Complete, built-in virtualization platform

Industry-leading scalability and performance, so you can virtualize every application

Ability to achieve business continuity with inbox disaster recovery solutions Best-in-class hybrid cloud experience with a common set of technologies

Comprehensive cloud platform

Cost savings and increased efficiencies

Reduced storage costs with storage spaces and other storage enhancements Increased server/administrator ratio through Windows PowerShell and multi-machine management Increased uptime with cluster-aware updates and transparent failover

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): simplified management and reduced cost of implementations Optimized branch office WAN bandwidth use Ability for remote users to securely access internal resources without VPN

Support for a modern work style

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Hyper-V Network Virtualization Shared-nothing live migration

3
Cluster enhancements

Massive scale

Hyper-V Replica

6
Hardware offloading Virtual Fibre Channel

7
Guest NUMA support

8
Runtime memory configuration

9
Hyper-V network switch

10

Maximum number

System

Resource
Logical processors on hardware Physical memory

Windows 2008 R2 64 1 TB 512 4 64 GB 384 2 TB 16 1,000

Windows Server 2012 320 4 TB 1,024 64 1 TB 1,024 64 TB 64 4,000

Improvement factor

5 4 2 16 16 2.7

Host

Virtual processors per host Virtual processors per virtual machine Memory per virtual machine

Virtual machine

Active virtual machines Virtual disk size Nodes

32
4

Cluster

Virtual machines

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Multiserver management Role and feature deployment

4
Disconnected Sessions

Integrated console

2,400 cmdlets

6
Windows PowerShell Workflow Windows PowerShell Web Access

7
Windows PowerShell ISE

9
Syntax Simplification and IntelliSense

10

Script Sharing

TOP FEATURES OF STORAGE TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

1
File system improvements

3
Cluster Shared Volume

4
SMB 3.0 for workloads

Storage spaces

Thin provisioning

6
Offloaded data transfer

9
Storage management

10

Transparent failover

NFS support

iSCSI target

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Website density and mutlitenancy Application Initialization

2
Dynamic IP Restrictions

4
NUMA-Aware Scalability

CPU Throttling

6
Centralized SSL management Just works with PHP and node.js

7
Embracing web standards

8
Application symmetry

9
Comming Development Platform

10

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Network virtualization

2
DHCP server failover

3
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

NIC Teaming

Resource Metering

6
Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue IP Address Management (IPAM)

7
Quality of Service (QoS)

9
SMB Direct and Multichannel

10

BranchCache

TOP FEATURES FOR SECURITY & ACCESS

1
Dynamic Access Control

3
Simpler deployment of Active Directory

4
Domain Name System Security Extensions

Classification

DirectAccess

6
Active Directory virtualization Active Directory cloning

7
Kerberos constrained delegation

8
Private virtual LAN (PVLAN)

9
Multitenant security and isolation

10

TOP FEATURES FOR VDI

SIMPLIFIED USER CONNECTION

USER PROFILE DISKS

FAIR SHARE SESSION VIRTUALIZATION

INTELLIGENT PATCHING

RDS SMART CACHE

QUICK VDI WIZARD

CONCURRENT REDIRECT

REMOTE FX ADAPTIVE GRPHICS

REMOTE FX OVER WAN

REMOTE FX USB REDIRECTION & TOUCH

Beyond virtualization

Scale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a private cloud, and securely connect to cloud services

The power of many servers, the simplicity of one

Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing uptime and minimizing failures and downtime

Every app, any cloud

Build on an open and scalable web platform that supports applications across premises

Modern workstyle, enabled

Support a mobile and flexible work style

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