What’s New in Windows Server 2012David TesarTechnical Evangelisthttp://about.me/davidtesar

WSV311

Support for a modern work style

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): simplified management and reduced cost of implementations

• Optimized branch office WAN bandwidth use

• Ability for remote users to securely access internal resources without VPN

Cost savings and increased efficiencies

• Reduced storage costs with storage spaces and other storage enhancements

• Increased server/administrator ratio through Windows PowerShell and multi-machine management

• Increased uptime with cluster-aware updates and transparent failover

Comprehensive cloud platform

• Complete, built-in virtualization platform

• Industry-leading scalability and performance, so you can virtualize every application

• Ability to achieve business continuity with inbox disaster recovery solutions

• Best-in-class hybrid cloud experience with a common set of technologies

Why Windows Server 2012?TOP BENEFITS OF WINDOWS SERVER 2012

Windows Server capabilities

Virtualization

Storage

Web and application platform

Networking

VDI

Identity and accessManagement and automation

Technical capabilities

Hardware offloading

6

Virtual Fibre Channel

7

Guest NUMA support

8

Runtime memory configuration

9

Hyper-V network switch

10

Hyper-V Network Virtualization

1

TOP FEATURES OF SERVER VIRTUALIZATION TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Server virtualizationComplete virtualization platform

Increased scalability and performance

Elastic and flexible—from the datacenter to the cloud

Shared-nothing live migration

2

Massive scale

3

Cluster enhancements

4

Hyper-V Replica

5

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System Resource

Maximum number

Improvement factor

Windows 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Host

Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×

Physical memory 1 TB 4 TB 4×

Virtual processors per host 512 2,048 2×

Virtual machine

Virtual processors per virtual machine

4 64 16×

Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16×

Active virtual machines per host 384 1,024 2.7×

Virtual disk size 2 TB 64 TB 32×

Cluster

Nodes 16 64 4×

Virtual machines 1,000 8,000 8×

Scale enhancements VMware vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus

160

2 TB

2x

2x

2048 --

64 --

1 TB --

512 2x

32 2x

3000 2.7x

2 TB 32x

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TOP FEATURES FOR MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Management and automation

Increased management efficiency

Simplified deployment and virtualization

Resilient and simple automation

Windows PowerShell Workflow

6

Windows PowerShell Web Access

7

Windows PowerShell ISE

8

Script Sharing

9

Syntax Simplification and IntelliSense

10

Multiserver management

1

Role and feature deployment

2

Integrated console

3

2,400 cmdlets

4

Disconnected Sessions

5

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TOP FEATURES OF STORAGE TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Storage

Efficiency, performance, and innovation through diverse storage choices

Continuous availability through new features that preserve uptime

Cost efficiency through storage, management, and other capabilities

Offloaded data transfer

6

Transparent failover

7

NFS support

8

iSCSI target

9

Data Deduplication

10

Storage spaces

1

File system improvements

2

Thin provisioning

3

Cluster Shared Volume

4

SMB 3.0 for workloads

5

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TOP FEATURES OF WEB AND APPLICATION PLATFORM TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Web and application platform

Flexibility through hybrid and symmetrical applications

Increased scalability and elasticity for applications

Enhanced support for open frameworks and open source

Centralized SSL management

6

“Just works” with PHP and node.js

7

Embracing web standards

8

Application symmetry

9

Comming Development Platform

10

Website density and mutlitenancy

1

Application Initialization

2

Dynamic IP Restrictions

3

CPU Throttling

4

NUMA-Aware Scalability

5

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TOP FEATURES OF NETWORKING TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

Networking

Easy to connect users to IT resources

Efficient management of datacenters and private clouds

Ability to link your infrastructure with Public Cloud Services

Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue

6

IP Address Management (IPAM)

7

Quality of Service (QoS)

8

BranchCache

9

SMB Direct and Multichannel

10

NIC Teaming

1

Network virtualization

2

DHCP server failover

3

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

4

Resource Metering

5

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TOP FEATURES FOR SECURITY & ACCESS

Security and access

Protection of corporate resources

Data access management and protection

Simplified deployment and management of identity infrastructure

Dynamic Access Control

1

Active Directory virtualization

6

Active Directory cloning

7

Kerberos constrained delegation

8

Private virtual LAN (PVLAN)

9

Multitenant security and isolation

10

Classification

2

DirectAccess

3

Simpler deployment of Active Directory

4

Domain Name System Security Extensions

5

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

SIMPLIFIED USER

CONNECTION

1

USER PROFILE DISKS

2

FAIR SHARE SESSION

VIRTUALIZATION

3 4

INTELLIGENT PATCHING

5

RDS SMART CACHE

CONCURRENT REDIRECT

7

REMOTE FX ADAPTIVE GRPHICS

8

REMOTE FX OVER WAN

9

REMOTE FX USB

REDIRECTION & TOUCH

106

QUICK VDI WIZARD

• Access virtually anywhere, on any device• Full Windows experience anywhere• Enhanced data security and compliance

TOP FEATURES FOR VDI

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