Windows Server 2012

You must have known that the presence of Windows Server 2012 was officially launched by Microsoft a few months ago, as the operating system that is designed to 'super computer', innate feature of Windows Server 2012 does not play games. Even Microsoft claims the system is capable of managing 64 processors at once.

Windows Server 2012 is the latest operating system Microsot as the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2 that have been released since 2010 ago. Windows Server 2012 is the cornerstone of the cloud operating system, which provides a consistent platform across cloud computing, whether private, hosted and public. Windows Server 2012 is very different from previous versions. About the features and hardware support increasingly enriched adjust current hardware specs. This product was claimed to have a number of inherent features extraordinary.

To support the processor for example, Windows Server 2012 claimed to be able to handle 64 physical processors simultaneously. The more remarkable because the operating system supports the use of up to 1 TB of RAM memory in the server. Another advantage of Windows Server 2012 is feature Quality of Services (QoS) of which the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of each server networking can be maintained in accordance with business needs. Windows Server 2012 provides many tools can be used to manage the working of a system. Tools include a user interface (UI), Tools for configuring and managing servers, Tools for adding or installing roles and features, Tools for remote administration, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripts to improve the management, the addition of Group Policy, etc. .

Features of Windows Update still prepared to do Automatic Updates, Windows Error Reporting (WER), and included in the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Set the Windows Firewall on the server, and enables Remote Desktop server and thus can be regulated or be managed remotely using Terminal Services. So the Server Manager is a direct service to add roles and features on Windows Server 2012. Actually the Server Manager tool is targeted at the IT in general who works for the organization with moderate scale (medium-size). As for IT Professionals who work in large companies can also use other tools to mengkonfiugrasi the server.

Manager server features an MMC console provides an integrated resource for managing server roles and features as well as for monitoring the status of a server. Although Windows PowerShell has been around since Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, but in its ability to be improved, with a command-line shell and scripting language that contains more than 130 cmdlets plus some intuitive scripting language. PowerShell is a powerful tool to perform administration tasks on Windows Server 2012 as managing services, processes and storage. And PowerShell can be used for server roles such as Internet Information Services (IIS) 8, Terminal services and Active Directory Domain Services.

When using Windows Server 2012, one thing that should not be forgotten is to add the Hyper-V role. With Hyper-V allows us to run more than one operating system either 32-bit or 64-bit at the same time on the same server computer. So in this case the operating system running on a virtual machine (VM).