physical and virtual environments. Additionally, these management strategies must address and track power consumption and green IT policies. Because of these customer challenges, a key design goal for Windows Server® 2008 R2 is to reduce the day-to-day management chores of Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as to ease the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks. A final but critical design component was that administrative tasks should be doable either on the server locally or remotely. Thus, the overall management improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 include the following: Improved data center power consumption management Improved remote administration Reduced administrative effort for administrative tasks performed interactively Enhanced command-line and automated management by using Windows PowerShell™ version 2.0 Improved identity management provided by Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Federated Services Improved compliance with established standards and best practices Improved Data Center Power Consumption Management With the proliferation of physical computers in data centers, power consumption is of paramount importance. In addition to the cost-saving associated with reducing power consumption, many data centers are constrained by the number of computers they can support in their data center by the actual power available to the data center. Therefore reducing your power consumption also allows you to support more physical computers while using the same amount of power, or less power, than before. Window Server 2008 R2 includes the following improvements for reducing power consumption: Reduced power usage of individual servers A new PPM engine Storage power management Additional incremental power saving features
physical and virtual environments. Additionally, these management strategies must address and track power consumption and green IT policies. Because of these customer challenges, a key design goal for Windows Server® 2008 R2 is to reduce the day-to-day management chores of Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as to ease the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks. A final but critical design component was that administrative tasks should be doable either on the server locally or remotely. Thus, the overall management improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 include the following: Improved data center power consumption management Improved remote administration Reduced administrative effort for administrative tasks performed interactively Enhanced command-line and automated management by using Windows PowerShell™ version 2.0 Improved identity management provided by Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Federated Services Improved compliance with established standards and best practices Improved Data Center Power Consumption Management With the proliferation of physical computers in data centers, power consumption is of paramount importance. In addition to the cost-saving associated with reducing power consumption, many data centers are constrained by the number of computers they can support in their data center by the actual power available to the data center. Therefore reducing your power consumption also allows you to support more physical computers while using the same amount of power, or less power, than before. Window Server 2008 R2 includes the following improvements for reducing power consumption: Reduced power usage of individual servers A new PPM engine Storage power management Additional incremental power saving features
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