Whats new in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Clustering and StorageJohn Moran
In this webinar we will learn what the High Availability & Storage team in Microsoft has cooked up for us in Windows Server 2016, which is being launched at Microsoft Ignite at the end of September.
There’s lots of new stuff in this release, including better high availability for Hyper-V, greater control over resource utilization, improved fault tolerance of transient events, newer design options for stretch or multi-site clusters, a whole new way of doing software defined storage with SATA and NVMe drives, built-in block-level storage replication, and hyper-convergence without having to break the bank.
Increase security, evolve your datacentre, and innovate faster with Microsoft Windows Server 2016—the cloud-ready operating system.
Learn more about:
» Windows Server 2016 as the 4th Era of Windows Server
» Editions & features
» Hardware requirements
» Features:
• Nano server
• Containers
• Hyper-V Hot-Add Virtual Hardware
• Nested Virtualization
Windows Server 2016 on pilve-valmis operatsioonisüsteem, mis toetab ettevõtte praegusi töövooge, samal ajal tutvustades uusi tehnoloogiaid, mis teevad pilve ülemineku sujuvaks, kui aeg õige. Millised on põhilised uuendused ja kuidas need ettevõtteid aitavad - nendele küsimustele leiate vastused esitlusest.
Whats new in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Clustering and StorageJohn Moran
In this webinar we will learn what the High Availability & Storage team in Microsoft has cooked up for us in Windows Server 2016, which is being launched at Microsoft Ignite at the end of September.
There’s lots of new stuff in this release, including better high availability for Hyper-V, greater control over resource utilization, improved fault tolerance of transient events, newer design options for stretch or multi-site clusters, a whole new way of doing software defined storage with SATA and NVMe drives, built-in block-level storage replication, and hyper-convergence without having to break the bank.
Increase security, evolve your datacentre, and innovate faster with Microsoft Windows Server 2016—the cloud-ready operating system.
Learn more about:
» Windows Server 2016 as the 4th Era of Windows Server
» Editions & features
» Hardware requirements
» Features:
• Nano server
• Containers
• Hyper-V Hot-Add Virtual Hardware
• Nested Virtualization
Windows Server 2016 on pilve-valmis operatsioonisüsteem, mis toetab ettevõtte praegusi töövooge, samal ajal tutvustades uusi tehnoloogiaid, mis teevad pilve ülemineku sujuvaks, kui aeg õige. Millised on põhilised uuendused ja kuidas need ettevõtteid aitavad - nendele küsimustele leiate vastused esitlusest.
Sysctr Track: The Capable & Scalable Cloud OSITProceed
by Didier Van Hoye
A Session full of demos about SMB Direct, ODX, UNMAP, Storage QoS, Live Migration options, DVMQ & vRSS etc.
Real life commodity hardware that renders nice performance accessible to everyone.
Linux VDI with OpenStack – How to Deliver Linux Virtual Desktops on DemandLeostream
It’s no secret that Linux has a loyal fan-base across the development community and industries such as government, engineering, and oil & gas. But, when it comes to VDI, the operating system often gets the short end of the stick.
How can you lower IT costs when applications run on a Linux operating system? How can you handle a mixture of Windows and Linux in a hosted environment? And, how do you ensure a seamless end-user experience, while maximizing resource usage and minimizing downtime?
The truth is, Linux VDI doesn’t have to be hard. You can create a virtual Linux environment that provides an efficient way to access hosted resources on centrally managed servers. By combining the Leostream Connection Broker with a high-performance protocol, managing a hosted Linux environment can be as simple, seamless, and powerful as a hosted Windows environment.
XenServer Virtualization In Cloud EnvironmentsTim Mackey
= As presented at the CloudStack Silicon Valley Meetup in September 2015. =
XenServer is a virtualization platform which has been deployed in a variety of industries and to support a multitude of workloads. In this session we discuss some of the components which make it valuable not just for traditional server and desktop virtualization, but also within "the cloud". This includes discussion of VM density, network scalability, containers (such as Docker) and GPU virtualization. We end with coverage of how XenServer templates are represented within Apache CloudStack.
Hypervisor Capabilities in Apache CloudStack 4.3Tim Mackey
Apache CloudStack 4.3 adds support for clouds built using Microsoft Hyper-V, in addition to supporting VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, KVM, Oracle VM, Linux Containers and bare metal options. This deck covers the decision points impacting the design of CloudStack 4.3 clouds, and their relationship with hypervisor choices.
Presented at Build a Cloud Day co-located with SCaLE 12x in February 2014.
Konrad Wilk is a Software Development Manager at Oracle. His group’s mission is to make Linux and Xen Project virtualization better and faster. As part of this work, Konrad has been the maintainer of the Xen Project subsystem in Linux, Xen Project maintainer and now also Release Manager for the 4.5 release of the Xen Project Hypervisor. Konrad has been active in the Linux and Xen Project communities for more than 6 years and was instrumental in adding Xen Project support to the Linux Kernel.
OVHcloud utilise Ceph depuis cinq ans pour certains de ses besoins de stockage, bien qu'étant composée de 2000 serveurs physiques et 20000 conteneurs, cette infrastructure est gérée au quotidien par une seule personne au RUN. Nous ferons une présentation et un retour d'expérience sur les différents moyens mis en oeuvre pour y arriver.
Five common customer use cases for Virtual SAN - VMworld US / 2015Duncan Epping
This session was presented by Lee Dilworth and Duncan Epping at VMworld in the US in 2015. Five common customer use cases of the last 12-18 months are discussed in this deck.
Can we leverage the resource of public cloud for gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning and visualized CAD application on demand? Yes if it provides the capability and infrastructure to utilize GPUs. Can we get high performance networking in the cloud as what I have in the bare metal environment? Yes with SR-IOV. How to achieve them? In this presentation we describe Discrete Device Assignment (also known as PCI Pass-through) support for GPU and network adapter in Linux guest and SR-IOV architectures of Linux guest with near-native performance profile running on Hyper-V. We also will share how to integrate accelerated graphics and networking capabilities in Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Nowadays there is significant diversity in Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The differences span from
virtualization technology and hypervisors, through storage
and network configuration, to the cloud management
APIs. These differences make migration of a VM (or
a set of VMs) from a private cloud into a public cloud,
or between different public clouds, complicated or even
impractical for many use-cases.
HVX is a virtualization platform that enables complete
abstraction of underlying cloud infrastructure from the
application virtual machines. HVX allows deployment
of existing VMs into the cloud without any modifications,
mobility between the clouds and easy duplication
of the entire deployment.
HVX can be deployed on almost any existing IaaS
cloud. Each instance of the HVX deployment packs in
a nested hypervisor, virtual hardware, network and storage
configuration.
Combined with image store and management APIs,
the HVX can be used for the creation of a virtual cloud
that utilizes existing cloud provider infrastructure as the
hardware rather than using physical servers, switches and
storage.
Sysctr Track: The Capable & Scalable Cloud OSITProceed
by Didier Van Hoye
A Session full of demos about SMB Direct, ODX, UNMAP, Storage QoS, Live Migration options, DVMQ & vRSS etc.
Real life commodity hardware that renders nice performance accessible to everyone.
Linux VDI with OpenStack – How to Deliver Linux Virtual Desktops on DemandLeostream
It’s no secret that Linux has a loyal fan-base across the development community and industries such as government, engineering, and oil & gas. But, when it comes to VDI, the operating system often gets the short end of the stick.
How can you lower IT costs when applications run on a Linux operating system? How can you handle a mixture of Windows and Linux in a hosted environment? And, how do you ensure a seamless end-user experience, while maximizing resource usage and minimizing downtime?
The truth is, Linux VDI doesn’t have to be hard. You can create a virtual Linux environment that provides an efficient way to access hosted resources on centrally managed servers. By combining the Leostream Connection Broker with a high-performance protocol, managing a hosted Linux environment can be as simple, seamless, and powerful as a hosted Windows environment.
XenServer Virtualization In Cloud EnvironmentsTim Mackey
= As presented at the CloudStack Silicon Valley Meetup in September 2015. =
XenServer is a virtualization platform which has been deployed in a variety of industries and to support a multitude of workloads. In this session we discuss some of the components which make it valuable not just for traditional server and desktop virtualization, but also within "the cloud". This includes discussion of VM density, network scalability, containers (such as Docker) and GPU virtualization. We end with coverage of how XenServer templates are represented within Apache CloudStack.
Hypervisor Capabilities in Apache CloudStack 4.3Tim Mackey
Apache CloudStack 4.3 adds support for clouds built using Microsoft Hyper-V, in addition to supporting VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, KVM, Oracle VM, Linux Containers and bare metal options. This deck covers the decision points impacting the design of CloudStack 4.3 clouds, and their relationship with hypervisor choices.
Presented at Build a Cloud Day co-located with SCaLE 12x in February 2014.
Konrad Wilk is a Software Development Manager at Oracle. His group’s mission is to make Linux and Xen Project virtualization better and faster. As part of this work, Konrad has been the maintainer of the Xen Project subsystem in Linux, Xen Project maintainer and now also Release Manager for the 4.5 release of the Xen Project Hypervisor. Konrad has been active in the Linux and Xen Project communities for more than 6 years and was instrumental in adding Xen Project support to the Linux Kernel.
OVHcloud utilise Ceph depuis cinq ans pour certains de ses besoins de stockage, bien qu'étant composée de 2000 serveurs physiques et 20000 conteneurs, cette infrastructure est gérée au quotidien par une seule personne au RUN. Nous ferons une présentation et un retour d'expérience sur les différents moyens mis en oeuvre pour y arriver.
Five common customer use cases for Virtual SAN - VMworld US / 2015Duncan Epping
This session was presented by Lee Dilworth and Duncan Epping at VMworld in the US in 2015. Five common customer use cases of the last 12-18 months are discussed in this deck.
Can we leverage the resource of public cloud for gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning and visualized CAD application on demand? Yes if it provides the capability and infrastructure to utilize GPUs. Can we get high performance networking in the cloud as what I have in the bare metal environment? Yes with SR-IOV. How to achieve them? In this presentation we describe Discrete Device Assignment (also known as PCI Pass-through) support for GPU and network adapter in Linux guest and SR-IOV architectures of Linux guest with near-native performance profile running on Hyper-V. We also will share how to integrate accelerated graphics and networking capabilities in Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Nowadays there is significant diversity in Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The differences span from
virtualization technology and hypervisors, through storage
and network configuration, to the cloud management
APIs. These differences make migration of a VM (or
a set of VMs) from a private cloud into a public cloud,
or between different public clouds, complicated or even
impractical for many use-cases.
HVX is a virtualization platform that enables complete
abstraction of underlying cloud infrastructure from the
application virtual machines. HVX allows deployment
of existing VMs into the cloud without any modifications,
mobility between the clouds and easy duplication
of the entire deployment.
HVX can be deployed on almost any existing IaaS
cloud. Each instance of the HVX deployment packs in
a nested hypervisor, virtual hardware, network and storage
configuration.
Combined with image store and management APIs,
the HVX can be used for the creation of a virtual cloud
that utilizes existing cloud provider infrastructure as the
hardware rather than using physical servers, switches and
storage.
Is Hyperconvergence right for you?
(Watch the show before you watch the workshop: https://youtu.be/BVMpcitCQcw)
As business and application needs change, the need for infrastructure to be equally responsive, agile, and scalable has become not just nice to have. It’s now a crucial necessity.
Do you have IT operational challenges?
Are you searching for ways to create a pay-as-you-go model for infrastructure?
Is granular scalability as important as ultimate scalability?
Cisco’s entry into hyperconverged infrastructure is the most advanced, complete, and compelling hyperconverged solution available today. Cisco HyperFlex systems will solve those challenges and set you up for success with easy deployment, management, and growth.
These are the slides. Catch the whole discussion live or in replay at : http://cs.co/9002BlCb4
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware ProfessionalsEduardo Castro
Esta es la presentación utilizada en el WebCast de Semana de la Nube
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=es-AR&EventID=1032491907&CountryCode=AR
En este evento encontrará una introducción a la virtualización con productos y soluciones Microsoft para los VMware Professionals.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. https://www.pass4sureexam.com/70-412.html
Kan de mange løsningsnyheder sikre 50% besparelse på dit nye Storage?Microsoft
Oktober bringer nyheder på både Windows Server og System Center. Se og hør om nogle af de nye muligheder samt vores bud på, hvordan du kan udnytte mulighederne til at skabe større værdi, blive mere effektiv eller spare penge. Med de nye versioner af Windows Server 2012 R2 og System Center 2012 R2 kommer du et skridt tættere på at kunne opfylde de mange og forskellige interessentkrav. I denne session præsenterer vi blandt andet de nye muligheder i Storage Spaces.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere Environments - now...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how to build out a robust private cloud infrastructure with the assurance that all the underlying server, storage, and network resources are in place and aligned to the appropriate service levels.
See how to achieve predictable reliability based on business needs in a robust, enterprise-class cloud platform – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere.
We’ll take you through the latest updates to this industry-leading solution that is deeply integrated with vSphere, including HDS servers and storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, your choice of Cisco or Brocade Ethernet networking. We’ll also talk about software updates that include bare-metal support, improved monitoring and performance tuning, federated management, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
Xpress azure - Extension of Azure in TunisiaAymen Mami
Presentation of Xpress Azure, the first extension of Microsoft Azure in Tunisia. Based on Microsoft Azure Stack in partnership with Cisco. For more informations, dont hesitate to contact me
Cisco & Microsoft Converged InfrastructureAymen Mami
Cisco & Microsoft Converged Infrastructure workshop @ Cisco Regional Summit Tunisia 2017
What is Cisco UCS Offering
Cisco partnership with SAN storage manufacturers
Cisco partnership with Microsoft for private cloud
Integration between Microsoft System center & Cisco UCS manager
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
22. Host OS
Host OS Kernel
User Mode
Binaries/Libraries
Containe
r
App 1
Containe
r
App 2
Binaries/Libraries
Containe
r
App 3
Containe
r
App 4
Containe
r
App 5Docker Pull App 1
App 1
Host
OS
Bins/Lib
s
Dependency
Dependency
23. Host OS Host OS Kernel
User Mode
Binaries/Libraries
Containe
r
App 1
Containe
r
App 2
Binaries/Libraries
Containe
r
App 3
Containe
r
App 4
Containe
r
App 5
Base Image 1
Kernel
User Mode
Bins/Libs
Containe
r
App 6
Hyper-V VM
Base Image 2
Kernel
User Mode
Bins/Libs
Containe
r
App 7
Hyper-V VM
Windows Containers Hyper-V Containers
33. *NEW* Administrators now have the ability to
add or remove virtual NICs (vNICs) from a VM
without downtime.
34. *NEW* Runtime resize: Administrators can now
increase, or decrease VM memory without VM
downtime.
Cannot be decreased lower than current demand,
or increased higher than physical system memory.
35.
36.
37. Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
High performance live migration
(compression/RDMA)
Zero downtime upgrades
Automatic VM Activation
Live VM export
Guest backup improvements
Enhanced VMConnect
Dynamic memory host balancing
First class Linux support – Dynamic memory, file
system consistent host based backup
RemoteFX over WAN
Generation 2 Virtual Machines
Secure boot in a VM
User defined meta data for VHDX
PowerShell for all Hyper-V operations
Hyper-V Metrics
Shared nothing live migration
High performance auto tiered storage spaces
Write back cache with spaces
Storage QoS
Shared VHDX for guest clustering
VHDX online resize
Storage deduplication with live VMs for VDI
Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Microsoft Azure
Site recovery)
Azure Backup
Inbox multi-tenant site-to-site VPN gateway for
physical & virtual networks
Protected VM Networks/Virtual RSS
Enhanced LBFO performance with NIC teaming
Hyper-V Extensible Switch
4K Sector support
Hyper-V over SMB
Hyper-V over Spaces & ReFS
64 VP, 1 TB VMs
SR-IOV for 10+GB networking
64TB VHDX
Hyper-V Replica
Network Virtualization
USB redirection over RemoteFX vGPU
Hot add/remove of storage
VHDX resiliency
Dynamic & differencing VHDX performance
improvements
384 LP, 4TB physical system
2+ Million IOPS to a single VM
Resource Pools
NUMA in a VM
1024 running VMs on a host
Shielded VM support
vTPM
Key Storage Drive for Gen 1 VM
Guest VSM (enable Device Guard &
Credential Guard in a VM)
VM Isolation
Linux Secure Boot
Distributed Storage QoS
REFS Block
REFS Fast Fixed Disk Creation
RemoteFX improvements
Discrete Device Assignment of GPU
Headless mode support
Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)
Backup improvements
Backup of Shared VHDX
Nested virtualization
VMCX configuration file
Nano Server Host Support
Multi-host management (WMI)
Hypervisor Power Management
(connected standby works)
Virtual machine grouping
IC Upgrade via Windows Update
HvSocket (Guest-Host)
TimeSync improvements
240 VP, 16TB VMs
Support for Containers
VM configuration version & upgrade
Runtime Memory Resize
Hot / add remove of NICs
Production Checkpoints
Storage Resiliency - All Paths Down
Online Resize for Shared VHDX
Hot add / remove of replicated VHD
Rolling Cluster Upgrade
Cluster Compute Resiliency
Cluster Node Quarantine
Device Naming of NIC
512LP, 24TB Host
Direct Device Assignment
38. Capability
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
Standard and Datacenter
Windows Server 2016
Standard and Datacenter
VMware vSphere 6
Enterprise Plus
Physical (Host)
Memory Support
Up to 4 TB per
physical server
Up to 24 TB per
physical server (6x)
Up to 6 TB per physical server (12
TB for specific OEM certified platform)
Physical (Host) Logical
Processor Support
Up to 320 LPs Up to 512 LPs Up to 480 LPs
Virtual Machine
Memory Support
Up to 1 TB
per VM
Up to 16 TB
per VM (16x)
Up to 4TB
per VM
Virtual Machine Virtual
Processor Support
Up to 64
VPs per VM
Up to 240 VPs
per VM (3.75x)
Up to 128
VPs per VM
Source: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf