
Η υπόσχεση της Microsoft σχετικά με τον κύκλο των αναβαθμίσεων γίνεται πραγματικότητα. Μέσα από ένα λεπτομερέστατο blogpost η Dona Sarkar ανακοινώνει την νέα έκδοση του Server που μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε ως μέλος του Windows Insider Program ή του Windows Insider for Business . Μερικές από τις νέες δυνατότητες όπως τις αναφέρεις το άρθρο:
General Scenario Highlights
Developers and Containers:
- New base container images (available on Windows Insider Docker Hub repo)
- Optimized Nano Server base image (over 70% smaller)
- The .NET team is providing an preview image based on Nano Server with .NET Core 2.0
- The PowerShell team is providing a preview image based on PowerShell 6.0
- Optimized Server Core base image (over 20% smaller)
- Optimized Nano Server base image (over 70% smaller)
- Support for SMB volume mounting
- Infrastructure for Orchestrators
- Networking enhancements for on going Kubernetes work
- Named pipe mapping support
- Bug fixes, performance enhancements
Cloud Guest:
- IIS
- TLS info: administrators can make specific recommendations to default to HTTPS
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage Replica Test Failover
- Guest + Host better together
- vPMEM in Guest: Tenants can use and manage PMEM/SCM
- Tenant-Aware VM Start Ordering: App Ready / OS Heartbeat for better load balancing
- Guest RDMA
- Improvement in time accuracy
- Azure enlightened clusters – optimized to run on Azure IaaS
Cloud Host:
- Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) host
- Security
- Shielded Linux VM
- SDN: Encrypted virtual networks
- Secure clusters
- SMB 1 disabled by default
- Resiliency and Availability
- SDN: Reduced downtime for tenant connections through gateways
- Spaces Direct: Scoped Spaces to mitigate impact of multi-node loss
- Spaces Direct: Marginal drive handling for predictive detection of drive failures
- Efficiency
- Data Deduplication available for ReFS
- New Data Deduplication DataPort API for optimized ingress/egress
- Space efficiency with ReFS Compaction
- Performant Spaces Direct Multi Resilient Volumes (MRV)
- Hyper-converged Scale
- Cluster Sets: Significantly increases hyper-converged SDDC cloud scale by grouping multiple clusters into a larger fabric
- Hardware support
- Support for Storage Class Memory (SCM) in Spaces Direct
- Security