Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
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Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
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Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#2Typical approach on an HV server is to disable C States, set power management to high, etc preventing x86 from downclocking. Keeping the CPU from seesawing can have big improvements.
But you’re not going to do that in a lab/personal machine, usually.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#3As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested.
However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft.
> Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-)
The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better performance. Microsoft internally on Azure is using Linux a ton and Windows Server is legacy and hell, MSSQL is legacy. Sure, they will continue to sell it because if you want to give them thousands of dollars, they would be idiots to turn it down but it's no longer a focus.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#4As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#5As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
On the flip side, every single MSSQL instance that I've encountered has been legacy. For at least five years.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#6As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
The only people using MSSQL Server are people deep, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. Think government work, and those unlucky enough to work at a pure Microsoft shop where every problem looks like a Microsoft or Azure solution.
It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#7As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
It's "legacy" because it's essentially tied to Windows. Yes, technically it works on Linux, and no doubt that was an amazing feat, but no serious company is running MSSQL on Linux when all the documentation, all the best practices are all based on running that on Windows.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#8Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
The only people using MSSQL Server are people deep, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. Think government work, and those unlucky enough to work at a pure Microsoft shop where every problem looks like a Microsoft or Azure solution. It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.
Heh. State government is the only place I've encounter MSSQL in the past 10 years.
Re: Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only people using MSSQL Server are people deep, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. Think government work, and those unlucky enough to work at a pure Microsoft shop where every problem looks like a Microsoft or Azure solution. It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.
Heh. State government is the only place I've encounter MSSQL in the past 10 years.
It's common as the backend to a lot of SMB scale ERP and CRM solutions. But almost all of those run on SQL Express.