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Software-defined compute
Create cost-effective scalable storage
Deploy applications on multiple
Use affordable, industry-standard servers with local storage to build highly platforms, including Linux.
available, scalable software-defined storage with Storage Spaces Direct. Beyond
Upgrade your fabric to Windows
cost savings, this approach decreases complexity, increases scalability, and enables
Server 2016 without downtime to
use of storage devices not previously possible, such as SATA solid state disks (SSDs) any workloads running on Hyper-V
for lower-cost flash storage or NVMe solid-state drives for better performance. virtual machines. Make changes to
networking, storage, and memory
Prioritize storage resources for critical apps without affecting productivity.
With Storage Quality of Service, administrators can centrally manage and monitor Software-defined networking
storage performance and control workload access to storage resources. In this way, Manage by policy, not configuration,
critical workloads can receive higher-priority access to storage resources. Policies with a new Network Controller.
define storage I/O minimums and maximums for virtual machines and ensure they
Secure networks based on
are met, providing consistent performance across VMs. connectivity needs, not workload
placement, with a distributed firewall.
Reduce capacity needs and cost structure Keep applications highly available.
Use improved data deduplication capabilities to support volume sizes up to 64 TB
Streamline management
and file sizes up to 1 TB and gain volume space savings of up to 90 percent.
Reduce complexity using PowerShell
Choose the just-enough-OS Nano Server installation option to help reduce the automation and System Center 2016 to
needs of application data while increasing availability. The Nano Server image is deploy and manage software-defined
25x smaller than the typical Windows Server 2016 install. features across your infrastructure.
Hyper-converged with Storage Spaces Direct Scale compute and storage simultaneously
when business needs change. The new Storage
Spaces Direct feature in Windows Server 2016
Datacenter Edition supports two deployment
Virtual scenarios: hyper-converged and disaggregated.
Machines In the hyper-converged scenario shown here,
the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces
Direct (storage) components reside on the
Virtualization same cluster to enable simultaneous scaling.
and Storage (The disaggregated scenario separates
Host Hyper-V servers from the Storage Spaces
Direct servers, enabling scaling of compute
separate from storage.)
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