New Features Of Windows Server 2012 r2

New Features of Windows Server 2012 r2

Overview:-

1- Windows Server 2012 is released in date August 1, 2012

2- Windows Server 2012 has no support for Itanim based computers

3- It is the server version of Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server 2008 R2

4- Windows Server 2012 includes enhancements to virtualization, management, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access protection, information protection, web services, and application platform infrastructure.

System Requirement for installation Windows Server 2012:–

Processor: Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit Processor
RAM: Minimum: 512 MB
Disk Space: Minimum: 32 GB

New Feature of Windows Server 2012 R2:-

1- Data Deduplication: Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 stores more data in less physical space.it is a software-based technology that technology could save a lot of space. it allows you to most efficiently maximize your data storage space. No additional hardware is needed for the deduplication to take place.

2- iSCSI Target Server: The iSCSI Target Server managing the Microsoft iSCSI Target Server, such as creating virtual disks, and for presenting them to the client.

3- Mobile Device Management: MDM Settings Provider enables management of settings on devices enrolled with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) service.

4- Windows PowerShell: New in Windows Server 2012 R2, DSC is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.

New Feature of Windows Server 2012:-

1- Windows Clustering:

[A] In Windows Server 2012, you can have up to 64-nodes 1 TB of memory in the cluster and up to 4,000 VMs across the entire cluster and single node in the cluster can now run a max of 1,024 virtual machines. Failover Clustering is now included in Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition.

[B] You could perform multiple live migrations simultaneously utilizing higher network bandwidths.

[C] Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 allowed you to move the virtual hard disks used by a virtual machine to different physical storage while the virtual machine remained running.

2- Data Deduplication: Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 stores more data in less physical space.it is a software-based technology that technology could save a lot of space. it allows you to most efficiently maximize your data storage space. No additional hardware is needed for the deduplication to take place.

3- iSCSI Target Server: The iSCSI Target Server managing the Microsoft iSCSI Target Server, such as creating virtual disks, and for presenting them to the client.

4- NFS Provider for WMI: The NFS WMI provider provides a means of managing NFS server and client settings, file shares, netgroups, and client groups.

5- Server Core: Server Core is a minimal server installation option for the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance.