Windows Essential Business Server 2008
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is an integrated multi-server solution designed and priced specifically for medium sized businesses. It provides the essential foundation for a highly secure and reliable infrastructure.
Powered by Windows Server 2008 technology, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 incorporates software for management, messaging and security in one integrated server solution: these features can dramatically reduce the complexity of your IT environment. With Windows Essential Business Server 2008, your can transform business processes, save time and costs, and significantly improve your organisation’s productivity.
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Reduce costs with a dedicated medium sized business server solution
Designed specifically for the needs of the medium sized business, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 enables you to enjoy substantial cost savings over standalone products.
Reduce complexity, improve control
With dedicated tools to help you proactively manage your IT environment, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 enables you to reduce complexity, and puts you back control of your IT systems.
Integrate your server environment on one predictable platform
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 increases the predictability and reliability of your systems, and reduces the typical errors that occur when standalone products are deployed.
Note:
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard
Edition is only available as a 64-bit operating
system; your server hardware must have a 64-bit
processor to install and use Windows Essential
Business Server 2008. Windows Essential Business
Server 2008 Premium Edition adds a fourth server
running either 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the
operating system.
All server hardware should meet the requirements established for the Windows Server 2008 Logo Program for Systems. You can learn more about these requirements by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements.mspx.
Processors requirements- Systems with a single core CPU – x64 with a 2.5 GHz minimum clock speed
- Systems with a multi core CPU – x64 with a 1.5 GHz minimum clock speed
- Systems with multiple physical CPUs – x64 with a 1.5 GHz minimum clock speed
- Management server – 4 GB of RAM;
- Security server – 2 GB of RAM;
- Messaging server – 4 GB of RAM;
- Operating system drive partition – minimum of 45 GB of free disk space
- Application data drive partition –
minimum of 50 GB of free disk space
- When determining the appropriate disk space for your application data partition, you should consider all aspects of storage needs, including the Exchange Server 2007 databases, the redirection of a user’s documents folders, and other application data. See figure 1 for a sample hard disk drive configuration.
- Recommended Hard Disk Configuration for
Management and Messaging Servers
- Eight hard disk drive bays (provides for in-server storage expansion)
- Operating system stored on RAID 1 volumes - application data stored on RAID 5 volumes.
- Recommended Hard Disk Configuration for
Security Server
- Two or more hard disk drive bays
Operating System and Application Data stored on a single RAID 1 volume
- Two or more hard disk drive bays
Figure 1 – Sample Hard Disk Drive Configuration
Other requirements
- DVD-ROM – must be bootable from the system BIOS or a peripheral connection such as a USB port.
- Network Interface Card (NIC) – one network adapter that supports a 10 Mbps or greater link speed. Two network adapters are required for the Security Server.
- Dedicated hot swap hard disk drive configured for RAID 1 or RAID 5 volume failover.
- Redundant power supply for each server.
- Hard disk speeds 10K RPM or greater.
- One or more additional network adapters per server at 10Mbps or greater.
