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It is no secret that Microsoft has made major investments to ensure Linux gets an enterprise grade experience in the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft has made contributions to the Linux kernel and actively maintains the Linux Integration Services (LIS) to ensure a fully enlightened experienced while running Linux on Hyper-V.

Microsoft fully supports the following distributions on Hyper-V today, with more being added in the
future.
 Red Hat Linux
 SUSE
 OpenSUSE
 CentOS
 Ubuntu
 Debian
 Oracle Linux

Key investment areas for LIS
Networking - Full virtual Receive-Side Scaling (vRSS) support to optimize Linux networking
performance Hot-Add/Remove of virtual NICS

Storage - Hot-Add disk support and online re-size of storage

Management - Simplified management with common tools like PowerShell DSC

Performance - Linux performance on Hyper-V is fully competitive versus competitive
hypervisors

Source of Information : Microsoft Introduction Windows Server 2016