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Taking Advantage of Modern
Memory and Storage with
Windows Server 2012 R2 6/12/15

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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

Moving to a more recent version of Windows

Server is critical
* July 2014
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Getting the most out of your migration

The decision to migrate keys off of two basic principles of IT
management
Managin
g TCO

Adopting proven
new technologies

Costs associated with

sustaining legacy
technology add-up
quickly

Modern server
architectures
leverage X86 server
virtualization and
solid state storage
(SSDs)

Its critical to understand whats possible with

the OS and new server HW

Benefits of migrating: Server virtualization

Server virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
provides industry-leading features:

Shared
storage,
dynamic
storage
resizing
Softwaredefined
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

Benefits of migrating: Desktop virtualization

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) provide a rich set of
capabilities:
Application publishing and
driverless printing

Full gateway
functionality
enabling
remote
sessions to
operate
over HTTPS

Driverles
s 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

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

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

Using Windows Server 2012 R2 to maximize

memory utilization
For huge applications,
you can break memory
into smaller-sized nonNUMA VMs and have
multiple SQL Instances
Hyper-V features
Dynamic Memory which
monitors memory
removing and adding it
as required intelligently

NUMA-aware
applications such as
SQL Server and IIS to
intelligently leverage
resources in an optimal
way
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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

Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages

Solid-state
drives are
now
mainstream
in Servers

Speed-oflight
read-write
performanc
e

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Nomovingparts
reliability

Cool,
energyefficient
design

No
performan
ce penalty
like those
from
mechanica
l HDD
parts

Data on
SSDs is
always
available
(no
waiting for
spinning
platters)

Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages

Solid-state
drives are
now
mainstream
in Servers

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Speed-oflight
read-write
performanc
e

Nomovingparts
reliability

Cool,
energyefficient
design

No
performan
ce penalty
like those
from
mechanica
l HDD
parts

Data on
SSDs is
always
available
(no
waiting for
spinning
platters)

How Windows Server 2012 leverage SSDs benefits

BitLocker enables
encryption only of used
space, which avoids
operations on unused
areas of the SSD

Partitions
automatically aligned
to optimize the SSD

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TRIM enables the OS to

notify SSD when areas
on disk are deleted,
preserving the
performance of the
SSD and the host
server
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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

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

High performanceFeature-rich
storage pools
server
architecture

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Virtualization
built in

Cloud
integration

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