Windows Server 8 with the cloud

All users will be able to use Windows Server 8 to set up the cloud service they need. A white paper from Microsoft reveals to us the application server operating system released to build the details of the IaaS platform.

After PaaS cloud services and two SaaS solutions delivered through the Windows Azure platform - Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online-- Microsoft is also poised to offer another entirely new option to customers wishing to set up their own private IaaS cloud Based on Windows Server 8 related solutions. In addition to Windows Server, this solution also uses AppFabric and System Center, let me describe it below:

Windows Server 8 (WS8) allows enterprises to move from traditional or virtualized data centers to the "cloud," WS8 automatically allocates resources and allows multiple users to create isolated virtual machines (VMs) for each other to ensure scalability and availability Management. Not only that, Live Migration allows you to migrate multiple running virtual machines in a Hyper-V host across a cluster, subnet, or WAN subnet without having to stop the service or reconfigure the IP address. Storage Migration can be used between networks Non-stop to move the virtualization hard drive, Microsoft introduced the above features in BUILD 2011. Live Migration allows enterprises to migrate from an internal Hyper-V based virtualization solution to a private or hosted cloud without downtime.

In terms of security, Hyper-V Extensible switches provide the following features: Private VLAN, ARP attack / deception protection, DHCP spoofing protection, virtual port access list, and support for VLAN trunk mode. WS8 also provides resource metering, including static metering - the number of virtual CPUs or allocated disk space - and dynamic metering such as CPU usage or network bandwidth usage. It also provides a range of performance counters - SMB2 file share utilization, RDMA utilization, network traffic, and virtual machine metrics - to quantify the performance of various resources.

WS8 supports setting QoS policies. For example, you can set up SLAs to guarantee the minimum and maximum network bandwidth, so customers can be protected from the high bandwidth usage of other clients. For the host provider, setting the network bandwidth SLA can also Protect yourself and avoid some software flaws consuming too much bandwidth. SLA is automatically enforced.

The WS8 cloud can be managed through Windows PowerShell 3, which is pre-defined with thousands of cmdlets to perform different cloud management commands and Windows PowerShell Workflows, a modern alternative to batch commands.

Microsoft recommends using WS8 for clouds of all sizes, from medium-sized businesses that require dozens of servers to enterprises with hundreds of servers to host providers with thousands of servers.

The white paper "Building Infrastructure Services with Windows Server 8 (IaaS)" includes more information on how to apply Windows Server 8 to create cloud services, including scalability, accessibility, and scalability.