Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

Checkpoints

Before Windows Server 2016, only standard checkpoint was available. This kind of checkpoint was not supported for all guest workloads such as Active Directory. This is why standard checkpoint was not recommended for production and was intended for use in development and test scenarios. Standard checkpoint uses save state technology to capture the hardware configuration, the data, and the state.

Microsoft has released, in Windows Server 2016, the production checkpoint, which is based on VSS for Windows guest OS and file system buffers for Linux guest OS. All production workloads are supported and this is the way to go in Windows Server 2016 in your production.

In Windows Server 2016, the production checkpoint is the default option. You ...