Will performance increase to Server 2008 R2?

Question

We deploy two server applications, one WCF and one Winform, which handles a lot of network traffic (for example, custom WCF).

Generally speaking, will upgrading applications from Server 2008 to Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 offer these applications with potential significant performance benefits?

I am particularly interested since I heard about Windows 7 compared to Vista and noticed if you could expect similar advantages with the 2008 R2 server versus the 2008 server. Ie possibly improved memory handling, etc.

As an added note, I heard that RTM for Server 2008 R2 will be available on MSDN in about a week, and that RTM for Windows 7 will be available on MSDN today.

Answer 1

Windows Server 2008 R2 has many enhancements, including most of those made for Win7.

However, whether or not you see how the improvement in excellence depends heavily on your application and how it works. The only way to find out if you will improve yourself, a perfectionist, is to measure performance on your existing setting, and then measure your performance on the new setting.

Any other assumption is simply - speculation - and perhaps has nothing to do with reality!

Answer 2

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: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx