First published on TECHNET on Jun 12, 2012
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Posting this on behalf of
Jeff Woolsey
who delivered an amazing demo in the Day 1 Keynote address by
Satya Nadella.
The video is available
here
and the transcript for the keynote address is available
here
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Some key takeaways from Jeff's presentation:
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64 virtual processors in a VM
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985,000 IOPs
from a single Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V VM
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4k Random IO; Queue Depth 32, 40 concurrent threads
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VMware tops out at 300,000 per VM; needs 6 VMs to achieve this
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Offloaded Data Transfer ODX (file copies of
1 GigaBYTE
per second
). Yes folks, copy a 10 GB file in 10 seconds.
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Works with SANs and the new Windows Server 2012 File Server
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Cisco Nexus 1000v for Hyper-V
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PowerShell as the engine for Run Book Automation with Hyper-V Replica
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Extending on premise private cloud to service provider