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• “Hyper-V” is a hypervisor that allows you to create virtual machines. The “Virtual Machine Platform” is usually used for WSL, while the “Windows Hypervisor Platform” is used by other virtual platforms to connect with Hyper-V.

UPDATED 11/17/2023: When you have to enable virtualization on Windows 11 (or 10), you will find multiple options on the “Windows Features” page, including the “Hyper-V,” “Virtual Machine Platform,” and “Windows Hypervisor Platform,” which makes enabling the feature confusing.

If you need help understanding these features, you should know that each component is completely different.

• Hyper-V: This component adds the management tools and platform to create and run virtual machines on Windows 11.
• Windows Hypervisor Platform: Enables the user-mode API components to allow third-party virtualization stacks and applications (Docker, VirtualBox, and QEMU) to connect and interact with Hyper-V.
• Virtual Machine Platform: This component enables virtualization support to run virtual machines, and you must turn on this feature to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In addition, the component can also help to create MSIX app packages for an MSI or App-V.

In other words, if you want to create virtual machines on Windows 11, you want to enable the Hyper-V option, and if you plan to set up WSL on your computer, you want to install the Virtual Machine Platform.

Update November 17, 2023: This content has been updated to ensure clarity.

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Microsoft Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization platform from Microsoft that allows you to create and run independent, isolated virtual machines (VMs) on a physical host (server). Hyper-V allows the resources of the physical server hardware to be shared between virtual machines. Hyper-V is available as a separate role in all versions of Windows Server, and in the desktop versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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In order to use Hyper-V, the physical processor of the server must support hardware virtualization, and this feature must be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI settings (Intel VT/Intel Virtualization Technology or AMD-V/SVM Mode).

The architecture and components of Hyper-V

• Hyper-V hypervisor is a separate component that is installed in Windows and provides the foundation for isolating and virtualizing the host’s physical hardware;
• Virtual machine – an independent operating system instance running on the hypervisor. Virtual machines are isolated from each other and run in their own virtual environment. The administrator allocates resources (CPU time, memory, networking adapters, hard disks) to the virtual machine according to its needs;
• Guest operating system – operating system installed in a virtual machine. You can use a variety of distributions as guest operating systems, including Windows and Linux;
• Host OS – a Windows computer running Hyper-V role. The host operating system runs the virtual machines;
• Virtual disk– virtual machine file emulating a physical hard disk. Hyper-V uses two virtual disk formats: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk Extended);
• Virtual switch – a software component that enables network access between VMs and to an external network.

What versions of Windows are able to run the Hyper-V virtualization platform?

• Hyper-V is available for installation as a separate role in all versions of Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2/2008R2
• Windows Hyper-V Server (which is a free version of the hypervisor) is a standalone product with no licensing requirements
• In desktop versions of Windows x64 with Professional and Enterprise editions (including Windows 10 and Windows 11)

Windows Hyper-V platform features

• Snapshots – Hyper-V can save the state of virtual machines and running guest operating systems and revert to previously saved states.
• Clustering and high availability support
• Live migration – allows you to move running virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts
• Hyper-V GPU passthrough
• SR-IOV (Single Root Input/Output Virtualization) provides direct access to Hyper-V host physical devices from the VM

The following features are only available in Hyper-V on Windows Server:

• Live Migration
• Hyper-V replication
• Virtual Fiber Channel
• SR-IOV for network adapters
• Shared VHDX disks

Hyper-V management tools

• Hyper-V Manager GUI console
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Hyper-V Module PowerShell cmdlets
• Windows Admin Center (WAC) web-UI

Installing Hyper-V on Windows

• How to install and configure free Windows Hyper-V Server 2019 (2016)
• Enable nested Hyper-V on VMware ESXi VM

Configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

• Autostart VMs and configure boot order on Hyper-V
• Enable routing between different IP subnets in Hyper-V
• Manage the number of available cores (vCPU) for a virtual machine
• How to backup Hyper-V virtual machines
• Using Production Checkpoints in Hyper-V
• How to mount an external USB device (flash drive, SD card) to a Hyper-V virtual machine
• How to increase or shrink the Hyper-V VM virtual disk size

Hyper-V usage scenarios

• Installing Windows 11 in a Hyper-V virtual machine
• How to install VMware ESXi in a Hyper-V virtual machine
• Clone, import, and export VMs in Hyper-V
• Using Differential Disks in Hyper-V
• Install Virtual Machine Platform components for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) environment

Common Hyper-V and virtual machines problems and fixes

• Hyper-V: slow file transfers to guest VMs on Windows Server 2019
• Linux VM boot error: The image’s hash and certificate are not allowed
• How to force shut down a Hyper-V VM that is not responding

Hyper-V Disadvantages

• Hyper-V does not allow redirection of USB keys from the host operating system to the virtual machine. Redirection using solutions that implement the USB over IP protocol is recommended as a workaround. For example, you can use the usbipd-win open-source project to attach a host USB device to a Hyper-V virtual machine.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.^[1] It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows NT (since Windows as an optional feature to be manually enabled.^[2] A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.

Codenamed Viridian^[3] and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, a beta version was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008. The finalized version was released on June 26, 2008 and was delivered through Windows Update.^[4] Hyper-V has since been released with every version of Windows Server starting with version 2012,^[5][6][7] superseding Microsoft Virtual Server, and starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V has been the hardware virtualization component for personal computers, superseding Windows Virtual PC.

Microsoft provides Hyper-V through two channels:

1. Part of Windows: Hyper-V is an optional component of Windows Server 2008 and later. It is also available in x64 SKUs of Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
2. Hyper-V Server: It is a freeware edition of Windows Server with limited functionality and Hyper-V component.^[8]

Hyper-V Server 2008 was released on October 1, 2008. It consists of Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Hyper-V role; other Windows Server 2008 roles are disabled, and there are limited Windows services.^[9] Hyper-V Server 2008 is limited to a command-line interface used to configure the host OS, physical hardware, and software. A menu driven CLI interface and some freely downloadable script files simplify configuration. In addition, Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. However, administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network, using either Microsoft Management Consoles on another Windows computer or System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This allows much easier «point and click» configuration, and monitoring of the Hyper-V Server.

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (an edition of Windows Server 2008 R2) was made available in September 2009 and includes Windows PowerShell v2 for greater CLI control. Remote access to Hyper-V Server requires CLI configuration of network interfaces and Windows Firewall. Also using a Windows Vista PC to administer Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is not fully supported.

Microsoft ended mainstream support of the free version of Hyper-V Server 2019 on January 9, 2024 and extended support will end on January 9, 2029.^[10] Hyper-V Server 2019 will be the last version of the free, standalone product. Hyper-V is still available as a role in Windows Server 2022 and will be supported as long as that operating system is, currently scheduled for end of extended support on October 14, 2031.^[11]

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Hyper-V implements isolation of virtual machines in terms of a partition. A partition is a logical unit of isolation, supported by the hypervisor, in which each guest operating system executes. There must be at least one parent partition in a hypervisor instance, running a supported version of Windows. The parent partition creates child partitions which host the guest OSs. The Virtualization Service Provider and Virtual Machine Management Service runs in the parent partition and provide support for child partition. A parent partition creates child partitions using the hypercall API, which is the application programming interface exposed by Hyper-V.^[12]

A child partition does not have access to the physical processor, nor does it handle its real interrupts. Instead, it has a virtual view of the processor and runs in Guest Virtual Address, which, depending on the configuration of the hypervisor, might not necessarily be the entire virtual address space. Depending on VM configuration, Hyper-V may expose only a subset of the processors to each partition. The hypervisor handles the interrupts to the processor, and redirects them to the respective partition using a logical Synthetic Interrupt Controller (SynIC). Hyper-V can hardware accelerate the address translation of Guest Virtual Address-spaces by using second level address translation provided by the CPU, referred to as EPT on Intel and RVI (formerly NPT) on AMD.

Child partitions do not have direct access to hardware resources, but instead have a virtual view of the resources, in terms of virtual devices. Any request to the virtual devices is redirected via the VMBus to the devices in the parent partition, which will manage the requests. The VMBus is a logical channel which enables inter-partition communication. The response is also redirected via the VMBus. If the devices in the parent partition are also virtual devices, it will be redirected further until it reaches the parent partition, where it will gain access to the physical devices. Parent partitions run a Virtualization Service Provider (VSP), which connects to the VMBus and handles device access requests from child partitions. Child partition virtual devices internally run a Virtualization Service Client (VSC), which redirect the request to VSPs in the parent partition via the VMBus. This entire process is transparent to the guest OS.

Virtual devices can also take advantage of a Windows Server Virtualization feature, named Enlightened I/O, for storage, networking and graphics subsystems, among others. Enlightened I/O is a specialized virtualization-aware implementation of high level communication protocols, like SCSI, that allows bypassing any device emulation layer and takes advantage of VMBus directly. This makes the communication more efficient, but requires the guest OS to support Enlightened I/O.

Currently^[when?] only the following operating systems support Enlightened I/O, allowing them therefore to run faster as guest operating systems under Hyper-V than other operating systems that need to use slower emulated hardware:

• Windows Server 2008 and later
• Windows Vista and later
• Linux with a 3.4 or later kernel^[13]
• FreeBSD^[14]

The Hyper-V role is only available in the x86-64 variants of Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2008 and later, as well as the Pro, Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 8 and later. On Windows Server, it can be installed regardless of whether the installation is a full or core installation. In addition, Hyper-V can be made available as part of the Hyper-V Server operating system, which is a freeware edition of Windows Server.^[15] Either way, the host computer needs the following.^[16]

• CPU with the following technologies:
  • NX bit
  • x86-64
  • Hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD-V)
  • Second Level Address Translation (in Windows 8 and later)^[17]
• At least 2 GB memory, in addition to what is assigned to each guest machine

The amount of memory assigned to virtual machines depends on the operating system:

• Windows Server 2008 Standard supports up to 31 GB of memory for running VMs, plus 1 GB for the host OS.^[18]
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard supports up to 32 GB, but the Enterprise and Datacenter editions support up to 2 TB.^[19] Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 supports up to 1 TB.^[16]
• Windows Server 2012 supports up to 4 TB.

The number of CPUs assigned to each virtual machine also depends on the OS:

• Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 support 1, 2, or 4 CPUs per VM; the same applies to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2^[15]
• Windows Server 2012 supports up to 64 CPUs per VM

There is also a maximum for the number of concurrently active virtual machines.

• Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 support 384 per server;^[20] Hyper-V Server 2008 supports the same^[15]
• Windows Server 2012 supports 1024 per server; the same applies to Hyper-V Server 2012^[21]
• Windows Server 2016 supports 8000 per cluster and per node^[22]

The following table lists supported guest operating systems on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.^[23]

Fedora 8 or 9 are unsupported; however, they have been reported to run.^{[23][24][25][26]}

Third-party support for FreeBSD 8.2 and later guests is provided by a partnership between NetApp and Citrix.^[27] This includes both emulated and paravirtualized modes of operation, as well as several HyperV integration services.^[28]

Desktop virtualization (VDI) products from third-party companies (such as Quest Software vWorkspace, Citrix XenDesktop, Systancia AppliDis Fusion^[29] and Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect) provide the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users a full PC desktop experience.

Guest operating systems with Enlightened I/O and a hypervisor-aware kernel such as Windows Server 2008 and later server versions, Windows Vista SP1 and later clients and offerings from Citrix XenServer and Novell will be able to use the host resources better since VSC drivers in these guests communicate with the VSPs directly over VMBus.^[30] Non-«enlightened» operating systems will run with emulated I/O;^[31] however, integration components (which include the VSC drivers) are available for Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and Linux to achieve better performance.

On July 20, 2009, Microsoft submitted Hyper-V drivers for inclusion in the Linux kernel under the terms of the GPL.^[32] Microsoft was required to submit the code when it was discovered that they had incorporated a Hyper-V network driver with GPL-licensed components statically linked to closed-source binaries.^[33] Kernels beginning with 2.6.32 may include inbuilt Hyper-V paravirtualization support which improves the performance of virtual Linux guest systems in a Windows host environment. Hyper-V provides basic virtualization support for Linux guests out of the box. Paravirtualization support requires installing the Linux Integration Components or Satori InputVSC drivers. Xen-enabled Linux guest distributions may also be paravirtualized in Hyper-V. As of 2013 Microsoft officially supported only SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1/SP2 (x86 and x64) in this manner,^[34] though any Xen-enabled Linux should be able to run. In February 2008, Red Hat and Microsoft signed a virtualization pact for hypervisor interoperability with their respective server operating systems, to enable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to be officially supported on Hyper-V.^[35]

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 changes the support list above as follows:^[36]

1. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 adds support for Windows 8.1 (up to 32 CPUs) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (64 CPUs); Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 adds support for Windows 10 (32 CPUs) and Windows Server 2016 (64 CPUs).
2. Minimum supported version of CentOS is 6.0.
3. Minimum supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 5.7.
4. Maximum number of supported CPUs for Windows Server and Linux operating systems is increased from four to 64.

Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 added the Generation 2 VM.^[37]

Hyper-V, like Microsoft Virtual Server and Windows Virtual PC, saves each guest OS to a single virtual hard disk file. It supports the older .vhd format, as well as the newer .vhdx. Older .vhd files from Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC 2004 and Virtual PC 2007 can be copied and used in Hyper-V, but any old virtual machine integration software (equivalents of Hyper-V Integration Services) must be removed from the virtual machine. After the migrated guest OS is configured and started using Hyper-V, the guest OS will detect changes to the (virtual) hardware. Installing «Hyper-V Integration Services» installs five services to improve performance, at the same time adding the new guest video and network card drivers.

Hyper-V does not virtualize audio hardware. Before Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, it was possible to work around this issue by connecting to the virtual machine with Remote Desktop Connection over a network connection and use its audio redirection feature.^[38][39] Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 add the enhanced session mode which provides redirection without a network connection.^[40]

Optical drives virtualized in the guest VM are read-only.^[41] Officially Hyper-V does not support the host/root operating system’s optical drives to pass-through in guest VMs. As a result, burning to discs, audio CDs, video CD/DVD-Video playback are not supported; however, a workaround exists using the iSCSI protocol. Setting up an iSCSI target on the host machine with the optical drive can then be talked to by the standard Microsoft iSCSI initiator. Microsoft produces their own iSCSI Target software or alternative third party products can be used.^[42]

Hyper-V uses the VT-x on Intel or AMD-V on AMD x86 virtualization. Since Hyper-V is a native hypervisor, as long as it is installed, third-party software cannot use VT-x or AMD-V. For instance, the Intel HAXM Android device emulator (used by Android Studio or Microsoft Visual Studio) cannot run while Hyper-V is installed.^[43]

Hyper-V is also available in x64 SKUs of Windows 8, 8.1, 10 Pro, Enterprise, Education. The following features are not available on client versions of Windows:^[44]

• Live migration of virtual machines from one host to another
• Hyper-V Replica
• Virtual Fiber Channel
• SR-IOV networking
• Shared .VHDX

The following features are not available on server versions of Windows:^[44]

• Quick Create and the VM Gallery
• Default network (NAT switch)

Windows Server 2012 introduced many new features in Hyper-V.^[7]

• Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch^[45][46]
• Network virtualization^[45]
• Multi-tenancy
• Storage Resource Pools
• .vhdx disk format supporting virtual hard disks as large as 64 TB^[47] with power failure resiliency
• Virtual Fibre Channel
• Offloaded data transfer
• Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
• Hyper-V replica^[48]
• Cross-premises connectivity
• Cloud backup

With Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft introduced another set of new features.^[49]

• Shared virtual hard disk^[50]
• Storage quality of service^[51]
• Generation 2 Virtual Machine^[52]
• Enhanced session mode^[53]
• Automatic virtual machine activation^[54]

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 1607 adds^[55]

• Nested virtualization^[56] (Intel processors only, both the host and guest instances of Hyper-V must be Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 or later)
• Discrete Device Assignment (DDA), allowing direct pass-through of compatible PCI Express devices to guest Virtual Machines^[57]
• Windows containers (to achieve isolation at the app level rather than the OS level)
• Shielded VMs using remote attestation servers
• Monitoring of host CPU resource utilization by guests and protection (limiting CPU usage by guests)

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809 adds^[58]

• Shielded Virtual Machines improvements including Linux compatibility
• Virtual Machine Encrypted Networks
• vSwitch Receive Segment Coalescing
• Dynamic Virtual Machine Multi-Queue (d. VMMQ)
• Persistent Memory support
• Significant feature and performance improvements to Storage Spaces Direct and Failover Clustering

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2022 added:^[59]

• nested virtualization for AMD processors
• updated Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC) for virtual switches

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2025 changes:^[60]

• Generation 2 is now the default option in the New Virtual Machine Wizard in Hyper-V Manager
• GPU Partitioning (share a GPU between VMs)
• Hypervisor-enforced paging translation (HPVT)
• Support for 4 petabytes of memory and 2,048 logical processors per Hyper-V host
• Workgroup clusters (support for failover clusters without an Active Directory)

• Comparison of platform virtualization software
• Features new to Windows 8
• Virtual disk image
• Microsoft Open Specification Promise
• Microsoft Remote Web Workplace
• Virtual private server
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

• Official website
• Virtualization Fabric Design Considerations Guide
• Hyper-V on Microsoft TechNet
• Benchmarking Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Archived 2017-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Hyper-V Architecture
• Windows Admin Center
• Hv Manager

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Hyper-V – это технология аппаратной виртуализации Microsoft, впервые вышедшая в 2008-ом году для обеспечения серверной виртуализации и ставшая основой множества продуктов и компонентов Microsoft. Диапазон возможностей простирается от повышения безопасности до расширения возможностей разработчиков и обеспечения наиболее совместимой игровой консоли. Последние добавления в этот список включают песочницу Windows (Windows Sandbox), Windows Defender Application Guard, System Guard и расширенное обнаружение угроз (Advanced Thread Detection), изолированные контейнеры Hyper-V (Hyper-V Isolated Containers), платформу гипервизора Windows (WHP), подсистему Windows для Linux 2 (WSL 2). Дополнительно, приложения, использующие Hyper -V: Kubernetes для Windows и Docker Desktop.

Так как область виртуализации Windows расширяется, становясь интегрированной частью операционной системы, многие новые возможности операционной системы зависят от Hyper-V. Соответственно, это создает ошибки совместимости со множеством популярным сторонних продуктов, которые предоставляют собственные решения виртуализации, заставляя пользователей выбирать между приложениями и потерей функциональности операционной системы. В связи с этим Microsoft объединился с ключевыми производителями программного обеспечения, такими как VMware, VirtualBox и BlueStacks для предоставления решений, которые напрямую используют технологии виртуализации Microsoft, устраняя необходимость выбора.

Песочница Windows (Windows Sandbox).

Песочница Windows (Windows Sandbox) – это изолированное, временное окружение рабочего стола, в котором можно запускать программное обеспечение без страха оказать негативное влияние на персональный компьютер. Любое программное обеспечение, установленное в песочнице Windows, остается только в песочнице и не может повлиять на хост. После закрытия песочницы Windows все состояние, включая файлы, изменения реестра и установленное программное обеспечение мгновенно удаляются. Песочница Windows построена на тех же технологиях, которые разрабатывались для работы мульти-арендных сервисов Azure, таких как Azure Functions, а также предоставляет интеграцию с Windows 10 и поддержку для графических приложений.

Windows Defender Application Guard.

Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) – это возможность безопасности Windows 10, представленная в Fall Creators Update (версии 1709), которые защищают от нацеленных угроз при помощи технологий виртуализации Hyper-V. Также WDAG обеспечивает корпоративным пользователям Microsoft Edge и Internet Explorer (IE) защиту от уязвимостей ядра (Zero-day) за счет изоляции не доверенных сессий браузера от операционной системы хоста. Это позволяет команде информационной безопасности при помощи WDAG заблокировать корпоративные хосты, при этом, разрешив корпоративным пользователям просматривать в браузере некорпоративный контент.

Application Guard изолирует не доверенные сайты при помощи нового экземпляра Windows на аппаратном уровне.

Windows Defender System Guard.

Для защиты критических ресурсов, таких как стек аутентификации Windows, ключи единого входа (Single Sign-On), биометрический стек Windows Hello и Virtual Trusted Platform Module (Virtual TPM), а также системной прошивки (Firmware) и оборудование – они должны быть доверенными. Windows Defender System Guard реорганизует существующие возможности целостности системы Windows 10 и поверх них настраивает набор вложений в безопасность Windows. Это спроектировано и разработано для обеспечения следующих гарантий безопасности:

• Защита и поддержка целостности системы во время ее запуска.

• Проверка целостности системы, полностью поддерживающую локальную и удаленную проверку.

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Detection.

Обнаружение и остановка атак, которые вмешиваются через агентов в режиме ядра на уровне гипервизора – это критический компонент универсальной платформы защиты конечных устройств в Microsoft Defender Advanced Thread Protection (ATP). Глубокая интеграция Windows Defender Antivirus с аппаратными возможностями изоляции позволяют обнаруживать признаки подобных атак.

Изолированные Hyper-V контейнеры (Hyper-V Isolated Containers).

Платформа гипервизора Windows (Windows Hypervisor Platform).

Платформа гипервизора Windows (WHP) добавляет расширенный интерфейс разработки приложений (API) пользовательского режима для сторонних стеков виртуализации и приложений, что позволяет создавать и управлять разделами на уровне гипервизора, настраивать привязку памяти для раздела, а также создавать и управлять работой виртуальных процессоров. Основное назначение – это сосуществование стороннего программного обеспечения (такого как VMware) с Hyper-V и прочими возможностями на базе Hyper-V. Безопасность на базе виртуализации (Virtualization-Based Security, VBS) – это одна из последних технологий, которая возможна благодаря этому сосуществованию.

WHP предоставляет API, похожий на платформу (Framework), которую предоставляет KVM на Linux и гипервизор macOS, и на данный момент опирается на QEMU и VMware.

Подсистема Windows для Linux 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).

Поддержка Kubernetes для Windows.

Kubernetes начал официально поддерживать Windows Server в производственной среде, начиная с релиза Kubernetes версии 1.14 (в марте 2019 года). Приложения на базе Windows составляют большую часть рабочих нагрузок во множестве организаций. Контейнеры Windows предоставляют современный путь для приложений Windows чтобы использовать процессы DevOps и изначально облачные подходы. По факту Kubernetes стал стандартом для управления контейнерами; данная поддержка позволяет широкой экосистеме приложений Windows не только использовать возможности Kubernetes, но и широкую, бесшовную и постоянно растущую экосистемы вокруг него. Организации, вкладывающие одновременно в приложения на базе Windows и Linux, больше не нуждаются в отдельных оркестраторах для управления рабочими нагрузками, что в результате приводит к увеличению операционной эффективности развертываний. Разработка, обеспечившая данный релиз опиралась на открытый исходный код и лучшие подходы сообщества, которые и добавили контейнеры Windows Server в Windows Server 2016.

Данные компоненты и инструменты позволяют технологии Microsoft Hyper-V представлять новые пути обеспечения пользовательских возможностей. Песочница Windows (Windows Sandbox), Windows Defender Application Guard, System Guard и Advanced Thread Detection, изолированные Hyper-V контейнеры (Hyper-V Isolated-Containers), Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHP) и подсистема Windows для Linux (WSL 2) – это все новые компоненты Hyper-V, которые обеспечивают гибкость и безопасность Windows. Управление приложениями с использованием Hyper-V, такое как Kubernetes для Windows и Docker Desktop также показывает приверженность Microsoft к потребностям клиентов.

P.S. Тем, кто не знаком с возможностями Hyper-V, я рекомендую начать свое знакомство со статьи «Архитектура Hyper-V» и группы веб-кастов посвященной Hyper-V в Windows 10: