Windows Server 2012

Jeff Gaura, president (MCSE)Gene Choquette, Engineer (MCSE)Mike Kelly, Engineer (MCSE, MCT)

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This presentation explores both how Microsoft got here, what “here” looks like, and what it means to you.

Agenda History-how we got here. Industry Trends and challenges Death by Power Point Demos via a Production Network Sharing of resources Invitation for more banter, after lunch.

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Who is selling what….

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Category Date Linux based Other Unix Windows OtherSmartphone, Tablet

Dec-1225.34% (Android)

60.13% (IOS)1.13% (RT, WP8)

13.4%

Desktop, Laptop, Netbook

Dec-121.19% (Ubuntu)

7.07% (OSX)91.74% (XP, 7, Vista)

Server (web) Dec-12

32.8% (Debian, CentOS, RHEL)

31.8% (HP-UX, Aix, Solaris)

35.4% (W2K3, W2K8)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

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IT transformationIT trends

Cloud computing

Data explosion

Deviceproliferation

New apps

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Industry trends and challenges

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How do I embrace the cloud?

How do I increase the efficiency in my datacenter?

How do I deliver next-generation applications?

How do I enable modern work styles?

New apps

Device proliferation

Data explosion

Cloud computing

IT transformationIT trends

New apps

Cloud computing

Data explosion

Deviceproliferation

StorageHigher performanceLower cost

NetworkHigh-speedHardware offload

ComputeMulti-coreMemory density

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Crisp text always

What is a rich user experience?

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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 slate users

Full single sign-on

Full multitouch and gesture remoting

RICH USER

EXPERIENCE

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DemoThe Desktop Experience: Jeff

Virtualization

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Virtualization Basics

Before Virtualization: Single OS image per machine Software and hardware tightly

coupled Running multiple applications on

same machine often creates conflict

Underutilized resources Inflexible and costly

infrastructure

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Microsoft’s Old Approach to Virtualization

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High availability

Improve with active/active broker

Use Scale-out File Server and Hyper-V clustering

Experience up to 32 nodes and 4,000 virtual machines per cluster with Hyper-V

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

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BEST VALUE FOR VDI

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DemoVirtualization 101

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Virtual Desktop ExperienceGene Choquette

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Efficient management with simple deployment, intuitive administration, and scalability

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Automated deployment and configuration

Admin tools integrated in server manager

Simplifies management of pooled and personal virtual machines

Unified administration

Remote Desktop Services installation wizard

Streamlined management of virtual machines

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CHALLENGES

Enable user access to corporate applications and data from unmanaged devices and locations

Balance user requirements with corporate compliance

Protect against loss and leaks of sensitive corporate data

Reduce cost and time to deploy new applications and updates

Easily and centrally administer and manage desktops and applications

Reduce consumption of bandwidth by remote users

NEEDS

Customer needs and challenges

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User Profile Disk maintains user

personalization in pooled deployments

Fair Share dynamically distributes

bandwidth, CPU, and disk use

Multiple 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

Just the facts

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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

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Easy deployment with automation

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT

Set up a simple VDI deployment easily and quickly

Use wizard-based setup and deployment for multiple scenarios

Create virtual machines automatically with settings

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Simple to deploy, easy to manage

Consistently rich experience, regardless of deployment model

1 Platform

1 Experience

Pooled virtual machines

Highest flexibility

Personal virtual machinesDesktop sessions

Lowest cost

3 Deployment choices

Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012

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IT guy is told by the boss to make

his iPad run windows and look at Excel. IT guy

freaks.

Stupid Office wenches want

their iPhones to dance a jig and pretend to be

secure for sending and

receiving email

Brothahs want to use any device

that they find and do their job, and it be real fast….

Scenario summary

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Demo1) Windows on an iPad2) Windows on a Kindle

New Tools of the TradeAll of us….

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• NIC Teaming

• Hyper-V Replica

• DHCP failover

• SMB Multichannel

• QoS

• Network Virtualization

• PVLAN

• Cross-premises connectivity

• IP portability

• SR-IOV

• D-VMQ

• Registered I/O

• IPsec Task Offload

• SMB Direct

• RSS

• RSC

• Large Send Offload

• Loopback Fast Path

• Resource Metering

• IPAM

• DNSSEC

• RDP WAN optimization

• SNI

• WebSocket Protocol

• DirectAccess

• BranchCache

Top features to answer challenges

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CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

SIMPLIFIED MULTITENANT

INFRASTRUCTURE

HIGH-PERFORMANCE

NETWORKING

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

• Hyper-V Extensible Switch

• Network virtualization devices

RICHER ECOSYSTEM

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NIC Teaming

Virtual adapters

NIC Teaming

Team network adapter

Team network adapter

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Operating system• Provides network fault tolerance and

continuous availability when network adapters fail by teaming multiple network interfaces

• 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

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

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Network fault tolerance with SMB Multichannel

NetworkSMBclient

SMBserver

Filecopy

NIC NIC

NIC NIC

Filecopy

• Automatic detection and use of multiple network connections between SMB client and server

• Helps server applications be resilient to network failure

• Transparent Failover with recovery of network failure if another connection is unavailable

• Improved throughput

• Bandwidth aggregation through NIC Teaming

• Multiple nodes/CPUs for network processing with RSS-capable network adapters

• Automatic configuration with very little administrative overhead

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

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IP Address Management (IPAM)

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IPAM distributed architectureDomain

europe.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

Domaincopr.woodbridge.com

IPAM server (Redmond)

DHCP, DNS, DC, and NPS

servers

Site: RedmondHead office

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

• 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

• Monitors and manages specific scenario-based DHCP and DNS services

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

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IP Address continuity with DHCP Failover

• Provides IP address continuity to clients by helping eliminate single points of failure

• Provides inbox support for failover, without the need for clustering

• Based on DHCP failover IETF spec • Uses a failover setup consisting of two

servers located across different geographic locations

• Includes active/active or active/passive behavior

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CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

Hot standby DHCP failover in a hub-and-spoke deployment

Load-sharing DHCP failover in a single site with a single subnet

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File Client

SMB ClientSMBBuffer

File Server

Application

NIC Driver

Transport Protocol Driver

With RDMA

Improved network performance through SMB Direct (RDMA)

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Without RDMA

Application

NIC Driver

SMB ServerSMB client

Transport Protocol Driver

NIC Driver

TransportProtocol Driver

AppBuffer

SMBBuffer

OSBuffer

Driver

Buffer

SMBBuffer

OSBuffer

Driver

Buffer

SMB Server

NIC Driver

TransportProtocol Driver

AppBuffer

SMBBuffer

rNIC rNIC NICAdapterBuffer NICAdapter

BufferAdapterBuffer

AdapterBuffer

iWARP

InfiniBand

HIGH-PERFORMANC

E NETWORKING

• Higher performance through offloading of network I/O processing onto network adapter

• Higher throughput with low latency and ability to take advantage of high-speed networks (such as InfiniBand and iWARP)

• Remote storage at the speed of direct storage

• Transfer rate of around 50 Gbps on a single NIC port

• Compatible with SMB Multichannel for load balancing and failover

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Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)

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HIGH-PERFORMANC

E NETWORKING

• Improves utilization of CPU resources for web server and file server operations

• Improves scalability between 40%–200% depending on workload

• Distributes traffic across multiple Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)-aware nodes

• Ability to change receive-side scaling profile depending on workloads with Windows PowerShell

NIC with 8 RSS queues

Node 0 Node 1 Node 2 Node 3

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Incoming packets

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Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC)

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RSC: Multiple Inbound Packets

Coalesced to reduce CPU load

HIGH-PERFORMANC

E NETWORKING

• Reduced CPU utilization through coalescing of multiple inbound packets into a larger buffer

• 20-percent reduction in CPU cycles needed to process network I/O based on internal testing

• Enabled by default and supported by virtually all inbox 10-GB network adapters

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Dynamic distribution of received network traffic across multiple virtual machines based on destination and network load

Enabled by default and supported by most inbox 10-GB Ethernet adapters

Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue (D-VMQ)

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HIGH-PERFORMANC

E NETWORKING

Root Partition

No VMQ

Physical NIC

CPU0

CPU1

CPU2

CPU3

Root Partition

Static VMQ

CPU0

CPU1

CPU2

CPU3

Physical NIC

Root Partition

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CPU0

CPU1

CPU2

CPU3

Physical NIC

CPU0

CPU1

CPU2

CPU3

CPU0

CPU1

CPU2

CPU3

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Resource Metering

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Metrics

A two-tenant environment built with Hyper-V in Windows Server

2012

• Average CPU use

• Average memory use

• Minimum memory use

• Maximum memory use

• Maximum disk allocation

• Incoming network traffic

• Outgoing network traffic

VM 1Customer

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VM 2Customer

1

VM 3Customer

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VM 1Customer

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VM 2Customer

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VM 3Customer

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Virtual Machine Resource Metering20 10

Resource Pool Internet Resource Metering10 5

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Resource poolInternetCustomer 2

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Resource poolInternetCustomer 1

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OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Benefits

• Tracks and meters resource usage and provides infrastructure to build chargeback solutions

• Tracks resource usage of individual virtual machines or virtual machine pools

• Metering not affected by virtual machine movement

• Uses active control lists (ACLs) from network metering port

• Provides complete Windows PowerShell support

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BranchCache

• Cache content from file and web servers on a WAN in local branch office

• Consolidation of data in a centralized location

• Improved performance and bandwidth savings across remote offices

• Divides content into smaller, variable-sized blocks

• Integrates with Data Deduplication

• Simplified deployment and management

• Does not require office-by-office configuration for setup

• Supports Windows PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• Scalability

• Hosts multiple cache servers in single location

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OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

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Comprehensive coverage with more than 400 cmdlets related to networking

Windows PowerShell

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OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Remote machine management support

Integrated object model

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DemoTask ManagerPower shell scripting

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Innovating with partnersRICHER

ECOSYSTEM

RDMA

Mellanox Intel Chelsio

NETWORKVIRTUALIZATION

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nApplianceIVO

Networks

HPArista

Technology Partners

Gateway Partners

Dell

Silicon Partners

BroadcomEmulex Intel

5NINE

HYPER-VEXTENSIBLE SWITCH

NEC

Net Optics Cisco

BRANCHCACHE

EMCIVO

NetworksnAppliance

Riverbed NetApp F5

inMon

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• Helps guarantee predictable network performance and fair sharing during congestion

• Helps enforce customer SLAs and maximum pricing caps

• Supports bandwidth floors and bandwidth caps

• Sets QoS for virtual machine or traffic type

• Uses software built into Windows Server 2012 or hardware capable of Data Center Bridging (DCB) to assign minimum QoS settings

• Enables you to dynamically change QoS settings using Windows PowerShell

Predictable performance with Quality of Service

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Runtime bandwidth demand (gigabits per second)

ServiceReservation

T1 T2 T3

Virtual machine

30% 4 4 2

Storage 40% 5 5 6

Live migration

20% 0 3 2

Cluster Shared Volume

10% 0.5 1 0

T2

3

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T3

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T1

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Actual bandwidth usage by service

When bandwidth is available, each service takes as much as it can

When the link is congested, each service takes its fair share

When bandwidth becomes available, each service takes as much as it wants

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CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

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DemoTitle

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NIC Teaming

DHCP failover

Quality of Service

SMB Multichannel

Networking solutions that deliver continuous application availability

Embrace a multi-vendor ecosystem

Provide consistent bandwidth for services

Run services without interruption

Automatically remediate issues with no human intervention

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Windows Server 2012: Cloud optimize your IT

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Beyond virtualizationScale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a private cloud, and securely connect to cloud services

Every app, any cloudBuild on an open and scalable web platform that supports applications across premises

The power of many servers, the simplicity of one

Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing uptime and minimizing failures and downtime

Support a mobile and flexible work styleModern workstyle, enabled

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