With Microsoft Azure Backup, you can protect application workloads such as Hyper-V VMs, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and Windows clients to:
– Disk (D2D), giving high RTOs for tier 1 workloads
– Azure (D2D2C) for long term retention.
And, you can manage the protection of various protected entities (servers and clients) from a single on-premises user interface.
You can deploy Microsoft Azure Backup server as:
– A physical standalone server.
– A Hyper-V virtual machine – You can run DPM as a virtual machine hosted on an on-premises Hyper-V host server, to back up on-premises data.
– A Windows virtual machine in VMWare – You can deploy DPM to provide protection for Microsoft workloads running on Windows virtual machines in VMWare. In this scenario DPM can be deployed as a physical standalone server, as a Hyper-V virtual machine, or as a Windows virtual machine in VMWare.
– An Azure virtual machine – You can run DPM as a virtual machine in Azure to back up cloud workloads running as Azure virtual machines.
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Storage Spaces Direct seamlessly integrates with the features you know today that make up the Windows Server software defined storage stack, including Scale-Out File Server, Clustered Shared Volume File System (CSVFS), Storage Spaces and Failover Clustering
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What’s New in Nano Server. Nano Server now supports the DNS Server and IIS server roles, as well as MPIO, VMM, SCOM, DSC push mode, DCB, Windows Server Installer, and the WMI provider for Windows Update. Its Recovery Console supports editing and repairing the network configuration. A Windows PowerShell module is now available to simplify building Nano Server images.
Windows Containers: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview now includes containers, which allow many isolated applications to run on one computer system. They build fast and are highly scalable and portable. Two different types of container runtime are included with the feature, each with a different degree of application isolation. Windows Server Containers achieve isolation through namespace and process isolation. Hyper-V Containers encapsulates each container in a light weight virtual machine. For some additional information on containers, see Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends.
What’s New in Active Directory Federation Services. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview includes new features that enable you to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories. For more information, see Active Directory Federation Services Overview [Role/Tech Overview].
What’s New in Failover Clustering in Windows Server Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of Failover Clustering. A Hyper-V or Scale-out File Server failover cluster can now easily be upgraded without any downtime or need to build a new cluster with nodes that are running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.
What’s new in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, Client Hyper-V running on Windows 10, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server Technical Preview.
Windows Defender Overview for Windows Server Technical Preview. Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, but the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware is not installed. However, Windows Server Antimalware will update antimalware definitions and protect the computer without the user interface. If you need the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware, you can install it after the operating system installation by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.
What’s New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2016. For the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, the Remote Desktop Services team focused on improvements based on customer requests. We added support for OpenGL and OpenCL applications, and added MultiPoint Services as a new role in Windows Server.
What’s New in File and Storage Services in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of Storage Services. An update in storage quality of service now enables you to create storage QoS policies on a Scale-Out File Server and assign them to one or more virtual disks on Hyper-V virtual machines. Storage Replica is a new feature that enables synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability..
What’s New in Web Application Proxy in Windows Server Technical Preview. The latest version of Web Application Proxy focuses on new features that enable publishing and preauthentication for more applications and improved user experience. Check out the full list of new features that includes preauthentication for rich client apps such as Exchange ActiveSync and wildcard domains for easier publishing of SharePoint apps.
The new console functionality is enabled by default. If an existing application doesn’t work properly with the new console, you can select Use legacy console on the Options tab and then restart your application. You can also control individual aspects of the new functionality with registry keys; see details at the linked topics.
Console windows can be resized dynamically with the mouse. This could cause issues with some console applications.
Quick Edit mode is enabled by default. If this conflicts with your application, you can disable it on the Options tab.
There are new keyboard shortcuts for copy, paste, and history navigation. If these conflict with your application, you can disable them on the Options tab (look for Enable CTRL key shortcuts and Extended test selection keys).
The default font type for new console windows is TrueType. You can still use raster fonts, but they won’t scale properly on some displays.
Text wraps and reflows by default when you resize a window. If necessary, you can disable this on the Layouts tab.
In some cases, after upgrade installation, fonts in the console window might be very small. To adjust this, use the Fonts tab.
What’s New in Windows PowerShell 5.0. Windows PowerShell 5.0 includes significant new features—including support for developing with classes, and new security features—that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments more easily and comprehensively. Multiple new features in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) are also described in this topic.
What’s New in Networking in Windows Server Technical Preview. The majority of what you’ll find for networking is new in TP3. We bring a scalable network controller for programming policies, an L4 load balancer for high availability and performance, enhanced gateways for hybrid connectivity, and an underlying network fabric that converges RDMA traffic together with tenant traffic, DNS policies that control how your DNS servers respond to incoming requests, and better integration of DNS and IPAM.
This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 8 (UR8) for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. There are two updates available for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager: one for servers and one for the Administrator Console. This article also contains the installation instructions for Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.
Features that are added in this update rollup
Support for SQL Server 2014 SP1 as VMM database
With Update Rollup 8 for SC VMM 2012 R2 you can now have Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP1 as the VMM database. This support does not include deploying service templates by using the SQL profile type as SQL Server 2014 SP1. For the latest information about SQL Server requirements for System Center 2012 R2, see the reference here.
Support for VMWare vCenter 6.0 management scenarios
With Update Rollup 7, we announced support for management scenarios for vCenter 5.5. Building on our roadmap for vCenter and VMM integration and supportability, we are now excited to announce support for VMWare vCenter 6.0 in Update Rollup 8. For a complete list of supported scenarios, click here.
Ability to set quotas for external IP addresses
With Update Rollup 7, we announced support for multiple external IP addresses per virtual network, but the story was incomplete, as there was no option to set quotas on the number of NAT connections. With UR8, we are glad to announce end-to-end support for this functionality, as you can now set quotas on the number of external IP addresses allowed per user role. You can also manage this by using Windows Azure Pack (WAP).
Issues that are fixed in this update rollup
Issue 1
Creation of Generation 2 VMs fails with the following error:
Error (13206)
Virtual Machine Manager cannot locate the boot or system volume on virtual machine <VM name>. The resulting virtual machine might not start or operate properly.
Issue 2
VMM does not let you set the owner of a hardware profile with an owner name that contains the “$” symbol.
Issue 3
HA VMs with VLAN configured on the network sites of a logical network cannot be migrated from one host to another. The following error is thrown when you try to migrate the VM:
Error (26857)
The VLAN ID (xxx) is not valid because the VM network (xxx) does not include the VLAN ID in a network site accessible by the host.
Issue 4
The changes that are made by a tenant administrator (with deploy permissions to a cloud) to the Memory and CPU settings of a VM in the cloud through VMM Console do not stick. To work around this issue, change these settings by using PowerShell.
Issue 5
When a VM is deployed and put on an SMB3 file share that’s hosted on NetApp filer 8.2.3 or later, the VM deployment process leaves a stale session open per VM deployed to the share. When many VMs are deployed by using this process, VM deployment starts to fail as the max limit of the allowed SMB session on the NetApp filer is reached.
Issue 6
VMM hangs because of SQL Server performance issues when you perform VMM day-to-day operations. This issue occurs because of stale entries in the tbl_PCMT_PerfHistory_Raw table. With UR8, new stale entries are not created in the tbl_PCMT_PerfHistory_Raw table. However, the entries that existed before installation of UR8 will continue to exist. To delete the existing stale entries from the SQL Server tables, use the following SQL script:
DELETE FROM tbl_PCMT_PerfHistory_Raw where TieredPerfCounterID NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT tieredPerfCounterID FROM dbo.tbl_PCMT_TieredPerfCounter);
DELETE FROM tbl_PCMT_PerfHistory_Hourly where TieredPerfCounterID NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT tieredPerfCounterID FROM dbo.tbl_PCMT_TieredPerfCounter);
DELETE FROM tbl_PCMT_PerfHistory_Daily where TieredPerfCounterID NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT tieredPerfCounterID FROM dbo.tbl_PCMT_TieredPerfCounter);
Issue 7In a deployment with virtualized Fiber Channel adapters, VMM does not update the SMI-S storage provider, and it throws the following exception:
Name : Reads Storage Provider
Description : Reads Storage Provider
Progress : 0 %
Status : Failed
CmdletName : Read-SCStorageProvider
ErrorInfo : FailedtoAcquireLock (2606)This occurs because VMM first obtains the Write lock for an object and then later tries to obtain the Delete lock for the same object.
Issue 8
For VMs with VHDs that are put on a Scale out File Server (SOFS) over SMB, the Disk Read Speed VM performance counter incorrectly displays zero in the VMM Admin Console. This prevents an enterprise from monitoring its top IOPS consumers.
Issue 9
Dynamic Optimization fails, leaks a transaction, and prevents other jobs from executing. It is blocked on the SQL Server computer until SCVMM is recycled or the offending SPID in SQL is killed.
Issue 10
V2V conversion fails when you try to migrate VMs from ESX host to Hyper-V host if the hard disk size of the VM on the ESX host is very large. The following mentioned error is thrown:
Error (2901)
The operation did not complete successfully because of a parameter or call sequence that is not valid. (The parameter is incorrect (0x80070057))
Issue 11
Live migration of VMs in an HNV network takes longer than expected. You may also find pings to the migrating VM are lost. This is because during the live migration, the WNV Policy table is transferred (instead of only delta). Therefore, if the WNV Policy table is too long, the transfer is delayed and may cause VMs to lose connectivity on the new host.
Issue 12
VMM obtains a wrong MAC address while generating the HNV policy in the deployments where F5 Load Balancers are used.
Issue 13
For IBM SVC devices, enabling replication fails in VMM because there is a limitation in SVC in which the name of the consistency group should start with an alphabetical character (error code: 36900). This issue occurs because while enabling replication, VMM generates random strings for naming the “consistency groups” and “relationship” between the source and the target, and these contain alphanumeric characters. Therefore, the first character that’s generated by VMM may be a number, and this breaks the requirement by IBM SVC.
Issue 14
In Update Rollup 6, we included a change that lets customers have a static MAC address even if the network adapter is not connected. This fix did not cover all scenarios correctly, and it triggers an exception when there’s a template with a connected network adapter, and then you later try to edit the static address in order to disconnect the network adapter.
Issue 15
Post Update Rollup 6, as soon as a host goes into legacy mode, it does not come back to eventing for 20 days. Therefore, the VM properties are not refreshed, and no events are received from HyperV for 20 days.This issue occurs because of a change that’s included in UR6 that set the expiry as 20 days for both eventing mode and legacy mode. The legacy refresher, which should ideally run after 2 minutes, now runs after 20 days; and until then, eventing is disabled.Workaround:
To work around this issue, manually run the legacy refresher by refreshing VM properties.
Issue 16
Post-UR7, deleting a virtual network does not correctly clean up the cluster resources for the Network Virtualization Gateway. This causes the cluster role (cluster group) to go into a failed state when a failover of the HNV gateway cluster role occurs. This causes a failure status on the gateway
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When you are still working on an On-premises datacenter only, Microsoft makes it’s easy to transform your datacenter into Hybrid Cloud Scenarios.
You can think of a Twin Datacenter for your Core Business Applications, or save your longtime protection data into an Azure Backup Vault.
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You can use Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage your physical and virtualized network infrastructure. In VMM, the foundations of the network configuration are networks—the underlying logical networks and the VM networks—and switches. Switches can be configured as standard virtual switches, but this set of topics describes logical switches, which help you configure switch settings consistently across multiple hosts. To configure these network elements in VMM, use the following overviews and procedures :
You can use Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage your physical and virtualized network infrastructure. Logical networks form the foundation of your network configuration in VMM. You create and name logical networks based on the function they serve in your environment, for example, the “Management,” “Cluster,” “Storage,” or “Tenant” networks. Within each logical network, you create one or more network sites that specify IP subnets, virtual local area networks (VLANs), or subnet/VLAN pairs that represent your environment.
In a logical network, you can provide static IP addressing by creating static IP address pools for the logical network. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is also an option.
Plan your logical networks, network sites, and IP address pools
Logical networks created by default
Guidelines for network sites: VLAN and IP subnet settings
Guidelines for IP address pools
VM networks for VLAN configuration
In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), after you complete the planning described in Overview: plan logical networks, network sites, and IP address pools in VMM, you can plan your VM networks. Use this table for more information:
You can support multiple tenants (also called clients or customers) with their own networks, isolated from the networks of others, by using VM networks configured for network virtualization.
Direct access to the logical network (“no isolation”): described in this table
A VM network can provide direct access to a logical network. No planning is needed, other than to identify the logical network to give access to. This is the type of VM network typically used for management networks (for example, the network used for managing a host).
In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), you can use logical switches (and the port profiles inside them) to help you configure switch settings consistently across multiple hosts. A logical switch is like a template for a virtual switch—it acts as a container for the switch settings and capabilities that you want to use. Instead of configuring switch settings individually for each network adapter, you can specify settings and capabilities in a logical switch, and then use the logical switch to apply those settings consistently across network adapters on multiple hosts.
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Applications fuel innovation in the cloud and mobile era. Containers, and the ecosystem that is developing around them, will empower software developers to create the next generation of applications experiences, while IT Pros can use containers to provide standardized environments for their development, QA, and production teams, creating an infrastructure that is simpler to update and maintain.
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