Hyper Converged Windows Server 2016

Hyper convergence will help microsoft deliver private cloud solutions including azure stack to smaller organizations.

Hyper converged windows server 2016.

At the heart of these capabilities is network controller a centralized mechanism for configuring managing and monitoring virtual and physical network components such as routers switches and gateways. Virtual machines running on the latest windows server 2016 environment can be windows systems linux systems even containers. The post what is hyper convergence in windows server 2016. If you d like more technical details on storage spaces direct microsoft has a great 5 minute video available here on youtube.

A hyper converged infrastructure hci consolidates compute and storage into. With s2d you will be able to create a hyper converged private cloud. We decided on implementing a 4 node hyper converged solution using storage spaces direct in server 2016. Last week microsoft announced the final release of windows server 2016 the bits can be downloaded here.

This allows the same physical nic ports to be used for all network traffic while using rdma reducing the number of physical nic ports required. Windows server 2016 hyper v includes some powerful new networking technologies and features that are found in windows server 2016. The converged networking functionality with windows server 2016 is one of those powerful new features that enables much more efficient and logical management of network traffic for hyper v administrators. Appeared first on petri.

These apis are added in the 2018 05 cumulative update for windows server 2016 kb4103723 available as of may 8 2018. I can now publish the setup of my lab configuration which is almost a production platform. The convergence of compute and storage. Argon systems has developed the ultimate high performance storage solution using storage spaces direct on windows server 2016.

In addition microsoft has announced that windows server 2016 supports now a 2 node hyperconverged cluster configuration. It is an all flash array configured with nvdimm and nvme hardware and high speed networking components. Windows server 2016 hyper converged infrastructure also includes sdn capabilities for abstracting the physical network components. Windows admin center for hyper converged infrastructure depends on management apis developed since windows server 2016 was released.

Windows server 2016 introduces switch embedded teaming set within the hyper v virtual switch. First published on msdn on sep 08 2015 one of the big hot features in windows server 2016 which has me really excited is storage spaces direct s2d.