Differences between Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, Nano Server, Hyper-V Server, Hyper-V Client, and VMware

The role that is installed on Windows Server 2016 (Core or Full Server), the role that can be installed on a Nano Server, its free version called Hyper-V Server, and the Hyper-V that comes in Windows 10 called Hyper-V Client are the four different versions of Hyper-V. The following sections will explain the differences between all the versions and a comparison between Hyper-V and its competitor, VMware.

Hyper-V limitations improvements

Hyper-V has improved a lot since its first version. The new limits, compared to the previous version, are up to 16 times bigger. This is quite impressive for a third release.

The following table shows the improvements ...

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