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Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials edition is ideal for small businesses that have up to 25 users and want to have a simpler, pre-configured connection to cloud-based services. This edition enables you to run a single virtual instance of Essentials. The licensing for Essentials will continue to be a server license for a two processor server that does not require CALs.
How to Choose Windows Server 2012 R2 Edition：
Server 2012 R2 |
Ideal for |
Licensing model |
CAL require |
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Datacenter |
Highly virtualized datacenters and cloud environments |
Processor + CAL |
Windows Server CAL |
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Standard |
Physical or minimally virtualized environments |
Processor + CAL |
Windows Server CAL |
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Essentials |
Small businesses with up to 25 users and 50 devices |
Server License |
No CAL required |
Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016 and Server 2019 comparison :
| Feature and description | Windows Server 2008 R2 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 | Feature and description | Windows Server 2008 R2 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 |
| Synchronizing file servers to Azure | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | HTTP/2 | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| System Insights | Fully Supported | Latency Optimized Background Transport - LEDBAT | Fully Supported | ||||||
| Azure network adaptor | Fully Supported | IP address management (IPAM) and DNS | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| VM protection | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | MultiPoint services role | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Unified management | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | High-availability RDS connection broker | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Storage Spaces | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | SDN with IPv4/IPv6 | Patial Supported | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | ||
| Enhanced Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Enhanced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) | Fully Supported | |||||
| Mirror-accelerated parity | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Shielded VMs for Windows | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Nested Mirror Accelerated parity | Fully Supported | Shielded VMs for Linux | Fully Supported | ||||||
| Storage class memory | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | HGS offline mode for shielded VMs: | Fully Supported | |||||
| USB thumb drive (as cluster witness) | Fully Supported | VM Connect for shielded VMs: | Fully Supported | ||||||
| Storage Replica | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Cluster hardening | Fully Supported | |||||
| Storage Quality of Service (QoS) | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | SDN encrypted subnet: | Fully Supported | |||||
| Data deduplication | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Just-enough administration | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |
| Deduplication for ReFS | Fully Supported | Just-in-time administration | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Virtual machine storage resiliency | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Credential guard | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Cloud Witness | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Control flow guard | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Storage health monitoring: | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Device guard (code integrity) | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Cluster-wide monitoring | Fully Supported | Dynamic access control | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Cluster sets | Fully Supported | AppLocker | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Cluster OS rolling upgrade | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | BitLocker: | Patial Supported | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||
| Mixed OS mode cluster | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Linux containers | Fully Supported | ||||
| Site-aware failover clusters | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Windows Server containers: | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||||
| Persistent memory | Fully Supported | Server Core base container image | Fully Supported | ||||||
| Linux and FreeBSD workloads | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Nano Server base container image | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | ||
| Hot add and remove for disk, memory, and network | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Server Core Features on Demand | Fully Supported | ||||
| Network controller | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Kubernetes platform support | Fully Supported | |||||
| Virtual networking | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Group Managed Service Accounts | Patial Supported | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | ||
| Software load balancer (SLB) | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Windows Subsystem for Linux | Fully Supported | |||||
| Virtual network peering | Fully Supported | Hyper-V isolation | Fully Supported | ||||||
| Distributed firewall and micro-segmentation | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Hybrid SDN gateways | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | PowerShell 5.1 | Patial Supported | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |
| Improved SDN gateway | Fully Supported | PowerShell Desired State Configuration | Patial Supported | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Converged RDMA | Patial Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Visual Studio Code | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |
| Precision Time Protocol (PTP) | Fully Supported | .NET Core: | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | Fully Supported | |||
| Leap Second | Fully Supported |
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Required processor |
1.4 GHz or faster 64-bit compatible processor |
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Required memory |
512 MB (2 GB for Server with Desktop Experience installation option) |
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Required hard disk space |
32GB available hard disk space |
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Required video card |
1024 x 768 or higher-resolution |
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2.Download Copy the download link to your browser to start downloading |
3.Activate Install from the download file , then activate it with the product key |
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