What's new in System Center 1801?

Bala Rajagopalan wrote a great article of what is new for System Center 1801 and I can highly recommend this article.

For DPM 1801 the biggest takeaway is the ability to backup and restore Vmware virtual machines. All features that was released within DPM 2016 will also be available within DPM 1801 that now applies to the Semi-Annual Channel for releses.

DPM 2016 features:

• Modern Backup Storage 
• Resilient change tracking (RCT)
• Continued protection during cluster aware updates
• Shielded VM Backups
• Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct
• Hyper-V with ReFS SOFS Cluster
• Upgrading a DPM production server to 2016 doesn't require a reboot