Windows Server 2008 R2 Editions and Features

Windows Server Business Strategy and Management

Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition Edition Summary Summaries

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard is an advanced server platform that provides more costeffective and reliable support for business workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is an advanced server platform that provides more costeffective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter is an advanced server platform that provides more costeffective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Web Server 2008 R2 is a powerful Web application and services platform. Featuring Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 and designed exclusively as an Internet-facing server, it offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help reduce infrastructure costs when used with a variety of popular development platforms. With included Web Server and DNS Server roles, as well as improved reliability and scalability, this platform allows you to manage the most demanding environments from a dedicated Web server to an entire Web server farm. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems delivers an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications. Scale database, line-of-business, and custom applications to meet growing business needs. Help improve availability with failover clustering and dynamic hardware partitioning capabilities*. Virtualize deployments with rights to run an unlimited number of virtual instances of Windows Server**. Windows Server 2008 R2 for ItaniumBased Systems helps provide the foundation for a highly dynamic IT infrastructure. *Requires supporting server hardware. ** Requires a third-party virtualization technology. Hyper-VTM is not available for Itanium-based systems. Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation is a cost-effective technology foundation for your business. Targeted at small Business owners and IT Generalists supporting small businesses. Foundation is an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy, proven and reliable technology that provides organizations with the foundation to run the most prevalent business applications as well as share information and resources.

New/Updated Feature

New and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 R2

Ente Data Stan Web Itan Foun License Requirements rpri cent dard ium dati se er on
Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license, but incremental similar to Remote Desktop Services. Covered by server license, but incremental similar to AD Rights Management Services. RMS CALs required, RDS CALs required,

Hyper-VTM

Internet Information Services 7.5 Network Access Protection

AD Rights Management Services Remote Desktop Services

Server Manager Windows Deployment Services Server Core Windows PowerShellTM BranchCacheTM DirectAccess

Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements.

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Overall Edition Differentiation

Editions Specialized Editions
64 Physical processors 2 TB RAM 64 Physical processors U n l i m i t e d V i r t u a l i z a t i2 n R RAM t s o TB i g h Hot Add/Replace Memory* Unlimited Virtualization Rights1 Hot Add/Replace Processors* dd/Replace Memory* Hot A Failover Clustering Hot Add/Replace Processors* Cross-Fire Replication Failover Clustering Active Directory Federation Services Replication Cross-Fire Active Directory Certificate Services Intels MCA2 Support for Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections ) and Application Roles Only for Database, Customer and LOB Apps. Web (IIS Unlimited DFS Roots

High Features SecurityAvailability Scalability Virtualization

8 Physical processors 2 TB RAM 4 Virtual Machine + Host Hot Add Memory* Failover Clustering Cross-Fire Replication Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Certificate Services Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections Unlimited DFS Roots

4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM Web Role (IIS) Only For Internet Facing Web Servers

4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM 1 Virtual Machine + Host

1 Physical processor 15 User Limit 8 GB RAM

Edition Comparison By Server Role

Server Role
Web Services (IIS) Application Server Print and Document Services Hyper-V Active Directory Domain Services

Enterprise Datacenter

Standard
1 2 3 4

Itanium

Web

Foundation
1 2 5 6
- Not Available

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Active Directory Rights Management Services DHCP Server DNS Server Fax Server UDDI Services Windows Deployment Services Active Directory Certificate Services File Services Network Policy and Access Services Remote Desktop Services Active Directory Federation Services Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

1 Limited to creating Certificate Authorities no other ADCS features (NDES, Online Responder Service). See ADCS role documentation on TechNet for more information 2 Limited to 1 standalone DFS root 3 Limited to 250 RRAS connections, 50 IAS connections and 2 IAS Server Groups 4 Limited to 250 Remote Desktop Services connections 5 Limited to 50 RRAS connections, 10 IAS connections 6 Limited to 50 Remote Desktop Services connections

- Full

- Partial/Limited

Edition Comparison by Server Core Installation Option

Server Role S e r Web Services (IIS) ver C o r Print Services e Hyper-V Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Active Directory Certificate Services Media Services DHCP Server DNS Server File Services - Full Enterprise Datacenter - Partial/Limited Standard 1 Web - Not Available Itanium Not Available Foundation Not Available

lation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles that reduces the maintenance and management requi

1 Limited to 1 standalone DFS root

Feature

.NET Framework 3.5.1 Features BITS Server Extensions

Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition

Enterprise

Datacenter

Standard

Web

Itanium

Foundation

BitLocker Drive Encryption BranchCacheTM Desktop Experience DirectAccess Management Failover Clustering Group Policy Management Console Ink and Handwriting Services Internet Printing Client Multipath IO Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Windows Server Backup Features Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB) Storage SAN Manager for SANS Simple TCP/IP Services SMTP Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications (SUA)

RAS Connection Manager Administrator Kit

- Available

- Not Available

Feature
SNMP

Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition (Cont.)

Enterprise

Datacenter

Standard

Web

Itanium

Foundation

Administration Tools Telnet Client Telnet Server RPC Over HTTP Proxy Windows Process Activation Server Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) Wireless Client Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Windows Server Backup Windows Biometric Framework Windows Internal Database Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

- Available - Available

- Not Available - Not Available

Feature
.NET 3.0

Differentiated Feature Comparison by Edition (Cont)

Enterprise

Datacenter

Standard

Web

Itanium

Foundation

Remote Differential Compression Remote Assistance Remote Server Admin Tools TFTP Client RDC Peer Name Resolution Protocol Windows PowerShellTM Quality Windows Audio Video Experience LPR Port Monitor XPS Viewer Wireless LAN Service WINS Server Windows Server Migration Tools Windows TIFF IFilter WinRM IIS Extension

- Available

- Not Available

Specification X64 Sockets X64 RAM IA64 RAM IA64 Sockets

Edition Comparison By T echnical Specification

Web 4 Guest 2 Standard 4 250 50 250 Host + 1 VM 2 Enterprise 8 16 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Host + 4 VM 2 Datacenter 64 16 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 2 64 2 TB 8 2 32 GB 32 GB 2 TB 2 TB

Itanium

Foundation 1 8 GB 50 10 50 2

Hot Add Memory Hot Replace Memory Hot Add Processors Hot Replace Processors Fault Tolerant Memory Sync Network Access Connections (RRAS) Network Access Connections (IAS) Remote Desktop Services Gateway Virtual Image Use Rights Remote Desktop Admin Connections

Failover Cluster Nodes (Nodes) Cross-File Replication (DFS-R)

Unlimited 2

- Available

- Not Available

Edition Comparison By Language

Language
English German Japanese French Spanish Chinese Simplified Italian Chinese Traditional Chinese Hong-Kong Russian Korean Brazilian Portuguese Dutch Swedish Portuguese Polish Turkish Czech Hungarian

Enterprise

Datacenter

Standard

Web

Itanium

Foundation

- Available

- Not Available

System Requirements
Specification
Processor Minimum

y of the processor, but also on the number of cores and the size of the processor cache. Disk space requirements for the system parti

All Editions
1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or faster Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems

Memory

Minimum Maximum

512 MB RAM 32 GB (Standard, Web Server, and Foundation) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-based Systems) 32 GB or greater DVD Drive Super-VGA (800 600) or higher-resolution monitor Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device Internet access (fees may apply)

Available Disk Space* Other Requirements

Minimum

* Note: Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files