Hyper-V 2016

We're keen to see Hyper-V 2016 on the Nutanix platform aswell. Is this the best place be notified for updates / Tracking progress?

desmondgooi This is our current setup, 2012r2 hypervisors with '16 on everything apart from SCVMM that also requers 2012 to play nice with the Nutanix platform. Runs perfectly.

Very disapointed with the lack of updates regarding the 2016 Hypervisor support. We'd aimed to be up on 2016 from the get go as we foolishly belived the 90day statement when making the purchase.

Any updates?

Looks like MS are now saying Server Core is the best option for hosting Hyper-V. So I hope engineering time has not be wasted on trying to make Nano work...

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/06/15/delivering-continuous-innovation-with-windows-server/?MC=OfficeO365&MC=SecSys&MC=IoT&MC=MSAzure&MC=WinServer

• From these changes, customers will now see the Nano Server images shrink in size by more than 50 percent, further decreasing startup times and improving container density. As part of this effort to focus on containers, we will be removing the functionality for infrastructure-related roles. Instead of using Nano Server for these scenarios, we recommend deploying the Server Core installation option, which includes all the roles and features you would need.
• Moving forward, Server Core will be the recommended choice for hosting your virtual machines as well as your containers – which can be running a Nano Server container image, a Server Core container image, or even Linux container images.
• Server Core is also our recommended option for infrastructure workloads. Many customers don’t realize that Server Core is the base image that runs Azure and Azure Stack.

+1. Q2 is pretty much over now, and no update here for nearly 5 months. What's the deal? I think we all understand that this is a significant upgrade from Microsoft, with lots of intracacies. But at the very least, some form of communication would be nice. I'm confident I'm not the only one with major infrastrucure projects on hold until 2016 is supported by Nutanix, so any form of realistic ETA would be appreciated.

Looking at the release notes of AOS 5.1.1.3, I get the impression that Hyper-V 2016 is still not GA.

Hyper-V

• ENG-87078 SCVMM 2016 and Windows Server 2016 versions are not supported.

Hi Jon,

Any update on the support for Hyper-V 2016, it's close to a year since the release of Windows server 2016.

Thanks
Dhiraj

Come on Nutanix, give us something at least? Do we need to start a new thread as for some reason you've marked this as Solved, it certainly is not.

I agree that the complete silence from Nutanix is a bit ridiculous on this thread.

Thats a good question rohanfargade. A lot of the time spent getting Hyper-V 2016 working was what I'd call "structural" work, as we had to both recode an extremely large portion of our Hyper-V support as well as extend the code to work in both directions (to support rolling upgrades and the sort). Quite a large task, and certainly larger than we thought it would be.

Now that the structural work is done, supporting those faster release candidates (knock on wood) should be a heck of a lot easier. Its all for the best though, especially with support for DDA, it greatly simplifies the way we do things, so the overall complexity under the hood has been reduced.

Anyhow, looking to the future, we're already looking at those incremental "fast train" releases. Working on the pre-release 1803 code right now