Rick Claus Sr. Technical Evangelist,

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What we delivered in Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support SystemResource Maximum number Improvement factor Windows 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 Host Logical processors on hardware643205× Physical memory1 TB4 TB4× Virtual processors per host5122,0484× Virtual machine Virtual processors per virtual machine46416× Memory per virtual machine64 GB1 TB16× Virtual disk capacity2 TB64 TB32x Active virtual machines3841,0242.7× Cluster Nodes16644× Virtual machines1,0008,0008×

Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server ,000 IOPs1,000,000+ 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.

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

Windows Server 2012 Hyper- V Live Migrating 40 VMs Simultaneously…

Windows Server 2012 R2…

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

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 ComputeNetwork GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) network connectivity RDMA delivers low latency CPU and network utilization. Live migration with RDMA

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 reducesattack 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 From Virtual SCSI

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 1. Reduce volume size inside the guest 2. 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

Clustered

New Designs: Cluster in a Box Availability 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 Infiniband B ports A ports SAS Expander 23 … Network 23 … SAS Expander Storage Controller CPU SAS Expander Storage Controller CPU x4 SAS (through midplane) 1/10G Ethernet cluster connect (through midplane)

Traditional Storage with FC/iSCSI Storage Array Windows File Server Cluster with Storage Spaces

Hard Disk Drives Cold data

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

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

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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