This document discusses planning and preparing for the end of support of Windows Server 2003. It provides an overview of Perficient, a leading IT consulting firm, and their expertise in Microsoft technologies. It then discusses various options for migrating applications and workloads off of Windows Server 2003, including upgrading server hardware, virtualization, moving workloads to Azure IaaS, and decommissioning servers if they are no longer needed. Details are provided on using Cisco UCS and Hyper-V for virtualization and migration projects. The document emphasizes starting migration plans early to allow sufficient time for testing and validation.

1. Planning & Preparing for
Windows Server 2003 End-of-Life
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2. About Perficient
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Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout
North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business
processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile
enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.

3. Perficient Profile
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• Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2013 revenue $373 million
• Major market locations:
• Allentown, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston,
Indianapolis, Lafayette, Minneapolis, New York City,
Northern California, Oxford (UK), Philadelphia, Southern
California, St. Louis, Toronto, Washington, D.C.
• Global delivery centers in China and India
• >2,200 colleagues
• Dedicated solution practices
• ~90% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards

4. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Business Intelligence
Business Process Management
Customer Experience and CRM
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Experience Design (XD)
Management Consulting
Our Solutions Expertise
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Business Integration/SOA
Cloud Services
Commerce
Content Management
Custom Application Development
Education
Information Management
Mobile Platforms
Platform Integration
Portal & Social

5. Our Microsoft Practice
National Service Provider
Perficient is a top Microsoft National Service Provider (NSP), one of only 34 elite
partners in the United States, with over 2,000 employees nationwide.
Partner Advisory Councils
Perficient is one of approximately 20 organizations worldwide to participate in 3
Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils: SharePoint, Office 365 and Unified
Communications.
Solution Areas
Perficient is a leader in delivering solutions with Office 365, Azure, SharePoint,
Business Intelligence, social business solutions including Yammer, as well as Lync,
Dynamics CRM and Sitecore.

6. Speakers
Steve Andrews
Senior Solutions
Architect
Perficient
Andy Vigil
Consulting Systems
Engineer
Cisco
Terry Walsh
Area Sales
Director
AppZero

7. Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2003
& Windows Small Business Server
ends July 14th 2015

8. End of Life – What This Means

9. End of Life – Opportunity

10. Where Do I Start?

11. Discover

12. Targets

13. What Are My Target Options?
Existing Windows Server 2003 applications can go to:
• Replace the server hardware (Windows Server 2012 R2)
• Virtualize on a new server
• Relocate to a cloud service (Azure IaaS)
• Decommissioning as no longer used

14. Windows Server 2012 R2

15. Virtualize – Hyper-V
• Save energy costs
• Reduce data center footprint
• Faster server provisioning
• Increase uptime
• Improve disaster recovery
• Improve application isolation
• Help move to the cloud!

16. Cloud Service – Azure IaaS
• Highly available
• Highly scalable and elastic
• Hybrid service and
application infrastructure
capability
• Robust dashboard for
health metrics
• Enterprise grade

17. Decommission
• Servers identified in assessment as running by
application not used anymore
• Shut down orphaned server
• Remove from your data center
• Recycle old hardware

18. Migrate

19. Cisco Unified Computing System
Fastest Growing Product in the Market
36,500+ UNIQUE UCS
CUSTOMERS 2
#1 Americas revenue
market share in x86
blades 1
Top 5 Server Vendor 1
$3B+
More than 85% of all
customers have invested in UCS
Data Center
Annualized
Revenue Run
Rate 2
Fortune 500
100 world record performance benchmarks to date
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014Q1, May 2014, Vendor Revenue Share
Source: 2 As of Cisco Q3FY14 earnings results Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V
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20. The Next-generation Data Center Platform
That Unifies Computing, Networking, Storage Access, and Virtualization Resources into a Cohesive System
UCS Fabric Interconnects
 Low-latency, 10-Gbps unified fabric
supports IP, storage,
and management network connectivity
Cisco UCS Blade Server Chassis
 Flexible bay configurations
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards
 Extension of fabric interconnect ports
directly to virtual machines, operating
systems, and hypervisors
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers
 Versatile and expandable with world-record-
setting performance
 Incremental deployment model
Cisco UCS Manager
 Embedded in UCS Fabric Interconnects
 Integrated, unified management
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
 Range of server options to support a
broad range of workloads
 Highest density memory configuration
of any half-width
blade server
 World-record-setting performance
Cisco UCS & Cisco Nexus Fabric
Extenders
 Scalability without the need to add
management points
 Blade and rack-mount form factors
Intel x86 Architecture compatible with any existing infrastructure
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21. And Fabric Computing Platform
LAN SAN
SAN
Switches
FI-A
FI-B
 Wire once for
bandwidth, not
connectivity
 Both Ethernet and
storage run on the
same wires
 All links can be
active all the time
 Policy-driven
bandwidth
allocation
 Decouple scale
from complexity
1 4 2 Link
40Gb/80Gb/20Gb/s
8 160Gb/s
Up to
160
Servers
Per UCS
Domain
LAN
Switches
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22. SAN
LAN
UCS Service Profiles
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23. Benefits of Cisco UCS 10GbE VIC
 All SQL I/O via single interface
 Private and Public network interfaces
 SAN based I/O traffic
 Unique failover capabilities
 Saves Money over other x86 solutions
 Initial investment in I/O cards for
 Two cards – Cluster Interconnect
 Two cards – Public Network
 Two cards – SAN traffic
 More for management
 Time to manage/support I/O cards
Refer to this link for more info:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10277/prod_models_comparison.html
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24. Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager
• Embedded device manager (pair of FIs)
• Single point of contact (pane of glass) for UCS components
• Enables stateless computing via Service Profiles
• Enables scalability (1-160 servers) and form factor independence (blade/rack)
• APIs for integration with new and legacy data center infrastructure
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25. Self Serve portals
Management Tools
Auditing Tools
Programmatic Infrastructure
Comprehensive XML API
Single point of management – access to all domain knowledge
Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI 3rd Party Customer
XML API
System Status
Physical Inventory
Logical Inventory
Broad 3rd party integration support
Faster custom integration for customer use cases
Consistent data and views across ALL interfaces
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26. Integrated & Simple Management Tools
Optimize Your Data Center’s Functions
Cisco UCS Manager
• Manages Cisco UCS servers across multiple blade chassis and rack servers as
one logical, highly available entity with flexible service profiles
• Provides granular UCS visibility and control to Microsoft data center
management tools through a comprehensive XML API
Microsoft System Center
• A suite of tools that provide management, virtualization, monitoring, and
security for your data center
• Manage your physical and virtual IT environments across data centers,
client computers and devices
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27. UCS Manager & System Center Together
Bring Unsurpassed Power, Control And Efficiency
Embedded in Cisco UCS products
• Provides end-to-end management in the UCS platform
• Eliminates the need for an external management server
• Enables rapid provisioning UCS Manager and scaling of IT infrastructure
• UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft System
Center tools such as Operations Manager, Orchestrator,
Virtual Machine Manager, & Configuration Manager
• Employment of Cisco power to enhance your existing
management tools and skill sets
• Utilization of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor,
measure and automate at every layer
• Management of physical and virtual machines identically
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28. Cisco Compute & Network Infrastructure
w/ Windows Server 2012, SC 2012 R2, & Hyper-V
Software
“Single
Pane
of Glass”
Operations
Manager
SCO
UCS PowerTool for PowerShell
SCVMM
Cisco Virtual Networking
Solutions for Hyper-V
VM-FEX
N1KV
Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
UCS Manager
Physical & Virtual
Unified Compute System
 Provision and manage Windows
Server 2012 physical and virtual
environments supported by Cisco
UCS and Cisco Virtual
Networking Infrastructure.
 UCSM integration is available for
System Center 2012 R2
– Cisco UCS SCOM
Management Pack
– Cisco UCS SCVMM UI
Extension
– Cisco UCS Orchestrator IP
 Cisco UCS PowerTool
 Cisco Nexus 1000V switch
extension for Hyper-V is
available with SC 2012 R2
Integrated
Cisco and
Microsoft stack
Infrastructure
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29. Application Migrations- Server 2003 To
Server 2012 & Azure
Terry Walsh
Area Sales Director
AppZero
twalsh@appzero.com

30. Perficient AppZero Value Prop To Customer
• Accelerate migration timeframes – get to a
newer supported OS faster
• Lower cost – provide migration automation,
eliminate costly labor intensive migrations
• Lower risk – enterprises have apps where
there is little to no knowledge of the app, no
source, no media – how do you move
successfully?

31. Enterprise Application Migration
AppZero does for apps what VMs do for machines
Source Machine Destination Machine
VAA
Discover
Extract
Copy & Run
Dissolve
& install
AppZero extracts existing enterprise applications and packages them
into VAAs that can be provisioned and run natively on any OS,
machine or cloud, fast.

32. Today’s migration options
• Manual installation/scripting
– Often the only way to get applications onto a hosted service (until now)
– Very labor intensive, expensive, and takes a long time
• Virtual Machines (P2V or V2V)
– Requires manual remediation of hostname/IP in the application
– Does not address different OS migration
– Does not address different security, back-up, monitoring migrations
– Slow to migrate; VAA 10 to 100 times smaller/faster to move
– MSP and PaaS destinations only want the app/middleware
• AppZero’s extraction, transformation and rehosting
– App migration is more flexible; change OS, security, monitoring, etc.
– Fastest way to move enterprise applications (minutes vs. days)
– De-risk migrating production applications to the cloud
good
better
Best!

33. Today’s migration options
• Why not Manual installation?
– Significant Prep Time
• Source code MIA, Poor installation documentation
• Vendor’s out of business, developers no longer work at company
– Installing Server Side Applications is hard
• IT really doesn’t know anything about the application
• Very labor intensive, expensive, and takes a long time
– Disrupts the Business
• What about VM-import tools?
– Virtual Machines (P2V or V2V)
• Does not address different OS migration
• Slow to migrate; VAA 10 to 100 times smaller/faster to move

34. Migration Automation
AppZero’s PACE provides a factory approach to migration enabling a
single Systems Engineer to migrate multiple sources in a single session
Migration Wave
N Source Machines
Remote SE
creds.txt
Source App
Inventory
Source
Credentials
XML
N Destination Machines
Indicate Apps
To Migrate
Gather App
Components
Migrated Apps
Assessment and Discovery
• Inventories applications and app
components across multiple machines
• Generates output in open CSV and
XML formats
• Integrates with other discovery tools
like TADDM, ADDM and SI and
enterprise-specific migration
management portals
Migration
• Parallelizes multiple application migrations
across source servers
• Minimizes downtime by pre-extracting app
components
• Migrates only those application that are
selected by the user
• Prebuilds VAA in advance of app
downtime window

35. Near-Zero Downtime Migration
Source
Pre-Populate
Destination
• Partial migration of app complete with a majority
of static files moved to destination
• Extract while source applications are running
• All artifacts are migrated to the destination with
the exception of those that are locked DBFs
Pre-Populate VAA
EXEs Config EXEs Config
• A generalized application source and destination
re-synchronization set of features
• UPDATE – Synchronize only newer objects from
source without removing any objects that are
newer or have been created on destination
• MIRROR – Synchronize all modified objects with
source, removing or updating any objects created
or modified on destination
Source Destination
DBFs
Tether Sync (UPDATE)
EXEs Config
EXEs Config
Re-sync
Source Destination
DBFs
Tether Sync (MIRROR)
EXEs Config
EXEs Config

36. AppZero migration – Disrupt the status quo
Application extracted on demand from
source machine (datacenter or cloud) to target machine - Azure
App migration
Source Destination

37. Considerations / Limitations
Avoid infrastructure/OS Apps:
−16 bits apps
− AD controller
− Exchange / Sharepoint
− Antivirus
− Backup
− System level tools (debuggers)
− Internet Explorer
− (*) SAP
Pain to do:
−Apps with proprietary kernel drivers (i.e printers)
requires Appzero support

38. The good
• The good are apps that we have tested or
customers/partners have tested. Scripting
might be required.
– Custom and proprietary apps
– 3rd party packaged applications
– JEE, Java middleware, JSE app
– IIS, .NET, .ASP
– Open source: PHP, Python, WAMP
– DB Server: Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, Sybase
– Desktop apps

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