Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012
The performance and enterprise class scale of Windows Server 2008 shows that it scales 256 LPs and 2 Tb of the memory, however Windows Server 2012 scales to 640 LPs and 4TB of the memory. Furthermore, the clustering support provided by Windows Server 2008 is up to 16 nodes 1000 virtual machines, on the other hand Windows Sever 2012 provides clustering support up to 64 nodes 4000 virtual machines are supported through it.
Shared nothing live migration is not available in Windows Server 2008 however, it is considered as an effective feature that have been deployed in Windows Server 2012 as it has an ability to mitigate various virtual machines on different clusters of Hyper–V with no sharing of the storage with the help of using only Ethernet connection. Although Windows 2012 has high advanced level of features, yet there are few drawbacks associated with it due to which companies often feel uncomfortable to upgrade their system to latest Windows Operating System 2012.
There are many reasons which clarify that companies do not schedule an up...
1.0 Introduction An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system. The operating system programs make system resources available to user(s), the user’s application programs and to other application programs running on the computer. (From Silberschatz and Gagne et al., 2010) Some operating systems are designed to be convenient, others to be efficient