Good day All,
Welcome back!!! i was listening to Microsoft ignite recording on great features in the box coming in Windows 2016 Fail over cluster so i just captured it for people who don't have time to watch video but would like to keep apprised of what is going to come, here is the list
Note: All the points are captured from this video, if anyone interested i highly encourage to go over it
I don take any credit for it just captured the details for cluster fan's , hopefully it will be useful for someone until next one you all have good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back!!! i was listening to Microsoft ignite recording on great features in the box coming in Windows 2016 Fail over cluster so i just captured it for people who don't have time to watch video but would like to keep apprised of what is going to come, here is the list
Note: All the points are captured from this video, if anyone interested i highly encourage to go over it
1. Storage QoS added in Windows 2016
2. Shared VHDX Integration
Guest Clusters can now resize Shared VHDX without
downtime
Gust Clusters can now have Shared VHDX protected by
Hyper-V
Replica for disaster recovery
Guest Clusters can now have host level backups in
addition to guest level backups of Shared VHDX
3.
Evolving CSV Cache
4.
Diagnostic Improvements
Additional Validation tests to catch Active Directory
configuration issues
Improved Network Name resource logging
Improved Validation times for both Storage and
non-storage tests
Less noise logged to the cluster log to prevent
wrapping
Additional data logged to cluster.log, header and
mini-dump of log level 5 verbosity
5.
Reducing Dump Sizes
Active Memory Dump captures what is important with
smaller file sizes
new alternative to a complete (Full) memory dump
Excludes memory allocated to virtual machines
Simplified debugging of Hyper-V systems with large
amounts of RAM
6. Zero
Downtime debugging
Clustering will capture live dumps on failures
Live dumps are a mechanism to generate a memory dump
for debugging without crashing the system
Capture debugging data without having to bug check
nodes
Debugging data without downtime
Capture dumps across multiple machines in parallel to
enable debugging the distributed system
Integrated with Windows Error Reporting to snapshot
logs
7.
Thunderbolt Networking - for 2 Node cluster now
you can use USB cable and plugin it and IP6 is auto configured, no
configuration is required.
8.
VM Compute Resiliency
VMs continue to run even when a node falls out of
cluster membership in the past if a node fails it will drain all the VM's on
the node and restart on the another node in cluster so in 2016 cluster
resiliency to transient failures like spanning tree protocol , network hiccups
. or I/O failure on the SAN and it comes up
9.
VM Storage Resiliency
VM Stack quickly notified on failure
VM moved to Paused Critical state and will wait for
storage to recover
Session state retained on recovery
10.
Quarantine of Flapping Nodes
Unhealthy nodes are quarantined and are no longer
allowed to join the cluster
Prevents flapping nodes from negatively effecting the
other nodes and ther overall cluster
Node is quarantined if it ungracefully leaves the
cluster 3 times within an hour
VM's are gracefully live migrated once Node is
quarantined
Nodes prevented from joining the cluster for 2 hours
11.
Simplified SMB Multi-Channel
12.
VM Start
Ordering Improvements
13.
Domain
‘less Workgroup Servers as Cluster
14.
Multi-domain Cluster
15.
Cloud Witness
Stretched
clusters without a 3rd site
Clusters without shared storage
16.
Site Awareness
Groups failover to a node within the same site,
before failing to a node in a different site
VMs follow storage and are placed in same site where
their associated storage resides
VM's will begin live migrating to the same site as
their associated CSV after 1 minute
17.
VM Load Balancing
Earlier as part of VMM not in Box
Identifies idle nodes in a cluster and distributes
VM's to utilize them
Utilization determined by VM memory & CPU pressure
18.
Seamless
Upgrades
Rolling upgrade from Windows 2012 R2 to Win 2016 that
is mixed mode clusters like Windows 2012, Windows 2016 in a same cluster eccept
few features will be turned off.
In-place upgrades of cluster nodes now possible
19.
End to End Multi-Site Clusters
End to end Windows Server disaster recovery solution
Volume level software replication between storage of
any type workload
Synchronous replication
20.
Clusters
without shared storage using Storage Spaces Direct.
DAS storage replicated across all nodes clusters with
no shared storage!
Hyper converged - VM's on Space Direct ClusterI don take any credit for it just captured the details for cluster fan's , hopefully it will be useful for someone until next one you all have good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
