Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 Features list

Quite an impressive list of new stuff in the Hyper-V are with 2016 release, and then you of course also have the new stuff in Clustering and storage to add to this but that will be another blog post 🙂

  • Compatible with Connected Standby (new)
  • Discrete device assignment (new)
  • Host resource protection (new)
  • Hot add and remove for network adapters and memory (new)
  • Hyper-V Manager improvements (updated)
  • Integration services delivered through Windows Update (updated).
  • Linux Secure Boot (new)
  • More memory and processors for generation 2 virtual machines and Hyper-V hosts (updated)
  • Nested virtualization (new)
  • Networking features (new)
  • Production checkpoints (new)
  • Rolling Hyper-V Cluster upgrade (new)
  • Shared virtual hard disks (updated)
  • Shielded virtual machines (new)
  • Start order priority for clustered virtual machines (new)
  • Storage quality of service (QoS) (updated)
  • Virtual machine configuration file format (updated)
  • Virtual machine configuration version (updated).
  • Windows Containers (new)
  • Windows PowerShell Direct (new)

Read more at the technet site here.