From what I understand, enabling the Hyper-V role in Server 2012 virtualizes the OS and is essentially the same as running it on top of Hyper-V 2012 Server. Also, Hyper-V doesn't passthru SMART data.

There are a lot of great features in the upcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 release, but with the VMworld 2013 conference coming up next week it seemed appropriate to look at the Microsoft next-gen Hyper ...

WAN link is Australian NBNco fired wireless. About 3 weeks ago we did have the wireless antenna upgraded to allow for 100 Mbit link. Server 2012 R2 4 NICs (one is disused) One setup as a dedicated ...

For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...

Update 1/17/21: Microsoft has released OOB updates to fix the Windows Server bugs. The latest Windows Server updates are causing severe issues for administrators, with domain controllers having ...