Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials
With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft is a server platform, which is based on extensive experience with the development and operation of many of the world's largest cloud-based services and data centers. Whether you are setting up a single server for your small business, or want to develop a great environment for your new data center: Windows Server 2012 helps you to optimize your IT cloud. This allows you to meet your company's needs perfectly.
More than Virtualization Offers a dynamic multi-tenant infrastructure to scale and secure workloads, as well as building a new private cloud Windows.Server 2012 helps you in many ways:
Full virtualization platform
New completely isolated with multitenant environment with tools to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) to enable reimbursement and allow the self-service provisioning. Performance and Improved Scalability A scalable environment with a high density, which can be individually adjusted for optimum operation to your needs. Connections to cloud services. The common identity with the management framework for the security and reliability of inter-site connections. The power of many servers, the simplicity of a server Provides a highly available and easily managed, cloud-optimized platform. Windows Server 2012 can help you to provide thefollowing:
Flexible Storage
Different storage options to achieve a high performance, availability and efficiency of storage resources. Continuous Availability new and improved features, the cost-effective, highly available services to protect against a variety of potential failure scenarios offer.
Administrative efficiency
Automation is the variety of administrative tasks which simplify provisioning of workloads to help you on your way to full automation. Each application, any cloud Provides a cloud-optimized server platform that gives you the flexibility, on-premises applications and Web sites to create in the cloud, or both, and provide. Windows Server 2012 can help you to provide: Flexibility is to build on the premises and in cloud New consistent set of tools with the frameworks that enable developers to create symmetrical or hybrid applications ranging from data center to the cloud. A adaptable infrastructure and scalable new features that enable you to increase the site density and efficiency. Frameworks, services and tools that allow you for improve the adaptability and scalability of modern applications. An open web and application development platform.
Microsoft will bring four different editions of Windows Server 2012 in the os market. Essentials is the designed for all small and medium businesses with up to 25 users. Foundation comes without virtualization rights and is sold only through OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Standard and Datacenter editions is also available. The latter allows with not just two, but as many virtual instances of Windows Server 2012 on a host with up to two CPUs.
"So far there is a dozen versions of many Server 2008 R2 including SBS (Small Business Server) and HPC (High Performance Computing)," writes Aidan Finn, employees of the Irish distributor Micro Warehouse and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), on his blog. "Now we have four versions of WS2012."
A license for Windows Server 2012 Standard ceiling from two CPUs per host and instead allow two virtual operating system environments as before a, added Finn. Moreover am now offering all standard functions and the scalability of the data center version. There is however a small price premium over the previous version, which will be compensated by the rightsfor a second virtual server.
A Small Business Server, it will however be no more. In a FAQ (PDF) Microsoft Server 2012, it states: "The Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on, the SQL Server and Windows Server contains as product components, the last Windows Server offer this type will be."In addition, Microsoft has also confirmed that it is developing a successor of Windows Home Server 2011th Features such as support for DLNA-enabled devices and media streaming will be integrated into Windows Server 2012 Essentials.
Since early June for a release candidate of Windows Server 2012 available for download. The new version introduces, among other additional features for virtualization with Hyper-V and management with PowerShell 3.0. So will Microsoft catch up with rivals such as VMware or even surpass. In addition, the upcoming server operating system for cloud computing is optimized.
