Futures: Windows Server and System Center in the Datacenter Daniel Lai (MCITP:Virtualization MCSE:Private Cloud VCP:vSphere 5.1 Datacenter Virtualization VCA:Workforce Mobility, Datacenter Virtualization, Cloud ) Solutions Sales Manager-Cloud Platform & Enterprise Mobility WW Cloud Platform Tech Ranger Microsoft
Agenda o Our direction for the datacenter o Spotlight on select capabilities Disclaimer: This presentation contains preliminary information that may be changed substantially prior to final commercial release of the software described herein. The information contained in this presentation represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of the presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of the presentation. This presentation is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this presentation. Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of this information does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property.
Microsoft is focused on cloud-optimizing the datacenter and delivering against the Cloud OS vision of a consistent platform across on-premises, hosted, and cloud environments. Foundation for the software-defined datacenter Connected and consistent hybrid cloud solutions Reinvented infrastructure security Bring cloud design to your datacenter for a resilient, well-managed, and efficient foundation for your business. Scale resources on demand and enable previously-impossible scenarios through hybrid cloud solutions. Achieve new levels of security to protect your virtualized environment and workloads from emerging threats. Windows Server System Center Microsoft Azure Azure Pack
Confidently virtualize and manage any workload in a flexible manner with enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. Enterprisegrade Application and workload focused Trusted Improved time-to-value with zero downtime infrastructure upgrades Enhanced performance, resilience, and availability for mission-critical workloads Deeper investments in Linux as a first-class citizen on the Microsoft platform
Faster time-to-value with zero downtime infrastructure upgrades. No requirement for new hardware. Rolling upgrades of Hyper-V and scale-out file server clusters Simplifies upgrade process by supporting mixed version compatibility between Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server vnext. Customers will be able to upgrade the cluster one node at a time (clean install). For mixed mode operations, cluster functional level can help specify that an upgraded node should operate in backward compatible mode, resulting in vnext features being disabled. Tenant VMs/workloads will see no downtime during this whole process, even with potential VM migration amongst nodes. Both file and block based storage architectures will be supported. Upgrade process for file server clusters is very similar to Hyper-V clusters, except that SMB sessions move between nodes. I can consume cloud-first infrastructure innovation from Microsoft faster and more importantly, in a nondisruptive manner.
Software-defined compute: enterprise grade Virtualize any workload/application with confidence Resilience to transient storage/ network failures Designed for cloud-scale environments (with low-cost hardware), this helps preserve tenant VM session state in the event of transient storage/ network disruptions for a defined time period. For storage, the VM will be put into paused-critical status till the underlying file or block storage recovers. For networking issues, VM will continue to run even when the node falls out of cluster membership. Guest cluster availability enhancements Customers can confidently virtualize critical workloads in guest clusters due to the following shared VHDX enhancements: online resizing, host-level backups, and Hyper-V Replica support for recovery. Effectively control workload performance with industry-leading Storage QoS Simple out-of-the-box behavior that mitigates noisy neighbor issues. Highly customizable via policy, this will deliver granular performance guarantees on a per-vm or per-tenant basis, thereby. Manageable via System Center/ PowerShell. Fully supported on file-server, SMB 3.0, and Storage Spaces architectures. Hyper-V cluster Node 1 VHD Storage resilience Node 2
Software-defined compute: Heterogeneous integration Deploy and manage Linux as a first-class citizen Broad support and Increased utilization Run Red Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and Oracle Linux, with full support. Run Windows and Linux side-by-side, driving up utilization and reducing hardware costs. Enhanced networking and storage Better protection Better-than-physical backup support for virtualized Linux guests on Hyper-V. Simplified management Single experience for managing, monitoring, and operating the infrastructure. Highest levels of networking performance in Linux guests with virtual Receive Side Scaling (vrss) support. Hot-add and online-resize of storage for enhanced administration flexibility.
Enable flexible workload placement and mobility by transforming networks into a pooled and automated resource that s controlled by software. Application and workload focused Extensible and standardsbased Built-in New network controller for centralized configuration and management of physical and virtual networks New software load balancer and other virtualized network functions (NFV) for greater flexibility and efficiency Greater performance, reliability, and interoperability with standards-based virtual networking
Software-defined networking: Network virtualization platform enhancements Cloud-scale reliability & performance with enhanced physical/virtual interoperability Reliable, high performance networking Use of native hardware offloads to drive high network throughput with minimal CPU utilization. RDMA aware-nics are used with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (data path) to drive native hardware performance. This host-based RDMA approach has been validated in the Azure networking architecture. We re working with our partner ecosystem to ensure high quality, reliable NIC drivers are delivered. Enhanced physical/ virtual integration Support for VXLAN-based encapsulation for virtual network traffic and VXLAN-based hardware gateways, thereby enabling broader interoperability across virtual and physical networking architectures. Service chaining in the virtual network i.e. ability to insert virtual network appliances/ services (such as gateways) to bridge across subnets within a single virtual network. As an enterprise or service provider, I can use Microsoft SDN in multihypervisor and multivendor networking environments, including a combination of physical and virtual.
Software-defined networking: Network controller and software load balancer Centralized management across virtual/physical networks, including virtualized network functions (NFV) Centralized control and Extensible, standardized automated configuration APIs Proven in Azure datacenters, this serves as central point of automation/ control for virtual and physical network configuration, thereby lighting up host-networking features like RDMA support. Controller deployment Will ship in Windows Server vnext with System Center (VMM) enabled provisioning. Network controller will need to run on a vnext host. Supported migration path for existing virtual networks. Network health Controller enables centralized network monitoring and diagnostics. Network controller will expose northbound REST APIs and a range of industry-accepted southbound APIs, for management services integration and physical/virtual integration respectively. Software load balancer Low cost, cloud-scale load balancing for multi-tenant environments that has been battletested in Azure. General purpose load balancing for web traffic, East-West traffic and load-balanced infrastructure services. Can be deployed using a System Center (VMM) service template. SDN Conceptual Model
Deliver high-speed, resilient, enterprise-class network storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage Flexible High performance Low cost New storage virtualization solution that spans distributed direct-attached disks for resilient and cost-effective storage Greater efficiency and resource utilization improvements including improved de-duplication, tiering, and storage QoS New synchronous or asynchronous storage replication for any Windows Server volume
Software-defined storage: storage spaces Virtualize storage assets distributed across different devices with Storage Spaces enhancements Distributed storage pooling Pool direct-attached disks at scale across servers for cost-efficient, reliable storage which can be expanded granularly at your own pace. Reliable storage Benefit from resiliency to disk, enclosure, server and chassis failures. Storage can failover among nodes transparently without impacting availability Scalable solution Automatically pool up disks across nodes. Integrated technology Compatible with other existing Windows Server storage capabilities, such as deduplication, volume replication and encryption. Unified storage management available through System Center and standards-based protocols. I can create and deploy filebased storage without shared disks or specialized storage infrastructure, and easily scale its capacity
Software-defined storage: replication Synchronous and asynchronous storage replication independent of the underlying hardware Reliable replication Works with any Windows Server volume Block-level, host-based volume replication over the SMB protocol Can be deployed as a synchronous stretch cluster across sites or as a cluster-to-cluster data mirror for disaster recovery Comprehensive approach Storage replication combines with many other capabilities to provide a comprehensive storage solution, including File and Storage Services, Storage Spaces, Storage Replication, Failover Clustering, Transparent Failover, and Data Deduplication Flexible solution Storage replication is hardware agnostic and supports commodity storage and networking technologies Manageable through familiar tools, Windows PowerShell, and SMAPI-based WMI management I can replicate Windows Server storage resources synchronously or asynchronously between sites, regardless of the underlying storage hardware
Software-defined storage: QoS Quality of service guarantees and limits for storage performance Simple to use Out-of-the-box QoS automatically limits noisy neighbors so you can build diverse, high density deployments with confidence Customizable Configurable settings to guarantee performance per VM, service, or tenant Centralized policies, including IOPs reservations to guarantee minimums or limit maximums Aggregated metrics include IOPs and latency Integrated management Can be managed and monitored with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager Windows PowerShell can be used to manually define policies or tag virtual machines I can control and monitor storage performance to meet the needs of differing workloads and customers
Foundation for the software-defined datacenter: monitoring Comprehensively monitor diverse environments and workloads to deliver higher levels of infrastructure and application resiliency. Enterprise grade for confidence Continued focus on enterprise grade monitoring, scalability and reliability. Simpler upgrading from previous 2012 based versions. Support for SQL Server 2014. New and enhanced management packs for Microsoft workloads and 3 rd party solutions, delivery more intuitive experiences. Enhanced open source software management Ensuring LAMP stack monitoring is integrated into the platform and has similar experience to current Windows based monitoring. Monitor Apache HTTP Server and MySQL Databases running on managed Linux computers with new Microsoft management packs and OMI providers.
: workflow Drive predictability and governance through processes. Rich automation and workflow consistency Consolidating to PowerShell Workflow based orchestrator solution for both Service and Tenant administration across on-premises and Microsoft Azure. Graphical authoring tool for PowerShell based runbooks providing seamless skills transfer from existing solution. Extend your workflow across clouds with Azure Automation Seamless migration and support Migration support for existing Orchestrator runbooks and integration packs to PowerShell based environment. Simple framework for development of PowerShell based Integration Packs. Governance through integrated service management Continued investments to improve stability, scalability, usability and performance. Service Catalog items to include support for PowerShell based runbooks. Extending governance for hybrid scenarios across on-premises and cloud environments. Greater usability Enhanced modern web portal experience for both automation and service management ensures easier design, deployment and management of workflows and processes. Integrated gallery of Microsoft, partner and 3 rd party PowerShell based workflow solutions to drive value faster across on-premises and cloud. I can provide flexibility of IT but still maintain a high degree of predictability and control.
Hybrid Cloud-Business continuity: Data Protection Manager and Azure Backup Protect your on-premises and cloud investments Integrated solution Scalability, deployment, and management enhancements for DPM ensuring greater reliability and consistency. VM backup improvements including Synthetic FC, CSV and SOFS support. DPM is integrated with Azure Backup for easy offsite data protection, and the Azure Management Portal for sign-up and billing. Reliable offsite data protection Providing convenient, automated offsite data protection with integrated Azure Backup. Reducing the need to secure and protect onsite backup media, by encrypted and storing data safely away from your premises, including geo-replication for additional protection. Efficient backup and recovery Optimizing on-premises VM and first-party application backup & recovery focuses on where your IT investments are today. New deduplication of replicated storage for supported sources reduces storage overhead. Extended DPM reach with SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server AlwaysOn support. Configurable Azure Backup data retention policies, data compression and data transfer throttling makes backups flexible and efficient. Protect your cloud investments Introducing efficient back-up and restore for Azure IaaS VMs including application consistent recovery points support. I can automatically protect my data offsite - efficiently, and with familiar tools. Microsoft Azure
Hybrid Cloud-Business continuity: Azure Site Recovery Orchestrated disaster recovery to a second site or directly to Azure Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Communication Channel Communication and Replication Replication channel: Hyper-V Replica Windows Server Primary Site Recovery Site Windows Server Primary Site Windows Server Key functionality includes: Automated VM protection and replication No-impact recovery plan testing Remote health monitoring Orchestrated recovery when needed Customizable recovery plans
Hybrid Cloud-Infrastructure and application insights: Azure Operational Insights Collect, combine, correlate and visualize your infrastructure data Log management Separate the signal from the noise with simple, powerful log management tools. Collect and search across multiple machine data sources from multiple systems to easily identify the root cause of operational issues. Capacity planning Get deep visibility into your datacenter capacity, pinpoint capacity shortages, investigate what-if scenarios, identify stale and over-allocated VMs, and plan your future compute and storage needs for your infrastructure. Update assessment Identify missing system updates across all of your servers whether they are running in your data center or in a public cloud. Now you can know which of your servers have the latest updates, and which need them. Malware status Pinpoint servers that are infected by malware or are at an increased risk of infection. With simple out-of-the-box dashboards, you can quickly assess which servers need your immediate attention. I can identify potential infrastructure issues, pinpoint problems, and manage capacity through robust analytics.
Deliver higher levels of infrastructure and application resiliency. Cloud and workload management New and enhanced hybrid workload and cloud management packs including hybrid applications, Azure and Office365. Monitor your Azure computer, network and storage allocations ensuring expected quality of service for your cloud infrastructure. Consistent workflow New PowerShell Workflow across on-premises and Microsoft Azure enables consistency orchestration across clouds. Single design environment provides a create once deploy anyway capability. Expose workflow capabilities to both Service Admins and Tenant administration. I can comprehensively manage and monitor my physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure Traditional Virtualized Private Cloud Public Cloud
Hybrid Cloud-Infrastructure and application insights: Configuration Management Managing configuration and environment data for software services with Desired Stage Configuration Establish and control a consistent environment Specify configuration as code such that the configuration will travel with the application throughout development, test and production deployment environments. Deep control Configure roles, features, file, services, users and even registry items. Update only the changes without deploying entire updates. Fix configurations which have drifted away from desired states. Immediately discover the actual configuration on any given node. Configuration library for multiple services Support a library of standard and custom configurations for both Windows and Linux environments. Apply them on-premises or across clouds through the development or deployment process. Built on PowerShell DSC provides a set of Windows PowerShell language extensions, new Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and resources that you can use to declaratively specify how you want your software environment to be configured. I can rapidly apply customization to my application, traveling with it to any cloud.
Hybrid Cloud-Delivering cloud consistency with Azure Pack Self-service provisioning and management of Cloud OS consistent IT services Cloud innovation delivered onpremises Microsoft Azure technology built for the cloud, brought on-premises. Enables hosters and enterprises to deliver Azure-consistent services on top of their on-premises investments. A cloud-speed release approach and servicing model for the Azure Pack ensures the highest levels Cloud OS consistency including interfaces, tooling, scripts, and application models. Consistent resource model New resource provider model delivers IaaS and PaaS services on-premises, based on the Azure Resource Manager model, for greater platform symmetry. Azure management portal New on-premises Azure management portal delivers the most effective user experience for managing and delivering services from your datacenter. Cloud OS consistency gives me the confidence to move between clouds. Microsoft Customer ONE Consistent Platform Service Provider
Harden the fabric against threats while protecting and isolating guest workloads. Core operating system security Windows Server has built-in breach hardening capabilities which enhance the security of both virtualization hosts and the guest workloads. These include secure and measured boot, code flow guard, and Hyper-V code integrity. Virtual secure mode Virtual secure mode leverages platform virtualization extensions to enable a secure execution environment and protected store which can protect platform security assets, such as authenticated user credentials, encryption keys, and code integrity checks, from unauthorized access and tampering even from users with administrative privileges. Fabric guardian Identify legitimate hosts and certify them as members of a fabric hardened against security threats. Verify the identity of physical servers to ensure only trusted hosts can run your virtual machines which require high levels of security and guest encryption. Shielded guests Leverage virtualized trusted platform module (vtpm) support to encrypt virtual machines, including their applications and data. A service which controls the distribution of keys enables trusted hosts to unlock encrypted virtual machines allowing them to run. I can be assured that secrets vital to the security and integrity of the operating system, both for the host and the guests, are highly protected from access by administrators.
Security-Control and monitor administrator privileges Reduce the risk of abuse by limiting administration rights to just the right amount needed, when they are needed. Just in time administration Define policies to grant administrators the rights and privileges they need, when they need them and for a specific period of time. Maintain your current investments in Active Directory while controlling and monitoring administrative activities. Just in time administration delegation Enable delegation of just in time administration to various entities (e.g., the Finance department) in your company so they can implement and control their own just in time policies. Just enough administration Reduce the risk of security breaches by replacing administrator accounts with normal user accounts. Enable role-based server administration that provides elevated privileges for designated users, allowing them to perform only specific tasks. Just enough administration logging Detailed logging of all operations performed during an administration session is available to be used for forensic analysis and audits which can greatly increase your ability to detect security breaches. I can deploy a just-in-time/just enough administration system in my environment to control and monitor administrator privileges on my key servers.
Security-Respond to threats faster Detect and respond to today s cyber threats more quickly and with greater accuracy. Cloud-based analytics engine Leverage an efficient Azure-based analytics engine and pre-defined intelligence packages to gain deep forensic capabilities aggregated across your environment without the need to create a big data analysis infrastructure. Native antimalware An antimalware agent is now included as a component of the operating system. Configuration is performed using the Desired State Configuration and reporting can be done through the collection and analysis of event logs. Data collection and correlation Attach assurance analytics services to your environment to manage operational risk through intrusion detection, detection of desired configuration policy violations, antimalware and patch status, and logging actions. Analytics and search platform Improve your response to security threats with deep forensic capabilities across your environment. In addition to the ready-made intelligence packages, you can perform ad hoc forensic and exploration of the data to expose anomalous events indicative of breaches or attempts to compromise security. I can more easily detect and respond to security breaches by collecting and correlating unusual activity in my environment.
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