1. What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2 and
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
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2. Agenda
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• Windows Server 2012 R2
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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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3. What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
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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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4. Storage Spaces & Storage Tiering
What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
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SAN vs. Microsoft solution feature comparison
Windows File Server Cluster
Traditional Storage
with Storage Spaces
with FC/iSCSI Storage Array
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(improved in R2)
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6. Storage Tiering
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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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10. Storage Tiering
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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,
$tier_hdd) -StorageTierSizes @(<size SSD>, <size HDD>) -ResiliencySettingName <simple or mirror> -WriteCacheSize <15>GB
#Initialize virtual disk, Create Partition and Volume, Assign Drive Letter
Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName Tiered_Space | Get-Disk | Initialize-Disk –Passthru | New-Partition –AssignDriveLetter –
UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -force -Confirm:$false
#Pin file on SSD Tier
Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath <path EG: e:x.vhdx>-DesiredStorageTier ($vdisk1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType SSD)
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11. Work Folders – Enterprise Cloud Storage
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12. Work Folders
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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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14. What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
DEMO – Work Folders
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15. IIS 8.5
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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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16. What’s new in SCVMM 2012 R2
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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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18. How the sync between teams helped
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