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Q. What is Hyper-V Server?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows customers to virtualize workloads onto a single physical server. It provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualization solution that easily plugs into customers’ existing IT infrastructure enabling them to improve server utilization and reduce costs.
Q. What are the key benefits of Microsoft Hyper-V Server?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a simplified and optimized stand-alone server virtualization product. It contains just the Windows hypervisor and other kernel components to support virtualization. Since Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is built on the Windows hypervisor, it has an inherently more secure architecture with no third-party device drivers in it. It easily plugs into customers’ IT existing environments leveraging their existing patching, provisioning, management and support tools and processes. ITPros can easily to leverage their existing knowledge and skills with Microsoft virtualization products, as well as the collective knowledge of the community, minimizing any learning curve.
Q. Will System Center Virtual Machine Manager Microsoft Hyper-V Server? When will it be available?
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Yes, System Center Virtual Machine Manager will manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server. It will be available within the next 30 days.
Q. How do I install Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008? Is it an application?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows customers to virtualize multiple operating systems onto a single physical server. It provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualization solution that easily plugs into customers’ existing IT infrastructure enabling them to improve server utilization and reduce costs.
Q. What processor architectures do you support?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server supports single and multi-core x64 processors. Microsoft Hyper-V Server requires 64-bit machines with AMD-V or Intel Virtualization Technology enabled processors. Hyper-V server does not support Itanium systems.
Q. How many guest OSes can I run?
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The actual number of guest OSes will depend on the physical hardware and the characteristics of the different virtualized workloads. The maximum number of guest instances that can run on Microsoft Hyper-V Server is 192. Additionally, each guest OS must have a valid license.
Q. Which guest OSes will it support?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server will support all guest operating systems supported on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
For a complete list of supported guest operating systems please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958.
Q. What sorts of upgrades are permitted? Can I go from Microsoft Hyper-V Server to a full installation of Windows Server 2008? Will I be able to upgrade to a future version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a separate stand-alone product. Customers cannot upgrade from a previous version of Windows Server to Microsoft Hyper-V Server. Customers cannot upgrade from Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Windows Server 2008 as they are different products. To migrate from a Microsoft Hyper-V Server environment to a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment, export the virtual machines from Hyper-V Server, install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, enable the Hyper-V role and import the virtual machines.
Q. What is the price of Microsoft Hyper-V Server? Will it require CALs? Will it be available in all channels?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server will be available as a free download. CALs are only required for Windows Server and all Windows Server images that are virtualized, regardless of virtualization platform. No CALs are required for Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Q. What is the difference between Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server?
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Hyper-V is the hypervisor-based virtualization feature of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft Hyper-V Server is the hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server.
Q. What is the feature set of Microsoft Hyper-V Server?
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows customers to virtualize workloads onto a single physical server. It provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualization solution that easily plugs into customers’ existing IT infrastructure enabling them to improve server utilization and reduce costs. We will provide the complete feature set as we get closer to RTM.