Post on 18-Jul-2015
Agenda
• Trends
• The Cloud OS
• Overview
• File Services and Storage
• Networking
• Clustering
• Hyper-V
• Windows PowerShell
• WDS
• Directory Services & Security
Transformational trends
The Cloud OSModern platform for the world’s apps
Windows Server 2012 R2: Overview
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Users can sync their work data to their devices.
Users can register their devices to be able to sync data when IT enforces conditional access
IT can publish access directly through a reverse proxy, or conditional access can be enforced via device registration through the Web Application Proxy
IT can configure a File Server to provide Work Folder sync shares for each user to store data that syncs to their devices, including integration with Rights Management
IT can selectively wipe the corporate data from Windows 8.1 clients
Devices
Apps & Data
Active Directory discoverability provides users Work Folders location
SMB Automatic rebalancing of Scale-Out File Server Clients
Improved performance of SMB direct
Improved SMB event messages
VHDX files as shared storage for guest clustering
Hyper-V Live migration over SMB
SMB bandwidth management
Multiple SMB instances on a Scale-Out File Server
SMB 1.0 is an option
DFS Namespace and DFS
Replication
PowerShell!
DFS Replication WMI Provider
Database cloning for initial Sync
Database corruption recovery
Cross-file RDC disable
File staging tuning
Preserved File Restoration
Unexpected shutdown database recovery improvements
Membership disabling improvement
iSCSI Target Server Virtual Disks enhancements
Manageability enhancements
Improved optimization to allow disk-level caching
Scalability limits
Local mount functionality (removed feature)
Storage Spaces Tiered Storage spaces
Write-back caching
Flexible resiliency options
Data Deduplication VDI Support
Yes, CSV is now supported
Optimization of OPEN files
Improved optimization performance
Improved read/write performance
DHCP DNS registration enhancements
DNS PTR registration options
Updated Windows PowerShell cmdlets
DNS Enhanced zone level statistics
Enhanced DNSSEC support
PowerShell enhancements
IPAM Role based access control
Virtual address space management
Enhanced DHCP Server Management
External database support (SQL support)
Upgrade and migration support
PowerShell!!
Hyper-V Virtual Switch Hyper-V Virtual Switch extended port ACLs
Hyper-V Network Virtualization coexists with third party forwarding
extensions for the Hyper-V Virtual Switch
Traffic bottlenecks to VMs are reduced with vRSS
Network tracing is streamlined and provides more detail
Windows Server Gateway Virtual Machine software router that allows network traffic routing
between virtual and physical networks, including the internet
Clustering Shared Virtual Hard Disk
Virtual Machine drain on shutdown
Virtual Machine network health detection
CSV improvements
Less dependancy on AD
Quorum improvements
Cluster node health detection
Possibility to turn off Ipsec encryption for inter-node cluster comm’s
Cluster Dashboard
Hyper-V Shared virtual hard disk
Resizing virtual hard disks
Storage Quality of Service
Live Migrations
Virtual Machine generation
Integration Services
Export
Enhanced Session mode
Hyper-V Replica
Linux Support
Hyper-V Management
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation
RDS Session Shadowing
Online storage deduplication
Improved RemoteApp behavior
Quick reconnect for Remote Desktop clients
Improved compression and bandwidth usage
Dynamic display handling
RemoteFX virtualized GPU supports DX11.1
PowerShell Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration
Save-help
Windows PowerShell debugger
Additional bugfixes and enhancements
WDS PowerShell support
Directory Services & Security Single Sign-On
Work from anywhere
Multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor access control
OAuth 2.0 Support
Security
Group Policy
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
MachineManager
AD
SQL
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Configure
AD
SQL
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Currently using System Center Data Protection Manager.
Only a few servers that need protection.
Currently no back up solution or replacing a competing product.
Use the Windows Server backup tools.
Windows Azure Backup