- 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