Designed for businesses with more than 25 users and 50 devices Run business-critical workloads in your datacenter, on cloud, and at the edge Advanced multi-layer security against threats Improved tools for hybrid-server management 16 core license pack included, plus additional Client Access Licenses (CALs) Supported languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish This product refers to CAL service (Client Access License) to be able to grant users and devices the right to access Microsoft server software installed on a machine. Windows Server 2022 is built on the strong foundation of Windows Server 2019 and brings many innovations on three key themes: multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible application platform. Secured-core capabilities help to protect hardware, firmware, and Windows Server OS capabilities against advanced security threats. Secured-core server builds on technologies such as Windows Defender System Guard and Virtualization-based Security to minimize risk from firmware vulnerabilities and advanced malware. The new release also provides secured connectivity that introduces several new capabilities such as faster and more secure encrypted HTTPS connections, industry standard SMB AES 256 encryption and more. Windows Server 2022 improves hybrid server management with significantly improved VM management, an enhanced event viewer, and many more new capabilities in Windows Admin Center. Furthermore, this release includes significant improvements to Windows containers, such as smaller image sizes for faster download, simplified network policy implementation and containerization tools for .NET applications. The Datacenter edition is the most complete edition and includes the new Datacenter-specific features (Shielded Virtual Machines, Storage Spaces Direct, and Software-Defined Networking) in addition to unlimited server virtualization. Below you can see the comparison between editions. Standard 2022 Datacenter 2022 Ideal for Physical or minimally virtualized environments Highly virtualized datacenters and cloud environments Licensing model Core-based Core-based CAL requirement Windows Server CAL Windows Server CAL Core Windows Server functionality Hybrid integration OSEs/Hyper-V isolated containers 2 Unlimited Windows Server containers Unlimited Unlimited Storage Replica Software-defined networking Software-defined storage Feature support key: Feature available Feature not available Limited feature
