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Examples
• Rented Virtual Servers
Shared or Dedicated
• Disaster Recovery
• Rented virtual
database servers
• Database-as-a-Service
• Lync, SharePoint,
Exchange, Dynamics
• CRM, ERP, LOB apps
• Custom LOB apps
• Ecommerce sites
• Company websites
• Gaming &
entertainment
• Windows desktops for
students or call centers
• Mobile sales team
apps
Network
Virtualization
Disaster
Recovery with
Hyper-V Replica
VM Scalability
& Performance
Live Storage
Migration &
Shared Nothing
Live Migration
Granular
Resource
Metering
Hyper-V
Extensible
Switch
Web-Farm
Scalability with
IIS8
Storage Spaces
Data DeDuplication
RDS
Improvements
for Desktop
Hosting
Gartner Magic Quadrant, 2011
Al Gillen – IDC
Source: Worldwide Systems Infrastructure Software Top 10 Predictions- Dec. 2011
“Microsoft has grasped the
fundamental truth about the
transition to cloud.”
“Poised against the current
features of VMware and
one-upped.”
“Microsoft claims 300 new
features… we wonder whether the
marketing guys left off a zero.”
Richard Fichera - Forrester Research
Tom Henderson - IT World
Brian Chee and Doug Dineley
- InfoWorld
Foundation for Hosting Service Provider Offers
Service
Delivery & Automation
Application
Management
Infrastructure
Management
Windows Server 2012
Web
Virtualization
Applications
Networking
Remote Desktop Services
Storage
Availability
Scalability
Security
Management
Microsoft
Category
Resource
Windows Server
2008 R2
Windows Server
2012
vSphere 5.0
Enterprise Plus
Advantage
384
1,024
512
Microsoft
64 GB
1 TB
1 TB
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Virtual Processors per VM
4
32
32
-
Maximum Nodes
16
64
32
Microsoft
1,000
4,000
3,000
Microsoft
High performance with SR-IOV
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
Native 4-KB Disk Support
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
Maximum Virtual Disk Size
2 TB
64 TB
2 TB
Microsoft
Encrypted Cluster Storage
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
Open Extensible Switch
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
-
4
2
Microsoft
Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines
Yes
Yes
No
Microsoft
Resource Metering
No
Yes
Partner
Microsoft
1GB Simultaneous Live Migrations
1
Unlimited
4
Microsoft
10GB Simultaneous Live Migrations
1
Unlimited
8
Microsoft
Shared Nothing Live Migration
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
Network Virtualization
No
Yes
Partner
Microsoft
Guest OS Application Monitoring
Yes
Yes
Partner
Microsoft
Guest Clustering with Live Migration
No
Yes
No
Microsoft
Active VMs per Host
VM
Scalability/
Performance/
Density
Cluster
Network
Storage
Secure Multi-tenancy
Flexible Infrastructure
High Availability
VMware
Memory per VM
Maximum VMs
Confirmed Partner Extensions
1,248,600
Microsoft is 1/4 the cost of VMware’s RAM-based pricing
Hosting Revenue and Margins for a Single VM Rented for 365 Days
Per VM
You can charge, $1,051 annual revenue
Microsoft
(VM with 2GB RAM @ $0.12/hr)
Potential Service Provider Profit
SPLA Core Infrastructure Suite
Cost
$1,009
VMware
$851
Potential Service Provider Profit
VMware Service Provider Program
(VSPP) 3.0 Premier Cost
More
margin
$159
MS Takes
4%
of revenue
VMware
Takes
15.1%
of revenue
$42
Microsoft
$42
VMware
System
Resource
Virtual
machine
Cluster
Improvement
factor
Windows 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
64
160
2.5×
Physical memory
1 TB
2 TB
2×
Virtual processors per host
512
1,024
2×
Virtual processors per VM
4
32
8×
Memory per virtual machine
64 GB
1 TB
16×
Maximum size per virtual disk
2 TB
64 TB
32x
Active virtual machines
384
1,024
2.7×
Nodes per clusters
16
64
4×
1,000
4,000
4×
Logical processors on hardware
Host
Maximum number
Virtual machines per clusters
Shared Nothing Live Migration of
VMs without requirement of
shared storage
Storage Spaces and Storage Pools:
Pooled storage that supports
commodity HW and is easily managed
and expanded.
Continuously available file server:
Benefits of a SAN out-of-the-box
Rapid VM Provisioning & Migration
with ODX and intelligent storage arrays
De-duplication & thinprovisioning out-of-the-box
Support for VMware ESX virtual
machine storage via NFS data stores
Network Virtualization
IP Mobility: Move workloads without changing network configurations or
reconfiguring physical networks
Extensible Switch
Improved virtual machine traffic isolation, prioritization, security, usage metering, and
trouble shooting. Build your own extensions for the offers and SLAs you deliver to
customers!
NIC Teaming out-of-the-box
Improved fault tolerance, traffic management, and works for all vendors
Quality of Service
Guarantee minimum services bandwidth while maximizing network throughput
Extensible Switch provides isolation for multi-tenancy
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Private virtual local area network (PVLAN)
Virtual port access control lists (ACLs)
Virtual LAN (VLAN) trunk mode support
Protection against Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) poisoning, spoofing, and DHCP snooping
Resource Metering to prevent noisy neighbors & enable premium services
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Average CPU usage, measured in megahertz over a period of time
Minimum & Maximum memory usage
Maximum amount of disk space allocated to a virtual machine
Total incoming / outgoing network traffic, measured in megabytes, for a virtual network adapter
IIS Sandboxing & CPU metering
• Website isolation for improved security
• SLA improvements via CPU metering
Storage Spaces
• ACLs provide isolation for multi-tenancy
PowerShell 3.0: Automation Engine
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Simplifies administration of multiple servers, even in multiple sites
Offers path toward full automation
Makes cmdlets easier to learn
Makes new scripts easier to write
Cluster Aware Update Management
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Eliminates downtime associated with cluster updating
Simplifies cluster updates through configurable automation
Transparent to users and hosted applications
Extensible to install even non-Windows software updates through custom plug-ins
Integration with System Center 2012
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End-to-end automation
Comprehensive deployment and updating for virtualized and physical server deployments
Monitoring of hardware, operating systems and applications!
New Hosted Business Opportunities with Windows Server 2012
Higher-Scale, Higher Performance, and Lower-Cost
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Improved scalability
Unlimited virtualization for Datacenter Edition
More choice to use commodity HW devices (storage/network)
Storage and Network performance improvements
Multi-Tenancy & Isolation
• Resource Metering
• Security and isolation with network switch and improved ACLs
• Dynamic placement workloads across premises
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Live Storage Migration
• Shared Nothing Live Migration
• Hyper-V Replica
Resource Metering
• Average CPU / average physical memory usage
• Minimum / maximum memory usage
• Incoming / outgoing network traffic
Hyper-V Replica enables new disaster recovery solutions.
Rapidly Growing Business Opportunity
• Expand customers’ datacenter from on-premises to hosting SP’s datacenter
• Premium service within Hosting SP’s datacenter
Disaster recovery solution
• Storage-agnostic and workload-agnostic solution
• Efficiently, periodically, and asynchronously over IP-based networks
• Works across different storage systems
Service Provider benefit
• Identical storage not required. Leverage existing storage hardware
• Replication solutions at the right cost
IIS scalability improvements
Increased Site Density, Configuration performance improvement for multi-tenant scenarios, SSL via
SNI, Memory via NUMA advances
Improved support for asynchronous operations and client-driven
Web apps
Designed for rich HTML5 applications.
SSL Manageability via Central Certificate Store
IIS Sandboxing and CPU Metering
Great desktop experience even over slow bandwidth!
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RemoteFX for WAN, Adaptive Graphics, Multi-Touch, USB Redirection, and Media Remoting
Metro-style Remote Desktop App
Personal User Disk
Access virtually anywhere from any device with full Windows
experience
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PCs and laptops, Mobile tablets, Thin clients, Non-corporate PCs, USB flash drive-based flexible
workspaces, and session or virtual desktop environments
Simpler deployment and management
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Simplified deployment and management of pooled and personal desktops
Lower-cost storage options
Use of either storage area network (SAN) or direct attached storage (DAS) for pooled scenarios
Ideal for highly virtualized offers
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Ideal for non-virtualized & dedicated
server offers
Only 16% more over Windows Server standalone licenses
Unlimited end-to-end management and unlimited virtualization for one low price with DC edition.
Per-proc based licensing for virtualization scenarios.
Unlike VMware, no increase in licensing costs as VM density increases.
CIS Standard optimized for dedicated server offers.
“Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing has ever
been this ambitious.”  Jason Perlow, ZDNet
“Microsoft knows they need to be very active in the cloud.
And System Center 2012 will be one of its bigger power plays
this year.”  David Marshall, InfoWorld
“SQL Server 2012 delivers ROI of up to 189% with a 1-year
payback period.”  Forrester Consulting Study, Total Economic Impact of SQL Server
2012 Upgrade, March 2012