Windows Server 2012 R2 VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Ori Husyt Agile IT Consulting Team Manager orih@agileit.co.il

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1 Windows Server 2012 R2 VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Ori Husyt Agile IT Consulting Team Manager orih@agileit.co.il

2 Today s challenges Users Devices Apps Data Users expect to be able to work in any location and have access to all their work resources. The explosion of devices is eroding the standards-based approach to corporate IT. Deploying and managing applications across platforms is difficult. Users need to be productive while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.

3 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 Users Devices Apps Data Deliver a unified application and device management onpremises and in the cloud. Protect your data Management. Access. Protection. Help protect corporate information and manage risk.

4 Why Microsoft VDI? Enable users to access corporate apps and data from any device/any location Protect against loss and leaks of sensitive corporate data Deliver great user experience Why Microsoft VDI? Centrally administer and manage desktops Balance user requirements with corporate compliance Save resources with the flexible storage options right to your environment Reduce time to deploy applications and updates

5 VDI with Windows Server 2012 Firewall Powered by Windows Server 2012 Desktop sessions Pooled VMs Personal VMs 1 platform 1 experience 3 deployment choices Corporate Office Branch Office Home Public Location

6 Choosing the Right VDI Architecture Sessions Pooled VMs Personal VMs Good Better Best Personalization App compatibility Ease of management Cost effectiveness

7 Solution Principles Efficient Management 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. Best Value for VDI User Profile Disk maintains user personalization in pooled deployments. Fair Share dynamically distributes bandwidth, CPU, and disk use. Flexible storage options support directattached, network-attached, or storage area network (SAN) storage of virtual machines. Rich User Experience RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN) dynamically detects network conditions and tunes experience. Graphics processing unit (GPU) support for both physical and software GPUs. USB redirection enables access to locally attached devices in remote desktops. Seamless experience supports multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu integration.

8 Efficient management with simple deployment, intuitive administration, and scalability Streamlined management of virtual machines Simplifies management of pooled and personal virtual machines Unified administration Admin tools integrated in server manager Session Shadowing Remote Desktop Services installation wizard Automated deployment and configuration

9 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

10 Unified administration that is intuitive to manage Provide one, integrated console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual machines Session Shadowing integrated with console Offer consistent publishing applications and desktops Automate and manage at scale with Windows PowerShell

11 Streamlined management of virtual machines for scalability Avoid patch storms by queuing maintenance updates Use master images for personal and pooled virtual machines Accelerate system preparation, optimize logons, and provide automatic rollbacks

12 Best value for VDI with key platform capabilities User Profile Disk Maintain user personalization in pooled deployments Fair Share Dynamically distribute bandwidth, CPU, and disk use Multiple storage options Support direct attached, network, or SAN storage of virtual machines. Automatic Tiering and Deduplication High availability for all roles

13 User Profile Disk VDI Session Host Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk Simplify deployment of lowercost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions)

14 Personalization with User Profile Disk 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 User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine 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 User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections

15 Fair Share I/O Helps ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions Dynamically distributes resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O) Apply to both sessions and virtual machines

16 Multiple storage options Use direct-attached storage, networkattached storage, and clustered or SAN storage Leverage tiered storage to automatically optimize performance Reduce storage cost by leveraging disk deduplication

17 Storage options Windows Server 2012 Storage spaces Sample configuration Hyper V Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) and Hyper-V SMB support Cluster storage volume SMB Scale-out file server Online disk dedupe and tiered storage Scale out file server 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 Block based storage Storage Space Storage Space Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage Space

18 Comparing and reducing VDI costs Personal virtual machines + App-v and disk dedupelication DAS savings Storage savings Each With image Application = OS + application +user Virtualization data and Each storage user has for apps a personal image Pooled virtual machines + User Profile Disk + Application Virtualization DAS savings Reduce costs across all deployment Storage types for by OS using images Windows 8 and directattached Images to manage storage (DAS). DAS is approximately 25% the cost of SAN. DAS savings Server infrastructure management effort Costs Management Costs Compute Costs SAN Storage Costs DAS Storage Costs

19 High availability Use a scale-out file server and Hyper-V clustering Improve with active/active broker 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)

20 High availability With Windows Server 2012 Web farm Remote Desktop Connection Broker Hyper-V cluster Remote Desktop Virtualization Host 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 Remote Desktop Web Access Web Access Remote Desktop Connection Broker SQL Server Clustering Database Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Remote Desktop Remote Desktop Session Host Session Host Remote Desktop Gateway Web farm Remote Desktop Licensing Remote Desktop Session Host farm Cluster

21 Rich user experience with RemoteFX RemoteFX for WAN GPU support USB redirection Seamless experience Dynamically detect network conditions and tune experience Support both physical and software GPUs Enable access to locally attached devices in remote desktops Support multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu/screen integration

22 What is a rich user experience? DIRECTACCES Adaptive graphics remoting based on content type Crisp text always Aero always on, rich new Windows UI Reconnect feature for ease of movement across devices Ability to serve desktop apps to Windows RT tablet users Full multitouch and gesture remoting Full single sign-on RemoteApp programs integrate seamlessly with local desktop

23 RemoteFX over LAN or WAN RemoteFX delivers a consistently rich user experience to users over LAN or WAN (regardless of deployment model) Corporate LAN Hardware and software GPUs Rich multimedia USB redirection Internet or WAN Multitouch WAN acceleration Single sign-on

24 RemoteFX adaptive graphics Text Content Image Content Video/Animations

25 RemoteFX progressive rendering

26 RemoteFX for WAN Benefits 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 Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience

27 RemoteFX Media Streaming Supports redirection of Windows Media Decreases bandwidth consumption as much as 90% Media Streaming Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and video Provides server-side video detection for other media types

28 RemoteFX USB device redirection Can be used with all scenarios Physical, virtual, or session desktop No GPU needed Isolates devices to the user s session USB Device Redirection Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, including those requiring isochronous transfers Isochronous transfer RemoteFX USB Device Redirection

29 Choice of GPU on server 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 Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPU for VDI, optimized for: RemoteFX vgpu 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

30 New for R2 Dynamically Add/Remove monitors Improved RemoteApp behavior Quick Reconnect DX11.1 support and improved Codec performance

31 Top features to answer challenges Efficient Management Best Value for VDI Rich User Experience 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 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 signon Remote Desktop web folders and file type association Easily extensible by partners and customers

32 Windows Server 2012 R2 VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Ori Husyt Agile IT Consulting Team Manager orih@agileit.co.il

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