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Advantages and Disadvantages of Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Virtual Servers
Benefits
Windows Server Core offers a number of benefits, regardless of its intended use reduced maintenance. By default, a Windows Server Core system has very few binaries installed. When a role is added, only the components that are necessary for the role are installed. The binaries are still present on the system, which allows for those components to be updated during normal patch
The more components there are, the greater the attack surface and the more patches required, resulting in more management overhead. With Server Core, there is no graphical interface, no management tools, no Explorer, no Control Panel applets? This is a great feature. The advantages of the reduced overhead are worth a little hardship. You do have a shell, but it's the command prompt. However, if you think about it, nearly every MMC snap-in you have today can connect to a remote computer, which helps you manage your GUI-less Server Core installation. (Savill, 2008). Some advantages of a Virtual Server it eliminates the need for numerous dedicated servers. It offers the ability for different domain names, file directories, email administration, IP addresses, logs and analytics. The cost effective because many times server software installation provisioning is available. If one virtual server has a software failure, the other servers will not be affected and reduces energy costs because only one device is running instead of several. It offers a flexible IT infrastructure and can quickly make changes with little downtime. (Touring, 2014). Some disadvantages of a Virtual Server could be a resource hogging could occur if there are too many virtual servers within a physical machine. As software updates and patches must be compatible with everything running on the virtual