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Licensing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that will be available via the Microsoft Download Center free of charge.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 does not require CALs for the product itself.
CALs will be required for all Windows Server virtualized operating systems which are hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 will be available in the following languages:
English (EN-US)
German (DE-DE)
Japanese (JA-JP)
French (FR-FR)
Spanish (ES-ES)
Chinese Hong-Kong (ZH-HK)
Chinese Simplified (ZH-CN)
Korean (KO-KR)
Portuguese (Brazil) (PT-BR)
Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW)
Italian (IT-IT)
Russian (RU-RU)
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Customers can use Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for the following scenarios:
Test and Development
Server Consolidation
Branch Office Consolidation
Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI)
Customers should use Windows Server 2008 R2 to get application failover capabilities or 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), and flexible and cost-effective virtualization rights.
Here is a list of the features in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Host clustering
Free
Live Migration
Large Memory support (Host OS) =1TB
Support for up to 8 Processors (Host OS)
The following table showcases specific scenarios where Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 should be used: