anyweb Posted September 2, 2009 Report post Posted September 2, 2009 The final release of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (1541.1MB) has been posted on the Microsoft Download Center. This release of Microsoft's standalone virtualization server for small- and mid-sized business customers is a vast improvement over the first version. Here are a few of the new features the software giant is listing for R2: * Support for physical computers with up to 8 physical processors * Support for 64 logical processors and for running up to 384 virtual machines with up to 512 virtual processors * Support for using up to 1TB of physical memory (virtual machines can use up to 64GB each) * Support for clustering * Support for live migration * Support for CPU Core Parking, which allows Windows and Hyper-V to consolidate processing onto the fewest number of possible processor cores, and suspends inactive processor cores. * Support for Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) in CPUs. On Intel processors this is called "EPT" while AMD calls it "NPT." SLAT adds a second level of paging below the architectural x86/x64 paging tables in x86/x64 processors, providing an indirection layer from virtual machine memory access to the physical memory access. In many virtualization scenarios, hardware based SLAT support can offer performance improvements. * Support for VMQ, Chimney, Jumbo Frames and other networking enhancements * The ability to hot add / remove SCSI virtual hard disks more > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-arrives-for-free.ars Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
