This technology basically applies to server and hardware. It allows multiple OS to run on a single windows dedicated server. It is one of the key feature of Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V is basically hypervisor-based technology that supports highly reliable virtualization platform. Windows hypervisor is one of main component of Hyper-V. It’s partitioning is simple and is responsible to maintaining isolation between the partitions. It is known to be secured and does not have any third-part device drivers.
It provides features as production server consolidation, business management, software test and development, dynamic DC development. It can easily be managed and flexible to requirements. It suppost multi-processors on 64-bit. It also allows migration of virtual machines from one physical host to another with integration with System center virtual machine manager. Hyper-V is available in windows server2008 x64 editions.
