Hello,

Hereunder a sum-up of improvements announced for Windows Server 2016 TP2 :

Data De-duplication :

• Volume Size up to 64tb (10tb before) : Multi threading for the dedup job
• Files size up to 1tb : New dedup algorithm
• A new PowerShell oneliner for backup usage : Enable-DedupVolume -Volume <volume> -UsageType Backup

Cluster :

• Rolling upgrade for Hyper-V (TP1) and SOFS (TP2)
• Virtual machine resiliency for storage outage

Hyper-V :

• Nano Server
• Hyper-V Replica with synchronous replication
• vTPM
• PowerShell Direct (Invoke-Command -VMName)
• Shielded VM

Storage Spaces :

• Storage Spaces Direct : No need for shared storage, allow low cost SOFS/Hyper-V cluster without shared storage
• Storage Replica synchronous replication
• Storage QOS manageable by PowerShell and VMM
• Storage QOS per VHD, per VM, per service or per tenant

PowerShell : See my previous post.

This post will be updated.