Windows Server 2. Hyper- V Features Glossary. I’m going to do my best (no guarantees) to update this page with a listing of each new WS2.

Discover the differences between Windows Server 2012 Foundation, Essential, Standard & Datacenter editions, supported features, licensing models, which support Hyper. Windows Server 2012 documentation covers information on how to install the operating system in a virtual machine. Installing Server 2012 in VMware is easy. Here I will show you how to install Windows Server 2012 as virtual machine in VMware workstation 9. In this article we'll take a look at some of the new and cool features that are included in the Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Role.

Hyper- V (and related) feature as it is revealed by Microsoft (and that I can think of). Last updated at 1. September 4th, 2. Feature. Description.

Now that Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” has been released to public beta, I’m sure there are several of you that would like to install the beta operating. This chapter describes the step-by-step process to install a clean version of the Windows Server 2012 operating system, upgrade an existing system to Windows Server.

Affinity rules. In Failover Clustering, you can set affinity or anti- affinity rules to keep selected VMs on the same host or on different hosts. ARP/ND Spoofing/Poisoning Protection. Prevent a VM’s guest OS administrator from impersonating other VMs using ARP spoofing or IPv. Neighbour Discovery spoofing. Asymmetric Hyper- V Cluster. A single cluster with Hyper- V and Scale Out File Server roles on dedicated nodes.

Bit. Locker & CSVUse Bitlocker to encrypt CSV to prevent data theft by disk theft. Still SMB 3. 0 based, but it bypasses the CSV stack on the CSV Coordinator making it 2x faster. Boot From SANVMs can boot from i. SCSI or Fibre Channel disks, rather than just the traditional VHD(X)Cluster Aware Updating. Automate the Windows Update process for clustered hosts.

It automatically places hosts in paused state and drains them of VMs, enabling hosts to be patched in order without VM downtime. Cluster Bootstrapping. A Windows Server 2.

Failover Cluster does not require a physical domain controller to be present. The default maximums are 2  Live Migrations, and 2 Storage Live Migrations. Converged Fabrics. Simplified host networking by merging all of the various LAN, SAN, and cluster networks to a reduced number of teamed NICs, using features such as Qo. S, virtual NICs, and DCB. CSV 2. 0. Simpler setup. Backup uses a single coordinated or distributed VSS snapshot, and this removes the need for redirected I/O for backup.

CSV Backup. Distributed parallel backups simplify and speed up orchestrated application consistent backups with VMs spread across many hosts. CSV Block Cache. Dedicate a small amount of memory (e.

MB) to provide a CSV read cache. Required if converging RDMA. Dedup. Dedup can be turned on for a volume. Useful for VMM Library, or inside VM file systems. Deploy Roles and Features to Offline VHDs. Server Manager can add/remove roles and features to offline VHDs, enabling you to prep a VM configuration before deployment of a VHD from the library.

DHCP Guard. Ban DHCP traffic from rogue DHCP services running in VMs. Direct I/O Backup. VMs on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) can be backed up without Redirected I/O (Mode/Access). Drain VMs. Easy host maintenance by draining VMs from a clustered host when it is paused. Dynamic Memory. Once a VM has booted it can balloon down to a new Minimum Memory setting if it is underutilising the memory allocated by the Startup setting. It will automatically scale up and scale down the CPU utilisation based on demand.

ETW Tracing. The ability to capture network events from a Hyper- V Switch for later analysis. Failover Prioritisation.

Order the failover of VMs based on application dependencies based on high/medium/low/do- not- failover priorities. Guest Application Monitoring.

Configure Failover Clustering to monitor WS2. VMs for certain events and perform a response to those actions, e. Guest NUMA can be customised on a per- VM basis according to host architecture. High Availability.

A feature of Failover Clustering, allowing a service or VM to failover from one host to another, enabling machine fault tolerance and maintenance windows with minimised service downtime. Host Scalability.

TB RAM, 2. 04. 8 v. CPUs, and 1. 02. 4 VMs on a single host. Hyper- V Administrators. A new local security group enables easier delegation of full Hyper- V administrative rights to that host. Hyper- V Appliance. This is a concept where a Cluster- in- a- Box solution is engineered to be a Hyper- V cluster- in- a- box by an OEM. Can leverage Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) in a SAN to make the process up to 9.

Management OSThe term used to describe the host OS, or what was previously known as the Parent Partition or Root Partition. Monitor Port. Turn on traffic monitoring for a specific virtual switch port (virtual NIC). This is a key feature of multi- tenancy. Specify teaming mode, load balancing algorithm, and optionally VLAN binding. Node Vote Weight. Configure if a clustered Hyper- V host has a vote or not. Especially useful in multi- site clusters to disable DR site nodes from voting.

ODXOffloaded Data Transfer is a feature of a SAN. Should replace the need for offline chkdsk.

Port ACLs. Set rules based on local IP/MAC, and remote IP (specific or network)/MAC. Rules can meter traffic, block or allow.

Port ACLs. Private VLANPVLAN is a mechanism where a VM’s v. NIC PVLAN port type can be set to isolated/private/community to control how it can communicate with other VMs on that large flat VLAN. Qo. SSpecify maximum limits and minimum guarantees for network communications. Read- Only Domain Controllers. WS2. 01. 2 Hyper- V Clusters now support the use of RODCs in branch office and DMZ scenarios. Receive Side Coalescing.

RSC aggregates packets from the same TCP/IP flow into one larger packet, reducing per- packet processing costs for faster TCP/IP processing. Receive Side Scaling. RSS (NIC function) allows the host network traffic processing to be shared across multiple processors. It is used for metadata operations (very brief). Loss of storage connection also causes Redirected I/O but now at a much faster block level. Remote Direct Memory Access / SMB Direct.

RDMA enables massive throughput of data through the network without taxing the CPU. Found in i. Warp, Ro. CE, and Infiniband. This powers greater throughput for SMB 3. Resource Metering.

Measure CPU, storage, network and memory on a per- VM basis. This data is stored with the VM and moves with the VM. It can be used for cross charging cloud usage. Router Guard. Prevent VMs from advertising themselves as routers. Scale Out File Server. Using CSV and a witness as features, you can create an active/active file share failover cluster with transparent failover. This is supported for services that use large file with little metadata access, e.

In other words, you can use a file share cluster instead of a SAN for your Hyper- V cluster. Single Root I/O Virtualisation. SR- IOV allows a physical NIC to appear to be a number of physical NICs, and allows virtual machine networking to bypass the virtual switch/management OS user mode.

Virtual machines with SR- IOV can be live migrated and have guest NIC teaming. SMB 3. 0. Formerly known as SMB 2. RDMA (SMB Direct) and SMB Multichannel (RSS or multiple NICs) and is in Windows Server 2. Storage of VMs is supported on SMB 3.

They can be as loosely coupled as a bunch of USB drives or a JBOD. Folktale Activities For First Grade. The disks can be different sizes.

A pool does not appear in Explorer. You can create Storage Spaces from Storage Pools. This is one of the storage types you could use to create a scalable and continuously available active/active file share cluster. Storage Spaces. A thinly provisioned slice of storage from a storage pool. Can be a 2- copy- mirror (Like RAID 1 in concept and performance), 3- copy- mirror, or parity (like RAID 5 in concept and performance) storage space. Can be lots of spaces in a single pool.

A space is divided up into slabs across disks in the pool depending on the fault tolerance chosen. Advanced configuration allows you to choose which pool disks to use. System Center 2. 01. Service Pack 1. This will add support for Windows Server 2. Hyper- VThin Provisioning. Deploy thinly provisioned Storage Spaces, consuming only the disk that the LUN requires. Trunk Mode. The ability for a Hyper- V Switch to pass through multiple VLANs to a VM’s port.

Unified Tracing. Enables network diagnostics in the Hyper- V Extensible Switch by trapping packets. Unmap. Supported on VHDX and Passthrough disks, attached to Virtual SCSI or Virtual Fibre Channel, this allows de- allocated blocks to be returned to storage for thin provisioning.