- 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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