Hyper-V is a role in Windows Server 2016 that allows you to run multiple guest operating systems within a host operating system. The guest and host operating systems share hardware resources but act independently. This is possible using virtualization, a technology that enables the abstraction of hardware resources – including the processor, the memory, and the network – and provides isolation for the guest operating systems.
A Windows Server 2016 that runs Hyper-V is called a host, while a guest operating system is called a virtual machine or a guest. Each virtual machine runs in an isolated environment and a Hyper-V host can run multiple virtual machines simultaneously. There are many benefits of virtualization, including the following:
- Provisioning virtual machines is much faster than provisioning physical machines. This leads...
