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1. Taking Advantage of Modern Memory and Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2 June 12, 2015

2. Where we are today with Windows Server 2003 • 20 million WinServer 2003 deployments* • Most are 32 bit on legacy x86 servers • Ongoing support of these servers ends July 14, 2015 • No more critical updates after that date Moving to a more recent version of Windows Server is critical * July 2014

3. Getting the most out of your migration The decision to migrate keys off of two basic principles of IT management Managing TCO Adopting proven new technologies • Costs associated with sustaining legacy technology add-up quickly • Modern server architectures leverage X86 server virtualization and solid state storage (SSDs) It’s critical to understand what’s possible with the OS and new server HW

4. Benefits of migrating: Server virtualization Server virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V provides industry-leading features: • Shared storage, dynamic • storage resizing • Up to 1TB of memory per virtual machine and up to 4TB in total across all VMs • Software-defined networking • Full VM mobility even outside of clusters • 64 vCPU VMs with NUMA support

5. Benefits of migrating: Desktop virtualization Remote Desktop Services (RDS) provide a rich set of capabilities: • Application publishing and driverless printing • Full gateway functionality enabling remote sessions to operate • over HTTPS • Driverless printing • GPU virtualization via RemoteFX(enabling rich graphical applications to run in virtual desktop environments)

6. Benefits of migrating: File services updates are significant Windows File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) enables: • Real-time quotas to control how much space is used • File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) for setting precise file usage policies Real-time screening to refine storage policies • Bitlocker volume level encryption that ensures data protection, for all servers regardless of location

7. Benefits of migrating: Active directory and web application proxy Fine-grained password policies with ability to undelete objects Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), enabling single identities to be used in a secure fashion between trusted organizations Web application proxy integrates with ADFS to perform pre-authentication and enable single sign on (SSO) across multiple services

8. Benefits of migrating: Management PowerShell and Server Manager; multi-server management tools Management tools dynamically provisioned, reducing patching and reboots Use PowerShell command line interface for scripting and to automate any task across Microsoft and partner solutions

9. Using Windows Server 2012 R2 to maximize memory utilization For huge applications, you can break memory into smaller-sized non-NUMA VMs and have multiple SQL Instances Error-correcting code (ECC) enables the memory to detect and fix internal data corruption on the module Hyper-V features Dynamic Memory which monitors memory removing and adding it as required intelligently Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) reduces memory fault by reading the telemetry of the ECC memory and predicting faults NUMA-aware applications such as SQL Server and IIS to intelligently leverage resources in an optimal way

10. Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts Data on SSDs is always available (no waiting for spinning platters) Solid-state drives are now mainstream in Servers Cool, energy-efficient design Speed-of-light read-write performance No-moving-parts reliability = =

11. Leveraging storage improvements: SSD advantages = No performance penalty like those from mechanical HDD parts Data on SSDs is always available (no waiting for spinning platters) Solid-state drives are now mainstream in Servers Cool, energy-efficient design Speed-of-light read-write performance No-moving-parts reliability =

12. How Windows Server 2012 leverage SSDs benefits BitLocker enables encryption only of used space, which avoids operations on unused areas of the SSD Partitions automatically aligned to optimize the SSD + = TRIM enables the OS to notify SSD when areas on disk are deleted, preserving the performance of the SSD and the host server Tiered Storage Spaces distinguish between HDDs and SSDs in a ‘virtual disk’ storage pool, making it possible for Windows to act as an intelligent enterprise storage management solution

13. Update Windows servers to 21st century standards! • Windows Server 2012 R2 leverages the latest virtualization and HW advancements and prepares enterprises to migrate resources to the cloud • Windows Server 2012 R2 also enables the maximum benefit from your infrastructure investments such as memory and SSD storage High performance storage pools Feature-rich server architecture Virtualization built in Cloud integration

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