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Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008,
expanding existing technology and adding new features to enable IT professionals to increase the
reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. Windows Server 2008 R2 includes many
enhancements that make this release the most robust Windows Server Web application platform
yet. It offers an updated Web server role, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and greater support
for .NET on Server Core. Design goals for IIS 7.5 concentrated on improvements that enable Web
administrators to more easily deploy and manage Web applications that increase both reliability
and scalability. Additionally, IIS 7.5 has streamlined management capabilities and provides more
ways to customize your Web serving environment.
Virtualization is a major part of today's data centers. The operating efficiencies offered by
virtualization allow organizations to dramatically reduce operational effort and power
consumption. Windows Server 2008 R2 provides the following virtualization types: Client and Server
virtualization provided by Hyper-V and Presentation virtualization with Remote Desktop Services.
The ongoing management of servers in the data center is one of the most time-consuming tasks
facing IT professionals today. Any management strategy you deploy must support the
management of both your physical and virtual environments. To help with this problem, Windows
Server 2008 R2 has new features to reduce the ongoing management of Windows Server 2008 R2
and to reduce the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks.
Windows Server 2008 R2 is capable of unprecedented workload size, dynamic scalability, and
across-the-board availability and reliability. A host of new and updated features will be available,
including leveraging sophisticated CPU architectures, increased operating system
componentization, and improved performance and scalability for applications and services.
Please review the hardware system requirements on the Windows Server 2008 R2 website.
NOTE:
For more information on full features of Window Server 2008 R2, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx
Virtualization
Virtualization is a major part of today's data centers. The operating efficiencies offered by virtualization
allow organizations to dramatically reduce operational effort and power consumption. Windows Server
2008 R2 provides the following virtualization types: Client and Server virtualization provided by Hyper-V
and Presentation virtualization with Remote Desktop Services.
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces a new version of Hyper-V. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2
includes a number of core areas of improvement for creating dynamic virtual data centers including
increased availability and performance, improved management, simplified methods for deployment and
new features including live migration.
NOTE:
For more information about using your virtualization product keys, see:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100268
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