Technical Report NetApp Deployment Guidelines and Storage Best Practices for Windows Server 2016 Best Practice Guide Brahmanna Chowdary Kodavali and Shashanka SR, NetApp November 2016 | TR-4568 NetApp Deployment Guidelines and Storage Best Practices for Windows Server 2016 Best Practice Guide Brahmanna Chowdary Kodavali and Shashanka SR, NetApp October 2016 | TR-XXXX Abstract This technical report discusses the value of NetApp® storage for Windows Server 2016. This report also provides best practices and deployment guidance for NetApp storage in Windows Server 2016 environments. Important features offered by NetApp to complement Windows Server 2016 are also covered. Abstract This technical report provides insight into the NetApp storage value proposition for Windows TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Overview ................................................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 Purpose and Scope ........................................................................................................................................ 4 1.2 Intended Audience .......................................................................................................................................... 4 2 NetApp Storage and Windows Server 2016 Environment ................................................................ 4 2.1 ONTAP 9.0 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Storage Virtual Machines ................................................................................................................................ 6 3 Windows Server 2016 Enhancements ................................................................................................ 7 3.1 Hyper-V Improvements ................................................................................................................................... 7 3.2 Guarded Fabric and Shielded Virtual Machines ........................................................................................... 11 3.3 Network Controller ........................................................................................................................................ 13 3.4 Failover Clustering Improvements ................................................................................................................ 14 3.5 Nano Server ................................................................................................................................................. 15 3.6 Containers .................................................................................................................................................... 16 4 Provisioning NetApp Storage for Windows Server 2016 ................................................................ 17 4.1 Managing NetApp Storage ........................................................................................................................... 17 4.2 NetApp PowerShell Toolkit ........................................................................................................................... 17 4.3 NetApp SMI-S Provider ................................................................................................................................ 18 4.4 Networking Best Practices ............................................................................................................................ 18 5 Provisioning in SAN Environments .................................................................................................. 19 5.1 Provisioning NetApp LUN on Windows Server 2016 .................................................................................... 19 5.2 Provisioning NetApp LUNs on Nano Server ................................................................................................. 22 5.3 Boot from SAN .............................................................................................................................................. 24 6 Provisioning in SMB Environments .................................................................................................. 26 6.1 Provisioning SMB Share on Windows Server 2016 ...................................................................................... 26 6.2 Provisioning SMB Share on Nano Server ..................................................................................................... 28 7 Hyper-V Storage Infrastructure on NetApp ...................................................................................... 29 7.1 Hyper-V Clustering: High Availability and Scalability for Virtual Machines .................................................... 32 7.2 Hyper-V Live Migration: Migration of VMs .................................................................................................... 33 7.3 Hyper-V Replica: Disaster Recovery for Virtual Machines ............................................................................ 37 7.4 Hyper-V Centralized Management: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager .............................. 39 7.5 Azure Site Recovery: Cloud Orchestrated Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Assets ....................................... 39 8 Storage Efficiency ............................................................................................................................... 40 1 NetApp Deployment Guidelines and Storage Best Practices for Windows Server 2016 © 2016 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8.1 NetApp Deduplication ................................................................................................................................... 40 8.2 Thin Provisioning .......................................................................................................................................... 41 8.3 Quality of Service .......................................................................................................................................... 41 9 Security ................................................................................................................................................ 42 9.1 Windows Defender ....................................................................................................................................... 42 9.2 BitLocker ....................................................................................................................................................... 42 Appendix A: Deploy Nested Virtualization ............................................................................................. 42 Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Appendix B: Deploy Nano Server ............................................................................................................ 43 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Connect to Nano Server ........................................................................................................................................ 44 Appendix C: Deploy Hyper-V Cluster ...................................................................................................... 45 Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... 45 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 45 Appendix D: Deploy Hyper-V Live Migration in a Clustered Environment ......................................... 47 Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... 47 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 47 Appendix E: Deploy Hyper-V Live Migration Outside a Clustered Environment ............................... 47 Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... 47 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 47 10 Appendix F: Deploy Hyper-V Storage Live Migration ..................................................................... 48 Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... 48 Deployment ........................................................................................................................................................... 48 Appendix G: Deploy Hyper-V Replica Outside a Clustered Environment ........................................... 49 Prerequisites ........................................................................................................................................................