Cut Costs with Simplified Virtualization Tools
Virtualization is one of the most effective methods to save costs, increase the availability, and improve agility within an organization’s infrastructure. Microsoft Hyper-V Server provides a simplified virtualization solution for your organization.
Leverage your existing skills
IT Professionals can easily learn to 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.
Improve Scalability and Performance
When consolidating servers, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 provides for the same kinds of peak load handling and security previously available only with dedicated servers.
Lower upfront costs
For customers who need a hypervisor, the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 provides you with the features to improve server utilization and reduce costs.
- Enables workload consolidation onto a single physical server
- Provides a simplified virtualization solution
- Works with existing IT infrastructures, helping companies to reduce costs, improve utilization and provision new servers
- Capitalizes on existing patching/provisioning/management and support tools/processes
Additionally, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 provides a rich set of features that include live migration and clustering. These features are available at no additional charge and provide you with the following benefits:
- Support for live migration for “zero downtime” planned migrations Support for host clustering for unplanned downtime protection Lower total cost of ownership compared to VMware ESX 3i
- Improved scalability with support for 1 TB host memory and up to 8 sockets
With Microsoft Hyper-V Server you get more capabilities than VMware ESXi.