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Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy and scale applications and web sites quickly, and with more flexibility than ever before.
Enterprise-class
Enhanced features allow you to take advantage of even better performance and more efficient capacity utilization in your datacenter, helping you increase the agility of your business. Windows Server 2012 R2 offers a proven, enterprise-class virtualization and cloud platform that can scale to continuously run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service outages.
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Simple and cost-effective
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Windows Server 2012 R2 captures the experience Microsoft has gained
from building public clouds to deliver a cost-effective server platform. Windows Server 2012 R2 also gives you
resilient, multi-tenant-aware storage and networking capabilities for a wide range of workloads. It delivers
these capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other solutions, through the use of low-cost, industry-standard
hardware. With automation of a broad set of management tasks built-in, Windows Server 2012 R2 simplifies the
deployment of major workloads and increases operational efficiencies.
User-centric
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Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easier to deploy a virtual desktop
infrastructure, and can lower storage costs significantly by supporting a broad range of storage options and
VHD de-duplication. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it possible for users to
access IT from virtually anywhere, providing them a rich Windows experience while ensuring enhanced data
security and compliance. Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to provide access to corporate resources and helps
protect critical business information.
Application focused
In concert with Windows Azure VM and System Center 2012 R2, it unlocks improved application
portability between on-premises environments and public and service provider clouds, increasing flexibility and
elasticity of your IT services:
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System Center 2012 R2
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An integrated platform that provides a common management
experience across private, hosted, and public clouds
Windows Server
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An enterprise-class platform that forms the foundation
for
building cloud solutions
Windows Azure
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A cloud platform for building, deploying and managing
applications hosted on a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers
Hyper-V virtualization
Hyper-V virtualization represents the foundation of Microsoft’s vision for the cloud
operating system.
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Storage and networking are the walls that help support your virtualization infrastructure. Then, on top of everything, comes management and automation. Together, these different functionalities enable a wide range of cloud solutions that can meet the needs of any business. Virtualization is at the core of everything in most IT shops nowadays.
Networking
Networking is the underlying glue that holds your infrastructure together, makes possible the delivery of services, makes remote management a reality, and more. Networking improvements introduced previously in Windows Server 2012 included the following: Dynamic VMQ, Receive Side Scaling, Windows NIC Teaming, Quality of Service enhancements, Data Center Bridging, etc.
Storage
Maximizing the performance and efficiency of storage while helping to reduce costs was a major goal of Windows Server 2012, and the numerous new features and capabilities introduced in that platform now provide enterprises with new ways of squeezing the most out of shrinking IT budgets when it comes to storage.
Product specifications
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| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| INCLUDES | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter OEM Retail Box |
| INSTALLATION METHOD | Digital Download Digital Download DVD-Rom (Retail Box) |
| ESTIMATED DELIVERY TIME | 30 Minutes 5 - 7 Business Days 3 - 5 Business Days |
| USERS SUPPORTED | 1 Admin User |
| DEVICES SUPPORTED | 1 Server |
| INSTALLATIONS SUPPORTED | 1 Server Installation |
| LICENSE TYPE | Perpetual |
| LICENSE TERM | Indefinite |
| LICENSED USE | Licensed for Home and Commercial Use |
| BRAND | Microsoft |
| MANUFACTURER PART NUMBER | P71-07835 P71-07835 P71-07714 |
| MINIMUM HARD DRIVE SPACE | 32 GB |
| MINIMUM MEMORY | 512 MB |
| MINIMUM PROCESSOR SPEED | 1.4 GHz |
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Compare Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Standard and Datacenter
| Standard | Included |
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| Core functionality of Windows Server | |
| OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation | 2 |
| Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation | |
| Host Guardian Service | |
| Storage features including Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica | |
| Shielded Virtual Machines | |
| Networking Stack | |
| Licensing Model | Core-based |
| CAL Requirements | Windows Server CAL |
| MSRP | $599 |
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| Essentials | Included |
|---|---|
| Core functionality of Windows Server | |
| OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation | |
| Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation | |
| Host Guardian Service | |
| Storage features including Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica | |
| Shielded Virtual Machines | |
| Networking Stack | |
| Licensing Model | Specialty servers |
| CAL Requirements | No CAL required |
| MSRP | $399 |
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| Datacenter | Included |
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| Core functionality of Windows Server | |
| OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation | Unlimited |
| Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation | |
| Host Guardian Service | |
| Storage features including Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica | |
| Shielded Virtual Machines | |
| Networking Stack | |
| Licensing Model | Core-based |
| CAL Requirements | Windows Server CAL |
| MSRP | $799 |
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| Feature | Essentials | Standard | Datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core functionality of Windows Server | |||
| OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation | 2 | Unlimited | |
| Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation | |||
| Host Guardian Service | |||
| Storage features including Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica | |||
| Shielded Virtual Machines | |||
| Networking stack | |||
| Licensing Model | Specialty servers | Core-based | Core-based |
| CAL Requirements | No CAL required | Windows Server CAL | Windows Server CAL |
| MSRP | $399 | $699 | $5,449 |
| BUY NOW | BUY NOW | BUY NOW |
Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) is the core identity and access control technology used for the IT
infrastructure of most businesses today.
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Active Directory on the Windows Server platform collectively consists of the following server roles:
AD Domain Services
Authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network, assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software.
Federation Services
AD FS is a single sign-on service. Users may use several web-based services using only one set of credentials stored at a central location
Lightweight Directory Services
AD LDS shares the code base with AD DS and provides the same functionality, including an identical API, but does not require the creation of domains or domain controllers.
Rights Management Services
Limits access to documents such as corporate e-mails, Microsoft Word documents, and web pages, and the operations authorized users can perform on them.
Certificate Services
Establishes an on-premises public key infrastructure. It can create, validate and revoke public key certificates for internal uses of an organization.Failover Clustering
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Failover Clustering, a key feature of the Windows Server
platform, is designed to do just that by providing high availability and scalability to many
types of server workloads including Hyper-V hosts, file servers, and different server
applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server that can run on
both physical servers and virtual machines.
Group Policy
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Group Policy is the key technology they utilize to lock
down
their environments. Composed of thousands of different policy settings and dozens
of categories of preference items, a thorough knowledge of what Group Policy can do
and how to configure, optimize and maintain its operations is an essential part of the
administrator’s job.
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