Guarded fabric and shielded VMs
One of the most important goals of providing a hosted environment is to guarantee the security of the virtual machines running in the environment. As a cloud service provider or enterprise private cloud administrator, you can use a guarded fabric to provide a more secure environment for VMs. A guarded fabric consists of one Host Guardian Service (HGS) - typically, a cluster of three nodes - plus one or more guarded hosts, and a set of shielded virtual machines (VMs).
Important
Ensure that you have installed the latest cumulative update before you deploy shielded virtual machines in production.
- Video: How to protect your virtualization fabric from insider threats with Windows Server 2019
- Video: Introduction to Shielded Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2016
- Video: Dive into Shielded VMs with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
- Video: Deploying Shielded VMs and a Guarded Fabric with Windows Server 2016
- Blog: Datacenter and Private Cloud Security Blog
- Overview: Guarded fabric and shielded VMs overview