Description
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter is a flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use server solution. Whether your company is a small business or a large enterprise, Windows Server 2016 Standard can help you cloud optimize your business.
Microsoft Windows Datacenter edition is optimized for large-scale virtualization; its license allows one server to run an unlimited number of Windows Server instances.
Microsoft server is basically a server operating system which became available on october 2016. the server 2016 hasvarious new features such as:
Windows Defender: An anti-malware can install and enable without using GUI.
Active Directory Federation Services: Active Directory Federation Services can configure to this system.
Remote Desktop Services: This for improving the performance and stability of the system.
Storage Services: Storage services have a storage replica option that replicates files instead of blocks. It also can replicates snapshots, anddirection can also change by using it.
Failover Clustering: This feature is for rolling upgrade and storage replica.
Web Application Proxy: This feature is for pre-authentication of the HTTP application.
There are various other feathers such as new networking features, which involve supporting generic routing encapsulation, more networkinterface, IP address management. To summarize, the Microsoft server will enhance the performance and security of the system.
Locks and Limits
| Locks and Limits | Windows Server 2016 Standard | Windows Server 2016 Datacenter |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of users | Based on CALs | Based on CALs |
| Maximum SMB connections | 16777216 | 16777216 |
| Maximum RRAS connections | unlimited | unlimited |
| Maximum IAS connections | 2147483647 | 2147483647 |
| Maximum RDS connections | 65535 | 65535 |
| Maximum number of 64-bit sockets | 64 | 64 |
| Maximum number of cores | unlimited | unlimited |
| Maximum RAM | 24 TB | 24 TB |
| Can be used as virtualization guest | Yes; 2 virtual machines, plus one Hyper-V host per license | Yes; unlimited virtual machines, plus one Hyper-V host per license |
| Server can join a domain | yes | yes |
| Edge network protection/firewall | no | no |
| DirectAccess | yes | yes |
| DLNA codecs and web media streaming | Yes, if installed as Server with Desktop Experience | Yes, if installed as Server with Desktop Experience |
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter enables you to blend your on-premises solutions with the cloud without having to re-engineer infrastructure, systems management, or applications. It offers customers scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that helps users connect across-premises. As a result, IT can respond to business needs with greater agility and efficiency, and the mobile workforce is able to access personalized work environments from virtually anywhere.
