2. Enable Multi Tenant Clouds Network Virtualization. Dynamic VM Placement. Secure Isolation. … High Scale & Low Cost Datacenters Leverage Hardware. High Availability. SMB2. Low Cost Storage. … Manageable & Extensible WMIv2. PowerShell. Extensible Switch. …

4. SR-IOV LBFO RSS QoS iSCSI VMQ SAS Spaces 10GbE Clusters DCB Network Virtualization Building an optimized cloud requires difficult decisions and tradeoffs among an alphabet soup of technologies

7. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

8. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

10. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

11. LEARN MORE

12. InfiniBandInfiniBand 1 GbE 10 GbE

14. Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server

15. Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server

16. Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migration Cluster / Storage Manage Manage Server LEARN MORE

17. LEARN MORE

18. Server CPU 0 CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 CPU 7 CPU 6 CPU 5 CPU 4 RS S VMQ Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server RS S VMQ

19. Selecting NIC Offloads * Flexibility and Scalability Raw Performance RDMASR-IOV** Hyper-V Extensible Switch Hyper-V Network Virtualization NIC Teaming RSS**VMQIPsecTO *Per NIC constraints ** Work together *** Offloads require driver and possibly BIOS support

20. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

21. FilesystemFilesystem Port Driver (Storport) LSO Networking Stack RS S LS O NDIS miniport FC/iSCSI /SAS HBA HBA miniport

22. When? Very low cost Disk-bound VMs Compute & Storage Scale Together Compute & Storage Scale Independently Hyper-V Server SAS Hyper-V Server(s) Compute/Storage SAS / iSCSI / FC Hyper-V Server(s) Compute Storage File Servers 10 GbE / RDMA Optional Controller Hyper-V Server(s) SAN Controller When? Grow capacity on two axis Compute-bound VMs Storage offloading LEARN MORE

23. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

24. What performance guarantees will be offered to workloads? How important is performance isolation? What are the resiliency promises?

25. Cluster (optional) Cluster VMs not designed for failures, H/A at server level, Failover clustering as another layer of protection, High End Servers, double power and network infrastructure VMs designed for failures, or downtime acceptable Lower End Industry Standard Server, single infrastructure Failover Clustering HostersPrivate Clouds / Legacy Apps Application failover Switc h Hyper-V / Parent VMs Hyper-V / Parent VMs Switc h Hyper-V / Parent VMs Hyper-V / Parent VMs Switc h

26. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability WorkloadsNetworkingStorage Service Levels

27. Cost Scalability Reliability Security Performance High Availability

29. Physically isolated networks HBA for storage access Windows Server 2008 R2 guidance SAN Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n ClusterClusterManageManage Server StorageStorage HBA 1 GbE

30. 10GbE for VM traffic SR-IOV enables better scale, reduces latency Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n ClusterClusterManageManage Server StorageStorage SAN HBA 1 GbE 10 GbE SR- IOV VM Q

31. Move to 10GbE fabric Fast storage access, Ethernet based SAN Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n ClusterClusterManageManage Server StorageStorage 1 GbE 10 GbE RSS

32. Converge onto 10GbE Switches must support DCB QoS policies and DCB traffic classes ensure bandwidth allocations Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migration Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server 10 GbE RSS DC B QoSQoS SAN

33. File Servers in front of storage RDMA for high speed, low-latency, reduced CPU overhead Less fibre-channel fabric Better VM mobility Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server 10 GbE RSS DC B QoSQoS Storage Windows File Server RDMA RDMA

34. RDMA or NIC Teaming? SR-IOV or NIC Teaming? Storage Windows File Server Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 VM 2 Live Migratio n Cluster / Storage ManageManage Server NIC Teaming SR- IOV 10 GbE RSS DC B

35. SAN 10GBE Switch + DCB support Windows File Server ClusterClusterStorageStorageManageManage NIC Teaming 10 GbE HBA DC B RSS RSS Hyper-V Extensible Switch VM 1 Live Migration Cluster / Storage ManageManage Hyper-V Server NIC Teaming 10 GbE 1 GbE VM n DCB RSS DCB RSS 1GBE Switch Internet QoSQoS

36. Windows Server 8 is Cloud Optimized

37. Optimize your Servers and Systems for the cloud Help your customers build better customized clouds!