Differences between Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, Nano Server, Hyper-V Server, Hyper-V Client, and VMware
The role that is installed on Windows Server 2016 (Core or Full Server), the role that can be installed on a Nano Server, its free version called Hyper-V Server, and the Hyper-V that comes in Windows 10 called Hyper-V Client are the four different versions of Hyper-V. The following sections will explain the differences between all the versions and a comparison between Hyper-V and its competitor, VMware.
Hyper-V limitations improvements
Hyper-V has improved a lot since its first version. The new limits, compared to the previous version, are up to 16 times bigger. This is quite impressive for a third release.
The following table shows the improvements based on Hyper-V of Windows Server 2008 R2:
|
Resource |
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V |
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V |
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Logical Processors |
64 |
320 |
512 |
|
Physical Memory |
1TB |
4TB |
24TB |
|
Virtual CPUs per Host |
512 ... |
