Do more with less? The HP & Microsoft partnership extends Windows Server 2012 features with the release of Windows Server 2012 R2. Combining the HP Pro Liant Gen 8 features with the advanced virtualization & scalability features of Windows Server 2012 R2 empowers IT users & provides flexible access to corporate resources while protecting corporate information. Server virtualization
- supports large virtual disk format with online resize capability, and compression to accelerate live migration of VHD/VHDX files Storage
- gives you the ability to transfer large scale file systems between multiple nodes within a cluster, and Windows Azure Hyper-V recovery manager ensures robust recovery using Hyper-V replica Network
- introduces software defined networking via Hyper-V network virtualization & Hyper-V extensible switch, and enables SR-IOV capable devices to be directly accessed by the VMs