server virtualization benefits with windows server 2012 r2 hyper-v
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Download the whitepaper from http://bit.ly/1G2zttM Microsoft is ending its direct support of WinServer 2003 and hence organizations are looking to manage TCO more effectively and adopt the new version of the Windows Server – Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. WinServer 2012 R2 and Kingston Technology, together, strengthen the case for migration by enabling several critical technologies. Take a look at this presentation to know how Kingston Technology and Windows Server 2012 R2 maximize memory utilization.TRANSCRIPT
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Kingston Digital
©2012 Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Kingston Technology
April 28, 2023
Taking Advantage of Modern Memory and Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2
Where we are today with Windows Server 2003
• 20 million WinServer 2003 deployments*
• Most are 32 bit on legacy x86 servers
• Ongoing support of these servers ends July 14, 2015
• No more critical updates after that date
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* July 2014
Moving to a more recent version of Windows Server is critical
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Managing TCO
Adopting proven new technologies
Getting the most out of your migration
The decision to migrate keys off of two basic principles of IT management
Costs associated with sustaining legacy technology
add-up quickly
Modern server architectures leverage X86
server virtualization and solid state storage (SSDs)
It’s critical to understand what’s possible with the OS and new server HW
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Benefits of migrating: Server virtualization
Server virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V provides industry-leading features:
Shared storage, dynamic
storage resizing
Software-defined networking
64 vCPU VMs with NUMA support
Up to 1TB of memory per virtual machine and up to 4TB in total across all VMs
Full VM mobility even outside of clusters
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Benefits of migrating: Desktop virtualization
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) provide a rich set of capabilities:
Full gateway functionality
enabling remote
sessions to operate
over HTTPS
Driverless printing
Application publishing and driverless printing
GPU virtualization via RemoteFX (enabling rich graphical
applications to run in virtual desktop environments)
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Benefits of migrating: File services updates are significant
Windows File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) enables:
Real-time quotas to control how much space is used
File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) for setting precise file usage policies
Real-time screening to refine storage policies
Bitlocker volume level encryption that ensures data protection, for all servers regardless of location
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Benefits of migrating: Active directory and web application proxy
Fine-grained password policies with ability to undelete objects
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), enabling single identities to be used in a secure fashion between trusted organizations
Web application proxy integrates with ADFS to perform pre-authentication and enable single sign on (SSO) across multiple services
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Benefits of migrating: Management
PowerShell and Server Manager; multi-server management tools
Management tools dynamically provisioned, reducing patching and reboots
Use PowerShell command line interface for scripting and to automate any task across Microsoft and partner solutions
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Using Windows Server 2012 R2 to maximize memory utilization
For huge applications, you can break memory into smaller-sized non-NUMA VMs and
have multiple SQL Instances
NUMA-aware applications such as SQL Server and IIS to
intelligently leverage resources in an optimal way
Hyper-V features Dynamic Memory which monitors
memory removing and adding it as required intelligently
Error-correcting code (ECC) enables the memory to detect and fix internal data corruption on the module
Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) reduces memory fault by reading the telemetry of the ECC memory and predicting faults
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Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages
Solid-state drives are now mainstream in
Servers
Data on SSDs is always available
(no waiting for spinning
platters)
No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts
Cool, energy-efficient design
No-moving-parts
reliability
Speed-of-light read-write
performance
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Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages
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Solid-state drives are now mainstream in
Servers
Data on SSDs is always available
(no waiting for spinning
platters)
No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts
Cool, energy-efficient design
No-moving-parts
reliability
Speed-of-light read-write
performance
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How Windows Server 2012 leverage SSDs benefits
Partitions automatically aligned to optimize the SSD
BitLocker enables encryption only of used space, which avoids operations on unused areas of the SSD
TRIM enables the OS to notify SSD when areas on
disk are deleted, preserving the performance of the SSD
and the host server
Tiered Storage Spaces distinguish between HDDs and SSDs in a ‘virtual disk’ storage pool, making it possible for Windows to act as an intelligent enterprise storage management solution
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Update Windows servers to 21st century standards!
•Windows Server 2012 R2 leverages the latest virtualization and HW advancements and prepares enterprises to migrate resources to the cloud
•Windows Server 2012 R2 also enables the maximum benefit from your infrastructure investments such as memory and SSD storage
Feature-rich server
architecture
Virtualizationbuilt in
Cloudintegration
High performancestorage pools