2. Day 1
Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2
Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 R2
Cloud Optimized Networking in Windows Server 2012 R2
Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2
Day 2
Server Management & Automation with Windows Server 2012
R2
VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2
Access & Information Protection with Windows Server 2012 R2
Web Application & Platform with Windows Server 2012 R2
VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2
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4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. VDI with Windows Server 2012
Powered by Windows Server 2012
1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices
Personal
VMs
Firewall
Desktop
sessions
Pooled
VMs
Public LocationCorporate Office Branch Office Home
8. Sessions Personal VMsPooled VMs
Choosing the Right VDI Architecture
Ease of management
App compatibility
Personalization
Cost effectiveness
Good
Better
Best
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. Unified administration that is intuitive to
manage
Provide one, integrated
console for
roles, servers, collections, us
ers, and virtual machines
Session Shadowing
integrated with console
Automate and manage at scale
with Windows PowerShell
Offer consistent publishing
applications and desktops
13. 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
14.
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
Benefits
Available 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. Storage options
Sample
configuration
Windows 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 Pool
Block
based
storage
Hyper V
Scale out file server
SMB
21. Comparing and reducing VDI costs
Personal virtual
machines
Management Costs Compute Costs DAS Storage CostsSAN Storage Costs
Each image = OS + application
+user data
Each 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 virtual
machines+
User Profile Disk +
Application
Virtualization
Server infrastructure
management effort
Storage for OS images
Images to manage
With Application
Virtualization and
storage for apps
22. 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)
23. Remote
Desktop
Connection
Broker
Database
High availability
Hyper-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
24. 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
25. Crisp text always
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 users
Full single sign-on
Full multitouch and
gesture remoting
26. 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 rich
user experience to users over LAN or WAN
(regardless of deployment model)
Internet or WAN
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. New for R2
Improved
RemoteApp behavior
Dynamically
Add/Remove
monitors
Quick Reconnect DX11.1 support and
improved Codec
performance
34.
35. • 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
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Editor's Notes
With Windows Server 2012, our aim was to ensure that VDI is simple to deploy and easy to manage. Features that fulfill this promise are:Easy Deplyment: QuickDeploy helps customers get started with VDI fairly quickly and easily. In just a few clicks, customers can set up a basic VM or session based VDI, thereby drastically reducing the number of steps and the complexity associated with setting up such an environment.A simple, intuitive setup wizard takes customers through the steps required to setup a VM or session based environment. Selecting between one of the deployment modes has been simplified to checking an option during the setup process. Additional settings can easily be configured during the wizard based setup, thereby not sacrificing functionality at the expense of simplification.RDS creates and deploys the VMs for you as part of the setup process, thereby reducing the dependency for additional tools during the setup process. The VMs and sessions are also automatically configured with optimal settings, so users can start connecting to their desktops fairly quickly.
With Windows Server 2012, our aim was to ensure that VDI is simple to deploy and easy to manage. Features that fulfill this promise are:Simple and Unified Administration toolsThe RDS administration console has been greatly simplified so that IT has plenty of options to setup and manage users, sessions and VMs from a single console.In addition to desktops, IT can also publish RemoteApps to both VMs and Session desktops using the administration console.IT can manage user permissions, including their settings and other properties as well from the same console that they use to manage desktops, thereby ensuring complete in-box management for a simplified VDI deployment experience.This platform scales into the hundred’s through the GUI, and beyond that, you have the capabilities of Windows PowerShell scripting.
With Windows Server 2012, our aim was to ensure that VDI is simple to deploy and easy to manage. Features that fulfill this promise are:Streamlined VM MgmtLeverage master images for both personal and pooled VMsPatch storms are a common problem in VDI environments, where if all desktops on a particular server start a resource intensive task such as patching at the same time, the server usually gets overloaded and the desktops are unusable for some time. In order to solve this problem, RDS ensures that patching for virtual desktops is randomized, so as to ensure that no single host server gets inundated with all VMs or sessions beginning a patch cycle at the same time.In addition, RDS offers specialized patching for pooled VMs. The master image can be patched, and then IT can determine if all guest VMs should be patched immediately (requires all users to be forced to log out and log in again), or if the users receive the patches upon next login.Fast sysprep: Create in one pass without needing a reboot.Optimization such that logging into a pooled VM are still fresh, but optimized for quick loginAuto-Rollback: Pooled VMs auto rollback to gold stateAuto-Assignment: assign users to collection, automatically get VM
With Windows Server 2012, technologies such as RDS and Hyper-V provide the scalability and flexibility that enterprises demand from their virtual desktop platform.User Disks:One of the reasons that customers want to look at pooled desktops or sessions is to lower the cost of their VDI (since in both models, there are fewer images to manage and store). However, one of the biggest issues with pooled VMs and sessions is that users lose any changes made to their profiles (including setting changes) upon logout. In order to make pooled VMs and sessions a viable deployment model, the user’s data (user and application settings, personal data such as documents and pictures, etc.) are stored on a separate .vhd file called a User Disk.When the user logs in, RDS combines the Users Disk with a desktop either from the VM or session pool, thereby providing the user with their data and settings. With User Disks, IT can provide a certain level of personalization to pooled VMs or session based deployments. However, it is important to note that User Disks cannot be used to roam across different pools or collections, or across a physical environment to a virtual environment. It is also important to note that user installed applications cannot be persisted even with user disks, and are lost upon logoff.
With Windows Server 2012, technologies such as RDS and Hyper-V provide the scalability and flexibility that enterprises demand from their virtual desktop platform.Fair ShareFair Share is a collection of technologies that ensure that no single VM or session hogs machine resources (memory, disk I/O and bandwidth), thereby reducing the impact to other users on the system. If a VM/session starts to utilize more resources than deemed safe by the system, Fair Share will automatically throttle the resource in question, thereby dynamically distributing that resource across other VMs/ sessions.RDS has Fair Share built in to manage resources for sessions. Hyper-V has a collection of technologies to manage bandwidth, I/O and memory, collectively ensuring performance of VMs.
With Windows Server 2012, technologies such as RDS and Hyper-V provide the scalability and flexibility that enterprises demand from their virtual desktop platform.Storage Options:RDS now supports various lower cost storage, such as SMB based fileshares, or Direct Attached Storage (DAS), in addition to SANCan separately configure storage location for Parent VHD, individuals VMs, and UserVHD. Use different storage tiers for each to optimize Hence, storing VMs is now cheaper, as customers do not have to rely on expensive SANs anymore.Powerful Hyper-V platformRDS can now be configured to have multiple active nodes, thereby enabling the connection broker to scale up, while still ensuring DR.As always, the RDS platform provides APIs to help partners build on top of the Microsoft platform. Hence, partners such as Citrix can help scale out the Microsoft VDI platform to include largest and most complex of deployments.
