IMPROVE SERVER UTILIZATION AND REDUCE COSTS
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs.
Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product, which contains only the Windows Hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and virtualization components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. It easily plugs into your existing IT environments, leveraging existing patching, provisioning, management, support tools, processes, and skills.
Some of the new key new features that are available in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are live migration, cluster shared volume support and expanded processor and memory support for host systems.
Feature Benefits
Microsoft Hyper-V Server uses the same virtual machine model as Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V enabled so there is no need to re-tool your management infrastructure.
Live migration:
Customers can dynamically move virtual machines from one physical machine to another with no downtime.
Host clustering and Cluster Shared Volume Support
Processor Compatibility Mode for live migration–
allows live migration across different CPU versions within the same processor family, (e.g.”Intel Core 2-to-Intel Pentium 4” or “AMD Opteron-to-AMD Athlon”) enabling migration across a broader range of Hyper-V host hardware.
Networking enhancements:
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has the following networking enhancements:
VM Chimney (TCP Offload) and VMQ support are disabled by default
Jumbo Frame Support
Improved network performance via support for TCP Chimney and VMQ (specific hardware NICs required)
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has the following performance enhancements:
Hot Add/Remove of storage (VHDs and Pass Through Disks)
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) processor support for both Intel (EPT) and AMD (RVI)
Core Parking
Improved VHD performance for dynamic and difference disks
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