Aidan Finn is a technical sales lead who has worked in IT since 1996. He is an MVP for virtual machines and publishes books on topics like Windows Server, Hyper-V, and System Center. Microsoft released many new products and features in 2012, including Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, and System Center 2012. Key new capabilities included 64 vCPUs and 1TB RAM per virtual machine, live migration options, and Storage Spaces. The System Center suite provides a complete private or hybrid cloud solution with capabilities for virtual machine management, monitoring, backup, automation, and more through a single product. This allows IT to deliver services to the business easily while abstracting the underlying infrastructure.

2. About Aidan Finn
• Technical Sales Lead at MicroWarehouse
• MSFT Value Added Distributor in Dublin, Ireland
• Working in IT since 1996
• MVP (Virtual Machine)
• Experienced with Windows Server/Desktop, System Center,
virtualisation, and IT infrastructure
• @joe_elway
• http://www.aidanfinn.com
• http://www.petri.co.il
• Published author/contributor of several books

3. Wow, What A Year!
• New everything was released!
• Windows 8 Client Hyper-V (Pro and Enterprise editions)
• Windows Serer 2012 (including RDS & Hyper-V) & Hyper-V Server
2012
• System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
• Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
• Service Provider Foundation (SPF)
• Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (aka “Katal”)

4. The Cloud OS & Beyond Virtualisation: Just Marketing?

5. • All New Networking
• Extensible virtual switch
• Hyper-V Network Virtualization
(Software Defined Networking)
• Scalable workloads
• 64 vCPUs/VM
• 1 TB RAM/VM
• Virtualize almost all workloads
• Disaster recovery
• Hyper-V Replica
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
• Investments in storage
• 64 TB 4K sector VHDX
• SMB 3.0 (SMB Multichannel &
SMB Direct)
• Scalable storage and
transparent failover
• Mobility and flexibility
• Concurrent Live Migration
• Lots of new Live Migration
options
• Administration:
• Around 2,400 PowerShell
cmdlets

6. • New
• Host designs
• Storage designs
• Backup
• Clustering
• Patching
• And on and on and on and …
• In short, designed for deploying clouds
Need A Day Just To List New Hyper-V Features

7. • What does the business care about?
• The services provided by IT
• What does the business not care about?
• The virtualization layer
• Yes, I know … we IT Pros must care about the
infrastructure
• How about making our job easier while satisfying
the needs of the business?
The Unique Selling Point of Microsoft Cloud OS

8. The Unique Selling Point of Microsoft Cloud OS

9. • Virtual Machine Manager
• Create fabrics and deploy clouds
• VM Templates and Service Templates
• App Controller
• Self-service portal for on premise and public clouds
• Operations Manager
• Monitor infrastructure from network to application
• Service monitoring from business perspective
• Data Protection Manager
• Backup locally and to Windows Azure Online Backup
One Product With All The Components

10. • Configuration Manager
• Device lifecycle management
• Endpoint Protection
• Antivirus
• Orchestrator
• Deploy runbooks to automate
• Integrate Hyper-V, System Center, AD, vSphere, Exchange …
• Service Manager
• Run IT as a service to the business
One Product With All The Components

11. Simple Private Cloud
Scale-Out File Server
Non-clustered Hyper-V
Hosts w/ Live Migration
64 Node Hyper-V Cluster
Block Storage SAN
Admins &
Delegated Admins
App Controller
End Users
SCVMM

12. Bigger Private Cloud
Admins &
Delegated Admins
Service Manager
The Business
SCVMM
Hyper-V
vSphere
XenServer
Orchestrator
DPM
Operations Manager
Active Directory
Exchange

13. Hybrid Clouds
Hyper-V
VMM
Hyper-V
Coke
SCVMM
End Users
Service Provider
Foudation
End Users
End Users
Hosting Customers
Windows Azure
Orchestrator
Independent Hosting Company
VPN
VPN
Windows Azure Services
For Windows Server

14. This Is Not A Marketing Slide Any More

15. Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Secondary Site
VMM VMM
Direct Site-Site Replication
Hyper-V
Recovery
Manager
Admins
Configure Replication &
Failover Orcestration
Admins
Initiate Failover
Primary Site

16. • There is much more to the Microsoft story than
virtualisation
• No one that matters cares about 4 TB RAM/host, 8,000 VMs
per cluster, etc
• Microsoft is thinking BIGGER … a business solution
• IT as a Service
• Automation
• Scalable, flexible, empowered …
• Where do you want your service to run today?
Summary

17. Thank You!
• @joe_elway
• http://www.aidanfinn.com
• http://www.petri.co.il