Windows Server 2012 Andy McKay amckay@rm.com Agenda Server Manager Storage Spaces Data Deduplication VDI powered by RDS PowerShell 3.0 Hyper-V 3.0 SMB 3.0 Editions Datacenter Standard Essentials Foundation (C) 2013 RM Education! 1!
Server Manager Manage multiple servers Server groups Custom groups Automatically created groups Server can be in more than one (C) 2013 RM Education! 2!
Remote management Remote management Storage spaces (C) 2013 RM Education! 3!
Storage pools Storage Pool Virtual disks Virtual Disks Simple Storage Pool Virtual disks Virtual Disks Mirror Mirror Storage Pool (C) 2013 RM Education! 4!
Virtual disks Virtual Disks Parity Storage Pool Virtual disks Virtual Disks Storage Pool Virtual disks Virtual Disks Storage Pool (C) 2013 RM Education! 5!
Virtual disks Virtual Disks Storage Pool Volumes Volumes NTFS%% ReFS%% Virtual Disks Storage Pool ReFS (C) 2013 RM Education! 6!
Monitoring Data deduplication How it works File 1 Metadata Data Name, attributes,... A% B% C% M% N% File 2 Metadata Data Name, attributes,... A% B% C% X% Y% (C) 2013 RM Education! 7!
How it works Metadata Chunk%Store% File 1 Name, attributes,... Reparse data Data%Chunks% File 2 Metadata Name, attributes,... Reparse data A% B% C% M% N% Y% X% Setup Jobs Optimisation Garbage Collection Scrubbing (C) 2013 RM Education! 8!
Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring (C) 2013 RM Education! 9!
VDI powered by RDS Collections Fair Share (C) 2013 RM Education! 10!
RemoteFX PowerShell 3 PowerShell 3 10x as many cmdlets as v2 Around 2,430 Cmdlet for every server management task Export commands directly from Server Manager (C) 2013 RM Education! 11!
RM Seminars spring 2013 - Windows Server Task scheduling Register-ScheduledJob -Name TestJob Trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 3am) C: \testscript.ps1 Hyper-V 3 Live migration (C) 2013 RM Education! 12!
Move VM storage Computer running Hyper-V Virtual Machine VHD Stack VHD VHD Source Device Destination Device SMB 3 SMB 3.0 SMB 3 New PowerShell cmdlets Multichannel to scale network performance SMB 3 Server Manager wizards Remote VSS snapshots, SMB Direct, encryption and more! Transparent client failover for fault tolerance (C) 2013 RM Education! 13!
Transparent failover Client% \\smbfs1\shared%documents% FS1% FS2% FS3% File Server Cluster SMB Multichannel NIC% 1GbE% Switch% 1GbE% SMB Client NIC Teaming NIC% 1GbE% NIC% NIC% 1GbE% 1GbE% NIC Teaming SMB Server Switch% 1GbE% NIC Teaming, no MC Automatic NIC failover Can t use full bandwidth Only one NIC used Only one CPU core used SMB Multichannel NIC% 1GbE% Switch% 1GbE% SMB Client NIC Teaming NIC% 1GbE% NIC% NIC% 1GbE% 1GbE% NIC Teaming SMB Server Switch% 1GbE% NIC Teaming and MC Automatic NIC failover (faster) Combined NIC bandwidth available Multiple NICs used Multiple CPU cores used (C) 2013 RM Education! 14!
Server Manager wizards PowerShell PowerShell New-SmbShare -Name Shared Documents -Path E:\Shares\Shared Documents -FullAccess seminars\domain Admins -ChangeAccess seminars\teachers -ReadAccess seminars\students (C) 2013 RM Education! 15!
PowerShell (Get-SmbShare -Name Shared Documents ).PresetPathAcl Set-Acl Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Previous Client / Server Windows Windows Windows Versions of OS Server 2012 Server 2008 R2 Server 2008 Windows Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 SMB 3.0 SMB 2.1 SMB 2.0 SMB 1.0 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 SMB 2.1 SMB 2.1 SMB 2.0 SMB 1.0 Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 SMB 2.0 SMB 2.0 SMB 2.0 SMB 1.0 Previous Versions of Windows SMB 1.0 SMB 1.0 SMB 1.0 SMB 1.0 (C) 2013 RM Education! 16!
Summary Management of all servers from a single console Storage spaces and thin provisioning State-of-the-art data deduplication Collections of VDI and RDS servers which can be centrally managed Over 2,000 new PowerShell cmdlets SMB 3.0 with many new features including transparent failover Windows Server 2012 Andy McKay amckay@rm.com (C) 2013 RM Education! 17!