When it comes to licensing for the operating system for your server, what else is today’s gold standard? You just have to be looking at Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
Windows Server 2012 offers different licensing options, specifically:
- Windows Server Datacentre 2012 (premium grade)
- Windows Server Standard 2012
- Windows Server Foundation 2012, and
- Windows Server Essentials 2012
With Windows Server Standard 2012 you will run standalone servers or servers with low to medium virtualization requirements. You can run two virtual instances of the Server OS on up to two processors for a license you’ve acquired. In effect, licenses to acquire for a server will be based on the number of processors the server has and the number of virtual machines you plan to run.
Capabilities of Windows Server Standard 2012
- Server virtualization with cost-saving advantages
- Storage – build scalable, high-performance, highly available storage solutions
- Networking – manage an entire network as a single server & save
- Server management and automation – Use tools like Windows PowerShell for automation
- Web and application platform
- Access and information protection
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
Benefits
With Windows Server 2012 R2 you can scale to run your most important workloads with robust recovery options. You’ll achieve value quickly with a wide range of cost-effective, high-performance storage options and simplified delivery of multi-tenant IT services. You can build, deploy, operate, and monitor applications on premises and in the cloud. Empower users with secure access to corporate resources on the devices they choose.
Enterprise-class
Improve performance and scale capacity more efficiently to run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against outages.
Simple and cost-effective
Deliver multi-tenant-aware storage and networking multi-tenancy capabilities for storage and networking on low-cost, industry-standard hardware.