Windows Server 2022

Do your systems need a cloud-ready operating system to increase security and performance for modern applications? Microsoft Windows Server 2022 can modernize your data center or cloud platform by enabling hybrid capabilities to increase value from technology investments. You can now upgrade to multilayer security with Secured-core OS as a cornerstone, improve efficiency with featured options such as Storage Spaces Direct and Windows Admin Center for easier management of modern applications with virtualization and containerization. With powerful innovations to elevate your system's efficiency and productivity, Windows Server 2022 pairs with Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers, storage, and networking solutions to provide the technology to help achieve your business goals.

Today, most business owners face daily challenges in running their businesses. One of the most difficult challenges can include managing the highest level of security while keeping your infrastructure flexible and integrating cloud resources. Windows Server 2022 is designed to help.

• Hybrid capabilities with Microsoft Azure^TM: The cloud-ready operating system that boosts on-premises investments with hybrid capabilities¹.
• Advanced multilayer security: Help protect data and apps at virtually every level of your business, starting with the operating system.
• Remote working with enhanced security features:

Empower workers through simplified deployment and management of remote apps and desktops.

• Modernized server infrastructure: Transform infrastructure and applications with flexible solutions like software-defined storage and networking and a modern app platform.

Leveraging a 30+ year partnership with Microsoft, HPE helps you maximize advanced features and functionality in Windows Server 2022 to achieve greater security control, modernize your infrastructure to help improve efficiency and productivity, and hybridize your datacenter. To simplify the support process, Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivers Windows Server 2022 support for HPE Servers, see the support matrix at http://www.hpe.com/servers/wincert.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers Windows Server 2022 OEM license products for the following editions:

• Datacenter: Ideal for companies of all sizes that have demanding IT workloads, require advanced storage, virtualization, and application deployment
• Standard: For businesses that need advanced features, support for distributed office locations, and require a flexible way to virtualize their environment
• Essentials: For small companies with basic IT needs purchasing a first server; likely small or no dedicated IT department. Essentials is also a good option for customers who have previously used Windows Server Foundation edition, which has been phased out in the Windows Server 2016 generation.

Notes:

- For more information on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's offering of Windows Server 2022 products, go to:

http://www.hpe.com/servers/ws2022

- ¹Azure cloud services may require an Azure subscription

What's New

Hybrid Cloud and Security

• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features the Secured-core OS option, which uses Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and System Guard secure boot option to reduce risk from firmware vulnerabilities and to help provide multilayer security across hardware, firmware, and the operating system.
• Windows Server 2022 supports AES-256-GCM and AES-256-CCM cryptographic suites for SMB encryption as well as TLS 1.3 to help provide a communication channel between two endpoints with increased security features.
• To provide east-west storage encryption, Windows Server 2022 failover clusters support granular control of encrypting and signing intranode storage communications for cluster shared volumes (CSV) and the storage bus layer (SBL).
• Improved Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) brings better security, virtual machine isolation, and performance for graphics-intensive workloads.

Modernized Server Infrastructure

• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features containers that allow for packaging apps with their dependencies and using operating system-level virtualization to provide fast, fully isolated environments on a single system.
• The Containers extension in Windows Admin Center enables the containerization of apps, as well as troubleshooting for containers running on a host, such as opening a console connection to a container, checking logs, or monitoring resource consumption.
• Microsoft drastically decreased the size of the Windows Server core container base image by reducing duplicate payloads and removing unused optional components.
• Performance and scalability increased with support for up to 48TB memory and 2048 logical processors

Storage Migration

• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 offers the Storage Migration Service, which provides a graphical tool that inventories data on Windows, Linux®, and NetApp CIFS servers and then transfers the data to newer servers or to Azure virtual machines, without reconfiguring applications or users.
• Capture and migrate legacy access permission settings along with the data for continued seamless functionality of your key business applications. As an option, transfer the identity of the legacy server to the destination server so apps and users can access the data without changing links or paths.

Microsoft Hardware Specifications for Essentials (10 Core) Edition

Windows Server 2022

Essentials (10 Core)

CPU

Only 1 Processor with up to 10 cores

Min. CPU Req.

1.4 GHz x64

X64 RAM STD/ Max

Minimum: 2GB RAM / Recommended: 16GB

ECC

Yes

NIC

multiple NICs supported

Internal optical bay drive allowed

Yes

Minimum OS Storage Footprint

32GB

SW RAID

Yes

Video

Optional

Keyboard, Mouse

Optional

Windows Server 2019 Downgrade options

Important Message:

Microsoft has announced new policies regarding Silicon support for Windows Server operating system products, including those that are offered through 'downgrade' rights.

By placing a request for a Windows Server 2019 Downgrade kit, you confirm that your HPE Server meets the Microsoft processor requirements, the details of which can be found at the following link:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/system-requirements.

Please note, for the deployed OS to be supported by Microsoft, your HPE Server must meet all processor requirements that are specified and listed for both the licensed product and the downgrade/down-edition (DG/DE) software. For clarity, if you purchased a Windows Server 2022 and intend to downgrade to Windows Server 2019, your server must meet both the processor requirements for Windows Server 2022 and 2019.

This requirement applies both to customers who have purchased the Windows Server OEM license directly from HPE or from an HPE Reseller or Partner. The Microsoft processor requirements are in addition to other hardware requirements for the Windows Server operating system products that are specified in the document located at

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/minimum-hardware-requirements-overview.

Microsoft may update the processor requirements and the minimum hardware requirements for Windows Server operating system products as requirements change.

Microsoft Hardware Specifications for Standard and Datacenter Editions

Unless otherwise specified, these minimum system requirements apply to both Standard and Datacenter editions.

Processor

Processor performance depends not only on the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of processor cores and the size of the processor cache. The following are the processor requirements for this product:

Minimum:

• 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
• Compatible with x64 instruction set
• Supports NX and DEP
• Supports CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW
• Supports Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT)

Core info at https://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals/cc835722.aspx, is a tool you can use to confirm which of these capabilities your CPU has.

RAM

The following are the estimated RAM requirements for this product:

Minimum:

• 512 MB (2 GB for server with Desktop Experience installation option)
• ECC (Error Correcting Code) type or similar technology, for physical host deployments

Storage controller and disk space requirements

Computers that run Windows Server 2022 must include a storage adapter that is compliant with the PCI Express architecture specification. Persistent storage devices on servers classified as hard disk drives must not be PATA. Windows Server 2019 does not allow ATA/PATA/IDE/EIDE for boot, page, or data drives.

The following are the estimated minimum disk space requirements for the system partition, assuming Server Core installation.

Minimum: 32GB

Network adapter requirements

Minimum:

• An Ethernet adapter capable of at least gigabit throughput
• Compliant with the PCI Express architecture specification.

A network adapter that supports Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) is useful, but not a minimum requirement.

A network adapter that supports network debugging (KDNet) is useful, but not a minimum requirement.

Other requirements

Computers running this release also must have the following:

• DVD drive (if you intend to install the operating system from DVD media)

The following items are not strictly required, but are necessary for certain features:

• UEFI 2.3.1c-based system and firmware that supports secure boot
• Trusted Platform Module
• Graphics device and monitor capable of Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution
• Keyboard and Microsoft® mouse (or other compatible pointing device)
• Internet access (fees may apply)

For more detail about Windows Server 2022 System Requirements visit:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/get-started-with-windows-server