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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