microsoft windows server 2012 r2 overview - presented by atidan
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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….
Customer challenges and opportunities
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.
Customer challenges and opportunities
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
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
Physical adapters
Virtual adapters
Teamed network adapter
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
Teamed network adapter
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
• 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
Domaineurope.corp.woodbridge.com
IPAM Server (UK)
DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS servers
IPAM Server (Bangalore)
DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS servers
Domainfareast.corp.woodbridge.com
IPAM Server (Hyderabad)
DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS servers
Site: HyderabadBranch office
Site: BangaloreBranch office
Site: UKBranch office
IPAM server (Redmond)
DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS servers
Site: RedmondHead office
Server management and automation
IT demands
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers
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
http://www.Microsoft.com/technet
http://blogs.technet.com/server-cloud
Next steps:
Cloud optimize your business with Windows Server 2012 R2
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