Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 on HP ProLiant servers and HP ProLiant server blades, 3rd edition

Technical white paper | Microsoft Windows Server 2012

For details on configuring constrained delegation and remote management, see the following resources:

– Microsoft TechNet Library article “Configure and Use Live Migration on Non-clustered Virtual Machines” at

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134199.aspx

– Any of the following blog posts:

• blogs.msdn.com/taylorb - Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For Non-

Clustered Live Migration

• blogs.msdn.com/taylorb - Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For SMB

and Highly Available SMB

• blogs.msdn.com/taylorb - Scripting Constrained Delegation Settings

• blogs.msdn.com/taylorb - Hyper-V Remote Management With PowerShell

• blogs.msdn.com/taylorb - Performing Storage Migrations With Move-VMStorage

• Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) for networking: SR-IOV is a PCI-SIG specification for partitioning PCIe

adapter bandwidth. Currently, Windows Server 2012 supports SR-IOV with network adapters. SR-IOV lets you assign a

network adapter that supports SR-IOV directly to a virtual machine. This improves the network throughput by minimizing

the network latency and CPU overhead that occurs while processing network traffic.

For technical details about SR-IOV, see the following resources:

– Hyper-V SRIOV Overview at social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9296.hyper-v-sr-iov-overview.aspx

– Microsoft Developer’s Network Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) msdn.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/windows/hardware/hh440235(v=vs.85).aspx

• SR-IOV support: For information about our support for SR-IOV, see the integration note Implementing Windows Server

2012 SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers or the HP Windows Server 2012 Home Page at hp.com/go/ws2012.

Microsoft manageability

With Microsoft manageability, you can manage multiple servers as easily as managing a single server.

Remote Desktop Services (RDS): Windows Server 2012 includes Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Through the Server

Manager in Windows Server 2012, RDS lets you deploy roles and features to remote physical and virtual servers. It provides

session virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies allowing you to access sessions and virtual

desktop collections. New management features of Server Manager also simplify RDS deployment and management in

multi-server configurations. For more information, see the Microsoft document Remote Desktop Services Overview.

Scalability

Scalability enables you to use a consistent set of tools and frameworks to build and deploy applications and websites on

premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment.

• Microsoft RemoteFX: Microsoft RemoteFX now adapts to your wide area network’s bandwidth. If you have low bandwidth

or high-latency connections, this feature initiates the network auto-detect feature. This feature helps determine the

bandwidth between the client and the server.

• Microsoft RemoteFX support: We will support this feature and provide additional documentation after the Windows

Server 2012 commercial release. Upon availability, documentation will be made available on the

HP Windows Server 2012 Home Page at hp.com/go/ws2012.

Accessibility

Regardless of your location, you can access data and applications from the cloud on any device.

Storage Spaces: Storage Spaces is a new technology in Windows Server 2012 that facilitates aggregation of different types

of storage into highly available volumes. Storage Spaces does not currently support Smart Array controllers.

HP has elected not to support Storage Spaces at this time. We will continue to drive joint innovation with Microsoft in the

storage resource management area. If you wish to create high performance, highly available pools of internal or mixed

internal and external storage should continue to use HP Smart Array and SAN storage products for this purpose.