With
Windows Server 2012, Microsoft delivers a server platform built on our
experience of building and operating many of the world's largest
cloud-based services and datacenter. Whether you are setting-up a single
server for your small business or architecting a major new datacenter
environment, Windows Server 2012 will help you cloud-optimize your IT so
you can fully meet your organization's unique needs
Discover Windows Server 2012
· Beyond Virtualization
Offers
a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure to help you scale and secure
workloads and build a private cloud. Windows Server 2012 can help you
provide:
Complete Virtualization Platform
Improved Scalability and Performance
Connecting to Cloud Services
· The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One
Delivers a highly available and easy to manage cloud-optimized platform.Windows Server 2012 can help you provide:
Flexible Storage
Continuous Availability
Management Efficiency
· Every App, Any Cloud
Offers
a cloud-optimized server platform that gives you the flexibility to
build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud, or
across both.Windows Server 2012 can help you deliver:
Flexibility to Build On-Premises and in the Cloud
A Scalable and Elastic Infrastructure
An Open Web and App Development Environment
· Modern Workstyle, Enabled
Provides
users with flexible access to data and applications while simplifying
management and maintaining security, control, and compliance.Windows
Server 2012 can help you offer:
Access to Applications and Data from Virtually Anywhere, Any Device
A Full Windows Experience Anywhere
Enhanced Data Security and Compliance
In short Windows Server 2012 is great! Here are the top 10 reasons why.
10. IIS 8
IIS
8 brings Internet Information Services up to feature parity with the
rest of the world, and surpasses it in places. IIS 8 sports script
precompilation, granular process throttling, SNI support and centralised
certificate management
9. PowerShell
PowerShell
3.0 is an evolution rather than a revolution. The 2012 line of products
marks a revolution in Microsoft's approach to server management.
Every
element of the operating system and virtually every other companion
server, such as SQL, Exchange or Lync, are completely manageable through
PowerShell. This is so ingrained that the GUIs are just buttons that
call PowerShell scripts underneath.
8. DirectAccess
DirectAccess
was a neat idea but it was poorly implemented in previous versions of
Windows. Server 2012 makes it easier to use, with SSL as the default
configuration and IPSec as an option. The rigid dependence on IPv6 has
also been removed.
DirectAccess has evolved into a reasonable, reliable and easy-to-use replacement for virtual private networks.
7. Cluster Shared Volumes
With
Server 2012 Cluster Shared Volumes are officially supported for use
beyond hosting virtual hard disks for Hyper-V. You may now roll your own
highly available multi-node replicated storage cluster and do so with a
proper fistful of best-practice documentation.
6. Deduplication
For
years now, storage demand has been growing faster than hard drive
density. Meeting our voracious appetite for data storage has meant more
and more spindles, and more controllers, chassis, power supplies,
electricity and cooling to keep those spindles spinning.
Deduplication
has moved from nice to have to absolute must in recent years and
Microsoft has taken notice. Server 2012 supports deduplication on NTFS
volumes – though tragically it does not work with CSV – and deeply
integrates it with BranchCache to save on WAN bandwidth.
5. Hyper-V 3.0
Server
2012 sees Hyper-V catch up with VMware's mainstream. Microsoft's
Hyper-V Server – a free Windows Core version of Hyper-V – is feature
complete. If you have a yen to dive into PowerShell then you can run a
complete 64-node, 8,000 virtual machine Hyper-V cluster without paying
Microsoft a dime.Microsoft is betting you will spend the money on System
Center 2012 and it is probably right. System Center 2012 is amazing,
even more so with the newly launched Service Pack 1.
4. Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V
Replica is a storage technology designed to continuously replicate your
virtual machines across to a backup cluster. It ensures that snapshots
no more than 15 minutes old of your critical virtual machines are
available over any network link, including the internet.
It
replicates the initial snapshot in full – after that it sends only
change blocks – and it fully supports versioning of your virtual
machines.
3. iSCSI
With Windows Storage Server
2008, Microsoft first made an iSCSI target available. It eventually
became an optional download from Microsoft's website for Server 2008 R2
and is now finally integrated into Server 2012 as a core component.
2. NFS 4.1
Microsoft's
NFS 4.1 server is good code. Designed from the ground up it is is fast,
stable and reliable. It makes a great storage system for heterogenous
environments and a wonderful network storage point for VMware servers.
1. SMB 3.0
SMB
3.0 is the crown jewel of Server 2012. It supports multiple
simultaneous network interfaces – including the ability to hot-plug new
interfaces on the fly to increase bandwidth for large or complex
transfers – and supports MPIO, thin provisioning of volumes and
deduplication (assuming the underlying storage is NTFS).
SMB 3.0
also supports SMB Direct and remote direct memory access, the ability
for appropriately kitted systems to move SMB data directly from one
system's memory to the other, bypassing the SMB stack. This has enabled
Microsoft to hit 16GBps transfer rates for SMB 3.0, a weighty gauntlet
for any potential challenger to raise.
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