• 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
Comprehensive
Best-in-class hybrid cloud experience with a common set of technologies
cloud platform •

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

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): simplified management and reduced cost of implementations
• Optimized branch office WAN bandwidth use
Support for a • Ability for remote users to securely access internal resources without VPN
modern work style
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Hyper-V Network Shared-nothing live Cluster

Virtualization migration Massive scale enhancements Hyper-V Replica

6 7 8 9 10

Hardware Virtual Fibre Guest NUMA Runtime memory Hyper-V network

offloading Channel support configuration switch
 Maximum number
Improvement
Windows Server
System Resource Windows 2008 R2
2012
factor

Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×

Physical memory 1 TB 4 TB 4×
Host Virtual processors per host 512 1,024 2×
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×
Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16×

Virtual
Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×
machine Virtual disk size 2 TB 64 TB 32×
Nodes 16 64 4×
Cluster Virtual machines 1,000 4,000 4×
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Multiserver Role and feature Disconnected

management deployment Integrated console 2,400 cmdlets Sessions

6 7 8 9 10

Windows Windows Syntax

PowerShell PowerShell Web Windows Simplification and
Workflow Access PowerShell ISE Script Sharing IntelliSense
TOP FEATURES OF STORAGE TO MEET CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

1 2 3 4 5

File system Cluster Shared SMB 3.0 for

Storage spaces improvements Thin provisioning Volume workloads

6 7 8 9 10

Offloaded data Storage

transfer Transparent failover NFS support iSCSI target management
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Website density Application Dynamic IP NUMA-Aware

and mutlitenancy Initialization Restrictions CPU Throttling Scalability

6 7 8 9 10

Comming
Centralized SSL “Just works” with Embracing web Application Development
management PHP and node.js standards symmetry Platform
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Single Root I/O

Network DHCP server Virtualization
NIC Teaming virtualization failover (SR-IOV) Resource Metering

6 7 8 9 10

IP Address
Dynamic Virtual Management Quality of Service SMB Direct and
Machine Queue (IPAM) (QoS) BranchCache Multichannel
TOP FEATURES FOR SECURITY & ACCESS

1 2 3 4 5

Simpler Domain Name

Dynamic Access deployment of System Security
Control Classification DirectAccess Active Directory Extensions

6 7 8 9 10

Kerberos
Active Directory Active Directory constrained Private virtual LAN Multitenant security
virtualization cloning delegation (PVLAN) and isolation
TOP FEATURES FOR VDI

FAIR SHARE
SIMPLIFIED USER SESSION INTELLIGENT RDS SMART
USER PROFILE
CONNECTION VIRTUALIZATION PATCHING CACHE
DISKS

REMOTE FX REMOTE FX OVER REMOTE FX USB

QUICK VDI CONCURRENT
ADAPTIVE WAN REDIRECTION &
WIZARD REDIRECT
GRPHICS TOUCH
 Scale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a private cloud,
Beyond virtualization
and securely connect to cloud services

The power of many

Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing uptime and
servers, the simplicity
minimizing failures and downtime
of one

Build on an open and scalable web platform that supports

Every app, any cloud
applications across premises

Modern workstyle,
Support a mobile and flexible work style
enabled
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