Virtualization

How to Configure ReFS (Resilient File System) on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure ReFS (Resilient File System) on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 ReFS File System Resilient File System (ReFS) is a modern file system introduced by Microsoft to maximize data availability, scale efficiently with large data sets, and provide data integrity. Windows Server 2016 significantly enhanced ReFS with features such as integrity streams, block cloning, and sparse VDL, making it an […]

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How to Manage Volumes on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Volumes on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Volume Management Volume management in Windows Server 2016 extends beyond basic disk partitioning to encompass a rich set of capabilities for organizing, protecting, and optimizing storage. Dynamic disks and software-based RAID configurations allow administrators to combine multiple physical disks into single logical volumes with redundancy or increased performance […]

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How to Configure Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 for Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing program from Microsoft that allows organizations to use their existing on-premises Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance to reduce costs when migrating workloads to Microsoft Azure. When you bring your own Windows Server license to Azure, you can save […]

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How to Set Up a Container Registry on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Container Registry on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Container Registry A Container Registry is a centralized repository for storing, managing, and distributing container images. Rather than pulling images from the public Docker Hub or Microsoft Container Registry on every deployment, organizations can host a private registry to store proprietary images, control access, reduce external bandwidth consumption, […]

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How to Deploy Hyper-V Containers on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy Hyper-V Containers on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers Hyper-V Containers are a container isolation mode introduced in Windows Server 2016 that provides hardware-level isolation by running each container inside a highly optimized, lightweight virtual machine with its own dedicated kernel instance. Unlike Windows Server Containers (process-isolated), Hyper-V Containers do not share the host kernel with […]

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How to Deploy Windows Containers on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy Windows Containers on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Windows Containers Windows Server 2016 introduced native Windows container support, marking a significant milestone in Microsoft’s containerization strategy. Windows Containers allow applications to be packaged with their dependencies and runtime environment into portable, isolated units that can run consistently across different environments. Windows Server 2016 supports two container […]

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How to Configure Container Networking with SDN on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Container Networking with SDN on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 Container Networking SDN Windows Server 2016 introduced native Windows container support, and with it, integration with Software Defined Networking (SDN) to provide scalable, flexible, and policy-driven networking for containerized workloads. Container Networking with SDN in Windows Server 2016 enables containers to be placed on tenant virtual networks managed by […]

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How to Configure Host Networking in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Host Networking in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Host Networking Host networking in Windows Server 2016 refers to the configuration of the physical and virtual network infrastructure on Hyper-V hosts, including the Hyper-V virtual switch, NIC teaming, virtual network adapters, Quality of Service (QoS) policies, and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) capabilities. Properly configured host networking […]

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How to Configure NVGRE on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure NVGRE on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 NVGRE Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) is a network virtualization encapsulation protocol developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Server 2016 as part of Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV). NVGRE encapsulates Ethernet frames within GRE packets, enabling virtual networks to operate independently of the underlying physical network topology. […]

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How to Configure VXLAN on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure VXLAN on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that encapsulates Layer 2 Ethernet frames within UDP packets, allowing virtual networks to be extended across Layer 3 IP boundaries. VXLAN uses a 24-bit VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI) that supports up to 16 million unique virtual networks, far […]

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