The application is: Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019.
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hardware virtualization product. Allows you to create and run a software version of a computer, called virtual machine. Each virtual machine acts as a complete computer running an operating system and programs. When you need compute resources, virtual machines offer you more flexibility, save time and money, and are a more efficient way to use hardware than simply running an operating system on physical hardware.
Hyper-V runs each virtual machine in its own sandbox, which means that you can run more than one virtual machine on the same hardware at the same time. You may want to do this to avoid problems, such as a crash that affects other workloads, or to give different users, groups, or services access to different systems.
Some Ways Hyper-V Can Help You
Hyper-V can help you:
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Establish or expand a private cloud environment. Provide more flexible and on-demand IT services by migrating or expanding the use of shared resources and adjusting usage as demand changes.
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Use hardware more efficiently. Consolidate servers and workloads onto fewer, more efficient physical computers to use less power and physical space.
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Improve business continuity. Minimize the impact of scheduled and unscheduled downtime on workloads.
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Establish or expand a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Using a centralized desktop strategy with VDI can help you increase business agility and data security, as well as simplify regulatory compliance and manage desktop applications and operating systems. Deploy Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (Remote Desktop Virtualization Host) on the same server so that personal virtual desktops or virtual desktop pools are available to users.
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Make development and testing more efficient. Reproduce different computing environments without having to buy or maintain all the hardware you need if you only use physical systems.
Hyper-V and other virtualization products
Hyper-V on Windows and Windows Server replaces older hardware virtualization products, such as Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Windows Virtual PC. Hyper-V offers networking, performance, storage, and security features that are not available in these older products.
Hyper-V and most third-party virtualization applications that require the same processor characteristics are not supported. This is because processor features, known as hardware virtualization extensions, are designed not to be shared.
What features does Hyper-V have?
Hyper-V offers many features. This is an introduction, grouped by what features provide or help you.
Computing environment – A Hyper-V virtual machine includes the same basic parts as a physical computer, such as memory, processor, storage, and networking. All of these parts have features and options that can be configured in different ways to meet different needs. Storage and networking can be considered as categories of their own, due to the many ways you can configure them.
Disaster recovery and backup – For disaster recovery, Hyper-V Replica creates copies of virtual machines, designed to be stored in another physical location, so you can restore the virtual machine from the copy. For backup, Hyper-V offers two types. One uses Saved States and the other uses Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) so that you can perform application-consistent backups for VSS-compliant programs.
Optimization – Each supported guest operating system has a custom set of services and drivers, named Integration Services, which make it easy to use the operating system in a Hyper-V virtual machine.
Portability – Features such as live migration, storage migration, and import and export make it easy to move or distribute a virtual machine.
Remote connectivity : Hyper-V includes Virtual Machine Connection, a remote connection tool for use with Windows and Linux. Unlike Remote Desktop, this tool gives you access to the console, so you can see what is happening on the guest even when the operating system has not started yet.
The shielded and secure boot virtual machines of security help protect against malware and other unauthorized access to a virtual machine and its data.
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