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2. Why Microsoft for Virtualizing & Managing SharePoint
6/24/2019
Why Microsoft for Virtualizing & Managing SharePoint
Matt McSpirit Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager
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3. Storage & Networking 6/24/2019
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4. Enhanced Storage Capabilities
Windows Server Management Marketing
6/24/2019
Enhanced Storage Capabilities
Greater performance & flexibility for Exchange Server VMs
Offloaded Data Transfer
Offloads storage- intensive tasks to the SAN to increase performance
Native 4K Disk Support
Take advantage of enhanced density and reliability to support key Exchange Server VMs
Virtual Fibre Channel
Connect an Exchange VM directly to FC SAN to drive high levels of native storage performance
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5. Enhanced Storage Capabilities
Windows Server Management Marketing
6/24/2019
Enhanced Storage Capabilities
Greater performance & flexibility for Exchange Server VMs
64TB Virtual Hard Disks
Increased capacity, protection & alignment optimization for Exchange Server VMs
Online Virtual Disk Resize*
Grow and shrink virtual disks attached to running virtual machines, with no downtime, providing flexibility for IT Admin
Storage QoS*
Prevent storage consumption from busy VMs whilst providing consistency to others.
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 *
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6. Lowering Storage Costs for SharePoint VMs
Windows Server Management Marketing
6/24/2019
Lowering Storage Costs for SharePoint VMs
Whilst delivering enterprise-class performance & reliability
Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces
Aggregates high-volume, low cost storage into Storage Pools. These are sliced into Storage Spaces, which can be striped, mirrored, or use parity.
Storage Tiering*
Storage Pools can mix HDD & SSD & automatically move hot data to SSD to increase performance.
Scale-Out-File Server
Multiple file servers provide increased performance & resiliency, creating clustered storage pools & spaces
Scale-Out File Server
Physical Disks
Storage Pools
Storage Spaces
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 *
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7. Lowering Storage Costs for SharePoint VMs
Windows Server Management Marketing
6/24/2019
Lowering Storage Costs for SharePoint VMs
Whilst delivering enterprise-class performance & reliability
SQL Server VMs can also store databases & logs directly on SMB 3.0 shares
Windows Server 2012 R2 - SMB 3.0
High performance, low cost, low complexity network storage, with accelerated performance via SMB Multichannel and SMB Direct
SMB Multichannel automatically uses multiple network adaptors to provide increased bandwidth & resilience
SMB Direct harnesses RDMA capable NICs to reduce CPU utilization, decrease latency & increase performance
Hyper-V & SQL Server over SMB 3.0
Flexible, high performance, low cost storage for placement of Hyper-V virtual machines running SharePoint, and SQL Server databases hosting SharePoint data.
Hyper-V hosts with SharePoint VMs VHDX files stored on resilient file shares
Multiple RDMA-capable NICs for SMB Multichannel & SMB Direct
\\SOFS\Shares\VMs
Scale-Out File Server with resilient Storage Spaces
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8. Enhanced Networking Capabilities
Windows Server Management Marketing
6/24/2019
Enhanced Networking Capabilities
Driving higher throughput & scale for virtualized SharePoint Servers
Dynamic VMQ
Dynamic distribution of VM network traffic processing efficiently across multiple processors
Virtual Receive Side Scaling*
Network processing inside VM now scales efficiently across multiple virtual CPUs for increased performance
SR-IOV with Live Migration
Hardware integration, optimized for low CPU utilization & latency, driving high networking performance
Network QoS
Granular bandwidth management for consistent levels of networking performance
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 *
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