{"id":6,"date":"2017-01-29T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greg.klonis.gr\/?p=6"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:44:48","slug":"whats-new-in-windows-server-2016-technical-preview-5-hyper-v-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.klonis.gr\/index.php\/whats-new-in-windows-server-2016-technical-preview-5-hyper-v-features","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5: Hyper-V Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently released the latest public preview of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server 2016 (the free version). There are lots of new Hyper-V features to evaluate, learn, and use.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to give you a theme to this release, it would be cloud. Much of what is in the 2016 release is geared toward building private, hosted, or public cloud, with a lot of the management being offered either by Azure or Microsoft Azure Stack. When evaluating WS2016, you\u2019ll need to consider:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nano Server, with administration via <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Series\/Nano-Server-Team\/Remote-Server-Management-Tools-on-Nano-Server\" target=\"_blank\">Remote Server Management Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hyper-V<\/li>\n<li>Failover Clustering<\/li>\n<li>Storage<\/li>\n<li>Networking, particularly the Network Controller<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Azure Stack<\/li>\n<li>Containers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this post, I\u2019m going to focus on the improvements to Hyper-V.<\/p>\n<h3>Connected Standby<\/h3>\n<p>This is a feature for Windows 10 users and the few presenters that run Windows Server Hyper-V on their laptop or hybrid device. You might even say that this new feature was dedicated to Paul Thurrott when the feature was announced at&nbsp;TechEd Europe 2014, mainly because Paul was one of the more vocal sufferers of the lack of compatibility between Hyper-V and the heralded Windows 8\/hardware feature. Hyper-V had issues with Connected Standby, and these issues have been solved in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.<\/p>\n<h3>Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)<\/h3>\n<p>Discrete Device Assignment is a relatively new feature in the list of improvements. DDA allows you to give a virtual machine direct and exclusive access to some PCI devices in the host. The concept is that a virtual machine can&nbsp;talk directly to a graphics card. My suspicion is that the primary customer for this feature&nbsp;are those who are using Microsoft Azure with an&nbsp;N-Series virtual machine. But anyone looking for something better than RemoteFX or compute intensive workloads should be interested in this feature, too.<\/p>\n<h3>Host Resource Protection<\/h3>\n<p>This is a security feature to protect a host and other virtual machines from resource abuse by another virtual machine. Imagine that a virtual machine goes awry or is compromised; in the latter case, the attacker will want to attack the hypervisor, either looking for a vulnerability or to launch a DOS attack. Hyper-V can be configured to starve the virtual machine of resources when unusual behaviour starts, thus limiting the damage and giving you a chance to intervene.<\/p>\n<h3>Add-Add\/Remove of Virtual Memory and Network Adapters<\/h3>\n<p>Is that applause and cheering that I hear? This heavily demanded feature is coming to Hyper-V; you can add and remove memory and virtual NICs to and from running virtual machines running Windows 10 or WS2016.<\/p>\n<h3>Hyper-V Manager<\/h3>\n<p>The old tool is looking long in the tooth, but improvements are coming. You can launch Hyper-V manager with alternate credentials, supporting the secure dual-identity approach that some companies enforce. You can also manage older versions of Hyper-V from WS2016 (WS2012, WS2012 R2, Windows 8.1, and Windows 8). The management protocol has been updated to use WS-MAN (TCP 80) with remote hosts. A benefit is that you can connect to a remote host with CredSSP and perform a live migration without enabled messy Active Directory constrained delegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently released the latest public preview of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server 2016 (the free version). There are lots of new Hyper-V features to evaluate, learn, and use. If I had to give you a theme to this release, it would be cloud. 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