Windows Server 2008

huppy · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:21

I have this available on msdn and really want to download it to play with it and see the changes from Server 2003.

There's a few versions though and I'm still trying to figure out what MS were thinking with their different license versions.

I'm particularly interested in the web server version but, unless i'm being abit slow, there seem to be some omissions that I can't get my head around.

No clustering - what happens when a single box gets too many requests for its web app?
No Terminal services gateway - how'd you go about adminstering the server?
No Hyper-V - is this not VPS?

The first two seem key for a webserver. And hyper-v sounds like its VPS which seems all the rage with linux boxes at the moment. Anyone shed some light on what MS are doing?

zetec452 · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:24

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx enjoy.

huppy · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:30

Thanks, but I've read it all! It doesn't seem to really mention these webserver-specific issues

bledd · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:02

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...699d-4476-b050-c50aa14aaf081033.mspx?mfr=true

ts gateway is just an enhancement to ts

i'd strongly imagine it still has terminal services / remote desktop

huppy · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:25

Ah yeah I think you're right

It looks like ts gateway is for servers inside corporate firewalls, to save people VPN'ing into the network. That sorts that one out

oddjob62 · 26 Feb 2008 at 19:51

Web servers are usualy not clustered (as in Windows clustering) anyway. I'm pretty sure NLB is still available.

Butters · 26 Feb 2008 at 21:24

Yeah, you are confusing clustering with 'clustering'

As in, one box dies from hardware or network related issues (or any combination of events you dictate), and everything fails over to the other 'node'.

huppy · 27 Feb 2008 at 11:04

NLB - I was getting confused between clustering and NLB
Thanks for the reply, just leaves Hyper-V which even after reading about I still fail to see the benefit of

greeny_fastcar · 27 Feb 2008 at 11:15

Its a ton better that 2003 R2 was for me.

I'm thinking of putting it into production for a Sharepoint server with Sharepoint 2007.

mdjmcnally · 27 Feb 2008 at 15:05

huppy said:
NLB - I was getting confused between clustering and NLB
Thanks for the reply, just leaves Hyper-V which even after reading about I still fail to see the benefit of

Hyper-V is the Virtualization. It is the next generation of Virtual Server, but tied more into the OS, like Xen on Linux.

On a Web Server no not really going to be useful to you. You would run the Web Server within a Virtual.

However on an overall Enterprise will be very useful in cutting down the number of Physical Servers.

huppy · 27 Feb 2008 at 16:45

I see, so you might have a winserver2008 running hyper-v with each hyper-v running its own webserver?

I can now see the benefit of it in an enterprise environment for sure, as you say to cutdown on the amount of hardware that may be required

Ev0 · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:19

I think that's it, you have the HyperV on the machine that you use to host your virtual machines?