Module 6: VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

1. Module 6: VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2 Rick Claus Microsoft Sr. Technical Evangelist Corey Hynes Lead Technical Architect, holSystems

2. Jump Start Target Agenda VDI with Windows Server 2012 R2

3. Talk with our Experts in Chat tool. #WS2012R2JS Hands-On Labs DOWNLOAD Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview aka.ms/ws2012r2 DOWNLOAD System Center 2012 R2 Preview aka.ms/sc2012r2 http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com System Center 2012 R2 Jumpstart July 15th - http://aka.ms/SCR2JS

4. Apps Today’s challenges Deploying and managing applicationsacross platforms is difficult. Devices Users Data Usersexpect to be able to work in any location and have access to all their work resources. The explosion of devicesis eroding the standards-based approach to corporate IT. Users need to be productive while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.

5. People-centric IT Enable your end users Allow users to work on the devices of their choice and provide consistent access to corporate resources. Unify your environment Deliver a unified application and device managementon-premises and in the cloud. Apps Data Devices Users Protect your data Help protect corporate information and manage risk. Management. Access. Protection.

6. Why Microsoft VDI? Enable users to access corporate apps and data from any device/any location Protect against loss and leaks ofsensitive corporate data Delivergreat user experience Centrally administer and manage desktops Why Microsoft VDI? Balance user requirements with corporate compliance Save resources with the flexible storage options right to your environment Reduce time to deploy applications and updates

7. VDI with Windows Server 2012 Pooled VMs Powered by Windows Server 2012 Desktop sessions Personal VMs 1 platform • 1 experience • 3 deployment choices Firewall Corporate Office Home Branch Office Public Location

8. Choosing the Right VDI Architecture Sessions Pooled VMs Personal VMs Good Better Best Personalization App compatibility Ease of management Cost effectiveness

9. Solution Principles Rich User Experience Efficient Management Best Value for VDI User Profile Disk maintains user personalization in pooled deployments. Easy deployment automates deploying and configuring server roles. RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN) dynamically detects network conditions and tunes experience. Unified administration uses a single, integrated console for management. Fair Share dynamically distributes bandwidth, CPU, and disk use. Graphics processing unit (GPU) support for both physical and software GPUs. USB redirection enables access to locally attached devices in remote desktops. Flexible storage options support direct-attached, network-attached, or storage area network (SAN) storage of virtual machines. Streamlined management helps IT manage pooled and personal virtual machines. Seamless experience supports multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu integration.

10. Efficient management with simple deployment, intuitive administration, and scalability Streamlined management of virtual machines Unified administration Remote Desktop Services installation wizard Automated deployment and configuration Simplifies management of pooled and personal virtual machines Admin tools integrated in server manager Session Shadowing

11. Easy deployment with automation Set up a simple VDI deployment easily and quickly Create virtual machines automatically with settings Use wizard-based setup and deployment for multiple scenarios

12. Unified administration that is intuitive to manage Automate and manage at scale with Windows PowerShell Offer consistent publishing applications and desktops Provide one, integrated console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual machines Session Shadowing integrated with console

13. Streamlined management of virtual machines for scalability Accelerate system preparation, optimize logons, and provide automatic rollbacks Avoid patch storms by queuing maintenance updates Use master images for personal and pooled virtual machines

14. Demo VDI deployment, administration, and management

15. Best value for VDI with key platform capabilities Fair Share User Profile Disk Multiple storage options Support direct attached, network, or SAN storage of virtual machines. Automatic Tiering and Deduplication • Maintain user personalization in pooled deployments Dynamically distribute bandwidth, CPU, and disk use High availability for all roles

16. User Profile Disk Session Host VDI Simplify deployment of lower-cost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions) Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk

17. Personalization with User Profile Disk What should I deploy? User Profile DiskWith every virtual machine pool and remote desktop session host collection User environment virtualizationTo apply roam settings across collections Folder RedirectionTo apply roaming user data across collections To centralize user data backup • Benefits • Available with pooled virtual machine collections and remote desktop session host collections • Stores all user settings and data • Contains roaming user profile, Folder Redirection cache, and user environment virtualization • Roams with user within collection • Appears as a local disk and improves application compatibility • User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine collections • User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections

18. Fair Share I/O Helps ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions Dynamically distributes resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O) Apply to both sessions and virtual machines

19. Multiple storage options Reduce storage cost by leveraging disk deduplication Leverage tiered storage to automatically optimize performance Use direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and clustered or SAN storage

20. Storage options Sample configuration • Windows Server 2012 • Storage spaces • Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) and Hyper-V SMB support • Cluster storage volume • Scale-out file server • Online disk dedupe and tiered storage Hyper V SMB Scale out file server • VDI storage configuration • Direct-attached, central SMB, or central CSV / SAN • Storage location of User Profile Disks, parent virtual hard disk, and virtual machines can be configured separately for each collection • Optimum use of high I/O operations per second versus high volume storage Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space Block based storage Storage Pool Storage Pool Storage Pool

21. Comparing and reducing VDI costs Management Costs Compute Costs With Application Virtualization and storage for apps DAS Storage Costs Each image = OS + application +user data Each user has a personal image Storage savings • + App-v and disk dedupelication Reduce costs across all deployment types by using Windows 8 and direct-attached storage (DAS). DAS is approximately 25% the cost of SAN. Storage for OS images Images to manage DAS savings DAS savings DAS savings Storage for OS images Images to manage Server infrastructure management effort Costs SAN Storage Costs • Personal virtual machines • Sessions + • User Profile Disk + Application Virtualization • Pooledvirtualmachines + • User Profile Disk + • Application Virtualization

22. High availability Further increase density by using Remote Desktop Session Host (greater than 2x compared to virtual machines) Experience up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines per cluster with Hyper-V Use a scale-out file server and Hyper-V clustering Improve with active/active broker

23. High availability Web farm Hyper-V cluster With Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Connection Broker Remote Desktop Virtualization Host • Active/active high availability mode for brokers • Scale-out file server and resiliency • Requires Microsoft SQL Server • Automatic data migration from single instance to high availability Remote Desktop Web Access Remote Desktop Web Access Remote Desktop Connection Broker Remote Desktop Session Host Database Web farm Remote Desktop Licensing Remote Desktop Gateway Remote Desktop Session Host farm Remote Desktop Gateway Remote Desktop Session Host SQL Server Clustering Cluster Remote Desktop Licensing Remote Desktop Virtualization Host

24. Rich user experience with RemoteFX RemoteFX for WAN Seamless experience USB redirection GPU support Enable access to locally attached devices in remote desktops • Support both physical and software GPUs Support multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu/screen integration • Dynamically detect network conditions and tune experience

25. DIRECTACCES What is a rich user experience? Ability to serve desktop apps to Windows RT tablet users RemoteApp programs integrate seamlessly with local desktop Adaptive graphics remoting based on content type Full single sign-on Reconnect feature for ease of movement across devices Full multitouch and gesture remoting Crisp text always Aero always on, rich new Windows UI

26. RemoteFX over LAN or WAN • RemoteFX delivers a consistently richuser experience to users over LAN or WAN(regardless of deployment model) Hardware and software GPUs Rich multimedia USB redirection Corporate LAN Multitouch WAN acceleration Single sign-on Internet or WAN

27. RemoteFX adaptive graphics Text Content Image Content Video/Animations

28. RemoteFX progressive rendering

29. RemoteFX for WAN Benefits • Delivers a great user experience beyond corporate networks • Branch offices • Wireless devices • Work-from-home offices • Roaming users on 3G/4G networks • Combines RemoteFX adaptive graphics with intelligent WAN-aware transports • Automatic choice of TCP or secure UDP transport • Detects and tunes graphics to network dynamically and automatically • Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience

30. RemoteFX Media Streaming Supports redirection of Windows Media Decreases bandwidth consumption as much as 90% Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and video Provides server-side video detection for other media types Media Streaming

31. RemoteFX USB device redirection • Can be used with all scenarios • Physical, virtual, or session desktop • No GPU needed • Isolates devices to the user’s session • Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals, including those requiring isochronous transfers USB Device Redirection Isochronous transfer RemoteFXUSB Device Redirection

32. Choice of GPU on server

33. New for R2 DX11.1 support and improved Codec performance Improved RemoteApp behavior Quick Reconnect Dynamically Add/Remove monitors

34. Demo User experience improvements in VDI

35. Top features to answer challenges Rich User Experience Efficient Management Best Value for VDI • Single-management UI for simplification • Scenario and advanced administration • Active/active connection brokering • Windows PowerShell administration across Remote Desktop Services • Reduced number of roles to manage • Increased use cases for pooled desktops • Cheaper storage alternatives • Simplified virtual machine creation, assignment, and patching • Fair Share: network, disk I/O, and processor • GPU is optional, synthetic GPU is supplied • Full partner-extensible platform • Support for WAN • Adaptive encoding • Multitouch • USB remoting for sessions, virtual machines, and physical machines • Simplified user discovery and single sign-on • Remote Desktop web folders and file type association • Easily extensible by partners and customers

36. Talk with our Experts in Chat tool. #WS2012R2JS Hands-On Labs DOWNLOAD Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview aka.ms/ws2012r2 DOWNLOAD System Center 2012 R2 Preview aka.ms/sc2012r2 http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com System Center 2012 R2 Jumpstart July 15th - http://aka.ms/SCR2JS