Dell EMC with Windows Server 2019
F E AT U R E C O M PA R I S O N
The key to effective technology
transformation is flexibility and reliability.
Your modernization choices must meet
today’s and tomorrow’s needs.
Dell EMC with Windows Server 2019
can bring your system up-to-date
efficiently and effectively ensuring
your business keeps moving forward.
Windows Server 2019 is designed to be
flexible, responsive, and future-oriented.
It accommodates on-premises and cloud
computing, accelerates adaptability, and maximizes
storage options. Most importantly, Windows Server
2019 addresses current security needs thereby
better helping to safeguard your company’s and
your customers’ data. Hybrid-compatible platform
features enable efficient and cost-effective disaster
recovery solutions.
Purchasing your Windows Server operating
system through Dell EMC ensures you receive
a fully tested and fully supported software system.
Sold with its own product code, it’s easy to order
Windows Server 2019 with or without other
components and you can add downgrade kits if
needed as well at time of order. Dell also offers
customized, expert-led, support and deployment
services as well as Dell Financial Services.
HYBRID COMPUTING
Hybrid computing is a natural step in the IT modernization journey. By combining on-premises and cloud environments,
Windows Server 2019 takes a future-proof, long-term approach. With Windows Server 2019, you can easily integrate a
comprehensive set of Azure services, such as Azure Backup, Azure File Sync, disaster recovery, and much more, without
disrupting your applications and infrastructure.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T
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Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
Storage Migration Service helps to inventory and migrate data, security, and
configurations from legacy systems to Windows Server 2019 and/or Azure.
Synchronizing file servers to Azure helps centralize your organization’s file
shares in Azure Files while keeping the flexibility, performance, and compatibility
of an on-premises file server.
System Insights brings local predictive analytics capabilities native to Windows Server.
These predictive capabilities, each backed by a machine-learning model, locally analyze
Windows Server system data to provide high-accuracy predictions that help reduce the
operational expenses associated with reactively managing Windows Server instances.
Azure network adaptor easily connects to Azure virtual networks. Windows Admin Center
performs the heavy lifting of configuring the VPN to a new network adapter that will
connect Windows Server 2019 to a point-to-site Azure virtual network VPN.
VM protection replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs)
from a primary site to a secondary location.
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SECURITY
Security is a top priority for organizations. Cybersecurity incidents continue to grow, and the impact of these incidents is
escalating quickly. Windows Server has a three-fold approach for security: protect, detect, and respond. Windows Server 2019
gives you new and enhanced capabilities to help prevent attacks and detect suspicious activity, with features to control privileged
access, help protect VMs, and harden the platform against emerging threats.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T
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Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
Enhanced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new set of host
intrusion prevention capabilities such as preventative protection, attack detection,
and zero-day exploits.
Shielded VMs for Windows use BitLocker to encrypt disk and state for Windows
OS-based VMs.
Shielded VMs for Linux protects Linux VMs from attacks and compromised
administrators in the underlying fabric and extensive threat resistance components.
HGS offline mode for shielded VMs allows shielded VMs to turn on when HGS cannot
be reached, if the security configuration of your Hyper-V host has not changed.
VM Connect for shielded VMs enhances the interactive session experience by providing
a secure console connection while interacting with a shielded VM for Windows and
Linux machines.
Cluster hardening new clusters running Windows Server 2019 will not require
NTLM, which completely removes the requirement of Active Directory for clusters
in Windows Server.
SDN encrypted subnet virtual network encryption provides the ability for the virtual
network traffic to be encrypted between VMs that communicate with each other
within subnets.
Just-enough administration limits administrative privileges to the bare minimum
required set of actions (limited in space).
Just-in-time administration provides privileged access through a workflow that is
audited and limited in time.
Credential guard uses virtualization-based security to help secure credential
information against advanced persistent threats on the system and to protect it
from being stolen by a compromised administrator or malware.
Control flow guard helps protect against classes of memory corruption attacks.
Remote credential guard works in conjunction with credential guard for Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions to deliver single sign-on (SSO), eliminating the
need to pass credentials to the RDP host.
Device guard (code integrity) helps ensure only authorized executables run on
the server.
Dynamic access control enables administrators to apply access-control permissions
and restrictions based on well-defined rules.
AppLocker provides policy-based access control management for applications.
BitLocker uses a hardware or virtual Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip to provide
disk encryption for data and system volumes.
FA S T E R I N N O VAT I O N
Faster innovation for applications allows developers and IT pros to create cloud-native applications and modernize traditional
apps using containers and micro-services. This digital transformation allows you to engage end users, offer competitive products,
empower your employees, and improve operations. Windows Server 2019 can help you modernize your apps and drive innovation
faster by providing a modern platform that helps deliver innovation at the rate of changing business demands. Windows Server
2019 gives developers and operations flexibility to use traditional and container models for application development, with
prescribed solutions and artifacts in place to achieve best practices in development and operation.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T
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Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
Linux containers allow application admins to manage both Windows and Linux
applications on the same environment, reducing the management overhead.
Windows Server containers creates an isolated application environment in which you
can run an application without fear of changes due to applications or configuration.
Server Core base container image reduced Server Core base container image size will
reduce download time and further optimize the development time and performance.
Nano Server base container image will reduce download time and further optimize
development time and performance. For Windows Server 2016, Nano Server
base container image optimization is available with Semi-Annual Channel updates.
This capability comes with Windows Server 2019 out-of-the-box.
Server Core Features on Demand (FoD) significantly improves the app compatibility of
Windows Server Core by including a set of binaries and packages from Windows Server
with Desktop without adding any of the Windows Server Desktop GUI or Windows 10
GUI experiences.
Kubernetes platform support with major improvements to computing, storage, and
networking components.
Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) provides a single identity solution for
services running on a server farm, or on systems behind network load balancer.
Using a gMSA, services or service administrators do not need to manage password
synchronization between service instances. In Windows Server 2019, gMSA improves
the scalability and reliability of containers to access network resources.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows developers and application administrators
to use tools in Linux environments alongside Command Prompt and PowerShell.
Hyper-V isolation provides a highly isolated container environment in which the host
operating system cannot be affected in any way by any other running container.
Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server enables you to create a multi-machine
Azure Service Fabric cluster in your own datacenter or in other public clouds.
PowerShell 5.1 provides enhanced scripting capabilities for configuration, management,
and deployment of software-defined datacenter components.
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) provides a set of PowerShell
language extensions and cmdlets to declaratively specify how you want your
software environment to be configured.
Visual Studio Code supports development operations such as debugging, task
running, and version control to provide the tools a developer needs for a quick
code-build-debug cycle.
.NET Core helps create modern web apps, microservices, libraries, and console
applications that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
HCI INFRASTRUCTURE
Unprecedented HCI Infrastructure is one of the latest trends in the server industry. According to IDC, the HCI market grew by
64% in 2016, and Gartner predicts it will be a $5 billion market by 2019. With its HCI capabilities, Microsoft consolidates soft-
ware-defined computing, storage, and networking into one cluster to provide high-performance, cost-effective, easily scalable
virtualization. In Windows Server 2019, Microsoft is building on this platform by adding scale, performance, and reliability, as well
as the ability to manage HCI deployments to simplify management and day-to-day activities.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T
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Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
Unified management in Windows Admin Center is an elegant browser-based HCI
remote management interface that includes software-defined network configuration
and monitoring.
Storage Spaces protect your data from drive failures and extend storage over time
as you add drives to your servers.
Enhanced Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) build software-defined storage using
industry standard servers with local storage that can scale up to 1PB per storage pool
in Windows Server 2016 and 4PB per storage pool and 64TB per volume in Windows
Server 2019.
Mirror-accelerated parity lets you create volumes that are part mirror and part parity
for 2x better performance on storage spaces direct deployments. Writes land first in the
mirrored portion and are gradually moved into the parity portion.
Nested Mirror Accelerated parity enables two-node clusters at the edge to survive
multiple simultaneous failures.
Storage class memory support for a new generation of server hardware including stor-
age class memory, which drastically improves performance for server applications.
USB thumb drive (as cluster witness) support for USB thumb drive as cluster witness
allows true 2-node HCI deployments, with no additional dependencies.
Storage Replica provides storage-agnostic, block-level, asynchronous and
synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery and allows stretching
of a failover cluster for high availability.
Storage Quality of Service (QoS) uses policies to define and monitor storage
input/output minimums and maximums for VMs to enable consistent performance
across VMs.
Data deduplication provides volume savings of up to 90% by storing duplicate files on a
volume once using logical pointers. Windows Server 2019 add support for deduplication
with ReFS volumes.
Deduplication for ReFS supported on ReFS to optimize free space on a volume by
examining the data for duplicated portions.
Virtual machine storage resiliency provides intelligent means to retain VM session
states to minimize the impact of minor storage disruptions.
Cloud Witness enables Azure blob storage as a witness in a quorum for a stretched
cluster. Additionally, in Windows Server 2019 you can now create a file share witness that
does not utilize the Cluster Name Object (CNO), but simply uses a local user account on
the server the FSW is connected to.
Storage health monitoring provides continuous monitoring, reporting, and maintenance
to support storage spaces directly.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T - C O N T I N U E D
Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
Cluster-wide monitoring monitors memory and CPU usage, storage capacity, IOPS,
throughput, and latency in real time with clear alerts when something’s not right.
Cluster sets allows you to create large scale-out clusters with greater flexibility
(deploying and retiring clusters) without sacrificing resiliency.
Cluster OS rolling upgrade enables an administrator to seamlessly upgrade the
operating system of nodes in a failover cluster from Windows Server 2012 R2 and
Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019.
Mixed OS mode cluster enables Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster nodes to operate with
Windows Server 2016 nodes.
Site-aware failover clusters groups nodes in stretched clusters based on physical
location, enhancing key cluster-lifecycle operations such as failover, placement policies,
heart-beating between nodes, and quorum behavior.
Kernel soft reboot provides WSSD-validated hardware faster reboot time, reducing
application downtime.
Persistent memory support for persistent memory (PM) technology provides byte-level
access to non-volatile media while also reducing the latency of storing or retrieving
data significantly.
Linux and FreeBSD workloads enables most of the Windows Server software-defined
datacenter features for Linux and FreeBSD guests running on Hyper-V for increased
functionality, performance, and manageability.
Hot add and remove for disk, memory, and network allows you to add or remove a
network adapter and adjust the amount of memory assigned while the VM is running,
without any interruption. The memory adjustment capability works even when you have
dynamic memory turned on for a Hyper-V host.
Network controller provides a centralized, programmable point of automation to
manage, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot virtualized network infrastructure in
your datacenter.
Virtual networking helps create network overlays on top of a shared multi-tenant
physical fabric.
Software load balancer (SLB) a cloud-optimized Layer 3 and Layer 4 load balancer
that provides both North-South and East-West load balancing.
Virtual network peering provides high speed connectivity between two virtual networks.
Traffic between the virtual networks goes through the underlying fabric network with no
gateway. Both virtual networks must be part of the same datacenter stamp.
Distributed firewall and micro-segmentation dynamically segment networks
based on evolving security or application needs using a stateful firewall and network
security groups.
Hybrid SDN gateways multi-tenanted, highly available gateways that connect customer
virtual networks to Azure, other Windows Server-powered clouds, high speed WANs,
and local non-virtualized resources.
Improved SDN gateway improvements up to 3x for GRE tunnels and IPSec
site-to-site VPN.
Converged RDM storage traffic and tenant Ethernet traffic on the same underlying NIC
team for significant cost savings, while also getting the desired throughput and quality
of service.
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) enables network devices to add the latency introduced
by each network device into the timing measurements, thereby providing a far more
accurate time sample than Network Time Protocol (NTP).
Leap Second support for occasional 1-second additions to UTC to adjust as earth’s
rotation slows increases accuracy, compliance, and traceability.
C O M PA R I S O N C H A R T - C O N T I N U E D
Feature Description Windows Windows Windows Windows
Server Server Server Server
2008 R2 2012 R2 2016 2019
HTTP/2 support for HTTP/2 (RFC 7540) in the native HTTP server. Now, Windows Server
2019 delivers performance and security benefits to your website deployments
with HTTP/2.
Latency Optimized Background Transport - LEDBAT with Windows Server 2019,
we bring a latency optimized, network congestion control provider, Low Extra Delay
Background Transfer (LEDBAT). LEDBAT is designed to automatically yield bandwidth
to users and applications, while consuming the entire bandwidth available when the
network is not in use.
IP address management (IPAM) and DNS now supports comprehensive DNS and
DHCP management with role-based access control across multiple AD forests. DNS
provides for traffic management, load balancing, split-brain deployments, and prevention
of DNS amplification attacks.
High-availability RDS connection broker helps create a fault-tolerance connection
broker for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) scenarios.
Software defined networking (SDN) with IPv4/IPv6 provides a method to centrally
configure and manage physical and virtual network devices. Additionally, Windows Server
2019 now supports IPv6 and dual stack IPv4/IPv6 addressing as well.
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