Microsoft Virtual Academy The Software Defined Datacenter Part

Microsoft Virtual Academy The Software Defined Datacenter – Part 1

What is a “Software Defined Datacenter” • • • Software defined compute. Software defined networking. Software defined storage. Remove the limits of physical configurations. Abstraction and agility. Platform agnostic, centrally configured, policy managed.

In this module…. Software defined compute (Hyper-V) Software defined networking (Network Virtualization)

The story so far…

So what’s new?

Failover Clustering

Failover clustering

Guest clustering with Shared VHDX

Memory management

Virtualization and networking Virtual network adaptor enhancements

Demo High Availability

Cluster OS rolling upgrades 1. 2. 3. 0 1 2 3 1 0

Virtual machine upgrades

Demo Mixed Mode Clustering and Rolling Upgrade

Production Checkpoints

Power. Shell Direct

Hyper-V Manager improvements

Re. FS accelerated VHDX operations

Demo Operational Efficiencies

Summary

The story so far…

The story so far…host networking

The story so far…switch management

The story so far…virtual networks

The story so far…gateways

Demo Understanding Network Virtualization

Network Controller

Network Controller features

Powerful platform for virtual appliances

Software Load Balancer (SLB)

Datacenter Firewall

Converged networking

Converged networking with 10 Gb. E

Converged networking with 10 Gb. E + RDMA

Converged networking with 2016 Host v. NIC 3 Host v. RNIC 1 Host v. NIC 4 Host v. RNIC 2 Host v. NIC 5

-management. OS

Converged networking – RDMA

Summary • • • Software defined compute. Software defined networking. Software defined storage. Remove the limits of physical configurations. Abstraction and agility. Platform agnostic, centrally configured, policy managed.

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