New Features and Highlights
Using the new and enhanced features in Windows Server 2012 R2, you can improve performance and more efficiently use datacenter capacity, helping you increase business agility.
Windows Server delivers resilient, multi-tenant-aware storage and networking capabilities for a wide range of workloads using industry-standard hardware. By automating a broad set of management tasks, Windows Server 2012 simplifies the deployment of major workloads and increases operational efficiencies.
Storage
Organizations face increasingly large amounts of data that must be managed cost effectively. Windows Server helps you maximize your investments by getting better performance from your existing storage area network (SAN) infrastructure. It also delivers the ability to build enterprise-class storage infrastructure with commodity hardware.
Storage Spaces. Windows Server helps reduce costs and improve performance by consolidating standard disks into pools that can be treated as standard drives within the operating system. The logical disks, or Storage Spaces, can be configured for varying resiliency schemes and assigned to different departments. As a result, organizations can simplify isolation and administration of the storage infrastructure and improve performance, flexibility, scalability, and availability. With Windows Server 2012 R2, data is automatically tiered across solid-state drives and hard-disk drives based on usage patterns, to deliver the best performance for data that gets used the most.
Application support with Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0. By separating storage and compute elements of virtual machines, organizations can move virtual machines without impacting storage configurations. Windows Server enables this with SMB file shares for continuous availability using standalone file servers and clustered file servers. Storage can be managed with Storage Spaces and exposed as file shares for Hyper-V virtual machines and SQL databases. With SMB transparent failover, even if one of the nodes goes down, SMB transparently fails over to another node without downtime. Since SMB uses your existing network infrastructure, it also eliminates the need for a dedicated network.
Data deduplication. A new storage efficiency feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 helps reduce file storage requirements through variable-size chunking and compression. Windows Server will automatically scan disks, identify duplicate chunks of data and store those chunks once.
Networking
Networking enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2 make it easier to virtualize workloads, improve security, provide continuous availability for applications, and get better performance out of existing resources. Networking enhancements also bolster network isolation, which is key to running multi-tenant environments. These enhancements can improve virtual machine density, mobility, and availability.
Comprehensive approach to software-defined networking. Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers several new capabilities for virtualized networks. With multi-tenant virtualization, datacenters can isolate tenant resources without the need for expensive and complex changes to the physical
network infrastructure. Hyper-V Network Virtualization in Windows Server provides a layer of abstraction between the physical networks that support the hosts, and the virtual networks that support the virtualized workloads. As a result, datacenters can handle multiple virtual networks with overlapping IP addresses on the same physical network and also move virtual machines across virtual networks without having to reconfigure the underlying physical network.
Using the multi-tenant Hyper-V Network Virtualization gateway capabilities in Windows Server, you can bridge virtualized networks with non-virtualized networks, service providers and Azure.
Hyper-V extensible switch. Window Server provides flexibility with advanced packet filtering and routing. The Hyper-V extensible switch offers an open development framework for adding layer-2 functionality such as filtering, monitoring, and packet-level redirection required by the application or tenant.
Network infrastructure enhancements. With automation, networks of virtualized data centers and cloud environments become more agile, dynamically scalable and dispensable, and able to enforce administrative controls. IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2012 R2 implements several major enhancements, including unified IP address space management of physical and virtual networks, as well as tighter integration with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). The IPAM feature provides granular and customizable role-based access control and delegated administration across multiple data centers. IPAM provides a single console for monitoring and managing IP addresses, domain names, and device identities. It also supports advanced capabilities for continuous availability of IP addressing with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) failover, DHCP Policies, filters, and more.
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Using the new and enhanced features in Windows Server 2012 R2, you can improve performance and more efficiently use datacenter capacity, helping you increase business agility.
Windows Server delivers resilient, multi-tenant-aware storage and networking capabilities for a wide range of workloads using industry-standard hardware. By automating a broad set of management tasks, Windows Server 2012 simplifies the deployment of major workloads and increases operational efficiencies.
Storage
Organizations face increasingly large amounts of data that must be managed cost effectively. Windows Server helps you maximize your investments by getting better performance from your existing storage area network (SAN) infrastructure. It also delivers the ability to build enterprise-class storage infrastructure with commodity hardware.
Storage Spaces. Windows Server helps reduce costs and improve performance by consolidating standard disks into pools that can be treated as standard drives within the operating system. The logical disks, or Storage Spaces, can be configured for varying resiliency schemes and assigned to different departments. As a result, organizations can simplify isolation and administration of the storage infrastructure and improve performance, flexibility, scalability, and availability. With Windows Server 2012 R2, data is automatically tiered across solid-state drives and hard-disk drives based on usage patterns, to deliver the best performance for data that gets used the most.
Application support with Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0. By separating storage and compute elements of virtual machines, organizations can move virtual machines without impacting storage configurations. Windows Server enables this with SMB file shares for continuous availability using standalone file servers and clustered file servers. Storage can be managed with Storage Spaces and exposed as file shares for Hyper-V virtual machines and SQL databases. With SMB transparent failover, even if one of the nodes goes down, SMB transparently fails over to another node without downtime. Since SMB uses your existing network infrastructure, it also eliminates the need for a dedicated network.
Data deduplication. A new storage efficiency feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 helps reduce file storage requirements through variable-size chunking and compression. Windows Server will automatically scan disks, identify duplicate chunks of data and store those chunks once.
Networking
Networking enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2 make it easier to virtualize workloads, improve security, provide continuous availability for applications, and get better performance out of existing resources. Networking enhancements also bolster network isolation, which is key to running multi-tenant environments. These enhancements can improve virtual machine density, mobility, and availability.
Comprehensive approach to software-defined networking. Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers several new capabilities for virtualized networks. With multi-tenant virtualization, datacenters can isolate tenant resources without the need for expensive and complex changes to the physical
network infrastructure. Hyper-V Network Virtualization in Windows Server provides a layer of abstraction between the physical networks that support the hosts, and the virtual networks that support the virtualized workloads. As a result, datacenters can handle multiple virtual networks with overlapping IP addresses on the same physical network and also move virtual machines across virtual networks without having to reconfigure the underlying physical network.
Using the multi-tenant Hyper-V Network Virtualization gateway capabilities in Windows Server, you can bridge virtualized networks with non-virtualized networks, service providers and Azure.
Hyper-V extensible switch. Window Server provides flexibility with advanced packet filtering and routing. The Hyper-V extensible switch offers an open development framework for adding layer-2 functionality such as filtering, monitoring, and packet-level redirection required by the application or tenant.
Network infrastructure enhancements. With automation, networks of virtualized data centers and cloud environments become more agile, dynamically scalable and dispensable, and able to enforce administrative controls. IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2012 R2 implements several major enhancements, including unified IP address space management of physical and virtual networks, as well as tighter integration with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). The IPAM feature provides granular and customizable role-based access control and delegated administration across multiple data centers. IPAM provides a single console for monitoring and managing IP addresses, domain names, and device identities. It also supports advanced capabilities for continuous availability of IP addressing with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) failover, DHCP Policies, filters, and more.
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