1. AUTHOR: Michael Hassan Product Manager - Managed Hosting Date: 29/04/2008 How Windows Server 2008 can optimise your managed hosting platform

2. Windows Server 2008 - evolution Released to manufacturing - February 4 2008 Microsoft official launch - February 27 2008 Successor to: Windows Sever 2003 released April 2003 Windows Sever 2000 released February 2000

3. Top 3 features that will enhance your managed hosted platform  Hyper-V (Virtualisation)  IIS 7  Enhanced Security

4. What is Virtualisation? Virtualisation allows you to convert the software parts of a server - the application and operating system – into an independent virtual server. Allows you to stack multiple virtual servers on to a single physical server and increase the utilisation substantially.

5. Each Virtual Machine is a complete system encapsulated in a set of software files

6. Key benefits of Virtualisation Rack density is reduced along with power and cooling requirements Shared hardware – not shared hosting Time to market – deploy server in minutes Greatly reduced recovery time Virtual server image transfered to a new host in a matter of minutes Security - hardware layer access is locked Scalability - add more cores, Ram or hard drive space on the fly

7. Hyper-V - Windows Server 2008 virtualisation Hyper-V is the virtualisation layer included with Windows Server 2008 What Hyper-V offers: All new lightweight hypervisor able to take full advantage of the new hardware assisted virtualisation support built in to the latest AMD-V and Intel V-T enabled servers. Vastly improved host scalability Improved VM guest performance – no need for additional virtualisation software. Availability Will be available on general release by August 2008 If you are interested in our Pilot Programme please speak to us.

8. Hyper-V - How does it compare to VM Ware? Hyper-V VM Ware ManagementCentral control panel for Hyper-V and VMWare with powerful scripting capabilities for mass tasks Control panel that supports VMWare ESX only General512 virtual instances max Supports Geo Clustering 64 virtual instances max Native cluster support only LicensingCheaper to scale out A free version for pc’s and non commercial use Expensive to scale out A free version for pc’s and non commercial use Migration Uses Quick Migration, not as mature as V- Motion as it is host based clustering. Requires a Downtime for a migration. (Live migration will be a future release) Uses VMotion which is a live migration tool and requires no downtime. StorageNo equivalent to SVMotion on Hyper-V yet. Storage maintenance will require downtime. Using SVMotion entire disk files can be moved from one storage array to another with no downtime. BackupsIntegrated backup technology using VSS (Volume Snapshot Service) No integrated backup technology

9. IIS 7 In the past (Internet Information Services) IIS was affected by a number of security exposure issues. Many vulnerabilities improved with IIS6, with the addition of “Web Server Extensions” IIS 7 builds on IIS 6 by offering the following advantages: Components are modularised URL filtering All web server configurations are stored in XML Native support for PHP Optimised for Web 2.0

10. Enhanced security Server Core Lean and mean version of Server 2008. It strips away all unnecessary components, like the graphical shell, IE,.Net Framework and Outlook.4 This improves security and reduces need for patching Updated version of Windows Firewall Combines IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) and Windows Firewall in to a single tool Supports filtering of both incoming and outgoing traffic Can be configured using group policies or the new MS Management Console

11. Server Role Web Server Standard 32/64 Bit Enterprise 32/64 Bit Web Services (IIS)  Application Server x  Hyper-V* x  Active Directory Domain Services x  Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services x  Active Directory Rights Management Services x  Active Directory Certificate Services x  UDDI Services x  Windows Deployment Services x  Network Policy and Access Services x  Terminal Services x  * For customers that do not need virtualisation, Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise editions are available without Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Technology  Partial/Limited

12. About NetBenefit One of the UK's most experienced managed hosting providers Delivering hosting solutions since 1995 Dual site hosting for high availability Solutions tailored to each client’s requirement Microsoft Gold Partner Part of London listed Group NBT plc which now employs over 250 people world-wide

13. The NetBenefit / Dell / Microsoft advantage NetBenefit One of the UK's most experienced managed hosting providers Dell One of the largest resellers of Microsoft / hardware solutions in the UK Experienced in the virtualisation market, key strategic partner with Microsoft and EMC (owner of VM Ware) Microsoft NetBenefit working with Microsoft in the early adoption program for Hyper- V

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