One area Hyper-V 2016 may not improve is VM performance. In fact, my Sandra benchmark tests of a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine on Hyper-V 2012 R2 versus Hyper-V 2016 indicate a step backward.

Hi, I too am running Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 and was anxious to hear your results after doing an in-place upgrade to 2016 Essentials. How did it turn out? Thanks.

Microsoft's Windows Server 2016 is set to introduce a capability that will let customers upgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 clusters to the new version without taking the cluster offline, according to ...