Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Overview - Presented by Atidan

Windows Server 2012 R2David J. Rosenthal

President & CEO, Atidan

May 2, 2014

Microsoft MTC – New York City

Agenda

Trends

Windows Server: At the heart of the Cloud OS

Customer challenges and opportunities

Windows Server 2012 R2 capability overview

Why choose Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server momentum

Next steps

Transforming IT to address new questions

Customer

ServiceProvider

Microsoft

ConsistentPlatform

ONE

With Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision, customers can…

Windows Server

Windows Azure

Microsoft cloud experience

Windows Server

Windows Azure

Bringing our learning to your datacenter

Windows Server

Windows Azure

and many others….


Enterprise-

class

Simple and

cost-effective

Application

focused

User centric

Requirement to provide scalable and reliable services.

Always-on expectations of the business.

IT budget pressure even with increasing expectations.

Complex IT environments that are tough to manage.

Volume of Web and

cloud applications

continues to build.

Evolution of

applications to hybrid

cloud deployment

models.

Increasing number and variety of end-user devices.

More pressure to enable access to corporate information for devices.


Windows Server 2012 R2 capability overview

Windows Server 2012 R2: Overview

Server virtualization

IT demands

Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers

Support for demanding, critical business workloads

Increased flexibility to move resources and workloads

Leverage existing cross-platform investments

Enterprise-class scale and performance.

Virtual machine mobility. First-class citizen guest support for Linux.

New levels of

performance and

cross-platform

support

20GB Connection

Gb Ethernet

Live migration with RDMA

High-performance live migration

Workload mobility

Workload mobility

Memory content

Workload mobility

Workload mobility

Modified memory pages

Dynamic Memory

MAXIMUMMEMORY

Dynamic MemoryMAXIMUMMEMORY

Dynamic MemoryMAXIMUMMEMORY

Hyper-V

Maximummemory

Dynamic Memory

Hyper-V

Maximummemory

Virtual machine starting with

Hyper-V smart paging

Maximummemory

Maximummemory

Paging file provides additional memory for startup

Dynamic Memory

Hyper-V

Maximummemory

Maximummemory

Dynamic Memory

Maximummemory

Storage

IT demands


Less expensive, enterprise-class storage solution

Guaranteed high Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Efficient management of storage resources

High-performance storage on industry-standard hardware.

Continuous application availability and robust recovery.

Comprehensive storage management and backup.

High performance

and resiliency at a

fraction of the cost

of traditional

storage

Storage Spaces is in-box storage virtualization

Now with automatic tiering across disk types

Uses solid-state drives (SSD) and hard-disk drives (HDD) in a tiered storage space.

Improved storage performance-per-dollar

Can “pin” high priority files to the SSD tier

Storage tiering

Hard Disk Drives

Hot data

Cold data

Solid State Drives

Sign up

Datacenter B

System Center

Virtual Machine

Manager

Hyper-V Replica replicates changes

Health monitoring

Orchestrates recovery plan for VMs or services in the

event of an outage

Create a recovery plan

Create

recovery plan

Datacenter A

System Center

Virtual Machine

Manager

AD

SQL

Exch

Configure

AD

SQL

Exch

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Currently using System Center Data

Protection Manager.

Introducing or replacing a backup solution.

Only a few servers need protection.

Introducing or replacing a backup solution.

Currently using Windows Server Backup.

Windows Azure Backup

Networking

IT demands


Simplified use of network resources in a multi-tenant, cross-premises environment

Continuously available and resilient network infrastructure

Greater control and more extensibility

Software-defined network infrastructure.

High-performance networking.

Improved manageability and diagnostics.

Hybrid networking

with breakthrough

levels of flexibility

and performance

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Features

• In-box multi-tenant edge gateway for seamless connectivity between physical and virtual networks.

• Isolated virtual networks running on shared network infrastructure.

• Standards-based automated network switch configuration.

• Partner ecosystem support.

Benefits

• Open, extensible and standards-based solution.

• Delivers flexibility, automation and control.

• Seamlessly bridges on-premises and off-premises networks, physical and virtual.

• Simplifies BYOIP scenarios and customer onboarding to service provider clouds.

Software-defined networking

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Physical adapters

Virtual adapters

Teamed network adapter


• Provides network fault tolerance and continuous availability when network adapters fail by teaming multiple network interfaces.

• New in R2: enhanced LBFO performance.

• Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox.

• Provides local or remote management through Windows PowerShell or UI.

• Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters.

• Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network adapters.

• Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent and independent.

NIC teaming

Physical adapters

Virtual adapters



• Provides network fault tolerance and continuous availability when network adapters fail by teaming multiple network interfaces.

• New in R2: enhanced LBFO performance.

• Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox.

• Provides local or remote management through Windows PowerShell or UI.

• Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters.

• Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network adapters.

• Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent and independent.

NIC teaming

• Inbox feature for integrated management of IP addresses, domain names, and device identities.

• New in R2: virtualized IP address space management.

• Tightly integrates with Microsoft DNS and DHCP servers.

• Provides custom IP address space display, reporting, and management.

• Audits server configuration changes and tracks IP address use.

• Migrates IP address data from spreadsheets or other tools.

Virtual IP address management

3

2

IPAM distributed architecture

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IPAM Server (UK)

DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS servers

IPAM Server (Bangalore)


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IPAM Server (Hyderabad)


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IPAM server (Redmond)


Site: RedmondHead office

Server management and automation

IT demands


Consistent management of diverse datacenter resources

Efficient, local and remote management of server resources

Cost-effective management of more tasks

Standards-based management.

Simplified multi-server management.

Robust automation.

Increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter

Maximize the value of using the Windows Management Framework

Windows Management Framework

Optional unattended deployment and

configuration using Windows

PowerShell.

Familiar and seamless deployment

experience that sets up the most

fundamental roles for the primary

server.

Essentials functionalities are enabled via

a dedicated server role in Windows

Server Standard and Windows Server

Datacenter.

Windows Server Essentials Experience

Key features

Broader coverage• Rich management through more than 3,000 cmdlets.

• Windows PowerShell Web Access.

Higher performance• On-the-fly compilation—scripts run up to

six times faster.

• Performance improvements.

Greater resiliency• Robust session connectivity.

• Disconnected sessions.

• Session configuration files.

• Job scheduling.

• Windows PowerShell Workflow.

More intuitive• Integrated scripting environment 3.0:

IntelliSense | Code Snippets.

• Syntax simplification.

• Cmdlet discovery and module auto-loading.

• Updatable help.

• Script-sharing.

Windows PowerShell 4.0

Web and application platform

IT demands


Broaden the reach of your applications

Increase performance and efficiency of applications and websites

Reuse your IT development skills and knowledge

Flexibility to build on-premises and in the cloud.

Scalable and elastic application and web platform.

Open web platform.

Modern apps built and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud

Windows Azure applications

On-premises applications

Programming symmetry

Starts scaling NEGATIVELY

when the number of cores

increases beyond the point

where memory synchronization

outweighs the benefits of any

additional cores

Previous Internet Information Services versions on NUMA hardware

Internet Information Services in Windows Server 2012 R2 on NUMA hardware

Scales POSITIVELY with

increasing cores, allowing

organizations to benefit from

their NUMA hardware

investments

Non-Uniform Memory Architecture• Processors can access local

memory faster than remote memory.

• A significant percentage of new servers have NUMA.

• Designed for scale-up.

NUMA-aware scalability

Support for open source software

Windows Web App Gallery Atom feed is consumed by the App Gallery itself, Web Platform Installer,

Internet Information Services Manager, and participating hosting control panels.Web platform

installer

• Automates installation of

the most popular

ASP.NET and PHP apps

through Windows Web

App Gallery.

• Simplifies discovery and

acquisition of the

Microsoft web stack.

• Supported on Windows

Server 2012 R2.

Internet Information Services

Hosting control panel

Web Platform Installer tool

Windows

Web App

Gallery

Atom feed

Developers follow three steps to submit an application to Windows Web App Gallery.

Access and information protection

IT demands


Controlled access to corporate data from user’s device of choice

Common user identity to access on-premises and cloud resources

Protect corporate data and maintain regulatory compliance

Always-on remote access from trusted devices.

Seamless, single sign-on access to application and data.

Policy-based access and audit of corporate information.

Consistent and flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data

Users can access corporate applications and datawherever they are.

IT can use Windows Server Remote Access to provide seamless application accessand automatic VPN connections with conditional access based on user and device validation.

Users are provided with a common identity when accessing cloud-based resources.

When a user registers their device it becomes known and “trusted” to provide device level authentication. IT can then publish access to resources based on registration plus the users identity.

Controlled access to corporate data

IT demands


Simplified roll-out and administration of a VDI environment

Reduced time and cost to deploy virtual desktops and applications

Consistent Windows experience across devices

Efficient VDI management. Best value for VDI. Rich user experience.

Virtual desktop infrastructure

Great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective

Available with pooled virtual machine collections and remote desktop session host collections.

Stores all user settings and data.

Contains roaming user profile, Folder Redirection cache, and user environment virtualization.

Roams with user within collection.

Appears as a local disk and improves application compatibility.

User profile disk

With every virtual machine

pool and remote desktop

session host collection.

User environment

virtualization

To apply roam settings

across collections.

Folder redirection

To apply roaming user data

across collections.

To centralize user data backup.

Benefits What should I deploy?

User profile disk with pooled virtual machine collections.

User profile disk with remote desktop session host collections.

Personalization with user profile disk

SMB

Scale-out file server

Dedup

Cluster shared volumes

Hyper-V VDI

Storage de-duplication for VDI

Corporate LANHardware & software GPUs, Rich multimedia, USB redirection.

Internet or WANMultitouch, WAN accelerationSingle sign-on.

Hardware and software GPUs

Rich multimedia

USB redirection

RemoteFX over WAN

Multi-touch

WAN acceleration

Single sign-on

Best-in-class performance and scale for Microsoft workloads.

Industry-leading 64-node clusters with 8,000 VMs.

Live migration compression and RDMA enhancements.

Hyper-V network virtualization and multi-tenant VPN gateway.

1,000,000 IOPS+ for storage on industry-standard hardware with storage tiering.

Storage de-duplication, including for VDI.

VM portability between Windows Server and Windows Azure.

Consistent development model across environments.

Common development tools to build applications on premises and for the cloud.

Single sign-on and access enabled across devices with Workplace Join.

Unified application and device management.

Granular, policy-based data protection.

Why choose Windows Server 2012 R2

Enterprise-

class

Simple and

cost-effective

Application

focused

User centric

Windows Server momentum

Domino’s Pizza

Lance Shinabarger,

VP, Global Infrastructure, Domino’s Pizza

“If our store servers go down, a third of our business evaporates. It’s that simple. It’s absolutely critical that our store servers remain running, and with Hyper-V, we’ve reduced store downtime.”

Aston Martin

Daniel Roach-Rooke,IT Infrastructure Manager, Aston Martin

“If you compare the two products, the number of virtual machines per host, the amount of memory per virtual machine, and the total amount of memory per cluster, Hyper-V is superior to VMware.”

Telefonica

Adrian Steel, Global Head of Infrastructure, Telefónica

“[Our Microsoft-based private cloud] gives us the flexibility to move virtual machines around the globe quite easily. I’ve never had that capability before, ever.”

Marquette University

Dan Smith, Deputy CIO, Marquette University

“The ability to use low-cost storage is a crucial benefit of Windows Server 2012. I estimate that we’ll save U.S.$53,000 on fiber-channel storage.”

Microsoft US Windows Engineering Team

Jeremy Russell, Senior Development Lead, US Windows Engineering Team, Microsoft

“With Storage Spaces, we have the functionality of a SAN without the cost of a SAN. We’re able to use commodity hardware to achieve the same functionality at a far lower cost.”

NTTX Select

Philip Moss,Chief Technology Officer,NTTX Select

“By using Storage Spaces, Hyper-V over SMB, and other new features, I eliminate big, lumpy capital expenditures.… I can buy inexpensive storage, buy only what I need, and scale in a completely linear manner.”

Next steps

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Next steps:

Cloud optimize your business with Windows Server 2012 R2

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Appendix

Windows Server 2012 R2: Cloud optimize your business

1. Live migration with RDMA.

2. Multi-node Hyper-V Replica.

3. Shared VHDX guest clustering.

4. Enhanced Linux integration services.

5. Hyper-V network virtualization.

6. Multi-tenant VPN gateway.

7. Low-cost, highly available file-based

storage.

8. Storage Spaces with automatic tiering.

9. Storage de-duplication for VDI.

10. Cross-version live migration.

Windows Server 2012 momentum