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Cloud and mobility are two major trends that have started to affect the IT landscape, in general, and the datacenter, in particular. There are four key IT questions that customers claim are keeping them up at night: How do I embrace the cloud? With a private cloud, you get many of the benefits of public cloud computing—including self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources. Microsoft customers can build a private cloud today with Windows Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Microsoft System Center, but there are many questions about how to best scale and secure workloads on private clouds and how to cost effectively build private clouds, offer cloud services, and connect more securely to cloud services. How do I increase the efficiency in my datacenter? Whether you are building your own private cloud, are in the business of offering cloud services, or simply want to improve the operations of your traditional datacenter, lowering infrastructure costs and operating expenses while increasing overall availability of your production systems is critical. Microsoft understands that efficiency built into your server platform and good management of your cloud and datacenter infrastructure are important to achieving operational excellence. How do I deliver next-generation applications?

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As the interest in cloud computing and providing web-based IT services grows, our customers tell us that they need a scalable web platform and the ability to build, deploy, and support cloud applications that can run on-premises or in the cloud. They also want to be able to use a broad range of tools and frameworks for their next-generation applications, including open source tools. How do I enable modern work styles? As the lines between people’s lives and their work blur, their personalities and individual work styles have an increasing impact on how they get their work done—and which technologies they prefer to use. As a result, people increasingly want a say in what technologies they use to complete work. This trend is called “Consumerization of IT.” As an example of consumerization, more and more people are bringing and using their own PCs, slates, and phones to work. Consumerization is great as it unleashes people’s productivity, passion, innovation, and competitive advantage. We at Microsoft believe that there is power in saying “yes” to people and their technology requests in a responsible way. Our goal at Microsoft is to partner with you in IT, to help you embrace these trends while ensuring that the environment is more secure and better managed.

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Optimize your IT for the cloud with Windows Server 2012 When you optimize your IT for the cloud with Windows Server 2012, you take advantage of the skills and investment you’ve already made in building a familiar and consistent platform. Windows Server 2012 builds on that familiarity. With Windows Server 2012, you gain all the Microsoft experience behind building and operating private and public clouds, delivered as a dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform. Windows Server 2012 delivers value in four key ways: 1. It takes you beyond virtualization. Windows Server 2012 offers a dynamic,

multitenant infrastructure that goes beyond virtualization technology to a complete platform for building a private cloud.

2. It delivers the power of many servers, with the simplicity of one. Windows Server 2012 offers you excellent economics by integrating a highly available and easy-to-manage multiple-server platform.

3. It opens the door to every app on any cloud. Windows Server 2012 is a broad, scalable, and elastic web and application platform that gives you the flexibility to build and deploy applications on-premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment through a consistent set of tools and frameworks.

4. It enables the modern workstyle. Windows Server 2012 empowers IT to provide users with flexible access to data and applications anywhere, on any device, and

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while simplifying management and maintaining security, control, and compliance. With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has made significant investments in each of these four

areas that allow customers to take their datacenter operations to the next level. Now, let’s take a

look how Windows Server 2012 helps customers to:

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I would like to spend a few minutes and go over some of the needs that IT Pros and IT DMs have today and the challenges they face fulfilling their needs. First up a lot of customers are looking at what we call dynamic datacenters – datacenters that grow beyond one physical geographic location – either into other datacenters they have, a hosting providers cloud or in the public cloud like Azure. They need infrastructure that scales to growing demand and changes. The need to deliver services that are up and running all the time has never been higher, it is almost an assumption that consumers will have access to resources they want when they want it, wherever they want it and that such availability will have be delivered no matter whether customers use high-end storage solutions or industry standard solutions.

With the eco-system being diverse, one of the most important focal area is around managing the infrastructure. Customers are looking for efficient management options that would let them manage their diverse infrastructure and have the ability to automate some of their mundane tasks. Finally with the hardware ecosystem changing and evolving at a rapid pace, they want to have the infrastructure ready to help them make the most out of the growth.

On the other hand if you look at the challenges they face – cost is always an important thing that comes up. Majority of the IT expenses today for enterprises is around storage and organizations are looking to limit these. No matter what the size of a company is they are looking at innovative ways to make the most out of their underlying hardware – be it commodity hardware they picked up from ebay or high-end storage solutions. As we mentioned before – making sure that services are resilient to underlying hardware issue is another important challenge and finally wanting a server operating system that not only efficiently uses hardware available today, but also something that is ready for the next wave of hardware.

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Scalable and Elastic Application Platform Overview

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Over the course of the next hour, we will walk through the following scenarios – first how Windows Server 2012 delivers enterprise class features that will run on industry standard hardware. Without a need for an expensive storage solution, you get the benefits you typically associate with one. You can have the best hardware in the market, but the key goal is maintaining your SLAs and ensuring that your services are up and running all the time – in the second section we will go over features we have added in WS 2012 that help ensure that your services are continuously available without any interruptions. We will then talk about the work we have done with leading industry partners in delivering great features and products that delivers great performance. We will then go over some of the manageability options we have added in Ws2012 and finally close with a few pointers on storage choices that WS 2012 enables you that will simplify manageability and ensure availability of services.

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These are what we consider the top features in Windows Server 2012 that addresses the challenges we discussed. We will go into more details and dive into a lot of details over the next hour. This is in no means all the work we have done in WS 2012 in Storage – but this should give you a flavor of some of the top investments we have made.

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Enterprise class performance and scale have traditionally been associated with high-end storage solutions. But not everyone can afford an expensive SAN – most customers are looking at options that gives them the same kind of reliability, resiliency and availability that high-end solutions offers but at the cost of industry-standard hardware. With WS 2012, we don’t have any 2nd class citizens – no matter what storage solution you have, we help you make the most out of your investment and use your resources efficiently. A fundamental assumption we made when we built the product was that underlying hardware can fail or be unreliable due to several reasons – planned or unplanned and the services that run on top should be as transparent to these failures as possible. With that in mind, lets look at some of the features we have added in WS 2012

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We have had virtualization at Hyper-V layer over the last couple of releases of Windows server. With Windows Server 2012, we give you the ability to virtualize your storage solution. Storage spaces gives you the ability to consolidate all your SAS and SATA connected disks – no matter whether they are SSDs or traditional HDDs and consolidate them together as storage Pools. <Click> You can then assign these pools to different departments within your enterprise or customers so that your data is isolated and administration is easy. Once you have created these pools, you can then create logical disks from them, called Storage Space. <Click> These logical disks, for the most part looks and acts like regular disks. But they can be configured for different resiliency schemes – mirroring or parity depending the performance and space requirements. When you create a Storage space, you can either choose thin or fixed provisioning. This lets you have the ability to increase your storage investments only when you need. You can create a logical disk or Space that is bigger than your pool and add disks only when there is an actual need. <Click> Lets assume that your Hyper-V VMs are stored in logical disks created using Storage Spaces. With trim provisioning, when a large file gets deleted from one of the VMs, the

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VMs communicate this to the host and the host down to storage spaces and spaces will automatically reclaim this storage and assign it to other disks within the same pool or other pools. So you are optimizing storage utilization with on-demand provisioning and automated capacity reclamation. <Click> Storage Spaces is compatible with other Windows Server 2012 storage features, like SMB Direct and SMB Failover Clustering, so you can use simple inexpensive storage devices to create powerful and resilient storage infrastructures on a limited budget. <Click> Storage Spaces enable you to deliver a new category of highly capable storage solutions to all Windows customer segments at a dramatically lower price point. At the same time, you can maximize your operations by leveraging commodity storage to supply high-performance and feature-rich storage to servers, clusters, and applications alike.

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To cluster Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, you typically needed a SAN in the back-end – either an iSCSI or FC SAN. Setting up the SAN to support clustering has been challenging to some. We already have a solution for filebased storage in Windows which is the SMB fileshare that most of you are familiar with. These were traditionally your file repository for Office workers for storing powerpoint decks, word docs, videos and so on. With WS 2012, we fully support using SMB fileshares for storing your Hyper-V VMs. Not the VM library or install ISOs, the live VHDs of your VMs. Not only that we also enable live SQL databases to reside in an SMB fileshare now. <Click> What this provides you is an additional file based storage option for your mission critical application that is very easy to provision at a fraction of the cost. You can now cluster your volumes together and expose them as a single file system name space to Hyper-V as a location to store the VMs or to your workload to store the SQL database. With SMB transparent failover, even if one of the nodes goes down, SMB transparently fails over to another node without down time. <Click> As you would see over the course of this presentation, we have augmented this with a

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lot of other functionality to provide real enterprise class performance and reliability with features like SMB Direct, SMB transparent failover, SMB multichannel, Clustered Share volumes and so on. We also support encryption in SMB so that data that gets transferred over wire is safe and secure. And most importantly we have now changed Volume Shadow Service or VSS to support back-up of remote file storage. So any 3rd party back-up software that plugs into VSS can now back-up your SMB fileshares – backing up not only your documents but also your VMs and databases. Finally, since SMB uses your existing network infrastructure – the need for a dedicated network is eliminated there by reducing management costs. So no matter what your underlying storage subsystem is, SMB provides an easy and highly available repository for your SQL databases and Hyper-V VMs. <Click> Since all that you need for SMB is volumes – it really doesn’t matter how thse volumes are created – they could be a RAID attached storage solution, <Click> through a SAN. <Click> Or Storage Spaces

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Data deduplication is a new storage efficiency feature available with Windows Server 2012 that helps address the ever-growing demand for file storage. Instead of expanding the storage used to host the data, the amount of space used by that data is now reduced through the use of variable-size chunking and compression. What this means is that Windows will automatically scan through your disks, identify duplicate chunks in the data you have stored and store these chunks only once. Since only one copy is stored for duplicate date this not only lets you optimize your existing storage infrastructure, it also translates into even greater savings by postponing the need to purchase storage upgrades and extending the lifespan of current storage investments. The disk space savings we have seen with Data Dedup during internal testing has been phenomenal. Data deduplication can deliver storage savings of up to 2:1 for general file shares and 20:1 for virtual storage. This is far above what was possible with Single Instance Storage (SIS) or NTFS compression. Data deduplication also throttles CPU and memory usage to allow for implementation on large volumes without impacting server performance. Furthermore, compression routine run times can be scheduled for off-peak times to reduce any impact those operations might have on data access.

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Reliability and data integrity aren’t problems for data deduplication, thanks to metadata and preview redundancy that helps to prevent data loss due to unexpected power outages. Checksums, along with data integrity and consistency checks, also help prevent corruption for volumes configured to use data deduplication. Not for : Live VMs SQL DBs ReFS file shares Client machines Boot data Cluster shared volumes

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Lets consider a simplistic scenario - You have a client and server. You want to request data of say 500k from the client – this typically goes through the TCP/IP stack, you place a request for getting the data to the server, the data gets read, gets broken down into smaller packets, transferred back to you. You assimilate all these packets into the 500k data that you asked for and send it back up. All this takes CPU resources. You cant send the entire 500k at once no matter how fast your NIC is. You still have to chop it down into small packets and send it up and down the stack. <Click> Think about having multiple NICs doing a lot of IO intensive operations. Your CPU is just busy doing this over and over again. You don’t want your CPU to be used for this – you want it to work on servicing database requests, indexing and so on. We worked with a lot of network adapter vendors to bring a class of specialized NICs to support high speed data transfers to WS 2012. These NICs have a better CPU in them and support Remote Direct Memory Access or RDMA so that they can transfer data between them without involving the host CPU. <Click> How does it work – I need to read 500k of data. First I find out a place in memory where that data should reside, then I register that with the NIC and get a token back. I send this token back to the other side through SMB direct and say I need to read 500k

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of data. Now the host uses this token, identifies the memory that needs to be copied, passes the memory location and the token to the NIC and says this is the data that needs to be transferred, why don’t you guys just talk with each other and transfer the data over. So the two NICs actually does the transfer. The two CPUs are now busy doing something else. We can be incredibly fast with SMB Direct – 1-2 ms latency when doing transfers – almost the same as local storage. <Click> We support Infiniband, RoCE and iWARP network interfaces

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Hardware fails, hardware needs to be replaced as they are close to their EOL, software requires patches and Operating systems have to be updated and most organizations are used to this cycle. What doesn’t change is the SLA they have with their internal and external customers. Customers still require uninterrupted access to their resources or services that you are providing them. In this section we will talk about how Windows Server 2012 helps you deliver services that are continuously available, features that let you run your industry standard hardware with the SLAs that you associate with high end hardware solutions. We will walk through our core investments that help you patch your host, your applications without any interruptions and our investments across multiple layers in the OS to help ensure continuous availability.

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Windows Server 2012 introduces a newly engineered file system called Resilient File System (ReFS) that is built on the foundations of NTFS to maintain compatibility with that highly popular file system while also architected to support a new generation of storage technologies and scenarios. ReFS was designed with three key goals in mind: • Maintain compatibility with the NTFS features that are widely adopted and successful while replacing features that provide limited value. • Maintain the highest levels of system availability and reliability possible under the assumption that underlying storage may be inherently unreliable. • Provide a full end-to-end resilient architecture when used in conjunction with Storage Spaces so that these two features magnify the capabilities and reliability of the other when used together. Uses “Copy on Write” method to update files and saves file to new location every time it is updated there-by avoiding corruptions caused during disk power outage. Checksums on all metadata in ReFS are performed at the tree level and these checksums are stored independently from the tree page itself. This enables the detection of all forms of disk corruption, including degradation of data on media. Along with Storage Spaces, ReFS forms the storage foundation on Windows for the next decade and beyond with features that enabled significant storage stability, flexibility,

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scalability, and availability, IT pros typically have horror stories with ChkDsk, with Chkdsk running for hours together – we have made tremendous progress with ChkDsk that fixing disk corrpution issues now take a matter of seconds as opposed to hours in the past. It is so good that the graph doesn’t even do justice to it. We now isolate the section in the disk that is corrupted in online mode and bring down only that portion offline for a brief moment to fix the problem. This ensures that the entire scanning and fixing process is totally transparent to the application. If you combine this with Clustering, chkdsk can now run with no downtime for the application even if the problem is with the system drive.

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As I mentioned SMB fileshares were typically meant for Office workers to store documents. You open power point from the share and you save it back to the share. What happens if you lose a connection for some reason or you are in a cluster and you failover from one node to another – the first time you attempt to save it, it complains about a problem, but you try to save it again it works fine. This is acceptable form an end-user stand point. But this does not work well when you have Hyper-VMs or SQL DBs living on an SMB fileshare and when hyper-V attempts to make write to the file. <Click> If you are using SQL and it is clustered and you failover, when you attempt to do a write – the write operation fails, which is a very bad thing. You have to add code to attempt to write again. This is what most applications do today. We wanted to do a better job with SMB since we thought this behavior was unacceptable. <Click> We wanted to ensure that the application that is doing the writes, file copy or back-up just continues as if nothing ever happened even if we failover from one node to another. All that you would see is a slight delay in the IO as we are moving to another node in the cluster. <Click>

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So what does this mean – it means zero downtime for both planned moves and unplanned failures.

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Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) reduces server downtime and user disruption by allowing IT administrators to update clustered servers with little or no loss in availability during updates performed on cluster notes. <Click> When an update is available, CAU transparently takes one node of the cluster offline, installs the updates, performs a restart if necessary, brings the node back online, and moves on to the next node. This feature is integrated into existing Windows update management infrastructure and can be further extended and automated with Windows PowerShell for integrating into larger IT automation initiatives. In the animation below, you see a four node cluster with varying loads. You have an application client, say SQL, that constantly accesses the cluster. The computer running the CAU process also called Orchestrator identifies the node with the least amount of load, transfers the workload from that node to another node in the cluster, installs the updates, restarts the node and then moves on to the next node. So without any manual intervention, the orchestrator automaticlaly talks to WSUS server or other update servers and updates nodes in the cluster. Can update GDRs, QFEs, update BIOS, any other application update. Can be launched from Server Manager UI. At the end of the update, workloads come back to the same configuration

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Updating process itself is resilient to planned/unplanned failures Can start updates from RSAT tool (update coordinator is outside the cluster) Supports hotfixes as well No IO failures, no downtime Use PowerShell for entire process Plugin APIs, reference documentation available on MSDN

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SMB Multichannel is a new feature in WS 2012, that not only enables higher throughput, but also enables higher reliability. SMB multichannel gives you the ability to have multiple NICs and all NICs transferring data at full throughput. If you have 2 10gb NICs, you now have 20gb throughput. If you have multiple connections between client and server, it automatically uses all the paths. If one of the connections go down, it will automatically recover and retransmit the lost packets. In the animation, you notice that data is getting transferred simultaneously on both NICs and look at the orange packet. If the connection goes down and the packet is lost, it is automatically retransmitted again. We will leverage networks of the same type and speed. If we have a 10GB NIC and a 1GB NIC, we will just use the 10gb NIC. If you have an RDMA Nic we will prefer that Even on a single NIC, we will do multiple TCP connections – so that we don’t affinitize with a single Core and use better use of the CPU resource. So better bandwidth, better reliability without any configuration.

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We spent quite a bit of time talking about file based storage and continuous availability on file based storage. With Windows Server 2012, we are enabling continuous availability with block based storage and heterogeneous environments as well. iSCSI target is now shipped inbox with Windows Server 2012. You can now cluster multiple iSCSI target servers for continuous availability. By using iSCSI Network Boot and differencing disks based off a single golden image you can save up to 90% on storage for your system. If a typical startup image takes up about 40 GB of space and you have 256 computers, then your system volumes are using 10 TB of space. With iSCSI Network Boot and differencing VHDs you have a single full 40 GB golden image volume and each subsequent system volume only takes up about another 2 GB of space each, which means you only use about 550 GB of space all together. When you cluster your iSCSI targets and make them continuously available, you not only save on storage costs, you also have high availability. With the flexibility that file based storage choices provide, deploying and running Vmware ESX/ESXi virtual machines from filebased storage accessed over NFS protocol is becoming increasingly popular. You can now cluster your NFS servers together for continuous availability as well. For Windows Server 2012, both the Server for NFS and Client for NFS have been ported to run on top of a new scalable, high-performance RPC-XDR runtime infrastructure. Improvements to the failover clustering in WS 2012 lets Server for NFS to fail over much faster than earlier versions of Windows Server.

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Windows Server 2012 includes an updated Server for NFS that supports NFS version 4.1 and can leverage many other performance, reliability, and availability enhancements available throughout the Windows storage stack.

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Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent is a new feature for Windows Server 2012 that you can download and install to schedule file and folder backups from your server to Microsoft Online Backup Service which is a cloud-based storage service managed by Microsoft. To transfer data between servers running Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Online Backup Service you can use either the Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent or the Online Backup cmdlets for Windows PowerShell. Key benefits

Recover data in case of disasters (server destroyed/stolen, disk crash) Recover data in case of data loss scenarios such as data accidentally deleted, volume deleted, viruses

Target Segments: Small Business: Low-cost backup & recovery solution for single server backups. Departmental Backups: Low-cost backup alternative for departments in mid to large sized organizations Remote office backup and recovery consolidation: Consolidate backups of remote offices.

The following tasks make up the major workflows when using Microsoft Online Backup Service. Sign up for the Microsoft Online Backup Service and install the Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent

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Register servers with the Microsoft Online Backup Service Schedule backups using the Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent Recover files and folders using the Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent Manage the Microsoft Online Backup Service Troubleshoot Microsoft Online Backup Service Administer the Microsoft Online Backup Service with Windows PowerShell In other words; simply sign up, install, register, schedule backup and you are all done with addressing your backup requirements. The big thing to remember here is that, Online Backup reduces administrative overhead associated with backup and recovery procedures and eliminates the need to maintain a backup infrastructure so Online Backup doesn’t just save you time, it saves money too.

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If you have a SAN, Windows Server 2012 is a no brainer. We have worked closely with so many industry leaders in the storage space to get more out of your existing storage investments – features that will help deliver unparalleled performance on SANs. In addition to this, we have also worked with industry partners to come up with novel hardware appliances that encapsulates all the goodness you get with various server features.

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Offloaded data transfer (ODX) in Windows Server 2012 enables you to accomplish more with your existing external storage arrays by letting you quickly move large files and virtual machines directly between storage arrays, which reduces host CPU and network resource consumption. Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) support is a feature of the storage stack of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. ODX, when used with offload-capable SAN storage hardware, lets a storage device perform a file copy operation without the main processor of the Hyper-V host actually reading the content from one storage place and writing it to another. ODX uses a token-based mechanism for reading and writing data within or between intelligent storage arrays. Instead of routing the data through the host, a small token is copied between the source and destination. The token simply serves as a point-in-time representation of the data. As an example, when you copy a file or migrate a virtual machine between storage locations (either within or between storage arrays), a token that represents the virtual machine file is copied, which removes the need to copy the underlying data through the servers. In a token-based copy operation, the steps are as follows (see the following figure): <Click>

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A user initiates a file copy or move in Windows Explorer, a command-line interface, or a virtual machine migration. <Click> Windows Server automatically translates this transfer request into an ODX (if supported by the storage array) and receives a token representation of the data. <Click> The token is copied between the source and destination systems. <Click> The token is delivered to the storage array. <Click> The storage array performs the copy internally and returns progress status. ODX is especially significant in the cloud space when you must provision new virtual machines from virtual machine template libraries or when virtual hard disk operations are triggered and require large blocks of data to be copied, as in virtual hard disk merges, storage migration, and live migration. These copy operations are then handled by the storage device that must be able to perform offloads (such as an offload-capable iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN, or a file server based in Windows Server 2012) and frees up the Hyper-V host processors to carry more virtual machine workloads. As you can imagine having an ODX compliant array provides a wide range of benefits: ODX frees up the main processor to handle virtual machine workloads and lets you achieve native-like performance when your virtual machines read from and write to storage. ODX greatly reduces time to copy large amounts of data. With ODX, copy operations don’t use processor time. Virtualized workload now operates as efficiently as it would in a non-virtualized environment.

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Windows Server 2012 provides Fibre Channel ports within Hyper-V guest operating system, allowing you connect to Fibre Channel directly from virtual machines when virtualized workloads need to connect to existing storage arrays. This feature lets you maximize your investments in Fibre Channel by virtualizing workloads that use and need direct access to Fibre Channel storage. Additionally it lets you cluster guest operating systems over Fibre Channel, and offers an important new storage option for servers hosted in your virtualization infrastructure. Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides the guest operating system with unmediated access to a SAN by using a standard World Wide Name (WWN) associated with a virtual machine . In the animation here, <Click> To support live migration of virtual machines across Hyper-V hosts while maintaining Fibre Channel connectivity, two WWNs are configured for each virtual Fibre Channel adapter. <Click> Hyper-V automatically alternates between the Set A and Set B WWN addresses during a

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live migration. This ensures that all LUNs are available on the destination host before the migration and that no downtime occurs during the migration. <Click> Once the migration is done, only one set if active. NPIV Support - Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V guests uses the existing N_Port ID Virtualization T11 standard to map multiple virtual N_Port IDs to a single physical Fibre Channel N_Port. A new NPIV port is created on the host each time you start a virtual machine that is configured with a virtual HBA. When the virtual machine stops running on the host, the NPIV port is removed. Additionally, Hyper-V allows you to define virtual SANs on the host to accommodate scenarios where a single Hyper-V host is connected to different SANs by using multiple Fibre Channel ports. For example, assume that a Hyper-V host is connected to two SANs—a production SAN and a test SAN. The host is connected to each SAN through two physical Fibre Channel ports. In this example, you might configure two virtual SANs—one named “Production SAN” that has the two physical Fibre Channel ports connected to the production SAN and one named “Test SAN” that has two physical Fibre Channel ports connected to the test SAN. You can use the same technique to name two separate paths to a single storage target. You can configure as many as four virtual Fibre Channel adapters on a virtual machine and associate each one with a virtual SAN. Each virtual Fibre Channel adapter connects with one WWN address or two WWN addresses to support live migration. You can set each WWN address automatically or manually

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To deliver a volume solution for high availability requires the right hardware. Microsoft has been working with the server industry to enable our partners to create a new generation of simpler, lower-cost high-availability systems. These “Cluster in a Box” systems fill a gap in the market that exists today between single-node servers and enterprise-level scale-out servers. These systems combine multiple server nodes and storage in a pre-packaged, pre-connected chassis that can use the customizable Windows Server 2012 out-of-box-experience to deliver an appliance-like experience for the customer. They are designed to survive failure and repair of most single components. Small to medium businesses and organizations need these kinds of solutions that deliver high-availability and also match their limited budgets and IT expertise. There are two new options for shared clustered storage in Windows Server 2012: Storage Spaces and clustered RAID controllers. Both of these solutions use direct-attached, shared JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) storage. The new options give more choices to system builder and customers, and when combined with the continued strong support for external storage arrays enables Windows Server 2012 to support high availability systems that span customers from SMBs to Enterprise. A Cluster in a Box system is a general purpose server. As with any server system, its suitability for customer scenarios depends on the specific hardware configuration.

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However, for the server appliance market, it is useful to identify initial customer scenarios that are a particularly strong match. In addition to helping to understand the market, this also helps system builders to identify potential differentiating features that they may add, including customizing the Windows Server Out-of-Box-Experience (OOBE) or adding management or other applications that can simplify the customer deployment and management experience. As you would learn in a few minutes, we are working with a variety of hardware partners to bring in a variety of CiB devices to the market over the next few months.

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Windows Storage Servers are Network attached storage appliances that are pre-packaged, configured and sold for customers who need a storage server solution. It has a lot of features built-in and configured that we spoke about in the previous section. We have traditionally had 4 editions for Windows Storage server. But with WSS 2012, we have reduced the number of skus to just two. The table here compares and contrasts the two skus that will be available. The market segment for these skus are different, so you will notice the change in feature set. We are partnering with a range of hardware partners to give customers the choice and flexibility.

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Over the last couple of years we have been working extensively with a lot of hardware partners. The companies listed here should give you a good idea about the breadth of partners we are working with for various features across storage

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In addition to providing a great feature set, we have also provided a great management layer that helps you manage the storage solutions whether you have a single server or multiple servers, whether you have one class of storage or a variety of storage solutions, whether you are GUI person or a PowerShell person, whether you are a windows only environment or have a heterogeneous environment, you have a variety of options that helps you get a simplified manageability experience. We have made rapid strides in providing a platform that helps you build reliable, repeatable and consistent automation framework, so that you can automate your regular tasks and work on what is more important for your career and business.

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Along with the growing and costly demand for storage, storage infrastructure complexity brings additional costs that need to be addressed. To help improve storage management efficiency and offset that cost, Windows Server 2012 will come with a set of storage management APIs and provider interfaces that will enable administrators to centrally manage disparate storage resources and solutions, like SANs and storage arrays, from a centralized “single pane of glass” interface. Manageable resources can include SANs that are SMI-S complaint, storage devices with proprietary hardware that has compatible third-party storage management providers, or storage devices that are already being allocated through the use of Storage Spaces. This storage management capability will allow administrators to configure and manage all of the storage devices throughout their organization or management sphere through an easy-to-use management interface that they are already familiar with, the Server Manager. By using Server Manager, administrators can populate server groups with file servers or storage clusters that leverage Storage Spaces, or reach out to populate manageable devices that have SMI-S agents enabled.

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Server Manager UI is more powerful than ever. You can view the storage solution across your entire datacenter from all within Server Manager. Whether you have a solution based on SAN, Spaces or RAID controller, you can view the status of all your disks, LUNs etc all from within Server Manager. In addition, every Storage feature is exposed as a PowerShell module and with intellisense, it is very easy to know the list of commands under each module. Every operation that can be performed using Server Manager can be done using Powershell. You automate it once whether you have one server of multiple servers and PowerShell will take care of the rest for you. There are also several Management packs created in System center for various storage features which lets you monitor the performance and status of each of these features. In addition to this you also have a BPA for each of these components.

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Ultimately, all of these capabilities combined give you flexible storage and availability options that can be deployed in organizations of all sizes and at any scale. Smaller organizations and branch offices can deploy solutions leveraging either internal server storage or virtualized storage spaces solutions that use shared SAS JBODs or JBODs with integrated SAS switches. These can scale up from single node, with very limited high availability options, or a 2-node high-availability storage solution. Midsize businesses and larger departments within the enterprise market can use storage spaces or clustered PCI RAID solutions with shared SAS or SAS switch fabrics to scale up from 2-node clustered storage up to 8-node clusters with CSV v2 scale-out storage for larger virtualized environments. Finally, large enterprise environments or hosting providers can use new Windows Server 2012 storage management capabilities to scale up to 32-node high-availability storage solutions that can integrate with external storage arrays using Fibre Channel or IP SAN (10 GbE or IPoIB) fabrics for massive virtualized, private cloud, or multitenant public cloud storage solutions.

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Over the course of the next hour, we will walk through the following scenarios – first how Windows Server 2012 delivers enterprise class features that will run on industry standard hardware. Without a need for an expensive storage solution, you get the benefits you typically associate with one. You can have the best hardware in the market, but the key goal is maintaining your SLAs and ensuring that your services are up and running all the time – in the second section we will go over features we have added in WS 2012 that help ensure that your services are continuously available without any interruptions. We will then talk about the work we have done with leading industry partners in delivering great features and products that delivers great performance. We will then go over some of the manageability options we have added in Ws2012 and finally close with a few pointers on storage choices that WS 2012 enables you that will simplify manageability and ensure availability of services.

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Windows Server Management Marketing

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