Hyper-V Innovations for the SMB IT Pro Camp, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL, October 5, 2013
Ben Jones Systems Engineer 7 years of experience Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Server Infrastructure & Private Cloud VMware Certified Professional
Ben Jones Systems Engineer 7 years of experience Public utility companies Public services Private medical and legal practices Private banking and financial institutions
What is Hyper-V?..a hypervisor-based server virtualization product that enables you to consolidate workloads, helping organizations improve server utilization and reduce costs.
History of Hyper-V Introduced in 2008 as a Type 1 Hypervisor Featured Quick Migrations Snapshots 4 vcpu, 64GB memory, 2TB VHD
History of Hyper-V 2008 R2 Live Migration Cluster Shared Volumes Hot-add SCSI storage Allowed NIC teaming
History of Hyper-V 2008 R2, SP1 Dynamic Memory RemoteFX(Shared GPU)
History of Hyper-V 2012 64 vcpu, 1TB memory, 64TB VHDX 64 node clusters SMB 3.0 Support Storage Migration Shared Nothing Live Migration Hyper-V Replica
History of Hyper-V 2012 Dynamic Memory+ Virtual FibreChannel Network Virtualization Resource Meetering NIC Teaming and SR-IOV Extensible Switch
History of Hyper-V 2012 R2, Coming October 18 th UEFI Generation 2 VMs Shared VHDX on CSV / SoFS Dynamic SCSI VHDX resize Storage Metering / QoS Live Migration Compression on SMB
History of Hyper-V 2012 R2, Coming October 18 th Enhanced VM Connection Session USB Pass-through Hyper-V Extend Replica and granular settings for replication Live VM Checkpoint Export
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-scale System Resource Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Host Logical Processors 320 320 320 320 Physical Memory 4 TB 4 TB? 4 TB 4 TB Virtual CPUs per Host 2048 4096 4096 4096 Nested Hypervisor? Yes Yes Yes VM Virtual CPUs per VM 64 8 8 64? Memory per VM 1 TB 32 GB 1 TB 1 TB? Maximum Virtual Disk 64 TB 64 TB 1% 64 TB 1% 64 TB 1% Hot-Add Only disks* Disks/vNIC/USB Disks/vNIC/USB All Active VMs per Host 1024 512 512 512? Cluster Maximum Nodes 64 N/A 32 32? Maximum VMs 8000 N/A 4000 4000?
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-storage Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Thin disks Yes (dynamic disks) Yes Yes Yes Differential disks Yes No (only with API) No (only with API) No (only with API) SAN iscsi/fc iscsi/fc iscsi/fc iscsi/fc NAS SMB 3.0 NFS 3 over TCP NFS 3 over TCP NFS 3 over TCP Virtual Fiber Channel Yes Yes Yes Yes 3 rd Party Multipathing (MPIO) Yes No No Yes Native 4-KB Disk Support Yes No No No? Maximum Virtual Disk Size 64TB (VHDX) 64 TB 1% 64 TB 1% 64 TB 1%
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-storage Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Hot Virtual Disk resize Yes (VHDX) Yes (only increase) Yes (only increase) Yes (only increase) Virtual Disk sharing Yes (VHDX) Yes Yes Yes Maximum Pass Through Disk Size 265TB+ 64TB 64TB 64TB Storage Offload Yes (ODX) No No Yes (VAAI) Storage Virtualization No (only 3rd part) No (only 3rd part) VSA and VSAN VSA and VSAN Storage QoS Yes No No SIOC Storage Encryption Yes No No No Caching Yes (CSV read-only cache) No No Flash Read Cache
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-networking Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus NIC Teaming Yes Yes Yes Yes Extensible Switch Yes No No Replaceable PVLAN Support Yes No No Yes (DVS or 3rd part) ARP/ND Spoofing Protection DHCP Snooping Protection Yes No No vcns/partner Yes No No vcns/partner Virtual Port ACLs Yes No No vcns/partner Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines Yes Yes Yes Yes Port Monitoring Yes Per Port Group Per Port Group Yes
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-networking Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Port Mirroring Yes Per Port Group Per Port Group Yes Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue Yes NetQueue NetQueue NetQueue IPsec Task Offload Yes No No No SR-IOV Yes Yes (No Live Migration support) Yes (No Live Migration support) Yes (No Live Migration support) Network Virtualization Yes No No VXLAN Network QoS Yes No No DVS or 3rd part Quality of Service Yes No No Yes Data Center Bridging (DCB) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-availability Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Nodes per Cluster 64 N/A 32 32 VMs per Cluster 8000 N/A 4000 4000 Virtual Machine Live Migration Shared-Nothing Live Migration CPU Compatibility for Live Migration Guest Clustering with Live Migration Support Automated Live Migration Simultaneous Live Migrations Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes (only from Web Client) Yes (only from Web Client) Per VM (only one baseline) No Cluster EVC (several baselines) Cluster EVC (several baselines) Yes N/A No No Yes N/A N/A Yes (DRS/DPM) Unlimited N/A 4 (1GigE) or 8 (10GigE) 4 (1GigE) or 8 (10GigE)
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-availability Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Hot and Incremental Backups Yes No (some 3rd part tools) Yes Yes VM Replication Yes No Yes Yes Integrated High Availability Yes (Fail-Over Cluster) No Yes (VMware HA) Yes (VMware HA) VM Lockstep Protection No (3rd part tools) No No Yes (VMware FT) Guest OS Application Monitoring Yes N/A No App HA HA handle storage failure Yes N/A No No Cluster-Aware Updating Yes N/A Yes Yes Failover Prioritization Yes N/A Yes Yes
Hyper-V vs. vsphere-availability Capability Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 VMware vsphere 5.5 Free Hypervisor Essential Plus Enterprise Plus Resource Pool Yes (host groups) Yes No Yes (DRS is needed) Affinity & Anti-Affinity Rules Yes N/A N/A Yes
Benefits Benefits of starting with a free Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 virtualization platform?
Benefits No cost to license the hosts No cost for management tools No limitations on Hyper-V features
Benefits High availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Failover clustering Shared nothing live migrations Live VM export
Benefits High availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. NIC teaming and VM network health detection Cluster aware updating
Benefits High availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Dynamic Memory+ Hot-add SCSI with dynamic SCSI VHDX resize
Benefits High availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Extended replication with granular control Unlocked API support
Benefits Compatible with Windows Azure IaaS Compatible with System Center for a Private Cloud solution
Benefits Improved security and simplicity with Generation 2 VMs Resource metering and QoS USB pass-through Full desktop support with connection (console)
Limits No VM Lockstep Protection, but 3 rd party options Can only hot-add SCSI disks and not NICs, USB, CPU, RAM
Limits Fewer supported Guest Operating Systems Fewer compatible service providers Fewer ISV support statements
Demo 1 Domain Controller w/iscsitarget Server 2 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in Failover Cluster with CSV 1 Windows 8.1 for Management
Q & A Any questions?
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