Description
With built-in, enhanced web capabilities and included virtualization technology, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard is designed to increase the reliability and flexibility of your server infrastructure while helping save time and reduce costs. Powerful tools give you greater control over your servers and streamline configuration and management tasks.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard provides organizations with the ability to deliver rich web-based experiences efficiently and effectively, with improved administration and diagnostics, advanced development and application tools, and lower infrastructure costs.
Many organizations find that patch management, resource utilization, maintenance costs, and server sprawl are among their biggest challenges. Server virtualization technologies included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, such as Windows Server Hyper-V and enhancements to Remote Desktop Services can help you address these challenges. Utilizing the virtualization capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard will enable you to consolidate resources and realize significant infrastructure and management cost savings.
The ongoing management of servers in the datacenter 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 the operating system including common day-to-day operational tasks.
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Enabling Server and Desktop 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. -
Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces a 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 features including live migration. -
Remote desktop services (formerly known as terminal services)
Remote Desktop Services provides users and administrators with both the features and the flexibility necessary to build the most robust access experience in any deployment scenario. To expand the Remote Desktop Services feature set, Microsoft has been investing in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, also known as VDI. VDI is a centralized desktop delivery architecture, which enables Windows and other desktop environments to run and be managed in virtual machines on a centralized server. -
Improving power management and streamlining management
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 features to reduce the ongoing management of Windows Server 2008 R2 and to reduce the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks. -
Scalability and reliability
Windows Server 2008 R2 is capable of unprecedented workload size, dynamic scalability, and across-the-board availability and reliability. A host of updated features will be available, including leveraging sophisticated CPU architectures, increased operating system componentization, and improved performance and scalability for applications and services. -
Making the experience better together with Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2 has many features that are designed specifically to work with client computers running Windows 7. Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows client operating system from Microsoft.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - licence - 5 CALs, 1 server (1-4 CPU)
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - BIOS-locked (IBM)
- Product Type
- Licence
- Licence Type
- 5 CALs, 1 server (1-4 CPU)
- Licence Pricing
- OEM
- Licensing Program
- Reseller Option Kit (ROK)
- Language
- Czech, English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean
- Designed For
- System x3300 M4; x3400 M3; x3550 M3; x3550 M4; x3650 M3; x3650 M4
Detailed Specification
General
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - BIOS-locked (IBM)
- Product Type
- Licence
- Language
- Czech, English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean
Licencing
- Licence Type
- 5 CALs, 1 server (1-4 CPU)
- Licence Pricing
- OEM
- Licensing Program
- Reseller Option Kit (ROK)
System Requirements
- Min Processor Type
- 1.4 GHz
- Min RAM Size
- 512 MB
- Min Hard Drive Space
- 32 GB
- Additional Requirements
- Mouse or compatible device, DVD-ROM, SVGA monitor, keyboard
Compatibility Information
- Designed For
- Lenovo System x3300 M4 , Lenovo System x3400 M3 , Lenovo System x3550 M3 , Lenovo System x3550 M4 , Lenovo System x3650 M3 , Lenovo System x3650 M4
