Do more with less the hpe and microsoft partnership extends windows server 2012 features with the release of windows server 2012 r2 combining the hpe proliant gen8 features with the advanced virtualization and scalability features of windows server 2012 r2 empowers it users and provides flexible access to corporate resources while protecting corporate information go beyond virtualization windows server 2012 r2 is a complete virtualization platform that delivers a fully isolated multi tenant