What’s new

To GUI …

Windows 8

Release Preview

or Windows

Server 2012

Full Support

Targeted at

Windows Server

2008 R2 or

Windows Server

2008

Can perform most

management tasks,

but no role or

feature installation

or uninstallation

Windows Server

2003

Limited support;

online and offline

status only

…or not to GUI

File Services

Access Denied Assistance

BranchCache 2.0

Data Deduplication

Hyper-V 3.0

Hyper-V 2.0 Hyper-V 3.0

Virtual CPU 4 64

Virtual Memory 64GB 1TB

Virtual HDD 2TB 64TB

NUMA NO YES

Virtual FC NO YES

SR-IOV NO YES

Dynamic Memory

Hyper-V Replica

Storage Migration

Live Migration

Virtualized DCs

Failover Clustering

Cluster-Aware Updating

Virtual Machine application monitoring

Automate NODE draining

…and many more