Product Features

• Maximize control over your infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment than ever before
• Gives you the ability to deliver rich web-based experiences efficiently and effectively, with improved administration and diagnostics, development and application tools, and lower infrastructure costs
• Built-in server virtualization technology enables you to reduce costs, increase hardware utilization, optimize your infrastructure, and improve server availability
• Hardened operating system and security innovations, including Network Access Protection, Federated Rights Management, and Read-Only Domain Controller, provide unprecedented levels of protection for your network, your data, and your business
• New technologies and features such as Server Core, PowerShell, Windows Deployment Services, and enhanced networking and clustering technologies

System Requirements:

• Processor
• Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor)
• Recommended: 2GHz or faster
• Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
• Memory
• Minimum: 512MB RAM
• Recommended: 2GB RAM or greater
• Maximum (32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)
• Maximum (64-bit systems): 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and Itanium-based Systems)
• Available Disk Space
• Minimum: 10GB
• Recommended: 40GB or greater
• Note: Computers with more than 16GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files
• Drive
• DVD-ROM drive
• Display and Peripherals
• Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor
• Keyboard
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device