Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Start Workshop: Product Overview for Business Decision Makers Alejandro García Sánchez Readiness Champion
Agenda Editions and Features Windows Server 2008R2
Editions and Features Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition Summaries Edition Summary Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for business workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Web Server 2008 R2 is a powerful Web application and services platform. Featuring Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 and designed exclusively as an Internet-facing server, it offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help reduce infrastructure costs when used with a variety of popular development platforms. With included Web Server and DNS Server roles, as well as improved reliability and scalability, this platform allows you to manage the most demanding environments from a dedicated Web server to an entire Web server farm. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems delivers an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications. Scale database, line-of-business, and custom applications to meet growing business needs. Help improve availability with failover clustering and dynamic hardware partitioning capabilities*. Virtualize deployments with rights to run an unlimited number of virtual instances of Windows Server**. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems helps provide the foundation for a highly dynamic IT infrastructure. *Requires supporting server hardware. ** Requires a third-party virtualization technology. Hyper-V TM is not available for Itanium-based systems. Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation is a cost-effective technology foundation for your business. Targeted at small Business owners and IT Generalists supporting small businesses. Foundation is an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy, proven and reliable technology that provides organizations with the foundation to run the most prevalent business applications as well as share information and resources.
Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation Editions and Features New and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Available - Not Available New/Updated Feature License Requirements Hyper-V TM Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Internet Information Services 7.5 Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Network Access Protection Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. AD Rights Management Services Remote Desktop Services Covered by server license, but incremental RMS CALs required, similar to Remote Desktop Services. Covered by server license, but incremental RDS CALs required, similar to AD Rights Management Services. Server Manager Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Windows Deployment Services Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Server Core Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Windows PowerShell TM Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. BranchCache TM Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. DirectAccess Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements.
Security Features High Availability Virtualization Scalability Editions and Features Overall Edition Differentiation Editions Specialized Editions 64 Physical processors 2 TB RAM Unlimited Virtualization Rights Hot Add/Replace Memory* Hot Add/Replace Processors* Failover Clustering Cross-Fire Replication Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Certificate Services Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections Unlimited DFS Roots 64 Physical processors 2 TB RAM Unlimited Virtualization Rights 1 Hot Add/Replace Memory* Hot Add/Replace Processors* Failover Clustering Cross-Fire Replication Support for Intel s MCA 2 Web (IIS) and Application Roles Only for Database, Customer and LOB Apps. 8 Physical processors 2 TB RAM 4 Virtual Machine + Host Hot Add Memory* Failover Clustering Cross-Fire Replication Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Certificate Services Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections Unlimited DFS Roots 4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM Web Role (IIS) Only For Internet Facing Web Servers 4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM 1 Virtual Machine + Host 1 Physical processor 15 User Limit 8 GB RAM
Editions and Features Edition Comparison By Server Role - Full - Partial/Limited - Not Available Server Role Enterprise Datacenter Standard Itanium Web Foundation Web Services (IIS) Application Server Print and Document Services Hyper-V Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Active Directory Rights Management Services DHCP Server DNS Server Fax Server UDDI Services Windows Deployment Services Active Directory Certificate Services 1 1 File Services 2 2 Network Policy and Access Services 3 5 Remote Desktop Services 4 6 Active Directory Federation Services Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 1 Limited to creating Certificate Authorities no other ADCS features (NDES, Online Responder Service). See ADCS role documentation on TechNet for more information 2 Limited to 1 standalone DFS root 3 Limited to 250 RRAS connections, 50 IAS connections and 2 IAS Server Groups 4 Limited to 250 Remote Desktop Services connections 5 Limited to 50 RRAS connections, 10 IAS connections 6 Limited to 50 Remote Desktop Services connections
S e r v e r Core Not Available Not Available Editions and Features Edition Comparison by Server Core Installation Option The Server Core installation option of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles that reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. A Server Core installation supports the following server roles: Server Role Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation Web Services (IIS) Print Services Hyper-V Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Active Directory Certificate Services Media Services DHCP Server DNS Server File Services 1 - Full - Partial/Limited - Not Available 1 Limited to 1 standalone DFS root
Editions and Features Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition - Available - Not Available Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation.NET Framework 3.5.1 Features BITS Server Extensions BitLocker Drive Encryption BranchCache TM RAS Connection Manager Administrator Kit Desktop Experience DirectAccess Management Failover Clustering Group Policy Management Console Ink and Handwriting Services Internet Printing Client Multipath IO Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Windows Server Backup Features Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB) Storage SAN Manager for SANS Simple TCP/IP Services SMTP Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications (SUA)
Editions and Features Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition (cont.) - Available - Not Available Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation SNMP Administration Tools Telnet Client Telnet Server RPC Over HTTP Proxy Windows Process Activation Server Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) Wireless Client Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Windows Server Backup Windows Biometric Framework Windows Internal Database Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)
Editions and Features Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition (cont.) - Available - Not Available Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation.NET 3.0 Remote Differential Compression Remote Assistance Remote Server Admin Tools TFTP Client RDC Peer Name Resolution Protocol Windows PowerShell TM Quality Windows Audio Video Experience LPR Port Monitor XPS Viewer Wireless LAN Service WINS Server Windows Server Migration Tools Windows TIFF IFilter WinRM IIS Extension
Editions and Features Edition Comparison By Technical Specification - Available - Not Available Specification Web Standard Enterprise Datacenter Itanium Foundation X64 Sockets 4 4 8 64 1 IA64 Sockets 64 X64 RAM 32 GB 32 GB 2 TB 2 TB 8 GB IA64 RAM 2 TB Hot Add Memory Hot Replace Memory Hot Add Processors Hot Replace Processors Failover Cluster Nodes (Nodes) 16 16 8 Fault Tolerant Memory Sync Cross-File Replication (DFS-R) Network Access Connections (RRAS) Network Access Connections (IAS) Remote Desktop Services Gateway 250 Unlimited Unlimited 50 50 Unlimited Unlimited 2 10 250 Unlimited Unlimited 50 Virtual Image Use Rights Guest Host + 1 VM Host + 4 VM Unlimited Unlimited Remote Desktop Admin Connections 2 2 2 2 2 2
Special Programs OEM VL EVAL FPP Editions and Features Edition Comparison By Distribution Channel - Available - Not Available Channel Standard Enterprise Datacenter Web Itanium Foundation Retail (FPP) Retail (FPP) EVALUATION Retail (FPP) NOT FOR RESALE Volume Licensing (VL) OEM MNA OEM SBC (System Builder / COEM) MSDN TechNet IT Academy Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) MSPP Learning Solutions Microsoft Action Pack (MAPS) Dreamspark Empower
Editions and Features Edition Comparison By Language - Available - Not Available Language Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation English German Japanese French Spanish Chinese Simplified Italian Chinese Traditional Chinese Hong-Kong Russian Korean Brazilian Portuguese Dutch Swedish Portuguese Polish Turkish Czech Hungarian
Editions and Features System Requirements Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Processor performance is dependent upon not only the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of cores and the size of the processor cache. Disk space requirements for the system partition are approximate. Itanium will vary from these disk size estimates. Additional available hard-disk space may be required if you are installing over a network. For more information, please see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008r2. Specification All Editions Processor Minimum 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or faster Memory Minimum 512 MB RAM Maximum Available Disk Space* Minimum 32 GB or greater Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems 8GB (Foundatio), 32 GB (Standard, Web Server) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-based Systems) Other Requirements DVD Drive Super-VGA (800 600) or higher-resolution monitor Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device Internet access (fees may apply) * Note: Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files
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