Corresponding slides to Aidain Finn's webinar with MicroWarehouse. See learn.mwh.ie The next version of Windows Server will be launched at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta at the end of September. Attend this live webinar, and you’ll learn what new Hyper-V features that they’ll be showing and talking about. There’s lots to talk about and show you (live demos – we must be crazy!), including: Security Networking Storage performance Increased resiliency Easy upgrade of Hyper-V clusters Nested virtualization – finally!

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What’s New in Windows Server
2016 Hyper-V
Aidan Finn, MVP
Technical Sales Lead, MicroWarehouse

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What’s New in Windows Server
2016 Hyper-V
Aidan Finn, MVP
Technical Sales Lead, MicroWarehouse

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About Aidan Finn
• MVP, Cloud & Datacenter
Management (Hyper-V)
• Experienced with Azure, Hyper-V,
Windows Server/Desktop, System
Center, and IT infrastructure
• http://www.aidanfinn.com
• http://www.petri.com/author/aidan-finn
• @joe_elway
• aidanfinn.com
Technical Sales Lead, MicroWarehouse

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About MicroWarehouse
• Irish owned/located distributor
• Park West, Dublin 12, Ireland
• Distributors for:
• Microsoft on-premises & cloud
• Microsoft Surface
• DataOn for Storage Spaces
• Gridstore for Hyper-Convergence
• SkyKick for Office 365 backup
• And many more
• Value added distribution:
• Much more than selling licenses
• Get your licensing right
• Sales education
• Technical training
@MWHDistribution
Value Added Distribution

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Storage Spaces hardware, distributed to European Union resellers
SMB or Branch Office
2-Node Hyper-V Cluster
 12 x clustered data drives (e.g. 4 x SSD + 8
x HDD, up to ~ 32 TB usable tiered Hyper-
V storage)
 1023W (1+1) redundant power
 2 x clustered Hyper-V hosts, each with:
o 2 x Intel® Xeon® E5-2600v3 (Haswell-
EP)
o DDR4 Reg. ECC memory up to 512GB
o 2 x 1G SFP+ & IPMI management
“KVM over IP” port
o 2 x PCI-e 3.0 x8 expansion slots
o 1 x 12Gb/s SAS x4 HD expansion port
o 2 x 2.5” 6Gb/s SATA OS drive bays
SAN-Alternative for Hyper-V
Scale-Out File Server JBOD
 24 x 2.5”, 32 * 3.5” or 70 * 3.5” JBODs
 Up to 660 TB usable storage for Hyper-V
o 4 x 70 disk JBOD
o 10 SSD + 60 HDD per JBOD
o 3-way mirroring
o Enclosure awareness / fault
tolerance
• Present to Hyper-V cluster using Windows
Servers
• Super-fast SMB 3.0 connectivity
Coming Soon!
Storage Spaces Direct
• Hyper-Convergence using Windows Server
2016
• 1U and 2U models
• Leveraging NVMe and SSD flash storage
• A recent demo hit 2.4 million IOPS
• To be launched at Microsoft Ignite (end of
September)

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HyperGrid HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS)
Enterprise Strategy Group:
http://www.esg-global.com/lab-reports/gridstore-30/

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Agenda
• Clustering - a quick reminder
• Storage Spaces
• Cluster-in-a-Box by DataON Storage
• How I configure CiB
• Other considerations
• Not covering:
• Scale-out file server (SOFS)
• Backup storage
What we are covering today

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Never Work With Children, Animals …
• I promised lots of demos
• So many issues with this build
• A week went into it before I gave up
Or technical previews

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What Are the Talking Points?
• Cloud
• Inspired by Azure
• Easier management
• Improved service availability
• Feedback has shaped WS2016
• https://windowsserver.uservoice.com
• WS2012 and WS2012 R2
• 5 x WS2016 Technical Preview releases
Cloud, cloud, cloud

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Virtualization
• Connected Standby support
• Discrete Device Assignments (DDA)
• Used by Azure N-Series VMs
• VM version
• Virtual machine binary configuration
• Binary .VMCX instead of .XML
• .VMRS instead of .BIN and .VSV
New features

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Demo
Nano Server

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Nested Virtualization
• Fully supported feature
• Enable Hyper-V inside a
VM
• Requires host & VM to
run:
• Windows 10
• WS2016
• Great for:
• Learning
• Demo
• Training
• Really for Hyper-V
containers
New features

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Nested Virtualization Notes
• Restrictions:
• Requires Intel VT-x and EPT
• Windows 8 AU or WS2016 only
• It might work with vSphere, but unsupported
• Device Guard must be disabled
• VMs with virtualization based security cannot do this
• The virtual host:
• MAC spoofing enabled
• Dynamic memory disabled
• No runtime memory resizing
• No Live Migration of virtual host
• No checkpoints of virtual host
• Must be on latest VM version (7.1 or 8.0)
Things to know

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Demo
Nested virtualization

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Security
• Hypervisor has been
hardened
• Host Resource
Protection
• From Azure
• Linux secure boot
Protecting the cloud and tenants, offering trust

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Guarded Fabric
• Control where VMs can run
• A new attestation service:
• Host must be authorized to start a
VM
• Host Guardian Service
• Key/attestation service
• Runs in dedicated physical
domain
• Two models
• Admin-trusted: easy to deploy &
good for PoC
• TPM-trusted: more secure
• TPM-trusted
• HGS requires HSM
• Hosts require TPM 2.0 and UEFI
2.3.1 with secure boot
Trust for the tenant

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Shielded Virtual Machines
• Control who can see
inside your VMs
• Shielded virtual
machines:
• Virtual TPM: BitLocker that
you control
• Optionally limit access to the
guest OS
• Two levels of shielding:
• Encryption supported: Trusted
admins
• Shielded: Non-trusted admins
Security for the tenant

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Containers
• A new way to deploy
services in a cloud
• No longer 1 app per server
• Instant deployment from
a repository
• Meet demand immediately
• Deployed in VM or on
physical machine
• Windows Server
Containers
• Shared kernel
• Hyper-V Containers
• Isolation via Hyper-V
Operating system virtualization

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Operational Improvements
• Hot Add/Remove of memory and virtual
NICs
• Hyper-V Manager slight improvements
• Integration services via Windows
Update
• VM version
• Resilient Change Tracking
• In host RAM
• Also on disk with VM
Day-to-day admin activities

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Demo
PowerShell Direct

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Demo
Checkpoints are still not a backup!!!
Production Checkpoints

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Storage
• ReFS Accelerated VHDX Operations
• Matured for data volumes
• Recommended for Hyper-V
• Faster VHDX operations – creation, checkpoint merge
• New Shared VHDX format
• Host based backup
• Hyper-V Replica
• Online resizing of shared disk
• Type specific extension: *.vhds
• Storage Replica
Virtual machine storage enhancements

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Demo
Storage QoS

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Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• Storage Spaces without
SAS hardware
• Build a Scale-Out File
Server without:
• SAS HBAs
• SAS cables
• JBODs
• S2D cluster:
• Servers with internal disks
• Working as 1 storage system
• CSVs span servers
• Shared to Hyper-V hosts via
SMB 3.0
• Use SATA disks to reduce
costs
• Flash (SSD or NVMe):
persistent cache
• SSD + HDD: mirror + parity for
performance + capacity
Storage Spaces without JBODs

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Hyper-Convergence
• Classic virtualization
architecture:
• Compute: Hyper-V
• Network: iSCSI, FC(oE), SMB 3.0
• Storage: SAN, SOFS
• If storage + compute = servers?
• Hyper-converged infrastructure
• Flatten it all
• 1 tier of inter-connected servers
• Includes storage in the servers
• Simpler than you think:
• CSVs deployed on Storage
Spaces
• VMs are storage on CSVs
• No file shares!
1 tier that includes compute, network, and storage

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Networking
• Network function virtualization
• Moving appliances into the fabric
• Software-defined encapsulation
• VXLAN supported added to NVGRE
• Network controller
• New centralized management
• Windows role
• Ported from Azure
Cloud enhancements

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Virtual Switch Improvements
Switch Embedded Teaming and virtual (host) RDMA

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What’s Unusual About This Azure Portal?
Hint: look at the URL in the browser

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Microsoft Azure Stack (MAS)
• Alternative to the current Windows
Azure Pack
• Based on old portal and requires System Center
• Azure Stack
• Does not require SysCtr, but SysCtr adds
management
• Azure consistent: blob storage, networking,
PowerShell, JSON templates
• Availability
• “Mid-2017”
• Sold as part of packaged OEM h/w solutions
• DataON planning to be one of those OEMs
On-premises Azure consistent cloud

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High Availability
• Compute resiliency
• Ordered start of virtual machines
• Node fairness
Uptime = SLA = happy customers = happy boss = happy you

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Demo Video
Storage Resiliency

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Cluster Rolling Upgrade
• Huge amount of legacy
Hyper-V out there
• No upgrade process
• Too complicated/expensive to
migrate
• “Upgrade” WS2012 R2
(only) to WS2016
• Process:
1. Drain host of VMs
2. Evict host from cluster
3. Rebuild host with WS2016 and
configure
4. Join rebuilt host to old cluster
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each host
6. Upgrade cluster to WS2016
functional level
7. Upgrade VM Version
Uptime = SLA = happy customers = happy boss = happy you

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Value-Added Distribution
• Keep an eye on http://learn.mwh.ie
• Follow @MWHDistribution
• Or take our mailshots off your junk mail filter
• September 22nd at 14:00 UK/Ireland:
• What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Failover
Clustering and Storage?
• Including demos – I really am crazy!
• Details and registration:
• http://www.mwh.ie/learn/whats-new-in-windows-server-failover-
clustering-storage
We will do our best to help

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Thank You!
Aidan Finn
aidanfinn@mwh.ie
@joe_elway
aidanfinn.com
http://learn.mwh.ie
@MWHDistribution
Watch out for emails about future events!