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C H A P T E R 2<br />

Software-defined<br />

datacenter<br />

In this chapter, we dive into the new or improved features in Windows<br />

Server 2016 that can bring a software-defined datacenter to life. If you are<br />

cloud service provider or want to build a platform to host your next<br />

generation of applications, Windows Server 2016 is the key to achieving<br />

this task. This chapter is broken into three main components: Compute,<br />

Storage, and Networking. These components are the underpinning to any<br />

software-defined datacenter, and in each section we will examine them<br />

into more detail.<br />

Compute<br />

In this section we focus on everything Compute with a major focus on Hyper-V and what is new within<br />

Windows Server 2016. We will discuss all the features which will underpin world class software defined<br />

datacenters.<br />

Hyper-V<br />

By Robert Mitchell, Deepak Srivastava, Shabbir Ahmed, and Ramnish Singh<br />

Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology has been enhanced in a number of ways in Windows<br />

Server 2016, and this section describes several of these improvements. Robert Mitchell demonstrates<br />

a new feature called Virtual Machine Groups and also describes the new cross-version virtual machine<br />

(VM) mobility capabilities of the platform. Deepak Srivastava walks you through the new VM<br />

configuration version, new configuration file format, and new support for using checkpoints in<br />

production environments. Finally, Shababir Ahmed and Ramnish Singh demonstrate the new hot add<br />

and remove capability for network adapters and memory that is now supported by the Hyper-V role.<br />

9 CHAPTER 2 | Software-defined datacenter

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