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Prabu Rambadran Product Marketing Manager Microsoft Corporation
Beyond Virtualization
Windows Server 2012 offers a dynamic, multi-tenant infrastructure that goes beyond virtualization to provide maximum flexibility for delivering and connecting to cloud services.
The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One

Windows Server 2012 offers excellent economics by integrating a highly available and easy to manage multi-server platform with breakthrough efficiency and ubiquitous automation.
Every App, Any Cloud

Windows Server 2012 is a broad, scalable and elastic server platform that gives you the flexibility to build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud and in a hybrid environment, using a consistent set of tools and frameworks.
Modern Workstyle, Enabled

Windows Server 2012empowers IT to provide users with flexible access to data and applications from virtually anywhere on any device with a rich user experience, while simplifying management and helping maintain security, control and compliance.
A two-tenant environment built with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012
Basic model of Resource Metering

PowerShell Cmdlets
Enable resource Metering: Get-VM -ComputerName <Host Name> | Enable-VMResourceMetering
Get VM metering data: Get-VM -ComputerName <Host Name> -Name <VM Name> | Measure-VM
Address space mgmt (ASM)

.
Organize, assign, monitor and manage static and dynamic IPv4/v6 addresses. Integration with SCVMM
Network discovery
In-box solution that complements and seamlessly integrated with MS DHCP and DNS offerings
.
WS 2012 IPAM
Multiserver mgmt
Automatic discovery of DC, DHCP and DNS servers, and dynamic IP addresses in use
Centralized configuration and update of MS DHCP/DNS servers
(MSM)
Suitable for MS DHCP/DNS customers looking for an economic, capable and scalable IPAM solution
Visibility & audit
Track and audit changes and provide real-time view of status
Win 8 (RSAT) & WS 2012
Agentless architecture
WS 2012 in-box
WS08; WS08 R2 & SPs; WS 2012
Distributed deployment, scale, and DR
Processor. One physical processor, which can consist of
one or more nodes. A physical processor is the same as a package, a socket, or a CPU. Non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) node. A set of logical processors and cache that are close to one another. Core. One processing unit, which can consist of one or more logical processors. Logical processor (LP). One logical computing engine from the perspective of the operating system, application, or driver. In effect, a logical processor is a thread. Kernel Group. A set of up to 64 logical processors. Affinity. A preference indicated by a thread, process, or interrupt for operation on a particular processor, node, or group.
LP LP LP LP
Latency. The time required for an operation to complete. Lower is

better.
L S T
Scalability. The ability to adapt to increasing demand on system

resources. Higher is better.
Throughput. The amount of data transferred or processed in a

given time period. Higher is better.
Path Length. The number of CPU cycles divided by the throughput.

Lower is better.
P
J
Variability / Jitter. Fluctuation in throughput and/or latency. Lower

is better.
Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC)

RSC can help by coalescing multiple inbound packets into a larger buffer and effectively reduce per packet CPU cost Preliminary data shows up to a 20% reduction in CPU cycles depending on the workload All inbox 10G network adapters support the feature and have it on by default
RSC: Multiple Inbound Packets
Coalesced to reduce CPU load
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

Use RSS to distribute the receive
network traffic either across multiple processors or multiple NUMA nodes IT Pros should use new Power Shell cmdlets to control RSS behavior based on their workload characteristics
Static NUMA aware Non NUMA Profile 3
(default)
Dynamic Profile 2 Profile 0 (like WS08 R2)
Profile 1
Receive Side Scaling (Continued)

Node 0 Node 1 Node 2 Node 3
queues
0 0
1 1
2 2
Incoming Packets
3 3
NIC with 8 RSS queues
New RSS profiles improve scalability on multi-node servers by distributing TCP/UDP receive traffic across nodes
Single Process
201%
Multiple Processes (2 and 4)
115%
Throughput
Throughput
Hardware: 40LPs, 4 NUMA nodes , 10GigE, 128GB RAM Workload: mixed Web scenario Note: Measurements reflect release defaults
50%
43%
Dynamic Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ)

Use VMQ to dynamically distribute the receive network traffic
across multiple VMs based on destination and network load Most inbox 10Gig Ethernet adapters support the feature which is enabled by default
Network IO path without VMQ
Network IO path with VMQ
Registered I/O (RIO)

Registered I/O (RIO) delivers low latency by pinning the application memory and reduces CPU cost RIO improves predictability with message latency (jitter) Example APIs: RIORegisterBuffer and RIOReceive
TCP Loopback Fast Path

Customer should use new IOCTL SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH socket option to take new shorter path Both sides of connection must set new option but cant have SO_OOBINLINE, TCP_EXPEDITED_1122, or TCP_STDURG socket options
Winsock Application (E.g. Using localhost as TCP destination)
user kernel
Win08 R2 Loopback Path
AFD
TCP/IP NDIS
Windows Server 2012 Loopback Path
Windows 2008 R2
New: Shorter Path
IT Pro wants to fine tune their system for low latency application and minimize jitter Best Practices include:
Disable C-states from BIOS Set Power Policy to High Performance
Use powercfg utility
Disable NIC Interrupt Moderation setting Disable Flow Control Disable Receive Side Scaling Disable Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC) Use thread affinity in Task Manager to partition work by nodes
Check out http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh831415.aspx
Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 3.0
Original Setting is derived from system tuning, empirical evidence
New Performance Monitor Counters
RDMA Activity
PowerShell commands
Rss NetAdapter.Get-NetAdapterRsc Vmq SrioVf
IPsecOffload EVERYTHING is configurable Lso through PowerShell
PowerShell commands (Continued)

NetAdapterEncapsulatedPacketTaskOffload NetAdapterIPsecOffload Enable-NetAdapterLso Enable-NetAdapterRdma Enable-NetAdapterRsc
When do you use each feature?

Performance Loopback Registered Metric Fast Path I/O (RIO) Large Send Offload (LSO) Receive Segmentation Offload (RSC) Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ) Remote Single DMA Root I/O (RDMA) Virtual (SR-IOV) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Lower Endto-End Latency Higher Scalability Higher Throughput Lower Path Length Lower Variability
X X
X X
X X X
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Prabu Rambadran Product Marketing Manager Microsoft Corporation

The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One

Every App, Any Cloud

Modern Workstyle, Enabled

A two-tenant environment built with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012

Basic model of Resource Metering

Address space mgmt (ASM)

Centralized configuration and update of MS DHCP/DNS servers

Visibility & audit

Track and audit changes and provide real-time view of status

Win 8 (RSAT) & WS 2012

WS08; WS08 R2 & SPs; WS 2012

Distributed deployment, scale, and DR

Processor. One physical processor, which can consist of

Latency. The time required for an operation to complete. Lower is

Scalability. The ability to adapt to increasing demand on system

Throughput. The amount of data transferred or processed in a

Path Length. The number of CPU cycles divided by the throughput.

Variability / Jitter. Fluctuation in throughput and/or latency. Lower

Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC)

Coalesced to reduce CPU load

Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

Dynamic Profile 2 Profile 0 (like WS08 R2)

Receive Side Scaling (Continued)

NIC with 8 RSS queues

Multiple Processes (2 and 4)

Dynamic Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ)

Network IO path without VMQ

Network IO path with VMQ

Registered I/O (RIO)

TCP Loopback Fast Path

Windows Server 2012 Loopback Path

New: Shorter Path

Check out http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh831415.aspx

Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 3.0

Original Setting is derived from system tuning, empirical evidence

New Performance Monitor Counters

Rss NetAdapter.Get-NetAdapterRsc Vmq SrioVf

IPsecOffload EVERYTHING is configurable Lso through PowerShell

PowerShell commands (Continued)

When do you use each feature?

DOWNLOAD Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate

DOWNLOAD Microsoft System Center 2012 Evaluation

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