Windows Server 2012 R2 JumpStart: What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Module 6: VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

Rick ClausMicrosoft Sr. Technical Evangelist

Corey HynesLead Technical Architect, holSystems

Jump Start Target Agenda

Day 1

Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2

Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 R2

Cloud Optimized Networking in Windows Server 2012 R2

Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2

Day 2

Server Management & Automation with Windows Server 2012 R2

VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

Access & Information Protection with Windows Server 2012 R2

Web Application & Platform with Windows Server 2012 R2

VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

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The explosion of devices is eroding the standards-based approach to corporate IT.

Devices

Deploying and managing applications across platforms is difficult.

Apps

Today’s challenges

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Data

Users need to be productive while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.

Users expect to be able to work in any location and have access to all their work resources.

Users

Devices

AppsUsers

People-centric IT

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Enable your end usersAllow users to work on the devices of their choice and provide consistent access to corporate resources.

Unify your environment

Deliver a unified application and device management on-premises and in the cloud.Protect your data

Help protect corporate information and manage risk.

Management. Access. Protection.

Data

Why Microsoft VDI?

Deliver great user experience

Why Microsoft VDI?

Reduce time to deploy applications and updates

Balance user requirements with corporate compliance

Protect against loss and leaks of sensitive corporate data

Save resources with the flexible storage options right to your environment

Centrally administer and manage desktops

Enable users to access corporate apps and data from any device/any location

VDI with Windows Server 2012

Powered by Windows Server 2012

1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices

PersonalVMs

Firewall Desktop sessions

Pooled VMs

Public LocationCorporate Office

Branch Office

Home

Sessions Personal VMsPooled VMs

Choosing the Right VDI Architecture

Ease of management

App compatibility

Personalization

Cost effectiveness

Good

Better

Best

User Profile Disk maintains user personalization in pooled deployments.Fair Share dynamically distributes bandwidth, CPU, and disk use.

Flexible storage options support direct-attached, network-attached, or storage area network (SAN) storage of virtual machines.

Easy deployment automates deploying and configuring server roles.Unified administration uses a single, integrated console for management.Streamlined management helps IT manage pooled and personal virtual machines.

Efficient Management

Solution Principles

Rich User Experience

USB redirection enables access to locally attached devices in remote desktops.

RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN) dynamically detects network conditions and tunes experience.

Seamless experience supports multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu integration.

Graphics processing unit (GPU) support for both physical and software GPUs.

Best Value for VDI

Automated deployment and configuration

Admin tools integrated in server managerSession Shadowing

Efficient management with simple deployment, intuitive administration, and scalability

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Simplifies management of pooled and personal virtual machines

Unified administration

Remote Desktop Services installation wizard

Streamlined management of virtual machines

Easy deployment with automation

Set up a simple VDI deployment easily and quickly

Use wizard-based setup and deployment for multiple scenarios

Create virtual machines automatically with settings

Unified administration that is intuitive to manage

Provide one, integrated console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual machines

Session Shadowing integrated with console

Automate and manage at scale with Windows PowerShell

Offer consistent publishing applications and desktops

Streamlined management of virtual machines for scalability

Use master images for personal and pooled virtual machines

Avoid patch storms by queuing maintenance updates

Accelerate system preparation, optimize logons, and provide automatic rollbacks

DemoVDI deployment, administration, and management

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User Profile Disk Multiple storage options

Fair Share

Best value for VDI with key platform capabilities

Support direct attached, network, or SAN storage of virtual machines. Automatic Tiering and Deduplication

Dynamically distribute bandwidth, CPU, and disk use

Maintain user personalization in pooled deployments

High availability for all roles

User Profile Disk

Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions

Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk

Simplify deployment of lower-cost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions)

VDI Session Host

Personalization with User Profile Disk

User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine collections

User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections

What should I deploy?User Profile DiskWith every virtual machine pool and remote desktop session host collection

User environment virtualizationTo apply roam settings across collections

Folder RedirectionTo apply roaming user data across collections To centralize user data backup

BenefitsAvailable 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

Fair Share

Helps ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions

Apply to both sessions and virtual machines

Dynamically distributes resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O)

I/O

Multiple storage options

Use direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and clustered or SAN storage

Leverage tiered storage to automatically optimize performance

Reduce storage cost by leveraging disk deduplication

Storage optionsSample configurationWindows Server 2012

• Storage spaces

• Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) and Hyper-V SMB support

• Cluster storage volume

• Scale-out file server

• Online disk dedupe and tiered storageVDI storage configuration

• Direct-attached, central SMB, or central CSV / SAN

• Storage location of User Profile Disks, parent virtual hard disk, and virtual machines can be configured separately for each collection

• Optimum use of high I/O operations per second versus high volume storage

Storage Space

Storage Space

Storage Space

Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage PoolBlock based storage

Hyper V

Scale out file server

SMB

Comparing and reducing VDI costs

Personal virtual machines

Management Costs Compute Costs DAS Storage Costs SAN Storage Costs

Each image = OS + application +user dataEach user has a personal image

Costs

+ App-v and disk dedupelication Reduce costs across all deployment

types by using Windows 8 and direct-attached storage (DAS). DAS is approximately 25% the cost of SAN.

Storage savings

DAS saving

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DAS savings

DAS savings

Pooled virtual machines +

User Profile Disk +

Application Virtualization

Server infrastructuremanagement effort

Storage for OS images

Images to manage

With Application Virtualization and storage for apps

Sessions +

User Profile Disk + Application

Virtualization

High availability

Improve with active/active broker

Use a scale-out file server and Hyper-V clustering

Experience up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines per cluster with Hyper-V

Further increase density by using Remote Desktop Session Host (greater than 2x compared to virtual machines)

Remote Desktop

Connection Broker

Database

High availabilityHyper-V cluster

Web farm

Cluster

Remote Desktop

Session Host farm

Web farm

With Windows Server 2012Active/active high availability mode for brokers

Scale-out file server and resiliency

Requires Microsoft SQL Server

Automatic data migration from single instance to high availability

Remote Desktop Virtualization

Host

Remote Desktop

Connection Broker

Remote Desktop Licensing

Remote Desktop Session Host

Remote Desktop Gateway

Remote Desktop Web

Access

Remote Desktop Web

Access

Remote Desktop Gateway

Remote Desktop Virtualization

HostRemote Desktop

Session Host

Remote Desktop Licensing

SQL Server Clustering

Rich user experience with RemoteFX

Dynamically detect network conditions and tune experience

RemoteFX for WAN

Enable access to locally attached devices in remote desktops

USB redirection

Support multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu/screen integration

Seamless experience

GPU support

Support both physical and software GPUs

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What is a rich user experience?DIRECTACCES

Aero always on, rich new Windows UI

Adaptive graphics remoting based on content type

RemoteApp programs integrate seamlessly with local desktop

Reconnect feature for ease of movement across devices

Ability to serve desktop apps to Windows RT tablet users

Full single sign-on

Full multitouch and gesture remoting

Hardware and software GPUs

Rich multimedia

USB redirection

Multitouch

WAN acceleration

Single sign-on

Corporate LAN

RemoteFX over LAN or WAN

RemoteFX delivers a consistently richuser experience to users over LAN or WAN

(regardless of deployment model)

Internet or WAN

Image Content

Text Content

RemoteFX adaptive graphics

Video/Animations

RemoteFX progressive rendering

RemoteFX for WAN

Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience

Combines RemoteFX adaptive graphics with intelligent WAN-aware transports

Automatic choice of TCP or secure UDP transport

Detects and tunes graphics to network dynamically and automatically

Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway

Delivers a great user experience beyond corporate networks

Branch offices

Wireless devices

Work-from-home offices

Roaming users on 3G/4G networks

Benefits

RemoteFX Media Streaming

Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and video

Supports redirection of Windows Media

Decreases bandwidth consumption as much as 90%

Provides server-side video detection for other media types

Media Streaming

RemoteFX USB Device Redirection

RemoteFX USB device redirection

Isochronous transfer

Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, including those requiring isochronous transfersUSB Device Redirection

Can be used with all scenarios

Physical, virtual, or session desktop

No GPU needed

Isolates devices to the user’s session

CPU-emulated DirectX 11.1 software GPU

Provides 3-D capabilities to sessions and virtual machines at high scale

Optimized for knowledge worker workloads such as Microsoft Office and web browsing

Provides the highest scale for session host and VDI

RemoteFX vGPU

Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPU for VDI, optimized for:

Best performance for 3-D graphics-intensive applications

Best experience with full animations and transitions

Best application compatibility, running as a console session in a virtual machine

Choice of GPU on server

New for R2

Improved RemoteApp behavior

Dynamically Add/Remove monitors

Quick Reconnect

DX11.1 support and improved Codec performance

DemoUser experience improvements in VDI

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• Single-management UI for simplification

• Scenario and advanced administration

• Active/active connection brokering

• Windows PowerShell administration across Remote Desktop Services

• Reduced number of roles to manage

Efficient Management Best Value for VDI Rich User Experience• Increased use cases for pooled

desktops

• Cheaper storage alternatives

• Simplified virtual machine creation, assignment, and patching

• Fair Share: network, disk I/O, and processor

• GPU is optional, synthetic GPU is supplied

• Full partner-extensible platform

• Support for WAN

• Adaptive encoding

• Multitouch

• USB remoting for sessions, virtual machines, and physical machines

• Simplified user discovery and single sign-on

• Remote Desktop web folders and file type association

• Easily extensible by partners and customers

Top features to answer challenges

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