I want to start off with an overview of the Windows Server 2022.
This also acts as a preview of what we're going to cover in this
course. Let's start off with the capabilities.
Windows Server 2022 can take 48 TB of RAM and 2,048 logical processors.
So if you have a lot invested in your data center,
you're not going to be disappointed that this new operating
system can't manage what you have there. This operating system
should take what you have already.
Windows Server 2022 has a lot of hybrid capabilities.
The connectivity between your on‑premises and Microsoft Azure
has gotten a lot better and more secure,
including something called extended network where you can actually
extend your private IP addresses up to the cloud.
We have Automanage, and that is through Microsoft Azure.
What that does is kind of leaves it to Microsoft Azure to manage and
take care of the routine upkeep of your on‑premises through the cloud
and arc‑enabled servers, which allow you to take your on‑premises
machines and put them side by side with your Azure resources and
operate them through the portal.
On the security front,
we have secure core servers. This is a hardware solution to security,
meaning that you have your OEM manufacturers, and they can
certify their chips, their RAM, their motherboards,
their network cards all to be secure.
So, a secured core server means that hardware‑wise, it's as
safe as can be. Virtualization‑based security,
which takes a part of RAM, virtualizes is it, and hides it from the
operating system and more secure connections between servers.
There's a lot of improvements with SMB. On the storage front, there's
quite a few improvements with the storage service itself, and the storage
bus cache can now be on standalone servers. With storage spaces, there's
quite a few improvements as well, including Storage Spaces Direct.
As far as the platform goes, with the Hyper‑V, there are some
improvements and changes there. The Windows container features have
really been emphasized with this new release of the operating system,
and the speed in which servers can communicate to each other through
networking has been enhanced as well.
So there is an overview of Windows Server 2022 that
we're going to cover in this course. Up next, let's take a look at some of the interface changes with Server 2022.