. Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter is for highly virtualized datacenter & cloud environments. Provides full Windows Server functionality with unlimited virtual instances. Windows Server 2012 R2 provides enterprise-class datacenter & hybrid cloud solutions that are simple to deploy cost-effective application-focused & user-centric. At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS vision Windows Server 2012 R2 brings Microsoft's experience delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure with features & enhancements in virtualization management storage networking virtual desktop infrastructure access & information protection the web & application platform & more Key Product Info. Highly virtualized private & hybrid cloud environments Full Windows Server functionality with unlimited virtual instances Enterprise-class datacenter & cloud platform Simple & cost effective Application focused User centric Product Features Enterprise-class datacenter & cloud platform Simply implementing a virtualized solution within your infrastructure is not enough to provide the agility today's IT challenges require. Windows Server 2012 R2 changes the virtualization equation by enabling you to deploy & manage a multitenant cloud infrastructure within a flexible IT environment that adapts to your changing business needs. The enhanced features in Windows Server 2012 R2 empower you to efficiently utilize the capacity of your datacenter while delivering best-in-class performance for your Microsoft workloads. Access to corporate resources such as workloads storage & networks help increase the agility of your business while protecting corporate information. Offering a proven enterprise-class cloud & datacenter platform Windows Server 2012 R2 can easily scale to continuously run the largest workloads with support for up to 64 processors & 1 terabyte of memory for Hyper-V guests & VHDX virtual hard disks up to 64 terabytes. In addition powerful availability features protect against service outages. & with automated protection & recovery for cost-effective business continuity on-premises & across clouds you can improve your workload SLAs while reducing downtime risks. To help you protect your investments in existing cross-platform technologies Windows Server 2012 R2 also offers expanded support for a heterogeneous datacenter including rich Linux support. Simple & cost effective Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to blend your on-premises solutions with the cloud without having to re-engineer infrastructure systems management or applications. Application focused Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to build & deploy applications in your datacenter that utilize higher-level cloud-based application services & APIs that are compatible with service provider clouds & Windows Azure. This functionality provides enhanced application portability between on-premises public & partner hosted clouds increasing the flexibility & elasticity of your IT services. Windows Server 2012 R2 also provides frameworks services & tools to increase scalability & elasticity for multi-tenant aware applications & websites. Features such as NUMA-aware scalability centralized SSL certificate support & application initialization help improve site density site scalability & performance. The best platform for the. NET framework Windows Server 2012 R2 also offers enhanced support for open frameworks open source applications & various development languages. User centric Windows Server 2012 R2 empowers end users by helping provide them access to information & data regardless of the infrastructure network device or application. Your IT staff can provide consistent access to corporate resources by managing & federating user identities & credentials across the organization & into the cloud while providing secure al