Windows Server 2012 R2: Key Capabilities for the Cloud Era

Windows Server
2012 R2
David 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
Service
Provider
Microsoft
Consistent
Platform
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

Memory content
Workload mobility

Workload mobility
Modified memory pages

Hyper-V
Maximum
memory
Dynamic Memory

Hyper-V
Maximum
memory
Virtual machine starting with
Hyper-V smart paging
Maximum
memory
Maximum
memory
Paging file provides
additional memory
for startup
Dynamic Memory

Hyper-V
Maximum
memory
Maximum
memory
Dynamic Memory
Maximum
memory

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

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
IPAM distributed architecture
Domain
europe.corp.woodbridge.com
IPAM Server
(UK)
DHCP, DNS,DC,
and NPSservers
IPAM Server
(Bangalore)
DHCP, DNS,DC,
and NPSservers
Domain
fareast.corp.woodbridge.com
IPAM Server
(Hyderabad)
DHCP, DNS,DC,
and NPSservers
Site: Hyderabad
Branch office
Site: Bangalore
Branch office
Site: UK
Branch office
IPAM server
(Redmond)
DHCP, DNS,DC,
and NPSservers
Site: Redmond
Head 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 data
wherever they are.
IT can use Windows Server
Remote Access to provide
seamless application access
and 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 LAN
Hardware & software GPUs,
Rich multimedia, USB redirection.
Internet or WAN
Multitouch, WAN acceleration
Single 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

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.”

http://www.Microsoft.com/technet
http://blogs.technet.com/server-cloud
Next steps:
Cloud optimize your business with Windows Server 2012 R2

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 R2: Key Capabilities for the Cloud Era

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