Windows Server 2012 R2VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Ori HusytAgile IT – Consulting Team Managerorih@agileit.co.il

The explosion of devices is eroding the standards-based approach to corporate IT.

Devices

Deploying and managing applications across platforms is difficult.

Apps

Today’s challenges

Data

Users need to be productive while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.

Users expect to be able to work in any location and have access to all their work resources.

Users

Devices AppsUsers

People-centric IT

Enable your end users

Allow users to work on the devices of their choice and provide consistent access to corporate resources.

Unify your environment

Deliver a unified application and device management on-premises and in the cloud.

Protect your data

Help protect corporate information and manage risk.Management. Access. Protection.

Data

Why Microsoft VDI?

Deliver great user experience

Why Microsoft VDI?

Reduce time to deploy applications and updates

Balance user requirements with corporate compliance

Protect against loss and leaks of sensitive corporate data

Save resources with the flexible storage options right to your environment

Centrally administer and manage desktops

Enable users to access corporate apps and data from any device/any location

VDI with Windows Server 2012

Powered by Windows Server 2012

1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices

Personal

VMsFirewall

Desktop

sessions

Pooled

VMs

Public LocationCorporate Office Branch Office Home

Sessions Personal VMsPooled VMs

Choosing the Right VDI Architecture

Ease of management

App compatibility

Personalization

Cost effectiveness

Good

Better

Best

User Profile Disk maintains user

personalization in pooled deployments.

Fair Share dynamically distributes

bandwidth, CPU, and disk use.

Flexible storage options support direct-

attached, network-attached, or storage area

network (SAN) storage of virtual machines.

Easy deployment automates deploying and

configuring server roles.

Unified administration uses a single,

integrated console for management.

Streamlined management helps IT manage

pooled and personal virtual machines.

Efficient Management

Solution Principles

Rich User Experience

USB redirection enables access to locally

attached devices in remote desktops.

RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN)

dynamically detects network conditions and

tunes experience.

Seamless experience supports multitouch,

new Windows Experience, and Start menu

integration.

Graphics processing unit (GPU) support

for both physical and software GPUs.

Best Value for VDI

Automated deployment and

configuration

Admin tools integrated in

server manager

Session Shadowing

Efficient management with simple deployment, intuitive administration, and scalability

Simplifies management of pooled

and personal virtual machines

Unified administration Remote Desktop Services

installation wizard

Streamlined management

of virtual machines

Easy deployment with automation

Set up a simple VDI deployment easily and quickly

Use wizard-based setup and deployment for multiple scenarios

Create virtual machines automatically with settings

Unified administration that is intuitive to manage

Provide one, integrated console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual machines

Session Shadowing integrated with console

Automate and manage at scale with Windows PowerShell

Offer consistent publishing applications and desktops

Streamlined management of virtual machines for scalability

Use master images for personal and pooled virtual machines

Avoid patch storms by queuing maintenance updates

Accelerate system preparation, optimize logons, and provide automatic rollbacks

User Profile Disk Multiple storage optionsFair Share

Best value for VDI with key platform capabilities

Support direct attached, network, or

SAN storage of virtual machines.

Automatic Tiering and Deduplication

Dynamically distribute

bandwidth, CPU, and disk

use

Maintain user

personalization in pooled

deployments

High availability for all roles

User Profile Disk

Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions

Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk

Simplify deployment of lower-cost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions)

VDI Session Host

Personalization with User Profile Disk

User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine collections

User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections

What should I deploy?

User Profile Disk

With every virtual machine pool and

remote desktop session host collection

User environment virtualization

To apply roam settings across collections

Folder Redirection

To apply roaming user data across

collections

To centralize user data backup

BenefitsAvailable with pooled virtual machine collections and remote desktop session host collections

Stores all user settings and data

Contains roaming user profile, Folder Redirection cache, and user environment virtualization

Roams with user within collection

Appears as a local disk and improves application compatibility

Fair Share

Helps ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions

Apply to both sessions and virtual machines

Dynamically distributes resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O)

I/O

Multiple storage options

Use direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and clustered or SAN storage

Leverage tiered storage to automatically optimize performance

Reduce storage cost by leveraging disk deduplication

Storage optionsSample

configurationWindows Server 2012• Storage spaces

• Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) and Hyper-V SMB support

• Cluster storage volume

• Scale-out file server

• Online disk dedupe and tiered storage

VDI storage configuration• Direct-attached, central SMB, or

central CSV / SAN

• Storage location of User Profile Disks, parent virtual hard disk, and virtual machines can be configured separately for each collection

• Optimum use of high I/O operations per second versus high volume storage

Storage Space

Storage Space

Storage Space

Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage PoolBlock based storage

Hyper V

Scale out file server

SMB

Comparing and reducing VDI costs

Personal virtual machines

Management Costs Compute Costs DAS Storage Costs SAN Storage Costs

Each image = OS + application +user dataEach user has a personal image

Costs

+ App-v and disk dedupelication

Reduce costs across all deployment types by using Windows 8 and direct-attached storage (DAS). DAS is approximately 25% the cost of SAN.

Storage savings

DAS savings

DAS savings

DAS savings

Pooled virtualmachines +

User Profile Disk +

Application Virtualization

Server infrastructuremanagement effort

Storage for OS images

Images to manage

With Application Virtualization and storage for apps

High availability

Improve with

active/active

broker

Use a scale-out file

server and Hyper-V

clustering

Experience up to 64

nodes and 8,000

virtual machines per

cluster

with Hyper-V

Further increase density

by using Remote

Desktop Session Host

(greater than 2x

compared to virtual

machines)

Remote Desktop

Connection

Broker

Database

High availabilityHyper-V cluster

Web farm

Cluster

Remote Desktop Session Host farm

Web farm

With Windows Server 2012

Active/active high availability mode for brokers

Scale-out file server and resiliency

Requires Microsoft SQL Server

Automatic data migration from single instance to high availability

Remote Desktop

Virtualization Host

Remote Desktop

Connection

Broker

Remote Desktop

Licensing

Remote Desktop

Session Host

Remote Desktop

Gateway

Remote Desktop

Web Access

Remote Desktop

Web Access

Remote Desktop

Gateway

Remote Desktop

Virtualization Host

Remote Desktop

Session Host

Remote Desktop

Licensing

SQL Server Clustering

Rich user experience with RemoteFX

Dynamically detect

network conditions and

tune experience

RemoteFX for WAN

Enable access to locally

attached devices in remote

desktops

USB redirection

Support multitouch,

new Windows Experience, and

Start menu/screen integration

Seamless experienceGPU support

Support both physical

and software GPUs

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What is a rich user experience?

DIRECTACCES

Aero always on, rich new

Windows UI

Adaptive graphics

remoting based on

content type

RemoteApp programs

integrate seamlessly with

local desktop

Reconnect feature for ease of

movement across devices

Ability to serve desktop apps to

Windows RT tablet usersFull single sign-on

Full multitouch and

gesture remoting

Hardware and software GPUs

Rich multimedia

USB redirection

Multitouch

WAN acceleration

Single sign-on

Corporate LAN

RemoteFX over LAN or WAN

RemoteFX delivers a consistently richuser experience to users over LAN or WAN

(regardless of deployment model)

Internet or WAN

Image Content

Text Content

RemoteFX adaptive graphics

Video/Animations

RemoteFX progressive rendering

RemoteFX for WAN

Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience

Combines RemoteFX adaptive

graphics with intelligent WAN-aware

transports

Automatic choice of TCP or secure UDP

transport

Detects and tunes graphics to network

dynamically and automatically

Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway

Delivers a great user experience

beyond corporate networks

Branch offices

Wireless devices

Work-from-home offices

Roaming users on 3G/4G networks

Benefits

RemoteFX Media Streaming

Uses dynamic codecs that have

low bit rates for audio and

video

Supports redirection of

Windows Media

Decreases bandwidth

consumption as much as 90%

Provides server-side video

detection for other media types

Media Streaming

RemoteFX USB Device Redirection

RemoteFX USB device redirection

Isochronous transfer

Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, including those requiring isochronous transfers

USB Device Redirection

Can be used with all scenarios

Physical, virtual, or session desktop

No GPU needed

Isolates devices to the user’s session

CPU-emulated DirectX

11.1 software GPU

Provides 3-D capabilities to sessions and virtual machines at high scale

Optimized for knowledge worker workloads such as Microsoft Office and web browsing

Provides the highest scale for session host and VDI

RemoteFX vGPU

Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPU for VDI, optimized for:

Best performance for 3-D graphics-intensive applications

Best experience with full animations and transitions

Best application compatibility, running as a console session in a virtual machine

Choice of GPU on server

New for R2

Improved

RemoteApp behavior

Dynamically

Add/Remove

monitors

Quick Reconnect DX11.1 support and

improved Codec

performance

• Single-management UI for

simplification

• Scenario and advanced

administration

• Active/active connection brokering

• Windows PowerShell administration

across Remote Desktop Services

• Reduced number of roles to manage

Efficient Management Best Value for VDI Rich User Experience• Increased use cases for pooled desktops

• Cheaper storage alternatives

• Simplified virtual machine creation,

assignment, and patching

• Fair Share: network, disk I/O, and

processor

• GPU is optional, synthetic GPU is

supplied

• Full partner-extensible platform

• Support for WAN

• Adaptive encoding

• Multitouch

• USB remoting for sessions, virtual

machines, and physical machines

• Simplified user discovery and single sign-

on

• Remote Desktop web folders and file type

association

• Easily extensible by partners and customers

Top features to answer challenges

Windows Server 2012 R2VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Ori HusytAgile IT – Consulting Team Managerorih@agileit.co.il

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