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, 24x7, 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
• Integrated with AD and Azure

• Data-powered apps
• Any data, any size, anywhere
• Connecting the world's data
• Immersive insights, wherever you are