Windows Server 2012 VDI/RDS Infrastructure and Management • Tanawit Chansuchai, Virtualization Infrastructure Specialist • Metro Systems Corporation Public Co., Ltd. Centralized Anywhere, Management Any Device TitleVDI of helps deliver on this promise. Windows Server 2012 provides a scalable, easy to manage, Presentationand high fidelity VDI solution. Data• Speaker Name, Title BYOD Security• Microsoft Corporation 3 Remote Desktop Services architecture Remote Desktop Web farm Remote Desktop Windows ServerServer 20082012 RemoteConnection Desktop RemoteVirtualization Desktop Host Remote Desktop ConnectionBroker RemoteVirtualization Desktop Host ConnectionBroker Virtualization Host Broker • Active/activeRDCB : Support high Active availability / Passive mode mode for brokers Remote Desktop Title of RemoteWeb Desktop Access • RDWeb Scale out as a farm of web server Remote Desktop Web Access Remote Desktop Hyper-V • Scale-Out File Server and resiliency Web Access • RDG Scale out as a farm of web server Connection Broker cluster • Requires Microsoft SQL Server • RDVH : A Hyper-V Server , It work as a SQL Server Clustering • AutomaticHyperVPresentationCluster. data migration from single Database Remote Desktop SessionRemote Host Desktop SessionRemote Host Desktop • InstanceRDLS : Support to high availabilitycluster mode Session Host • RDSH : TS Farm Remote Desktop RemoteGateway Desktop RemoteGateway Desktop Gateway • Speaker Name, Title Remote Desktop Remote Desktop RemoteLicensing Desktop Session Host farm Web farm RemoteLicensing Desktop • Microsoft Corporation Licensing Cluster 4 Powered by Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Desktop Sessions Pooled VMs Personal VMs 1 platform | 1 experience | 3 deployment choices Efficient Management Best Value for VDI Rich Experience everywhere 5 Simple to deploy, intuitive to manage, easy to expand at scale Easy Deployment Unified Administration Streamlined VM Management 6 EFFICIENT Easy Deployment with automation MANAGEMENT Title of Set up a simple VDI Create virtual machines deploymentPresentation easily and quickly automatically with settings • Speaker Name, Title Use wizard-based setup and deployment• Microsoft for multiple Corporation scenarios 7 EFFICIENT Unified administration that is intuitive to MANAGEMENT manage Title of Offer consistent publishing Presentationapplications and desktops Provide• Speaker one, integrated Name, Title console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual Automate and manage at scale machines• Microsoft Corporationwith Windows PowerShell 8 EFFICIENT Streamlined management of virtual MANAGEMENT Machines for scalability Title of Use master images for personal Presentationand pooled virtual machines • Speaker Name, Title Accelerate system preparation, Avoid patch storms by queuing optimize logons, and provide • Microsoft Corporationmaintenance updates automatic rollbacks 9 Key Platform Capabilities A B C D E F User Disks Fair Share Storage Highly Available 10 BEST VALUE User Profile Disk FOR VDI A B C Title of D E F Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or Presentationsessions • Speaker Name, Title Simplify deployment of lower- Store user data and settings on cost VDIs (pooled virtual • Microsoft Corporationa separate virtual hard disk machines and sessions) 11 BEST VALUE FOR VDI Benefits • Available with pooled virtual machine collections and remote desktop session host collections • Stores all user settings and data User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine • Contains roaming user profile, Folder collections Redirection cache, and user environment virtualization • Roams with user within collection • Appears as a local disk and improves application compatibility User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections 12 BEST VALUE Fair Share FOR VDI Title of Dynamically distribute resources (bandwidth, CPU, Presentationand I/O) Help• Speakerensure high performance Name, Title across user virtual machines Apply to both sessions and and• sessionsMicrosoft Corporationvirtual machines 13 BEST VALUE Multiple storage options FOR VDI Title of Use direct-attached storage, network-attached Presentationstorage, and clustered or SAN storage • Speaker Name, Title Reduce storage cost while Provide configuration options maximizing I/O operations per • Microsoft Corporationto optimize for tiered storage second 14 BEST VALUE FOR VDI New in WS2012 • Storage Spaces • SMB3, Hyper-V • Cluster Storage Volume • Scale-out File Server An example configuration 15 BEST VALUE Detail : High Availability FOR VDI Web Farm New in WS2012: Active/Active HA mode for Broker Remote Desktop RemoteConnection Desktop Broker Remote Desktop Scale out and resiliency RemoteConnection Desktop Broker RemoteVirtualization Desktop Host Requires SQL Server Connection Broker RemoteVirtualization Desktop Host Virtualization Host Automatic data migration Remote Desktop from single instance to HA RemoteWeb Desktop Access RemoteWeb Desktop Access Title ofRemote Desktop Web Access Connection Broker HyperV Cluster SQL Cluster PresentationDatabase Remote Desktop Session Remote HostDesktop Session Remote HostDesktop Session Host Remote Desktop Remote• Speaker Desktop Name, Title Gateway RemoteGateway Desktop Gateway Remote Desktop Web RemoteLicensing Desktop Farm• Microsoft CorporationRemoteLicensing Desktop Licensing RDSH Farm Cluster 16 Detail : GPU Choice CPU-Emulated DirectX 11 software GPU provides 3D capabilities to sessions and VMs at high scale Optimized for knowledge worker workloads, such as Office, Web Browsing Highest scaleTitle for Session of Host and VDI RemoteFX vGPU provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPUPresentation for VDI, optimized for Best performance for 3D graphics-intensive applications Best experience with full shading, animations and transitions •BestSpeaker application Name, compatibility, Title running as a console session in VM • Microsoft Corporation 17 Detail: GPU Choices Title of Presentation • Speaker Name, Title • Microsoft Corporation 18 Text content Image content Video and animations 19 20 RemoteFX for WAN Benefits Combines RemoteFX adaptive Delivers a great user graphics with intelligent WAN-aware transports experience beyond corporate networks • Automatic choiceTitle of TCP or secure UDP of transport • Branch offices • Detects and tunes graphics to network • Wireless devices dynamically and automatically Presentation • Work-from-home offices • Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway • Roaming users on 3G/4G networks • Speaker Name, Title Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience • Microsoft Corporation 21 Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and video Decreases bandwidth Supports redirection consumption as of Windows Media much as 90 percent Provides server-side video detection for other media types 22 RemoteFX USB device redirection • Can be used with all scenarios • Physical, virtual, or session desktop Isochronous RemoteFX • No GPU neededTitle of transfer USB • Isolates devices to the user’s session Device • Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, Redirection includingPresentation those requiring isochronous transfers • Speaker Name, Title • Microsoft Corporation 23 Rich Experience Everywhere RemoteFX delivers a consistently rich user experience to users over LAN or WAN (irrespective of deployment model) RemoteFX TitleCorporate of LAN Hardware and Software GPUs Rich multimedia USB Presentation Redirection Multi Touch WAN acceleration • Internet or Speaker Name, Title Single Sign On WAN • Microsoft Corporation 24 • By default, RemoteFX balances bandwidth and scale to give best UX • Group policies help customize deployments differently Optimize only for scale or only for bandwidth Adjust visual quality of images, e.g. lossless mode for workloads with pixel perfect need Enforce choice of transport – UDP / TCP • New performance counters to monitor and troubleshoot bandwidth and UX 25 • Optimize IOPS in Virtual Machine (Windows 7) As a Caching Tier on SAN/NAS By creating Hybrid SSD/SAS storage arrays As local disk to store the Base Image as a read- • Optimize Bandwidth (RemoteFX) Manage Group policy (RemoteFX) Optimize quality of content 26 Optimize IOPS in Virtual Machine 27 Optimize Bandwidth RemoteFX 28 Comparing and Reducing VDI Costs Management Costs Compute Costs SAN Storage Costs DAS Storage Costs Personal VMs EachWith Image App- V=, OS+App+User Data + App-V Title of EachStorage user forhas apps a personal image Pooled VMs + Storage for OS images User Disk + Presentation Images to manage App-V Sessions + Server infrastructure User Disk + Management effort App• -VSpeaker Name, Title Costs • Microsoft Corporation 29 Zero Client 30 Title of Presentation • Speaker Name, Title • Microsoft Corporation 31.