Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise with Hyper-V Beta

[dualmeister]

Microsoft plans to take on VMWare in a big way it seems.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is the hypervisor-based virtualization feature included as a role of Windows Server 2008. It contains everything needed to support machine virtualization. Hyper-V enables IT organizations to reduce costs, to improve server utilization and to create a more-dynamic IT infrastructure. Hyper-V provides the greater flexibility because of dynamic, reliable and scalable platform capabilities combined with a single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources, which enables you to create an agile and dynamic datacenter and progress toward achieving self-managing dynamic systems.

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[FredAtMicrosoft]

We are really excited about the possibilities Hyper-V brings to Windows Server. If you want to find more info about its integration you can check out one of the Heroes Happen Here events, and get a promotional version of Server 2008 too.

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Fred Reckling
Microsoft Grassroots Manager
http://www.microsoft.com/2008jointlaunch/