Microsoft Windows Server Standard 2016 Core – 9EM-00124

WHAT’S NEW WITH WINDOWS SERVER 2016

Added layers of security

Enhance security and reduce risk with multiple layers of built-in protection.

New deployment options

Increase availability and reduce resource usage with the lightweight Nano Server.

Built-in containers

Develop and manage with agility thanks to Windows Server and Hyper-V containers.

Cost-efficient storage

Build highly available, scalable software-defined storage and reduce costs.

Innovative networking

Software-defined networking to automate with cloud-like efficiency.

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Performance and scalability	Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter	Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter
Physical (host) memory support	Up to 4 TB per physical server	Up to 24 TB per physical server (6x)
Physical (host) logical processor support	Up to 320 LPs	Up to 512 LPs
Virtual machine memory support	Up to 1 TB per virtual machine	Up to 12 TB per virtual machine (12x)
Virtual machine virtual processor support	Up to 64 VPs per virtual machine	Up to 240 VPs per virtual machine (3.75x)

 

Security

Feature description	Windows Server 2008 R2	Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2016
Shielded Virtual Machines
Just Enough Administration
Just-in-Time Administration
Credential Guard
Remote Credential Guard
Device Guard
AppLocker
Windows Defender
Control Flow Guard
Enhanced threat detection

 Not supported     Limited support     Fully supported

Software-defined datacenter: compute, networking, and storage

Feature description	Windows Server 2008 R2	Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2016
Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade
Linux and FreeBSD workloads
Hot add and remove for disk, memory, and network
Network Controller
Microsegmentation
Software Load Balancer
Storage Spaces Direct
Storage Quality of Service
Data deduplication
Storage Replica
Storage health monitoring
RDS RemoteFX vGPU
Server management tools
Nano Server installation option
VM Load Balancing

 Not supported     Limited support     Fully supported

Cloud-ready application platform

Feature description	Windows Server 2008 R2	Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2016
Windows Server containers
Hyper-V containers
Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration
Windows PowerShell 5.1

 Not supported     Limited support     Fully supported

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