Microsoft extended the hybrid cloud solutions in Azure and announced Azure Arc, which is designed to extend Azure Management to any infras07ucture. In the new world where organizations run servers, containers, and applications across multi-cloud environments, on-premises locations, and the edge, managing these hybrid resources becomes challenging. Azure Arc enables cloud-native Azure management across any infras07ucture and also allows you to run Azure data services to be deployed anywhere. It includes hybrid server management, Kubernetes and Azure data services. Azure Arc Overview As you can see Azure Arc consists of a set of different technologies and components like: Organize and govern all your servers – Azure Arc extends Azure management to physical and virtual servers anywhere. Govern and manage servers from a single scalable management pane.  Manage Kubernetes apps at scale – Deploy and configure Kubernetes applications consistently across all your environment...

Windows Server 2016 Features As of now what are all the new features available in Windows Server 2016, what are major improvement and difference between windows server 2012 and 2016, list of Windows Server 2016 Features comparison with  windows server 2012 Also Read:  Difference between windows server 2008 and 2012 Major Features of Windows Server 2016 Nano Server I have already discussed about  Nano Server 2016 Features , Nano Server now supports the IIS and DNS server roles, Windows Server Installer, WMI provider for Windows Update and many more Also Read:  Nano Server Features and Benefits Windows containers Have already discussed basics about the  Windows Containers , Microsoft supports Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers, Windows Server Containers same like a Docker, running each container as an application on top of the host OS Hyper-V Containers will be completely isolated virtual machines (light weight virtual machine)...

Sound’s confusing right? We have two different versions of Hyper-V, one is Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, it’s a standalone version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V (standalone hypervisor) and second one is Hyper-V can be installed on top of Windows Server and licensing Difference on each versions Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is free, yes it’s completely free to download and install, and hypervisor license is free however still need a license for the virtual machines that you will be running on top of the hypervisor We can build our own virtual environment for free with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, install standalone Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 and create as many virtual machines, if you already having your virtual machines operating system licenses then no need to buy any more licenses User Interface Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 has a limitation, its litter version on GUI and you can able to do very limited configuration task on the server console Then...