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Figure 1-4:
Solutions available in Operations Management Suite today as well as future solutions 
We will examine Operations Management Suite in greater depth later in this book and show some 
simple examples of how it complements Windows Server 2016. 

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CHAPTER 2 | Software-defined datacenter 
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Software-defined 
datacenter 
In this chapter, we dive into the new or improved features in Windows 
Server 2016 that can bring a software-defined datacenter to life. If you are 
cloud service provider or want to build a platform to host your next 
generation of applications, Windows Server 2016 is the key to achieving 
this task. This chapter is broken into three main components: Compute, 
Storage, and Networking. These components are the underpinning to any 
software-defined datacenter, and in each section we will examine them 
into more detail. 
Compute 
In this section we focus on everything Compute with a major focus on Hyper-V and what is new within 
Windows Server 2016. We will discuss all the features which will underpin world class software defined 
datacenters. 
Hyper-V 
By Robert Mitchell, Deepak Srivastava, Shabbir Ahmed, and Ramnish Singh 
Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology has been enhanced in a number of ways in Windows 
Server 2016, and this section describes several of these improvements. Robert Mitchell demonstrates 
a new feature called Virtual Machine Groups and also describes the new cross-version virtual machine 
(VM) mobility capabilities of the platform. Deepak Srivastava walks you through the new VM 
configuration version, new configuration file format, and new support for using checkpoints in 
production environments. Finally, Shababir Ahmed and Ramnish Singh demonstrate the new hot add 
and remove capability for network adapters and memory that is now supported by the Hyper-V role. 

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Scale 
Windows Server 2016, delivers new industry-leading scalability to virtualize any and every workload 
without exception. The following table shows you a comparison of the journey we have taken from 
Windows Server 2012/2012R2 to now: