Server VirtualizationWhat's New in Windows Server 2008 R2?

Ravi SankarTechnology Evangelist | Microsofthttp://ravisankar.spaces.live.com/blog

Agenda

WS2008 R2 overviewPerformance and ScalabilityFailover ClusteringStorage PerformanceHyper-V

Management WebVirtualization

IIS 7.5

ASP .NET on Server Core

Web Management

Web Publishing

Hyper-V with Live Migration

Hot Add/Remove VM Storage

Remote Desktop Services

Solid Foundation for Enterprise Workloads

Power Management

PowerShell 2.0

AD Administrative Center

Best Practices Analyzer

Better Together with Windows 7

Scalability and Reliability

DirectAccess ™BranchCache ™Enhanced Group Policies Remote Desktop & App Connections

>64 Core SupportComponentization

Technology Investment Areas

Performance and Scalability

256 Logical Cores

Reduced overhead via Server Core

High performance storage

Processor Power and Memory Capacity

Improved physical processor and memory resources

Runs exclusively on 64-bit processorsSupports up to 256 logical processor coresWindows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V supports up to 32 physical processor cores

Improved virtual processor resources

Each virtual machine supports up to 4 logical coresSupports Second-Level Address Translation (SLAT) and CPU Core Parking

Failover Clustering in R2Monitoring and Management

Monitoring: clusters, nodes

and applications

PowerShell Provider Read-Only

Access

Cluster Shared Volumes

Disk 5

VHD VHD VHD

SAN

Single Volume

Concurrent access to a single file system

Cluster Fault TolerancesI/O Connectivity Fault Tolerance

SAN

VHD

SAN Connectivity

Failure

I/O Redirected via network

Volume mounted on

Node 1

VM running on Node 2 is unaffected

Node Failure

Brief queuing of I/O while

volume ownership is

changedVolume

relocates to a healthy node

VM running on Node 2 is unaffected

Node Fault ToleranceNetwork Fault Tolerance

Routed to Redundant Network

Network Path Connectivity

Failure

Storage Performance

Storage Area

Network

Multi-path performance optimization

iSCSI Performance Enhancements

Increasing AvailabilityLive Migration

ClusterNode 1

Network Storage

ClusterNode 2

Configuration Data

Virtual Machine

Memory Content

VHD

Memory Sync

Virtual Machine

User

Streamlining Virtualization Management

Hyper-V Management ConsolePowerShell command-line interfaceSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Simplifying Deployment

Boot from .vhdEnables pre-configuration of virtual and physical computersReduces the number of managed imagesSimplifies test deployments

Boot

VHD

Windows Server Roadmap

2003 2005 2008 2009Beta

RTM

2010

Summary

Performance and scalability enhancementsIncreased server consolidationGreater administrative controlTaking an enterprise-class foundation to the next level