TechEd 2012 Day 1 Keynote

Today is the first full day of TechEd 2012 in Orlando, and as usual it started off with a keynote session. Nothing earth shattering was announced. It was presented by Sayta Nadella, VP Server and tools business, Microsoft.

Cloud OS – the new era
20 years of TechED – 1993 – 2012
1993 – Era of client-server and the Intel Pentium, 32-bit OS and Windows NT
2012 – Era of devices and services. “Connected devices” and “continuous services”
Windows NT – 32-bit, we are now at the Cloud OS era
Cloud OS = Modern datacenter (hardware abstraction) + modern apps
Converged systems

Compute – Multi-core, memory density, system density
Storage – SSD, lower cost, higher performance. Spinning disk speeds are not increasing. IOPS/$ are dramatically increasing.
Networking – high-speed, offload technologies

Cannot have control with management by fragmentation of converged systems. Need a unified management suite like System Center.
Services at internet scale – Run’s the world’s biggest apps, feedback loop, global scale, 24×7, ultra-modularity

Examples: Xbox live, Bing, Exchange, SharePoint. MS has 200+ global workloads
Bing has 300PB of data
All Bing front ends are now running Windows Server 2012 RC in production

Inside the modern datacenter

Scalable & Elastic – 64 nodes & 4000 VMs per cluster, 64 vCPUs, 1TB RAM per VM, NIC teaming. 99% of the world’s tier-1 SQL loads can now run on Hyper-V
Always up, always on – Continuous availability. Highly available, file based storage, cluster aware updating, complete VM mobility
Shared resources- Multi-tenancy. Hyper-V network isloation, resource metering and QoS, storage virtualziation and thin provisioning
Automated & self-service – Can’t linearly scale with infrastructure. PowerShell – 2400 cmdlets, built-in standards based managemen

Jeff Woosley Windows Server 2012 & System Center 2012 demo

Virtualize workloads that were previously not virtualizable

320 logical processors, 4TB RAM per server, 1TB RAM per VM

64TB per virtual disk (32x VMware)

Hyper-V I/O performance demo

256GB RAM, 80 logical processors, 5 HBAs, 40 SSDs
985,000 IOPS from a single VM (3x more than VMware claims)

Active/Active file servers. Dynamically add/remove nodes without downtime

ODX is Microsoft’s version of VMware VAAI, for storage offload in the SAN

Copy a 10GB file in 10 seconds

Multi-tenancy secure network sharing and virtual extensible switch with built-in NIC teaming

Cisco Nexus 1000v for Hyper-V demoed
2400 powershell cmdlets in server 2012 for automation
Hyper-V replica replicates virtual machines to a remote site, like Vmware SRM
Demoed Orchestrator power-up a site with VMs in the proper order
SPF – System Center Provider Foundation – Able to manage provider capacity all within the same pane of glass

Windows Azure – by Mark Russinovich

Ecosystem – Identity, Virtualization, management, development; Windows Azure, Service Providers, Your Datacenter
Windows Azure – Infrastructure as a service, VM portability into Azure or service provider and back with no lock-in

Windows Azure

Quick create VM – common options

Supports Linux like SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Server, OpenSUSE

“No we haven’t been hacked; Azure really does support Linux as a guest OS.”

Mike Boyle – CIO AFLAC

Windows Azure – Agility, Flexibility, Performance

Aflac.com is running on Azure

Spring/Fall release cadence of Azure enhancements

99.95% monthly SLA

Inside the modern App

Personalized, social, intelligent
Able to link Team Foundation Server to Azure and deploy apps directly into the cloud

System Center 2012 now supports Global Service Monitoring (GSM) for Azure datacenters
Modern access and device management – People-centric, apps and data, control and governance
Windows Intune – New released announced