Windows Server 2008Gøran Andersson

Why is Windows Server gaining momentum?

Functionality Experience

Windows Server 2008

Optimize your Infrastructure

Rich, Web based experiences

Hardens the OSand Protects Your

EnvironmentNetwork Access ProtectionBetter Securityand Compliance Tools

Enhanced Scripting and Task AutomationModular and Extensible Platform

Integrated HypervisorServer ConsolidationPower Savings

IIS7IIS7

IIS7

Virtualization Scenarios in Hosting

• Shared Hosting – Better isolation for websites

• Dedicated Hosting – Self managed, delegated virtual instances – Retire old hardware using virtualization – Consolidate low end servers with fewer machines

• VPS Hosting– Fill the gap between Shared and Dedicated scenarios– Upsell Memory, CPU

• Managed Hosting– Backup and Restore– Business Continuity– Test/Dev Environments

Example – Hyper-V Hosting packages (VPS)

• Perfect enabler for both low and high end VDS packages– Bundled with automated backup and disaster recovery

• Includes isolation between instances and set resources– No ‘’fair use policy’’ needed

• Fills the gap between Shared hosting and Dedicated hosting

System Center VM Manager

HostConfiguration

VMCreation

LibraryManagement

VMPlacement &Deployment

Monitoring &Reporting

RapidRecovery

Self ServiceProvisioning

UI

Automation

Host Groups

VM Views

Context Sensitive Actions

Live Thumbnail

Centralized Library

Familiar Interface

Virtual Machine Manager

Hyper-V in the Press

“My experience has left me extremely impressed. Windows Server 2008 on large-scale, virtualized enterprise servers will make alternatives a very hard sell.”

- Infoworld

“Microsoft's virtualization has three unique advantages: It costs nothing, its administration is integrated into Microsoft's other server management tools, and Windows Server 2008 is the only host OS it needs to support. In that last case, Windows shops derive a serious performance and scalability kick...” - Infoworld

“Hyper-V is free as a built-in feature in Server 2008 Standard and ESX Server costs several thousand dollars per copy, depending on the features purchased, so on a pure bang per buck and ease of use basis, it beats ESX and dare I say it – the Xen solutions built into Linux distros – hands down.

- ZDNet

“Even though Hyper-V is still pre-1.0 code, I think Microsoft has done a bang-up job with its hypervisor, and it may just turn this Linux freak into a Windows 2008 junkie for running his own personal virtualization needs.”- ZDNet

“Yes, jaws actually dropped

when it [Hyper-V] was

installed in the Test

Center.” - CRN

Hyper-V: Licensing

Free Licensed Guests with Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Web× No Licensed Guest

Windows Server 2008 Standard 1 Licensed Guest

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Up to 4 Licensed Guests

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter As many Licensed Guests as

you can physically run

Small Print• Free = free, as included in

the price of the host OS with Hyper-V.

• But you can host as many VMs on any Windows Server 2008 that supports Hyper-V as you need. You just need to License above the ‘included’ free licenses.

WSHS Components - IIS 7.0 Major Features

ExtensibleDesign

ASP.NETIntegration

Built-in Tracing & Trouble-shooting

ImprovedSecurity

ModuleCore

New UI & Management

APIs

PHP Interop

IIS 7 Manager provides management functions for:

• Manage IIS and ASP.NET in one tool.

• View health and diagnostic information that includes the ability to view currently running requests in real time.

• Configure user and role authorization for sites and applications.

• Delegate site and application configuration to non-administrators.

• Connect to a Web server, site, or application remotely by using HTTP.

WSHS Components - IIS 7.0 Manager

Host PHP

• Consolidate servers• Host PHP applications on the same server as ASP,

ASP.NET, and other Windows applications• Manage a single environment/fewer servers

• Use a single set of tools to manage your servers and applications

• Leverage the IIS 7.0 management stack• IIS Manager, Powershell, config APIs • Delegated management and x-copy deployment

of server settings• Remote management (including server core)

Application Platform

• In the box– HTML– ASP– ASP.NET

• Using FastCGI– PHP– Perl – Ruby on Rails

FTP 7

• Integrated publishing• Secure file transfer with FTPS• Improved user isolation• Authenticate to non-Windows accounts• Integrated with the IIS manager• Available on www.iis.net

Windows Server Web 2008 - Pricing

Perpetual License;• €11,- SKU• Front end web server• MSSQL and Sharepoint framework• 50 user limit for Apps going away

– can still run biz apps & internal collaboration and portal software on same server

• New product build– Standard bits w/o code not needed for web

serving– no AD/DNS, DHCP

Prices shown are for example only SPLA Resellers set SPLA Prices

"cPanel's Windows development team feels that Microsoft IIS7 offers a robust, high-performance Web server with increased security that the industry will quickly adopt.” J. Nick Koston, CEO, cPanel

 “Working closely with Microsoft we have been able to learn, and influence the best web server the Microsoft hosting providers has ever seen.”  Chris Morrow, Lead Developer, MaximumASP

“…we are now able to reduce sites overhead giving us more resources for additional users and a faster ROI. …working with the new AppCmd.exe allowed us to be the first hosting provider to offer Windows 2008 Server with full control center integration.” Jon Thompson, Server Operations Manager, CrystalTech

Windows Server 2008 Early Deployments

WS08 Proof Points

IIS 7 Modular design give hosters control of memory footprint

“With the better memory management and modular design, I believe we’ll see performance, reliability, and security on the Windows hosting platform continue to improve”

Do more with fewer servers, reducing TCO

From what we’ve seen so far, we think it will be possible to significantly reduce the amount of ‘tin’ in the data center. IIS7 appears to offer a great TCO benefit,”

Improved Diagnostics Internal operations will definitely take advantage of IIS7’s ability to look into what’s going on inside the worker processes.”

Easier to provision Using the new APIs, we’ve streamlined our provisioning system, reducing the code base by about 50 percent.

WS2008 Micro site

www.microsoft.com/web

Resource Links:• Windows Server 2008 Documentation:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/2008/default.aspx

• WDS: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7d837d88-6d8e-420c-b68f-a5b4baeb52481033.mspx?mfr=true

• MD Toolkit download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en&tm

• Active Directory in WS 2008: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/eccfec5b-86c6-4b19-8b70-1aad0403d1df1033.mspx?mfr=true

• IIS7 Hosting Available: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/4/28/1686437.aspx

• SQL 2008 Whitepapers: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/learning/whitepapers.mspx

Summary

• Hyper-V is a powerful out of the box ‘’real’’ virtualization hypervisor

• IIS7 provides easy management tools, Power Shell and configuration APIs

• FastCGI is a supported feature of WS2008 and allows PHP applications to run side-by-side and interoperate with .Net applications

• Tools like WAI and WPI makes it easy to build the platform and install application

Questions