Win Server 2019 Datacenter Digital Key

What are the benefits of using Windows Server Datacenter Edition?

Windows Server Datacenter Edition provides various benefits including:

1. Enhanced core Windows Server functionality
2. Support for developers to create cloud-native apps and modernize traditional apps using containers and microservices
3. Multiple layers of protection built into the operating system, increasing security and reducing business risk
4. High density virtualization support
5. Advanced software-defined Windows Server 2019 Datacenter capabilities
6. Advanced software-defined storage capabilities

Key features of Windows Server Datacenter Edition include:

1. Core Windows Server functionality
2. Hybrid integration
3. Hyper-converged infrastructure
4. Unlimited OSEs/Hyper-V containers
5. Unlimited Windows Server containers
6. Host Guardian Service
7. Unlimited Storage Replica
8. Shielded Virtual Machines
9. Software-defined networking
10. Software-defined storage

Windows Server 2019 Datacenter also offers unique hybrid capabilities with Azure. This allows users to extend their data center to Azure, maximizing existing investments and gaining new hybrid capabilities. By integrating a comprehensive set of Azure services such as Azure Backup, Azure File Sync, and disaster recovery, users can easily transition to a hybrid cloud environment without disrupting their applications and infrastructure. Microsoft’s hybrid approach takes a future-proof, long-term approach, making it a central component of cloud strategies for the foreseeable future.

Windows Server 2019 fully supports the following features:

• Storage Migration Service: This feature helps migrate data, security, and configurations from legacy systems to Windows Server 2019 or Azure.
• Synchronizing File Servers to Azure: It allows centralizing an organization’s file shares in Azure Files while maintaining the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server.
• System Insights: It provides predictive analytics capabilities native to Windows Server, backed by machine-learning models, to reduce operational expenses associated with managing Windows Server instances.
• Azure Network Adaptor: This feature easily connects to Azure virtual networks, and Windows Admin Center configures the VPN to a new network adapter that will connect Windows Server 2019 to a point-to-site Azure virtual network VPN.
• Enhanced Azure AD Authentication: Windows Server 2019 can join Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), enabling new scenarios where the computer account can be used for cloud authentication.
• VM Protection: This feature replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines from a primary site to a secondary location.
• Unified Management: Windows Admin Center is a browser-based HCI remote management interface that includes software-defined network configuration and monitoring.
• Storage Spaces: It protects data from drive failures and extends storage over time as new drives are added to servers.
• Enhanced Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): It builds software-defined storage using industry-standard servers with local storage that can scale up to 4PB per storage pool and 64TB per volume in Windows Server 2019 Datacenter.
• Mirror-Accelerated Parity: This feature creates volumes that are part mirror and part parity for 2x better performance on storage spaces direct deployments.
• Precision Time Protocol (PTP): PTP enables network devices to add the latency introduced by each network device into the timing measurements, providing a more accurate time sample than Network Time Protocol (NTP).
• Leap Second: Support for leap seconds increases accuracy, compliance, and traceability.
• HTTP/2: Windows Server 2019 supports HTTP/2 (RFC 7540) in the native HTTP server, delivering performance and security benefits to website deployments.
• Latency Optimized Background Transport – LEDBAT: This feature is a latency-optimized, network congestion control provider that automatically yields bandwidth to users and applications while consuming the entire bandwidth available when the network is not in use.
• IP Address Management (IPAM) and DNS: IPAM now supports comprehensive DNS and DHCP management with role-based access control across multiple AD forests. DNS provides for traffic management, load balancing, split-brain deployments, and prevention of DNS amplification attacks.
• MultiPoint Services Role: Enables multiple users to run their own sessions on a single machine, resulting in a low cost-per-seat.
• High-Availability RDS Connection Broker: Helps create a fault-tolerant connection broker for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) scenarios to ensure continuity of service.
• SDN with IPv4/IPv6: Software-defined networking (SDN) allows for centralized configuration and management of physical and virtual network devices. Windows Server 2019 also supports IPv6 and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 addressing.