- Posted by ploft on April 21, 2009
Next version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is "surprisingly" enough called R2, just like it's big brother Windows Server 2008 R2
One of the major news it that the smaller and simpler standalone Hyper-V Server is going to support:
Failover Clustering and Live migration
Making this product a lot more interesting for the majority of small and midsized companies, making it possible for high availability and flexible migration of VM guest's across VM hosts.
Along with this, I should also mention that the Hyper-V configuration command-prompt utility has been updated accordingly allowing administrator to setup following items:
- Remote Management Configuration
- Failover Clustering Configuration
- Additional options for updates
Some tech updates too:
More CPU and memory support. Supporting up to 32 cores and 1 TB of physical memory on the host system.
Tryout the R2 beta, download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e464e255-cdd5-44b2-84e6-3233eae3f356
- Posted by ploft on October 3, 2008
Finally the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server is landed, gotta check it out. I’ll expect to do some posts about it in the near future.
Get it here...
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
- Posted by ploft on September 30, 2008
So Microsoft announced the 8th of September the Hyper-V Server would be ready within 30 days... as of now there are only a couple of days until the this deadline is up, so I hope Microsoft won't let us down with a notice of delay.
For those of you who might have missed the fuss about the Hyper-V Server and the Hyper-V feature in Windows Server 2008, this is a dedicated server only for hosting Hyper-V machines. Now you might say, yeah but we have the same opportunity with Windows 2008 Core server with the Hyper-V feature enabled – yes, but Windows 2008 isn't free - the Hyper-V Server is going to be free of charge, and has a built in console application for administrating the most simple things of the server-setup. The Hyper-V server should have an even smaller footprint than the Windows Core edition, and should feature wise it should match the same options as if you were running a Windows 2008 Standard edition with Hyper-V.
As soon as it ships I'll be testing it, and I will post my experience here as soon as possible.
- Posted by ploft on July 3, 2008
As some of you may know the final release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology has been released. I’ve used the last few weeks reading up on some of the changes and other people’s experiences with Hyper-V. I tried the Hyper-V then it was still in beta and at this time it was clear that Microsoft had made a great product – and I’m saying this, with a slight chance of being called a Microsoft-fan boy, but the specs I’ve seen with Hyper-V should really kick ass.
We’d talked about the possibility of running all our virtual machines and pc’s of a dedicated host-server rather than using them locally on the development workstations where I work. No further detail should be needed, and to make a long story short we decided to take it up for a test, so a HP ProLiant DL 185 was ordered for this purpose.
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