Windows ServerKen Hyld, PMM Microsoft

Agenda• Ignite

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• Nano Server

• SW defined• Network

• Storage

• Compute

Cloud OSVisionMicrosoft’s vision of the unified

platform for modern business

• transform the datacenter

• unlock insights on any data

• empower enterprise mobility

• enable application

Development Management DataIdentity Virtualization

Customer

ServiceProviderMicrosoft

CONSISTENTPLATFORM

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I want just the components needed to accomplish my goals and nothing more

Our Server Journey

Windows NT to Windows Server

2003

Windows/WindowsNT

Server Roles/Features

Windows Server 2008and

Windows Server 2008 R2

Server Core

Full Server

Windows Server 2012and

Windows Server 2012 R2

Server Core

Minimal Server Interface

GUI Shell

We need server configuration optimized for the cloud

Preliminary Results

Servicing Improvements*

0

5

10

15

20

25

Critical Bulletins

Nano Server Server Core Full Server

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Important

Bulletins

Nano Server Server Core Full Server

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Number of

Reboots

Nano Server Server Core

Full Server

23

8

2

9

23

26

6

11

3

* Analysis based upon 2014 patches

Security Improvements

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Ports open

Nano Server Server Core

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Services running

Nano Server Server Core

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

Drivers loaded

Nano Server Server Core

12

31

22

46

73

98

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Boot IO (MB)

Nano Server Server Core

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Process Count

Nano Server Server Core

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

Kernel memory in

use (MB)

Nano Server Server Core

26

21

61

139

150

255

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

Setup Time (sec)

Nano Server Server Core

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Disk Footprint (GB)

Nano Server Server Core

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

VHD Size (GB)

Nano Server Server Core

.41

6.3

40

3004.84

.292

Transform the datacenter

Extend to the cloud on demand

Build a software-defined foundation

Automate and secure your infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Windows Server Microsoft System Center

The software-defined datacenter

Highly customized

Reimagine compute

Scale to your

largest workloads

Drive up your

consolidation ratio

Increase scale per

cluster

Industry-leading scale and performance

Zero-downtime migrations

Open-source integration

Infrastructure for hardware-based security

Hyper-V: winningvirtualization share

Microsoft Azure

Service ProviderPhysical network

Network virtualization

Network A Network B

Virtualization

Reimagine networking

Server virtualization

Virtual machine A Virtual machine B

Virtualization

Physical server

SDN – What’s in it for me?

Reimagine storage

Lower cost than traditional storage infrastructure

Software Defined Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2

Primary application data storage on cost affective,

continuously available, high performance SMB3

File Shares backed by Tiered Storage Spaces

1. Performance, Scale, Fault-Tolerance:

SMB3 File Storage network

2. Continuous Availability and Seamless Scale Out:

File Server Nodes

3. Reliability, Elasticity, Performance:

Tiered Storage Spaces

4. Reduced Cost: Standard Volume Hardware

5. Unified Management: System Center

Storage Spaces

Hyper-V Clusters

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

Shared JBOD

Storage

1

4

2

3

Scale-Out File Server Clusters

5

Focus of this talk!

Storage Spaces Shared Nothing

Enable cloud hardware designsSupport for servers with local storage

Support for SATA, SAS and NVMe devices

ScalabilityScale to larger number of drives in a pool

Add or remove resources as needed

Simple storage expansion

AvailabilityResilient to node and disks failures

Zero downtime servicing and failover

ManagementSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager

System Center Operations Manager

SMAPI / PS

Use casesScoped for disaggregated compute and storage in v1

Hyper-V storage and replica storage for Service Providers

Archive storage for Service Providers

Hyper-V Cluster(s)

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

Under the hood

Storage Access (Scale-Out File

Server)Remote data access for Hyper-V

Data access resiliency

File System (CSVFS/ReFS)System-wide data access

Fast VHDX creation, grow and merge

Storage SpacesStorage pooling

Virtual disks

Data storage resiliency

Software Storage BusSpans all storage nodes

Virtualizes physical disks

Leverages SMB3 and SMB Direct

Storage nodes with internal disksSATA, NVMe, SAS Software Defined Storage System

Storage Node

Storage Node

Storage Node

Storage Node

Storage Pool

Storage Space Virtual Disks

Scale-Out File Server \\FileServer\Share

Cluster Shared Volumes C:\ClusterStorage

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

Software Storage Bus

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