•	Windows Server 2012 Datacenter – 64 processors / fault tolerance / unlimited vms
•	Windows Server 2012  Standard – 2 vms
•	Windows Server 2012  Essentials – without server core, hyper v, active directory federation services
•	Windows Server 2012  Foundation

Minimum requirements for server:

o	Processor: 1.4 GHz 64-bit
o	RAM: 512 MB
o	Disk space: 32 GB

Migrate existing server to clean 2012 one

Netdom.exe to rename computer / join domain

Nic teaming = combine the bandwidth of multiple network interface adapters

•	Role: Define the primary function of a server
o	Example: Web Server (IIS)
•	Feature: A smaller module, typically with a single purpose
o	Example: a management tool, extension, or optional component
•	Service: Programs that run continuously in the background, waiting for a client to send a request
•	Storage Area Network (SAN)
o	Separate network dedicated to storage devices, using high-speed technologies.
•	Network Attached Storage (NAS)
o	Essentially a designated file server providing file-based storage directly to clients.
o	Connects to a LAN using standard ethernet hardware.
•	Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD)
o	Simplest and least expensive, but it is just extra storage space.

Windows Server 2012 supports two hard disk partition types: MBR and GPT; two disk types: basic and dynamic; five volume types: simple, striped, spanned, mirrored, and RAID-5; and three file systems: ReFS (unlimited file), NTFS, and FAT (no security)

•	Server Message Blocks (SMB)
o	The standard file-sharing protocol used by all versions of Windows.
o	Requires the File Server role service.
•	Network File System (NFS)
o	The standard file sharing protocol used by most UNIX and Linux distributions.
Shadow copies = 64 2012 can maintain

Workstation = printer = printer driver = print server = printer device