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Kingston Technology

April 15, 2023

Taking Advantage of Modern Memory and Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2

Where we are today with Windows Server 2003

• 20 million WinServer 2003 deployments*

• Most are 32 bit on legacy x86 servers

• Ongoing support of these servers ends July 14, 2015

• No more critical updates after that date

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* July 2014

Moving to a more recent version of Windows Server is critical

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Managing TCO

Adopting proven new technologies

Getting the most out of your migration

The decision to migrate keys off of two basic principles of IT management

Costs associated with sustaining legacy technology

add-up quickly

Modern server architectures leverage X86

server virtualization and solid state storage (SSDs)

It’s critical to understand what’s possible with the OS and new server HW

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Benefits of migrating: Server virtualization

Server virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V provides industry-leading features:

Shared storage, dynamic

storage resizing

Software-defined networking

64 vCPU VMs with NUMA support

Up to 1TB of memory per virtual machine and up to 4TB in total across all VMs

Full VM mobility even outside of clusters

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Benefits of migrating: Desktop virtualization

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) provide a rich set of capabilities:

Full gateway functionality

enabling remote

sessions to operate

over HTTPS

Driverless printing

Application publishing and driverless printing

GPU virtualization via RemoteFX (enabling rich graphical

applications to run in virtual desktop environments)

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Benefits of migrating: File services updates are significant

Windows File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) enables:

Real-time quotas to control how much space is used

File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) for setting precise file usage policies

Real-time screening to refine storage policies

Bitlocker volume level encryption that ensures data protection, for all servers regardless of location

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Benefits of migrating: Active directory and web application proxy

Fine-grained password policies with ability to undelete objects

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), enabling single identities to be used in a secure fashion between trusted organizations

Web application proxy integrates with ADFS to perform pre-authentication and enable single sign on (SSO) across multiple services

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Benefits of migrating: Management

PowerShell and Server Manager; multi-server management tools

Management tools dynamically provisioned, reducing patching and reboots

Use PowerShell command line interface for scripting and to automate any task across Microsoft and partner solutions

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Using Windows Server 2012 R2 to maximize memory utilization

For huge applications, you can break memory into smaller-sized non-NUMA VMs and

have multiple SQL Instances

NUMA-aware applications such as SQL Server and IIS to

intelligently leverage resources in an optimal way

Hyper-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 module

Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) reduces memory fault by reading the telemetry of the ECC memory and predicting faults

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Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages

Solid-state drives are now mainstream in

Servers

Data on SSDs is always available

(no waiting for spinning

platters)

No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts

Cool, energy-efficient design

No-moving-parts

reliability

Speed-of-light read-write

performance

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Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages

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Solid-state drives are now mainstream in

Servers

Data on SSDs is always available

(no waiting for spinning

platters)

No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts

Cool, energy-efficient design

No-moving-parts

reliability

Speed-of-light read-write

performance

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How Windows Server 2012 leverage SSDs benefits

Partitions automatically aligned to optimize the SSD

BitLocker enables encryption only of used space, which avoids operations on unused areas of the SSD

TRIM enables the OS to notify SSD when areas on

disk are deleted, preserving the performance of the SSD

and the host server

Tiered 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

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Update 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 cloud

•Windows Server 2012 R2 also enables the maximum benefit from your infrastructure investments such as memory and SSD storage

Feature-rich server

architecture

Virtualizationbuilt in

Cloudintegration

High performancestorage pools

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To learn more

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