The Scalability Factor in Windows Server Hosting
Right from the time of its release, there has been a lot of noise regarding the scalability of Windows Server 2016. It so occurs that people are still unclear as far as its scalability is concerned. Even before it was available to general public, there were plenty of requests being made to Microsoft to make it more scalable with respect to Data Analytics and Machine Learning, indirectly pointing towards massive databases.
So now that its release is behind us, it is time that the smoke over its scalability was cleared so that businesses everywhere had a fairer idea as to what they are about to get into when they start buying licenses.
To put it bluntly, Microsoft delivers new industry-leading scalability to virtualize all kinds of workloads without exception. The details being shared below should make Windows Dedicated Server Hosting Services more popular around Australia.
1. In terms of Physical (Host) Memory Support, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Standard as well as Datacenter offered up to 4 TB per Physical Server. At the same time, its 2016 counterpart offers up to 24 TB per Physical Server (6x).
2. In terms of Physical (Host) Logical Processor Support, 2012 offered up to 329 LPs whereas 2016 offers up to 512 LPs.
3. In terms of Virtual Machine Memory Support, 2012 offered up to 1 TB per VM whereas 2016 offers up to 12 TB per VM (12x).
4. In terms of Virtual Machine Virtual Processor Support, 2012 offered up to 64 VPs per VM whereas 2016 offers 240 VPs per VM (3.75x).
As far as Virtualization is concerned, Windows Server 2016 tops the charts in virtualization security. Hosts and Virtual Machines have to be protected from malicious software and compromised hosts. High value assets within the organization like domain controllers, sensitive file servers and HR systems are well protected through Windows Server 2016, making Windows Server Hosting on Version 2016 an automatic choice.
Organizations can use the Windows Server 2016 and get access to Storage Spaces Direct, a new feature introduced to enable the construction of highly available storage systems with local storage. This is an altogether novel feature as far as Microsoft Windows Server software-defined storage is concerned, as it simplifies the deployment and management of SDS Systems. It also helps unlock the use of new classes of disk devices such as SATA and NVMe Disk Devices which were previously not possible with clustered Storage Spaces with Shared Disks. Windows Server 2016 provides a hyper-converged solution by allowing the same set of servers to provide SDS through Storage Spaces Direct and also serving as the hosts for Virtual Machines.
Windows Server 2016 has Containers that provide operating system-level virtualization, which accounts for multiple isolated applications to be run on a single system. There are two very different types of container runtime included in the feature, both with a different degree of application isolation. Windows Server Containers achieve isolation through namespace and process isolation whereas Hyper-V Containers encapsulate each containers in a lightweight virtual machine.
Best Dedicated Server Hosting on Windows Server 2016 is just about to become more exciting.
All of this mentioned above should make it clear to users and followers of server technology as to how exactly is Windows Server 2016 beneficial to them. If scalability was the main concern, then all these details mentioned above should make things clear.