Do you need to improve the efficiency and availability of your IT resources and applications? Obtain it with the new virtualization innovations provided in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, supported on the new HP ProLiant Generation 8 platforms. This service pack release delivers two new features, namely Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX, to help businesses further optimize their datacenter and desktops.

ProLiant Generation 8 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is supported by HP when utilizing Service Pack 1 only.

- Dynamic Memory lets Hyper-V administrators’ pool available memory on a physical host and dynamically distributes it to any virtual machine(s) running on that host.
- RemoteFX lets Windows Server 2008 R2 administrators provide a rich end user desktop virtualization experience by delivering vivid content, independent of any graphics stack, to server-hosted virtual and session-based desktops.

Offers an updated Web server role, IIS 7.5 and greater support for .NET on Server Core.

• Reduced Effort to Administer and Support Web-Based Applications


Improved workload size, dynamic scalability, and across-the-board availability and reliability.

• Leveraging Sophisticated CPU Architectures


Improved management and administrative functions with the most flexible and robust operating system.

• Improved data center power consumption management and reduction of administrative effort for administrative tasks performed interactively.


Windows Server 2008 R2 provides the following virtualization types

• Client and Server virtualization provided by Hyper-V