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.

 

 

Hyper-V Server 2008

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Processor support

Up to 4 processors

Up to 8 processors

Physical memory support

32 GB of RAM

Up to 1 TB of RAM

Virtual machine memory support

Up to 32 GB of RAM total

(minus Parent partition requirements)

64 GB of RAM total

Live migration

No

Yes

High availability

No

Yes

Management

Hyper-V MMC or SCVMM 2008

Hyper-V MMC or SCVMM

 

Note – content was presented publically at TechEd IT Pro EMEA 2008 – session SVR202 and was presented by Rajesh Dave and Jeff Woolsey.

 

 

Patrick Lownds

 

Published 09 January 2009 22:54 by Patrick