

No additional hardware requirements exist for Server Manager. Server Manager is installed by default with all editions of Windows Server 2016. The following sections list some initial considerations that you need to review, as well as hardware and software requirements for Server Manager. Tasks that you can perform in Server ManagerĮxport Server Manager settings to other computers Review initial considerations and system requirements This topic contains the following sections. This topic and its subtopics provide information about how to use features in the Server Manager console. If you need to manage an enterprise-level number of servers in your organization, we recommend evaluating products in the Microsoft System Center suite. Configure Event Data can be opened from the Tasks menu in the Events tile. To help increase the number of servers that you can manage by using Server Manager, we recommend limiting the event data that Server Manager gets from your managed servers, by using settings in the Configure Event Data dialog box. As the amount of data you want to display approaches that computer's resource capacity, you can experience slow responses from Server Manager, and delays in the completion of refreshes. The number of servers that you can manage by using a single Server Manager console can vary depending on the amount of data that you request from managed servers, and hardware and network resources available to the computer running Server Manager.

In our tests, Server Manager in Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012 can be used to manage up to 100 servers, depending on the workloads that the servers are running.

Although Server Manager is available in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008, Server Manager was updated in Windows Server 2012 to support remote, multi-server management, and help increase the number of servers an administrator can manage. Server Manager is a management console in Windows Server that helps IT professionals provision and manage both local and remote Windows-based servers from their desktops, without requiring either physical access to servers, or the need to enable Remote Desktop protocol (rdP) connections to each server. Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
