Windows Server 2012 Evaluation Guide
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Title of document EvaluationSubtitle goes here Guide Windows Server 2012 Contents Abstract ....................................................................................... 6 Introduction ............................................................................... 7 Cloud Optimize Your IT with Windows Server 2012 ....... 9 Preview for Windows Server 2012 .................................... 13 Active Directory ...................................................................... 16 Automation and Management .......................................... 20 BranchCache ........................................................................... 28 Cluster-Aware Updating ...................................................... 32 Data Deduplication ............................................................... 34 Datacenter Diskless Boot ..................................................... 36 Dynamic Access Control ...................................................... 38 Encrypted Hard Drive ........................................................... 46 Failover Clustering ................................................................. 47 High Availability for DHCP Server Service ....................... 59 High-Performance, Highly Available File Share Storage for Server Applications ......................................................... 63 Hyper-V Automation Support ............................................ 68 Hyper-V Dynamic Memory ................................................. 71 Hyper-V Network Virtualization ......................................... 73 Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer ..................................... 79 Hyper-V Replica ..................................................................... 80 Hyper-V Resource Metering ............................................... 81 Hyper-V Support for Large Sector Disks ......................... 83 Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel ........................................... 85 Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk Format .................................... 88 Hyper-V Virtual Switch ......................................................... 89 Hyper-V Support for Scaling Up and Scaling Out ........ 94 Installation Options ............................................................... 97 IP Address Management ................................................... 103 iSCSI High-Availability Block Storage ............................. 112 Moving Virtual Machine Storage ..................................... 114 Multiple-Terabyte Volumes .............................................. 116 Network Adapter Teaming ............................................... 118 Performance Offloads for Accelerating Network IO .. 122 Quality of Service ................................................................. 125 Rapid and Efficient Data Movement Using Intelligent Storage Arrays ...................................................................... 129 Windows Server 2012: Evaluation Guide 3 3 Remote Access ..................................................................... 131 Remote Desktop Services .................................................. 140 Resilient File System ............................................................ 148 Secure Naming Services .................................................... 150 Server Core and Full Server Integration ........................ 155 Server for NFS Data Store ................................................. 156 Storage Management ........................................................ 158 Storage Spaces .................................................................... 160 Thin Provisioning and Trim Storage ............................... 162 Unified Remote Management for File Services ............ 163 User-Device Affinity ............................................................ 164 Virtual Machine Live Migration ........................................ 166 Virtual Machine Import Wizard ........................................ 170 Windows Server 2012 Edition Overview ........................ 172 List of charts, tables, and figures .................................... 175 Windows Server 2012: Evaluation Guide 4 4 Copyright Information © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is provided “as-is.” Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet website references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. Some examples are for illustration only and are fictitious. No real association is intended or inferred. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. Windows Server 2012: Evaluation Guide 5 5 Abstract This evaluation guide is designed to help you understand the design goals, feature set, and implementation of Microsoft Windows Server 2012. The guide provides an overview of key features and benefits provided by Windows Server 2012. This guide is designed to help you perform a thorough and effective evaluation of Windows Server 2012, and is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows Server 2012. This guide is not a comprehensive explanation of the capabilities in Windows Server 2012; instead, it highlights the main feature areas that can help you understand and evaluate Windows Server 2012. For the latest information about Windows Server 2012, including a link to the download location for the Windows Server 2012 release, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2012/. Windows Server 2012: Evaluation Guide 6 6 Introduction The goal of this guide is to help you understand the value of Windows Server 2012 and to evaluate its features and benefits. Cloud computing can present many opportunities for helping you solve your organization’s fundamental business and IT challenges. Adopting a consistent, integrated approach is one of the most effective ways to build a private cloud, offer cloud services, or more securely connect to clouds. It is also beneficial to take advantage of new applications and services that can be deployed on-premises and in public cloud environments. Windows Server 2012 brings the Microsoft cloud experience to you—from building and operating public clouds to delivering the most dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform for the private cloud. It provides solutions to help you optimize your IT for the cloud so you can fully meet your organization’s unique needs. Windows Server 2012 delivers value in four key ways: It takes you beyond virtualization. By offering a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure that can help you scale and secure workloads and cost-effectively build a Microsoft private cloud, Windows Server 2012 can help you provide: A complete virtualization platform – A fully isolated, multitenant environment features tools that can help guarantee service level agreements (SLAs), enable chargebacks through usage-based billing, and support self-service delivery. Increased scalability and performance – A high-density, highly scalable environment can be modified to perform at the optimum level based on your needs. Connectivity to cloud services – A common identity and management framework enables highly secure and reliable cross-premises connectivity. It delivers the power of many servers, with the simplicity of one. By integrating a highly available and easy-to-manage multi-server platform, Windows Server 2012 can help you provide: Continuous availability – New and improved features offer cost-effective, high IT service uptime. They are designed to endure failures without disrupting services to users. Management efficiency – The automation of an even broader set of management tasks and the simplified deployment and virtualization of major workloads offer a path to full lights-out automation. Cost efficiency – The use of commodity storage, networking, and server infrastructure and increased power efficiency offer improved acquisition and operating economics. Windows Server 2012: Evaluation Guide 7 7 It opens the door to every app on any cloud. By offering a broad, scalable, and elastic server platform that gives you the flexibility to build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment, Windows Server 2012 can help you deliver: Flexibility to build on-premises and in the cloud – Developers can use a consistent set of tools and frameworks to build symmetrical or hybrid applications between the datacenter and the cloud. A scalable and elastic infrastructure – Windows Server 2012 offers service providers new features to increase website density and efficiency, and provides frameworks, services, and tools to increase scalability and elasticity for multitenant-enabled applications. Windows Server 2012 enables service providers to more effectively build, provision, and manage hosting environments. An open web and application development environment – Windows Server 2012 enables mission- critical applications and enhanced support for open standards, open source applications, and various development languages. Modern workstyle, enabled. By empowering your IT professionals to provide users with flexible access to data and applications while simplifying management and maintaining security, control, and compliance, Windows Server 2012 can help you offer: Access to applications and data from virtually anywhere on nearly any device – Easier, on-demand access to virtualized work environments is available