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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Graphics virtualization in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V


When Microsoft started developing graphics virtualization for Windows Server 2016, they looked into the target users and scenarios that could benefit from this technology.

Those users are divided into three categories, as follows:

  • Power users

  • Professional users

  • Knowledge workers

For Power Users who required full Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) resource utilization for highly intensive applications such as oil and gas, those applications rely on high-end computing power, which requires a dedicated GPU per user. Here you can find High Performance Computing (HPC), where you really want to leverage that GPU as a single or double precision co-processor, typically for those workloads for which you want to have as much compute power behind it as possible.

Professional Users are usually those who work on designer apps, such as Adobe Photoshop like highly burst GPU requirements. In some cases, one user could leverage that GPU, but it's not going to...