florin loghiade - windows server & scvmm 2012 r2
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What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2 and
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Florin LoghiadeITSpark
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19 oct 2013Agenda
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• What’s new and what’s improved with R2
• Storage Tiering
• Work Folders
• IIS 8.5
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
• What’s new in R2
• One tool to rule a Data Center
• How the sync between teams helped
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19 oct 2013What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
• Powershell 4.0 – Desired State Configuration• AVMA (Datacenter Edition only)• Live migration via SMB 3.0 (RDMA)• Workplace Join – Windows 8.1 and IOS; WP8 and Android, Soon™• Shared virtual disk for guest clusters• Virtual machine migration when the host is shutdown• Enhanced Data Deduplication
and many more.
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Storage Spaces & Storage TieringWhat’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
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19 oct 2013SAN vs. Microsoft solution feature comparison
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Traditional Storagewith FC/iSCSI Storage Array
Windows File Server Clusterwith Storage Spaces
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19 oct 2013Storage Tiering
New feature in Storage Spaces:
• Enables the ability to add SSD’s and HDD’s into a storage pool
and letting the storage subsystem prioritize how the storage will be used.
• Checks for hot and cold files at an established time. (1 AM by default)
• Persistent write-back cache.
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19 oct 2013Storage Tiering
SSD JBOD HDD JBOD
Tiered space
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19 oct 2013Storage Tiering
List of commands for storage cmdlets - Get-Command -Module Storage
#Get physical disks that can be pooled
$disks= get-physicaldisk | ? {$_.canpool -eq $true
#New tiered pool
New-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName *Spaces* -FriendlyName PoolTier -PhysicalDisks $pooldisks
#Media Type
Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName TieredPool1 | Get-PhysicalDisk | Select FriendlyName, MediaType, Size
#Create SSD Tier
$tier_ssd = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName PoolTier -FriendlyName SSD -MediaType SSD
#Create HDD Tier
$tier_hdd = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName PoolTier -FriendlyName HDD -MediaType HDD
#Create storage space tier virtual disk with write-back cache enabled
$vdisk1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool Tier -FriendlyName Tiered_Space -StorageTiers @($tier_ssd,
$tier_hdd) -StorageTierSizes @(<size SSD>, <size HDD>) -ResiliencySettingName <simple or mirror> -WriteCacheSize <1-
5>GB
#Initialize virtual disk, Create Partition and Volume, Assign Drive Letter
Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName Tiered_Space | Get-Disk | Initialize-Disk –Passthru | New-Partition –AssignDriveLetter –
UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -force -Confirm:$false
#Pin file on SSD Tier
Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath <path EG: e:\x.vhdx>-DesiredStorageTier ($vdisk1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType SSD)
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Work Folders – Enterprise Cloud StorageWhat’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
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19 oct 2013Work Folders
What does it do:
• Allows users to have their work data distributed on
their machines
• Different solution than public solutions (Skydrive,
Skydrive Pro, Dropbox)
• Access based and encrypted.
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19 oct 2013Work Folders
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What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
DEMO – Work Folders
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19 oct 2013IIS 8.5
What changed since 8.0:
• Better logging capabilities
Administrators now have the ability to log custom fields
• Dynamic website activation
Activates the site only when it receives the first request
• Idle worker process page-out
Suspends the process rather than terminate
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19 oct 2013What’s new in SCVMM 2012 R2
• Site to Site connection using a private address
• IPAM integration
• Live cloning
• Live VHDX resize
• Better dynamic memory support
• Create Linux or Windows VM’s via template gallery
• Scale-out file server
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One tool to rule the data centerWhat’s new in SCVMM 2012 R2
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How the sync between teams helpedWhat’s new in SCVMM 2012 R2
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Q & A