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June 12, 2015Taking Advantage of Modern Memory and Storage with Windows Server 2012 R22012 Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Kingston Digital2012 Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Kingston TechnologyWelcome to Kingston TechnologyWhere we are today with Windows Server 200320 million WinServer 2003 deployments*Most are 32 bit on legacy x86 serversOngoing support of these servers ends July 14, 2015 No more critical updates after that date2

* July 2014Moving to a more recent version of Windows Server is critical

Graphics Ideas: Lots of old equipment (see example); images or icons suggesting overloaded or about to failSupport going away Images suggesting cut-off or a ticking clock/bombTime to migrate (image of a training leaving the station)2Managing TCOAdopting proven new technologies

Getting the most out of your migrationThe decision to migrate keys off of two basic principles of IT management3Costs associated with sustaining legacy technology add-up quicklyModern server architectures leverage X86 server virtualization and solid state storage (SSDs)

Its critical to understand whats possible with the OS and new server HW Graphics Ideas: Two pillars: One with icon representing financial efficiency (managing TCO) and racing against time (again, ticking clock). Second pillar : Embracing new technology and virtualization (servers and shadows of servers) And in ref to last bullet image of new day, sunrise, good things around the corner

Costs associated with sustaining legacy technology (such as WinServer 2003) add-up quickly, (failing hardware, expensive consultants)

3Benefits of migrating: Server virtualizationServer virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V provides industry-leading features: 4

Shared storage, dynamic storage resizingSoftware-defined networking64 vCPU VMs with NUMA support Up to 1TB of memory per virtual machine and up to 4TB in total across all VMsFull VM mobility even outside of clusters

Graphics ideas: This will need to be hub and spoke images with one hub as Win Server 2102 R2 Hyper-V, surrounded by attributes (shared storage, SDN, up to 64 virtual machines, up to 1 terabyte of memory. 4Benefits of migrating: Desktop virtualizationRemote Desktop Services (RDS) provide a rich set of capabilities:5

Full gateway functionality enabling remote sessions to operate over HTTPSDriverless printingApplication publishing and driverless printingGPU virtualization via RemoteFX (enabling rich graphical applications to run in virtual desktop environments)

Graphics ideas: Second hub (like server virtualization) Remote Desktop Services (RDS) surrounded by App publishing, remote sessions over HTTPS, driverless printing Graphics virtualization5

Benefits of migrating: File services updates are significantWindows File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) enables: 6

Real-time quotas to control how much space is used

File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) for setting precise file usage policiesReal-time screening to refine storage policiesBitlocker volume level encryption that ensures data protection, for all servers regardless of location

Graphics Ideas: Large server software icon on left with Windows Server 2012 logo on bottom, and File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) above the frame. Arrows flaring to the right indicating significant benefits: Real-time quotas, File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), etc.

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Benefits of migrating: Active directory and web application proxy7

Fine-grained password policies with ability to undelete objectsActive Directory Federation Services (ADFS), enabling single identities to be used in a secure fashion between trusted organizationsWeb application proxy integrates with ADFS to perform pre-authentication and enable single sign on (SSO) across multiple services

Graphics Ideas: Large server software icon on left with Windows Server 2012 logo on bottom, and Active Directory above the frame. Arrows flaring to the right indicating significant benefits: Fine-grained password policies, Active Directory Federation Services, Web application Proxy

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Benefits of migrating: ManagementPowerShell and Server Manager; multi-server management tools 8Management tools dynamically provisioned, reducing patching and reboots Use PowerShell command line interface for scripting and to automate any task across Microsoft and partner solutions

Graphics Ideas: Large server software icon on left with Windows Server 2012 logo on bottom, and PowerShell and Server Manager above the frame. Arrows flaring to the right indicating significant benefits as shown

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Using Windows Server 2012 R2 to maximize memory utilization9For huge applications, you can break memory into smaller-sized non-NUMA VMs and have multiple SQL InstancesNUMA-aware applications such as SQL Server and IIS to intelligently leverage resources in an optimal wayHyper-V features Dynamic Memory which monitors memory removing and adding it as required intelligently Error-correcting code (ECC) enables the memory to detect and fix internal data corruption on the modulePredictive Failure Analysis (PFA) reduces memory fault by reading the telemetry of the ECC memory and predicting faults

Graphics Ideas: 1) Memory icon arrow points right to smaller icons (Smaller NUMA VMs ; 2) Umbrella shadow/icon Hyper-V NUMA Topology with SQL and IIS inside the umbrella 3) Icon suggesting Dynamic with Hyper-V label and Dynamic memory inside shape. 4) Icon suggesting self-healing or automatic error-correction (healing for data corruption) 5) Predictive Failure Analysis (Icon suggesting forecasting or seeing into future (telespcope and route-guidance)9Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages10

Solid-state drives are now mainstream in ServersData on SSDs is always available (no waiting for spinning platters)No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD partsCool, energy-efficient designNo-moving-parts reliabilitySpeed-of-light read-write performance

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Graphics Ideas: The first graphic here should show the transition from a round disk storage to a memory SSD (solid state circuit) storage. Icons for _speed of light_ _cool, low-heat operation_ and _solic state_ Show a traditional disk icon as a turtle and SSD as a lightening bolt Images to suggest that the gates or slow-downs are the computer (cpontroller) and the network10

Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages11

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Solid-state drives are now mainstream in ServersData on SSDs is always available (no waiting for spinning platters)No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD partsCool, energy-efficient designNo-moving-parts reliabilitySpeed-of-light read-write performanceGraphics Ideas: The first graphic here should show the transition from a round disk storage to a memory SSD (solid state circuit) storage. Icons for _speed of light_ _cool, low-heat operation_ and _solic state_ Show a traditional disk icon as a turtle and SSD as a lightening bolt Images to suggest that the gates or slow-downs are the computer (cpontroller) and the network11

How Windows Server 2012 leverage SSDs benefits12

Partitions automatically aligned to optimize the SSDBitLocker enables encryption only of used space, which avoids operations on unused areas of the SSDTRIM enables the OS to notify SSD when areas on disk are deleted, preserving the performance of the SSD and the host serverTiered Storage Spaces distinguish between HDDs and SSDs in a virtual disk storage pool, making it possible for Windows to act as an intelligent enterprise storage management solution +=

Graphics ideas: Showing a combination of Windows Server branded icons and Kingston-branded SSD (server+SSD=synergy). And then icons suggesting each of the benefits: 1) Partition icon: Optimal partitioning 2) BitLocker encryption icon ore Efficient disk encryption 3) TRIM icon can be a captain or a Manager icon TRIM maintains SSD peak performance 4) Storage tiering: Show layer cake of SSDs and HDDs Windows Server 2012 leverages SSDs in an automated tiered storage architecture without dedicated hardware12Update Windows servers to 21st century standards!Windows Server 2012 R2 leverages the latest virtualization and HW advancements and prepares enterprises to migrate resources to the cloudWindows Server 2012 R2 also enables the maximum benefit from your infrastructure investments such as memory and SSD storage13

Feature-rich serverarchitectureVirtualizationbuilt inCloudintegration

High performancestorage poolsGraphics Ideas: As above with the main bullets as icons: Win Server as foundation and SSD as providing speed and flexibility.13To learn more14Download WhitepaperGraphics Ideas: As above with the main bullets as icons: Win Server as foundation and SSD as providing speed and flexibility.14