Server 2016 VS Server 2012

by Jane / Wed Feb 07 2018 / UPDATED in PARTITION MAGIC SERVER

Compared to Server 2012, Windows Server 2016 has many features, we listed some aspect that have mentioned in the official page and some new features that Windows 2012 doesn’t have

Compare features in Windows Server Versions

This official page compares Windows Server 2012(R2) Standard and Datacenter to Windows Server 2016(R2) Standard and Datacenter from the following aspects:

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Data from Microsoft
  • Performance and scalability
  • Security
  • Software-defined datacenter: Compute
  • Software-defined datacenter: Networking
  • Software-defined datacenter: Storage
  • Cloud-ready application platform

Server 2012 wins at each and every aspect, fully supports all of them, while Server 2012 has limited support on most of listed items.

10 Best New Features in Windows Server 2016

This page (www.tomsitpro.com/articles/best-windows-server-2016-features,2-1061.html) has many introduces on Windows Server 2012, the following list is the 10 best new features of Server 2016:

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Credit: Microsoft
  • Nano Server
  • Containers
    • Windows Server Container
    • Hyper-V Container
  • Linux Secure Boot
  • ReFS(The Resilient File System)
  • Storage Space Direct
  • ADFS v4 (Active Directory Federation Servers)
  • Nested Virtualization
  • Hyper-V Hot-Add Virtual Hardware
  • PowerShell Direct
  • Shielded VMs

And in the end of that page, the author emphasis that Windows Server 2016 focuses on the Compute, Virtualization, and Security subsystems

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