Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtual machine hypervisor. Both Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 include Hyper-V as an option you can install. The Hyper-V feature is included in all versions of Windows Server 2016, as well as in the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 10. Nested Hyper-V, the ability to run Hyper-V inside a Hyper-V VM, is available in both Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016. Additionally, Microsoft has made the Microsoft Hyper-V Server available as a free version of the Hyper-V hypervisor. The Hyper-V Server runs virtual machines with no GUI. You configure and manage remotely.
Hyper-V was first released with Server 2008. Successive versions of Windows brought improvements in features, hardware support, and scalability. The first version did not include PowerShell cmdlet support, but that was rectified in later...
