Introduction to Windows Server 2012 R2Rick ClausSr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
@RicksterCDN
MDC211
1ConsistentPlatform
Windows Azure Services
Service ProvidersPrivate Cloud
Public Cloud
Microsoft Cloud OS Vision
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT IDENTITY VIRTUALIZATIONDATA
Azure Virtual Machines
Windows Azure Services
What we delivered in Windows Server 2012
Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support
System Resource
Maximum numberImprovement
factorWindows 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 4×
Virtual machine
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×
Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16×
Virtual disk capacity 2 TB 64 TB 32x
Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×
ClusterNodes 16 64 4×
Virtual machines 1,000 8,000 8×
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
250,000 IOPs 1,000,000+ IOPs
Hyper-V: Over 1 Millions IOPs from a Single VM
Industry Leading IO Performance• VM storage performance on
par with native• Performance scales linearly
with increase in virtual processors
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can virtualize over 99% of the world’s SQL Server.
Dynamic, High Performance Storage• Live Storage Migration
• New VHDX Format• Up to 64 TB per disk• Auto-Alignment with SAN
storage• Major performance
improvements
• Native 4K Disk Support• Online Meta Operations
• Live virtual disk merge• Live new parent
• Virtual Fibre Channel• Virtual FC HBA presented in VM
• Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)• Automatic Trim/Unmap
• Allows storage subsystem to automatically reclaim/reuse storage deleted from a VM
• Support for VMs on CA File Servers via SMB 3.0• SMB Multi-Channel, SMB Scale Out• SMB Transparent Failover,
Encryption
Rich Networking in the Box• Network Virtualization• Open, Extensible
Virtual Switch• Nexus 1000 Support• Openflow Support• Much more…
• Advanced Networking• ACLs, PVLAN, & more…
• Windows NIC Teaming
• Network QoS• Per VNIC bandwidth
reservation & limits
• Network Metering
• DVMQ
• SR-IOV Network Support• Reduce Latency & CPU
Utilization
• Supports Live Migration
VM MobilityComplete mobility. Simply the best.
• Live Migration with High Availability• Live Migrate among servers in a failover cluster
• Live Migration on File Based Storage• Live Migrate VMs among servers with SMB storage
• Live Storage Migration• Live Migrate VM storage from one volume to another without
downtime
• Share Nothing (SNO) Live Migration• Live Migrate VMs among servers with nothing, but an Ethernet
connection
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Live Migrating 40
VMs Simultaneously…
Windows Server 2012 R2…
Server virtualization
Windows Server 2012 R2 capabilities
Storage Networking
Windows Server 2012 R2: Overview
Web and application platform
Access and information protection
Server management and automation
Virtual desktop infrastructure
New levels of performance and cross-platform support
High performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost
Increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter
Modern apps built and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud
Consistent and flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data
Great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective
Hybrid networking with breakthrough levels of flexibility and performance
Datacenter without boundaries Multitenant cloud infrastructure
Standardized datacenter resource management
Enterprise-class virtualization
Robust open source support
Best-in-class performance and scale for Microsoft workloads
Live Migration compression
Live Migration w/RDMA
More robust Linux support
Flexible virtualization platform for maximum agility
Ease deployment and support lifecycle of workloads
Automatic VM Activation
Live VM Export/Cloning
Remote Access via VMBus
Cross-version Live Migration
Online VHDX resize
Reduced complexity, cost, and downtime
Pulling ahead in virtualizationYou told us you need…
We responded with…
Integrated high-performance virtualization platform
High-performance live migration
Accelerate live migration performance with compression or RDMA-capable network adapters
For <10GBit network connectivity, live migration compression delivers superior performance – 2x acceleration for most workloads
For >10GBit networks, Remote direct memory access (RDMA) offload delivers the highest performance with low CPU utilization and transfer speeds of up to 56Gb/s
Windows Server 2012 R2 supports RoCE, iWARP and Infiniband RDMA solutions
Compute Network
Networkadapter
Virtualmachine
Server runningHyper-V
Networkadapter
Virtualmachine
Server runningHyper-V
20GB Connection
Fast network connection
GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) network connectivity
RDMA delivers low latency CPU and network utilization.
Live migration with RDMA
Generation 2 Virtual Machines
Ease of Management & Operations
• PXE boot from Optimized vNIC
• Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive
Dynamic Storage
• VMs have UEFI firmware with supportfor GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB
• Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with OnlineResize & increased performance
Security
• Removal of emulated devices reduces attack surface
• VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot
VMs built on Optimized, Software-Based Devices
Generation 2 Virtual
Machine
Synthetic NIC PXE Boot
Hot-Add CD/DVD
Drive
UEFI Firmware with Secure
Boot
Boot FromVirtual SCSI
Online VHDX Resize
Expand Virtual SCSI Disks
1. Grow VHD & VHDX files whilst attachedto a running virtual machine
2. Then expand volume within the guest
Shrink Virtual SCSI Disks
3. Reduce volume size inside the guest
4. Shrink the size of the VHDor VHDX file whilst the VM is running
Online VHDX Resize provides VM storage flexibility
Expanded Virtual Disk & Volume without Downtime
30 GB Primary Partition 10 GB Unallocated40GB Primary Partition
Cloud innovation everywhere On-premises storage performance and reliability
Cloud-integrated storage
Software-defined networking (SDN), including extensions to service providers and Windows Azure
Automated protection and recovery of assets across datacenters
Simplified identity and access management between on-premises and Windows Azure
De-Mystifying Storage Appliances
Clustered
Demystifying Storage Appliances
• What’s in a storage appliance?• x86/x64 Processors• Memory• Network Adapters• Storage HBAs
“Back”
“Front”
Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple,
Mirrored, Parity etc. Presents
interfaces:iSCSI, FC, FCoE,
NFS, SMB
Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple,
Mirrored, Parity etc. Presents
interfaces:iSCSI, FC, FCoE,
NFS, SMB
Deploy two or more for a Scale Out CA Solution
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
SAS
Ethernet: 1Gb/10GbFC: 1/2/4/8/16 Gb
Clustered
Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server & Spaces
Windows Server 2012 Spaces
Windows Server 2012 File Server
Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple, Mirrored, etc.
Presents interfaces:
iSCSI, NFS, SMB
Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple, Mirrored, etc.
Presents interfaces:
iSCSI, NFS, SMB
Deploy two or more for a Scale Out CA Solution
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
SAS
SMB3/Ethernet: 1Gb/10Gb40Gb/56 Gb RDMA
New Designs: Cluster in a BoxAvailability• At least one node and storage always
available, despite failure or replacement of any component
• Dual power domains
Simplicity• Pre-wired, internal interconnects
between nodes, controllers, and storage
Flexibility• PCIe slots for flexible LAN options• External SAS ports for JBOD expansion• Office-level power, cooling, and
acoustics to fit under a desk
Server Enclosure
Additional JBODs …
B ports
A ports
x8 PCIe
Server BServer A
x8 PCIe
x4 SAS
External JBOD
x8 PCIe
x4 SAS
x8 PCIe
1/10G E or Infiniband1/10G E or Infiniband
B ports
A ports
SAS Expander
SAS Expander23…10
NetworkNetwork
23…10SAS
Expander
Storage Controller
CPU
SAS Expander
Storage Controller
CPU
x4 SAS (through midplane)
x4 SAS (through midplane)
1/10G Ethernet cluster connect
(through midplane)
DataOn – DNS 9220
http://www.dataonstorage.com
Familiar Enterprise-Grade Capabilities• Storage Tiering• Data deduplication• RAID resiliency groups• Pooling of disks• High availability• Persistent write-back
cache• Copy offload• Snapshots
• Storage Tiering (new with R2)
• Data deduplication (enhanced in R2)
• Flexible resiliency options (enhanced in R2)
• Pooling of disks• High availability• Persistent write-back cache (new
with R2)
• SMB copy offload• Snapshots
Traditional Storagewith FC/iSCSI Storage Array
Windows File Server Clusterwith Storage Spaces
Storage tiering
Improved storage cost-performance with industry-standard hardware
Use solid-state drives (SSD) and hard-disk drives (HDD) in tiered storage space
Can “pin” high priority files to the SSD tier
Hard Disk Drives
Hot data
Cold data
Solid State Drives
Storage Spaces
Storage tiering
Challenges of Guest Clustering• Infrastructure Administrators
• VMs and Services are provisioned, but physical resources are opaque to users
• Enabling Guest Clustering requires a hole to physical infrastructure
Cloud Service Provider Infrastructure
Storage
Compute
Networking
Tenant VMs/Services
Guest Clustering with Shared VHDX• Introducing Shared VHDX Virtual Disks
• Virtual disks that can be shared without presenting real LUNs to tenants
• Enabling Guest Clustering• Eases operations and management• Provides a business opportunity
Cloud Service Provider Infrastructure
Storage
Compute
Networking
Tenant VMs/Services
Software Defined Networking
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Service ProvidersPrivate Cloud
Public Cloud
Microsoft Cloud OS Vision
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT IDENTITY VIRTUALIZATIONDATA
Windows Azure ServicesWindows Azure Services
Azure Virtual Machines
Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure
Why Network Virtualization• Network Agility
• The ability to take your network to the cloud
• Easing Management• Separation of control and data plane
• Centralizing management of the control plane
• Live Migration Across Subnets
• Breaking VLAN Scalability Limits• Important for Cloud Service Providers
• Merge Networks on same Fabric• Even with conflicting IP addresses…
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NVGRE
Service provider cloud
Site-to-site connectivity
Red company
192.168.0.0/24
192.168.0.0/24
Blue company
Site-to-site connectivity
Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure
2012 R2: Software-defined networkingOpen, extensible & standards-based solution that delivers agility, flexibility, automation and control In-box multitenant edge gateway for seamless connectivity between physical & virtual networks and site to site connectivity
Self-service virtual network provisioning and management
Standards-based automated network
switch management
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NVGRE
Service provider cloud
Multitenant S2S/VPN gateway
Site-to-site connectivity
Red company
192.168.0.0/24
192.168.0.0/24
Blue company
Site-to-site connectivity
Recovery Services
Expanding business continuity
Broaden your coverage of business continuity with hybrid cloud solutions spanning on-prem and the cloud
You may have high-end DR systems for your most critical workloads.
But what about everything else?
Windows Server 2012 Replica…• Integrated VM Replication
• Customers Love It
• Service Provider Opportunity• One challenge though…
Customer Service Provider
Replication
Fail
Windows Server 2012 R2 Replica…• Even Better for Cloud Service Providers• Tertiary Replication in the Box
Customer Service Provider Site 1
Replication
Fail
Service Provider Site 2
Replication
Protection and recovery of assets across datacenters
VM replication with Hyper-V ReplicaNew: Configurable syncs down to 30 seconds
New: Tertiary site supportSeamless integration with Hyper-V and clustering
Recovery orchestrationwith Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery ManagerAt-scale disaster recovery with Windows Azure-enabled process automation
Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Datacenter 1 Datacenter 2Replicati
onChannel
Communication
Channel
Communication
Channel
Fail
Optional unattended deployment
and configuration using
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
It’s time. . .to virtualize every workload. . .to rethink storage
. . .to simplify networking
. . .to expand business continuity. . .to deliver hybrid services. . .to ensure application availability
Developer Network
Resources for Developers
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Learning
Virtual Academy
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/
TechNet
Resources
Sessions on Demand
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Resources for IT Professionals
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