HPE ROK License - MS Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials - 64 bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 from HPE

HPE and Microsoft solutions

For over 30 years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft are combining the intelligence of HPE ProLiant Servers – the world's most self-sufficient servers, with the ease of management and virtualization capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. This integrated hardware and software solutions automate the IT lifecycle, accelerate workloads, optimize energy, and help assure availability to deliver the applications your business demands today and leverage the cloud-based models of the future.

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2 captures Microsoft's experience of delivering global-scale cloud services to provide an enterprise-class server and cloud platform. It lets you optimize performance for your most important workloads and helps to protect against service outages with robust recovery options. It reduces complexity and cost with comprehensive automation plus storage and networking virtualization solutions based on industry-standard hardware. It lets you build, run, and scale applications that can move between your datacenter and the cloud, and allows you to provide your users with flexible remote access from virtually anywhere and any device while helping to protect corporate information.

Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers significant value around seven key capabilities:

Server virtualization - new levels of performance and cross-platform support

Storage - high performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost

Networking - hybrid networking with breakthrough levels of flexibility and performance

Server management and automation - increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter

Web and application platform - Modern apps build and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud

Access and information protection - Consistent and flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data

Virtual desktop infrastructure - great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective

Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivers Windows Server 2012 R2 Support for ProLiant Servers. It offers OEM licensing* for the following editions:

• Datacenter edition for highly-virtualized private cloud environments.
• Standard edition for non-virtualized or lightly virtualized environments.
• Essentials edition for small businesses with up to 25 users running on servers with up to two processors.
• Foundation edition for small businesses with up to 15 users running on single processor servers.