Day-18 & 19 Hyper-V

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Hyper-V

• Hyper-V is the hardware virtualization role that is available in

Windows Server 2012.


• Hardware virtualization provides virtual machines with direct access

to the virtualization server's hardware.


• This is in contrast to software virtualization products such as

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, that use the virtualization server's
operating system to provide indirect access to the server's hardware.
Hardware Requirements

• The server must have an x64 platform that supports hardware

assisted virtualization and Data Execution Prevention.


• The server must have enough CPU capacity to meet the requirements

of the guest virtual machines.


– A virtual machine hosted on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 can support
up to 64 virtual processor
Hardware Requirements

• The server must have enough memory to support all of the virtual

machines that must run concurrently, plus enough memory to run the
host Windows Server 2012 operating system.
– The server must have at least 4 GB of RAM.

– A virtual machine hosted on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 can support a


maximum of 2 terabytes (TB) of RAM
Hardware Requirements

• The storage subsystem performance must meet the input/output

(I/O) needs of the guest virtual machines. Whether deployed locally


or on storage area networks (SANs), you may have to place different
virtual machines on separate physical disks, or you may have to
deploy a high performance redundant array of independent disks
(RAID), solid-state drives (SSD), hybrid-SSD, or a combination of all
Hardware Requirements

• The virtualization server's network adapters must be able to support

the network throughput needs of the guest virtual machines. You can
improve network performance by installing multiple network
adapters and using multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs).
Virtual Machine Hardware

Virtual machines have the You can add the following


following simulated hardware hardware to a virtual machine:
by default: • SCSI Controller (up to 4)
• BIOS • Network Adapter
• Memory
• Legacy Network Adapter
• Processor
• Fibre Channel adapter
• IDE Controller 0 and 1
• RemoteFX 3D video adapter
• SCSI Controller
• Synthetic Network Adapter
• COM 1 and 2
• Diskette Drive
Dynamic Memory for Virtual Machines

Startup RAM

Dynamic Memory

Minimum RAM
Maximum RAM
Memory buffer

Memory weight
What Is a VHD?

• A virtual hard disk is a file that represents a traditional hard disk drive
• VHDX format has the following benefits over the VHD format:
– The disks can be larger (64 TB versus 2 TB)

– The disk is less likely to become corrupted


– The format supports better alignment when deployed to a large sector disk
– The format supports larger block size for dynamic and differencing disks
Creating Virtual Disk Types

• Dynamically expanding VHDs


• Fixed-size VHDs
• Direct-attached storage
Differencing VHDs

• Differencing disks reduce space used by storage at the cost of


performance
• You can link multiple differencing disks to a single parent disk
• You cannot modify parent disk
• You can use Inspect Disk tool to reconnect a differencing disk to a
missing parent
Virtual Switch

• External
Used to map a network to a specific network adapter or network
adapter team

• Internal
Used to communicate between the virtual machines on the host and
between the virtual machines and the host itself

• Private
Used to communicate between virtual machines, but not between the
virtual machines and the host itself

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