Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Well, everybody who is into technical fields must be knowing about virtualization. Over the years PC Processing power has been evolving like anything. Years back if you wanted to try out any new technology specially networking, we were hunting for new boxes for learning the technology. If we see couple of years back story, we were familiar with the terms like Virtual PC, VMWare Workstation etc. The basic concept behind virtualization software allowing you to run multiple Operating Systems on 1 Physical Box eliminating needs for additional workstations and hardware like switches, cables. But most of them we used to use on our x86 platform were the type-2 or hosted virtualization products.

Today, we will discuss about the native hypervisor, which leverages the full potential of Intel VT (Intel Virtualization Technology) instruction set. Intel VT and AMD V are the hardware assisted virtualization technologies. Microsoftr Windows Server 2008 comes with built-in role called Hyper-V. The requirement for the role is your system should be having processor supporting Intel VT or AMD V. To use Hyper-V you can install this as a role in Windows Server 2008 or you can download a separate product called as Microsoft Hyper-V Server. Microsoft Hyper-V Server is based upon Windows Server 2008 Core and support only Hyper-V role. It is totally CLI based version that can be controlled from other computer or using SCVMM.

To test drive the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server click here to download.
In the next part we will discuss about Hyper-V in detail and how we can utilize the features of hyper-v.

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