Do Way More with Way Less (Money, Effort, and Time)

Michael C. Bazarewsky

Principal Consultant

Bennett Adelson

Transformational Trends

Increasingly Demanding Environment

95%

of IT budgets is spent

maintaining inflexible & siloed

data center equipment

cloud

millennials enter the workforce each

year

of organizations have a

remote workforce

Help us…

Drive innovation

Save money & gain efficiencies

Grow our business Support

changing user expectations

What Microsoft Heard from Customers

Windows 8

Cloud-connected

Built on a solid foundation

Get more at the Windows Store

At home and at work

All the apps you want

Reimagined browsing with IE10

Windows reimagined

Great experience across hardware

Why Windows 8?

Availability Simplicity

Scalability

Cost-

effectiveness

Availability Means Better Server Core

• Improved Server Core Functionality

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/20/building-an-optimized-private-cloud-using-windows-server-8-server-core.aspx

Availability Means Less Reboots

• Reduction in Reboots Through Server Core

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/20/building-an-optimized-private-cloud-using-windows-server-8-server-core.aspx

Availability Means Less Disruption

• New Live Migration Options

• New Storage Options

• New Networking Options

Simplicity Means Revisiting Some Basic Concepts

• “A Bold Reimagining”

• Tablet/Slate

• Touch

• ARM Platforms

• Cloud is First-Class Citizen

Simplicity Means Less Resources Needed

• Sample Lenovo Netbook (1 GB RAM, Atom)

Source: BUILD Day 1 Keynote, ~11:30

• Windows 7 Preview

• 540 MB

• 34 Processes

• Windows 7 SP1

• 404 MB

• 32 Processes

• Windows 8 DP

• 281 MB

• 29 Processes

Development Management Virtualization

Simplicity Means A Single View of Physical, Virtual, and Public and Private Clouds

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Identity

Traditional Data Center

Highly Virtualized Data Center

Simplicity Means More Functionality With Less Work

• Metro Remote Desktop

• Multi-Monitor Improvements

• Mount ISOs and VHDs Directly from Explorer

• We’re not even getting into the client that much!!

Scalability Means You Can Use More

• Higher Resource Limits

• Logical Processors - 640 (256 with Windows Server 2008 R2)

• Memory - 4TB (2TB with Windows Server 2008 R2)

• Number of hosts in a Failover Cluster - 63 (16 in Windows Server 2008 R2)

• Maximum boot volume size – 256 TB (2TB with Windows Server 2008 R2)

Scalability Means More Expandability

• Hyper-V Improvements

• File System Improvements

• SMB Improvements

Cost-Effectiveness Means More For Your Money

• Hyper-V Does More In the Box

• Live Migration

• Private/Public Cloud Migration

• Included in free Hyper-V Server

• Reference sample:

• SQL Server Supported on Core, Including Express

• Across the board, value is a selling point

Maximize your cloud capacity with unlimited

virtualization

Deliver a consistent model that is easier

to manage

Cost Effectiveness Means Predictable, Simple Budgeting and Spending

Private Cloud with 500 VMs @ 4GB each

At 15 VMs per

processor,

Microsoft Private

Cloud solution is

1/16th the cost of a

comparable VMware

Private Cloud

solution

Using vCOPS

Enterprise Plus

$3,241

$4,423

$5,606

$6,788K

$425 $425 $425 $425K

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$2,000

$3,000

$4,000

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VM Density (VM per physical processor)

VMware CIS + vCOPS + vFabric APM +Windows Server

2008 R2 Datacenter

16X

7.6X

Why Windows 8?

Availability Simplicity

Scalability

Cost-

effectiveness

The Rest of the Story

• Keynote: “Do Way More with Way Less (Money, Effort, and Time)”

• Breakout 1: Windows Core, Server Manager, Powershell And Storage

• Breakout 2: Hyper-V Deeper Dive

• Breakout 3: Veeam - Top Hyper-V Data Protection Challenges Dissolved

• Closing/Raffle