Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, Windows Server 2012 R2 brings Microsoft's experience delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 R2 offers exciting features and enhancements across virtualization, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, and more.

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SKU

WSR-12S-001

Special Price £199.99 Regular Price £499.99

Details

Windows Server 2012 Standard is a flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use server solution. Whether your company is a small business or a large enterprise, Windows Server 2012 Standard can help you cloud optimize your business.

Powerful tools to save time and reduce costs

Windows Server 2012 Standard enables you to blend your on-premises solutions with the cloud without having to re-engineer infrastructure, systems management, or applications. It offers customers scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that helps users connect across-premises. As a result, IT can respond to business needs with greater agility and efficiency, and the mobile workforce is able to access personalized work environments from virtually anywhere.

Server Virtualization

New levels of performance and cross-platform support.

Networking

Hybrid networking with breakthrough levels of flexibility and performance.

Server Management and Automation

Increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter.

Web and Application Platform

Modern apps build and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud.

Access and Information Protection

Consistent and Flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data.

Virtual desktop Infrastructure

Great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective.

Features

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V with Hyper-V Extensible Switch
Hyper-V Replica
Failover Clustering
Live Migration
Dynamic Memory
Remote Desktop Services & Direct Access
Data Security & Compliance
Gen 2 VMs: UEFI based, legacy free devices, SCSI boot, faster deployment due to removed legacy devices
Remote access to VM over VM bus
Significantly faster live migration
Online VHDX resize
Live export of VMs
More robust Linux support in Hyper-V
Significant enhancements to the storage stack

Benefits

Support of more complex virtual environments
Easy-to-handle connection of VMs to physical networks
Hyper-V Replica enables business continuity and disaster recovery
Live migration without SAN thanks to SMB failover
Increase storage capacity thanks to direct connection between the VMs and Fiber Channel–based storage
Keep virtual machines running although physical memory is not available thanks to second level paging
Reduce downtime and costs in the case of file system failure

Compare Windows Server 2012 R2 Editions

Feature	Essentials	Standard	Datacenter
Core functionality of Windows Server
OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation		2	Unlimited
Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation
Host Guardian Service
Storage features including Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica
Shielded Virtual Machines
Networking stack
Licensing Model	Specialty servers	Core-based	Core-based
CAL Requirements	No CAL required	Windows Server CAL	Windows Server CAL

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard offers customers with physical computing or lightly virtualized environments a flexible and reliable solution

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Delivery	Digital Delivery (Email)
Delivery Time	5 Minutes
Licence Term	Perpetual
Licence Use	Home and Commercial
Core Licensing	16 Cores
Users	1 Admin User
Devices	1 Server
Publisher	Microsoft
Language	Multi language
Copyright	All trademarks and trade names are the properties of Microsoft.