GB total
Virtual Machine Memory
(e.g. 31 1 GB VMs or 64 GB of memory per VM
Support
5 6 GB VMs)

Live Migration No Yes

High Availability No Yes

Hyper-V Manager MMC Hyper-V Manager MMC

Management Options
System Center Virtual System Center Virtual
Machine Manager Machine Manager R2