Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Since Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 beta is now available for public download I thought it was worth summarising the differences between Hyper-V Server 2008 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 at a high level.
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Hyper-V Server 2008
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Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
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Processor support
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Up to 4 processors
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Up to 8 processors
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Physical memory support
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32 GB of RAM
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Up to 1 TB of RAM
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Virtual machine memory support
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Up to 32 GB of RAM total
(minus Parent partition requirements)
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64 GB of RAM total
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Live migration
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No
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Yes
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High availability
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No
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Yes
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Management
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Hyper-V MMC or SCVMM 2008
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Hyper-V MMC or SCVMM
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Note – content was presented publically at TechEd IT Pro EMEA 2008 – session SVR202 and was presented by Rajesh Dave and Jeff Woolsey.
Patrick Lownds