Server Installation (Module 2)

Apr 4, 2017
3 min read

Server : Server is a computer that is providing a some service.

Client : It is the computer which is accessing the service from the server.

Popular Server from Microsoft

> Windows NT server

> Windows Server (2000 - 2012, R12)

Edition of windows server :

Windows NT 3.1 - 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 - 2003 R2 Windows Server 2008 - 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 - 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016

Windows NT 3.1 - 4.0 Editions

Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server Windows NT 3.5 Server Windows NT 3.51 Server Windows NT 4.0 Server Windows NT 4.0 Server Enterprise Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition

Windows 2000 Editions

Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Windows Server 2003 - 2003 R2 Editions

Windows Small Business Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Windows Storage Server Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003 R2 Web Edition Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) Windows Storage Server Windows Home Server

Windows Server 2008 - 2008 R2 Editions

Windows Server 2008 Standard Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Windows Server Foundation 2008 Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Windows HPC Server 2008 Windows Small Business Server 2008 Windows Storage Server 2008 Windows Web Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Windows Small Business Server 2011 Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Windows Home Server 2011 Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Windows Server 2012 - 2012 R2 Editions

Windows Server 2012 Foundation Windows Server 2012 Essentials Windows Server 2012 Standard Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

Windows Server 2016 Editions

Windows Server 2016 Essentials Windows Server 2016 Standard Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

Standard Edition : This edition is suitable for small to medium size sized organization and it is ideal for print server and file server, dens server remote access server.It support 4GB RAM and 4SMP for 32 bit and 32 GB RAM and 4 SMP for 64 bit.

(SMP: symmetric multi processing)

Enterprise Edition : It provide greater functionality and scalability than standard edition. It support all the features of windows server 2008. 32BIT edition support 64 GB ram and 8 SMP. 64bit support 2TB smp.

Data center Edition : This edition is recommended for the business that need high availability and clustering. 32 bit support 64GB ram and 64 bit support 2TB ram.

Web Edition : This edition mainly developed for web server, SMTP, Telent. 32bit support 4GB ram and 64 bit support 32Gb ram.

Itanium : This edition is specifically designed for intel itanium processor and is specially recommended for Hyper-V. It is only available on 64 bit, that support 2TB ram and 64 SMP.

Nowadays 2008 and upper version is mostly used.

Hardware requirement for windows server 2008 Editions;

CPU RAM HDD Minimum Minimum Minimum 1 GHz (IA-32) 512 MB Other edition 32bit-20GB 1.4 GHz (x86-64 or Itanium) Other edition 64bit-32GB Foundation 10GB