Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is the most powerful and the most
functional server operating system of the Windows 2000 Server product
family. Standard features like 4 node Clustering and Load Balancing
guarantee an availability and performance, which also satisfy the
requirements of
- computer centers, that intend to reduce their administration
efforts and administration costs by server consolidation
- companies with extensive online-transaction- or data-warehouse-applications
- Internet Service Providers, that provide a huge amount of virtual
web-servers by only one physical server
Key Features
| Highest Availability |
Yes |
| Optimized graphical user interface |
Yes |
| PCI, ISA, PC-Card, USB 1394 and infra-red |
Yes |
| Extended Plug & Play |
Yes |
| Extensive driver availability |
Yes |
| Power Management |
Yes |
| Hibernate Mode (Standby Mode) |
Yes |
| Suitability for desktops and notebooks |
No |
| Network-/Applicationserver |
Yes |
| Active Directory Domain Server |
Yes |
| Cloning by Disk Mirroring |
Yes |
| Network Installation |
Yes |
| Administration through Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) |
Yes |
| Remote Management |
Yes |
| Highest security |
Yes |
| Integration with Netware and UNIX |
Yes |
| Bi-directionel synchronisation with Novell
NDS |
Yes |
| Terminal Services |
Yes |
| IP Load Balancing with up to 32 servers |
Yes |
| Failover-Clustering |
4 |
| Winsock Direct for higher performance |
Yes |
| Process control for Workload Management |
Yes |
| Maximum number of processors |
32 |
| Maximum memory support in GB |
64 |
Enterprise Server 
