To use rebootless security patching, customers will require the new OS image.” As Automanage gets new capabilities in the future, the Azure Edition image will get updated to make them work. “We recently introduced Azure Automanage for Windows Server that enables customers to apply rebootless security patching for their new Windows Server virtual machines. Windows Server Azure Edition is a new option for virtual machines on Azure, but it’s not a new SKU, Kumar told TechRepublic - just a new Windows Server OS image that enables new lifecycle management. It also supports confidential computing with Intel SGX on Ice Lake CPUs. Windows Server 2022 scales to even larger applications than previous releases, supporting up to 48 terabytes of memory, up to 64 sockets, and 2,048 logical processors.
It’s also the way to get Azure Kubernetes Service on your own hardware - that’s still very much about infrastructure rather than being an application server or a storage server. “Windows Server includes Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) features which customers can use for multi-purpose, for example running file services, SQL Server, or custom apps on Software-defined Storage with Storage Spaces Direct.”Īzure Stack HCI is “for running virtual machines on-premises with connections to Azure hybrid services,” Kumar said.
“Windows Server is a highly versatile, multi-purpose operating system, with dozens of roles and hundreds of features, including guest rights,” Vijay Kumar, director of Windows Server and Azure product marketing at Microsoft, told TechRepublic. Infrastructure and server rolesīut with so much emphasis on hybrid and migration strategies, where does that leave the server OS? (While there is still comprehensive information available for Windows Server on Microsoft Learn, there’s no longer an official Microsoft certification for the server product outside Azure.)
There’s also more integration with Azure for both management and security monitoring, including new features in Windows Admin Center for containerising apps to ‘lift and shift’ to the cloud - whether that’s Azure, where Automanage can handle VM lifecycle management and hot patching, or Azure Stack HCI on your own infrastructure. SEE: Windows Server 2022 cheat sheet (TechRepublic) Windows Server 2022, the next Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release, will be generally available before the end of 2021, combining the Windows Containers improvements that early adopters have been getting in the Semi Annual Channel (SAC) with security improvements like secured-core from Windows client alongside low-level developments in networking. With regular updates to Windows Admin Center and the Semi Annual Channel, plus Azure Stack HCI and Arc positioned as key tools for hybrid infrastructure, where does a new Windows Server release fit in? Windows Server 2022: These are the big changes that Microsoft has planned
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