Cloud Optimize Your IT

Cloud Optimize Your IT

Windows Server 2012

Michael Faden

Partner Technology Advisor Microsoft Schweiz

Beyond

Virtualization Modern

workstyle, enabled Every app,

any cloud Beyond

virtualization The power of many servers, the

simplicity of one

complete

Windows Server® 2012 RC

offers a dynamic,

multitenant infrastructure

that goes beyond

virtualization to provide

maximum flexibility for

delivering and connecting

to cloud services.

Complete Virtualization Platform

Build your private cloud, offer private cloud services, or securely connect to public cloud services

Beyond virtualization

Increase Scalability and Performance

Connect to Cloud Services

Supporting features

• Offers numerous benefits with virtual machine placement functionality

• Removes VLAN constraints

• Eliminates hierarchical IP address assignment for virtual machines

Network virtualization

Network Virtualization isolating network traffic that belongs to two customers

Supporting features

• Virtual machine storage now can be moved with no limits

• Storage Live Migration

• Shared Nothing Live Migration

Moving virtual machine storage

with no limits

Supporting features

• Supports higher levels of security and isolation

• Provides policy enforcement for security, isolation, and service levels

• Supports third-party, extensible plug-ins

New capabilities with Hyper-V

Extensible Switch

Supporting features

New Quality of Service (QoS) features:

• Provide greater functionality and management tools for improved performance

• Offer two mechanisms to support bandwidth performance

• Take server consolidation and network convergence to new levels

Enhanced QoS

Strict minimum bandwidth example

Supporting features

New Resource Metering:

• Provides accurate, reliable methods for measuring usage

• Collects a wide range of data, including CPU, memory, bandwidth consumed, and disk space

Introducing Resource Metering

Aggregation of resource use data through resource pools Resource Metering

Improved scalability and performance

• 64-node Hyper-V clusters that can simultaneously run up to 4,000 concurrent virtual machines

• Configuration of virtual machines with up to 64 virtual processors and 1 TB memory

• Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) support

Hyper-V host scale-up and

workload support

Supporting features

The new Hyper-V Import Wizard:

• Makes it easier and safer to import or copy virtual machines

• Detects and fixes potential problems

Importing multiple virtual

machines

Supporting features

New Hyper-V storage option:

• Supports Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) remote file storage

• Can be used in single-node, dual-node, and multi-node file server configurations

• Provides more flexibility and greater ease of storage provisioning for virtual environments

Hyper-V over SMB3

Platform Storage – Disk I/O

• Virtualizes commodity storage into Storage Spaces and Storage Pools

• Integration with other Windows Server "8"

Beta capabilities

• Provides storage resilience and availability from

commodity storage

• SAS and SATA interconnects

• Cluster support

Windows Virtualized Storage

Windows Application Servers or File Servers

Physical or virtualized deployments

Physical Storage

(Shared) SAS or SATA Integrated

with other Windows 8 Consumer Preview capabilities

Storage Pool

Storage Spaces

Storage Pool

Storage Spaces

Storage Pool

Storage Spaces

File Server

Administration Console Hyper-V

Cluster Shared Volumes Failover Clustering

SMB Multichannel

NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.

NTFS SMB Direct

Flexible storage options with Storage Spaces

Hyper-V 2012, available for free is the best Virtualization

and Cloud Platform

Microsoft

Competitive

Advantages:

• Compute: Better

Performance & Scalability

• Storage: Bigger virtual disks & encryption

• Networking: Open

Extensible switch, Network Virtualization in the box

• Application aware virtualization

• Finally, available for free!!

The efficient, continuously available, and

manageable server platform

Continuous availability

Cost efficiency

Management efficiency

The power of many servers,

the simplicity of one

Availability

Improved file system availability

Server core enhancements

Protocol improvements

NIC Teaming

• Endure failures

without interrupting service availability

• Minimize updates

• Offload data

transfers to arrays

On each server

• File and Storage Services

• DHCP failover

• Cluster at scale

• Automated cluster updating

In a multi-server environment

Availability

• Server application data on file shares

• Better performance from file servers

• No special storage network infrastructure

Hyper-V® Replica

Microsoft® Online Backup

Services

Across multiple sites

User Device Affinity

Availability

• Basic disaster recovery

• Easy offsite backup

• Familiar Windows Server backup

interface

Server Manager—central UI

PowerShell Workflows

2,300 cmdlets

Integrated Scripting

Environment

Integrated IntelliSense

Management efficiency

Server Manager and

Microsoft Windows PowerShell™

• Improve server-to- administrator ratio

• Manage roles across servers

• Deploy features to offline virtual hard disks

• Take advantage of reliable automation

DEMO

ServerManager, Powershell Hyper-V

Storage Spaces

Secure your users’ access to their personalized work

environment from virtually anywhere on any device

Access from virtually anywhere, any device

Full Windows experience

Enhanced security and compliance

Modern workstyle,

enabled

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

powered by Remote Desktop Services

Microsoft VDI allows you to set up a virtual desktop environment for session desktops, session

applications or virtual machine based desktops.

With Windows Server 2012 RC, it’s easier than ever to manage large installations of virtual machines.

RemoteFX for WAN in

Remote Desktop Services

ensures a rich, responsive

user experience for WAN

connections from remote

offices, from home or for

wireless devices.

Latency, bandwidth, and

packet loss are measured at

logon and during connection

to improve user experience

and reduce bandwidth costs.

• UDP Transport in addition to TCP

• Automatic detection of

network conditions

• Integrated with remote desktop gateway

RemoteFX for WAN

Full Windows experience anywhere

DEMO

VDI & RDS Infrastructure RemoteFX

Case Study Zurich Airport

Virtual Desktop Solution

• Based on Windows Server 2012

• save US$160,000 in power costs

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000001485

“RemoteFX for WAN delivered a fluid, high-fidelity experience and employees loved

the performance in Windows Server 2012—especially compared to using multimedia

and graphics-intensive applications with VMware."