Windows News and info 15th Anniversary 2009-2024
Other Operating Systems => Windows 8 => Topic started by: javajolt on June 21, 2011, 02:18:08 AM
-
We have already seen couple of new features in Windows 8, today Robert McLaws has revealed the presence of Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8.Another feature that has been found in Windows 8 build 7989 is the new Virtual Hard Disk format VHDX. VHDX is capable of supporting disks larger than 2 TB upto 16 TB and can be used from OS starting from Windows 8.
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2192s1w.jpg) (http://i51.tinypic.com/2mr7e4p.jpg)
The other new features which has been uncovered by Robert in this build are-
■ Storage
■ Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter
■ Storage Resource Pools
■ New .VHDX virtual hard drive format (Up to 16TB + power failure resiliency)
■ Memory/Processor Enhancements
■ Support for more than 4 cores!
■ NUMA – Memory per Node, Cores per Node, Nodes per Processor Socket
■ Networking Enhancements
■ Hardware Acceleration (Virtual Machine Queue & IPsec Offload)
■ Bandwidth Management
■ DHCP Guard
■ Router Guard
■ Monitor Port
■ Virtual Switch Extensions
■ Network Resource Pools
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2w5n0uu.jpg)