MICROSOFT HYPER-V: 4 THINGS YOU SHOULD

KNOW TO ENSURE STORAGE HA AND

SECURITY

Alex Karavanov

Max Kolomyeytsev

5nine Software Director of Sales Engineering

StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager

GENDA
Importance of HA protected Hyper-V infrastructure
Secure and protect stored data
Simplify network administration
Increase storage HA

Secure storage for Hyper-V

Reduce expenses
Q&A

Wrap up

STARWIND SOFTWARE
Ownership: Privately held with VC backend since 2008,
spin-off from Rocket Division Software
Investors: VEEAM, Almaz Capital, AVentures
Product: StarWind Virtual SAN storage virtualization software
Users: More than 250,000 paying and playing customers
Headquarters: Boston, MA, USA
Number of employees: 50+
Customer care: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support
Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Dell, IBM, HP, VEEAM

5NINE SOFTWARE
The #1 leading solutions provider of management & security applications for Windows
Server & Microsoft Hyper-V environments:
5nine Manager Integrated Hyper-V and Cluster Management for SMB
5nine Cloud Security Powerful agentless and multi-tenant security for Hyper-V and Azure Pack
5nine V2V Easy Converter Free VMware to Hyper-V virtual machine migration tool

Headquartered in Chicago with offices worldwide

More than 50,000 clients globally representing companies of all sizes

www.5nine.com

IMPORTANCE OF HA PROTECTED HYPER-V INFRASTRUCTURE

Business requires continuity, resilience, and security
High-density Servers: larger impact if compromised
VM Sprawl: instant provisioning, more exposure points

Intra-VM Traffic: creates blind spots, threats bypass perimeter

Dynamic IT Loads: Live migration, ever-changing security posture
Storage security: compromised access to the SAN can lead to

unrecoverable data loss

SECURE AND PROTECT STORED DATA

Provide Hyper-V VMs isolation

Protect your virtual machines from any internal and/or external network
security breach.
Protect Hyper-V VMs with agentless antivirus
Unique agentless antivirus technology for Hyper-V that allows saving CPU
resources and increasing VM density by up to 30%.
Enforce Hyper-V compliance
Get required level of protection in order to be compliant with security
standards.
Secure multi-tenant Hyper-V environment
Multiple tenants in your virtual network should have access to their
resources, while being absolutely isolated and protected from each other.

Common Full System

Antivirus Scan

5nine Incremental
Antivirus Scan

Time and Resources Usage

Time and Resources Usage

INCREMENTAL AGENTLESS ANTIVIRUS SCAN

Scan Method
Common Full System
Antivirus Scan

5nine Incremental
Antivirus Scan

Scan Time

Resources Usage

Overall Full

From 40
minutes up to
Several Hours

Consumers valuable IOPS and

VMs resources, heavy impact
on host performance

Changed
Blocks Only
(CBT)

From Seconds
up to 5-7
minutes

Does not consume any VMs

resources, almost no affect
on host performance

5NINE CLOUD SECURITY: MANAGEMENT

Centralized management console
Highly-available architecture

Multi-tenant support
User actions audit and
syslog integration
Simple administration of
policies, rules, filters and logs
Standalone, Azure Pack,
SCVMM plug-in or API management
options
Kaspersky and ThreatTrack Vipre
Antivirus engines

5NINE CLOUD SECURITY: AZURE PACK EXTENSION

Security as a Service (SECaaS)

Hosters can provide more value-added services,
increasing both customer satisfaction and
revenue

Virtual Firewall and IDS

VM ID based rules configuration
VM Connections Table
Full filtering log
IDS utilizing same Hyper-V filtering extension as Virtual Firewall
Cisco SNORT signatures

SIMPLIFY NETWORK ADMINISTRATION

Reduce number of consoles

Get quick access to all of your virtual hard disks, their status and editing options

Control you infrastructure fast, even on core installations

Perform VM management tasks, even if you loose control via management interface
Ensure optimal performance via real-time monitoring and dynamic optimization process

5NINE MANAGER: CENTRALIZED CONSOLE

Management GUI
Windows Server Core and Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Familiar model to vCenter for VMware users
Centralizes hosts and cluster management
Manage multiple versions of Windows Server and
Hyper-V from a single console
Includes built-in performance
monitoring and optimization
Sysprep and VM templates

STARWIND VIRTUAL SAN

SECURE YOUR STORAGE
Ease of management and compliance no proprietary hardware or technologies used
Windows native application no 3rd party tools for managing security
360 Security set Virtual SAN supports a broad range of security instruments:

CHAP
IPsec & Kerberos authentication
ACLs
BitLocker support

SECURE STORAGE FOR HYPER-V

Zero hardware footprint
o
Preserves existing security configuration
o
Complete fault tolerance with just 2 servers
o
Easy to use
o
Run on any Windows Server editions
including Hyper-V Server & Core

WHY HYPER-CONVERGED?

Less hardware to buy and maintain

High performance due to reduced I/O
path
Runs in Hypervisor kernel
Scales out and scales up easily

REPLICATION ANYWHERE

Supports virtually any WAN link

Can run as a VM on DR site or in cloud
Deduplicates data before shipping
Non disruptive to primary VM workload

SCVMM INTEGRATION TOOLKIT (SMI-S)

Secure your system from SCVMM interface
Single console to manage the entire
virtualization environment
Automatically provision storage for your virtual
machines
AD integration: use existing AD infrastructure to
secure management

REDUCE EXPENSES
Buy and manage less hardware

Avoid hardware vendor lock-in

Minimize power consumption
Increase VMs density per server
Save you time on configuration, management and protection
Eliminate costs of data security breaches

Q&A

Feel free to ask the presenters any questions

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www.starwind.com/starwind-virtual-san

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