


In addition, Windows Server 2016 brings new features, including Windows Server Containers, Nano Server and Storage Replica. Windows Server 2016 offers enhancements in the areas of virtualization, software-defined storage and networking, security and management. Microsoft’s latest server OS helps IT move further away from a model of individual physical servers running single applications and toward a more flexible, distributed data center platform, one that allows for the automation of storage, memory, compute and networking resources and for workloads to move seamlessly between servers or geographical locations, depending on demand. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 was developed to continue this trend by introducing features and improvements that enable administrators to do even more with less. They now work together more cohesively than in the traditional model, which had more separate, siloed components. Lately, there has been an IT trend toward the convergence of sto¬rage, networking and compute resources in the software-defined data center, where these once largely separate components have become more tightly integrated. As a result of virtualization utilizing previously unused compute and memory capacity, data center density and efficiency have improved greatly in the recent past. Windows Server 2016 Memory and Storage Expert Guide Memory and storage feature enhancements in Windows Server 2016Īs the data center has evolved, technologies have emerged to help IT professionals worry less about the underlying hardware their services rely on.įor example, virtualization has largely abstracted away the hardware layer, giving Windows® administrators a great deal of control and flexibility in the software-based hypervisor layer.
