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Provides a simplified, reliable, and optimized virtualization solution, enabling improved server utilization and reduced costs.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 provides a simplified, reliable, and optimized virtualization solution, enabling improved server utilization and reduced costs. Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated standalone product, which contains only Windows Hypervisor and the virtualization components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. It easily plugs into customers existing IT environments leveraging their existing patching, provisioning, management, and support tools, processes, and skills.

IT pros can easily leverage their existing knowledge and skills with Microsoft virtualization products, as well as the collective knowledge of the community, minimizing any learning curve. In addition, with Microsoft providing comprehensive support for Microsoft applications and heterogeneous guest operating systems, customers can virtualize with confidence and peace of mind.

When to Use Hyper-V Server 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a great choice for customers who want a basic and simplified virtualization solution for consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments. Hyper-V Server 2008 only offers the most basic of virtualization features, making it ideal for:

* Test and Development
* Basic Server Consolidation
* Branch Office Consolidation
* Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI)

Customers who require richer and more robust virtualization features, such as Quick Migration, multi-site clustering, large memory support (greater than 32 GB of RAM), and more than four processers on the host server, should use Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 provides business continuity, disaster recovery, greater scalability for consolidating large workloads, and flexible and cost-effective virtualization rights (one free virtual instance for Standard Edition, four free virtual instances for Enterprise Editions, and unlimited virtual instances for Datacenter Edition with the purchase of a license of Windows Server 2008).

Microsoft Hyper-V Server uses the same virtual machine model as Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V enabled so there is no need to re-tool your management infrastructure.

* VHD format: To move a virtual machine from Hyper-V Server to a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment (or vice versa), simply export the virtual machine and import it on the other host using the standard management tools.
* BitLocker support: Hyper-V Server can take advantage of BitLocker technology to encrypt a Hyper-V Server so that even if it is stolen and the hard disks are removed, the data is still safe because it??�s encrypted. This is particularly useful for branch offices or environments where physical security is a concern.
* Live Backup support: Hyper-V Server includes native support for Volume Shadow Services so that it can provide Live Backup of running virtual machines without downtime.
* Flexible hardware support: Microsoft Hyper-V Server leverages the Windows Server driver model and is compatible with a wide variety of server hardware and driver support for newer peripherals such as 10 Gb/E.
* Flexible Storage: Hyper-V Server offers flexible storage support, such as:
o Direct Attach Storage (DAS): SATA, eSATA, PATA, SAS, SCSI, USB, Firewire
o Storage Area Networks (SANs): iSCSI, Fiber Channel, SAS
o Network Attached Storage (NAS)
* Virtual Machine Snapshots: Hyper-V Server fully supports virtual machine snapshots.
* VSP/VSC/VMBUS: Both products fully leverage the driver enlightened architecture (VSP/VPC/VMBus) for high performance I/O. There is no conversion when moving virtual machines between Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V.

Hyper-V Server (Parent Partition) provides:

* Support for systems with up to 4 processors with 1, 2, or 4 cores
* Support for systems with up to 32 GB of physical memory
* Support for up to 128 virtual machines or as many will fit within 32 GB of memory (whichever comes first)

Hyper-V Server virtual machines provide:

* 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) virtual machines
* Up to 4 virtual processors per virtual machine
* Up to 31 GB memory for all running virtual machines (1GB reserved for Hyper-V Server Parent Partition)
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System Requirements:

http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/system-requirements.mspx

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