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The Windows 2008 Hyper V Server is in the RTM process.You will find a Hyper-V beta inside.  Hyper-V will be setting the stage for a whole new wave of technologies so with that in mind, we will give you a quick peek at the product.

The hypervisor has a catchy and cool name.There’s a very high-tech and futuristic ring into it.  It does of course refer to the new thin layer that is installed on Windows 2008 Hyper V Server. It’s also a term used industry wide so when you hear the term, it doesn’t just refer to the Microsoft implementation.

The hypervisor, code named “Viridian” and now called Hyper-V, is an installable Windows Server 2008 role.  After installation of this role, you can start installing one or more child partitions in which to run your virtualization workloads.It is very easy to install these applications, although you need to learn some things to do it properly.

Virtual machine additions

In order to use the new high speed VMBUS, you’ll want to uninstall any previous additions from Virtual PC or Virtual Server, then install the integration components for Hyper-V.  We’re looking at making that transition as painless as possible, but you’ll have to work through some of this manually until we get that work done.

Snapshots

You’ll notice when you start looking at the CTP, that there is an added ability to take snapshots of your virtual machines in either an online or offline state.This will also allow you to take a peek into the VSS capabilities. The system will allow users better disaster recovery planning as well as other benefits.

Management tools

The management console is shipped with a Windows 2008 Hyper-V.  However, the strategy is to take advantage of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 product for advanced management of the virtualization partitions, VM workloads, monitoring, reporting, resource assignments, etc.  You simple won’t believe what’s coming and I’m not going to spill all of the beans just yet, but you can count on some deep dives later.

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